Now this is fascinating. Look at the map of who is calling for a Public Inquiry into the impact of Brexit... It's not the "remainer" cities - it's the large rural areas that are dominating the call. Link to petition --> petition.parliament.uk/petitions/6282…

Dear all - Tomorrow, voting opens for European Movement (European Movement UK (on BlueSky)) members for their next Chair. I am one of the three candidates. Please have a look at my campaign website, including all the quotes of endorsement. Pls share & use the tag #Mike4Chair mike4chair.uk

I am not ashamed of Britain. I am not ashamed to be British. I am deeply, deeply ashamed of our government. RT if you agree. theguardian.com/politics/2023/…

Relief re BBC Singers but serious questions: how did this wasteful episode happen at all, how much did it cost in time/energy/emotion/widespread distress and anger. It's a terrible indictment on top BBC management, many of who have remained silent

The government has sold the Oxford Vaccination production unit to an American Company for £200m Built in 2014 to respond to Ebola and absolutely essential during Covid, we will not have it for the next pandemic. It would cost just £5m a year to keep open. Another Conservative

Boris Johnson WANTS a 10+ day suspension. Surprised? Let me explain. Johnson's personal margin in Uxbridge fell in the 2019 election - Uxbridge was evenly split on Brexit. If he stands in Uxbridge, he is very likely to lose. So what does a 10+ day suspension bring? 1/

Did you know that not only was Brexit stupid, it was actually illegal? Because they knew it was influenced by Putin 👇 In activating Article 50 we now know that Theresa May with the backing of her cabinet (which included then Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson) failed to take

What perplexes me is why, a mere 24 hours after Archbishop @JustinWelby speaks out about the cruelty of Sunak's immigration plans, a minor driving offence (speeding at 25 mph in a 20 mph zone) from <checks notes> *October* suddenly appears on the BBC news feed? 🤷‍♀️

Yesterday I had a booster Covid injection in a Peckham clinic. Today 14 May I read in my Perpetual Almanack of Folklore that on 14 May 1796 a boy in Peckham took to “bellowing like a cow” after being first inoculated against smallpox by Edward Jenner

Starmer has written in the Express, that he will not restore Freedom of Movement. Please retweet if you want our Freedom of Movement restored. We were robbed of our right to live, work, study and love in 30 countries by the worst abuses of democracy in modern British history.

Anarchism, bohemianism, dreaming... King of the Idlers Tom Hodgkinson joins me in the Book Bag to discuss a life of freedom from work and worry. I'll drink to that! youtube.com/watch?v=eUWNsU…

My new novel The Three Graces is OUT tomorrow and I hope all my faithful readers enjoy it as much as The Golden Rule, The Lie Of The Land and Hearts And Minds . Please do buy from indy bookshops if possible.

There has been a lot of (completely deserved) praise of Alison Langer Soprano in #OHPRigoletto - from the critics and audiences. Many people have asked me about her rise. It is not sudden, it is down to talent of course, but also years & years of hard work, sacrifice & determination. 1/2

I found a child’s violin in the back of a Zipcar in south London yesterday. The customer care people didn’t seem all that concerned so I took it home. I would love to reunite it with its owner if I can. The name tag says Isobel Lopez. Can Twitter help? Please share! #lostviolin

I’ve read 3 badly written celebrity fiction books recently. 3 books that wouldn’t have got a publishing deal but for the name on the cover.That’s 3 advances that could have gone to real writers who could have done something amazing. 3 books so bad the editor couldn’t save them 🙁

Oh no! The magnificent Glenda Jackson has died. Staggering on stage and screen and blistering in the House of Commons. If you've never seen her absolute evisceration of Iain Duncan-Smith, give yourself a treat below. (Then track down her film Stevie.) youtube.com/watch?v=9Jckm3…

The only UK Nobel Prize for literature, Kazuo Ishiguro, didn’t go to Oxbridge. He studied Creative Writing at UEA - like Rose Tremain, Tracy Chevalier, Naomi Alderman Ian McEwan etc. Now the course is being decimated! Protest to [email protected] and RT please

🚨 NO ONE has lost their job or been arrested for the PPE scandal 🚨 NO ONE has lost their job or been arrested for the BILLIONS £’s lost as “fraud” during the pandemic 🚨NO ONE has lost their job or been arrested for the tragedy of Grenfel Tower & the deaths of 72 people 🤬But

Right now, Sir Mark Spencer is considering letting a pesticide that's lethal to bees back onto fields - despite the Gov's own scientists saying it should stay banned. Want him to make the right decision and protect bees? Add your name: 38d.gs/bz-a

Yet in 2022 he absolutely refused to countenance a Brexit reversal. A Labour government can boost productivity by rejoining the SM, at the very least the CU. This is the cold, hard truth that Starmer and Reeves cannot escape. Rejoin and don't get squashed.