On one the biggest tricks Farage pulls and is allowed to pull is that he is a conservative, rather than a radical threat to the democratic order. Conservatism should imply respect for institutions, but Farage shows little for any of them (see, for instance, his record of attendance in Parliament).

Farage “addressing the nation”. The f—king notions.

What today demonstrates is what a serious threat Farage and Reform are to any form of reflective, representative democracy in the U.K. There isn’t a depth to which they won’t sink to sow hatred and division.

Henry Nowak’s father’s words outside court, who is probably the person we most need to hear from today.

“You guys”, says Tony Blair assuringly to Europeans, “what you think about the world is exactly what Donald Trump thinks; it’s just that I’m way smarter than you and so realise this and you don’t because you’re not that smart.”

Tony Blair trying to come across all statesmanlike and above the noise when in reality he’s drunk on copium pretending Trump is some kind of 5D chess playing Atlanticist.

Ross Castle, Killarney today.

Translation: Iran will keep all nuclear materials and keep the Strait of Hormuz closed; in return, they accept that people can keep calling the carpets Persian carpets.

Missing Don Jr’s wedding is about the first decision Trump has ever taken with which I can empathise. Probably the most ice sculptures, bad tailoring, sunglasses on heads, and people being rude to waiting staff ever gathered in a single room.

They could put a man on the moon but no restaurant can yet adequately time the arrival of coffee and dessert.

Was the Oxford Union always a society of overprivileged, ragebaiting, anti-intellectual edgelords?

Jo and Kush from Race Across the World are surely going to be major stars. Or they will achieve world peace just by virtue of being the two soundest guys that ever lived.

Peter Magyar's new Hungarian government must govern around the veto players Orban left behind. But EU law can provide workarounds to help the new government bring Hungarian law back into compliance with European values. Here's my analysis of how this can be done: verfassungsblog.de/hungarys-eur...

By this logic, the founding fathers also didn’t believe in their cause because they didn’t keep going until Britain was also a republic.

What does it mean when Article 2 TEU becomes part of “the very identity of the Union as a common legal order”? JULIAN SCHOLTES (@jscholt.bsky.social) argues that identity claims may justify expanding the CJEU’s jurisdiction beyond its existing limits. verfassungsblog.de/to-identity-...

Will Arsenal bottle this 1-0 lead Bournemouth has over Man City in the next half an hour or so?

As an Article 34 TFEU problem question, you’d say this was a little too easy.

Floating some possible names for the White House once Trump has finished turning it into a fortress: Castle Numbskull? The Crim-lin? Fort Pox?

On my walk around Amsterdam today: the house in which John Adams lived from 1781-82.

Surprised no one has said ‘Maker- or Breakerfield for Andy Burnham’ yet.

Jefferson: Abolish the Eurovision juries Hamilton: Abolish the Eurovision public votes

I have a theory that the Holy Roman Empire wasn’t actually dissolved in 1806, but instead slowly evolved into the Eurovision voting system.

Have they failed to sell out the FA Cup Final? If so, that’s a very sad state of affairs.

Genuinely feel for everyone connected to Hearts. Rubbish way to lose the league, especially given the VAR nonsense midweek.

They’re almost inviting the voters of Makerfield to upset the apple cart, stick it to the elites, and prevent the coronation of Andy Burnham.

‘Real Lexit has never been tried’ spotted in the wild in 2026. Must be a Labour leadership contest in the offing.

My take on the UKSC's Dillon judgment - it is a combination of regressive and dubious reasoning. It radically reduces the range of cases in which Art 2 is applicable, in reasoning which flies in the face of the UK Government's promises over the provision: ukconstitutionallaw.org/2026/05/14/c...

Keir Starmer at his next cabinet meeting.

Some inspiration for Ed Miliband: in 1994, George Foreman aged 45 became the oldest man ever to win the lineal heavyweight boxing championship, 20 years after he had lost it to Muhammad Ali in Kinshasa.

Back to the Future II with Ed Miliband.

He means “nobody that Elon Musk didn’t fire thought …”

Funny old world. Marcus Rashford, surplus to requirements at Man Utd, goes on loan to Barcelona (a bigger club, let’s be honest) and scores in 2-0 win over Real Madrid to help clinch La Liga title.

Tbf, it would have been more dignified than Roger Griswold v Matthew Lyon in 1798.

We can be rightly cynical about the EU as a Union of values in practice, but it is undoubtedly the case that the EU has power as a symbol of liberal democracy and hope. It can be seen in Georgia and Ukraine, and here in Hungary. /1

Lovely bit of ambiguity here. Which owner? The car owner or the land owner?

Why is it that all the really patriotic British types who really resent Americanisms are really obsessed with pretending they’re in American politics? Leaving aside the fact that associating yourself with Trump and MAGA should automatically mark you out as a menace in polite society.

Disappointing night for Bayern, but really an excellent away performance by PSG. Another UCL knock-out game though in which it felt like we were playing a great team and the referee. Bayern also picked a bad night to be less than perfect, tbh.

The most common response to the words “Steve and Jared are working hard on it” is likely “yeah, I’d like to speak to your manager.”

It’s Arsenal’s to bottle now.

The Reform Migration Centre policy taps into something that Brexit also did: voter jealousy and nastiness. A desire to deprive other people of opportunities like free movement, Erasmus, etc. out of spite. Let the lefty middle classes live with detention centres, etc.

The Reform Migration Centre policy taps into something that Brexit also did: voter jealousy and nastiness. A desire to deprive other people of opportunities like free movement, Erasmus, etc. out of spite. Let the lefty middle classes live with detention centres, etc.

Already at capacity having to deal with a rogue US and Russian aggression, Telegraph readers getting a rush on some tumble dryers might finally spell the end of the EU.

Me, about to make a windfall from tumble dryer sales.

Would be typical Spurs to bottle getting relegated.

I’m telling my grandkids that the wet and dry factions of the Conservative Party were at odds over tumble dryers.

“Dad, what did you do during the Great Net Zero Culture War?” “I bought the sh*t out of some white goods.”

Three centuries of progress is to go from East India Company nabobs to crypto-currency nabobs.

Trump’s pirate standard is the skull and bone spurs.

Performative patriotism from the Telegraph columnist class. I’m currently running three empty tumble dryers on this fine Sunday morning just to stick it to Brussels.