Keir Starmer used to care about sleaze. What happened?

btw, Man Utd’s last starting 11 had the following nationalities: Belgium, England, Argentina, England, Portugal, Brazil, England, Ivory Coast, Portugal, Cameroon, Brazil

oh the irony of *The Spectator* leading with this line

This of course could have been resolved ages ago if Starmer had bothered to appoint a Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport

🔴 NEW - Trump Accused of Trying to ‘Divide and Destabilise’ Europe Through New MAGA Fund UK and EU leaders have been called upon to “reject” MAGA’s “foreign interference”. 📝 @adambarnett.bsky.social, @clarecarlile.bsky.social & @writesbright.bsky.social

Something magnificent about Kemi Badenoch's self-confidence, and her claim that the Mandelson affair is entirely down to her asking questions at PMQs. Like a toddler who thinks their plastic steering wheel is controlling the car.

Young men are the second most liberal group in the country after young women.

The untold story that is told constantly and isn’t really true

I haven’t looked on Twitter, but all the ‘SOVEREIGNTY IS PARAMOUNT!’ guys over there will be furious about this, right? Right?

Yep. Scary shit.

The Trump administration is creating a "slush fund" to turbocharge MAGA groups in the UK and EU, according to the FT. This is code fucking red for democracy.

Farage admitted last year that he probably would have been in contact with Epstein, if he was 10 years older, due to the “circles” in which they both operated. That says an awful lot about Farage (and his political project)

I love this new Labour comms approach of making their MPs produce snappy little videos that are posted on X and subjected to hundreds of abusive comments and general mockery

Worth a read. @writesbright.bsky.social makes a couple of very and illuminating points. Excellent.

Well this is dodgy as fuck

Interesting take: the Tory/Reform battle is really about the big donors not the voters writesbright.substack.com/p/why-badeno...

Interesting thought.

🔴 Why Badenoch won’t move to the centre 📝 New post 👇🏻

Good article on Badenoch from Sam @writesbright.bsky.social writesbright.substack.com/p/why-badeno...

PSA: Here's how the anti-net zero sausage gets made: 1. Oil companies fund climate denial groups 2. which incubate fake experts 3. who write policy papers for 'think tanks' 4. which get blurbed by politicians 5. & reported uncritically by right-wing media. Voila! www.desmog.com/2026/01/28/c...

Nigel Farage here, lavishing praise on the UAE for its approach to “law and order” - a state that locks up activists and has arbitrary detentions. Grim.

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Matthew Goodwin is a key node in Reform’s growing ties to autocratic Hungary 👇🏻

Nothing like announcing a former academic and highly paid TV presenter as your candidate to stick it to those bastardly elites

From last year on Matthew Goodwin, an empty prophet who makes up in self-promotion what he lacks in charisma.

Have contributed a few bits to the New World’s Rats in a Sack column recently, including this one on Reform’s housing policy...

Smarmy narcissistic wannabe autocrats Matthew Goodwin and Robert Jenrick in the same parliamentary party

“If [Braverman] possesses endearing qualities they’re imperceptible to the naked eye. She manages to be both malevolent and goofy, like a clown with a grenade-launcher.”

"Farage is notorious for making enemies out of allies – for ruthlessly culling people from his team as soon as they develop their own political ambitions. Above all else, though his rogue persona would indicate otherwise, Farage is a control-freak and a hoarder of power."

Farage’s donors have spent £151,000 flying him around the world in support of Donald Trump. Farage works for the MAGA movement, not the British public (and certainly not the voters of Clacton)

🔴 Nigel Farage is sabotaging his own party 🔴 I think the recent defections have shown that his political ambitions are entirely selfish. 👇

The mental thing is that Burnham isn’t even that left-wing - the decision to block him has been taken based on stupid factional reasons rather than ideological ones

Farage and Badenoch have both said they want to see armed deportation squads roaming the streets of Britain. Their Trump-worship is not just performative - it threatens to bring his violence to communities across the UK

Nigel Farage racks up £151,000 in donor-funded flights to support Donald Trump www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...

Ooooh. Could this be... nuance?

🔴 No-one’s telling the truth about London. It’s neither the dystopia depicted by Musk and Farage, nor the metropolitan paradise described by Sadiq Khan. Here’s why 👇

Starmer should be brave enough to recognise that his political career rests on beating Reform, not on whether Burnham is allowed a seat or not. If Farage wins, Starmer is cooked regardless

Keir Starmer’s total lack of interest in oratory, in the power of words, is one of his biggest failings. The country and Western world is crying out for someone to make sense of it all (e.g. Carney’s speech) and Starmer is stuck in platitude-land

Jumping on the Prince Harry case to re-share this little-known story about the Daily Mail 👀

Former Tory MP Matthew Parris on Thursday: “If you were to remove ambition from the core of Robert Jenrick, he would collapse like a boneless chicken.” 😂 writesbright.substack.com

🔴 Who Funds the Free Speech Union? Toby Young’s outfit has gone to court to stop publication of a list of its donors So we decided to take a dive into its funders Watch video with me and @writesbright.bsky.social 😀 youtu.be/oP0OGYhYyaA?...

This is great stuff about Jenrick, who's typical of the worst of today's political opportunists – a man who believes absolutely nothing, and thinks nothing of pretending to believe the worst things possible, regardless of the cost to others.

In an extremely crowded field, I reckon Robert Jenrick is one of the worst, most dislikable politicians in modern Britain. Here’s why 👇🏻

Money in politics matters because it buys power Dark money matters even more, because it shapes political debate without public even knowing it is happening Great to talk to @writesbright.bsky.social about who funds Free Speech Union democracyforsale.substack.com/p/follow-the...

I'm not trying to be a dick but if this sentence (I guess it's a sentence) was filed by a first-year student journalist you'd have serious words with them. Literally nothing here works. It's catastrophic prose

If you asked ChatGPT to write this it would tell you to fuck off

It’d be nice to have a BBC political editor who was more focused on informing the public than on writing theatre reviews of Westminster

This is truly awful prose

For all of Farage’s bombast and bravado, Reform is basically just a retirement home for disgraced Tories - and the media should be reporting it as such