Despised by Trump, not quite trusted by its European neighbours: Britain is in a hard place.
My look at how, exactly, the UK could move closer to the EU. With thoughts from @lscazzieri.bsky.social and @davidheniguk.bsky.social
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We now have an entire media who would rather see a Farage govt, leading to the demise of the NHS and an alliance with the far right US Christian Nationalist fuckers than support the govt we elected And its drift towards EU alignment
Putin must be laughing his head off.
God bless you @colsonwhitehead.com
"Do you realize how much water and power it’d take to replicate the average writer’s narcissism, self-loathing and despair? It’d drain the Indian Ocean. You could light up Times Square for a year. We can’t afford it."
Two smiling women holding up each other's new books with bright red covers - procured from Richmond's excellent Fountain Bookstore.
Celebrating each other’s work. Carrie's got @brookenewman.bsky.social's The Crown’s Silence which explores how British monarchs cultivated transatlantic slavery. Brooke's got @carriegibson.bsky.social's The Great Resistance chronicling the enslaved people who continuously challenged this system.
As leader of the Brexit Party Farage is directly responsible for the utter shit show we have suffered since the referendum. Renaming your party ReformUK will not erase that fact. Farage was, is and always will be the Brexit Party.
INK! on display with some brilliant books in the London Library 185th-year anniversary display in Mason's Yard! V proud.
Yes, this is real.
Zack at the Together Alliance
Saturday's Together Alliance march was incredible.
We know that the far-right are looking at the USA - the mass arrests, the political violence, the deportations - and they see a blueprint.
Here's how we stop them:
Out now: More Jam Tomorrow BRITISH GUYANA
Britain had only one colony in mainland South America. The story of how we left takes in the CIA, MI5, rigged elections and an American whom JFK considered one of the most dangerous communists in the western hemisphere
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Just walked by a colleague's classroom after my class finished and he was talking about Elvis, getting blank stares and so he had to ask "Does anyone know who Elvis Presley is?"
It's rough out here on these teaching streets.
my view on this is that publishers should stop it with the 80k wordcount obsession, so many contemporary non-fic books are obviously 40-50k pieces of work stretched to the extent that they become very boring to read - just let people write cheaper, shorter books! www.theguardian.com/books/2025/d...
Listen to the genesis of INK! From the Age of Empire to Black Power, the Journalists who transformed Britain - and why this history is so important.
Thank you John Siddique, Colin Grant and WritersMosaic
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A community failed. Voted against its own interests and now about to do it again. County Durham received £154m of EU funding between 2014 and 2020, about £22m a year. Since the UK left the EU, it receives about £12m annually, under the UK Shared Prosperity Fund.
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The Green Party's Caroline Lucas humiliates Reform UK's Zia Yusuf on #Newsnight
"Your position is utterly incoherent"
"You have provided no evidence that it's the Equalities Act that discriminates against white working class boys"
Why didn't Farage just answer the question about Reform's education policy?
Why did he seek to mock and ridicule the journalist asking a perfectly legitimate question and try to deligitimise the FT?
Easy. That's who he is. An arrogant man who doesn't have any policies beyond pointing at the sea.
the loss of the World Service would be a tragedy and huge lost of soft power for Britain
Obviously zero reflection in any of this on how operating the largest empire in human history may have turned us into a multicultural nation. We are here because you were there. #Empireland
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Wetherspoon boss urges pubs to back Reform By Henry Saker-Clark The founder of Wetherspoon has urged other pubs to back Reform UK. Sir Tim Martin, chairman of JD Wetherspoon, said Reform's plans to slash beer duty would help the sector move towards "tax parity with supermarkets". Nigel Farage's party announced a series of proposals to support pubs last week. They included pledges to cut VAT in the hospitality sector by 10 per cent, cut beer duty by the same fraction. Reform also said it would reverse the recent rise in employers' national insurance contributions (NICs) for the sector and gradually remove business rates for all pubs. The party has said it would fund this package with around 23on, which it plans to secure through reinstating the two-child benefit cap, except for families with two British-born parents. In a lengthy stock exchange filing yesterday, Martin (inset) told industry leaders "there's no question that this initiative would utterly transform the competitiveness of pubs" He said: "By eliminating the tax differential between supermarkets and the hospitality industry, and restoring margins to devastated businesses, these changes would enable pubs to regain some, or all, of their lost trade. "You would think that this offer from Reform would have been greeted by a crescendo of enthusiasm, ecstasy and support from the licensed trade and its supporters. "However, surpris-ingly, initial support has been underwhelming, at least from the great and the good in the hospitality industry" Last month, Labour announced additional business rates support for pubs. The announcement was a U-turn following complaints from pubs about rates changes in November's Budget.
Multimillionaire Brexiter, Tim Martin, urges pubs to back Reform. Just like he urged the country to vote for Brexit. Too bad if it makes you poorer. Too bad for the children he’ll push back into poverty. Tim wants more money. And he couldn’t give a shit about the cost for everybody else.
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lovely piece...www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/jan/0...
If you’re a woman wearing trousers jn a workplace right now, it’s because of the bravery and chutzpah of thousands of women who came before you.
More MORE JAM TOMORROW coming soon - here’s the latest episode!
A doomed democracy?
UK #Labour to take no action!!
👀 On Electoral Reform which will keep extremes out of power with less than 50% of the vite
👀 On Leveson or media propaganda such as GBN
👀 and Russian infiltration of Social media
On International Migrants Day, let’s celebrate the generations of migrants who’ve helped make London what it is today - the greatest city in the world.
Don't make this Photoshopping have been in vain
But it’s ok for racists go shout hate outside the homes of unaccompanied underage refugee children and abuse our national flags as happens in my town?
It’s very sad to see how Labour has lost its way under Starmer.
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Food inflation is around 4.9%, inflation at 3.6% homelessness up, poverty up, 3.8m, including 1m children currently experiencing destitution. The economy is on its knees and yet Labour still refusing to explore a CU with the EU or tax the rich appropriately.
No wonder they are tanking in the polls.
'This is one of those twilight-zone moments in British politics, where it seems something is going to “cut through” any minute now. For a moment it seems as if it absolutely will. And then, there’s a loss of momentum and a return to the status quo.'
I've written for Psyche about some of the extraordinary things institutional trust enables us to do, and why we have to live with the fact that big organisations screw up.
The most worrying thing about daily life in Britain now is that you hear overt racism all the time that would have been thought unacceptable in the 90s.
