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From “aristocracy to assetocracy” - Prof Huw McCartney, a colleague at @unibirmingham.bsky.social, explores the make-up and wealth in the House of Lords, which so desperately needs reform: theconversation.com/from-aristoc...

Islamo-communism 🤦‍♀️ Think of a word, add o, hyphen, add something unrelated. Voila! A new enemy! Franco-Vegetarianism! Latino-Metabolism! Americano-Surrealism!

Finally… 🇬🇧 Parts of the right-wing press have finally noticed Brexit was a disaster. Only took a decade 
🏦 The banks, the budget, and why it's time they paid up 
🪕 And a former Mumford & Son explains wealth creation to an actual tax expert on Newsnight New Trawl👇🏽 podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...

"It is bonkers that income from wealth is taxed at a lower rate than income from work." Great to hear Ellie Chowns call out CGT for what it is, a ridiculous unfair give away to the country's richest. We need reform now.

Reform says “a handful” of bad apples slip through vetting. It’s not a handful. We’ve exposed Reform councillor after Reform councillor, and many of them are still in the party. Here are some of the worst👇 hopenothate.org.uk/2026/10/16/t...

Ugh… Such waste! Our supermarkets bin around 238 million meals' worth of edible food a year WHY??? France made that illegal We could too …with your help. Please sign - takes 30 seconds! petition.parliament.uk/petitions/781821

ITV spent a year undercover inside Reform and found a far right party is, shockingly, full of racist c*nts. Farage’s fash for cash gravy train is hurtling towards oblivion and I’m fucking LOVING IT. What we know so far and popcorn at the ready tonight! youtu.be/2IxMD_FZjvQ

Women shouldn’t have to live in alert mode. This month marks three years since the EU joined the Istanbul Convention, a landmark treaty recognising gender-based violence against women as a violation of human rights.

Good, but wouldn’t it be nice if we all had the right to live, work, and retire anywhere on the vast continent we share? Time to #Rejoin

🙌🏽🎵☀️Next wk I release my live Empire sessions video of ‘ Wild is the Wind ‘ Before that I will share different versions of this enigmatic masterpiece. The original Oscar nominated version sung by Johnny Mathis , was written by Dimitri Tiomkin & Ned Washington in 1957 for a film of the same name ♥️

Trump’s a Russian asset, Farage’s party is a racist enterprise, Putin wanted Brexit & if you tried to make a list of all the UK politicians & pundits who’ve backed all three, you’d be here for hours.

Is anyone even surprised by these racist and sexist Reform revelations? When you lay down the welcome mat for these wrong’uns …what do you expect?

Leaving X has, I'm pretty sure, hit my bookings and career. But it comes at the massive bonus of a) my own mental wellbeing and b) not providing free content for the owner of Starlink:

Everyone still on X. Everyone Elon Musk has turned off his Starlink satellite in favour of Russia. He’s working against Ukraine and working against us. It’s terrifying and YOU ARE ALL working against the safety and security of all of us, including your own families.

Did the Russians interfere in Brexit?

Much of the coverage today is absolutely nuts. The facts are on Wikipedia. The full Intelligence and Security Committee (Russia) Report is online. Tory media & politicians once again banking on their average consumer/voter being too daft/busy/blinkered to notice...

Sir Ken McCallum head of MI5 - Russia remains "aggressor number one" and is fighting a hybrid war against the UK that is not being taken seriously enough. This "war" did not start last week. It's been going on for a decade+ and those denying it should be challenged. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

“The political, strategic and economic momentum for a reversal of Brexit is growing” and ultimately, despite - and maybe partly because of - the idiotic Tory and Reform tantrums about it, it’s becoming unstoppable. Where there’s a will, there will be a way… giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

The Times from ten years ago this week. They were wrong. In fact Brexit is costing the UK economy roughly £100 billion a year. #ProjectFear

🚨 It's all gone BONKERS.. 🦠 Pneumonic plague in Russia. 
🪖 Hegseth's rules for the armed forces: “no fatties, no beardos, no weirdos”… 
🤦 Trump’s DELULU Time interview transcript …but hey, at least the polls look good! 🎧 NEW Trawl episode - out now 👇🏽 podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...

Need reasons to be cheerful? We’ve got them for you… Burnham highs, Braverman lows and Reform’s luck seemingly running out Plus a touch of class from Jűrgen Klopp Get this brand new ep of The Trawl podcast in your ears now… podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...

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I’m doing a book event in Edinburgh next week if anyone is around and fancies it - www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-nuance...

New post: Burnham has opened the door to a "rejoin" manifesto pledge. The politics make more sense than a lot of people seem to realise. I look at what it would involve at every step from pledge to referendum. There are significant barriers but it can be done. samf.substack.com/p/the-route-...

Suella Braverman, consider Walter Tull. Born in Folkestone to an English mother and a Barbadian father. A footballer for Tottenham Hotspur and Northampton Town. A British Army officer who led soldiers into battle and was killed serving his country in 1918.

And we’re off… #Inktober2026

Did I mention I was speaking to Johnny Marr for Front Row next week? And we did talk about the Beatles. A bit..

Naomi Klein Is Spot On.......

Hey, Suella, leave them kids alone. A school's job is educate children, not force them into religious worship. Keep Christian Nationalism OUT of assemblies, classrooms, and the curriculum. Agree? Sign our petition today 👇 humanists.uk/action/keep-...

The far right thrives on lies and disinformation. We’re debunking some of the most common myths they peddle, exposing the harm they cause, and showing why their claims don’t stand up to scrutiny. Read our new report: hopenothate.org.uk/2026/10/01/f...

This is promising. The UK could go "all the way" towards rejoining the EU, Burnham tells the BBC. 🚨 EU membership is the only option that delivers £92 billion of growth. The government needs to take us back to where we belong: at the heart of Europe.

NEW: We are one! The @thenerve.news is celebrating its first birthday today!!! With the news that we are financially sustainable!!! THANK YOU so much to the many, many people who helped us get here. Your support is everything! 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏 pressgazette.co.uk/news/the-ner...

Last weekend, Rupert Lowe MP called on "the establishment" to stop referring to Restore Britain as “somehow ‘nazi’”. Unfortunately for Lowe, we have repeatedly exposed the neo-Nazis, fascists and ethnonationalists within the party. 🧵 hopenothate.org.uk/2026/09/29/r...

Richest 1% of Britons owns more wealth than the bottom 70% of the population combined. 50 richest families hold more wealth than the poorest half of the population combined. The concentration of wealth in fewer hands has not provided the necessary economic stimulus. Need redistribution.

Reform want to indoctrinate our children. Freedom of (and from) belief is a human right. humanists.uk/2026/09/10/s...

"We could stay as we are if people think that’s the right place to stay, we could look at the customs union or the single market, or we could go all the way." Andy Burnham set out the options for our future with the European Union on Radio 4 this morning.

The rush to speculate that asylum seekers are responsible for every crime in the news is a sort of opportunistic informational terrorism. Until it’s disproved it stokes fear and hatred. When it is disproved there are no adverse consequences and they know that they only have to be lucky once.

Brexit has failed. No wonder rejoining the EU is the most popular option in 99% of constituencies, according to our latest poll with YouGov.

Burnham today v impressive. The idea itself, the scale of what is being proposed, the determination to push ahead despite how vulnerable it makes him, and the big fundamental point behind it all: that mainstream politics will only survive if it proves it can solve big problems.

House builders say rent controls would 'make housing more expensive'. Water companies say their industry is 'too expensive to nationalise'. Billionaires say wealth tax would 'force them to leave the country'. But as Mandy Rice-Davies observed, they would say that, wouldn't they?

On the BBC News Katya Adler has just described Germany, where the far right AFD keep winning elections, as entering 'uncharted political territory'. Hmmm. Where Germany is concerned I think that territory is pretty well charted.

This story is incredible - and shows how much corruption and money laundering runs through fin tech (which makes it ripe for Kremlin operations) giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

It is incredibly important that political violence does not succeed. The far-right mob that shut down Portsmouth wanted this outcome. If the state wishes to avoid more of these actions, it needs to make sure this RNLI branch reopens *immediately*, or as close to that as humanly possible.

British journalism and polling are both utterly implicated in the Farage funding scandal iandunt.substack.com/p/british-jo...

Bonnie Greer was always a joy to watch on screen, a joy to interview and a hugely supportive sister whenever we met, notably when I was going through my equal pay tribunal. Here was our last encounter in 2024..Discussing her own encounter with James Baldwin www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

£72m for Reform over the weekend could be just the tip of the iceberg There's nothing to stop Elon Musk giving, via a UK X subsidiary, £300m to Restore Britain today Or a Trump ally giving £500m to Farage via a UK-registered firm There's a v narrow window to tackle big money in the elections bill

Londoners say NO to Ray-Ban pervert glasses

A dark blizzard of disinformation is warping the public’s perception of our great city. But we know the truth: our homicide rate is lower than every major US city, neighbourhood crimes are down and we’ve been ranked #1 city in the world 11 years in a row. My piece for The Times.