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Lefty, music lover and humanist. A would be marathon runner. Old enough to remember when twitter was a good place! Just to be clear, if it's crypto, men / women looking for fun or religion, you are following the wrong guy, don't waste your time.
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I’ll be there, will you? No kings. No cults. Just the Constitution—and the people who hold the line.

I have never witnessed the utterly baboonish levels of jeering Reeves endures in the Commons - and this level of disrespect started on day one, so it is nothing to do with policies, credentials, or ability and everything to do with her being a woman.

"We are the party of fiscal responsibility" says Mel Stride, whose party famously triggered a bond market meltdown which crashed the UK economy and plunged the pound to its lowest ever level against the dollar

Rachel Reeves held her ground, rejected Treasury orthodoxy, and forced through a significant change to the fiscal rules on investment. She gets no credit for this, but she damn well deserves some inews.co.uk/opinion/rach...

⚠️ Chancellor Rachel Reeves: "The member for Clacton may be playing the friend of the workers now, but some of us are old enough to remember when he described the disastrous Liz Truss budget as; "The best Conservative budget since the 1980's"

CNN’s Jason Carroll was zip-tied and escorted away—for reporting the news. But they claimed he wasn’t under arrest? Why are they shooting rubber bullets at and silencing journalists? We still have a First Amendment.

I'm not sure 'Vote for me and I'll send your kids down the mines ' is the vote winner he thinks it is. Does he have any idea what year it is. What a desperate loser! www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

This is what Capitol Police expected him to do on Jan 6. He didn’t.

Fontaine's DC at #Primavera Sound last night . I don't think they could have been any clearer. #FreePalestine

The Israeli defense minister is openly threatening the life of GretaThunberg and other unarmed peace activists on an aid ship. Where the f**k are the world’s leaders? The world’s media?

Reform UK just exposed a major scandal… …in their own understanding of how government works. Bless. The Bear in top form ⤵️

Reform UK has uncovered the scandal of a “wasteful” £350m contract. Small problem: it’s not a contract. Or £350m. Or a scandal. Here’s how they got it completely wrong. 👇👇

While Tory MPs chase fare dodgers around for a few quid, billions in wasteful PPE spending is being uncovered. Perhaps if Robert Jenrick wants to catch who's really robbing the country blind, he should look within.

Zelensky has promised to stop the war between Trump and Musk in 24 hours.

Ben Habib - gone Rupert Lowe - gone Zia Yusuf - gone If Nigel Farage can't even hold this tiny group together, imagine what a disaster he would be in government.

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No words! Reform UK councillors Joseph Boam, 22, now heads up adult social care at Leicestershire County, Charles Pugsley, 19, who is still at university, has been made cabinet member for children & family services both account for 75% of the council’s £616 million budget”

Is this what we call the "find out" phase!!! #TeslaTakedown www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Tomorrow's front page 📰 'No-show Nigel' launches bizarre rant against media during chaotic trip to Scotland

Ukraine has never targeted a refugee camp, it has never targeted civilian hospitals or schools, it has never systematically raped captured enemy combatants, it has never destroyed a US naval ship, it has never targeted journalists or aid workers with airstrikes. Ukraine is based.

The Telegraph is now having to publish so many corrections to articles where it attempts to find *any angle whatsoever* to attack net-zero polices that it makes sense to start tracking them here. These are the ones published since Labour won the election. "We are happy to correct the record."

Can someone find me my violin!

Your occasional reminder that in two years' time, Nigel Farage will be taking his gold plated £73,000 annual EU pension.

If only there was some way of knowing what caused all this…

Today's ethical question: which is worse - dodging a fare or claiming public money for the same journey twice?

Nigel Farage wants to dismantle our NHS and replace it with this ... meme via Clare Underhillhead

🚨 SHOCK: “Lovely Man” Who Slaughtered His Entire Family, Had “Never Done Anything Like This Before.” 👇🏻 It’s #BrokenNews. Please Watch and share. youtu.be/cHOi9Sfr-ug

🔴NEW:The dark money behind UK's anti-abortion backlash - Key US anti‑abortion lawyer funding Toby Young’s Free Speech Union - Alliance Defending Freedom’s UK spending soars Warnings of “obvious danger” of “importing America's toxic far right politics” democracyforsale.substack.com/p/us-antiabo...

Says the man who gave us the biggest tax burden since the War, highest ever national debt, largest fall in living standards on record and committed the biggest act of self-harm in our history with Brexit. Time to shut the fuck up you shambling oaf.

NEW: Megan Twohey and I went deep on Elon Musk’s intense drug use as he rose to political power alongside Trump last year. He was using so much ketamine that he told people it was affecting his bladder. At SpaceX, he is getting warnings ahead of drug tests www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/u...

Or otherwise known as Tory fare evasion. #honestbobjenrick

stocks.apple.com/A1KEGahb_RKS... Oops

While Robert Jenrick MP spends his days wandering about the underground tackling fare dodgers and going on about the capital for clicks... his constituency has a genuine problem. ● Newark crime rate: 123 crimes per 1,000 ● London 105.8 per 1,000 But you know... "Sadiq"

This brilliantly articulates why I will protest with #teslatakedown until it's a penny stock. "If Musk’s tenure with DOGE has shown anything, it’s that literally every company Musk runs is political."

Opinion | "Whether it’s the deepest secrets of the human mind or the most superficial bluff, the basic reality is that this man has no idea what he is talking about" 🖋 Ian Dunt

Nigel Farage. The new Liz Truss.

“Liz Truss’s fantasy economics crashed the economy. My Government was elected to fix the mess. Now Nigel Farage wants to repeat her mistake. You can’t trust him with your job, your mortgage, your pension, your bills, or your future” Prime minister Keir Starmer responding to Reform UK policies

All you need to know about Elon Musk’s stunning success is that he lasted 2.65 Liz Trusses and lost 150 billion dollars.

It’s always “two weeks”

Last year we analysed some of Reform UK's tax proposals exclusively for @gurpreetnarwan.bsky.social and @news.sky.com. The tax cuts announced by Reform were both hugely expensive (costing £59bn a year) and highly regressive, benefiting the wealthiest households the most 🧵

Men are extremely keen to explain to me that Britain *needs* a domestic steel production plant and doesn't necessarily *need* universities. Okay. Steel contributed about £1.7bn to the UK economy in 2024. Universities contributed more than £200bn.

Given that both Boris Johnson and Michael Gove confessed to cocaine use, the co-ordinated string of Tweets from Tory frontbenchers attacking Sadiq Khan's entirely sensible call for cannabis decriminalisation are the height of hypocrisy