Tim

His sense of recall is almost as bad as Sunak’s 🤨

'“Alexa, show me a picture of two hypocrites" Reform’s Nigel Farage wants to abolish the ECHR. Yet in Warwickshire, Reform are using ECHR protections to help their council leader get off the hook of his 3RD standards investigati ...' www.facebook.com/permalink.ph... via Reform Are Not Your Friends

Oh My life! The BBC having the brass neck to say "the public" might re-think their attitudes towards Meghan Markle! I'm certain the majority of the ill-will towards her was manufactured by our right wing media along with the BBC. Most of us said 'leave them alone!' www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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.

Number crunching: Royal Mail From the latest Private Eye, out now.

Reform UK's Suella Braverman claims massive taxpayer-funded water bill at home equal to 18 baths a day Claim to have used 1,504 litres of water daily at her £1.2million four-bedroom pad in a five-month period. Reform have promised benefit cuts for the disabled, old, sick, poor, unfortunate.

Severe climate impacts are arriving decades earlier than expected The UK is not prepared. It’s time for government to hold an emergency briefing to the nation. In the meantime you can watch our film: www.nebriefing.org/screening-map It’s #TimeToStepUp #NationalEmergencyBriefing

This story went up late on Friday and got less attention than it otherwise might have done. A sentencing hearing on Friday was told three participants in the Tory election-betting scandal - dismissed at the time as "a flutter" - would have made nearly £50,000 if undetected www.ft.com/content/510e...

Trump and his supporters love debt and deficits

Muslim community members in Bradford, England, helped save the city’s historic Reform Synagogue from possible closure by raising funds for essential repairs and supporting efforts to secure additional financial assistance. The synagogue, established in 1880, was facing serious financial difficulties

Some good news (from the National Crime Survey, h/t frasernelson.substack.com/p/lawless-br...)

Healey is wrong to claim that Heathrow extension will boost GDP. That's false. it simply diverts resources from more useful and sustainable projects, with huge disruption along the way. It only serves the interests of Heathrow's owners.

Richard Branson explains that Trump is Putin's dog.

Absolutely desperate. As @guyshrubsole.bsky.social was saying at the weekend: 50 MILLION pheasants are released into the wild annually. The biomass outweighs that of all native bird species combined.

Eight years ago

Well done @carolecadwalla.bsky.social for your tireless work on this. We are in your debt!

Another word for "migrants" is "people".

What a weird world we live in - Ukraine hits a data centre deep in Russia - Irish twitter users see racist posts about IPAS centres in Offaly fall off a cliff

Just wondering where and when are the riots over this White Paedophile Gang, just convicted? Did I not get the memo? Did I miss the Invite?

Here’s a new idea - people get stripped of honours for doing dishonourable things - let’s add tax dodging to the list. buff.ly/6zFAOmn

"Dear Diary, There were six by-elections in England and Scotland this week and Reform lost all of them. Two of them were seats we previously held. The problem with running councils is that people can see how useless we are."

Chris Dixon posted this on LI and I had to share it here. It’s just too good, the @jonronson.bsky.social twist is superb…

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.

& Justin Webb

Tom Watson’s move to Palantir is the latest sign of how far the rot has spread in UK politics | Clive Lewis

Our system of government is not equipped for an authoritarian strongman who brazenly ignores court orders and rejects the rule of law. This is why it was always important not to elect a lawless maniac in the first place, but this is what Americans apparently wanted. Oops.

1/7 🧵 In 1934 Lord Rothermere’s Daily Mail proclaimed: “HURRAH FOR THE BLACKSHIRTS.” His great-grandson now owns the Mail. His great-grandson’s wife has donated £50,000 to Reform UK. History doesn’t repeat itself. But sometimes the echoes deserve examination. @mrjamesob.bsky.social @lbc.co.uk

A long read, but so worth it. Russ has a wonderful turn of phrase.

The oldest trick in the book: to check if someone is a traitor or not you feed him false informations. If the enemy act in response to them that's proof that the traitor leaked them. Well, France and Ukraine fed Trump with disinfo, and Putin reacted. Case closed.

Well said bridgette I honestly can’t understand why a man who has more money than he can spend in a thousand lifetimes objects to paying his fair share in tax I pay 40% Why shouldn’t he?

Martin Roche, The Scotsman: "The champion blunder been Brexit. No other British public policy in the post-Second World War era has been so profoundly damaging to our economy, security, democracy and global influence. The warnings were frequent, informed, loud and accurate, but ignored ordismissed."

It's always pensions and benefits and things for you that are unaffordable Never billionaires, never war, never MP's expenses. Let me tell you the richest 1% in the UK gain more wealth every year than the entire cost of the NHS and Pensions for everybody That's what is unaffordable

If Totnes decided, in an unofficial referendum, to join the EU, I wonder how many pages of coverage the BBC would give to a cat that can play a banjo?

Scotland: We want to leave the UK BBC: Huh? Wales: We want to leave the UK BBC: What? Northern Ireland: We want to leave the UK BBC: Lolz Some shithole in Oxfordshire: We want to leave the UK because racism BBC: REPORT THE HELL OUT OF THIS #Piddington

This is fantastic!

Here's a French video (with English subtitles) about what would happen if the far-right racists got their way and all foreigners and people of colour were forced to leave.

“Some of the men congregated in the local pub, where locals were able to overhear some of the plans for the following day. HOPE not hate spoke to one person who was so disturbed by these plans that they contacted the Counter Terrorism Police.” hopenothate.org.uk/2026/09/07/e...

At the moment we have no real idea how to scale up carbon removal--it's a hair on the mole of the ugly backside of the global hydrocarbon industry But we do know how to scale up solar panels and wind turbines and batteries. So that's our job billmckibben.substack.com/p/facts-on-t...

Don't forget before the last 14 Yr run of tory government the NHS was regarded as best model of healthcare in the world. Value for money, patient outcome and satisfaction, etc. It was diliberately broken in an attempt to emulate the US model. It WAS possible to maintain the NHS. Now it's a rebuild!

So a guy who got a “ scholarship to Eaton” and went to Cambridge Uni for free decides he doesn’t want to contribute to the UK anymore! Good riddance , please leave your passport as you go, OFC they never do!

No arrests were made!! Imagine doing this outside Buckingham Palace or HoP. Suggest even walking down some streets, question would be asked ! Chances are some are off duty coppers ? Remember the OAP’s arrested for wearing certain T shirts! Shameful!

There’s an uncomfortable sense of déjà vu in the British attitude here: every act of cooperation is still booked as a “concession”, every EU gain as a British loss. It’s the same zero-sum Brexit psychology just with friendlier language. Until that changes, the relationship won’t.

There is so much more to say. Some of it here. We cannot let this lie. It's not politics. It's not ideology. It's not a culture war. It's a question of basic humanity. A man is dead. And he should be alive. And maybe he still would be. If it wasn't for us. ENDS

Here's Jason Arday's death - and the media's role in it - trending on social media, again. And yet it's *nowhere* in the mainstream media today. It's "fallen" out of the news cycle in the same way that Russian scientists "fall" out of windows. 🔗

Jewish anti-genocide activist Tony Greenstein was acquitted of 'terror' charges, triggering a meltdown among the UK Israel lobby Via @skwawkbox.org

Also worth remembering that in the Uxbridge by-election, Labour’s leadership were trying to strong-arm the Mayor over this. There are plenty of children who can be thankful that he showed the guts and character not to give in to McSweeney and Starmer.