Farage outside Widdecombe's house today. If that's his idea of mourning, I'm intrigued to see what he would wear to a clown party

It's hardly a hot take, but Jacob Fatu is *really* good at promo. World Championship good. #WWE

As the odds creep up on Count Binface, so the Farage machine will throw its vast resources at trying to stop a bloke with a bin on his head from beating him. He's already lost.

Excellent work!

Ryanair charges extra for new 'Panoramic View' service www.theguardian.com/business/202...

"YouGov published polling today suggesting that more than half of voters regard Nigel Farage as “very sleazy”. On this measure, he scores far worse than any of the other party leaders. Even 40% of Reform UK voters regard him as sleazy." More Trump-like every day www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...

@ukparliament.parliament.uk There is no excuse for the UK Treasury, a Civil Service department, to have disciplinary procedures as antiquated, as partial and as inhumane as this. They should be exemplars, not worst case scenarios www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Pitch for a vape designed to deter kids: a tapenade flavoured vape named The Guns of Naverone, promoted by Monty Don. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Democratic process, you spoil us.

I don't mean to be churlish, but this is scarcely even a start. It's not a question of 'increasing evidence' of Israeli war crimes on Palestinian civilians: the UN, ICJ and ICC have all concluded (the ICJ on an interim basis) that Israel has committed war crimes. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

If it wasn't a deliberate lie, then it was shocking ignorance by Restore leader Rupert Lowe to describe the Dublane mass shooting as 'one murder'. He will never be taken seriously as a politician if he's unable or unwilling to tell the truth. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Biomorphic box. Steamed pearwood, African blackwood, Tagua nut, Velvelite plastic, mother of pearl (underneath!). Carved by me.

First Law of Thermodynamics: if this thing claims to cool down a room, where does the heat go? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

A good analysis by Bill Clinton of Trump's reflecting pool debacle, and why it's more than a silly season story: youtu.be/kZLzJ5_NUSM

To paraphrase Rachel Reeves, Farage is burdened with a bin all summer. You could say, he's bin laden. I'll get my coat.

"I always thought (the war with Iran) would be four weeks. And we’re a little ahead of schedule.” Trump, CNN interview, 2 March www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c1...

The Unhinged State of Alzheimer's has now declared war on Japan

Today's Daily Fail falls into the Heffalump Trap alongside Farage. 'Spending the summer arguing with a bin', as Rachel Reeves eloquently put it, is not 'deadly serious': it's the kind of wonderful, absurd farce that only the nation that gave the world Monty Python can inflict on its pompous wankers.

The Daily Star endorses Count Binface. Farage is lettuce.

Much of parliamentary procedure is predicated on the assumption that MPs are honourable. It wasn't true when those procedures were drafted, and it's certainly not true now we have politicians so corrupt that they openly accept bribes. The rules need rewriting on the basis that some MPs are crooks

What have we all got planned for Battle of the Boyne? I thought I'd organise a multifaith cheese-rolling competition.

Chris Mason backpedalling fast on his analysis just yesterday of Farage's resignation www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

'Failed Suicide' woodcarving in steamed pearwood with tagua nut, mother of pearl and jet. 65mm high. Carved by me.

I may be getting ahead of myself here, but I've just consulted Erskine May, the bible of parliamentary procedure. Count Binface MP is going to have to argue that his superhero threads are 'business-like attire': the bigger issue, though, is that Members can't cover their faces when voting 1/2

Cometh the hour, cometh the bin

Passing this most excellent image on

If only Count Binface stands against Farage, Binface may well win. Since the medieval Lord of Misrule, England has always punished pomposity. But even if Farage wins that first vote, can you imagine how the voters of Clacton will feel towards him when his misconduct triggers a *second* byelection?

If the US military taking over cases committed by their off-duty staff against UK citizens means that the perpetrators get away with a slap on the wrist, then we should not cede that control. Either the US respects UK citizens, laws & values, or they can eff off www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

I'm sure I'm not alone in taking enormous pleasure from seeing Farage genuinely rattled by press & media interrogation of his grift. Nigel is not ready for grown-up politics. news.sky.com/video/reform...

Belgium, the world thanks you. www.theguardian.com/football/202...

Belgium, if you give the US the thrashing they deserve in Seattle tomorrow, then we will forgive you for the thousands of tonnes of Mannekin Pis souvenirs you have inflicted upon the world.

Public school educated city trader and grift multimillionaire 'anti-elitist' Nigel Farage is screwed, and it leaves Reform in a dilemma. Do they ditch him and lose the only court card in their hand, or keep him and the sleaze that accompanies him? www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Cotterell is very pink, isn't he? Presumably embarrassed at being photographed with Gimme Gimme Gimme Farage.

The United States even cheats at the footie now, because that's the tawdry depth to which that once-proud nation has been reduced: www.theguardian.com/football/202...

Don't the Reform councillors have businesses and jobs? If they promised the good people of Nottinghamshire that their £75,000 flag-wanking would be sponsored, why don't they sponsor it themselves? www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Matt BadLoser really is a berk, in the original Cockney rhyming slang sense. A party wishing to introduce a decent, popular set of manifesto proposals could do worse than note Goodwin's ideas, then propose the opposite. www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...

"I’m going to make a really long speech just to show that I can do anything," Threatens Trump regarding July 4 'celebrations'. WH admin, better order the Tena 'Space Hopper' pads. thehill.com/homenews/adm...

Railing against Farage's grift on Bsky is entirely pointless. The handful of Reform voters on the platform are only here to bait the hippies, and will relish the indignation.

Grim reading for hotdogs lovers (I am not): www.theguardian.com/wellness/202...

A quarter of the average UK energy bill funds corporate profits. This article is 9 months old, but the facts haven't changed: privatisation simply doesn't work in the public's interest for services and utilities. We need a long-term programme of renationalisation www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Was there a single heel victory at WWE Night of Champions? Other than Sami Zayn, who was Face for a Day?

After WW2 the Allied nations had a choice: litigate individual reparations to every individual and descendant who had been murdered, tortured, disenfranchised or stolen from by the Nazis, or gift those people a nation whose citizens weren't in a position to resist its theft. The latter was cheaper.

I'm sympathetic (from some distance: I'm a Green) with the plight of passionate Starmerites. Starmer will presumably remain loyal to the Labour Party, but will they? Does their rage at his betrayal and grief at his ousting drive them away? If they stay, how can they quell or channel their anger? 1/2

Day one ish. It's just me, Uce Day one ish. It's just me, Uce Day one ish. It's just me, Uce Day one ish. Mumble quietly Trail off into silence DAY ONE ISH. IT'S JUST ME UCE!!

Daily Mail header 'Class Warrior Bridget's Family Made 900% Profit on Council Home' could more accurately have read 'Single mother buys her council house under Tories' right-to-buy scheme, opens women's refuge, sells it 33 years later' But that wouldn't fit their bullshit narrative, would it?

It never fails to amuse me that right wing US politicians and commentators describe as 'radical' and 'communist', democrats who in the UK would be vilified as the very softest end of the soft left. Bring on a bit of red (or rather, blue) meat! www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...

Is there anything positions wrasslers more mid-card than being Danhausen's pet zombies? #WWE

A scummy pond doesn't matter much. Even a change of PM doesn't matter so much: 1,500 human lives snuffed out in moments matters. www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c3...

The 360 degree assessment of Trump's reflecting pool farce seems to be that the Trump administration demanded an immediate solution, the experts were saying it couldn't be done to that timetable, and a charlatan stepped forward and said his magic beans would fix it www.cnn.com/2026/06/25/p...

ICE has just Streisanded the HELL out of Jonathan Ross, the agent who murdered protester Renee Good in cold blood. It couldn't happen to a more deserving guy; and the fact that the amplification was caused by his own makes it 🤌. Way to go, Slush Puppies. www.syracuse.com/news/2026/06...