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Why Labour's strategy of endlessly alienating its natural supporters, while conceding almost every argument to its opponents on the right, is a recipe for defeat www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/five-years...

submitted 5 days ago • 60 comments

Portrait of a woman, 1435. Don't know what I love more: the eyes, the subtlety of the purple robe, the incredible headscarf (the layers! the folds!) or the pins. The pins! Robert Campin, you did well.

submitted 5 days ago • 171 comments

This is what they call a historic turning point “The independent forecaster Frontier Economics reckons that the impact of US tariffs will shrink UK GDP by 0.7%, while a deeper deal with the EU could instead lift GDP by 1.5%, despite US tariffs” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

submitted 19 days ago • 12 comments

Mark Carney, "The system of global trade anchored on the United States.. is over" "We must respond with both purpose and force" "We are a free sovereign and ambitious country" "We are masters in our own home"

submitted 28 days ago • 5 comments

Hi @octopus.energy! We know you care about the planet, so why are you helping Elon Musk fund climate deniers and fossil fuel junkies by promoting Tesla on your website? octopusev.com/cars/tesla-m... #TeslaTakedown #BoycottTesla #StopMusk

submitted 31 days ago • 17 comments

The Cabinet Office is still trying to shut down transparency about the PPE deals that happened under Michael Gove. open.substack.com/pub/democrac...

submitted 40 days ago • 78 comments

British people don’t like #Trump! British people don’t want USA deal which will destroy our farming and NHS. British people want to rejoin the EU. 55% of Britons now say brexit was wrong for the UK to leave the EU, ONLY 11% seeing Brexit as more of a success than a failure.

submitted 42 days ago • 5 comments

So, with devastating climate disasters, a world made more unsafe and cruel by Trump and our own country wrecked from 14yrs of Tory failure, Badenoch thinks scrapping Net Zero targets and leaving the ECHR is the answer. She’s nothing more than an idiotic Twitter troll, churning out posts for Musk.

submitted 44 days ago • 18 comments

"The European Movement feel it is time to campaign for a European Movement Canada. According to them, “the European Movement stands for democracy, peace, unity and solidarity, respect for human rights and the rule of law; the very values that Canadians and Europeans alike hold dear."

submitted 52 days ago • 46 comments

Trump can surround himself with statues of history’s statesmen but it will never make him one. A petulant orange fool in a baseball cap, lashing out at opponents, betraying his country’s allies and helping Putin in his murderous plans for Ukraine. An international disgrace. (Letter, Times)

submitted 52 days ago • 13 comments

Finished - I think

submitted 52 days ago • 11 comments

A message from Spain's left-wing government to the UK: take heart from our success on workers' rights. Raising living standards is the key to combating the far right. "If you fall into the dialogue of the far right, the far right wins." www.theguardian.com/business/202...

submitted 52 days ago • 39 comments

Trump knows nothing. And cares even less. He has not even a basic grounding in history. His tiny brain just seems to function through a very limited prism of vanity, greed and vindictiveness. Nothing beyond himself matters to him. He’ll burn it all down in his spasms of prejudice and egomania.

submitted 55 days ago • 44 comments

Why the need to keep punishing people for poor political decisions? Time - particularly now - to correct those decisions, remove ruinous red lines and breathe life into the economy again. There is no mandate at all to continue with Austerity in order to protect Brexit. www.bbc.com/news/article...

submitted 57 days ago • 60 comments

French Senator Claude Malhuret: "Washington has become Nero’s court, with an incendiary emperor, submissive courtiers and a jester high on ketamine... We were at war with a dictator, we are now at war with a dictator backed by a traitor."

submitted 57 days ago • 1739 comments

This is what Keir Starmer should do, but won't. 1. Rejoin the EU to mitigate Trump's tariff wrecking ball, protect SMEs, and councils from being asset-stripped by private equity, ensure 'nature' and green spaces are not identified as additional assets to Blackrock's financial portfolio. Thread

submitted 58 days ago • 6 comments

Well, there's nothing to bring out those hand-wringing articles about Premier League uncompetitiveness like a different team threatening to win it for the first time in five years.

submitted 63 days ago • 4 comments

This weeks cover of the always superb @theneweuropean.bsky.social www.theneweuropean.co.uk/subscribe/

submitted 63 days ago • 65 comments

Another timely conversation between the Starmer and Zelenskyy. This time showing the support for Zelenskyy as the Democratically elected President of Ukraine and reminding us all that under Churchill in WW2, the UK also temporarily suspended elections in a time of war. www.gov.uk/government/n...

submitted 71 days ago • 4 comments

Foreign Leader Favourability Ratings amongst British Voters: 🇺🇦 Volodymyr Zelenskyy Favourable: 64% Unfavourable: 16% NET: +48% 🇺🇸 Donald Trump Favourable: 22% Unfavourable: 73% NET: -51% 🇷🇺 Vladimir Putin Favourable: 4% Unfavourable: 89% NET: -85% Via @YouGov, 16-17 Feb.

submitted 71 days ago • 25 comments

I mean... He's not wrong.

submitted 73 days ago • 2 comments

Brexit was the petri dish for all of this. Stamer should publish the Russia report that Johnson sat on.

submitted 73 days ago • 19 comments

Mark the Anniversary: March for Ukraine in London ukrainesolidaritycampaign.org/2025/01/21/d...

submitted 79 days ago • 0 comments

She realised what the basis of any dictatorship is. "The moment we no longer have a free press, anything can happen. What makes it possible for a totalitarian or any other dictatorship to rule is that people are not informed; how can you have an opinion if you are not informed?" Hannah Arendt

submitted 82 days ago • 1 comment

She speaks truth.

submitted 81 days ago • 1219 comments

As being “free to make our own trade deals” has delivered the square root of jack shit and, as Brexiters still can’t tell us what EU regulations they want to scrap, closer alignment with the EU should be a no-brainer. Great work @bestforbritain.bsky.social www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...

submitted 81 days ago • 75 comments

I love this so much

submitted 82 days ago • 2 comments

It is good. “It came as a surprise to most when, in the early 2030s, the US economy stopped growing and fell behind even compared to Europe. Historians and journalists have been debating what happened ever since. Some focused on the economic policies of Donald Trump’s second term:”

submitted 82 days ago • 4 comments

Absolutely @eddavey.libdems.org.uk

submitted 86 days ago • 55 comments

You know what? The EU & UK should put tariffs on US goods (from red states) in solidarity with Canada and Mexico. Rather than watching others get bullied and waiting our turn - we should unify against this bullying until the bully drops that behaviour.

submitted 88 days ago • 462 comments

Absolutely spot on from Rory Stewart

submitted 88 days ago • 628 comments

Terrific, lucid piece about the international coalition against the United Kingdom and the Labour government by @robertshrimsley.bsky.social:

submitted 91 days ago • 9 comments

By golly, Labour couldn't bark up a more wrong Brexit tree if they tried. Strongly out of tune with 80% of their 2024 voters. Extraordinary mistake. That's substantially more than necessary to lose the 2029 GE. But hey ho, they'd rather stick their necks in the sand. yougov.co.uk/politics/art...

submitted 92 days ago • 36 comments

The BBC is officially posting winter fuel allowance misinformation. The person in this article was too young to be eligible for the payment. No fact checking done and the article still sits on their site. They can’t be trusted.

submitted 97 days ago • 5 comments

"It makes no sense for Starmer to pretend he would die in a ditch over Brexit – the sooner he abandons it the better" Spot on.

submitted 99 days ago • 22 comments

I am and have always been a Labour voter. However, I am getting sick to death of the timidity of the Starmer Govt. You were handed a massive mandate for change so be bold. A GE is 4.5yrs away & most voters won't remember what you do now.

submitted 100 days ago • 2 comments

Signed up as a member for this and one to protect the nhs from the yanks. Time to walk the walk. Every little helps please consider joining yourselves. Counter #spacenazi musk. Otherwise we may find ourselves injured and left on a beach to die by our country because we take up the space of 7 men.

submitted 100 days ago • 2 comments

Donald Trump back in the White House must see the UK rejoin Europe | Martin Roche @cluthaman.bsky.social

submitted 102 days ago • 4 comments

Trump and his acolytes are intent on destroying the EU from within thanks to torpedoes Meloni and Orban and their Far & Hard Right allies. Just look at the guests list of today's inauguration. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

submitted 101 days ago • 1 comment

It's been quite something to watch supposedly 'patriotic' British newspapers actively cheerleading on a foreign administration that is openly working against our interests.

submitted 102 days ago • 392 comments

Can’t be repeated often enough ‘The UK’s creative industries are vital to the economy. Valued at £124bn, they are worth more than the life sciences, aerospace and automotive industries combined. Arts and culture alone contribute an impressive £34.6bn.’ on.ft.com/42hzVmL

submitted 101 days ago • 27 comments

What the UK thinks of Elon Musk, he's a massive prick basically.

submitted 111 days ago • 41 comments

Donald Trump ran for office to avoid punishment for his crimes, and it worked. The fact still remains that he is a 34 times convicted felon.

submitted 111 days ago • 191 comments

Labour’s straitjacket on tax, their hike in employers’ national insurance, and their refusal to rejoin the EU single market have all stifled growth which we so badly need. They ignored every warning, and now we’re all paying the price.

submitted 111 days ago • 4 comments