This Reform statement seems unaware that he had acknowledged some of these allegations back in 2013. Of course I said some ridiculous things that upset them.” Crick asked him if these were “racist things”. Farage replied: “Not necessarily racist things. It depends how you define it.”

This is one of the big accounts boosting Tommy Robinson, Farage and Reform and ‘English Patriots’. It’s Russian.

Of course not. Because TACO. For the 1000th time, how to deal with Trump: Show strength. Shape events. Make him react to your move rather than jumping like a scared rabbit whenever he says something nuts. Europe’s consistent failure to do so only encourages more American madness.

Stop Ukraine joining NATO? "If that is what Moscow insists on being part of any settlement.” - Richard Tice, Reform August 2025

I have zero tolerance for the “well, I guess we have no choice with immigrants but to deport them or lock them up if the paperwork goes wrong”

Donald Trump is gunning for the BBC, and Farage is cheering him on. Want to know why? Follow the money…

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Right. I don't care what the calendar says, I'm calling it: Winter started today in my neck of the woods.

"NEW: 93 murders in London (pop: ~9m) in 12 months to October. The city's murder rate is now lowest for decades; perhaps centuries. But if you listened to what Reform and the Conservatives were saying, you’d think it was at an all-time high" - Jack Dart

18 more Scottish Wildcats have been released into the Cairngorms, and previously released wildcats are successfully having litters in the wild. Great news: www.savingwildcats.org.uk/news-events/...

I came to this country as a child refugee. No English, no certainty, no idea what my life could become. Britain gave me refuge. Not on a timer, not with conditions attached, but with a chance to grow roots. A thread 🧵 1/8 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Famously the lyrics of every punk rock song extolled how lovely everything was. Little known fact: Anna Key was an Australian girl Glen Matlock fancied who had moved to west London and it was only a printing error that caused the song to go out as Anarchy in the UK.

Nice job senate republicans you fucking clowns

hey i wrote an article about folk names for birds and you should check it out!!! open.substack.com/pub/weirdmed...

Donald Trump is coming for the BBC and for your wallets. I urged the Prime Minister to stand up for the 23.8 million licence fee paying households, and tell Trump he won't get a penny.

In 1996 I did a little in internship at BBC Westminster. At the time, Robbie Gibb was one of the producers there. Even in that period, he was self evidently a pro-Tory apparatchik, who made no attempt to hide his agenda from his colleagues or even from the little work experience kid.

BBC Under Attack: Pot and Kettle Special The new Private Eye is out now.

🎯 Davey is spot on. "We can have criticism of the BBC, but within that, we need to recognise how valuable an institution it is [and how] precious to our country. And that's one of the reasons why people like President Trump and Nigel Farage, want to undermine the BBC." 👏🏽~AA

The first step towards saving our precious BBC: remove Robbie Gibb from the board | Ed Davey

It’s easy to see why Trump wants to destroy the world’s number one news source. We can’t let him. The BBC belongs to all of us here in the UK. The Prime Minister and leaders from across the political spectrum should be united in telling Trump to keep his hands off it.

Dear GOD if you want to save money in the asylum system 1. LET ASYLUM SEEKERS WORK 2. FAST TRACK STATUS FOR EVERYONE FROM CLEARLY UNDAFE COUNTRIES like Sudan, Syria, etc 3. Run an asylum accommodation system that is NOT FOR PROFIT #r4today

Elon Musk is deliberately using his platform to poison our politics and divide our country. It's time for the government to wake up to the threat he poses to our democracy.

Here's the thing. It would not be OK if Elon Musk was a radical leftist who put algorithms in to feed everyone messages of revolution, or an Islamist who made it send out Jihadist messages, or even a lovely cuddly hippie who made it promote peace love and understanding.

Being a Brit on BlueSky means seeing 1000x more messaging about an election in New York than your local council. Might as well message Zohran about my bin collection.

Anecdote alert, but a couple of years ago, discussing Brexit/Rejoin with my daughter (then aged c20) she said it wouldn't be a factor in her voting intention, because although she wanted to rejoin she just didn't think anyone in power cared.

It's not a grassroots working class movement. "Wherever we looked for prominent flaggers and leaders of this movement, we found people smugglers and sex doll salesmen, people with dubious criminal pasts and people willing to put in a good word for Adolf Hitler." manchestermill.co.uk/the-men-who-...

Fantastic result in Bromsgrove, congratulations to Sam Ammar and the local team! Across the country, it’s the Liberal Democrats who are taking the fight to Reform and winning 💪

Exit poll for Dutch elections here. I’ve no idea how accurate Dutch exit polls are but this puts D66 (roughly Dutch equivalent of UK Lib Dems - the VVD “liberals” are more like UK old school Tories) as biggest single party. Will this get the same UK headlines as when the Eurofash PVV came 1st?

The hypocrisy of Reform going on TV to allege that certain groups are constantly over represented on TV is truly epic.

Do populists always crash the economy? “On average, after 15 years, gross domestic product per head tends to be 10% lower in countries run by populist leaders than in similar economies with more mainstream regimes” www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...

I am getting seriously fucking annoyed with all this wall-to-wall Reform shit on the media now.

So, I am going to hoist my unpopular opinion: hooray for Greenwich Mean Time! Hooray for dawn before 7 am! OK, so the evening will be dark, but it's supposed to be. Nights are dark, mornings are supposed to be light.

Two other UKIP MEPs, both of whom - like Nathan Gill - followed Farage into the Brexit Party, accompanied Gill on a trip paid for by pro-Russian interests. And 6 weeks later echoed Gill's Putin-friendly talking points in Parliament. What a small world! observer.co.uk/news/politic...

Noticeable that again it’s the Lib Dems providing a response while Labour keep silent.

Rightly, everyone is focusing on the ethnic cleansing and open racism, so take this as a side salad of shit, but... Notice how the right despise people who work hard in underpaid jobs. The only measure of contribution is the tax take.

Killer quote here, and more grist to the "close down the Home Office" mill.

Epstein Survivor Lisa Phillips: Everyone makes it about Trump and Epstein, but it’s about this whole ring of men. That’s what makes me upset, because we know they were there. We saw them. We know there were royalty, princes, very powerful people in academia and tech, and we saw them at parties.

Don’t mention these accusation, truths, facts whatever you want to call them have been around for donkeys years.

The Lam stuff is terrible (see @sundersays.bsky.social thread for detail) but as @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com says Lam's not going to get into govt.) What's really worrying is, as she says, the mood music and the inability to trust Labour.

He's lying!!! From the US: Ask him why he has visited the 🍊, Steve Bannon, Stephen Miller, and Roy Moore so many times in the US - since 2017. Also, ask him why he he has regurgitated Putin's propaganda for almost 10 years.

Everybody: please stop mentioning that Farage was regularly on Russia Today, a channel now banned for its Russian propaganda content, blamed the EU for Russia's invasion of Ukraine in 2014, had a Russian spy running his Welsh operation, and built his whole career on a policy Putin supports.

Breaking news: a hedgehog is building a hibernation nest in my raspberry patch and this morning trundling to and fro with little twigs and suchlike (adorably carried in its mouth.) Snatched blurry video follows. (Not as good as my daughter seeing an otter playing in the canal yesterday though)

Congratulations to @zoegrunewald.bsky.social for this important article. Based on the experience of a friend, this is one of my massive bugbears. The family courts are complicit in abuse - and the government looks away national.thelead.uk/p/the-family...

I see Nigel Farage is back to claiming he "predicted" the war between Russia and Ukraine in the EU Parliament, when in fact he spoke AFTER the annexation of Crimea, to defend Russia and claim it was all the EU's fault. I did a full fact-check, with clips, here: podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/f...

"On the hill above the outpost, the town of Maroun ar Ras does not exist anymore – the village was razed by Israeli bombers and artillery. The devastation is stark. The impact on the local population was a forced total displacement from their homes."

How it started vs How it's going. More details: buff.ly/GbIKw4P

As for the Duke of York, this late complaint Will make but little for his benefit.

I mean, this is a straight-up fucking lie. I stood on the terraces at football matches in the 80s, it was absolutely more violent than today. When Chelsea fans made monkey noises and threw bananas at the black player Paul Canoville, who was on their own fucking team, it was not “good natured."