BREAKING: Reform UK leader Nigel Farage bought a £1.4 million property in cash shortly after receiving a £5m personal gift from billionaire donor Christopher Harborne, according to property records seen by Sky News.

www.maptap.gg May 12 99🎯 100🎯 88👏 99🎯 79🤗 Final score: 909

I fear Labour people risk falling into an ecological fallacy visible from space when reacting to these results. Here is what is very clear in results so far: Labour are losing *seats* to Reform, but... Labour are losing *votes* to the Greens Greens split the vote, Ref comes thru middle

Holding my nose and voting Lib Dem for the first time in my life in the (probably pointless) hope it keeps the Reform dickheads out of Gateshead council.

This is a terrible and deliberately divisive piece of reporting by the Times. Somewhere near the bottom of the article, they admit that actually Muslims prioritise the cost of living above Gaza. It's not even close - cost of living was prioritised by 50%, Gaza by 25% www.thetimes.com/article/5c7c...

As these things go - and it obviously won't impact on his diehard fans - this, from the Tories, is actually quite an impressive effort.

It’s so funny how the “last person he spoke to” heuristic is so robust. (He had a call with Putin earlier.)

Just wild that the Secret Service shot a Donald Trump supporter dead at Mar-a-Lago two months ago because he had a gun & was trying to kill the president over the Epstein files but—speaking only for myself—I haven’t heard a word about it amid the coverage tonight www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

The Correspondents Dinner Chaos is an opportunity for Trump to get his ballroom through.

EU: The European Union will require sale of mobile phones with “user-replaceable and longer-lasting batteries” starting in 2027. The regulation demands “availability of spare parts and manuals for 10 years to curb planned obsolescence”.

Very incisive from Alex Wickham, UK political editor for Bloomberg “Sources say Olly Robbins felt bound by the rules of the security vetting process NOT to tell the PM, No10 or the foreign secretary about the concerns raised about Mandelson”

Nobody talks about the time when Razorlight got radiation poisoning from the polonium meant for Litvinenko.

Trying to explain St Augustine to the pope, the former head of the Augustinian order, who wrote his doctoral thesis on Augustine, on his way back from celebrating mass at the Basilica of St Augustine in Annaba, Algeria, overlooking the site where Augustine lived is peak Adult Catholic Convert.

Mail is running a poll on whether the UK should rejoin the EU. Takes seconds to vote and it's going hilariously well... www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...

One way that Orbán sought to entrench power was adopting a new Hungarian constitution in 2011 that classified many policy areas as 'cardinal laws' that require a two-thirds majority vote to change. With almost 100% of votes counted, the Hungarian opposition has just achieved what seemed impossible.

My first post university job in 2004 on the BOE grad scheme paid £24,500. Full time minimum wage was (at 35 hours at a week) £8,190. BOE grad scheme today pays £33,525. Minimum wage at 35 hours a week: £23,132. A real terms collapse and a real terms surge.

The Telegraph just gave a convicted criminal a two-page spread to explain why he's pumping £4 million into Reform UK. They tucked his criminal record away in the small print. So as a former financial crime specialist I’ll do their job for them👇

There's no doubt the 90s and 00s to the financial crisis were years largely of optimism, as the world and many individual markets opened up, and before demographics hit too much. The period isn't replicable.

White America voted to elect this buffoon all three times he ran for president.

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Trump is asked, "What is the one leadership trait the world is missing?" "I always like to hang around with losers, actually, because it makes me feel better. I hate guys that are very successful and you have to listen to their success stories. I like people that like to listen to my success."

#ShareYourReads first book I've read by this author. Would recommend.

i promise you that whatever you think will happen next won't

Tories had a chance this week to go for Farage's jugular over his dodgy extra curricular moneymaking activities (recording Cameos for assorted far right nutters, pumping crypto etc) which old school Tories find tacky & Trumpian. Instead, they're all in on Muslim-bashing.

Jesus. Paying a French company a billion dollars *not* to build a wind farm.

Utterly damning on the extent of US strategic failure giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

That Inside the Manosphere is a Theroux masterclass. Speaking to one guy who said he didn’t believe in depression, even when his brother died he was sad but he moved past it. Then he was asked how his brother died and his answer was “he took his own life.” Absolutely staggering.

Donald Trump letting you know how the authoritarian capture of the media is going, in case you missed it. Unlike other authoritarians in places like Hungary and Poland he has no worries about advertising his authoritarian take over of the media.

Trump on 28 Feb: Regime change in Iran! Trump on 5 March: I have to choose the next Supreme Leader! Trump on 6 March: Unconditional surrender! 8 March: Iran appoints Khamenei's hardline son as Supreme Leader. Trump on 9 March: The war is very complete.

jesus CHRIST. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Thanks to @vennart666.bsky.social for introducing me to the unique moves of Luigi Primo, the pizza throwing wrestler

after absolutely eviscerating Kristi Noem and calling for her resignation, Tillis is applauded. He thens threatens to hold up nominees if she doesn't stop stonewalling him. My God.

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I swear to god these idiots *want* us to vote Green 🤦🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️

Labour have alienated the voters they had on the left, and failed to win over any of the voters they have courted on the right. Now their core appeal is all but gone and ever growing numbers of voters have exit options on the left, right and in the centre. Welcome to the Valley of Electoral Death.

400 jobs cut at Manchester United: "savings" of £7.4m. Potential cost of the sacking of Ruben Amorim and his staff: £15.9m.

But seriously. We are back! Next week we start shooting #bbcghosts the movie! Huge excitement in the camp, lots of splendid people joining us.

🚨BREAKING🚨 Robert Jenrick has defected from Reform to the Greens.

The Fed in Dunston is hosting Professional Racist Katie Hopkins over two nights (with one night already sold out) if anyone wants to let them know what you think of that. #NUFC share.google/CwoXbmM8MFaH...

A reminder, one day ahead of a by-election in which the Greens are favourites to defeat Reform, that the Daily Mail owner's wife recently donated £50,000 to Nigel Farage's party

There is a lot of confusion around Dan Burn's disallowed equaliser in #MCINEW. The goal is disallowed because Burn is offside when the free kick is taken, but he is in an offside position because he is pushed into offside by the City defender. So, what does the Law say in this case? [1/7]

Jenrick is such a hilariously inept buffoon.

Nigel Farage lashes out at a FT journalist and refuses to answer the question. Is this how Reform UK would ignore media questions if they got into government?

Great piece from @dsquareddigest.bsky.social, which touches on one of the big theories for why English-speaking countries do especially badly at housebuilding: Adversarial and litigious common law systems (Anglo) vs judge-led civil law systems elsewhere. samf.substack.com/p/build-the-...

This is the Gov looking for your input on the BBC. It takes a while to complete (15/20 mins) but it’s pretty comprehensive and covers most aspects. Please share. I’m surprised many people haven’t seen it yet. www.gov.uk/government/c...

this feels like a spoof from The Day Today