An editorial cartoon classic created in 2015 by artist Randy Molton... still an interesting thought some nine years later... -DW @mxnews #political #cartoon #Asheville

Ukrainian drone strikes target Russian tankers in blow to fuel supplies

Nigel Farage has sent an email to Reform UK supporters tonight saying “we don’t know whether there were any political motives” behind Ann Widdecombe’s murder. But police have already ruled that out, saying there was “no information” to suggest the murder was “politically motivated”.

#CountBinface is EXPOSING British Politics! #ClactonByElection Wake Up #Clacton! #FarageIsAFraud On 13th August 2026, Take Out the Trash, #VoteCountBinface. #NeverFarage #FarageRiots #FarageRiots2 #NoDOGEUK #NoICEUK #ProtectWorkersRights #SaveOurNHS #ToriesGone736 youtube.com/watch?v=KyLQ...

I get sick just looking at RFK Jr’s ugly mug, let alone thinking about all the terrible shit he’s doing to the American people, all blessed by the orange turd…

Police investigating £500,000 donations to Reform UK by the mother of a convicted fraudster and ally of Nigel Farage. Did Reform and its leaders do due diligence checks on money flowing to their coffers? Evidence? Farage by-election stunt won't make issues go away.

Where will the demand for AI come from if AI erodes what remains of the American middle class and much of the working class? https://robertreich.substack.com/p/whos-gonna-buy-all-the-ai-stuff

A growing outbreak of the Cyclospora parasite, which causes severe diarrhea, has sickened more than 1,200 people across the U.S. Experts say the true number is much higher. In March 2025, RFK Jr. dissolved the CDC’s Division of Parasitic Diseases and Malaria, which monitored parasitic diseases

Insider Trading: Suspicious trading before 41% of takeovers sets new UK record. Sharp increases in abnormal trading ahead of sensitive market announcements. The City is a global leader in sleaze, illicit financial flows. Dearth of prosecutions. Yet govts deregulating. archive.ph/mEb8L

Cost of appeasing Trump Trump tore-up the international treaty to put 15% global minimum tax on large global companies to prevent profit shifting. UK to miss out on £600m a year after allowing US exemption from landmark tax deal. Why no trade sanctions on the USA for financial terrorism?

Average UK renter spent 41% of take-home pay on rent. Rocketing costs of energy, water, food, essentials. Real average wage unchanged since 2008. Median take-home pay £26,208. 39% of Briton have £1,000 or less in savings. Can't get economic growth without curbing profiteering, ending poverty.

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Only the innocent pay bit.ly/3QY8Rpz the developers who built the flats with dangerous cladding and the freeholders who own the building fabric including the cladding have no liability. It is the leaseholders who just rent 100m^3. of space who must pay to replace it

An important paper about protecting science from political interference. Europe needs to defend its science against the kind of attacks unfurling in the US. By Martin McKee, Christina Pagel & Tiago Correia in the European Journal of Public Health: academic.oup.com/eurpub/artic...

The part of this I’m totally with, is the buy British part - but I see it as self reliance, breaking free of our dependence on US technology, software and hardware - it’s overwhelming and undermining at the same time. Time to stand on our own two feet. www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...

Radio (LBC) suggested that if Farage gets re-elected, the scope of the investigation can only include the previous 12 months. That must be the crux of his strategy at playing the rules. If that's true, the Chancellor should have blocked his bid to resign and as it is, he's going to get away with it?

Trump bought over $12M in stock in companies like Apple and Nvidia right before pausing his tariffs. And he bought $5M in Axon stocks just weeks before ICE sought a contract with them. Today he abruptly announces an end to the Iran ceasefire... What's really going on here?

People of Clacton, you know what to do 👍

People of Clacton, you know who to vote for 😆

@matthewpennycookmp.bsky.social www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Glorious

YES! It’s the only way. 👏

BREAKING: Labour is not standing a candidate in 'circus' by-election A party spokesperson said in a statement: "Nigel Farage is engulfed in a sleaze scandal and he's desperately trying to change the subject. It's pathetic, and the Labour Party is not going to indulge it.

Reform said the Makerfield by-election was a waste of taxpayers’ money. Now Nigel Farage is triggering a by-election of his own. You just couldn’t make this boll**** up

So, a joke MP with 5 houses bought for cash, links to criminality and a £5Mill ‘gift’ in his bank… is so enraged at being held to account… that he resigns from the MP role he never did anyway…and demands a “people v the establishment” by-election to vote him back in. What an insufferable wanker.

Nigel Farage is a grifter. He always has been and he's continuing to grift. He knew he was heading towards a byelection anyway so has pulled the trigger early. The people Vs the establishment?! Reform are literally part of the establishment.

Please f**k off.... Nigel Farage about to make statement 'on future in public life' after row over financial support - BBC News share.google/GOpVmsiiQDBv...

Everything. Every fucking thing that Trump touches, gets tainted. Trump is a virus for humanity. Nothing good is done by this fucking asshole.

Because it's cheating and im not surprising im just disappointed. The player should refuse to have it lifted.

Trump interfered in the World Cup and made it all about himself. We should be celebrating the the U.S. team’s success, but now everything sadly has a cloud over it. It’s unfortunate for the players, the fans, and the country. Some thoughts...

President Trump called the president of FIFA in the hours after the U.S. men’s soccer team played Wednesday and asked him to review the suspension of the team’s top goal scorer in the World Cup, Folarin Balogun, after he was given a red card. Read more: nyti.ms/4vSHMTS

He just can't help himself from being corrupt in every avenue he wanders into: 'Donald Trump called Fifa president Gianni Infantino on Thursday and spoke about the suspension'

Two clear & colossal threats: 1) Palantir (especially under the US CLOUD Act 2018) and 2) the UK-US pharmaceutical deal of Dec 2025 where UK govt, without scrutiny, changed NHS pricing rules at Trump’s behest. Both must go. #NHS #Burnham #Palantir #Trump

The £5bn dogfight: why private equity wants easyJet. Expect the usual private equity business model - higher debt, squeezing wages/staff, asset stripping, tax abuse. Expect higher prices, stealth charges, cuts on some routes, packing planes, less customer choice. archive.ph/sEQlL

Has Nigel Farage broken parliamentary rules by failing to declare benefits provided by an ally who’s a convicted criminal? He says he hasn’t. The Sunday Times reports George Cottrell supplied security & social media staff who worked on Mr Farage's online content in the year before he was elected

🔥 The UK-US Pharma deal. Starmer threw our NHS under the bus for Trump. Rather than use trade tariffs & investment like the EU and Switzerland did to protect patients… Starmer acquiesced to Trump - letting him push up prices in our NHS, risking 230,000 vulnerable lives.

6 years ago, I passed my dissertation defence (via Zoom) and became Dr. Smiles! Getting my PhD was a huge accomplishment, and I'm glad I get to continue using what I've learned to help my community and to advocate for Indigenous knowledge and worldviews!

Another day, another Farage crypto scandal. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy has announced she and her department are leaving Elon Musk's X platform claiming it 'isn't healthy for our democracy or our communities and I don't want to support it' www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Two episodes in the bag! I’m working with old friends on a brand new project - bringing British landscape archaeology to Channel 4… #Grounded #DreamTeam

Farage party bankrolled by firm that makes money from Russian oil bit.ly/4f4qrQS major donor’s firm has links to Indian refinery supplied by Russia

Customers blame South West Water meters for bill hikes - BBC News share.google/ZtwVMCaQKCJ0...

@premnsikka.bsky.social Had my old and perfectly good water meter changed, without my permission, to a new smart meter. This was in Wales and my bills are much higher. I feel the same as some people in Cornwall: 👇

More good news like this please.

Andy Burnham is set to ban Palantir from the NHS if he becomes Prime Minister 👏 www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/202...

Pretty big move for the Culture Secretary to leave X, saying her department will too.

Appeasing Trump. UK would need to divert £44.7bn from essential NHS services to pay for new medicines under the terms of the UK-US trade deal. US corporate profits boosted. Could result in more than 200,000 avoidable UK deaths. Self-sufficiency for essentials saves lives.