If Angela Raynor had to resign for unwittingly avoiding paying £40k tax, shouldn't Tice be sacked for deliberately avoiding paying £600k? www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

Job Klaxon! Three great opportunities for up-and-coming postdocs at Newcastle www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/43...

51% Labour members said they do not want Keir Starmer to resign as Prime Minister over the scandal, with 16% unsure, and 34% of members want to see Starmer leave Number 10. Source: Labour List and Survation poll

Brought to you by Mr Brexit himself. Let's hear it for Nigel Farage. Booo

Nigel Farage’s ancestor spotted at Whitby Abbey.

"Hereditary peer banned from House of Lords" The Earl of Shrewsbury is banned for just two weeks (his second such offence) - interestingly in any other country the BBC would probably refer to this as corruption. But it's an Earl in Blighty so the word is avoided. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

This shameless and outright fascism, flagrant violation of international law, and monstrous inhumanity, was Reform Party policy before Suella Braverman joined. How much worse will it get now? www.reformparty.uk/view-pdf/ref...

Left: Nigel Farage suggests that Alex Pretti was openly carrying a gun Right: Evidence shows Alex Pretti had a phone in one hand, and the other hand was empty

Rachel Reeves to announce £300m bailout for pubs The chancellor has been drawing up plans for relief on business rate bills but is resisting plans to extend this across the hospitality sector www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...

This is why Braverman and Farage want to leave ECHR They want an ICE type force in this country and don't want to be 'hamstrung' by inconsequential things like human rights!

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It’s impossible for Starmer to fight the media feeding the public propaganda to create news. Perhaps those MPs should all be doing a better job in their constituencies to better promote Labour and stave off Reform.

Remmber this is what Farage wants to bring to the UK along with removing the NHS

Farage, Tice and the loathsome Lowe all get paid by X for posting hate posts and reactions to them. They’re now associated with the vile AI grok trade, which is fitting. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

🎭It's our end of year round up for 2025.🎉 Our various online haunts have hit 180,000 and we've covered over 65% of all of the plays from before the closing of the theatres in 1642 in initial First Looks, and an increasing number of return visits and productions. Here's to more adventures in 2026!

New British passport to feature king’s coat of arms and enhanced security

Some 2026 predictions 1. Trump will expire in 2026 2. Farage will come out of hiding, take a few questions & disappear again 3. Starmer will be leader NYE 26 4. Rayner & Haigh will be reappointed as Ministers 5. Polanski will mess up big time 6. Wales will elect Plaid Cymru

A lot of this is due to things this govt hasn't really had much to do with (X and others abandoning their moderation responsibilities meaning more stuff goes to the police as the first point of escalation when they aren't equipped or appropriate to handle it) but have become the face of

Something else I think is underappreciated is how the government's (IMV totally correct) hard-line response to the 2024 riots has made Starmer the posterchild for every single "racists are being treated unfairly" story on X and other outlets.

Fun find today, tucked up under the ceiling of the House of Commons: graffiti left by stonecarvers Marcel & Maurice Joanisse. The two started under Dominion Sculptor Eleanor Milne in the early 70s, but apparently were already working here in the 60s. Maurice would become Dominion Sculptor in 1993.

Yet another example of hypocrisy from Farage

What is in the UK government’s child poverty strategy? www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

#Cdnpoli #UK #Farage Useful idiot.

Reform UK denies Nigel Farage broke electoral law | Politics News https://www.europesays.com/uk/618835/ Reform UK has denied claims of Nigel Farage breaking electoral law. It follows a report in Monday’s The…#uk #news #uknews

This clip from 2019 of Matt Frei asking Farage about Arron Banks funding his lifestyle is wild considering recent events. He’s not only walking with convicted Russian asset, Nathan Gill, but at the end when again asked who’s paying for it all, he says: “Russians!” youtube.com/shorts/nRAkR...

“These individuals, along with UK figures like Nigel Farage, have systematically promoted the "techno-feudalist" model that treats citizens as customers and democracy as an inefficient bureaucracy.”

Or, to put it another way .... #Farage admits he is a racist - but doesn't think that should matter www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Farage dragging his jackboots over sacking a Reform UK council leader who told a black British lawyer to “fuck off back to Nigeria” called Sadiq Khan a “narcissistic Pakistani” and said migrants were “colonising the UK”. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

The British pound builds year-end momentum against its main rivals. The currency recorded its best day in a month Wednesday, with analysts attributing the performance to the pound to rising investor confidence that the Federal Reserve will cut interest rates next week and continue to deliver .

*My* analysis: Rachel Reeves isn't going anywhere *because she is a very competent Chancellor, doing a fine job*. And Sir keir Starmer isn't in danger of losing his job *because he is the most effective, successful Prime Minister we've had for a century or more*.

Ah, this is sad news.

Always a joy to work with Morgan's map of London (1682), especially the wonderful drawings of ships. 🗃️ www.layersoflondon.org/map/overlays...

Are MI5 running your party‽ Or is it just that they couldn't organise a piss up in a brewery.

'Richardson warned that if “the Guardian proceeds to publish any allegation suggesting that Mr Farage engaged in, condoned, or led racist or antisemitic behaviour, or that such claims bear upon his present character or fitness for office, proceedings will be issued without further notice.”'

GLP discovered over half referrals onto PPE VIP Lane had ties back to the Tories & in particular to members of HoL Just 3 Tory peers, Lord Agnew, Lord Deighton & Lord Feldman, alongside former health minister Matt Hancock, were responsible for referring a total of 60 suppliers onto the VIP Lane

Now I’ve fully digested the Budget : 1: It is good. 2: the months of frothing was @ChrisMasonBBC wank 3: Kier Starmer is PM until the next GE

Starmer’s government, all is perhaps forgiven, for that glorious line ”We are ramping up sanctions on Russia and we are freezing known Russian assets. But let me be clear, I don't actually mean the honourable member for Clacton."

Racist slurs aren’t racist, is Farage’s latest defence. He’s tried: - I didn’t say it. - Nobody was offended. - It was ok back then. - I was just a kid. But he’s been doing it for years since, it was offensive, it wasn’t ok, and he definitely did say it. A vote for Farage is a vote for hate.

#UKBudget BadEnoch’s reaction to the budget - taxpayers pay more to fund welfare. it’s a fair enough description of the budget - which can be redescribed as ‘Tories say we should put 450,000 kids into poverty’. I just wonder how many Tory voters would be content with that. I’d hope none.

Well done Rachel Reeves - Labour finally turned up today 👏🌹

Vanguard is an asset manager with $11 trillion under management. And thanks to the budget, they’re adding to UK Government bond exposures. It seems “Rachel from Accounts” has done very well re market sentiment. @vicderbyshire.bsky.social, the misogynists can sit down. Reeves is in charge!

@bbcnewsnight.bsky.social where’s the budget balance in BBC News’ reporting. They could have carried the BadEnoch sound bite which sounded reasonably accurate - Labour care about kids in poverty, whereas the Tories are just interested in not paying taxes.

Rachel Reeves transformed herself from Scrooge to Mother Christmas in lifting 550,000 working class kids out of poverty. www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...

The UK government claimed that "it is going further and faster to reform our approach to procurement so that it can shape markets and manage demand." We hope so - the Government should take the lead in making Real Living Wages and Good Employment a default condition for all public service contracts.

Did you hear the news? Hundreds of thousands of children will be lifted out of poverty thanks to the Chancellor, Rachel Reeves scrapping the two-child benefit limit! This is a vital first step to getting all children out of poverty. 38d.gs/ojiq