This by @writesbright.bsky.social is a succinct assessment of Farage. He’s not a leader. He has no loyalty to his team and, eventually, when they realise, he’ll receive none in return. writesbright.substack.com/p/farages-to...

One of the few journalists who makes me feel optimistic (and one of the best doing it too)

📝 The one from Substack I’m most pleased with from 2025. Primarily because people rarely make the comparison between Farage and Johnson, despite the fact they share the same brand of elitist, chaotic, egomaniac politics 👇🏻

Farage’s Tory recycling scheme writesbright.substack.com/p/farages-to...

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

This is excellent! (IMO)

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

Remember the alt-right? I wrote a whole book about those fringe online guys who put a trendy facade on white nationalism. You don't hear much about them now, but they didn't go way. In fact, they won. Here me out ... Guest post for @writesbright.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/writesbr...

This 👇

The "Institute of Economic Affairs" banked £640,000 in past donations from oil giants BP and Shell, and from Rupert Murdoch - investigation by @desmog.com reveals how IEA has campaigned against climate action after taking cash from fossil fuel firms #climatecrisis www.desmog.com/2025/12/10/t...

Incredible that The Institute of Economic Affairs continues to get such a platform from the media as though it's some kind of neutral commentator (including the BBC) when they don't declare their funders - exposures like this just demonstrate why they don't. Great work from @writesbright.bsky.social

🔴 REVEALED 🔴 The Institute of Economic Affairs – the anti-state, anti-climate pressure group that "incubated" Liz Truss – was bankrolled by oil giants and Rupert Murdoch’s media empire. 📝 Exclusive findings from @desmog.com 👇

Was always under the impression that Murdoch didn't have a big reputation for donations, as opposed to subsidising his own papers and their coverage, so this is v. interesting

NEW | guest post from @writesbright.bsky.social: Murdoch’s invisible hand How News International funded one of the very right-wing think-tanks its outlets quote all the time... brokenbottleboy.substack.com/p/guest-post...

This is how it works: Murdoch funds the 'research', then 'reports' it, and then the Beeb feels obliged to broadcast it in the interests of 'balance'.

This is the same group that seems to have an open invitation to appear on every single BBC political programme going, without ever declaring their funding

Farage lies to Congress @writesbright.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/writesbr...

This is what you don't hear every time this junktank appears on the BBC. *Why not?* Great exposure by Sam and @desmog.com

🔴 REVEALED 🔴 The Institute of Economic Affairs – the anti-state, anti-climate pressure group that "incubated" Liz Truss – was bankrolled by oil giants and Rupert Murdoch’s media empire. 📝 Exclusive findings from @desmog.com 👇

The Heartland Institute, a MAGA climate denial group, has been trying to influence UK and European politics with the help of Nigel Farage. We’ve mapped their key allies as they attempt to impose Trump’s agenda across the pond 👇🏻

A lot of the ‘Rayner for PM’ chat seems to neglect the fact she had a -40 public approval rating just a few months ago (worse than Badenoch, Corbyn and Farage)

Good piece by @writesbright.bsky.social on Reform’s finances. Populists talk repeatedly about “the people”, but it’s a few very wealthy people who really matter because they’re the ones who pay: open.substack.com/pub/writesbr...

🔴 NEW - Farage rescued (for now) by mega donor Reform is in a worse financial position than it appears...

Interesting bit of context to the £9m donation here.

"Viscountess Rothermere, the wife of Daily Mail owner Lord Rothermere, donated £50,000 to Reform in September."

🔴 NEW - Farage rescued (for now) by mega donor Reform is in a worse financial position than it appears...

I was so excited to interview investigative journo @writesbright.bsky.social about being "spiky" rather than "soft left", Nigel Farage, Reform's DOGE agenda, what the aristos have been up to lately and what Labour can learn from Polanski: amyhoggart.substack.com/p/sam-bright...

Feel like I'm going mad. The Budget's 'headroom' is based on frankly irresponsible and wildly optimistic claims about what Labour will do in the final year of the forecast, and on ignoring a bunch of upward pressures on spending, and the claim is that she was being exaggeratedly *pessimistic*?

The making of a modern bigot open.substack.com/pub/afuahirs...

🔴 The making of a modern bigot Everything from Farage’s cigarettes to his performative pint glass radiates the air of a man who never outgrew his rebellious, racist youth. 📝 My piece for the brilliant @afuahirsch.bsky.social’s Substack 👇

🔴 The making of a modern bigot Everything from Farage’s cigarettes to his performative pint glass radiates the air of a man who never outgrew his rebellious, racist youth. 📝 My piece for the brilliant @afuahirsch.bsky.social’s Substack 👇

Which one?

Ranty interview with me about… Farage, his mad DOGE agenda, what Labour can learn from Polanski, British elitism etc. etc. 🎥 Watch it here 👇🏻

Ranty interview with me about… Farage, his mad DOGE agenda, what Labour can learn from Polanski, British elitism etc. etc. 🎥 Watch it here 👇🏻

🔴 NEW - Labour Group Slams Lord Glasman Over Climate Denial Lecture The Labour peer called for new coal power in the Global Warming Policy Foundation’s annual lecture. 📝 @adambarnett.bsky.social

If you haven't heard of them @intergenerational.bsky.social do great work on this stuff. Young people are dealt a shit hand by govt after govt. I am increasingly wondering whether compulsory voting from 16+ could be a good first step to redressing the pensioner bias

The fact that this line is largely employed by people who are themselves graduates, who have definitely benefitted from it, and do not pay this tax, absolutely boils my piss

I wouldn’t say my views on tuition fees have *changed* but they have definitely moved from “I hate this proposal but I find some of the arguments for it difficult to rebut” to “this is an outrageous way of permitting age-differentiated taxation that we’d never accept in the other direction”.

Spot on. The terms of the plan 2 loan are utterly usurious. Notably the budget has not frozen just the threshold for repayments at a marginal rate of 9%, dragging more and more graduates into it, but it also freezes the interest of those loans which is as much as 6.2%! Which is ridiculous!!

I'm constantly shocked (but not surprised) by how little we discuss the additional financial burden placed on young people by the Clegg-Cameron student loan regime. @rmcunliffe.bsky.social is one of the few journalists who brings it up continuously - once again in the wake of the budget 👇

As always, Reform UK promises to fix the problems of neoliberalism with more neoliberalism.

"We will always be on the side of working people", Farage's 'Letter to the Nation' says today. What he neglects to admit is that Reform plans to cut £300+ billion from the public services that these "working people" rely on every day.

If you receive legal threats from Nigel Farage for your reporting of Reform, please get in touch. We have employed a defamation lawyer specifically for this purpose and would love to help (and we do so on non-commercial terms). www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Toby Young, self-appointed king of free speech, is speaking in Hungary tomorrow about UK “censorship”. He’ll be addressing a group funded by Viktor Orbán’s autocratic regime, which has seized control of the country’s media, judiciary, and routinely harasses its critics

Toby Young, self-appointed king of free speech, is speaking in Hungary tomorrow about UK “censorship”. He’ll be addressing a group funded by Viktor Orbán’s autocratic regime, which has seized control of the country’s media, judiciary, and routinely harasses its critics

This is one of the most damning videos I’ve ever watched of Farage. He essentially admits being racist at school - only says he didn’t do it “with intent”. The quiver in his voice at the end - he knows he can’t squirm out of this one.

🔴 How the Daily Mail short-changed its own shareholders If any other big business had done this, it would’ve made a lot of headlines. But, because it was the Mail, the critics were noticeable silent

Fresh from advising Morgan McSweeney last week, Labour peer Maurice Glasman addressed the annual conference of a pro-Reform group that has spread myths about the Covid vaccine and has claimed Starmer is "destroying Britain". 📝 New @desmog.com story 👇

“He insists on civility in public debate” yet regularly goes on GB News is some absolutely wild mental gymnastics from Glasman

🔴 How the Daily Mail short-changed its own shareholders If any other big business had done this, it would’ve made a lot of headlines. But, because it was the Mail, the critics were noticeable silent