Airlines flying asylum seekers to Rwanda risk breaching human rights laws, UN experts warn – UK politics live theguardian.com/politics/live/…

'This is, in my view, the most inexplicable and insensitive day I've experienced in nearly 40 years in Parliament.'

Crossbench peer Lord Carlisle tells @BBCNickRobinson that PM Rishi Sunak is asking Parliament to say 'an untruth is a truth', that Rwanda is safe.

#R4Today

You are now an accredited fascist dictator bypassing all the democratic institutions of this country to impose your insane heartless will. Churchill helped set up the ECHR specifically to stop people like you. Unelected, corrupt, morally bankrupt and incompetent. Conservatives

Interesting - a prominent Irish Marxist opposed immigration.

Judge throws out case against UK climate activist who held sign on jurors’ rights theguardian.com/environment/20…

Ravaged by austerity, chastened by Brexit, how can Britain have a ‘place in the world’ when it’s destitute at home? | Nesrine Malik theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

How can Britain have influence abroad when it’s broken at home? First it was the imperial power projections of Brexit, the reassertion of Britain’s place in the world unshackled by the limitations of equal partnership with Europe. theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

What faith can anyone have in the government’s environmental commitment when its flagship scheme to introduce recycling of single use bottles and cans is being delayed again - 8 years after it was first promised?

'There’s a cohort of MPs who are staring down the barrel of complete annihilation at the election'
‘Like the Somme without the generals’: Tory nerves grow as local elections loom theguardian.com/politics/2024/…

The pro-Russian caucus inside the GOP was defeated on Saturday, and with it Putin's dream of quickly occupying Ukraine. Now the US and Europe need to seize the moment to win, and end, the war

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Paula Vennells has been stripped of her CBE by King Charles.

But she has kept her £3m bonuses, paid for of course by the tax payer who still own the Post Office.

RT if it's money we want back, not CBE's.

Theresa May gets torn apart as she tries to milk the 5th anniversary of Nelson Mandela's death.

UK voters frustrated with politicians’ ‘desperate’ culture war tactics. Electoral strategies based on culturally charged and divisive issues repulse swing and undecided voters, who see politicians as “playing to the crowd” or “jumping on the bandwagon” 👍 theguardian.com/politics/2024/…

Can anyone name a democratic country where someone is made a legislator for life with no electoral mandate, no explanation and no obvious reason based on their prior work experience?

If you think this is wrong, I want to follow you back! This must end #charlotteOwen

Liz, you forget to mention that the Lib Dem candidate was immediately suspended.

Louisa Compton emily m Krishnan Guru-Murthy ALASTAIR CAMPBELL Rory Stewart The Rest Is Politics Cathy Newman Clare Balding 💙 Two commentators with Tory and Labour affiliations. No one from LibDems or SNP?

BREAKING: Channel 4 becomes the first broadcaster to announce its plans for coverage of the General Election night with Krishnan Guru-Murthy emily m ALASTAIR CAMPBELL Rory Stewart The Rest Is Politics Cathy Newman Clare Balding 💙 ensuring C4 will be the home of the best analysis and coverage

If David Cameron hadn't banned onshore wind turbines in 2015 the UK would already have 100% Green Energy, and Centrica and British Gas two of the Conservatives largest donors would be bankrupt.

Do you understand?

'The independence of the courts has been 'severely tested, if not broken', in recent years.

'We have had leaders who are willing to publicly disparage the law, our judges and the courts'. on.ft.com/3QbhObr

💥Absolutely INCREDIBLE moment.💥

New Environment Secretary Claire Coutinho, caught red-handed by Sophy Ridge making stuff up, just tries to blag through it.

Ends up basically suggesting that, since 'Starmer won't tell us what he really thinks', it's okay to make stuff up.😮