but like I said the other day, NBC cast Vanessa Williams in The Odyssey in 1997 and no one gave a shit because this outrage is manufactured by racist incel billionaires from South Africa who no longer touch grass.

if you're cis and you are asked by your management to police bathrooms, "can you confirm in writing that you are ordering me to approach customers to discuss their sex?" is an email no manager wants to reply to

Hi Nigel Farage, Richard Tice and Robert Jenrick, thanks for confirming that it’s heckling open season - we all know how thin skinned you three are.

I feel like being the party of the shouty street thug should be costing them more.

How about: a) I believe the UK should rejoin the EU; but b) Neither we nor Brussels are ready for a formal negotiation; and c) EU membership would not be a panacea for our national challenges; so c) I will work to build trust and lay foundations with the EU, while advancing other priorities.

One amusing byproduct of the Labour leadership candidates advocating the UK returning to Europe is that Farage will be forced back onto what is now, for obvious reasons, his least favourite subject: Brexit. Let’s see him forced to defend it in every interview.

The BBC is using Tommy Robinson's own extremely charitable description of today's hate march – and whitewashing him as an "anti-Islam activist." But his politics are actually about race. And the media here is helping Robinson launder his extreme views. 🧵/14

Robinson complained on stage that without the support of wealthy Americans, it wouldn’t have happened. “This event would not be happening if I didn’t go to America,” Robinson told a crowd of people who otherwise complain about foreign influences on UK politics.

Reform are very good at moving the goalposts. They said they’d win Gorton and Denton (lost by 12pts), win Wales (lost by 6pts), destroy the Tories in 2026 (PNS rose vs 2025) and win six London boroughs (won one). Each time journalists concluded those outcomes were clear from the outset

#Weekend is here at last! #Cocktail time - Haystacks

Sneaking a giant screen into the flagshagger march is one of the funniest things @ledbydonkeys.org have ever done. "STAY HYDRATED" 😂🤣😂

One of the biggest mistakes by the government was to tolerate and pander to this group. Far right extremist thugs posing as patriots, who should have been clamped down on from day one www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

This is brilliant...... “Tommy Robinson’s far right march has unwittingly raised over £100k for refugees. “Over 2,000 of you have chipped in to make tomorrow’s far right march the biggest sponsored walk for refugees EVER.”

Just patriots who want to show their love for country latest. If communities want to fly the flag great but it shouldn't be down to far right thugs whether they do. Those who vandalise community property and threaten and harm people should be arrested. Basics. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

This. Flying the flag is all about context. Royal wedding, fine; BNP rally, no. This really isn't hard. And yet councils seem reluctant to remove the flags as they may upset people 'simply expressing their patriotism'. It is flatly not that; it is marking out territory. (Starmer useless here.)

The fact that a neo-Nazi teenager who attempted to behead a Kurdish barber in Bristol last year has just been sentenced to almost 20 years in prison isn’t *national* news is enormously telling. It’s really not just a South West story, is it?

If you broke rules on finances at work once you might get off with a warning, twice you’d be lucky to keep your job, three times you’d be fired But Farage breaks them 17 times without consequence, inc not declaring multiple payments totalling £380,000 & us tax payers pay him £94,000 a yr to do it 😡

I think this maybe the most niché bit of trivia I’ve ever heard.

Sir Sadiq Khan should turn his third term as mayor of London into the anti-motorist demon that the car-brained like to pretend he is. Start seizing these vehicles. Tow them away. 5% value of the car to release it. Fail to pay in 90days. Sell the car and invest the proceeds into more enforcement.

Well, that Express headline was always going to raise a few eyebrows!😳 Starmer is responsible for embracing polygamy to appease Muslims, and so he's increasing their benefits?? That's the implication. After all, this "started in April", right? Wrong! 🧵1/25

While all eyes are on Farage, we're overlooking something even worse: the building of the very tight and truly vile operation that is Restore Britain. This excellent essay/report by Simon Pearson should wake us up to the threat - and to what exactly it is. simonpearson1.substack.com/p/tory-30

I covered that march. Here's the first paragraph of the story I wrote about it: www.thenewworld.co.uk/james-ball-t...

It'd be Eric Morecambe's 100th birthday today

Angela Rayner was dragged through every front page for weeks... HMRC's verdict: NOT deliberate. NOT even careless. Farage pockets £5 million and chooses not to declare it So where's the wall-to-wall coverage? Tell me this isn't a rigged game.

Roses are red Existence is fleeting Time is too precious To waste on Wes Streeting.

a proud day at London "2.5 journalists in a trenchcoat" Centric towers! www.orwellfoundation.com/the-orwell-f...

Hold onto your passports, everyone, because the self-proclaimed "man of the people" is redefining the English language! Nigel Farage has officially claimed a historic victory in a "national election." How absolutely grand. Let us just ignore the minor, insignificant detail

Everyone is rightly interested in Harborne’s monetary support for Nigel Farage. But GB News provides him with an annualised salary of over a million pounds a year, 500,000 shares and unaccounted for millions in terms of free political advertising for Farage’s Party

Stop! It is necessary for you to see graphic designer extraordinaire Margaret Calvert’s 90th birthday cake. Perfection.

Meanwhile, do you remember when Boris Johnson won the General Election in 2019 after Farage stood down all his candidates? Ben Habib is claiming that Farage and Johnson were paid £1million each by Christopher Harborne to do so

What's this? Accusations of payments (bribes?) being taken by Johnson and Farage to 'rig' elections? Sounds VERY serious. Can we move on from gossip to look at this REALLY serious story and ensure EVERY LAST DETAIL is fully examined to find out the full truth?

Reform UK’s Richard Tice has stated that Reform will not going to coalition with other parties. So when other parties shut out Reform UK, they can shut up. People don’t realise that Reform UK don’t do consensus politics. www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/uk-news...

Starmer certainly hasn't been the best PM but he's nowhere near the worst. His historically bad polling and the 'Worst PM ever' vitriol shows how exaggerated the public response has been, fueled by his unforced errors and facilitated by public muscle memory on hating the government & social media.

it’s such shibboleth of modern politics to blame politicians for failing town centres when the primary driver is - surely - all of us buying more and more stuff online

Say what you like about the British press, but I find it reassuring that they spend months ripping apart a Labour PM for properly declaring some glasses and football tickets, then all but ignore someone who wants to be PM when he tries to cover up a £5 million gift.

This is assault at best, if not attempted murder, using the car as a weapon. Yet the driver is not mentioned until the third paragraph. Nobody would frame an incident as "a knife stabbed people", so why remove the offender in motor violence? This type of incident is also getting far too common.

Reports that Reform councillors in Ipswich have been instructed to only speak to GB News and ignore requests from local media. This seems a new policy to avoid any kind of scrutiny. They tried to do the same on Nottinghamshire County Council.

New #Bike day! A Brompton G line the wonderfully branded Adventure Orange! Thank you the Cycle to Work Scheme #Brompton #Cycling

Respect to council officers on Monday, explaining that the council can't spend cycle lane money on potholes, there is no asylum seeker budget, and free parking means more cuts on top of the already slated cuts.

A wall of crypto money is powering Nigel Farage, both politically and personally. And much of the British media just shrugs app.prospectmagazine.co.uk/story/73421/...

Reform came in second, this is after they put campaign material out referring to "London council elections" in at least one Wales area. And they came in second. An English bigoted, nationalist party. In Wales. For fucking fucks sake.

Kellner quietly, heroically pushing back on the narrative that Reform are the unstoppable wave of the future

I started this thread on twitter back in 2017. I add to it occasionally whenever the opportunity offers itself, but want to start it again so I can add to it on here. So… Amazing how grater technology has developed. My current grater (left) and an original 80s grater, the size of a brick!

waking up and reading about the results of the locals and feeling very

It is summer time yet?

Just remember. Farage isn’t really winning. He’s having power bought for him by foreign-based crypto billionaires and fossil fuel magnates. They want a corrupt PM who’ll sell off our NHS, bin NetZero and scrap our rights and protections to make more profit for them. Good day for moneymen and morons.

can we get #DogsAtPollingStations going over here?

#RIP Jesse Hector - Ray to us. Sad, sad news. Truly privileged to have known him for the last 20 years. Saw him only a couple of weeks ago, unchanged, smart and enigmatic as ever. The world's a much smaller place without him