Today in Brexit Britain you are being asked to believe that a Thailand-based cryptocurrency tycoon secretly gave Nigel Farage - the person, not his party - five million pounds without any hope or expectation of getting anything in return.

Reupping my video showing that conversion therapy in the UK is mainly caused by about 40 people who simply will not piss off and are ruining the NHS for the rest of us youtu.be/_S5w18sjYLk?...

It’s not about ditching the car, just making smarter swaps where you can. With fill-ups now £87–£105 😅, those short “I’ll just drive” trips? They add up. Swap a few for a bike = less fuel, less wear, no parking. 👉 It all stacks over time: cyclinguk.org/financial-benefits

this is an absolutely extraordinary scoop by Guardian: Nigel Farage was given £5m by the crypto billionaire Christopher Harborne shortly before announcing he would stand in the 2024 British general election, the Guardian can reveal www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Interesting reference just now to "the left-leaning Daily Mirror" on the Today Programme. I hope this practice is going to become routine, & that we'll be reminded of the political affiliations of The Daily Telegraph, The Mail, The Sun, The Express & The Times. It would actually be quite healthy.

Ed’s first words on this were right - it is morally and economically wrong. But he’s wrong to blame BP for this. The fault lies with Casino Capitalism. www.telegraph.co.uk/business/202...

Half of England’s schools unfit due to leaks, sinking floorboards, unfit windows, mould, collapsed drains, faulty toilets. Schools reserved for children with special educational needs and disabilities (Send) unfit for use. Children punished. Rich don't send their children to state schools.

Australia moves to tax Meta, Google and TikTok to fund newsrooms apnews.com/article/aust...

James Orr is currently a panellist on The Moral Maze despite being Reform's head of policy and one of the most important figures in the international radical right. There isn't a left-wing equivalent but I guarantee they wouldn't be on the show

Quietly raging (again) at the new dual citizen rules for British people, since Eurostar only allows me to add one passport and I am a citizen on both sides of the Channel - so do I have the Belgians think I'm British without an ETA or the British think I'm Belgian without an ETA.

No, the Prime Ministers are the problem and a politics more widely that is built on believing in nothing but what’s expedient to win the next election.

Hannah Spencer is basically right. There is a toxic culture in Westminster which is badly exacerbated by alcohol. There's a reason why the main bar in Parliament now has CCTV and requires drinkers to scan their passes when they enter. There's just been so many incidents of abuse

Hannah Spencer, a woman who had an ordinary job, becoming an MP and immediately noticing and talking about how, for example, our MPs drink at work, is one of the reasons why the establishment doesn’t like it when normal people get elected.

'environmentalists' golf courses aren't green space

via popbitch

Look at dedicated bike space alongside the rail. Chris Boardman campaigned for one of these alongside the HS2 but was told 'too expensive ' but this stuff costs peanuts compared to the total cost

Last missing part of the main cycle route from Helmond to Eindhoven is under construction. 1/3

I genuinely think some people do not want to look this in the eye/think about it because it is so awful. We wrote what I thought was a pretty eye-opening story about all this and I was surprised by the lack of engagement tbh

Nigel Farage says he is deeply concerned about Chinese influence in the UK. One of his London council candidates was a diplomat for China-controlled Hong Kong until 2023 www.ft.com/content/477e...

We should be learning from other countries...

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.

Conservative MP Esther McVey claimed last week that knife crime in London “is up 72% in a year”. That figure’s not correct, according to police statistics on knife-enabled crime, and we’ve not found any data to support it.

I’m looking for an automated way to read others’s scientific data without giving credit or acknowledgement, and also claim full credit for insights from it. And I want it to have a fitting name OAI: say no more

Four years ago

the closer to a Billion you got. Tell them you just want to make the game more challenging for their huge brains.

Billionaires make more money to compete with each other. It’s dick measuring… I can’t help thinking you could get them onside for increased taxation if you told them the game of capitalism had gotten too easy and that REAL geniuses would reveal themselves if capitalism got harder for everyone,

“Basic income has been shown to reduce health care costs, including an 8.5% reduction in hospitalizations. As Dr. Danielle Martin [the newly elected Liberal MP in today’s by-election] has so pointedly said, “If we discovered a drug that reduced hospitalizations by 8.5%, we’d put it in the water.”

News reported in the UK as “NEW RAIN PANEL CAN NOW ALSO GENERATE ENERGY IN THE SUN!”

Personal bugbear but I wish people would stop calling them “hallucinations”. It’s propaganda to humanise AI and suggest it has sentience. These are errors we wouldn’t accept in any other tech product. Imagine saying your SatNav “hallucinated” a road through someone’s house.

And then there was one...

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👇

Every council should follow suit.

Is Chris Kenna Manchester's first AI billionaire - or a serial fantasist? He claims his company is on course for a £2.5bn valuation, with data centres up and down the country. But in a collaborative investigation with @tbij.bsky.social, we couldn't find any. manchestermill.co.uk/is-chris-ken...

SUVs are making Britain’s potholes worse, say scientists www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026... In other news scientists from the University of the bleeding obvious find that bears defecate in woods, and all Popes are Catholic!

Good Friday is a time for right wing fuckwits to feel outraged at King Charles for not giving an Easter message, even though his mother The Queen only did one in 70 years.

"self-reliance" says the guy who makes all the unrepairable devices and fucked off to Malaysia

Let's focus on something we ALL agree on: #ReleaseTheEPSTEIN_Files

Remember when they made these things do the stupid little cute dance to try and lull people into thinking they wouldn’t be policing, harassing, and carrying invasive cameras or guns in the near future.

This is a very good analysis, the parallels between 2007 are bang on, question is who will push an asset past the point where it crashes the market. The Big Short is one of those rare occasions where it's relatively accurate in telling the story

wouldn't it be funny if EVERYONE blocked this Attie AI account @ bsky.app/profile/atti... before they could do anything with it

🔴Kemi Badenoch Campaigns For North Sea Drilling at Company Owned by Oil and Gas Executive Who Donated £250,000 to the Conservatives The Conservative party has also taken millions of pounds from funders and directors of anti-Net Zero lobby groups bylinetimes.com/2026/03/30/k...

Taiwanese boxer Lin Yu-Ting was demonized and harassed because JK Rowling claimed she was male. Her boxing career was disrupted for over a year. Now, she's been cleared to compete as female after further "sex eligibility reviews." This is going to happen again. www.reuters.com/sports/olymp...

Yes. The truth.

You may recall the serious allegations by Reform about voting offences at the Gorton and Denton by-election. This detailed thread sets out what happened next. All too late, and this won’t get the same circulation as the original allegations.

Post a non-religious picture you think of as holy @pixel8foto.bsky.social

I never believed for one bloody second that NF would keep any promise, and definitely not to nationalise water or energy (he wants to break the NHS remember)

Headline in today's Broadcast "Gary Barlow takes Jason Manford to New Zealand for ITV Travelogue" feels like the last straw. Stop telling us there's no money to make TV when you're sending dull millionaires on free holidays. FOR FUCK'S SAKE! Who is watching this shit? *eye twitch*

“Air pollution fell substantially as Paris restricted car traffic and made way for parks, people-streets and bike-lanes.” Better for the climate, better for health, better for livability and quality of life. Common sense. Such a no-brainer, it’s remarkable that more cities HAVEN’T done the same.

The Bourne Identity (2002) / The Hidalgo Legacy (2026)

Some good news: we will soon restore a night bus service to all 10 boroughs in GM. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...