What you won’t see on the BBC:

Scotland
Drug Deaths ↓13%
Alcohol Deaths ↓7%
Knife Homicides no increase/decrease
Homelessness Deaths ↓18%

England
Drug Deaths ↑11%
Alcohol Deaths ↑7%
Knife Homicides in 2023/24 ↑8%
Homelessness Deaths ↑ 16%

The poorest people spend every penny they get. Cut their income, and you cut spending in every local economy.

The Tory plan to cut £47 billion out of government budgets is £47 billion less in everyone’s pockets | Prof Richard Murphy

@richardjmurphy.bsky.social - with thanks

Far more UK politicians need to speak up in support of migrants the way Zack Polanski did last night on #bbcqt

You don't fight fascism by (even partially) endorsing it's talking points, you fight fascism by rejecting them and offering a more positive vision.

On #BBCQT - Fiona Bruce said that the audience and public didn't want to press Reform UK on their dodgy links to Russia.

I disagree.

RT if you agree it's in the public interest for Reform to explain about their links to Russian money and bribery!

Science

All of these articles from tech people and politicians saying that medics are resisting AI because of their egos are driving me mad.

How about it’s not their egos, it’s their intricate, nuanced understanding about how to safely manage risk for their patients? How about that?🚨

essentially no one looks worse in all this than Biden, followed closely by the tiresome, morally bankrupt blue wave scolds who shouted at all of us about how Biden couldn’t do anything

Is Nigel Farage a fascist?

Cooper accepted at least £215,000 of pro-Isreali BLOOD-SOAKED BRIBES

In exchange she:

✅️ voted against ceasefires
✅️ flew spy flights over Gaza
✅️ target sharing with Isreal
✅️ sent bullets
✅️ sent tank shells
✅️ sent fighter parts
✅️ sent drones
✅️ trained Israeli soldiers on 🇬🇧 soil

Her pretence is over

Next up for her. The Hague!

Independent C-SPAN caller to Rep. Mark Alford: "You're taking credit for $50b that you just gave to the hospital industry. That's after you took away $150b. You don't take credit for just giving back a little bit of money after taking away so much. So quit lying. It just makes you look horrible."

"People who attend church or identify with a Christian tradition are not systematically more (or less) nativist, authoritarian or populist than their secular counterparts. Conversely, people who hold nativist and authoritarian views are often also Islamophobes, and vice versa." 👏 @kai-arzheimer.com

We’ll never get that independence thermometer now. Shucks

Sweden. Joined in the 90s. Still not joined the Euro.

Read more closely. Please

I’m talking about the Euro. Not EU membership.

And look up the undesirability of owing govt debt in another currency not issued by the state.

These are the things that Labour stood for once upon a time. No surprise, really, that as Labour have shifted ever rightwards to try to capture the right-wing Reform vote, the English Greens are filling that egalitarian left-wing space.

Spot on. Well said 👏👏👏👏

When they say, you cannot

Scotland, aye you can

If you want to lose everything including savings, your home and your family, and live in a wasteland - vote reform.

I'm your editor

Too busy with bread and circuses. Orwell got your country’s apathy down to a tee.

This is nothing more than a continuation of the president’s desperate weaponization of our justice system.

I am not fearful — I am fearless.

We will fight these baseless charges aggressively, and my office will continue to fiercely protect New Yorkers and their rights..

All about the files. The minute they sign in the new Democratic Representative, they have the numbers to get the files produced.