Mat Francis 🇬🇧🇺🇦🇪🇺🇨🇦

This is actually pretty fucking bad: child molestors, public transport sexual assaulters, possibly rapists... What a shame the Telegraph hasn't mentioned May, Patel, Braverman, Jenrick or Cleverly. ^^each of whom were responsible for allowing prisons to get this bad.

Here are 3 persistent skews + flaws in BBC framing, as just predicted this morning, leaving public misinformed about a v salient issue of boats - Report the visible optics - Miss the context & trends - Misattribute causes (weather! What were last 10 days weather)

is there a pulitzer for photo captions because if so @theguardian.com just won it

Liz Truss says Andy Burnham will cause a financial crash. Reminder that Lizzy refused to let the OBR see her "mini-budget" before Kwarteng announced it. It was uncosted. Bonds investors freaked, sold up, the BoE had to buy back Bonds to synthesise demand for them, that meant jacking base-rate;

Alright, listen up - here's what's happened Donald Trump described Keir Starmer as a tough negotiator & his friend Then Putin texted "Agent Krasnov" like "WTF are u doing Help bring him down, u bubonic paedophile" & so began a series of unhinged, factless posts about Chagos, Iran & Free Speech...

This guy Cody Dahler nails the way MAGA and fascist billionaires are backing the British far-right. Well worth a listen! [SOUND ON 🔊]

I've been a broken record on this for three years and I'll be a broken record for as long as that fucking website exists: X is a viciously racist far-right organising platform that ONLY WORKS because a huge number of centrists, lefties and progressivs cannot stop propping it up

Since our political leaders and media have decided that the only reason Henry Nowak died was because the police are too woke, here are my two cents, based on what I've read of the public information 🧵

Really good thread (and a really good follow also)

Pens for everyone (to use on their ballot papers)

This is such an insightful, wide ranging and ultimately hopeful interview with @quinnslobodian.com How Elon Musk and the Tech Billionaires Hijacked the State and Our Minds With Matt Gallagher on @bylinetimes.bsky.social bylinetimes.com/2026/04/17/h...

This week, Brexit finally killed our family business. We cleared out our warehouse, handed back the keys, paid the final bills and said goodbye to our last employee. What was once a thriving firm died a slow, sad death, all thanks to Farage, Johnson and the gullible idiots they conned. 1/18

(🧵) We're in Week 5 of Trump's 2-week non-war. If we give the non-war war 2-3 more weeks it'll wrap up "weeks" ahead of schedule. Trump destroyed 100% of the 1/3rd of Iran's Navy that's non-IRGC and 0.5% of Iran's Army—i.e. all of it. Its nuke program exists *and* doesn't. Questions?

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Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again. #Pinks #ProudBlue

Let's hope this positive news gets as much attention as the people who try to convince us that the UK is a murder ravaged hellscape. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

A firestorm has ripped through the BBC, but no one can quite put their finger on why. An analysis of yesterday's curious hearing into an undoubted PR coup by those who wish the BBC ill www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/media/...

This is obviously true and eventually countries are going to have to address this problem. It's a rigged system and social media rewards extreme behavior. AOC says people are being 'algorithmically polarized' by social media www.businessinsider.com/alexandria-o...

President Macron: “We were very naive to leave our public space to social media networks controlled by US or Chinese companies that don’t share our interests and not interested in survival of our democracies.” www.youtube.com/watch?v=MggN...

When I was a teenager there was a bus direct from my hometown in Germany to London - we had a British army base, and this direct bus connection was one of the benefits of that. One summer I went on that bus to go volunteer in an old people's home in Southend-on-Sea. I had just turned 18 and was... 🧵

The story of 2024 is this: Trump had a plan to destroy American government called Project 2025, which had, literally, not a typo, a 4% approval rating. He lied constantly and said he wouldn't do it. Then he entered office and immediately implemented AN EVEN MORE EXTREME VERSION OF IT.

Great video. Rick is an old friend and he used to be the board chair of NORML.

"To the people of the UK who think this Putin-loving free-speech imposter and Trump sycophant will protect freedom in your country, come on over to America and see what Trump & MAGA are doing to destroy OUR freedom" Farage has his arse handed to him on a plate.

The UK is falling apart and the Media is ranting on about immigration, which hasn't really changed in 5 years, and is in fact going down. Perhaps their obsession is not because it is a big deal, but because the big issue is the rampant profiteering of their billionaire masters?

"The truly unnerving thing about the fall of Rome (yes, I’m going there again, sorry) was that most Romans probably didn’t notice it had happened." Morning all!

Americans, let there no longer be ANY doubt of ANY kind.

Unbelievable. Donald Trump has been invited to a state visit to the UK. We should not be rolling out the red carpet to celebrate this man. Agree? Add your name to the petition today: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/no...

On 15 March 1939 Hitler and his deputy summoned the Czech President to Hitler’s residence in Berlin and then bullied him to submitting to a German invasion of his country. They drove him to the point of physical collapse, threatening him until he eventually signed his country’s death warrant.

European Parliament member 👇🏽

🧵"So this is how liberty dies..." Trump’s first 3 weeks have been a relentless flood of actions. It's incredibly hard to keep up. I’ve gone through 69 actions & mapped out the pattern - showing how they fall within 5 broad domains consistent with authoritarian states 1/9

Here's the speech if you haven't heard it. 13 minutes of your time. Share it with your American friends and neighbours, because they won't see it otherwise. Circulate it in Mexico and Denmark, France and the UK, Panama and Germany, Poland and Estonia, and especially -- especially -- Ukraine.

This.

Tesla Gigafactory, Berlin (Collaboration with @politicalbeauty.bsky.social )

This.

Nigel Farage isn't the answer to our problems, Britain. He is the cause of them. Until my country can work that very simple puzzle out we are doomed. #bbcqt

1/ 🚨 Conspiracy theories about the 2024 election miss the bigger picture. The truth? It wasn’t one night, one hack, or one fraud. It was a system rigged in plain sight – right in front of us. The playbook was out in the open for years. But hardly anyone paid attention. Here’s how they did it... 🧵

If you oppose NHS privatisation, please could you repost this and follow me? I need to know who to follow next (it’ll be you!) 🌟🌟🌟

This post from the PM is problematic for a number of reasons. A thread…🧵