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Public service blogging at its very best, from @davidallengreen.bsky.social

submitted 5 days ago • 7 comments

Last July we elected a new H of C but we hear little of what the new intake is up to - 100s of new Lab, Lib Dem, Greens - m’while Tory, SNP & Plaid MPs continue to impact. Yet our broadcast media obsesses about framing the 2029 GE 4 years out. Sign here now petition.parliament.uk/petitions/71...

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

Ava-Santina, "We need to be weary of bad faith actors normalising privatising the NHS" #BBCQT "I promise you there is not a politician out there that is not doing it for personal financial gain"

submitted 3 days ago • 20 comments

Another interesting fact is that Britain's satellite industry is one of the world's most specialised and is worth more than fishing, steel, and video games put together. And most companies we work with in this sector are in the EU. Not to mention the research reliance and international workforce.

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

Also, UK publishing is worth £11bn and yet our IP and creative resources are being given away...

submitted 3 days ago • 4 comments

Extraordinary video of the collapse of Birch Glacier - incredible early warnings led to evacuation ahead of time ❄️⚒️🧪🌡️ #ClimateCrisis

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

Britain's journey back to Europe will be a long one - ask the Political Editor of the BBC! Latest Inside-Out column philipstephens.substack.com/p/britain-ca...

submitted 5 days ago • 13 comments

"For about an hour" was, in fact, for seven-and-a-half minutes each, with the UK PM getting the last word, then leading a Q&A session with media. But this is such an excellent example of the mendacious, awful, biased reporting that has been the hallmark of the entire Brexit debate for a decade. ~AA

submitted 13 days ago • 49 comments

And you say the MSM isn’t shaping how Farage is seen. This from ipaper.

submitted 13 days ago • 1 comment

Because they're terrified of accusations they're betraying Brexit. It's the same in so many areas. They're hiding their successes and yelling about their weaknesses.

submitted 16 days ago • 77 comments

The FPA is dismayed by Sir Keir Starmer's press accreditation policy for the EU-UK Summit of Monday 19th May. The vast majority of EU news outlets have been denied access. We have written to @10DowningStreet to urge him to reconsider. @EUdelegationUK, @EU_Commission, @RSF_inter

submitted 16 days ago • 29 comments

All this while refusing to call out Brexit as one of the main factors for Britains low growth and the rise in immigration after “Brexit got done.” Which allows Farage to evade his responsibility for the situation he now so happily exploits. This all helps only Reform.

submitted 20 days ago • 18 comments

Here is the Sun's pitifully small apology for its lie about benefits tourism - a lie that was accepted as truth by millions and helped deliver Brexit. These lies are perverting our democracy. At a minimum, apologies should be published in the same location and size as the lie.

submitted 20 days ago • 19 comments

Reform UK’s plans to obstruct green energy projects in Lincolnshire put at risk almost £1bn in local investment and more than 12,000 jobs, How many people analysed policies before voting for Reform, the party that also voted against worker rights.

submitted 25 days ago • 63 comments

An anniversary worth marking. I'm sure we're going to see the very people who have trashed its legacy seek to appropriate WW2 today - so let's remember what was really fought for: peace, a more united Europe, a land fit for heroes (mark 2) and the defeat of fascism.

submitted 25 days ago • 182 comments

New wave of scams reported, including impersonating Apple Scam alert: watch out for fake iCloud storage emails northeastbylines.co.uk/news/new-wav...

submitted 25 days ago • 3 comments

Sounds like Labour are sprinting to get a US trade deal done before their 19 May EU talks. Key things to watch out for: - Concessions we made? - Hampers our EU talks? - Stops us rejoining the EU? - Leaves us net worse off than before Trump's tariffs? - Stops future Trump tariffs on other sectors?

submitted 25 days ago • 14 comments

Hey British media, It’s no surprise that if you give Farage the run of the place, he’ll start winning. Time to do your actual jobs and start interrogating him on his Brexit shitshow, his funding, his Trumpiness, his idiotic manifesto, his real plans for the NHS… instead of drumrolling him into No.10

submitted 29 days ago • 450 comments

Still waiting for Farage-mesmerised BBC to devote more than passing sentence to fact that Greens have more councillors than Reform and that Ed Davey's Lib Dems have all bit wiped out the Tories in their traditional shire heartlands....

submitted 28 days ago • 49 comments

The gains made by the Lib Dems in the elections barely merit a mention in the Reform dominated news. The progress is real, significant and, unlike Reform, the party takes local government seriously.

submitted 30 days ago • 23 comments

My latest @newscientist.com cartoon

submitted 35 days ago • 72 comments

✅ GDP boost. ✅ Trade stability. ✅ Shared values. 🇪🇺 All signs point to Europe. 🇺🇸 Yet the UK still pleads for crumbs from a hostile US. The monthly round-up of the government inching towards the fork in the road. @eastangliabylines.co.uk @jennyrhodes42.bsky.social

submitted 37 days ago • 9 comments

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced a new rule this week that most filmgoers might’ve already assumed was in place: From now on, members of the academy will be required to actually watch all the nominated films in each category they vote in.

submitted 38 days ago • 31 comments

"British exports to the EU fell sharply after Brexit and have yet to recover, remaining 11% below their 2019 levels. Astonishingly, 4 out of every 10 British products once stocked on EU shelves have now vanished." @jamesmaccleary.bsky.social MP lays bare the damage Brexit has done. 👇

submitted 38 days ago • 7 comments

At least 12 civilians killed and over 90 injured, including 6 children: this is Putin’s “peace record” from last night. Russia alone is blocking #peace in #Ukraine and in Europe. No one wants peace more than the people of Ukraine.

submitted 38 days ago • 1 comment

Why do we use 80-year-old metrics to understand today’s economy? In The Measure of Progress, @dianecoyle1859.bsky.social argues that only with a new approach to measurement will we be able to achieve the right kind of growth for the benefit of all.

submitted 38 days ago • 1 comment

"The government’s ‘red lines’ are stifling debate" Exactly that.

submitted 39 days ago • 23 comments

“ Keir Starmer seems to want to handle Trump’s bullying trade tactics by trying to get him to be nice to Britain... However, it isn’t possible to placate or do deals with people who are deliberately trying to undermine your fundamental core values”

submitted 39 days ago • 27 comments

The 28% bill increase that Water Companies received in April was supposed to go on infrastructure. Instead they are adding a zero to their infrastructure 'costs' so it all just goes on more profits. Only Nationalisation will stop the pollution and the theft.

submitted 38 days ago • 2 comments

Overseas pressure groups targeting civil society in the UK is something that urgently needs more scrutiny. The National Trust has frequently been campaigned against via a group whose directors and funders are thousands of miles away. www.theguardian.com/books/2025/a...

submitted 47 days ago • 11 comments

Speaking truth to the BBC about its role in promoting Farage and far right politics, fact-checking claims about immigration and holding them to account for not getting it right./1 #TruthToPower @yorkshirebylines.co.uk @Docrussjackson.bsky.social yorkshirebylines.co.uk/politics/the...

submitted 44 days ago • 23 comments

This is all true but it’s not strong enough. America isn’t ‘indifferent’ to Europe’. It’s actively hostile to liberal democracy. An autocratic Europe would be America’s ally again. This isn’t a battle between America and Europe. This is a battle between liberal democracy and its enemies.

submitted 46 days ago • 1 comment

The Trump administration has drafted a memo to Congress outlining its intent to end nearly all federal funding for public media, which includes NPR and PBS, according to a White House official who spoke to NPR.

submitted 47 days ago • 188 comments

I wish the Labour govt would just openly admit that UK economic interests are better served by realignment with Europe, rather than timidly rolling out smaller initiatives in the hope no one will notice.

submitted 47 days ago • 14 comments

“These demands to remove & restrict books are not the result of any grassroots or popular sentiment…The majority are now originating from well-funded, organised groups and movements…” Sounds familiar to anyone who’s been dragged into UK culture wars too. www.theguardian.com/books/2025/a...

submitted 50 days ago • 11 comments

Important research by my colleague @alisonhicks0.bsky.social informing this news article, who interviewed UK-based school librarians facing book-banning challenges. A dissertation student of mine last year uncovered similar trends with a nationwide survey - #librarycensorship is def growing in UK.

submitted 49 days ago • 0 comments

Switzerland will be rejoining several EU programmes following an agreement with Brussels. Meanwhile Labour act like a drowning man refusing to grab the available lifeline. www.worldradio.ch/news/bitesiz...

submitted 49 days ago • 5 comments

This “is no time for timidity” in realigning Britain with Europe says The Guardian: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

submitted 50 days ago • 25 comments

💥 Our research shows deep alignment with the EU on goods and services could offset the impact of Trump's tariffs on the UK economy. Listen to @pimlicat.bsky.social explain more on @lbc.co.uk 👇 www.bestforbritain.org/naomi_smith_...

submitted 51 days ago • 5 comments

I see the Times is running with the made up numbers about millionaire relocation from the firm that specialises in millionaire relocation again, then

submitted 53 days ago • 17 comments

🚨🚨Unless you forgot, #brexit is still a complete & utter disaster for the UK with just a bottomless pit of misery and pain. Lab position on EU customs arrangement is ludicrous since #brexit given the current economic context makes absolutely no-sense to maintain even for short-term political gains.

submitted 55 days ago • 21 comments

Great story - also one reason why I tell students to use apps, and understand how they work as part of security training for journalists….you would think erm others might do this

submitted 56 days ago • 0 comments

The government has published no evidence to suggest that cutting disability benefits will get people back to work. The evidence it has published found that these cuts would plunge hundreds of thousands of people into poverty. I’m joining @trusselluk.bsky.social in calling on the gov’t to rethink

submitted 56 days ago • 15 comments

Kemi Badenoch blames more pot holes on electric cars Apparently, increasing number of pot holes have nothing to do with the Conservatives cutting annual road maintenance from £4.7 billion in 2010 to £1.6 billion in 2024

submitted 56 days ago • 43 comments

Trevor Phillips just said what we’ve danced around for 9 years: A US trade deal means chlorinated chicken, lower food standards & worse trade with the EU. The 2016 ballot paper sold a fantasy - that we could have both. We can’t. EU or US. Only 14% want the latter. #BrexitReality #trevorphillips

submitted 57 days ago • 36 comments