How did I not know that Jodie Foster made a Hitchcockian whodunnit IN FRENCH? How is her French so perfect? HOW. www.youtube.com/watch?v=HbIE...

Amazing day for renewables in the UK

Good. It’s easy to forget that climate change denial & shilling for fossil fuel companies provided a template for Tufton Street, Brexit & pretty much every egregious example of persuading populations to vote against their own interests. The story of Don Pearlman should be taught in kindergartens…

I have just submitted a complaint about this. It's easy. You should do it.

OMFG I had to go and check that this ACTUALLY happened. Since when does the BBC ever do chyrons with a political party's branding, rather than their own? Not to mention this is during a pre-election campaign purdah. (h/t @iainsol.bsky.social)

It is possible to think that this whole undignified Mandelson vetting debacle does not reflect well on the PM at all, while also thinking that another leadership contest is literally the last thing anybody needs right now.

It’s quite something to see this happening from across the pond where this scandal wouldn’t even be noticed or commented on at all. Much more an indictment of the state of US politics but this really feels pretty small with the context of warmongering fascists marauding around the planet.

And can I just add… No one at Palantir seems to be able to read or write. “We must resist the shallow temptation of a vacant and hollow pluralism” Take out the vapid tautologies and you get: “We must resist pluralism” Great tell.

Making corporations and wealthy individuals (and Reform politicians) pay their fair share of taxes would be so impactful and so politically popular that the continued hesitancy around it is baffling. @patmillsuk.bsky.social

Yet again Donald Trump is acting like a mafia boss on overdrive. Starmer should clearly condemn Trump's threats to target civilian infrastructure in Iran. We all want peace, but bullying and threatening war crimes is not the way to achieve it.

This makes the scale of Rayner's alleged error - for which Reform hauled her over the coals - look like monopoly money

Trevor Phillips said on Sky News this morning that "everybody in the country who could read a newspaper" knew in advance of the Mandelson appointment that he was problematic is this the same Phillips who interviewed Mandelson on October 08 2023 and didn't ask any questions about Epstein friendship?

It doesn't take a forensic accountant to work out whose interests Nigel Farage really serves

Reform is corrupt. Tice is a tax dodging cheat. They want power to make money for themselves. The foreign bribes, the crypto donations, the bitcoin investments, Farage and Kwarteng’s cosy little deals… They’ll treat the UK and the NHS as their own fire sale. We must never give it to them.

Tice said: "Naturally I am always happy to put things right and if numbers need rechecking, of course I will pay what is owed - be that more or less." It's another big story from Gabriel Pogrund who also revealed last week that Tice's property company failed to pay £91,000 in tax before dividends.

Your next government

In case you’re confused - the £100k of tax Richard Tice failed to pay here is totally different to the - £92k of tax not properly withheld on dividends - the £600k side-stepped via highly aggressive tax avoidance Industrial scale grifting revealed by @danneidle.bsky.social and Gabriel Pogrund

“In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Those affected receive a small apartment & counselling with no preconditions. 4 out of 5 people affected make their way back to a stable life. And all this is CHEAPER than accepting homelessness.” IT SAVES PUBLIC MONEY to house people.

In short Rayner had to resign due to concerted media & political pressure over a single stamp duty mistake. Millionaire Tice bankrolled his party through deliberate, dodgy, tax-avoiding corporate tricks and yet the media pressure is limited to a few outlets. www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...

The party that campaigns hardest against the establishment and tax avoidance now finds itself accused of exactly that.

🚨Sun Times: Richard Tice’s companies appear to have failed to pay £100,000+ in corporation tax on profits, while funnelling over £1 million in donations to Reform UK. Tice calls it a “technicality” but critics say it looks like aggressive tax avoidance benefiting both him personally and his party.

Richard Tice deputy leader of Reform ran four shell companies which did not pay any tax on profits between 2020 and 2022. He's now offering to "put things right". Go on then Richard - resign. www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...

When Angela Rayner underpaid £40,000 in stamp duty, Richard Tice said it was "morally completely indefensible” and she should resign if she had “any moral decency”. Now we learn he set up four shell companies that let him avoid paying £100,000 he owed in tax and to then transfer the cash to Reform

For the first time in decades, consensus broke at the UN Commission on the Status of Women. The United States cast the lone “no” vote on a document aimed at improving justice systems for women and girls worldwide. Misogyny is the official policy of the US under Trump.

This story isn't going away...

From seahorses to sharks, more than 3,000 fish species have been caught in bottom trawls, including many at risk of extinction -new research They are depleting the ocean of life and if they are not stopped we will soon have a dead lifeless ocean science.ubc.ca/news/2026-04...

Let’s not forget that one of Farage’s colleagues is now in prison for taking Russian bribes.

If the Strait of Hormuz opens again, we are back to where we started, just thousands of deaths later and many billions poorer. And all because there’s a mad man in the White House who we are sending the King to ego stroke next week.

Anyone who received their postal ballot today in the South of Scotland region, please be aware that "Independent Green Voice", which appears second on the list on the peach regional ballot paper, is NOT the Scottish Green Party. This is in fact a deliberate vote spoiling attempt by right-wingers.

Economists Slam Reform UK’s ‘Fantasy’ Claims That ‘Boriswave’ Migrants Will Cost Households £20,000 “Reform have simply invented their own numbers…” say experts. bylinetimes.com/2026/04/16/e...

Farage thugs manhandle man with pacemaker after he objects to the Reform leader's chauffeur parking in disabled bay that he needs to use. Lovely People. www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...

Sharon Osborne was ▶️an immigrant into the USA in the late 1970s ▶️an immigrant into Ireland in the mid 1990s ▶️an immigrant into the USA again from 2002 to 2005 ▶️and then again from 2010 to 2020 She has been an immigrant for approx 48 of her 73 years www.nme.com/news/tv/shar...

The true face of Reform. www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news...

We should pity the gullible and scared people who fell for the disinformation that surrounded it. Some were victims as a result. Should also hold those to account who spread fear and disinformation that still resonates today and is pretty much the accepted narrative on Talk and GB News.

Could MattGPT face scrutiny under the UK’s ‘proceeds of crime’ law? The British right is awash with money from Orban thinktanks…which Hungary’s new PM says was stolen. Brilliant deep dive into Orban’s vast UK network by @McCoolingtons for @thenerve_news. 👏

Tell me about it!!!😡😡😡so patronizing and condescending!

I think a much tougher approach to MPs' second jobs, donations, and lobbying would go a long way to fixing the malaise too. Easier said than done of course when there's so many vested interests involved.

This is a Ukrainian boy, Bohdan. He will forever be eight years old. Yesterday, a Russian drone killed Bohdan as he was playing on a playground in Cherkasy. Bohdan sang in the church choir. Deepest condolences... Russian terrorism must be stopped.

We @libdems.org.uk are calling on the FCA to investigate whether Farage’s plans to cash in on Crypto could potentially amount to market abuse and a conflict of interest. It raises concerns that Farage could be using the Trump playbook to put his own interests above the public good.

These people call themselves patriots. Almost invariably, they turn out to be stooges of foreign powers. goodlawproject.org/orbans-pay-c...

Donald Trump is no leader of the free world. He’s a dangerous and corrupt gangster. The Prime Minister needs to call off the King’s state visit to Washington before it’s too late.

Turns out this picture is real A federal judge has now dismissed a lawsuit brought by Trump against the Wall Street Journal over Jeffrey Epstein's birthday book. This is a big defeat for Trump in court. It was the first time a sitting U.S. president sued a news outlet over a story he didn't like.

I'm not sure if Matt Goodwin's books are available in Hungary but mine are... so there's a shameless plug

🔴 Matt Goodwin’s Lucrative Hungarian Fellowship Could Be in Line for the Chop Following Orbán’s Defeat The Orbán-controlled body for which the Reform UK and GB News commentator is a ‘visiting fellow’ is facing investigation over alleged misuse of public funds bylinetimes.com/2026/04/13/m...

GB News repeatedly presented Reform UK and Conservative politicians and activists as being ordinary members of the public, without declaring their political affiliations. Byline Times investigation reveals pattern of behaviour by the Channel, but Ofcom still refuses to act

Every day I lose a little more faith in what I thought America could be.

Trump, Putin, Farage… your boy took a hell of a beating. Congratulations to the people of Hungary for showing that populist extremists can be defeated – even despite Donald Trump’s best efforts.

Superb for Hungary, good for Europe and bad for Putin and Trump. Let’s celebrate tonight. And tomorrow fight on.

Watch very carefully for who in the UK does not accept Orbán has lost - even if they're "just asking questions". It will be a clear demonstration of their belief in democracy.

Politico: "Greater Manchester Police are reviewing a complaint about Reform’s competition to offer voters the chance to win free energy bills for their street." (The prize appeared to go to Reform party members)