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By betraying his voters so comprehensively and so soon, Keir Starmer has done us a favour. He has given us 4 years to design the government we want. In this week's column I explain how it can be done. There's massive potential, but we need to start now. 🧵 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

submitted 6 days ago • 142 comments

This article is a tough, tough read if you are a Labour supporter... But unless your plan for the next 4 years is to live in a little bubble of self-delusion then watch the party you support disappear into oblivion, you need to. Bitter medicine, but necessary. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

submitted 6 days ago • 65 comments

This #LauraK #Toryshill

submitted 7 days ago • 23 comments

🇳🇴 Norway took its oil wealth and built the world’s largest sovereign wealth fund — investing in pensions, healthcare, and the future. 🇬🇧 Britain sold ours off in the 1980s, handed control to private corporations, and spent the revenues on short-term tax cuts.

submitted 7 days ago • 62 comments

“Tories would be fools to fall for Boris Johnson again” Well they are, so they might… But for the rest of us, it would be like being offered a stinking piece of rubbish that we’d watched them get out of the bin, dust off and put back on the plate. Forget it. www.thetimes.com/comment/colu...

submitted 7 days ago • 113 comments

My Independent Article: Farage promises to restore the winter fuel & scrap the two-child benefit cap. He's already admitted he makes stuff up to win elections. Anyone choosing to believe a man who admits to lying to you, must have a humiliation kink!

submitted 7 days ago • 32 comments

No, we haven’t rejoined. No, the EU can’t make our laws. Yes, it’s still a Brexit deal – just one with less pointless pain. The Bear cuts through the noise and fish-fuelled fury to explain what's actually in that deal. @eastangliabylines.co.uk @bearlypolitics.co.uk

submitted 7 days ago • 12 comments

What an incredible thing to write, given the Boris Johnson gov't. Neil's only useful function nowadays is as a corrective to the notion of "BBC impartiality". He was just very adept at injecting his right-wing politics into the framing of issues, while pretending to be "equally tough on anyone".

submitted 7 days ago • 58 comments

Financial crime in the UK. $2trn to $5.5trn dirty money laundered globally. 40% through the UK, its Crown Dependencies, Overseas Territories. Govt can take out Unexplained Wealth Orders (UWOs) to chase crooks. 2017-2025: 7 UWOs, none since 2019, no prosecutions. Laws not enforced on the City.

submitted 7 days ago • 16 comments

So, have you told the truth about Brexit, immigration, social care, ‘levelling up’, tax, NetZero… about 14yrs abusing power? No. You spend your life on a disinformation hellsite and you don’t call out “the lies and delusions that dominate Westminster” because your party is neck-deep in all of them.

submitted 8 days ago • 90 comments

All right-wing populist movements (Brexit, MAGA) fuel the idea that one's country is weak, disrespected, bullied - to stir up anger. (Humiliation is one of humans' strongest emotions.) The irony is that those very movements will ultimately do just that: make countries weak & disrespected.

submitted 8 days ago • 2 comments

An independent councillor in a Reform ‘run’ council: “They’re the wrong people in the wrong job.They have the ear of the country but they’re mainly racist white men of a certain age… We’ll be in special measures in 6 months” Imagine what they’d do to the country. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

submitted 9 days ago • 29 comments

“The rich get richer because political leaders protect that growth – often in service of their own ambitions. A Britain governed in the public interest must not defer to a plutocratic class. There needs to be a break with the current model” Sounds like a plan www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

submitted 9 days ago • 29 comments

Brexit ... 1/ Resurrect highest of trade borders 2/ Build needed facilities (away from ports with no space😅) 3/ Slowly realise not enough qualified border staff. (unilaterally favouring the EU, with open door to smugglers) 4/ Admit defeat. Accept EU oversight (but now without representation)

submitted 9 days ago • 6 comments

Trump chooses to raise tariffs on the EU because trade talks are "going nowhere". Trump refuses to impose additional sanctions on Russia despite Russia's persistent refusal to agree to his proposal for a 30 day ceasefire in their war on Ukraine. Says it all. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

submitted 9 days ago • 1 comment

The top image: The Guardian, July 2016 The article: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... The bottom image: The Guardian, May 2025 The article: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

submitted 9 days ago • 304 comments

Britain & evety government has an ego the size of Africa. English exceptionalism is embarrassing & quite frankly a joke. This country is a shithole full of racist knobs.

submitted 10 days ago • 3 comments

Gott kvöld from Iceland, where more Icelanders are wanting to join the EU. In an unstable world, with twin threats of Trump & Putin - it’s the EU they look to as the club of values, culture, defence and trade to which they want to belong. 🇮🇸🇪🇺

submitted 10 days ago • 9 comments

“Hard Brexit was xenophobic, economically illiterate and narrow-minded. An apology from the Brexit lobby is too much to hope for. Silence might be a relief. An appalling mistake was made. It awaits correction.” Yes. Such damage and waste. For nothing. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

submitted 10 days ago • 73 comments

I don't regularly agree with Simon Jenkins, but this piece is good, especially where it identifies how political tactics & strategy trumped doing what's best for the country. And that, unfortunately, is still largely the case. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

submitted 10 days ago • 2 comments

“Tories’ problem is they have nothing to offer” They’ve hollowed themselves out with egomania, prejudice and populist incompetence. Brexit, Johnson, (Truss) and Farage commit them to their ongoing pointlessness. They have nothing to offer and nothing new to say. www.thetimes.com/comment/colu...

submitted 11 days ago • 19 comments

"If the best argument the pro-Brexit diehards have got left after all these years is 'I like queues!' then it's not looking good". www.thelondoneconomic.com/news/diehard...

submitted 11 days ago • 8 comments

'The real betrayal for farmers came from Boris Johnson.' Brexit is a disaster and Keir Starmer should’ve gone further by dropping his #Brexit red lines and rejoined the CU and SM.

submitted 12 days ago • 5 comments

The Brexit mood music has changed. You can’t wang on about sovereignty and fish any more and expect people to care. Trade deals aren’t massively convincing either. People just don’t want hassle and higher bills. That’s all Brexit actually delivered. We’re very tired of the failure. (Letters, Times)

submitted 12 days ago • 40 comments

According to a new YouGov poll out today 66% of voters agree with the Prime Minister’s push for closer relations with the EU, compared to just 14% who disagree. open.substack.com/pub/adambien...

submitted 12 days ago • 6 comments

The £billions wasted, economic damage, loss of freedoms…..the Brexit disaster continues and those that still support it need putting in their place. www.theguardian.com/business/202...

submitted 12 days ago • 2 comments

The Tories are over. Brexit was a lethal dose of populist madness and it’s done for them. Cannot wait for their manifesto that says to business - “We’ll rip up Labour’s reset and go back to the glory days of red tape, queues and costs!” Bye 👋 then. Utter clowns. (Independent Brexit briefing)

submitted 12 days ago • 36 comments

This is bloody brilliant.

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments

A day after UK voted to leave EU in 2016, 🇬🇧 youth aired their grievances. Despite demographic time-bomb and evidence of Russian interference, Tories pushed on with Brexit. Now brexiteers are having melt down as they can’t come to terms with fact Brexit turned out just as remainers said it would.

submitted 12 days ago • 6 comments

The Brexiters are the past now. They must be left there, for the good of the country inews.co.uk/opinion/cant...

submitted 12 days ago • 40 comments

"So much remains to be worked out in Sir Keir Starmer's deal with the EU that it must be regarded as a staging post rather than a final destination." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

submitted 12 days ago • 4 comments

The unbelievable condescension we’re already seeing today towards working class people- suggesting they don’t travel to Europe or their kids might not want to go to university and study in Europe- is quite something to behold.

submitted 13 days ago • 180 comments