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I've never seen a sitting Prime Minister so actively and vocally advocating voter suppression. Maybe apart from Trump..

Reform’s disgraced former Welsh leader backs Tommy Robinson supporter for by-election nation.cymru/news/reforms...

I actually think the better measure of the SNP's success in making the case for an independent Scotland is desire to have a referendum moving from "the future" to "now".

There are a lot of tight races across both Scotland and England, with Labour leading most of marginals in England but trailing marginals North of the border. Very few seats are on course to be won with genuine majority support. FPTP can't handle this.

This went on for the rest of the full hour, at which point the BBC apologised for having to go to the weather and urged viewers to follow continuing live coverage on iPlayer. Forty-one minutes of unfiltered, unchallenged propaganda by a far right party with 8 MPs, now third in the polls. Discuss.

💯The case for democracy is not that voters are always right, or wise, or good. It's that they can correct their mistakes. That's why it's so dangerous to have billionaires controlling the media or regulating the flow of information. It shuts down the immune system of democracy.

Your age divide is little baby watch this

First Orban, now Vučić. Both fundamentally undone by rank corruption of their regimes. Which is so often the reality of the authoritarian right in power. Really worth paying heed to in Western Europe right now

💯 absolutely. lock him up ‼️ 🇺🇸💛💛💛🔴⚪️🔵💛💛💛🇺🇸

Serbia: The Serbian Progressive Party (SNS-EPP) has admitted defeat in today's parliamentary elections. The Student List (SL-*) has won a majority of votes. #Serbia #Srbija #Izbori2026

I confess this made me smile.

This is why it's dangerous to give rich people so much power over our lives. Sometimes, they are appallingly ignorant. The Nazis added the word "socialist" to their name purely as propaganda to appeal more to workers. But the party--and Hitler--hated real socialists and communists.

Have now written about this at greater length ukandeu.ac.uk/unaffordable...

You do have to wonder how Jenrick's wife feels reading this.

Alarming

Why Lowe is a much more dangerous influence on British politics than many people seem willing to admit.

I'm sure everyone else had this thought a couple of months ago, but imagine telling someone in July 2024 that by the end of 2026 Rishi Sunak would still be an MP and Keir Starmer wouldn't.

London does it, Manchester does it, Liverpool does it. Wales and the West Midlands are about to do it. So why is it only in Scotland that the media loses its mind over plans to bring buses into public control? Answer: because it’s an SNP policy and the Scottish media has lost all sense of balance

I'm against drilling for fossil fuels but isn't it odd* the BBC and Sky aren't mentioning in their reports about drilling in the Jackdaw gas field being approved that they told Scots loudly and repeatedly in 2014 that all the oil and gas would be gone within 5 years. *entirely predictable

An enemy of democracy

Just learned about this polling firm that fabricated all of its data. Our Age of Scams continues.

NEW - The energy secretary is leaning towards rejecting Rosebank oilfield. Story from @kiranstacey.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/environment/...

To the tune of "the internet is for porn" 🎶A trackless tram is a bus A trackless tram is a bus Days and nights at traffic lights Bus, bus, bus

This one on 970 'Likes', it would be discourteous to HERT not to edge into four figures

Andrew Boff has left the Conservative Party after 53 years (so will now be an independent in the GLA) over his support for human rights. The leadership will not allow candidates to run if they publicly support continued UK membership of the ECHR, ratified since 1951 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Says a guy sitting in shit.

The right-wing German party AfD’s huge e-mail data leak mentions “turning immigrants into handbags”. I guess this is the 2026 Necrocapitalist Nazi upgrade of “turning Jews into soap”. Luxury Fascism 💪🏼

Kumar is a nasty vicious bully and exactly the kind of person to keep out of literally anything. but the people who voted for this motion are 1,000 out of a party of 200,000 - I think the notion of walking away instead of fighting back is a category error

Really? No - they haven't! We're under threat - but not from Islamists.

"There is a big fishing fleet here in Portsmouth," Nigel Farage tells a Reform rally in Plymouth, which actually boos in response.

How does Rupert Lowe get away with this blatant racism?🤬

I did not think I had it in me to get angrier. I was wrong.

Got lucky today I guess #Polldle #880 1/6 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 polldle.uk

RE Israel's election next week, I suggest keeping expectations low. The main potential upside is Netanyahu's departure from the political scene. If indeed this happens, it would open space for meaningful change, but that change would depend heavily on external pressure.

The Tory leader tried to make a councillor out of a Neo Nazi criminal who had literally been *sent to prison for racist hounding of a Jewish MP*. When she couldn’t do that, she made him an antiracism advisor. That was, what, two months ago.a

Amanda Bland (MSP for Central Scotland and Lothians West) has become the first MSP to quit Reform, for reasons as yet unknown. Telt ye's the numbers would be down before Christmas! (I am back from holiday now but catchup on by-elections in that period will come after I'm rested up)

This headphone-dodgers-on-the-Tube stuff from Burnham is classic Labour-in-power. New Labour under Blair specialised in it. Distract from your own failure / unwillingness to address real social problems by cynically appealing to Brits' tendency to gripe about petty antisocial behaviour.

in related News, playwright Sarah Helm has been let off by the cops for doing what every elderly Quaker and retired cleric is being prosecuted. This has nothing to do with her spouse Jonathan Powell being National Security Adviser, I can't stress this too strongly

Hopefully the kiss of death for Bibi's prospects

“It would be a shame for something to happen to your country if I didn’t get what I want.” Seems to be a pattern here…