Rob Morton

In the UK we are facing an unprecedented coalition of hostile states, enormously wealthy far-right individuals prepared to spend many hundreds of £millions to swing elections & a media & social media ecosystem which they almost entirely control - we are simply not ready youtu.be/8ap3DObeNEs?...

What a… War-mongering 
Epstein-file-hiding 
Felony-racking 
Putin-bidding 
Netanyahu-enabling 
Corruption-chasing 
Wife-cheating Child-caging 
Lie-spouting Constitution-shredding 
Economy-f*cking Planet-wrecking …piece of shit of a man.

I strongly believe schools should bring children together rather than try to impose one religious identity on them. If you agree - please add your name and call on the Education Secretary to introduce inclusive assemblies for all, and to keep dangerous Christian Nationalism OUT of our schools.

“Stop accusing us of spying! We’ve been watching you!”

As someone who’s been out of the loop (gave birth a few weeks ago) this new effort from media outlets to brand the Green Party as a fringe party for people with fringe political views is grim. To any journalist contributing to this - shame on you. How embarrassing.

Mehdi Hasan's open letter to Louise Haigh: "Under Article I of the Genocide Convention – which the UK acceded to back in 1970 – “contracting parties” have a duty “to prevent and to punish” genocide. It’s a “binding duty” per the UN, imposed on every state party" open.substack.com/pub/zeteouk/...

There’s an underlying assumption a lot of people are making that if a black guy successfully misleads you, it means you have set your racism levels too low.

The treatment of Jason Arday was massively out of proportion to his faults. People who have committed terrible crimes have received less scrutiny, yet I don't believe anything he did or said even crossed the threshold of criminality. How many of us would have survived what he was put through? 🧵

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Always amazing how many people are very opinionated about history and politics whole knowing very little about history or politics. People who have strong views on, say, football generally know a fair bit about football.

Y'know, you can just replace every major media "Moderate Democrats Are Terrified and Repulsed by Popular Left-Wing Stuff" story with "We Interviewed One Stupid Fucking Asshole Who Hasn't Voted Dem Since 1992" in your mind's eye and lower your blood pressure considerably.

Ukrainian soldier Danylo Voronov lost his 18-month-old son, his parents, and his brothers and sisters today.

I am normally the first to defend civil servants. However, if this reporting is true then there should be mass firings and if at all legally feasible, criminal charges. To butcher a West Wing quote: everyone who did it, everyone who ordered it, and everyone who knew about it.

Good grief, this hits home.

Under a Binface government, anyone who doesn’t accept human-made climate change as fact will be sent back to school, from Year 1 right the way to A Levels, to see if anything goes in the second time round. #VoteBinface

Musk just has a hard time wrapping his head around a story where a man’s wife and child care if he comes home

"But Dmitry, my [hyper-specific job] really benefits from these!" Awesome, and Ukrainian army infantry platoons really benefit from grenade launchers but we've figured out ways to equip them without letting anyone just buy them on Amazon and take them to the local playground.

I should thank the Mail and 30p Lee for bringing my attention to James O'Brien's description of Farage. Refuk, the self-styled champions of 'free speech', 'banter' and 'hurty words' are calling it 'hate speech'. I guess it means no Lucy Connolly style hero's welcome for him at their conference...

Andy Burnham says that "eradicating the insidious briefing culture" in politics will be central to his leadership of the Labour party. Make a note of that one

Asked about rising racism and hatred in the UK, Keir Starmer says "the very sad thing is I am not able to say that in the 10 years since Jo Cox's death that things have got better because sadly they have got worse. That's on all of us to fix." Well yes, and your government has done what exactly?

Here’s a funny thing. I’ve just found a tweet from Jan 2020 asking what quid pro quo was for these peerages? In Part 2 of our series #HarborneReceipts Rupert Lowe alleges Tories offered them to Farage as part of a deal. Farage said he turned the deal down. But did he?

And there it is… www.desmog.com/2026/04/30/r...

Whilst the media commemorates 10 years since Brexit, it’s worth recalling that one of the principal causes of Brexit was the abject failure of the media to call out the lies and the liars.

Always grateful for proper research to confirm a hunch but you would expect that if you think less you would get worse at thinking

I see that the Southampton rioters are once again proving to be the kind of decent, law-abiding, women-defending, pleasant stout yeomen of the shire we should be paying attention to.

“Why aren’t more people alarmed by this extreme erosion of the right to protest and what it means for our country?”: @natashawalter.bsky.social on Labour’s repression of protest www.thenerve.news/p/natasha-wa...

GitHub Copilot moves to token based billing on June 1, and its users have now got a calculator that shows how much they've been actually burning every month - some $39-a-month users have spent $1500 to $5800 in tokens a month. Microsoft's subsidies are insane. www.wheresyoured.at/premium-what...

This is fucking mental. Protesters in the UK can now be convicted of criminal damage but be sentenced as terrorists despite never having been convicted of a terror offence and without the jury knowing anything about it. Just a un unbelievable abuse of power by Justice Johnson.

@reecedinsdale.bsky.social Good morning Reece. Here is a timely reminder for all -

NEWS! ‘Trampling to death pricks with rifles helps to keep their numbers under control’ insists African Elephant community

Incredible picture: Orion snapped this high-resolution selfie in space with a camera mounted on one of its solar array wings during a routine external inspection of the spacecraft on the second day into the Artemis II mission. Credit: NASA

Our public services aren’t for a secretive profit-hungry US tech firm. Sign the petition to tell the Government to scrap all contracts with secretive US tech firm Palantir. you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/st...

The Government has absolutely no mandate to do this. Labour never mentioned in its manifesto that it planned to undermine and restrict a fundamental cornerstone of our democracy - the right to trial by jury - a move which will place us on a path toward authoritarian justice youtu.be/x6NIiM9G5ag?...

The Prime Minister’s plan to offer rapid routes to settlement for those earning six-figure salaries whilst punishing and making lower-paid workers wait up to 15 years appears to be based on the notion that care workers are “low-skilled” because they are low-paid - its an absolute disgrace

Trump is such an asshole he’s got the Irish guy defending the English guy

When a senior advisor of Vladimir Putin chides Europeans for not following the directions of Donald Trump, it's quite revealing.

Yes, hello, is that God? Yeah, hi. I have a complaint. You gave me this brain that’s designed for finding berries and avoiding lions and now people are ‘just circling back’ to see if we can ‘move the needle’ on ‘key initiatives’? NONE of those things are berries.

If I was @zackpolanski.bsky.social, I would be pointing out to the BBC that whatever model they use to justify giving Farage & his boot-lickers season tickets for every BBC show under the sun must surely now treat Green Party politicians in exactly the same way. Might even be one for the lawyers...

Grifters have worked out that "I'm just a fearless truth-teller willing to propose the necessary but politically incorrect solution," is a magic formula whereby if you're offensive enough the conversation focuses on whether you should have said it, and misses how your ideas are dumb as hell.

How Matt Goodwin's definition of "the Elite" focuses on university workers and civil servants, while excluding the investment bankers, asset managers and global real estate executives who pay him bylinetimes.com/2026/02/25/r...

The entire ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Erin Callahan series is now available to read for FREE on Kindle Unlimited. You can also buy them as ebook £3.99, and paperback (sorry, After The Child paperback is going to be another 24 hours - delays at Amazon). And paperback through other channels later this week, I hope!