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As an Indian (now with a British passport), transgender women in India regularly use women’s toilets all the time. India is hardly a panacea for equality, but I have to say I have never felt threatened by a trans in women’s toilets 1/…..

🔴 REVEALED: Palantir led closed-door review of how MoD buys software The review was presented to defence minister Luke Pollard by Palantir UK boss Louis Mosley in Feb and has mostly been implemented None of this was made public New investigation🧵 democracyforsale.substack.com/p/revealed-p...

The so called Kent Nationalist Movement, a far-right racist movement are calling for the deportation of millions of our fellow citizens. They are descending on Herne Bay in Kent today, they are not welcome! I’m sure Musk is promoting it on his vile ‘X’ platform. www.msn.com/en-gb/news/n...

I mean, any time now would be good. If it's not too much trouble

China’s share of global container exports soars to 40% ft.trib.al/rjW5Cik

As former Labour minister Tom Watson joins Palantir, please read this devastating exposé by @petergeoghegan.bsky.social & @lucasamin.bsky.social of how the company, with Peter Mandelson's help, wormed its way into the UK government to sell its dire & dangerous products. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Maybe the most important political story of our time. People just want the bullshit to stop.

I think a lot of people have missed this. Until the police investigation in February last year, Reform UK’s financial structures were all tied up with Cottrell and his Montenegro base bylinetimes.com/2026/07/23/p...

Just loving how John Cleese, now reduced to one of his own caricatures, rages about immigrants coming to the UK and failing to accept "our" culture, from his home in ... (checks notes) ... Nevis in the Caribbean.

Spain watching Portuguese wildfires loom over the Bragança border shows how obsolete national boundaries are against extreme weather. Relying on emergency coordination after ignition is a failing strategy. 🔥 Are we underestimating this risk? #ClimateCrisis

Russia is inflaming the debate on immigration in Britain as part of “increasing ambitions to disrupt our way of life”, counter-terror police and experts say It has directly and indirectly paid right-wing influencers to spread messages that align with its political goals inews.co.uk/news/putin-i...

Free speech absolutist.

I have special disdain for the anti inmigrant immigrants.

Stock trades by President. The blatant corruption is just staggering

We’re back to the Sunday market manipulation loop, folks

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A House of Commons committee has concluded the Government should terminate NHS England's contract with Palantir, citing the company "supporting highly controversial policies & activities"

"The Labour chair, Anna Turley, has given Nigel Farage 24 hours to report to security services the claim that his phone was hacked by Russia-linked actors or the Labour party will do it for him"

80% of Reform's funding comes from people who avoid tax by hiding money offshore. Our idea of true patriotism is to hoard money while contributing nothing towards public services. Just ask Richard Tice.

Many thanks to Laura Kuenssberg for not asking Robert Jenrick about my £5 million gift or dodgy house purchases and for not interrupting him while he spread our propaganda.

Ridiculous

Still remember the crushing moment as a young researcher when I realised that proving something through evidence had damn near no impact on social policy unless it was politically useful to believe it.

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Peacock Spider (genus Maratus), a group of tiny Australian jumping spiders famous for their vibrant colours and elaborate courtship dances to attract its mate. They are very tiny in size only between 2-5 millimetres ( the size of a pea)

The United States government just agreed to pay $1.8 billion to the United States president, approved by the president's own personal lawyer who represented him when he was convicted of 34 criminal counts. This is the biggest scandal in all of American political history.

WATCH: Swamp creature. Warmonger. Bootlicker. Here’s the first TV ad in our campaign to unseat Lindsey Graham.

Fuel duty moves, Russian sanction tweaking and talk of voluntary supermarket price caps are just a total mess of a response to an energy price surge.

I hope this isn’t true. There are times when it’s more important to put country before party. This is one of them. Burnham’s longstanding commitment to a fairer voting system could transform our democracy & counter the dire threat of a Reform UK government elected on a minority of the vote

Survivor of Jeffrey Epstein breaks down in tears describing the moment she learned her name was revealed while the rich and powerful remained protected by redactions Roza: I kept my identity protected as Jane Doe. I woke up one day with my name mentioned over 500 times.

The media come at Polanski and miss big time! This is a scary example of media bias to the Greens. They took a badly researched story from a Labour supporting tax guy ran it without doing any of their own checking. Now they're all exposed as idiots. And that was their best attack against Zack😂

Design legend Margaret Calvert is 90 today. Look at that cake! If you've ever admired a road, rail or metro sign in Britain it's likely she had something to do with it. One of Britain's design heroes - happy birthday to her. Photo by: @oshgallerylondon (IG) Cake by: mybaker.co

I know there’s a lot going on with the Labour Party, but it is all in the bounds of democratic politics. This however, paid collusion between the leaders of two political parties in the run up to election, if true, is a scandal of staggering propositions

"An ICE takedown caught on camera left a 19-year-old bleeding and requiring stitches to his head. Cellphone video showed the teen get tackled by agents. Once they figured out they had made a mistake, they dropped him off at a park, bloody and bruised..." www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/d...

As I said (& I might have stolen this from someone else) when we were on strike trying to stop compulsory redundancies, universities are the steelworks of the UK's knowledge/skills economy. Right now both devolved & national govts seem completely indifferent to the massive crisis facing the sector

"Coal-fired heating has officially disappeared from the NHS after Nottingham City Hospital moved into the clean energy era." Pretty wild that this hospital was still using coal for heating until now

Not to excuse this, & it’s a while since I presented anything on the BBC, but I do recall noting an almost subconscious desire to disprove bogus allegations of bias by being particularly tough on Labour & Lib Dems (Ed Davey once complained!) This is another victory for right wing media gaslighting.

At least three and maybe four years of the past decade have been spent with a PM grimly hanging to power having lost authority with their party. The opportunity cost is so high. We really need to find better ways to manage these transitions.

Yes, and even worse, I am quite sure the PM is being told that the Home Office view on migration is the single key obstacle to the closer ties he claims to want with the EU. So everyone in Brussels and Westminster can see the weakness when he can't apparently overcome this.

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Of course.