🔴 NEW 🔴 Two thirds of Reform’s shadow cabinet in Wales are ex-Tories. Farage’s Conservative retirement home living up to its reputation!

🔴 NEW 🔴 Two thirds of Reform’s shadow cabinet in Wales are ex-Tories. Farage’s Conservative retirement home living up to its reputation!

If I were the government, I simply would not be directing eyeballs and the political conversation to a website run by a guy who has explicitly said he opposes the PM and is visibly fighting an information war against me.

The idea that AI is going to "remake" the world, so we should embrace it unequivocally, is *such* a dumb argument

Paging Clacton…

32.3ºC at Kew Gardens is the hottest May temperature on record at the station since records began in 1881, beating its previous May maximum by 2ºC (30.3ºC, 25th May 1922). It beat its maximum temperature date record for the 24th of May by OVER 2ºC (30.2ºC, 1922), exceptional.

“Rather than seeing the ruling class as predatory, debauched and farcically pompous, they’ve taken on a different posture in our national psyche – as loveable, charming rogues. Johnson and Farage have benefitted from that collective delusion.”

Your reminder that constituency polling is notoriously difficult, wildly inaccurate, probably pointless and - if it influences voters by suggesting wrongly who’s on top and in second place - maybe even ethically iffy.

🤡Johnson inspired the same financial pity as Farage among his patrons. Donors paid for his wedding, his post-Downing Street accommodation, offered him a £800,000 loan, & funded a £150,000 tree house for his kids. He received a £1 million gift from Harborne. writesbright.substack.com/p/farages-bo...

If you think we got rid of Boris Johnson, you’re wrong… 📝 New piece 👇🏻

As a Yorkshireman, I endorse this take.

Christ this is grim from @writesbright.bsky.social . It's so depressing seeing this problem looming on the horizon and being so powerless to stop it. 'The next Cambridge Analytica scandal. British politics isn’t prepared.' #tech #socialmedia #AI #AISlop

This needs sorting out.. "As though we haven't got enough to deal with at the minute, social media has presented us with a new, endemic problem: AI-generated racists." @writesbright.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/writesbr...

Manchesterism is a terrible word and should be abandoned immediately. And I say this as a northerner.

This is an incredibly grim but excellent assessment of where we are at and what's to come

The UK (and the rest of the World) is officially f*cked Please read this article and share widely

If this isn't "designed to stir up hatred" against Jews, what is? Why are the Met not arresting them?

Read this and show this to anyone who you know has been sucked into the onslaught of lies and disinformation ..

Moscow’s man takes to the streets of London…

We’re sleepwalking into a future where reality is indecipherable from alternate realities, which are concocted to make us spend and hate more.

🔴 The next Cambridge Analytica scandal

Giving Farage a £5m “reward” for Brexit - an unmitigated economic disaster - strikes of a man whose money outweighs his brain cells. I wrote recently about why Harborne and his fellow Reform donors aren’t the sharpest knives in the drawer 👇🏻

Lots of people fairly saying that Makerfield will be a tough seat for Burnham, but the upside is that if he beats Reform he’ll hammer home the point to MPs that he can defeat Farage. May have a significant impact on any leadership contest

Streeting will be Labour’s Sunak if he becomes PM (which I can’t see happening). He’s slick but lacks gravitas - and his entire administration will be consumed by his lack of a mandate and the question of when the next election (which he’ll lose) will be called. He’ll be a caretaker boss at best

Some thoughts on last week’s election results 👇🏻

This new @writesbright.bsky.social piece is very good both in its main argument and the interesting sub-argument that for all the public distrust of politicians there's a kind of "electoral complacency" that the government will always provide a safety net:

Is impatience killing the government? Some data and some thoughts. @karlpike.bsky.social @philipjcowley.bsky.social and I found a year ago that people expected noticeable improvements in the NHS, schools, housing well within Labour's first parliament. www.politicshome.com/news/article... 1/7

I thought this piece was spot-on. To mangle Shakespeare for a moment, "The fault, dear Brutus, is not always in our star politicians, but partly in ourselves."

This is good by @writesbright.bsky.social on how voters now have expectations that politicians can no longer meet. Political education is at a premium… open.substack.com/pub/writesbr...

British voters have high expectations of politicians, who are afforded virtually no time to fix problems that have been decades in the making. 📝 New piece on the perils of chronic impatience 👇🏻

Easy to imagine from the local election results that the Greens are a lefty-liberal city problem for Labour, but they also clearly cost Labour councillors elsewhere. Greens got 16% of the vote in Sandwell, 15% in Halton, 11% in Wigan, 10% in Sunderland, 9% in Barnsley...

Brilliant evisceration of Starmer’s speech and the long, trite platitudes that currently pass for Westminster speechwriting

Grounds for optimism

Ignore the Reform hype – Farage’s party is going backwards. 📝 My election analysis 👇

I'm making myself feel a bit better about everything by believing this piece from @writesbright.bsky.social ! 'Ignore the Hype. The Election Results Show #Reform Is in Reverse The surge isn’t happening.' #Farage

Ignore the Reform hype – Farage’s party is going backwards. 📝 My election analysis 👇

Agreed. How he became one of the top lawyers in the country is completely beyond me

One of the problems with Starmer is that he has zero understanding of how to communicate with the public beyond a big “reset” speech every 3-6 months. Contrast that with Mamdani’s comms style since he’s been elected and you’ve got a big reason for Starmer’s complete inability to connect with voters

Reform is tracking at 26% this year versus 30% last. If this trend continues, the party will only get 14% at the next general election. Seriously worrying signs for Farage. (I’m only a little bit joking)

Reform is tracking at 26% this year versus 30% last. If this trend continues, the party will only get 14% at the next general election. Seriously worrying signs for Farage. (I’m only a little bit joking)

Election analysis is ruined by social media’s horrible habit of rewarding people who post first. There’s a long way to go until you can trust any definitive account of the results.

slightly awkward ad placement on this Guardian article

It turns out that the billionaires bankrolling the Reform2025 Ltd company (owned and operated by N.P. Farage) are in fact very confused and full of cognitve dissonance. @writesbright.bsky.social reveals all: writesbright.substack.com/p/the-billio...

Great stuff from @writesbright.bsky.social and DeSmog UK on Farage's money flows. The potential for foreign influence is extraordinary. www.desmog.com/2026/04/18/m...

writesbright.substack.com/p/the-billio... Great article. Concludes: “Firstly, that the richest people in the world are far from the smartest people in the world. And, secondly, private donations to political parties should be capped, if not banned altogether”.

🔴 NEW - Nigel Farage has accepted £2 million since becoming an MP @desmog.com’s analysis, published by The Guardian, shows that the Reform leader has raked in millions on top of the £5 million handed to him by Harborne

Reform’s donors have been vocal in the media recently. I read what they had to say, and was left baffled about why rich people are considered to be smarter than everyone else

How Zia Yusuf made his money...

Man of the people😱

How Zia Yusuf made his money...