Good question from BBC Nugent. Badenoch collapsed to the atomic level. #UKPolitics

Reform leaders in Scotland and Wales: Malcolm Offord and Dan Thomas pose as champions of the people & anti-establishment. Not only are both ex-Tories. They were appointed by Nigel Farage, have no party mandate & could be sacked at a moment's notice by Farage.

🧵Spotted While Roaming in Aotearoa New Zealand:

In a library, a small human (4?) is trying to pick a book but she's not sure which one!
(Oh no!)
Does she want this one...
This one?
THESE ONES?
THOSE ones?!
With an exasperated roar, she beseeches the library gods: "WHY are there SO MANY?!" (1)

Yet again I remind everyone (as Elizabeth does in her very next tweet) that "foreigners are corrupting our pure blood with weakness & disease" is Fascism 101. Not some variant, not some metaphorically similar thing, not some echo -- the thing itself.

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.

Ah, but... do they have the British media? The BBC and GBNews, plus the Daily Mail, Telegraph, Daily Express, etc.

Dr David Bull on Twitter: "Less than three weeks until Britain's midterms. Vote Reform. Get Starmer Out. Reform UK teams hard at work...#TimeForReform"

Britain, like any other Westminster-style Parliamentary democracy, doesn't have "midterms" or anything close to it.

The British right are positively embarrassed to be British and so spend their days wistfully hoping for the time they can proudly claim their new status as serfs of Washington.

Israel has killed more than 700 people in Gaza since last year's US-brokered 'ceasefire'

Israel has killed more than 700 people in Gaza since last year's US-brokered 'ceasefire' https://aje.news/niqwe0

#Mandelson
#Starmer
#R4Today

Anyone else think journalists are more interested in the Mandelson vetting problem than the rest of us?

Parliamentary soap opera.

It merits some coverage but there are FAR more important issues deserving this level of attention.

We can’t trust Palantir with our NHS data Is this really the company we should be entrusting with our health service’s digital architecture?

"Palantir is not just a problem of profiteering from our national healthcare system— it's a fundamental threat to the democratic control of our public infrastructure + the privacy of every citizen. By giving our taxes to this company, we are aiding their operations everywhere."

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Farage and charisma? Slippery, frog-faced, spiv usually comes to mind. As for Johnson, his appeal has always completely escaped me. I have to leave the room when either of them appear on the telly.

Healthy life expectancy falls in the Tees Valley to the lowest level in England since records began People in the Tees Valley are not only living shorter lives than the national average, they are spending significantly more of those lives in poor health, and the gap between communities is growing

People in the Tees Valley are not only living shorter lives than the national average, they are spending significantly more of those lives in poor health, and the gap between communities is growing | James Waterson

Tech giants and giant slayers: the case for digital sovereignty Digital Sovereignty – control over a country’s digital infrastructure, data and technology – is critical for economic and national security

Modern societies run on digital systems.

But much of this infrastructure is owned and operated by private tech firms.

That raises a serious issue: control of the system → control of the power.

Clive Lewis MP explains

Reform’s Richard Tice posts picture with telltale signs of AI manipulation, say experts Deputy leader’s image on X was almost certainly generated or altered using AI, according to Peryton Intelligence

"Zack Polanski, leader of the Green party, said: “There’s nothing real about the Reform party. Their supposed policies to tackle cost of living are fake, they spin stories that are fake and now we know even their campaigners are fake.”

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

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".

Thank you to Colin Marshall on Facebook for sharing this young #FoxOfTheDay , a beauty !

Happily, the government has been listening to Sam.
Ed Miliband will be doubling down on clean energy today (giving a speech at 11) announcing moves to shift more legacy renewables on to Contracts for Difference…

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

It is possible to think that this whole undignified Mandelson vetting debacle does not reflect well on the PM at all, while also thinking that another leadership contest is literally the last thing anybody needs right now.

SEN. @ossoff.senate.gov : “The faithless president depicts himself as Christ while he plunges the nation into wars of choice… Remember — While you pay more for everything, the First Family’s wealth is growing by billions. Because they’re crooks, and everybody knows it.”

Spain has recently outpaced the US in GDP growth, emerging as one of the fastest-growing major advanced economies. As of 2024–2025, Spain’s economy is growing at a rate over 3% annually, exceeding the US (~2%) and Eurozone (~1%) averages.

Donald is such an uninformed idiot.

Tice said: "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."

It's another big story from Gabriel Pogrund who also revealed last week that Tice's property company failed to pay £91,000 in tax before dividends.

Meta just paid the lowest effective federal tax rate in its history.

Thanks to tax breaks and loopholes, it avoided $13.7B in 2025 federal income taxes.

But now it's planning to lay off 10% of its global workforce (8,000 people) by May 20 — with more job cuts later this year.

Trickle down hoax.

Sorry about this but the MSM seem to be having a collective meltdown and can’t bring you any news so I’m going to have to bring you this little nugget because they’re incapable.

We need to overwhelm the BBC with complaints about this. This is the most egregious breach of their own impartiality guidelines I can remember. They’re no longer even trying to hide it.

www.bbc.co.uk/contact/comp...

Whilst the newspaper and broadcast media go on and on about how Starmer should resign or will he survive until Christmas/Easter/Local Elections…Reform UK are doing what Tories always do.

Senator Jon Ossoff neatly breaks down political corruption in America — and how Trump’s “Mar-a-Lago mafia” has exploited it.

Every single Democrat should be saying this.

a man in a red suit and tie is talking . ALT: a man in a red suit and tie is talking .

Hmm odd how Trump avoided the Vietnam draft 5 times growing bone spurs & yet…

Muhammad Ali refused to be drafted citing religious beliefs as a Muslim & ethical reasons - was stripped of his heavyweight title, convicted of draft evasion, sentenced to 5 years in prison & banned from boxing for 3
🤷🏼‍♂️

A clip from The New York Times reads: "But only the entities that officially paid the tariffs are eligible to recover that money. That means that the fuller universe of people affected by Mr. Trump’s policies — including millions of Americans who paid higher prices for the products they bought — are not able to apply for direct relief. The extent to which consumers realize any gain hinges on whether businesses share the proceeds, something that few have publicly committed to do. Some have started to band together in class-action lawsuits in the hopes of receiving a payout."

The average American family paid $1,700 in tariffs last year, according to the bipartisan Congressional Joint Economic Committee. Few will ever see any of that money back. The refunds will go to companies, if doled out at all. What a joke.

Elon Musk convoqué lundi par la justice française après quinze mois d’une enquête tendue Le parquet de Paris enquête depuis janvier 2025 sur de nombreux abus prêtés au réseau social X et à son dirigeant. Le milliardaire a été convoqué, lundi, pour une audition libre.

The French criminal probe into Elon Musk's decision to flood the space of social media in Europe with AI-generated pornography has now reached its final stage with a subpoena issued to Musk. Will he come? Not very likely. After all, he controls the US Government and can manipulate it as he likes.