Genuinely a bit offensive as a summary

It's a hard life being an absentee MP!

🔴 NEW 🔴 Nigel Farage pocketed £2.3 million in income and donor gifts during his first two years as Clacton’s MP - equivalent to £22,000 a week. 📝 New @desmog.com report 👇🏻

Harry Kane has a few world class qualities but he’s also a massive liability. Totally inhibits a high press, seems to go missing for almost entire matches, and is useless when you’re trying to defend a lead. He can destroy DR Congo, but he flops, often quite catastrophically, against big teams

🔴 NEW 🔴 Nigel Farage pocketed £2.3 million in income and donor gifts during his first two years as Clacton’s MP - equivalent to £22,000 a week. 📝 New @desmog.com report 👇🏻

A brilliant summary of some ingrained dodgy practices corrupting our politics

I dedicated a decent amount of my life a few years ago to investigating dodgy PPE contracts. Here’s what I made of the Covid Inquiry conclusions released today 👇🏻

This is well worth a read, including some of its surprise at the gaps in the inquiry's findings, which I was similarly surprised by today

I dedicated a decent amount of my life a few years ago to investigating dodgy PPE contracts. Here’s what I made of the Covid Inquiry conclusions released today 👇🏻

Another timely piece from the amazing @desmog.com team. @mc00.bsky.social @writesbright.bsky.social www.desmog.com/2026/07/14/m...

🔴 NEW - Major Reform Donors Featured in Tax Haven Database Farage’s party has accepted more than £16 million since the last election from those listed in offshore leaks. 📝 @mc00.bsky.social

If like me you’re way behind on this stuff “AI Slop” then this is well worth a listen!

Social media feeds are being saturated with racist AI slop targeted heavily at older voters. I chatted to @niamhmcintyre.bsky.social - who’s done brilliant work uncovering this story - about how worried we should be…

Reform has threatened to “investigate” Phillip Rycroft, the man behind the government’s review of foreign financial interference in British politics. Now why would Farage want to do that… 🤔🤔🤔

“Farage has sold his party to foreign despots and their financiers. For a man who relentlessly flogs his nationalist credentials, Farage seems to deeply dislike modern Britain – to the extent that he wants to remake it in the image of his favourite foreign autocracies.”

This is so Trumpian.

Why indeed? Answers on a plain, brown postcard to... [redacted]

"Just asking questions" but with state power

Reform has threatened to “investigate” Phillip Rycroft, the man behind the government’s review of foreign financial interference in British politics. Now why would Farage want to do that… 🤔🤔🤔

Perfectly described by Sam: 'Now, he seems less like a cult leader and more like a mafia boss. Flanked by security guards and riding around in black SUVs, he’s a gangster without the guns; leader of the Reform Cartel' open.substack.com/pub/writesbr...

Unions fighting *against* taking big money out of British politics 🤯 Btw this is the same GMB that is vociferously anti net zero www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

NEW: As if Farage was not already up to his neck in crypto scandals, he’s speaking at CPAC GB, the “official partner” of which is the Bitcoin Collective, a lobby group for the digital currency industry. Me and @writesbright.bsky.social for @desmog.com 👇🌍 www.desmog.com/2026/07/10/f...

Not only that, but Farage isn't even embarrassed to be on the same platform as Truss

just one more hit, i can stop whenever i want, just one more hit

Seriously, wtf .

Days after resigning as an MP due the furore over his gifts from crypto investors, Farage is due to speak at a crypto-backed conference. Seriously.

Nigel Farage has built a personal-political fiefdom where positions of power are seemingly handed out to those who give him and his party the most money. That’s ultimately why he’s being hammered by the media and why his support is cratering…

Important point that there are no democratic process within the Reform party, including the selection or removal of its leader and the selection of candidates.

Perfect!

"Farage has been the leader of a cult – a political messiah for reactionary billionaires...But his instincts have been blurred by the money & power…Now he seems less like a cult leader & more like a mafia boss. Flanked by security guards & riding around in black SUVs, he’s a gangster w/out the guns"

Nigel Farage has built a personal-political fiefdom where positions of power are seemingly handed out to those who give him and his party the most money. That’s ultimately why he’s being hammered by the media and why his support is cratering…

Can’t wait for the rest of the world to find out that Nigel Farage made a big “beat me in my backyard” statement only to find that his sole challenger is a man dressed as a bin

"Over the past year, the Reform leader has only mentioned his constituency twice in the House of Commons, and six times since being elected – an average of once every four months." open.substack.com/pub/writesbr...

Another of the many angles at play here that's really worth considering.

🔴 NEW 🔴 Nigel Farage has triggered a by-election in Clacton having only mentioned the constituency twice in the House of Commons in the past year

🔴 NEW - Is Farage’s by-election stunt a sneaky cover-up attempt? 👀

🔴 NEW 🔴 Nigel Farage has triggered a by-election in Clacton having only mentioned the constituency twice in the House of Commons in the past year

Calling a by-election over the sovereign right of every MP to take secret gifts from a convicted criminal. What a time to be alive.

Nigel Farage says he hasn’t claimed a penny in expenses - that might be because he’s made *£2 million* from non-parliamentary work since becoming an MP…

Odds on Farage launching his own cryptocurrency?

GB News co-owner ‘cashing in on climate chaos’ after $1.8bn leap in fossil fuel investments, critics say - Campaigners argue channel’s attacks on climate action ‘work in financial interests’ of Sir Paul Marshall #climatecrisis by me & @writesbright.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Farage’s appetite for seemingly endless self-enrichment reminds me of a former PM whose greed eventually caught up with him…

Exactly

Farage’s appetite for seemingly endless self-enrichment reminds me of a former PM whose greed eventually caught up with him…

Not to take any undeserved credit, but Andy Burnham’s economic agenda sounds a lot like a book I once wrote

Not to take any undeserved credit, but Andy Burnham’s economic agenda sounds a lot like a book I once wrote

writesbright.substack.com/p/what-burnh... A horrifying account of the demented global campaign of the oil guzzling, far right lunatic fringe - which has the wholeheartedly support of the truly idiotic Farage-Badenoch axis.

None of the people who go on about "maxing out" what's left of the UK's North Sea reserves really believe it would do anything to reduce energy bills: the point is stymie in whatever way possible an energy transition that threatens the reach of American Petro-fascism.

🔴 NEW 🔴 Farage, Badenoch and a bunch of MAGA leaders have been preaching to the Alliance for Responsible Citizenship this week. Among the major themes has been the apparent need to drill more fossil fuels. It turns out the conference is funded by oil companies, as well as Trump and Reform donors.