The iconic weeping willow trees outside the Kennedy Center have been cut down by Trump.
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Wife, mother, grandma to 3 girls and a baby boy. Horrified by the consequences of austerity, Brexit and the previous Tory government. Wanting a better country for my grandchildren.
Bluesky is great because no matter how bad you think things are you are always one retweet away from a leading expert in the field who can explain why they're actually so much worse.
William B. Fuckley@opinionhaver.bsky.social · 14h agologging on to the earnest high-info neurotics website every day during the everything going wrong decade: 'you know, the vibes here could be better'
These people were never going to limit their hatred to trans people and Muslims
Mrs. Betty Bowers@mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 3h ago“No women in my bedroom.”
His speeches will be redacted down to “I am the president”...
READ THIS: Had the European Convention on Human Rights not been part of British law, there would STILL be no justice for the 97 Hillsborough victims and their families, writes Oxford University's Murray Hunt👇 🔗 www.modernslaverypec.org/latest/hills... Human rights law is on the side of the people
Andy Burnham's diagnosis of what has gone wrong in Britain: "From the 1980s, this country took a series of wrong turns. "Political power was centralised, economic power privatised. The country deindustrialised. Austerity followed, hollowing out councils... "And then Brexit compounded the damage."
The 'special relationship' is officially in the toilet. As our polling repeatedly shows, Brits want the UK to turn to Europe in the face of Trump's hostility. Burnham must put EU membership back on the table.
UK hits back at Trump after US president reignites Falklands row
‘The Falkland Islands are British with the right to determine their own future’, the prime minister’s official spokesper
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This is deliberate. And it's illegal. “This level of criminality shows that water companies do not believe they, or the government, will ever do anything meaningful to stop them.” https://www.theguardian.com/business/2026/sep/01/dry-weather-sewage-discharges-soar-as-water-companies-face-scrutiny
Dry weather sewage discharges soar as water companies face scrutiny
Exclusive: 7,280 suspected illegal spills in rivers and sea recorded in first five months of 2026
theguardian.com
Wow. A new Govt amendment to the Rep of the People Bill gives the Electoral Commission power to compel *any person* in the country to hand over documents about a political party's finances (There's no requirement to suspect wrongdoing and no court order needed. Criminal offence to refuse)
US lines up with China, Russia and India. Meanwhile Trump, the great con man, believes climate change is a great con.
ABC NEWS: “ICE set to deploy a fleet of robot dogs to track and apprehend undocumented migrants…” Deranged. Dystopian. Nightmare fuel.
"Trump’s second term is something else. It’s not just that he’s older and crazier and more megalomaniacal. Look at the people now controlling the most powerful government departments."
The Cruelty Comes to Springfield
And the city’s faithful are coming together in opposition.
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Parliamentary motion against Mahmood's vicious immigration reforms gathering further signatures. Think it's pretty clear there's going to be concessions but they'd need to go very far indeed for the plan to be even halfway acceptable inews.co.uk/news/politic...
Mahmood's 'hardline' immigration reforms hit by growing rebellion
More Labour MPs to publicly oppose Home Secretary's changes to indefinite leave to remain
inews.co.uk
This is - in more military language - what Putin set out in his July 2021 article 'On the historical unity of Russians & Ukrainians'. Putin's aims for Ukraine were & are genocidal. No-one in Europe should kid themselves that this is a war for territory, still less 'to prevent NATO expansion'.
UNITED24 Media@united24media.com · 23h ago"Wherever Russian troops arrive, Ukrainians cease to exist." At an official event in Moscow, Russian Lieutenant Colonel Alexey Selivanov openly admitted their true goal is the total erasure of Ukrainian identity.
Trans-Pacific trade deal kicks in today. It “makes the value to Britain’s coffers look like a rounding error” when compared to the ongoing economic cratering of not being in the EU Single Market. The slavish protection given to Brexit defies belief. www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...
No, it might not make the UK wealthy, Darren - but what it may just do is make people feel prosperous. Spending public money on the public to make their lives better is rather the fucking point, is it not?
“Successive governments have tried to make law to satisfy the tabloids, but they are never satiated, only emboldened.” Excellent piece.. & ofc the quote applies equally well to immigration as prisons. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Why are prisons overcrowded? Because no government will stand up to the tabloids | Zoe Williams
Whatever happens to the early release scheme, Andy Burnham needs to consider the possibility that sentences are just too high, writes Zoe Williams
theguardian.com
In latest @privateeyenews.bsky.social, the Teesside shambles goes on: missed payments from businessmen who’ve cashed in on regeneration for £100ms of taxpayer’s money, undocumented loans, 8 figure errors in public body accounts. Available to read online - www.private-eye.co.uk/in-the-back
Private Eye | Teesside: Plot twisters
THERE are dysfunctional public bodies and then there’s Lord (Ben) Houchen’s Tees Valley (TVCA) Authority and its wholly owned South Tees Development Corporation (STDC).
private-eye.co.uk
As honoured as I am to see that The Times has picked up my Chagos article practically *word for word*, including my hard-gotten quotes, I’d prefer some credit — or for everyone to read my original FT piece! free link to read the evidently enviable article below (cheaper than a Times sub!) 🌴
Even with a wealth tax, millionaires like us will still be richer at the end of the year than we were at the start. PMUK's @stephenstroud.bsky.social explains why a 2% tax on wealth over £10m is fair, common sense and needed. Watch the full report on inequality via @deutschewelle.dw.com on YouTube
According to leading politicians in the West, this is simply impossible, and is therefore not happening.
Bloomberg News@bloomberg.com · 11h agoSolar panels are now China’s top source of power capacity, surpassing coal in a key milestone for the country’s green energy boom.
That is 6% of Texas voters. That is HUGE. I hope folks who care about voting spend some of their energy trying to help Texans who are being disenfranchised. Texans, please check your own voter registration, and help those you love check theirs. 👇🏽 goelect.txelections.civixapps.com/ivis-mvp-ui/...
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leftylady.bsky.social@leftylady.bsky.social · 4d agoTexans, if you’re one of the people who had their voter registration suspended, there’s still time to fix it! trib.al/OP3mVj5
Accuracy matters. Since 2018 there have actually been 17 convictions for voter fraud from approx 47 million voters. And 11 election convictions from approx 1300 Reform/Brexit Party officials. That's about 25,000 times more convictions per capita. I did the maths. You're welcome.
Julian 🇬🇧 🇪🇺 🇨🇿 🇺🇦 🐟🌊🔶@jjbrownbridge.bsky.social · yesterdayWe've had less than ten convictions for postal vote fraud over the last 30 years but despite this fact, Farage is again emulating his criminal, rapist and paedophile idol by wanting to end postal voting.
The nightingale hospital in Birmingham cost £106 million and didn't treat a single patient. We had no trained staff, because for decades we prioritised tax cuts for "wealth creators" (aka wealth hoarders) over investing in our country. Hospitals. Schools. Roads. Prisons. This is the result.
Saul Staniforth@saulstaniforth.bsky.social · yesterdayRichard Madeley on #GMB pushing the idea that you can build 'Nightingale prisons'. Kevin Maguire asks, where are you going to get all the trained prison officers to staff these places? Madeley says, "you work it out"
Lam of course got strong headlines earlier this year when she argued that we needed mass deportations to make the UK more "culturally coherent."
James Heale@jaheale.bsky.social · yesterdayExclusive: Katie Lam is the new Shadow Secretary for Housing, Communities and Local Government The highly-rated new MP will take on Angela Rayner at the despatch box and can reset Tory policy across a swathe of areas, having impressed as a whip spectator.com/article/kati...