Representing the nation that used to be the 'United' States of America. Now, the unreliable partners.😔 www.ft.com/content/fdd6...

‘Jim Ratcliffe has moved to Monaco to save £4 billion worth of tax in this country one might question whether he is the patriot we need to comment on this issue' Home Office minister Jake Richards speaks to #BBCBreakfast Ratcliffe claimed UK had been "colonised by immigrants"

Enough with the outrage theatre. If Reform stands for ordinary working people, why did all their MPs vote against the Workers’ Rights Bill? You can’t wedge immigration into that one. It’s just the record. #VoteGreen

All flights to and from El Paso, Texas, have been grounded for ten days for “Special Security Reasons”, the Federal Aviation Administration announced. Shutting down airspace of a major US city for such an extended period hasn’t happened since the aftermath of 9-11.

The Epstein files show that Brexit was never a “plucky British revolt”. In reality, Brexit was fed, and empowered, by an entire class of oligarchs and autocrats, who thrive on chaos, weak regulation and brittle institutions.

Given how much Nigel Farage hates working from home, it would be nice to see him turn up at his workplace a bit more regularly

Really enjoyed this conversation about lobbying, influence and money in politics with James and Ethan on @lrb.co.uk podcast

The same people who tell us “oh, dear boy, you don’t understand” when reassuring us about Palantir embedding itself in the British state were almost exactly the same people who told us Russian interference, Cambridge Analytica and phone hacking were just ‘conspiracy theories’

A backgrounder is someone who conducts background checks.

Robert Jenrick is lying. Reform UK have spent, to date, almost £1.5 MILLION with Harding Print Solutions. They are NOT a local Manchester printer. They are Reform's go-to print company and have been for a long time.

I and millions of Americans believe exactly the same thing Kasparov does. Too many troops, too many new prisons, too much money not under Congressional supervision. We're not just witnessing a mass deportation scheme anymore. This is something significantly bigger and scarier.

Spot on assessment. Perhaps we get the Polititians, we collectively deserve. Far too many are so ill informed & believe Politics has nothing to do with them.

@albomp.bsky.social is gutless and the worst Labor PM of ALL time! What's harder to take for Australians is that neither Labor the Coalition or One Nation have anyone who is a leader! We get the wrong people wanting to be politicians, happily living off the tax payers purse 🔥Viva la Revolution 🔥

It is so embarrassing that it has taken nearly a decade for a British minister to say this, a statement of the absolute bloody obvious

Meanwhile the extreme rich pile on evet more wealth. Some might say that there is a connection!

"Awesome dinner" www.mirror.co.uk/news/us-news...

Perhaps he is representing the USA that he has been raised in & wants to represent. Not the awful Trump nation that has been captured & held hostage by Trump zealots. Fair comments by Hunter. Perhapshttps://www.cnn.com/2026/02/08/politics/hunter-hess-trump-olympics-skier

Epstein was in and out of Russia every few months according to his travel documents, but Mandelson was partying in nightclubs in St Petersburg and regularly in Moscow. How did our intelligence services fail to pick this up? Or were their reports and investigations suppressed?

The Daily Telegraph currently owned by a private equity vehicle RedBird IMI - based in the UAE and led by Italian American Gerry Cardinale and Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed Al Nahyan. Patriotic news. For patriotic people. Who don't want to pay taxes.

Terrifying that such powerful people have mad and dangerous religious extremist views.

Why we must keep jury trials and why authoritarian Labour, Tory & Reform hate them "Barrister’s powerful speech at Filton Trial reminds jury of its right to defy judge" www.jonathan-cook.net/blog/2026-01...

Only adding detail, to what many around the world had already worked out. These people are the equivalent to a worldwide Mafia. No flags, no patriotism, no human empathy. Dedicated to wealth & influence, only! observer.co.uk/news/columni...

The problem with so many of our top politicians - from Johnson, Mandelson, Farage - is that they all want to join the oligarch class. Whatever you think of Gordon Brown he is financially unbiddable www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Facebook launched 22 years ago this week. In 2025, Meta paid an effective federal tax rate of 3.5% — its lowest on record. Meanwhile, Meta is pumping at least $65 million into super PACs to stifle regulation of AI and tech. Trickle-down economics isn't just a hoax, it's corrosive to democracy.

I don’t want to depress you all but the entire media and political class will have moved on from this latest Trump racist outburst by tomorrow, Monday at the very latest. He gets away with it every time - because he is allowed to get away with it, and because he floods the zone.

So, given Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt blindly and instantly defended the Obamas/apes post this morning, which has now been repudiated by the White House, attacked by top GOP Senators, blamed on a staffer, acknowledged by Trump, and since deleted, shouldn’t Leavitt quit?

OBAMA: “People make excuses for him. They say he’s not serious. Everything a president says is serious!”🔥

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when you've lost Tim Scott ...

This absolutely shocking scandal has got to end

There’s a v cynical media and political blindspot in the Epstein shitshow. A feeding frenzy to get rid of Starmer while red-carpeting Farage into No10. Who is named in the files. As is Candy, Reform’s treasurer. With Bannon. And Brexit. Don’t cry about abuses of power and then do nothing about him.

Starmer’s barefaced hypocrisy on this enrages me. His own government has been blocking justice for the Al Fayed victims. Write to your MP about this! (You can Google “Bylines Al Fayed” if you want articles as references)

🔴 Anyone need a break from politics 🤭🤣😂👋🏼♥️♥️♥️🐶

The Telegraph who hate illegal immigrants, advising Brits how to be illegal immigrants.

Spain is also going after Musk and the oligarchs for their algorithmic manipulation of media platforms. They see America as a cautionary tale. Of what happens when billionaires are placed above the law and allowed to bend governments to their whims.

Not wrong on her assessment

WRONG. I-205 administrative warrants are not issued by immigration judges. They’re signed by ICE officers. And EVEN IF THEY WERE issued by an immigration judge - they are executive branch employees, NOT judicial branch. JUDICIAL warrants are needed to enter a home without consent.

Minnesota needs to know the number of children in federal detention, who they are, and where they’re being held.

Law enforcement cannot be lawless. Thousands of aggressive, untrained agents of the federal government continue to injure and terrorize Minnesotans. This must end. apnews.com/article/immi...

🚨BREAKING: President Donald Trump urged Republicans to seize control of elections and place voting under national authority Monday — one of his most explicit signals yet that he plans to interfere with the workings of democracy. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

This, along with the seizure of ballots and voting data, is another massive red flag for Americans: This is the kind of thing authoritarians say and do when they are preparing to rig the vote. They are preparing to steal your vote, and you have to take action now to stop them.

The world looks a darker place than it did 30 years ago, and Britain is a much less happy country. People are angry, and Reform UK says Britain is broken. So how did we get here, and should we believe they can fix it?

IDoes this sound like a truly democractic republic? corruptiontrumpandgop.quora.com/Where-is-the... corruptiontrumpandgop.quora.com/Where-is-the...

“Zia Yusuf, the party's head of policy, told the Times last year that his party would adopt a 'Trump 2.0' approach to immigration, saying: "We are going to move at great speed. It'll be much more like Trump mark two than Trump mark one" When they tell you who they are, you better listen”

This is Georgia Fort as she’s being arrested by federal agents. Apparently, they had a grand jury indictment in hand. She was arrested for being an independent journalist who filmed the Cities Church protest.

I'm not prone to exaggeration but this is probably the biggest scoop I've ever been involved in Mandelson's partner took £10,000 from Epstein to pay for his osteopath course while Mandelson was de facto UK deputy prime minister, according to new files more to follow www.ft.com/content/c950...

the White House's official X account gloats over the arrest of Don Lemon with a chains emoji