It's July 2016 and Russian bribe enthusiast Nathan Gill is doing the rounds on Nigel Farage's behalf explaining why he resigned as UKIP leader. Here he is on Russia Today: www.youtube.com/watch?v=GQtz...

NEW: If you have *any* interest in the Nathan Gill story, you need to look at this. We’ve put all the dates into a timeline & it’s incredibly revealing. 1/ www.thenerve.news/p/nathan-gil...

Nathan Gill Sentenced: What He Was Really Doing for the Kremlin

Lord Rothermere’s Telegraph takeover strengthens UK media’s rightwing tilt

Senator Wicker 🇺🇸🇺🇦 This so-called ‘peace plan’ has real problems, and I am highly skeptical it will achieve peace. Ukraine should not be forced to give up its lands to war criminal Putin. The size and disposition of Ukraine’s armed forces is a sovereign choice for its government and people.

Well, this is pretty terrifying. The Daily Mail is buying the Telegraph. One massive consolidated right-wing media empire controlled by off-shore interests at a critical moment in global politics. What could go wrong? www.theguardian.com/media/2025/n...

Farage can now be easily boxed in to a corner where his only ‘defence’ becomes: “Yes I spouted Kremlin propaganda & Putin worship but, unlike Nathan Gill, I didn’t need bribes to do it.” It is, once again, a question of whether interviewers have the temerity to shut down his whining obfuscations.

This is not a peace plan. It is a proposal that weakens Ukraine and divides America from Europe, preparing the way for a larger war in the future. In the meantime, it benefits unnamed Russian and American investors, at the expense of everyone else. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...

The same people who convinced the British public to back a catastrophic Boris Johnson premiership are now pulling the same trick again with Nigel Farage www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/the-confid...

Gill’s conviction for taking Kremlin money is yet more evidence of Russian influence in our politics, as the Russia report itself found. So when will Ministers finally investigate this wider interference? Why are we forced to pursue it in court? @carolecadwalla.bsky.social

To win power Reform will have to spend the next three years justifying extreme policies and remarks and preventing Kent County Council from collapse. No wonder Farage wants an early election, writes @benansell.bsky.social.

Gill-ty as charged. I wonder if Nigel Farage will be giving a press conference on this one?

It is indisputable that Brexit has been an economic disaster, and notable that none of its political architects have paid any price.

@johnsweeneyroar.bsky.social again with the latest on the Nathan Gill sentencing...and a personal message.

Where are all the "revoke Shamima Begum's citizenship she's a traitor people" today, I wonder.

We have a US administration trying to bully Ukrainians into accepting Russia’s proposal that their sovereignty be undone. Aside from the naked injustice of this, there are five basic practical reasons why it would make the world far more dangerous. (video) snyder.substack.com/p/the-putin-...

Final sentence for #NathanGill. 10.5 years jail time for Nigel’s right hand man in Strasbourg for taking payments from Putin’s right hand man Ukraine

Nigel Farage now says his former school colleagues have "mis-rembered" him singing vile "Gas 'em all" Nazi songs...Seems odd that they all misremembered the same thing....

BREAKING: Nathan Gill is sentenced to 10 & a half years in prison after pleading guilty to eight charges of bribery from a Russian agent. The "ultimate source" of the funds came from "a close friend of Vladimir Putin," said Mrs Justice Cheema-Grubb.

BREAKING: Reform UK's former Welsh leader and close Nigel Farage associate, Nathan Gill, sentenced to 10 and a half years in prison for repeatedly taking bribes to spread pro-Russian propaganda

This does feel like a major crossing of the Rubicon – the world's best-funded and in many ways most powerful public health agency is now actively pushing disinformation. I know there's a *lot* going on to care about at the moment, but this one really is significant, and matters well beyond the US.

John Major labels Brexit an ‘act of collective folly’ 'Britain's enemies celebrated and our friends despaired.' www.thelondoneconomic.com/politics/joh...

The black hole in Durham County Council’s budget has grown by £11.1mn in the past two months under the control of Reform UK. Its cabinet has been forced to approve a £10mn list of cuts. But the measures will still leave the county council with a deficit of £72mn over the coming four years

I'm sure the Londinistan guys will be delighted to read this... really good news... they'll be talking about something else altogether now... sure of it... because they were genuinely concerned weren't they

I’m calling on the UK Government to seriously review its presence on X (formerly Twitter) and then leave. It’s not just a communication channel anymore. Read more: www.politicshome.com/news/article... 1/10

Receipts from 8 years ago - and yes Andy Wigmore did refer this to Farage’s lawyers

Labour's Clive Lewis, "We were more exposed than any other country in the 2008 financial crash" "Brexit has clobbered us financially, we all accept that" "Covid has smashed us harder, we've not recovered compared to many of our OECD competitors" "We're in a bad place"

European political scientists are blue in the face from constantly pointing out that accommodating the far right does not help centre-left parties win, and contributes to the rise of far-right parties. There's a mountain of data to support that. But no, the galaxy-brained strategists must be right.

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School pupils are to be taught how to tackle conspiracy theories, spot 'fake news' & root out misinformation. The Daily Mail, ajudged by Wikipedia to be an unreliable new source, is furious. You don't have to be Sherlock Holmes to work out why.

Leaving the ECHR won't solve the refugee crisis, but instead would strip us of our human rights.

This is just theater for MAGA. If Trump REALLY wanted the Epstein Files released, he doesn't need Congress. He could just call Pam Bondi and order her to release them. He hasn't. And won't. He and Pam have cooked up a new "ongoing investigation" that she can use as an excuse not to release evidence.

In a 2018 message, the disgraced financier celebrated Robinson's release

"Compared with other European countries, the UK received the fifth largest number of asylum seekers in the year ending March 2025, and the seventeenth largest intake when measured per head of population" - Home Office data www.gov.uk/government/s...

Alastair Campbell, "Of the mistakes I have made, the biggest is Brexit..It has made us al weaker and poorer..A campaign won by liars and conmen" From a hypothetical scenario of what AC would do if he was PM

This video from survivors of Epstein (and his assorted ring of abusers) is gut-wrenching! RELEASE THE EPSTEIN FILES!!! No more protecting of these degenerates, depraved deplorables, pedophiles, sexual exploiters of children, & their enablers!!!

Now that Pamela Jo Bondi and Kash Patel have had enough time to scrub the files of Donald's name.

Starmer’s anti-asylum policies show how utterly clueless he is about the right-wing media’s role in politics. He’s trying to fix a “problem” contrived by Farage, GB News and The Telegraph. He’ll never win, because ultimately he’s fighting a ghost – he’s fighting something that doesn’t really exist

NEW: Epstein survivors release the most powerful PSA I have ever seen. Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.

I asked this question because I think whether the government acts to mitigate this possibility is key to whether it can pass this policy

The AI bubble may be about to bust. Peter Thiel has sold all of his Nvidia stock. We all need to say this very clearly: NO BAILOUTS FOR THEFT-TECH! Expropriate their asses instead. They stole from all of us and fully plan to burn the planet. They owe us - not the other way around. 1/3

I worked in the UK public sector 1995-2017. Local government is hard work and if done right will be largely invisible. Total anthesis of Reform's performative BS.

Chilling piece on employment effects of AI on early careers. Includes this line, which will probably become the norm for many firms: "Managers at Shopify must now justify hiring a human by first explaining why AI can’t do the job." nymag.com/intelligence...

We should stop the boats because it's dangerous, and we should stop the scapegoating of immigrants because it's wrong and cruel. Controlled migration is good for the country, helps build our economy and diversity strengthens our communities. (1/6) 🧵

“A vote for Labour is the only way to stop Reform” Or “Labour can actually do what Reform only claims it can do” The government needs to pick one strategy, not both. The government seems unaware that voters can actually hear it trying both messages at once.

New statement from Labour MP Simon Opher, who is not very happy at the proposed asylum plans: "We should stop the boats because it's dangerous, and we should stop the scapegoating of immigrants because it's wrong and cruel…. We should push back on the racist agenda of Reform rather than echo it."

There is no evidence that stripping refugees' rights one by one will have any impact on people crossing the channel. Taking jewellery from refugees is akin to painting over murals for refugee children. These repugnant ‘deterrents’ did not work for the Tories, and they won't work for us.