Private Eye.

Don't listen to Nigel Farage and Kemi Badenoch's lies.

Migrants don't cost you anything.

Worried about a Reform government's potential for "mischief". You are right to do so. See @davidallengreen 's post here. Wake up Labour!

Letter of the day (in the Times)

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a... I don't post very often but this police action caused by the government's decision to proscribe a protest group is unjustifiable. If the Home Secretary has evidence this is a non-violent group she should publish it.

Starmer's Labour have a HUGE majority, yet we are seeing no:
- electoral reform
- media reform
- action to make the BBC properly independent & apolitical
- reversal of NHS outsourcing
- renationalisation of key infrastructure & public services
- clampdown on lobbying
- prosecution of corrupt MPs

As Vance 'lectures' Europe on free speech, it is good to be reminded that the United States ranks 55 (!) on the World Press Freedom Index.

The top 10 countries are ALL in Europe.

#journalism #democracy #freepress

rsf.org/en/index

Unlike with Brexit, Labour don't have years to fix their stance towards Ukraine, the rest of Europe, and towards the USA under Trump's terror rule.

They have months at best, weeks if they're lucky, to formulate a firm stance. But events may also overtake them in days.

The fence-sitting MUST end.

We urgently need to rejoin EU

At some point someone in the British government has to hit back at Musk. If he was just some rich guy, fine - whatever. Enjoy your drugs. But he is a leading figure in the incoming US administration. Is our policy now that foreign governments can speak this way about us without any consequence?

It took the last government about five minutes to legislate to stop foreigners buying a national newspaper. How long will it take for this government to close a loophole that allows a foreigner to influence the next UK election by sloshing millions the way of one party?

So here’s the update. The billionaire owner of the Guardian preparing to get rid of a core part of the news org + 100 journalists.
If you’re a Guardian or Observer reader, please share this. The need for a strong, free & independent press couldn’t be greater. Yet, here it is.

"In the court of public opinion, a significant trade deal with the EU is proving to be more popular than an equivalent US option."
www.thelondoneconomic.com/politics/new...

“The economic cost of Brexit, reliably estimated at around 5% of GDP and with a total loss to government coffers by 2035 of over £300bn, is unlikely to be offset by attempting to ‘make Brexit work’ – a slogan which rather confirms that it hasn’t”

westenglandbylines.co.uk/news/brexit/...

Here’s a good one to multi block some wrong ‘uns… this is how it works

1 Select the list
2 Click “Subscribe”
3 Select “Block” the entire list in one click

Boommmm

Bluesky is trying to keep this place tidy with healthy debate
Let’s help them to do it
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Oh yes, in DC they are talking of little else than a traditional tariff lowering UK trade deal...

Sorry, don't buy this Politico clip, either in the UK priority (trade strategy publication date is unchanged) or US interest in what seems mostly a UK obsession.