Interviewing Zarah Sultana MP today, I met a politician who was clear-eyed about the change we all need, excited about the challenges ahead and supremely relaxed about giving this country’s establishment politicians and vested interests absolute hell. On a hot day, refreshing af

#Bales2025FilmChallenge Going to Work Cool Hand Luke 1967 Stuart Rosenberg The Boys are back at work on the Chain gang but are interrupted or distracted or demented ? youtu.be/bt13OQgTihU

BBC runs a story on smuggled & counterfeit cigarettes all day today Shame Tony Blair closed the best organisation attacking fag smuggling, HMC&E Investigation Service to merge with the I.R. They seized 40 ft containers full & successfully prosecuted the gangs now smuggling people

#Bales2025FilmChallenge Red building Irreversible 2003 Gaspar Noe Is a tunnel/subway a building? Monica Belucci in the New French Extremity piece from the Argentinian "bad boy" Tough watch.

#Bales2025FilmChallenge Playing catch-up! Kite flying The Shipping News 2001 Lasse Hallstrom youtu.be/WW-MKL6Mdj4

#Bales2025FilmChallenge Colour Red fashion Mystery Train 1989 Jim Jarmusch Wish I had the chops to wear THAT suit. Screamin' Jay Hawkins listening to Tom Waits on the radio. Exsquidite!! youtu.be/_R9UVraV84w

#Bales2025FilmChallenge Playing catch-up Orange building Skyfall 2012 Sam Mendes When Daniel Craig breaks into M’s flat in Skyfall, it’s at Grade II listed 68 Cadogan Square. No coincidence it was the former home of composer John Barry who created music for many Bond films.

#Bales2025FilmChallenge Orange food or fashion The Gate Of Hell 1953 Teinosuke Kinugasa Best Foreign Picture Oscar & Costume Oscar at 27th Awards. This was Court fashion in 1160 Japan. Kesa is a companion to the Emperor's Sister & therefore wears this colour as a status symbol

80 years ago, the US dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima. We remember the thousands who were killed in a crime against humanity, as well as the survivors who carried the pain of the past. Today, let us honour them by vowing to rid our world of nuclear weapons once and for all.

Anyone know if Yvette Cooper's been on a peaceful protest ? Bet she didn't expect to be arrested for staying silent & carrying a placard ? And if she hasn't how is she a Labour MP ?

What a tragedy that Dame Stephanie Shirley is no longer with us having passed away on the 9th of August. A true inspiration, innovator, feminist & an entrepreneur with qualities that raise her far above the squalid money hoarders ruining millions of lives today RIP "Stevie"

I am told that Your Party has now named seven members in a - presumably interim - executive committee. I am able to share the names and the official positions of three of the seven - which are listed in internal documents. They are: Amy Jackson – once Political Secretary at

This the same Robert Jenrick complaining about hotels?

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Labour must counter ‘growing sense of despair’, Streeting warns after Welsh defeat Pity he's not self aware enough to realise it's him that drives us to despair.

If the The Labour Party Party think Wes Streeting is going to win people over & back they’re in more trouble than they realise. Keir Starmer’s one of the most hated men in the country; Wes would be a worthy successor to that title. They’ve done such long term damage & Labour is dead.

Have you seen this? Reform UK has just pledged to rip up legal protections for workers and renters. I'm really worried about it. I've signed a petition to stop the steal. Can you add your name too? megaphone.org.uk/petitions/stop… via @megaphoneuk

Have you seen this? Reform UK has just pledged to rip up legal protections for workers and renters. I'm really worried about it. I've signed a petition to stop the steal. Can you add your name too? megaphone.org.uk/petitions/stop… via Megaphone UK

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theguardian.com/politics/2026/… All of those members of the Cabinet who have received donations from Israel should have failed any DV clerance.