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🚨🚨In slightly underreported news, #Hungary has passed a despicable constitutional amendment allowing authorities to ban LGBT+ public events such as Pride marches – clear move toward even more authoritarianism by Orban's government.🧵 www.independent.co.uk/lgbt/hungary...

submitted 11 hours ago • 11 comments

My mum was born in 1926, when Britain ruled a quarter of the world. There are people still alive who could tell Donald Trump exactly how we lost an empire through arrogance, ignorance and over-reach. Not that he or the MAGA maniacs would ever listen

submitted 11 hours ago • 14 comments

‘If you tell lies that cause violence, you are responsible in-part for that violence.’ @mrjamesob.bsky.social asks why we have stopped saying ‘lying is bad’, after a report into misinformation surrounding the summer riots.

submitted 19 hours ago • 19 comments

Wow. But also, good!

submitted 17 hours ago • 46 comments

Fascism is happening in front of your eyes. You can call it that or not - I don't give a fuck - but that is what it is.

submitted 13 hours ago • 36 comments

I’m sorry, WHO started a war?

submitted 12 hours ago • 60 comments

Trump is doing this right now btw

submitted 12 hours ago • 894 comments

Trump defying a 9-0 Supreme Court decision is the reason I say "if we still have free and fair elections in the United States" when I talk about 2026 midterms.

submitted 12 hours ago • 151 comments

New in PN: The devious purpose behind MAGA's incessant lying "If Dems are going to defend the social safety net and even cancer research, we need to get accustomed to saying unequivocally that lies are lies, and comfortable recognizing them as a deliberate effort to confuse and demoralize people."

submitted 17 hours ago • 98 comments

I don't know why Putin is still wasting his money on propaganda and disinformation when he's got this useful idiot in the White House doing it all for free.

submitted 13 hours ago • 34 comments

As I watch Starmer tear up Labour's prospects by attacking people in poverty, abusing those who care about the living world and appeasing the ultra-rich, I feel the same sense of dislocation as I did before the Iraq War. Anyone can see the disaster coming, except, apparently, the government.

submitted 18 hours ago • 162 comments

And justice was done! #StopBrexitMan www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

submitted 17 hours ago • 0 comments

At least 80 Labour MPs are at risk of losing their majorities over proposed welfare cuts, according to data shared between Labour MPs who are warning the government that the changes “pose a real electoral risk” www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

submitted 1 day ago • 53 comments

“In an increasingly volatile global economy, it’s more important than ever to secure our relationship with our closest neighbours. The British public overwhelmingly back a common-sense reset: a much-needed closer trading relationship with EU," @tuc.org.uk says. ~AA www.tuc.org.uk/news/major-s...

submitted 18 hours ago • 3 comments

I just want to make this crystal clear. As a Government you DO NOT need money to nationalise things.

submitted 18 hours ago • 2 comments

🔴‘What Is the Point of Labour Winning the Next General Election if It Governs as Reform-Lite?’ The political strategy being pursued by Keir Starmer and his advisers means that whichever party comes first in 2029, Nigel Farage wins, argues Neal Lawson bylinetimes.com/2025/04/14/w...

submitted 21 hours ago • 55 comments

Some good news. Advanced skin cancer patients are being fast-tracked into the NHS’ revolutionary vaccine trial. This is a stage 2 trial but patients have already seen tumours shrunk. It’s part of the NHS’ groundbreaking Cancer Vaccine Launch Pad which is developing vaccines for different cancers.

submitted 20 hours ago • 8 comments

Dear LBC & BBC. Please stop interviewing Nigel Farage & Richard Tice.

submitted 20 hours ago • 19 comments

And here we are…👇 Trump. Is. Putin’s Bitch. ✨

submitted 20 hours ago • 14 comments

China has apparently announced it has detected salmonella in American poultry. Smirk.

submitted 20 hours ago • 16 comments

Political insider trading. Allegedly.

submitted 20 hours ago • 9 comments

🚨Breaking🚨 On Monday, Bray was found not guilty of failing without reasonable excuse to comply with a direction given under the Police Reform and Social Responsibility Act 2011 “re prohibited activities in Parliament Square” at Westminster Magistrates’ Court. www.lbc.co.uk/crime/stop-b...

submitted 20 hours ago • 1 comment

The financing and transparency of "think tanks" & lobby groups in the UK is an absolute disgrace. It needs root-and-branch reform, starting with full disclosure of donors and an immediate ban on foreign funding. Having broken their own democracy, MAGA plutocrats should not be able to buy up ours.

submitted 22 hours ago • 16 comments

Nigel Farage thinks most pensioners haven't earned their pension, but ... "... Farage will be accepting £73K a year from his EU Pension from the EU who he despises so much" via Iva Wedgy ps. Farage was 'fined £35,000 after allegedly misspending EU funds', and claimed £17,000 pa "office expenses"

submitted 22 hours ago • 6 comments

Genuine question. Why is Farage given so much airtime by the BBC? Re the Scunthorpe steelworks, why not talk to someone from the green party or the LibDems? Both have more MPs than Reform

submitted 22 hours ago • 36 comments

'This is what the end of empire looks like.' 18 mins of @mollyjongfast.bsky.social and I basically losing our minds with despair as we survey the damage of Liberation Day. youtube.com/watch?v=upjw...

submitted 22 hours ago • 20 comments

Green Party Policies. • Renationalising our NHS • £70bn Wealth Tax • 500,000 Council Homes • £16 per hour min wage • Universal Basic Income • Rent Controls • Abolishing Tuition Fees • Recognition of Palestine • Free Secondary School Meals • Axe Two-Child Cap Vote 🟩

submitted 22 hours ago • 34 comments

Morning Bluesky. Trump has backed his friend the war criminal Putin over the Russian attack on civilian centres in Sumy which killed 34 people including two children. Trump said: “I was told they made a mistake.” Russia has now bombed 1700 schools and 780 medical facilities in three years.

submitted 21 hours ago • 27 comments

Interesting UK Govt statistics Fraud on PIP, 0%. Attendance Allowance 0%. Disability Living Allowance 0.1% Employment and Support Allowance 1.5% Carer’s Allowance 3% Housing benefit 3.9% Pension Credit 3.9% Why is Govt taking powers to snoop 24/7 on bank accounts of all benefit recipients?

submitted 21 hours ago • 35 comments

Billionaire Ray Dalio on Meet the Press: “What worries me more is a breakdown of the entire monetary and world order. “This…is about debt, tariffs, global power shifts, and domestic instability. It’s starting to look like the 1930s. “If mishandled, it could become much worse than a recession.”

submitted 21 hours ago • 26 comments

and yet they come to Europe and lecture everyone on free speech

submitted 23 hours ago • 468 comments

I’d rather shit in my hands and clap, frankly. It’s not safe for anyone to travel to the US now. Especially not those who criticise the regime. I’ll continue to raise my finger at that fucking fascist from a distance, hope he’s ready to be repeatedly called a cunt when he visits the UK.

submitted 1 day ago • 68 comments

Looks like Trump intends to keep the stock markets girating like rollercoasters on steroids, so that his mates can keep making money on the ups, and on the downs. Meanwhile, the chilling effect of so much uncertainty will be catastrophic for the global economy. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

submitted 22 hours ago • 8 comments

I found this thread by George Monbiot, as well as his article quoted, well worth a read. It gets to the heart of the problem of politics in the U.K. at the moment, and some pretty straightforward solutions staring our leaders in the face.

submitted 23 hours ago • 23 comments

Chilling warning from Fiona Hill - let's not forget, Putin's biographer before she went to work for Trump in his first term. She knows the signs of growing authoritarianism, and she sees them in the US now.

submitted 1 day ago • 20 comments

“Starmer must not trade away our food standards as part of tariff negotiations. We are as indignant about American animal welfare as JDVance seems to be about the control of anti-abortion demonstrations outside UK clinics” So many reasons to focus on the EU, not the US. Letter of the week The Week

submitted 23 hours ago • 27 comments

2025: Nigel Farage suggests that if it wasn't for him and Richard Tice, Labour would not take steps to renationalise British Steel 2016: That time Nigel Farage told us that the way to save British Steel was to leave the European Union

submitted 23 hours ago • 86 comments

A very strange UK politics where it seems the two traditional parties are targeting the same ~20% of the population and nobody very much cares about the remaining 80%.

submitted 1 day ago • 93 comments

Well done to all countries bar China who have managed to benefit from the 10% ‘Brexit benefit’…

submitted 1 day ago • 14 comments

There's been a LOT of post-Brexit passport confusion for Brits travelling to the EU. Turns out that was mainly due to Tory government chaos, meaning the travelling public were given false travel advice for three years. Go figure...

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

HASSETT: If you look at the latest jobs report, it was way, way above even what I expected TAPPER: You know the jobs data was from before the "liberation day"

submitted 1 day ago • 845 comments

If steel has zero value and can be nationalised, why doesn't water? And if steel is not profitable because of high energy costs, how is society supposed to afford high domestic energy costs? How can we improve our situation to where services and people can work/live better?

submitted 1 day ago • 33 comments

Conservative went on TV to say Liberal Democrats are bad because too many are vegans. April Fools was last week, April Morons this week. #bbclaurak

submitted 1 day ago • 7 comments

Oh my god… 600 men arrived on British shores yesterday with the sole purpose of dragging the U.K. out of the EU thus rendering us poorer and extremely vulnerable to current geopolitical pressures Oh no wait… that was you Nigel Farage Same old tune… what’s on your B side? #bbclaurak

submitted 1 day ago • 73 comments

Have just turned on the TV and ex IEA chief Mark Littlewood - who now works for Liz Truss - is on the BBC talking about why Labour should revive Rwanda policy. Why is Littlewood still given airtime?

submitted 1 day ago • 57 comments

We’ve had enough of the Brexit failure, we really don’t trust Trump’s America and we want a better, more prosperous relationship with our European neighbours… “Will of the people” got us into this Brexit mess, why shouldn’t it get us out of it too? www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

submitted 1 day ago • 29 comments

Honestly, UK, do it or fuck off. The world’s in flames, and you’re pissing about over the name of the most basic and uncontroversial form of cooperation imaginable. If you can’t even manage this, go away and come back when you’ve grown the fuck up. www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...

submitted 1 day ago • 21 comments

Kemi Badenoch is now jumping on the Lucy Connolly bandwagon by quote-tweeting Allison Pearson (who's been driving the bandwagon).

submitted 1 day ago • 22 comments