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‘Not-me Nigel’ Always someone else’s fault. Nigel Farage fumes at ‘staff incompetence’ for half-empty Reform event www.thelondoneconomic.com/politics/nig...

Yeah, this is getting absurd. Zero scrutiny. BBC News broadcasts Reform UK speeches in full without interruptions www.thenational.scot/news/2667178...

⚡️️️️️️️Russia's assault on Ukraine's energy grid is a war crime, UN says. Russia’s attacks on energy infrastructure, which weaponize winter to inflict suffering, amount to war crimes, a UN inquiry has found.

Jenrick has set out how Reform would maximise our “Brexit freedoms”. And this is their list. This is the very best they can come up with. “Re-legalise imperial units” It’s truly pathetic that this is the pinnacle of their Brexit fever dream. And that anyone would still back this ruinous idiocy…

This is just the maddest argument. These people would trap us in poverty to keep a decade old commitment, which no one ever actually made, to an electorate which no longer exists.

Lula won in part by banning online gambling

The people of Serbia celebrating the defeat of the dictator who held full authoritarian control of their country for nearly 14 years. This is what democracy looks like.

Bolsonaro's loss is not just a loss for Bolsonaro. It's a loss for Trump. For Musk. For Milei. For Netanyahu. For Farage. For Meta and Zuckerberg. For the meat barons, the fossil fuel corporations, and the rest of the neocolonial looters. And it is a massive win for humanity and the living planet.

In case facts still matter

If Brazil can reject Trump, the Broligarchs and right-wing authoritarianism, so can we.

I’m not a political journalist, so was gladly surprised at the community I found here last night. To Americans anxious about the upcoming elections, a key thing we learned in Brazil that might help you: DO NOT engage with the far-right online. Don’t share rage bait. Amplify your people. Ignore them.

Imagine a world where we are no longer dependent on oil and nuclear energy. It's coming and it's better and that's why the vested interests are doing everything in their power to stop it

Always double-check your ballot!

Brilliant news. Let’s reverse the stupidity and get the UK trading again

I’ve co-signed @labourlewis.bsky.social’s letter to Andy Burnham calling for public ownership of water. We already have ‘public control’. It's failed. £85bn+ extracted by shareholders, sewage in our rivers, bills going up. We need public ownership. Add your name: actionnetwork.org/petitions/la...

I wish Andy Burnham would muster up the bollocks to stop foreign interference in British politics!

And yet Reform and the Tories want to reverse Ulez and opposed the congestion charge!

Thank goodness that we’re going to be piping more gas and oil, said people in the 838,700 homes across Britain left without power. Great plan, said the people flooded out of their homes. We’re all happy to spend yet another decade subsidising the fossil fuel companies with our home insurance. 🥳

Despite the govt's being aware that either we end the Fossil Fuel Era or the Fossil Fuel Era will end us, Andy Burnham is doubling down on extracting and combusting fossil fuels which most certainly will contribute to global warming and the climate & ecological crisis. www.gov.uk/government/p...

"Andy Burnham casually admitted on a podcast the words that no UK government minister has ever said. "Chatting away ..... he mentioned that he’d asked officials about Russian interference in Brexit and had been informed in no uncertain terms that there was." broligarchy.substack.com/p/the-dark-t...

Imagine if Starmer or Burnham was the party leader in question. Just as Obama was castigated for a wearing tan suit but Trump gets to support Putin. It’s media ownership - always media ownership that’s the issue.

Funny, until you consider the underlying implications, then it’s not funny at all.

An inspiring story of 2 people fighting for what they believe in - in this case that farmers and water companies should not be destroying nature to make themselves a quick buck.

🇬🇧 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 The current Lord Rothermere has similar views to the previous Lord Rothermere’s 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺😎

American Morality Tickets to my Live Shows in London on Halloween weekend: JonathanPie.com/londonlive

The Conservatives are promising 50,000 new prison places. To put this into perspective, this is the same party that managed a net increase of about 500 in fourteen years.

London Mayor Sadiq Khan makes strongest call yet for Britain to rejoin EU: 'It must be our destination', he says. Warning that Brexit has been “catastrophic” for the capital...

Rivers being cleaned up and the return of fish ... Right up until the Tories got in power in 2010 and the water companies started polluting them again. It was and remains an act of treason to pollute our water sources

I’ve co-signed @labourlewis.bsky.social’s letter to Andy Burnham calling for public ownership of water. We already have ‘public control’. It's failed. £85bn+ extracted by shareholders, sewage in our rivers, bills going up. We need public ownership. Add your name: actionnetwork.org/petitions/la...

Glyphosate is killing our wildlife. We already live in one of the most nature-depleted countries on earth. Please sign.

Our parks, gardens, playgrounds are being poisoned with a toxic pesticide called glyphosate. It’s devastating our precious wildlife, including bees and birds. Right now, the UK government has a crucial chance to ban this poison. 🙏🏻 Please sign, it does help🙏🏻🦋 act.gp/3WpxIot

“Andy “Burn Them” Burnham has decided to open Aberdeen’s Jackdaw gasfield and speed up the extinction of everything on Earth in order, in the words of the energy secretary, Miatta Fahnbulleh, “to create 27 jobs [and] secure 273 jobs.””

So now Melania should get a Peace Prize? Perhaps Putin will award her one.

Interesting to read other governments’ emergency guidelines. Makes you realise what conversations are going on behind the scenes.

If your doctor told you you’ll die unless you change your harmful behaviour, presumably you’ll do it? If 10s of 1000s of planet doctors (or scientists as they’re also known) tell you that your planet is going to die unless you change your behaviour… what do you do?

In case you missed it, Russian military has been surveying the UK’s undersea internet and power cables and our fuel pipelines. The security services reckon Putin’s thugs now have an accurate map, so they can turn off the UK like a light switch. Just so you know. And no, we can’t guard them.

Thanks to @billlaw49.bsky.social for having me on to talk about the connections between Manchester City's owners and the far-right and how and why Andy Burnham needs to stand up to the UAE's bullying and general thuggery open.spotify.com/episode/1elj...

Reverse thread 👇🧵 about dereliction of duty by Cameron, May, Johnson, Sunak, compounded by vengeful Dorries and the collapse into a white dwarf that the BBC is undergoing. #AllGravityNoShine

A warming atmosphere holds more moisture. We warmed the atmosphere, now here come the floods. Just as predicted by physics. Odd how, whether you “believe” in science or not, it just keeps on happening.

Jared Kushner has been accused of holding two secret bank accounts in the Middle East that were exposed by Russian operatives who hacked his phone.

. Ukraine helps prevent Russia from influencing the midterm elections! SLAVA UKRAINI 🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦

Jared Kushner’s hacked iPhone revealed he promised MBS and MBZ he would push their agenda with Trump if they participated in a secret fund, with the two royals initially discussing over $10B before ultimately placing at least $2B into his accounts. Paywalled, use archive. archive.ph/FHGAt

There‘s already a similar campaign running in France

⚡️️️️️️️Kyiv denies reports that Trump, Musk have restored Starlink speeds in Ukraine. "Overall, nothing has changed anywhere," a Ukrainian official told the Kyiv Independent on Oct. 22. Starlink's speed cap of 161 kilometers per hour remains in effect, the official said.