Andrew Lawrence

Poll finds that in a head to head Burnham would comfortably win against every other party leader.

Here I am with the winner of Clacton's annual 'Point At A Twat' competition.

🔥 OBAMA: “The thing is, Iran didn’t have nuclear weapons — because I put a deal in place he pulled out of… and the war he started is why the price of everything is UP… how much time do you think Hegseth spends looking at himself in the mirror? These are not serious people.”

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Danny Tommo's 'patriot platform' vigilantes were refused service in The George Inn, Portsmouth. They demanded to know why, despite the fact they do not have to be given a reason. Always make bigots feel unwelcome. Show the pub some love for doing the right thing. Things you love to see ✊❤️

I'm a healthy person, and I have one dream. And it involves you, Donald.

I’d hope that Crick is playing devil’s advocate here… throwing down a gauntlet to Farage, rather than genuinely giving him advice on how to reverse his slide into unelectability…because everything about Farage is rotten and corrupt and it’s us who should dump him. liveapp.inews.co.uk/category/483...

For all my many issues with BBC reporting, oh I hope they absolutely take Trump on this. Either release everything for the press to read or shut down the case. I can guess which way this one plays. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

"The one remaining argument for sticking with Brexit is that any attempt to reverse the referendum would be fundamentally undemocratic. The people spoke; their verdict stands. That is true only if the votes of the dead still count." #ThatsWhatICallPuttingItBluntly

If you cleaned up Reform UK, there wouldn't be anything or anyone left.

I posted this famous 1940 Lowe cartoon about British defiance after the fall of France (and the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact) two years ago when Trump came to power. And now with the USA and Russia lining up against Ukraine and Europe, it’s time we stood up again: “Very well, alone”.

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If ever you needed a reason to abhor this man more, then this is it 👇

If you are still on Musk's X, you are enabling his treachery.

Excellent long explainer from @monkemma.bsky.social on the "new jobs"/migrants nonsense. I have already complained to www.ipso.co.uk/making-a-com... about the Mail, but feel free to complain about the Sun, Express, Telegraph, etc...

Reform UK lose their 3rd by-election in Leicestershire in a row. This time it’s a defence of their own seat.

We will be taking legal action against ITV for the well known criminal offence of filming people while they reveal exactly who they are.

“That is the language of child abusers, frankly.” The shocking footage unveiled in ITV’s undercover investigation into Reform that made Emily's “flesh crawl”…

“the documents show that the vast majority of the funds raised came from companies and wealthy individuals with interests before the federal government” there is a word for this

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Whatever the truth of the Musk/Trump theatricals over Starlink, we should pause to think about the fact that key defence systems are controlled by a psychopathic megalomaniac and a white-supremacist egomaniac.

Jeffrey Donaldson given 15 years for child sex abuse. Cue the outrage from the likes of Reform, calling for all middle-aged overtly Christian men to be deported. No?

London Reform councillor Dean Miller 'claimed King Charles was Muslim' and called black children ‘animals’, TV report alleges.. www.standard.co.uk/news/london/...

“We're not f****** stupid enough to p*** off the entire woke south or centrist south really of the country,” “You need to seem palatable to everyone...We just need to get f****** elected, that’s all that really matters. We won't necessarily say what we are doing, part of the point is to not [say].”

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Andy Burnham hugs Volodymyr Zelenskyy and welcomes him to Downing Street with a ceremonial guard of honour. This is how you treat the leader of the free world.

"Our rock-solid support to Ukraine is vital for keeping us safe here in the UK and ensuring those on the frontlines have the equipment they need to push back Russia ... Russia’s aggression cannot be allowed to succeed on our continent.” 👏👏👏 Andy Burnham www.politico.eu/article/uk-r...

Andy Burnham to Badenoch: "I'm going to commend her for drawing a line on a decade of division, when she drew a line with the party over there (Reform UK) for suggesting that her children weren't British. "That is wrong in every single respect."

Feel a lot of pride about the way Britain has responded to Trump's attacks on Ukraine, repeatedly launching big symbolic demonstrations of solidarity when things are at their most tenuous.

start your day right

Great piece with truth bombs for both sides.

I was on the telly.

RESIGNED: Trump’s Ambassador to Greece, Kimberly Guilfoyle, resigned, not because she’s corrupt. (That’s no sin in TrumpWorld) But because she got caught. Guilfoyle asked a Trump donor to pay off her $100,000 Amex credit card bill in exchange for favors that never came. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

Ukraine has hit a huge Russian data centre linked to bot farms. In unrelated news, does anyone know why every Reform account on Twitter is getting hardly any likes and shares?

Exactly this. It's what Russia has done for 100+ years. Disinformation and meddling are what Russian intelligence does.

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Labour response bsky.app/profile/sund...

The Mirror is reporting Jenrick's call for the Royal Marines to murder asylum seekers www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...

A member of his party’s in jail for taking money from Russia to interfere in UK democracy so he knows damn well it’s plausible. Yet there’s no curiosity, no “I’d like to see the evidence”…just the flat out denial of a man who loves his country so much he doesn’t care if our democracy is compromised.

From The Archives #492 That time in October 2019 when Farage got all his Brexit Party MEPs to vote against EU plans to tackle Russian propaganda. 7 years later, almost to the day, he accuses Burnham of lying that there was Russian interference in Brexit...

There is, writes @davidfrum.bsky.social, an "implicit quid pro quo in these lucrative deals offered to Trump’s family and friends: If you compel Ukraine to surrender, we will enrich you beyond reckoning" www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/1...

How long before political scientists come up with a new ‘Unexpected Explosion During Data Processing’ methodology?

Reform UK has now lost 171 councillors: 60 resigned, 45 went Independent, 30 defected, 24 were kicked out, 5 lost their seats, 5 are suspended and 2 were disqualified. Jim McIlroy is the second group leader to quit in a fortnight, after Brian Smith on North Tyneside. Updated chart.

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I just checked his X account. Not a word from Farageski...

Why not just scrap the NHS and have no more sick people? Or scrap the police and have no more criminals?

The Guardian view on the US, Russia and the international criminal court: Trump’s assault on the rule of law intensifies | Editorial