Our NHS needs a new prescription and it is not one that can be signed by Labour ever again.

Farage urged to act against candidates with racist, misogynistic and homophobic views Exclusive: Despite the pledge to employ the best vetting system in British politics, some Reform UK candidates have been condemned for their ‘grotesque views’ posted online

“Reform plagued by vetting issues”
Candidates found to have “grotesque” views.

Come on. It’s not the vetting, is it.
It’s the party. Whatever they do, they’ll always attract the racists, homophobes, misogynists and haters. Because that’s Farage. That’s Reform.
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...

Now "Remoaners" have jumped on the Lego bandwagon.

Good!

Perhaps the difference is that satire is itself a political act. It exposes hypocrisy, challenges power & punctures pretence. It's humorous in form, but takes politics seriously.

"Politics as showbiz" takes politics frivolously. It reduces us to spectators, to be entertained. It's de-politicising..

In February 1777, General George Washington ordered the first mass immunization campaign in American history by mandating that his troops be inoculated against smallpox. He protected the Continental Army from an epidemic that was deadlier than British forces.

249 years later, we have this idiot.

Author @gilduran.com was just banned from “free speech absolutist” twitter for criticizing the Palantir CEO’s manifesto— so here’s his upcoming book: www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Ne...

Yep: bsky.app/profile/greg...

Palantir’s “manifesto” trends on X, showcasing its evil The post makes explicit what Palantir wants: the supremacy of the US military industrial complex to infiltrate every aspect of our lives

⚠️ This article reprints Palantir's 22 point manifesto – which glorifies Musk, sympathises with Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan, praises technofascists and swoons over everything American. It criticises liberal rights and culture, calls for compulsory military service and wants our defence run by AI.

The full list of the 288 artists calling for a Eurovision 2026 boycott

Young Fathers, Paloma Faith, Massive Attack and Kneecap are among more than 1100 musicians and cultural workers calling for a boycott of the Eurovision Song Contest 2026 over the inclusion of Israel

Here's the full list of musicians 👇

Don’t be fooled by RFK Jr.’s ‘real food’ lectures. Making America healthy is much more complex OPINION: Lecturing folks struggling to “eat real food” while cutting SNAP benefits and other forms of food assistance feels like a sick joke.

“Robert F. Kennedy Jr. likes to lecture Americans about the need to eat real food…but for many Americans, it’s advice divorced from reality and helps mask an assault on public health by RFK Jr. and the Trump administration”.

My friend @brucemirken.mas.to.ap.brid.gy and I in our OpEd, out today.

We're rejoining Erasmus in 2027! This is an amazing milestone for the pro-Europe movement to celebrate, and it's thanks to all of our members, supporters and activists who have helped expose the impact of Brexit, rapidly changed public opinion, and put pressure on Westminster to act 🇪🇺🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

Y’all ready to join us? 🫡

#purgepalantir

REFORM UK COUNCILS: what you get When you vote Reform.
Here’s just a single example from each council. This is documented. This is real. This is what happens when Reform wins.
Worcestershire: Raised council tax 9%.

Phones to be banned in schools by law in England under government plans Education minister Jacqui Smith said the move would create

This is such bollocks.

All primaries and over 90% of secondaries already impose bans.

This is policy to placate GB News viewers and completely unnecessary.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Palantir in the NHS is linked to Mandelson

Mandelson is linked to Wes Streeting

Wes Streeting is defending Palantir’s involvement in the #NHS

Nothing to see or everything to see

Palantir must be removed from the NHS

Nigel Farage Has Personally Accepted £675,000 from Foreign Sources Reform UK leader Nigel Farage has accepted more than half a million pounds from foreign companies, governments, and donors while serving as an MP, DeSmog can reveal. Since July 2024, when he was elect...

“Farage rarely turns up to do his actual job. Yet he finds time to jet off around the world on his donor’s private plane and trouser half a million quid while families struggle. Reform are not on your side. They’re just in it for themselves”

It’s so obvious, it hurts.
www.desmog.com/2026/04/18/n...

Palantir’s deranged manifesto shows why it should be nowhere near our public services.

This is not a normal company, it's Trump's favourite tech firm and a danger to our NHS.

I'm always skeptical of BBC-bashing, but BBC News website hasn't reported on the Tice tax scandal since 12 April, when the headline was "Tice £91,000 tax row is 'minor administrative error', party claims".

The Fraud's Prayer:
Our Father, who art in the White House,
hallowed be thy combover;
thy blingdom come;
thy will be dumb;
In Washington as you are in Florida.
Give us this day our daily round of golf.
And forgive us our insider trading,
as we refuse to forgive those who investigate against us...

We all need to lodge an official complaint. It takes no time at all, and I've dropped a link to BBC Complaints in the comments. This is shocking.

Screenshot of a tweet by Rep. Ro Khanna (@RoKhanna) praising a breakthrough in pancreatic cancer research, calling it "the best of America" and noting that lead researcher Dr. Balachandran is the son of Indian immigrants and works at Sloan Kettering. He quote-tweets Ian Weissman, DO (@DrIanWeiss...), who reports that an mRNA pancreatic cancer vaccine showed lasting results in an early trial, with nearly all responding patients still alive six years later.

Science leads to amazing breakthroughs. Immigrants lead to amazing science.

This from the Co that struggles with reviewing their own candidates background checks 🤣🤣🤣

Vaccines are safe & effective.
Why risk your health, your children’s health, or others that you care about by listening to an unqualified roadkill eating man or the social media anti-vaxxers with 🚫 science to back up their conspiracies & lunacy.
Get your kids vaccinated.
#ProudBlue #OneV1 #Pinks

In a nutshell. 😊

"He's Very Unwell" - Marsh Family parody of Chuck Berry's "Never Can Tell" from Pulp Fiction YouTube video by Marsh Family

Here's a throwback to an iconic #PulpFiction track by #ChuckBerry with some half-arsed Sunday night twisting, 7 some parody reflections (to the tune of "You Never Can Tell") on the Christian White House stories last week - #Hegseth as #SamuelLJackson and the #TrumpChrist image:
youtu.be/K2WWjjVlr7M

There is a lot of polling to come over the next few days. More in Common have just published their latest polling for Wales.

Plaid Cymru - 30
Reform UK - 28
Labour - 24
Conservatives - 7
Greens - 4
Liberal Democrats - 3

You need 49 for a majority.

Full analysis coming in the newsletter.

No one wants to go back to these possibilities in their right mind, 🥲vaccines save lives, ✅
science saves lives, ✅

Investigating Networks: How Viktor Orbán Bankrolled the Network Around Reform UK Promoting my latest piece for Byline Times and explaining how the radical right is made up from a coalition of overlapping networks

The overlapping networks that make up the radical right🤬🤬

open.substack.com/pub/counterd...

Reform UK’s Richard Tice allegedly failed to pay £100,000 in corporation tax Deputy leader ran shell companies that reportedly did not pay tax on profits from 2020 to 2022, during which time his firm donated £1.1m to party Richard Tice allegedly failed to pay almost £100,000 in corporation tax to the benefit of his investment company, which in turn made donations to Reform UK, it has been reported. In response to the report in the Sunday Times, the deputy leader of Reform UK posted a lengthy statement on X, in which he said: “A long career with multiple businesses is bound to feature some errors. Naturally I am always happy to put things right and if numbers need rechecking, of course I will pay what is owed – be that more or less.” Continue reading...

Reform UK’s Richard Tice allegedly failed to pay £100,000 in corporation tax