Fraser Nelson (Times) rips apart Farage over his crypto investment: "It's a scandal hiding in plain sight. Everyone can see Nigel Farage spending a quarter of a million quid in a bitcoin company, which he then hypes up... it's the Trumpification of British politics.." #UKPolitics

Yassamin Ansari: “I’ve introduced Articles of Impeachment against Pete Hegseth for violating his oath, endangering US service members and committing war crimes, including attacks on civilians and a girls’ school in Minab, Iran. Only Congress can declare war; his actions demand immediate removal.”

Can confirm

War makes some people VERY rich, meanwhile the whole world suffers It was never about freeing the people from the regime or stopping nuclear weapons WAKE THE FUCK UP

As wealth concentrates, so does power — the power to influence elections, shape policy, tilt markets and define the terms of public debate. Taxing billionaires is not radical. What is radical is allowing a system where extreme wealth exists alongside widespread hardship.

Trying to explain St Augustine to the pope, the former head of the Augustinian order, who wrote his doctoral thesis on Augustine, on his way back from celebrating mass at the Basilica of St Augustine in Annaba, Algeria, overlooking the site where Augustine lived is peak Adult Catholic Convert.

“… they will purge the agencies that enforce accountability, they will rewrite the law so that they are no longer breaking it… and if they are clever, they will eliminate any structural protections you had before the majority realizes the extent of the damage.” - Sarah Kendzior

Donald Trump is acting like a Mafia boss running a protection racket. "Nice trade deal you got there. Shame if something happened to it." This must be the final straw. We can't reward Trump with a state visit from our King.

THIS IS SO IMPORTANT. Farage says a woman who has been here for years, is married to a British person and has indefinite leave to remain, will need to apply for a work visa after they abolish indefinite leave to remain. @chadbourn.bsky.social @sturdyalex.bsky.social @bestforbritain.org

The scene at any event mere seconds after someone says: "Richard would like to say a few words."

My salary for being an MP is £98,000 per year. GB News pay me up to £98,000 per month. Guess where my priorities lie...

BREAKING: The U.S. bishops’ Committee on Doctrine just issued a formal statement defending Pope Leo XIV's teaching authority on just war doctrine — less than twelve hours after JD Vance told a Turning Point USA crowd the pope should “be careful” talking theology. This is a serious escalation.

Absolutely unacceptable in modern day society, especially for a supposed 1st world nation & one of the wealthiest in the world. #nzpol #OneTermGovernment #NZ

If one of my party's recent prime ministers had redecorated the Number 10 flat in a way that ended up involving TWO separate inquiries and a Wikipedia page, I would simply not have put out a press release confirming that the current prime minister had spent less than the allowance he was given.

BBC News is going very hard on its investigation into advisers who help people ‘fake’ asylum claims, focusing especially on people who falsely claim to be gay. But it doesn’t say what percentage of claims are made on the basis of sexuality. As of 2023 — the last available figures — it was 3%.

There is a direct line from Andrea Leadsom lecturing Pascal Lamy (former director-general of the WTO) on the scope & purpose of the WTO to JD Vance lecturing the Pope on theology. Brexit married weapons grade ignorance to epic entitlement in ways that hadn’t been seen for ages. And on it goes…

My analysis of the fiscal impact of the "earned settlement" proposals, based on government's own data. The direct savings are a fraction of the Home Secretary's misleading claims, and likely to be offset by the substantial costs of lower work-related migration. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

“…in the end, I think we have to approach human rights issues with certain principles. We have to say something is right, and we stick by what is right” www.politicshome.com/news/article...

In the 1930s, Oswald Mosley claimed to be a patriot, while his British Union of Fascists was secretly funded by the Italian government. We are just beginning to grasp how much of the far right in the UK today has been funded by Viktor Orbán and Russian oil money. Their "patriotism" is always a con.

So Nicola Noboats Willis' fiasco over the iRex ferries cancellation is having flow on effects in tourism? Why is media not challenging her on this? www.rnz.co.nz/news/top/592...

I don't know why this is so hard for some people to grasp. If we extend our use of fossil gas, rather than going all-out for grid batteries, heat pumps and induction hobs, we extend our dependence on *foreign* sources of gas, regardless of whether we also use the UK's last remaining reserves. 🧵

Recipe to increase your support 1) Stand up to Trump 2) State your position on world affairs 3) Be well informed and active #nzpol

Did the business case for cancelling iRex consider the potential damage to NZ’s reputation with tourists?

Want to build a LNG terminal? Do the math 🧮! #nzpol

Evolving US view of Hormuz: -The Strait is open. -Iran closing the Strait is a breach of international law. -The Strait is open if you're not a wuss. -Please help me reopen the Strait. -We started this war to keep the Strait open. -We are now blockading the Strait.

Looking forward to hearing wall-to-wall coverage of this on #r4today, just as it was for Angela Rayner.

Any government that isn't right now accelerating plans to transition to 100% clean, renewable energy is either: a. Incompetent b. In the pockets of people who'd rather they didn't c. a & b

@quietriotpod.bsky.social A humdinger for wokey donkey 4u Here in NZ we've had loss of life from severe weather events earlier this year with floods & landslides A town mayor decided that having a major incident response to this weekend's cyclone is woke! Our prime minister drawn in & responds!

Péter Magyar victory speech: "Hungary wants to be a European country again. We want to return to Europe." The crowd immediately chants "Russians, go home" in response.

Trump, Putin, Farage… your boy took a hell of a beating. Congratulations to the people of Hungary for showing that populist extremists can be defeated – even despite Donald Trump’s best efforts.

If Hungary can free itself from the rule of a corrupt Russian agent, the USA can too.

Luxon tells RNZ building on floodplains is stupif - yet his own fast track process just approved the massive 4000-building Winton development - right on a floodplain, with no infrastructure support - and strongly opposed by council. His government is failing us spectacularly #nzpol

Obviously a blockade is unacceptable so the solution is, er, a blockade. 🤷‍♂️ I pity future historians trying to make sense of this, the dumbest empire in world history. truthsocial.com/@realDonaldT...

One of my cartoons in Monday's Metro

So far, Vance’s foreign policy record is yelling at Zelensky for not thanking Trump enough, campaigning for AfD in Germany and Orban in Hungary, getting rejected by the Pope on his invite to the US, and failing in the Iran negotiations.

Kaine: "You don't sucker punch somebody in a bar and then blame your buddies when they don't join the fight with you. If the president wanted the support of allies, he should've respected them instead of putting tariffs on their economies and trash talking them."

When Angela Rayner underpaid £40,000 stamp duty on her flat, Richard Tice said it was "morally completely indefensible” and she should immediately resign if she had “any moral decency”. Now we learn he personally made £91,000 in excess payments by failing to pay the tax his company legally owed

nothing says skilled diplomacy like spending a single day laying out your terms and then going home when they’re not immediately and unilaterally accepted bsky.app/profile/atru...

However incompetent you think the Home Office are, there is always another level that they can reach.

“Not only is Reform taking large amounts of money from an industry with a big interest in changing UK Govt policy, but that industry is also one with major links to organised crime, terrorism and foreign dictatorships.” The corrupt stink of Reform is overwhelming. open.substack.com/pub/adambien...

“We always seem to have money for war. But not to feed the poor.”

The French government has announced the measures of its plan to accelerate electrification: - a ban on gas boilers in new houses from the end of 2026 - increased support for replacing old heating with heat pumps - 100 regions will pilot comprehensive heat transition plans to phase out gas by 2030

Corporate Welfare. UK Govt to give £380m grant to Tata battery factory in Somerset. The Govt isn't taking an equity stake in return, won't receive any dividends. It isn't a loan and isn't repayable. Political parties demonize human recipients of welfare but hand free money to corporations.

America's money goes to Hungary. To Argentina. To fund wars in Iran and invasions of Venezuela. It goes to kill shipwrecked survivors. To ICE, who shoot US citizens and build concentration camps Our money seems to fund death and destruction all across the globe But it never goes to help Americans

It may seem like nerdy detail that the increasing weight of cars is worsening potholes, but it matters. The car makers push to sell wider and heavier cars is increasing road maintenance costs and that affects us all. Not to mention worse crash outcomes and less space to pass (wider) parked cars.

If it’s such a ‘gold mine’ why did the 14 year period of the last Conservative government, throughout which it pursued a policy of issuing licenses and maximising oil and gas production, end up being defined by austerity and the worst wage growth since the Napoleonic era?

A tiny firm - so small it doesn’t have to publish audited accounts - with £81k in cash made 7 donations totalling £200k to Reform UK. We now know the firm has had long-term dealings in Iran, including a €145m deal with the Iranian state-owned telecoms company. Reform have more questions to answer.

It's time. Here's how https://www.opportunity.org.nz/abundant-energy

Emma was my son's (excellent) year 2 teacher. Always appreciate her letters to the paper