Congratulations, Virginia! Republicans are trying to tilt the midterm elections in their favor, but they haven’t done it yet. Thanks for showing us what it looks like to stand up for our democracy and fight back.
Second day in a row without the orange man-baby. Not sure if to be pleased, or fearful of what he’ll do next to get the attention he craves.
All wars are dystopian! The positive way to view it is that it may become a powerful non-nuclear deterrent, in that it could become effectively impossibly to take territory if both sides have effective drones.
What should have happened: the REIT paid no tax but the Tice companies holding shares in the REIT paid £98k tax on the dividends they received. What actually happened: none of the companies paid any tax.
Our new report: Richard Tice signed accounts wrongly claiming £98,000 of tax exemptions
A 🧵 with the evidence:
I’ve told that bird to get off Twitter and onto BlueSky, but he won’t stop tweeting….
Oh, I see now, not a bad news thing.
I read that all wrong first time. 🤦♂️
Low numbers of Peacock (dagpauwoog, A io) on Dutch Butterfly Monitoring transects this year, after last years poor summer generation and missing 2nd gen because of poor quality nettles. This spring is also dry and much too warm so far, so things don't look good for nettles and peacocks this year.
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 BBC has changed this country.
Credit @georgemonbiot.bsky.social
#MemeForToday
#BBC
#LookOverThere
There is something refreshing to wake and not find some apocalyptic news story dominating everything. Rare, but nice. Makes me wonder if the orange man-baby has had a stroke.
#GoodMorning
#TheWorldHasntEnded
An NYT headline reading: Homeland Security Expands Deportation Fleet With High-End Jets
My headline from April 15 reading: Water is wet, and DHS's 'deportation fleet' boondoggle expands under Markwayne
The hed and dek of my story from February reading: ICE FLIGHTS Noem's luxury 'deportation' jet is the tip of the ICE-berg Kristi Noem's DHS has acquired at least nine new aircraft in recent weeks, with another one on the way. Half are luxury jets. Gillian Brockell 26 Feb 2026 - 9 min read
Hey @nytimes.com, I already reported this earlier this week.
And the G650s you mention? I reported on those in FEBRUARY.
You credit NBC News and WSJ for first reporting parts of your story. Please credit me, too.
Kushner (Affinity Partners) serves as a Shell Company for Trump. It's that simple.
The only "Deals" he's negotiating are for the Trump Crime family with partner in crime Steve Witkoff.
A true Criminal Enterprise.
Started with 666 Fifth Avenue bailout, and $2B Saudi investment for future favors.
Just 20 minutes before Trump's announcement that the Strait of Hormuz was open, massive trades hit the market. Investors sold a combined 7,990 lots of Brent crude futures, a $760 million bet that oil would go down. These orders were much larger than anything else at the time. The traders made huge gains. Unusual.
The odds that one or more of my sources have been making an insane amount of money on insider trading... probably quite high
A fuel tanker engulfed in flames drove through Hasakah, northeast Syria, leaving a trail of fire through the city’s streets. The truck caught fire at a fuel station.
Video shows the tanker heading towards a fire station. Seven people were injured and multiple vehicles destroyed.
👏🏻 Watch
I won’t hold my breath waiting for Daily Telegraph, Daily Mail and Express to splash this across their front pages …. #Bias #GoodNews #LivesSaved
NEW: Analysis from @globalwitness.org shows windfall global oil companies are likely to make if oil prices remain elevated for the rest of year
$234bn
Meanwhile it's reasonable to expect there'll be people struggling to afford to stay warm by end 2026
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Graphic of Ciara alleyne, 22, chair of the young green. She speaks about her journey into politics including the quote that as one of the only people of colour raised in her school that naturally politicises you.
I am so proud of Ciara - our Co-Chair of @younggreens.bsky.social and the next Cllr for Herne Hill and Loughborough Jnc.
Today, she is rightly named The Times 'Young Power List'. She epitomises HOPE.
50,000 members of the young greens
Ciara and Callum quote as co-chairs of the young greens.
WOW.
Our @younggreens.bsky.social now have 50,000 members - they are the biggest political youth movement in the UK.
And we're growing. Every single day I am meeting more young greens out on the streets campaigning.
This is how we make change happen.
Join us: join.greenparty.org.uk
This is insane. Barely 6 years on from the irruption of a virus that claimed over 1M US lives, the plug is getting pulled on the kind of science that could prepare them better next time. Wrong lessons (deliberately) being learned.
Free Marwan #Barghouti #FreeMarwan
The Middle East desperately needs a unifying figure to represent Palestinians.
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...
Best quote on Iran war: "When you kick a hornets' nest, it's the hornets that decide when it's over." Samantha Forster threads.com/samantha_reads_a_lot
He wants it to be over, like he’s been trying to make Epstein disappear all this time.
Even the Meloni government in Italy is to suspend its military agreement with Israel....
... while Britain's remains in place.
And when will UK national media even report the UK has a secret military agreement with Israel?
👉 www.declassifieduk.org/secret-uk-is...
Reminder: there's no point doing a deal with him, no matter how advantageous, because you have no way of trusting he will stick to his word.
Is the Pope Catholic??!!!
David Lammy. Great to catch up with my friend JD Vance today in DC following his talks in Pakistan. It's vital that the cewsedire continues and we get shipping flowing freely again through the Straits of Hormuz. We continue to work together towards a just and lasting piece in Ukraine.
"My friend."
This is how our government greets those accused of war crimes.
This is not diplomacy. It's debasement.
Zany Zack Polanskis green party are selling a future that nobody sane would choose
That future: Lower bills. Tax billionaires. End Rip off Britain.
Who's in?
A totally normal party: an #AfD MP who is also an adjunct prof at a Moscow conservatory is charged with "publicly displaying unconstitutional symbols", i.e. sieg-heiling in the Bundestag's lobby
"I'm just contemplating the fact that one moron, one psychotic moron, one capricious idiot, has completely bollocksed up the global economy not only to the detriment of his own people, but the detriment of the planet. ... It's like how much more of this can the planet take?"
8. Questions for the government This analysis suggests a number of straightforward questions which the government should address: Will the government publish a clear breakdown of the profile over time of the most likely savings and costs of the proposed reforms, before the proposals are finalised? How much of the £10bn lifetime estimate would actually be affected by delaying ILR, as opposed to costs arising later in life? What is the estimated fiscal impact of the policy over the next five years, the period relevant to the fiscal rules? Does the government expect these reforms to reduce settlement by encouraging migrants to leave? If so, what is the short-term fiscal impact of that? What are the expected savings from reduced access to benefits, in cash terms, and how do they compare to the tax contributions of this cohort? What assumptions have been made about behavioural responses, including exit and reduced inflows? What assessment has been made of the policy’s impact on higher-paid migration, which has a strongly positive fiscal contribution? These are not technical details. They go directly to whether the policy achieves its stated objective of improving the public finances
My detailed analysis is here. It includes some questions which journalists and MPs should be asking the Home Office.
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
