Fran Roach

🇺🇸 Fast-food giants. UK rivers. One BIG pollution problem. As American fast-food giants expand across the UK, demand for cheap chicken is soaring. But behind the boom lies a growing environmental crisis... 🧵1/2. riveractionuk.com/news/big-ame... @georgemonbiot.bsky.social

Remove those running it into the ground, for their own political agenda.

Thank you to the hundreds of devoted supporters who were there to cheer me on at the press conference today.

Almost 600 scientists, ecologists, health professionals and more have called on Andy Burnham to reject the re-submitted application for drilling Rosebank The science is abundantly clear - we cannot open new oil and gas fields. @profbillmcguire.bsky.social

Good lord, this makes me want to cancel my licence payments. Wtf is going on at BBC towers?

The lessons from Brazil and Serbia? Don't concede one inch of ground to the far right. Don't appease. Don't triangulate. Don't grovel. Don't say they have "legitimate concerns". Mobilise your base, and fight them with all the democratic means at your disposal.

Since his ennoblement in Boris Johnson’s 2023 resignation list, Tees Valley regional mayor Lord (Ben) Houchen has claimed more than £25,000 in tax-free daily “attendance” allowances from the House of Lords for 73 days when he hasn’t voted, spoken or performed any recorded parliamentary activity.

What a total accountability dodger!

Number crunching: Royal Mail From the latest Private Eye, out now.

Leaky Sue strikes again.

Who is E. J. Thribb? Private Eye is 65. To celebrate, we’re taking a peek behind the curtain to explain where some of the Eye’s lore, columns, and in-jokes originate from.

Obama, "Iran didn't have nuclear weapons, because I put a deal in place that kept Iran from getting nukes, and I didn't have to fire a missile"

She walks in burning, rose and flame, Across the rooftops, soft and slow, And every chimney learns her name As night lets go its overthrow. So let the world keep its small hours, Its hurried screens, its weary gold. I've seen the sky blush scarlet, brazen, And felt my own pulse, bright and bold.

NYPD arresting an ICE goon for trying to steal someone off the streets of NYC. RESPECT!!!

The Reform Party was reeling this week, after an ITV exposé captured a Reform councillor on camera making comments that were immediately disowned by the party leadership. The councillor, who is now in hiding, was caught on film being neither racist or sexist. From the new Private Eye, in shops now

Meanwhile on the BBC a supposed 'expert' was allowed to say without challenge 'the UK will need gas & oil for decades' a "need" bought with political donations to stop the will to back renewables for prevent action based on the climate EMERGENCY climate scientists have warned about for decades

Last night's moon from a local park, shot on a Samsung phone. No AI. Just lucky. #Moon

Take a moment to remember what we promised Brexit would deliver: a well-funded NHS, less immigration, more jobs, flourishing businesses with no red tape, easy to get on the housing ladder, boom time for farming, fishing and steel industries... I do hope you're enjoying it.

Depressing to hear the BBC propagating the non-story started by the Tories about the possibility of power cuts because of renewables A classic fossil fuel lie being given credibility by our public service broadcaster #BBCR4Today

Those evil bastards.

Robert Jenrick =

Also: UNINFORMED UNTRUTHFUL UNWELL UNINSPIRED UNDESERVING UNSKILLED UNSEEMLY UNSTATESMANLIKE UNSTEADY UNREPENTANT UNWISE UNCHIVALROUS UNINFORMED UNTHINKABLE UNWELCOME UNSRESPECTABLE UNINSPIRED UNSAVORY UNSATISFACTORY UNFIT UNINTELLIGENT UNSKILLED and UNIQUELY ABHORRENT PRESIDENT IN U.S. HISTORY 🇺🇸

Funny isn't it how the "we're protecting our streets" people always start menacing anyone who questions them

Looks like a fantastic and shocking investigation. One to watch in full. (Was pleased to contribute in a very small way re. a @bylinetimes.bsky.social investigation of mine they cite)

The police when Reform file their complaints... 🤣 #ITV #Reform

After the disaster of Trussonomics, Liz Truss finally achieves low interest rates 😆

“When I look round the boardroom at the other board members Palantir has recently also recruited from the House of Lords – notably Lord Vader and Lord Voldemort – I don’t have any sense that these people are evil,” said Watson. From the new Private Eye, out now.

So, Farage has reported ITV to the police following the work their undercover journalists did which confirmed that Reform is indeed a seething mass of racism, misogyny and bigotry. Meanwhile, here’s some commentary from Private Eye and their handy guide to undercover journalists.

🚨 Apparently, the right-wing media may not be telling the truth.🤔 Hope you were sitting down for that one... bylinetimes.com/2026/10/20/t...

33 years ago today, Homer Simpson ate 64 slices of American cheese in one sitting. #TheSimpsons episode “Rosebud” first aired October 21, 1993.

Wait until the end, he kills it!

Two things can be true at the same time. You can think the #BBC is fantastic for their #TrumpLawsuit stance but also terrible for their #Farage fawning. You can also think that @labouruk.bsky.social & @andyburnham.bsky.social are great for the move on social care, but appalling on climate issues.

Government support for drilling at #Jackdaw takes a wrecking ball to any pretence of UK climate leadership & pours fuel on an overheating world - and for what? It’s equivalent to just 2 months of UK gas demand, creates just 27 direct jobs & has *no* impact on energy bills🧵1/4

"This hatred, it’s like a cancer. It spreads because people will always say, ‘Oh, it’s just the illegals.’ It’s not. “From what I experienced, it was anyone who was remotely different, different creed, different colour, different sexuality.” www.theargus.co.uk/news/2665180...

Jenrick: “No one has done more than Nigel Farage to stand up against racism and the far right” Farage has exploded a brexity, anti-immigration, small boats, mass-deportations, ICE-style cruelty, riots and racism bomb on the UK and now stands back and tells us only he can fix the damage he’s caused.

Tbf, she has every chance of outselling Ms Bravermans book. Only needs 107 idiots to buy it.

Ugh… Such waste! Our supermarkets bin around 238 million meals' worth of edible food a year WHY??? France made that illegal We could too …with your help. Please sign - takes 30 seconds! petition.parliament.uk/petitions/781821

Glad, but I'm also curious as to why she hasn't resigned post the ITV revelation either. That "party" have a problem with her gender and ethnicity. Why stay? Same for Pochin and anyone else who is either a woman or not white like those elected officials desire?? She could write a hell of a book now.

This is what the short-fingered vulgarian considers "funny". He won't be laughing in 15 days. #AccountabilityIsComing11/3