I presented a petition at Cornwall Council this morning against the Council"s plan to resume widespread use of glyphosate, signed by 5,625 residents of Cornwall. A great many others were there to protest.
And thanks to a motion brought by our Green councillors, the plan has now been shelved!
“Greens who were long dismissed as “idealistic” & “unrealistic” now look like hard-headed pragmatists & true patriots. They’re years ahead of their rivals in demanding a transition that makes sense on every level: environmental, economic & political” - great article from @georgemonbiot.bsky.social 👇
When Angela Rayner underpaid £40,000 in stamp duty, Richard Tice said it was "morally completely indefensible” and she should resign if she had “any moral decency”.
Now we learn he set up four shell companies that let him avoid paying £100,000 he owed in tax and to then transfer the cash to Reform
The impossible promise: are we witnessing the return of fascism?
This Guardian Long Read from @trillingual.bsky.social is worth spending some time on. He asks all the right questions without being unnecessarily alarmist.
www.theguardian.com/news/2026/ap...
Not quite the biggest, but one of the biggest youth political movements in Europe now.
BREAKING: We’re taking the government to court over Palantir.
The government is refusing to hand over important briefings given to Wes Streeting about the £330m NHS data contract with Peter Thiel’s surveillance firm
So we’re taking legal action.
democracyforsale.substack.com/p/breaking-w...
This week I’ve been challenging the Govt’s sinister attempts to abolish the right to choose a jury trial.
Here is the Minister confirming that the right to elect a jury trial IS being completely abolished with this Bill!
A fundamental cornerstone of our justice system established in 1670: gone.
My petition calling for #Cornwall Council to reconsider its plan to resume widespread glyphosate usage is now at 4,848 signatures. At 5000, the Council is obliged to debate the issue.
Do please sign if you live in Cornwall (signatures from elsewhere can't be included). Thanks!
**AFFORDABILITY CHEQUE** **Last August Reform UK's coffers were boosted by a generous £100,000 donation from the UK franchise of Sotheby's International Realty.** It isn't hard to see why the property agency, whose UK and Dubai franchises are owned by businessman George Azar, would be interested in supporting Reform. Not only is it the estate agent used by the party's treasurer, Nick Candy, but Reform is hoping its planned tax exemption for multimillionaires prompts wealthy people to relocate to the UK, which would boost the luxury property market Sotheby's deals in. Less clear, however, is how Sotheby's was able to afford its donation to Reform. Its accounts for 2023 show the company was heavily in debt, with net liabilities of more than £12.8m. The company's accounts for 2024, which might have shed some light on the matter, were due by 31 December 2025. But, more than three months on, they still haven't been filed, which is a criminal offence under the Companies Act. Alas, whether Sotheby's had made sufficient profit from its UK operations to fund its generous gift remains, for the time being, a mystery.
Pretty terrible that heavily-indebted Sotheby's has donated to Reform UK. Via Private Eye
⏰ Don't miss @GreenAnthonySlaughter on BBC Question Time tonight.
📺 BBC News Channel & iPlayer at 9pm
📺 BBC One at 10.40pm
It is clearly unacceptable that children are having to wait up to four years for NHS orthodontic treatment.
A shortage of orthodontists, Covid backlogs, and long-standing NHS funding gaps drive this.
Ironically the BBC stumbled on a really important story: Desperate asylum seekers being forced to turn to fraudulent fee-charging “advisors” to navigate a system that is intentionally impossibly baroque and from which all sources of free advice have been removed.
But no: they chose Fake Gay Panic.
For the second day, the BBC are running a story that presents itself as providing evidence of endemic abuse of the asylum system based on seemingly a single encounter with someone who is neither a lawyer nor a registered immigration adviser. Words fail. This is reprehensibly irresponsible.
Lots of people smiling at the camera with vote green signs
The campaign in East Sussex is in full swing with elections in 21 days time!
Wonderful to be with so many people who care about our environment, our democracy, our communities.
Time to end Rip Off Britain.
Join.greenparty.org.uk
(📸 - Aldoshoots)
Reform Essex activist who hosted Nigel Farage at his tanning salon is also a Nazi superfan who believes that "Hitler was right."
Excellent work from @hopenothate.org.uk
hopenothate.org.uk/2026/04/14/n...
And on Radio 4's Today this morning, who did they get to comment on this story? Why, Zia Yusuf of Reform, of course!
It's almost as if some at the BBC are providing Reform with stories that help promote their toxic agenda on migrants and refugees.
BREAKING: Filton Activist’s Mother ACQUITTED after Parliament Lock-on
Emma Kamio, mother of Ellie (Leona) Kamio has today been acquitted in a one-day trial at City of London Magistrates Court.
She locked on to the gates of Parliament while the vote on proscription took place.
You need to read this.
@timothysnyder.bsky.social has been warning us since 2016 about Trump. He knows: he’s one of world’s leading experts on authoritarianism & always ahead of the game.
V proud to publish him in @thenerve.news. He’s an essential voice.
www.thenerve.news/p/donald-tru...
France passed a law requiring solar panels on every parking lot with more than 80 spaces.
Equals 10 nuclear reactors
Reduces heat island, shades cars
The US -- 800 million parking spaces. Most of them are uncovered asphalt sitting in direct sunlight.
Why aren't we doing this?
One thing I will admit.
You can’t fault the enthusiasm and positivity of Reform’s local election campaign.
And their message is getting through as loveable Lee Anderson found out recently.
The electorate are really beginning to understand what Reform UK are all about.
😊
We're supplying military equipment to Israel. And Labour cares so little about it that Belgium has to step in and stop the shipments. I guess Labour's too busy arresting protestors against the genocide?
Reform UK candidate claimed COVID was a "staged event" by the US military, designed to control the population
David Booth, who is standing for Farage's party in Croydon, said "powerful forces" in the Pentagon had seeded the virus
Covid-19 bereaved families call on Reform to sack him
“The cost of living crisis is real. That’s why we’re focusing on things that will have an immediate effect - freezing rents and scrapping council tax to replace it with a land value tax so those with more wealth pay their fair share.”
Anthony Slaughter on BBC Wales' Ask the Leaders broadcast
Extraordinary that nowhere in an article on resilience did PM find space to include the growing threat posed to UK security by the dramatic decline in the health of nature around the world - especially since his own intelligence chiefs have recently spelt it out for him in no uncertain terms 👇
Disgusting reporting by BBC using a tiny number of cases to suggest widespread abuse of a system which routinely denies LGBTQIA+ individuals asylum and forces them back into environments of persecution. This article massively distorts the reality of the situation. 1/
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Neil Kinnock thinks a majority of Labour MPs probably support PR now
Over to you Keir Starmer . . .
It's perfectly reasonable to challenge ministers on N Sea oil & gas as a response to the energy shock.
But this is the exclusive framing for EVERY interview on this topic.
No minister or opposition leader is ever asked if they'll "max out" wind/solar.
It's always framed as fossil fuels v inaction
With the UK economy predicted to be hit hardest by Trump's war, remember who supported it.
Here's Tim Montgomerie in Budapest in 2020, singing the praises of Orban, Fidesz & Trump.
Montgomerie was then an adviser to Boris Johnson. Now he's a cheerleader for Farage & Reform.
By their corrupt, Putin-adjacent & batshit crazy friends ye shall know them.
