A administrative error is forgetting to declare something once. This is... something else entirely and should be treated as such

New - Nigel Farage has been found by the Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards to have made 17 standards breaches, adding up to over £380,000 in late declarations. He’s apologised, so no further investigation (which seems unusual for a breach this large)

So when Starmer missed a football ticket declare it was headlines and now 330k ? Including massive grifting …

This is pathetic of the Times, framing it as all our fault for incontinent social media use while the orange madman gets a free pass

After one day of unity over Trump the Mail, the Telegraph, Times and Badenoch have decided the Chagos are more important than the destruction of the western alliance and backed the insane ramblings of a rogue president who was fine with the deal last year. We see you #collaborators

It's so exhausting to to be constantly told by American leaders that the defining policy of the 80 odd years during which the US became the most wealthy and powerful country in the history of the world was a grossly unfair failure for them.

Hey, good news everyone, if many more Tory MPs defect to reform, there's a real possibility that Seb Payne might finally get himself onto a shortlist.

it seems too obvious to even keep pointing it out but if you have ever had experience with an elder relative sliding into dementia you are familiar with the ways they repeat the same nonsensical anecdotes

TRUMP: fink Flumpo dink. Finn filling dunno. Youth Yuko thinks. Bono book bank. Bono book bank. Bono book bank. BBC News: this is a classic press conference technique from a president. this is something that normally happens. this is good and normal. it's fine. it's very fine.

We're giving Emre Can too much space

Tinkering around with an essay along these lines. I've gotten pretty tired of poll talk, even poll talk about Trump's plummeting popularity. I just think it misses the moment we're in. The same goes for all the weak-minded triangulation on the Dem side. Now is the time for doing *politics*

-how’s grandpa today? Did he recognize you? -[heavy melancholy sigh] Oh, you know. Enigmatic and expansive. Called the nurse “Red Starburst” three times and tried to eat his IV tube.

This is a novel feeling I have to say

Think it would be easier than people think to get the public to accept real lower consumption if politicians were more forthright about the case for it. People did so for COVID. "Russia is invading eastern Europe and America is run by a mad king, we need an army" doesn't seem that hard a sell.

"And we now have María on the line who would like to swap a Nobel Peace Prize for the presidency of Venezuela..."

I'm honestly less mad at the President, who is clearly not well, that I am at his outriders and enablers. They see messages like this and then, with straight faces, go on television or write op-eds retroactively constructing grand strategy justifications. Pathetic.

Take your ring cameras down and cancel your subscriptions immediately.

Abolish ICE. Destroy their weapons and melt down their equipment. Deny their agents, employees, and bosses all government employment for all time. Remove the agency entirely from the budget and give the money to public libraries and free health care.

These so-called "patriotic" 🇬🇧newspapers who brought you Brexit were never really patriotic at all. They are driven by a disdain for Britain's European neighbours, and a fawning obsession with America. They do not really want 🇬🇧 to be sovereign. They're content being a 🇺🇸vassal.

I’m old enough to remember when many of the voices saying very little tonight told us very loudly that Obama and Biden were anti-British.

Trump’s tariffs and threats mean it’s make your mind up time. If we can’t rely on America and we don’t want to cozy up to China, the answer is to get serious about our strategic future with Europe. NATO needs this too - the reset must be real, and it must happen quickly for all our sakes.

Seeing talk of Trump having ‘miscalculated’ the effect that constantly talking about invading Greenland might have among European leaders and I’m hear to tell you with near certainty that no calculations, good or bad, were made.

How it started ... How it's going

As the famous saying goes….”The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now.” Likewise, the best time to start weaning ourselves off dependence on the US……..

Blockity block

This is a transparent attempt to create a pretext for invoking the Insurrection Act. One provision applies when a group of people "opposes or obstructs the execution of the laws of the United States or impedes the course of justice under those laws." And when it's (allegedly) the state itself...

If you're not outraged by this then there's no more hope.

One fucking officer. A single officer.

The Trump-Vance administration just used your taxes to pay for an ICE agent to do this to a 21-year-old kid, who was only protesting because another ICE agent killed a mother of three, who was only there because ICE agents are kidnapping your neighbors

When you 'telling the truth' is such a novel concept you feel you have to announce it in advance

breathtakingly embarrassing for absolutely everyone involved lol

Whilst obviously the headline is the here is the very united nature of people's response to this, I do hope that the people who make up the purple bars got immediately referred to the police.

I do think a big chunk of the cost problems with UK infrastructure projects can be traced back to someone somewhere having a massive case of "not invented here" syndrome. We will never build something off-the-shelf because someone somewhere thinks that they're a special case.

Walking through the corridors of Royal Bournemouth Hospital and hearing the strains of The Great Escape playing from a radio is grimly amusing.

Archaeologists: D.C. Capitol May Have Once Been Used For Legislating https://theonion.com/archaeologists-d-c-capitol-may-have-once-been-used-for-legislating/

Is Trump going to terminate his personal business deals with UAE worth a total of $500 million? They are Iran’s 2nd largest trading partner. What about the advanced chips we just agreed to sell them? Are we still selling them $14 billion in Boeing 787s?

Hahaha I thought I'd scored a first film camera thrifting win today, only to find I paid six quid for a camera notorious for being impossible to fix the battery on. Now, do I learn my lesson or do I try to fix it? I mean, I have ideas, and how hard could it really be?

Did ICE have a bring your child to work day?

Kemi, this is just a population density map

There’s a bitter irony in these headlines.

When did “disrespect” for law enforcement become a crime worthy of summary execution in the street? Clearly it must have started after Jan 6th, 2021. So…when?

"The woman and her friend were highly disrespectful of law enforcement... They shouldn't have to put up with this stuff" That's why they had to shoot her in the face and twice more in the side. On the rare occasions you can follow the logic of what he's saying, you should, & then ask the followup.

Reform told you reducing council tax was easy. They just had to slash Woke policies, and a billion or two would be saved. They wouldn't even need to close care services. They promise you that. And then every single Reform-led council cut care services and increased council tax.

In case you’re wondering whether the pro-ICE reactions to Renee Nicole Good’s murder are natural, here’s a comment that was just left on my video. My video about anti-transgender bias at the BBC. I haven’t made a video about Good yet. youtu.be/pWm3dK8tPto

The first western nation to permanently ban the X platform will be a hero of democracy.

I must say it is very kind of Peter Mandelson to decide to remind everybody at this point in time of his connections with the disgraced financier and world's most infamous paedophile, Jeffrey Epstein, among all of the other things that had somewhat supplanted this in our recent memory.

Mansfield Town are having an absolute day out #SHUMAN #FACup

Good lord the crowd at the all-Championship Hull v Blackburn cup tie is abysmal

I know we are all the frogs being boiled but, when it really hits you, the question of 'should the world's largest producer of CSAM be banned' and the governments response is to just flop around. This situation is absolutely crazy.