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Five hen harrier chicks found dead on a grouse moor had injuries consistent with stabbing . . . YES , stabbing . Email your ‘victim impact statement’ to gamebirds@defra.gov.uk (subject: Call for Evidence) by 1 Nov . It can't go on . raptorpersecutionuk.org/2026/10/16/p...

Same paper, same journalist, a few weeks apart. I'd say it was cognitive dissonance, but that gives them too much credit. It's simply propaganda in the service of xenophobia and racism

🧵 As front-page headlines go, this has to be one of the most misleading I've seen in a long time It's an out-and-out lie But notice the trick they use to get away with it...👀 *They're* not lying - they're just quoting someone else who is👍🏻 In this case, the leader of the opposition🙄 1/33

Fake passports. A money laundering conviction. A mystery casino fortune in Montenegro... There's yet more revelations about who Farage chooses to surround himself with. Let’s start with George Cottrell. A man Farage describes as "like a son," and his former chief of staff 👇

And here it is. For all the whining about condescension & belittling the poorly educated, nobody - and I mean nobody - holds Nigel Farage’s base in more profound contempt than Nigel Farage.

Nigel Farage. A proper football fan who hasn't moved an inch in almost two years.

A whole 12% of voters think Brexit has been a success. And just 25% of Leave voters. Sigh.

The Conservatives’ Alternative King’s Speech claimed the welfare bill is higher than income tax receipts “for the first time ever”. We’ve heard this a few times recently, but it’s not true. Welfare spending (including pensions) has been higher for years.

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Reform UK's Richard Tice refused to condemn Glenn Gibbins who is now a Reform UK councillor Who said that Nigerians should be melted down to fill in pot holes

When voting in the local elections, please judge Reform on our record so far: -over 75 councillors sacked, resigned or defected -every council raised council tax after promising to cut it -Staffordshire sacked two leaders for racism -Nottinghamshire spent £70k putting flags up

Here's Ed Miliband's energy speech yesterday in full - worth a read www.gov.uk/government/s...

I debunked the original headlines about these school guidelines when they first came out a couple of weeks ago. But then the Daily Mail pushed this on Facebook over the Easter weekend, so I felt the need to address that too! 1/6 🧵

The Mail is now calling Trump "unhinged" on its front page, having said it was "deluded" to not back him

My statement tonight on President Trump:

Starmer should immediately & unequivocally ban access to British airspace to US warplanes. The UK should not be accomplice to a US President who is threatening more war crimes. Period.

This is a threat to wipe out an entire ‘civilisation’ which obviously includes civilians. Trump shows zero regard for international law. I don’t care what motivates him to make the world a scarier place day by day - whether it is thirst for oil or the distraction - he needs to stop.

Never forget which side Farage is on. Because it’s definitely not ours. And we mustn’t let him rewrite history to claim that it is. He’s Trump’s boy. Ready to sell us out as soon as he’s required to do so.

“You’re all the same”. We’re not. #SouthDerbyshire #WeNotMe

Tactical. Voting advice to stop Reform U.K. 🗳️ 26 MARCH 2026 LOCAL BY-ELECTIONS 🟩 Axholme Central, North Lincolnshire: Green 🔴 Brumby, North Lincolnshire: Labour 🔶 Halstead, Knockholt and Badgers Mount, Sevenoaks: Lib Dem 🔶 Stanford, Vale of White Horse: Lib Dem #StopReformUK stopreformuk.vote

🔴 NEW 🔴 Pro-oil Tory leader Kemi Badenoch accepted a £7,500 retreat from a major party donor who happens to chair an influential climate science denial group. 📝 @desmog.com story 👇

“That’s why Reform’s fossil-fuel funded politicians are so opposed to climate science and… Net Zero… Not because Net Zero is an economic failure but because its success will hit their donors’ profits” Farage: Never acts in the national interest. Only ever his own. open.substack.com/pub/democrac...

Felt compelled to write this. Sunday should have been about Sunderland’s win at St James’s Park - but racism took over narrative. This isn’t what our derby should be about. It needs tackling together, not through tribal point-scoring. #SAFC | #NUFC

🧵And we're off, ladies and gentlemen! It's "they're banning the word EASTER" week. Regular as clockwork... So here comes a history lesson and media lesson all rolled into one thread! PS, I can't believe there's no easter egg emoji? This was the best I could do - 🗿🥚 🤣 I digress! 1/19

Spain's renewables build-out has structurally decoupled its electricity prices from gas markets. Gas now sets the price in only 15% of hours, compared to 90% in Italy. Countries that invested early in clean power are far less exposed to fossil fuel price shocks. Those that didn't now pay the price.

@perranmoonmp.bsky.social do you agree with Raynor or Mahmood? As a constituent who voted for you, this is really important to me & I'd like to know your own opinion.

@fleuranderson.bsky.social would love to hear your view on this. I’m a constituent and think the current proposals immoral. In addition they will not work. I did not deliver leaflets for you for this. I believe you are a moral person so would like to hear your explanation

Our flawed political system demands that a Labour government does well in acting to protect and support the vulnerable in society, as the Tories certainly won't. So, @elsieblundellmp.bsky.social, do you align with Shabana Mahmood or Angela Rayner?

Good on Angela Rayner. I do not believe the Mahmood plans have the support of the Labour party or Labour MPs.

Farage really is utterly repulsive. A racist, misogynistic, Nazi-sympathising, hate-filled grifting arsehole. And v much not a school boy any more, so god knows what his excuse will be this time. Totally unfit for office. This should be career-ending. The fact that it won’t be is deeply depressing.

Eight year old Mustafa Bani Odeh. His parents and two siblings murdered in front of him by plainclothed Israeli soldiers, while he was beaten up by them. West Bank. The same unit executed two Palestinians three months ago after they surrendered. Every. Day.

If it's sometimes hard to tell the difference between fossil-fuel lobbyists and the billionaire press, that's because there isn’t one. My column on the politicians, journalists and junktanks using the Iran crisis as an excuse to extract our remaining gas and oil. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Oh boy! What a headline... Ask yourself: "What am I being asked to believe?" "Who am I being told to blame?" Take a few seconds to imagine what the Daily Mail (And Telegraph, GB News and Express) WANT you to think is going on. Let's see what's ACTUALLY happening...🧵 1/21

Did you see this headline? Did you feel the requisite anger and rage at asylum seekers that The Sun was asking of you? Did you maybe blame Starmer because.... um... it was probably his fault🤷‍♀️ Would you like to know the reality behind the headline? Course you would!😜 Let's take a look 🧵 1/25

Well worth reading for the Chris Mason story..., 😉

These people are poison. They will unleash racist thugs on the streets of this country and call it security. They will subjugate us to the US and call it patriotism. They must be stopped. There is no more important task in politics.

Immensely cool! What a star! www.bbc.co.uk/sport/athlet...

So it turns out Matt Goodwin's Reform campaign manager was a holocaust-denying Nazi who said he would "never touch a Jewish woman.” When do we start seeing all the coverage of the antisemitism crisis in Reform UK? www.jewishnews.co.uk/reform-uk-su...

This is a blunt falsehood from Farage. 3.5m Epstein files were released on 30 Jan and on Jan 31, the FT carried a front-page story on Mandelson (see image). People like Farage seem to dislike reporters aslking questions. If you do like reporters asking questions, pay for some (any!) journalism.

I’d never have thought a Labour Government would be responsible for such a draconian measure that was found to be unlawful by the High Court. Let’s hope they at least listen and overturn the ban immediately. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

Productivity increases between 5% and 13% with working from home, and worker wellbeing improves hugely too. But Farage doesn't care about reality. Or productivity. Or your wellbeing. He cares about the workplace property investors who bankroll him. www.greatplacetowork.com/resources/bl...

Just a quick note to @greenparty.org.uk and @greenpartyhan.bsky.social - I was not consulted on being quoted on your leaflets and I have not endorsed your campaign (or any campaign in this seat). I think this note, like the bar chart next to it, is misleading and out of context.