The sooner we collectively realize that Elon Musk is a shitposting, conspiracy-addled fool, who needs to stay out of public policy not upend it, the safer we’ll all be.

They tried to cancel John Crace from covering the right-wing jamboree at ExCel but no one can stop him filing copy this good

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

DWP research links NHS waiting-lists with rise in number of claimants of disability benefits A government report has provided crucial new evidence that links longer NHS waiting-lists with increases in the number of disabled people on benefits. The research shows that more than two-fifths (…

DWP research links NHS waiting-lists with rise in disability benefit claimants.

Poor healthcare causes disabilities.

41% of disability benefit claimants are on NHS waiting-list; can't get jobs without treatment.

UK govt wants to cut benefits, force sick/disabled to work. Must improve healthcare.

Canadians adapting to Trump’s threats by cancelling holidays to US, buying Canadian, and rewiring their trade to Europe and Asia.

👏👏👏 🇨🇦 ♥️🇪🇺

Statement from the Attorney General on the case of Axel Rudakubana The Attorney General Lord Hermer KC has released a statement following a request to review Axel Rudakubana’s sentence under the Unduly Lenient Sentence scheme.

An Attorney General prioritising fidelity to law and principle, instead of chasing cheap headlines with bogus and exploitative legal applications, is a welcome change.

Birmingham becomes UK’s top city for investment outside London

Yes Birmingham has some big challenges but Will Lloyd’s hatchet job ignores its dynamism and diversity. Not to mention that Birmingham was the UK’s top city for investment outside London last year. Obvs doesn’t fit his crappy narrative. www.greaterbirminghamchambers.com/resource/bir...

@evidenceprof.bsky.social great to listen to the Undisclosed Update whilst out on my walk today. Can't wait for the new season to drop!

Absolutely!

Elon Musk is a terrible president.

LCP estimates that councils could save £3 billion each year by cutting LGPS contribution LCP has estimated that if contributions reflected the current market the cash requirement from councils could be reduced by more than £3bn each year.

From mid 2024!: “a review of contributions *now* could help to protect councils’ financial positions & give greater certainty to council tax payers and central government”. Why didn’t Max 🪓Caller act on this? Is he ‘financially illiterate’? He needs to go. www.lcp.com/en/media-cen...

Some of the language surrounding the utter filth of t-rump's Gaza "proposal" is shuddering-horrific and amounts to... erm... well I'm calling it

Ethnic-Cleansing-Washing

Until someone comes up with a better, less flippant sounding term.

Not just from CNN, call it out wherever it is encountered.

The President of the United States welcome a leader wanted by the ICC and officially endorsed ethnic cleansing.

Now would be a good time for our government to defend international law.

If they won’t say it, we will: Palestinians aren’t going anywhere.

Analysis: Trump’s Gaza ‘Riviera’ plan is the most outlandish idea in the history of US Middle East peacemaking | CNN Politics Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu couldn’t keep the smirk off his face.

Now Trump wants to 'take over' Gaza, own it 'long term', after Palestinians are removed and turn it into "Riviera of the Middle East".

Stupid or ignorant.

So far he wants to control Greenland, Panama, Canada, now Gaza.

What next?

Cartoon of Trump urinatiny towards a fan (marked with a maple leaf). The blow of the fan means the stream is hitting Trump in the face.

Oh Canada!
Cartoon by Bruce MacKinnon

Dear Mexico, Canada, Panama, and Europe:

100 percent tariffs on Tesla.

USAID is a criminal organization,” Mr. Musk wrote on Sunday in a social media post that many aid workers saw as confirmation the agency would soon be absorbed into the State Department and that some viewed as a potential threat to their personal safety. “Time for it to die.”
THIS HAS TO STOP.

Almost 2 million people in the UK didn’t have the right ID to vote in 2024 Voter ID, as made compulsory by the Tory Government in 2023, prevented a lot of people from being able to vote

Almost 2 million people in the UK didn’t have the right ID to vote in 2024.

"Using data from the British Election Study, we tracked people eligible to vote between 2023 and 2024 and found that 5% of people eligible to vote – nearly 2 million people – didn’t own any recognised voter identification."

Jo Ellis has just posted this video on Facebook, confirming to be a "Black Hawk pilot with Virginia National Guard" and not - as many viral social media posts had claimed - linked to the Black Hawk helicopter involved in the crash in Washington DC.

Ten Heil Marys please Calvin.

Man and dog on a country lane at night, by Newcastle-based artist Pete Rumney (b.1974). #NorthernArt

29 January 2025: One Year Since the Murder of Hind Rajab Honoring  the Memory of Hind Rajab, Her Family, and the Countless Victims of Genocide in Gaza

An investigation by Forensic Architecture found that a total of 335 bullets were fired at the car and that the tank operators had a clear view of the two children inside the vehicle
www.hindrajabfoundation.org/memory/29-ja...

Exclusive: Birmingham MP urges Rayner to intervene amid WMPF overspend allegations An independent Birmingham MP has backed a call on the secretary of state, Angela Rayner, to stage an intervention freezing Birmingham City Council’s budget, amid allegations that the cash-strapped cou...

Exclusive: Birmingham MP urges Rayner to intervene re @BhamCityCouncil & West Midlands Pension Fund. www.room151.co.uk/local-govern...

Never forget.

The Welsh told the Saxons this hill was called "pen" (meaning "hill"). The Saxons added their word for hill, "tor," and called it Torpen (hill hill).

Later the Norse added their world for hill. So it became Torpen Haugr (Hill Hill Hill).

Now the English call it Torpenhow Hill (Hill Hill Hill Hill)

Reeves seeks to unlock billions from UK pension schemes for investment Ministers set to allow companies to access defined benefit scheme surpluses to help kick-start growth

Perhaps we should ask whether Max 🪓 Caller thinks that the Chancellor of the Exchequer is financially illiterate? www.ft.com/content/83ed...

Muting fascism will not make it go away.

It's like pretending that the raging fire in your kitchen isn't happening and that if you just shut the door on it - the inferno will disappear.

WRONG.

It WILL burn your house down.