I'm sick and tired of debates framed on the lines of 'train drivers shouldn't earn twice as much as nurses'. The point is that chief executives and investment bankers earn several hundred times more than either of them.

BREAKING: The Queen has vetted 67 laws to exempt herself from them, but she's not vetted a single Tory attack on our human rights to protect the public from creeping fascism. What exactly is the Queen for, please? x

BREAKING: Country that refused to feed hungry children until a Premier League footballer shamed the government wonders why no one wants to have children x

lol just clocked. someone earning 1 million pounds will get a tax cut of ~£54k, which is more than the full yearly salary of someone that’s in the same tax bracket as them. before tax.

It’s all there in Britannia Unchained, co-authored by Liz Truss and Kwarteng: the pound can collapse, borrowing and mortgages can soar, pensioners can freeze, kids can go hungry, as long as the economy is ripe for venture capitalists freed from regulation and, ideally, tax.

A girls' school in Iran brought a member of the IRGC-run Basij paramilitary to speak to students. The girls welcomed the speaker by taking off their headscarves & chanting "get lost, Basiji". Teenage girls have been at the forefront of protests for days. x.com/1500tasvir/sta…

The list of things that people agitating for Johnson's return clearly don't care about is incredible when you think about: corruption, law-breaking, cronyism, avoidable deaths, bullying, lying, rule-breaking, Russian spies, ethical breaches, trashing parliamentary standards etc

if you hate watching a billionaire destroy the place you live online, wait till you hear what they’re up to with planet earth

Retweet if you think big media channels have a responsibility, when women are dying every three days from misogyny and male violence, not to legitimise and embolden abusive misogynistic views. ITV should fire Jeremy Clarkson.

It’s ludicrous that Conservative party members can elect the Prime Minister via an online ballot, but local people risk being turned away at the polling station because they don’t have the right form of ID. The new Voter ID laws are a blatant attempt to stifle our democracy 🗳️

“If they really are refugees, why don’t they have to stay in the first safe country they reach?” “Why don’t they just claim asylum in France?” Here is my answer, once & for all. To Jonathan Gullis, and to everyone else who ever wondered. #RefugeesWelcome

In 2011, Jeremy Clarkson called for striking workers to be "shot in front of their families". He continued to present Top Gear for another four years. After criticising plans to criminalise asylum seekers, Gary Linekar has lasted three days.

Gary Lineker suspended by the BBC for upsetting the Conservatives because he stood up for some of the most vulnerable people in the world. The same BBC whose chairman gave the Conservatives £400,000 before helping to arrange an £800,000 loan for Boris Johnson

🌳🌳LIQUID TREES ARE COOL, y'all are just haters: a thread.🌳🌳 This tweet went viral and twitter got mad as heck about it. "But we love trees!" they cried. But they are actually really cool and here's why: (1/14)

My column on Russell Brand, the media, the noughties - and what I got wrong theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

🇬🇧 After 14 years of rule, we have a message to the Conservatives on behalf of the British people. #ThankYouTories 🙏🏻