Dan Brady

The House of Lords is a medieval honours system full of cronies, party donors, loyalists, bishops, hereditary peers, Boris Johnson’s brother, and the son of a KGB agent. It sorely needs to be replaced with a democratic second chamber. Sign the Electoral Reform Society’s petition here:

❤️ Several hundred people formed a living Angel of the North in Hexham to show support for plans by internationally renowned artist Sir Antony Gormley for a new arts facility in the town. It was aimed at persuading Northumberland County Council to change its mind, after it turned down the idea...

Gold from Led By Donkeys, yet again Daniel Hannan was given a peerage for being categorically wrong about Brexit. And he continues to be invited to contribute to right-wing TV and newspapers, including The Telegraph.

If anyone wants to try out Manus AI, let me know as I have two invite codes.

This is why I have never, and will never, use a DNA testing service Your DNA is your ultimate personal data. And you can't change it. Once it's in a database, you've lost control of it.

This is possibly the best and most concise description of money that I’ve ever seen. It might seem silly, but it’s what happens billions of times a day.

House of Lords proceedings disrupted by protesters – UK politics live

Finally, some progress to modernise the UK’s medieval systems. More of this, please 👏🏼

❗❗❗ former leader of Reform UK in Wales has appeared in court accused of accepting bribes in exchange for making statements in the European Parliament that would benefit Russia, a court has heard www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

How much golf has Trump played since taking office? trumpgolftrack.com

In 2022, Curtis Yarvin (associated with Musk’s pal Peter Thiel) proposed a ‘CEO-dictator’ model for government overhaul, called RAGE. Now, Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) mirrors this vision, pushing mass resignations and purging ideologically. Sound familiar? 

For how long will Brexit be the elephant in the room for most of our politicians?

The comments here are (nazi) gold

I was there when The Onion crossed over into reality (or vice versa)

It’s just a wave

Americans watch The Crown and Downton Abbey and they think that’s what British are like. In fact, we’re more like Wallace and Gromit.

“We announced that we would leave the European Union before we had a plan for growth outside the EU” — Badenoch Even the Tories now publicly accept that Brexit is a disaster. Time to start the journey back to the EU. Starting with the customs union.

We need to make work pay.

Classic Geordie sentence starter: “What it is is”

Is Batman City surrounded by a utility belt?

Nazir Afzal, "When Keir Starmer and I left the CPS we had the highest rate of child sexual abuse prosecutions in our history.. That is Keir Starmer's legacy" "Boris Johnson said that investigating child sexual abuse was money spaffed up a wall"

Wait. Does Trump think Greenland is a golf course?

Private Eye this week highlights that, alongside several sub-postmasters being awarded OBEs, lawyer James Palmer was awarded a CBE despite being part of the firm that represented the Post Office and fought those same sub-postmasters. Make it make sense. Follow: @privateeyenews.bsky.social

😂

Sure it was shit. Yeah it cost billions and achieved sweet FA. But at least they owned the "wokes". (AM I DOING THIS RIGHT?)

This is actually ridiculous 👇 www.thelondoneconomic.com/politics/rem...

Also true in the UK!

Greenland has universal healthcare, gender equality, and clean energy. Can they take over the USA instead?

I watched this too, in a mysterious combination of horror (the make-up), nostalgia (the oven, the Tupperware!), and greediness (mmm, mincemeat). Good old Fanny.

That ending gets me every time…

sesame street isn't supposed to make money. the post office isn't supposed to make money. not everything is supposed to MAKE MONEY

Exactly this

Private Eye nails the grifter again

Five years ago today: Ludicrous novelty figure takes on me and Elmo.

This is not an Onion headline

This is sort of fascinating because if you were to turn on pretty much any talk radio station or pick up any tabloid, you'd be forgiven for thinking it was the inverse.

¿No es possible?

Meanwhile…

In 2019, Americans paid $16.22B **out-of-pocket** for cancer treatment. In 2023, UHC alone made $23B in profit. The 10 largest health insurers made a profit of $66.5B combined. Meanwhile, $50B in claims were denied. US health insurance profits thrive by denying care.

Shit brown is the official Pantone colour of 2025 😂

A massive, coordinated expensive Tik-Tok promotion campaign helped a pro- Russian candidate in Romanian presidential elections. He declared he spent no money on the campaign... www.bbc.com/news/article...

Shirley (Bassey) you can’t be serious?

📢 Stop sharing your wrapped. Brexit has hit UK music hard – red tape, spiralling costs, and lost opportunities are silencing our musicians. Let’s remind every music fan why Brexit is bad for UK music. Share our UK Music Industry Unwrapped today. 📢👇 www.europeanmovement.co.uk/uk_music_ind...

Jeez. This is an outrageous post from Elon Musk. If anyone was in any doubt about where his sentiments will lie at the next UK general election look no further than this. The Prime Minister, every cabinet member & Labour MP need to join @bsky.app now

I thought I knew a lot about the Beatles, but I didn’t know this