If I were Nigel Farage, I’d dip into that £5 million crypto gift just to fund a video that can compete with this! 🤣 HILARIOUS ⬇️

Absolutely, definitely, not “the Establishment”…

The sheer injustice in Houston is sickening. Lorenzo was just going to work to support his family when his life was stolen by ICE. Seeing his father on his knees, consumed by raw, agonizing grief, is a heartbreaking reminder of the human cost of systemic violence. He deserves justice.

An important paper about protecting science from political interference. Europe needs to defend its science against the kind of attacks unfurling in the US. By Martin McKee, Christina Pagel & Tiago Correia in the European Journal of Public Health: academic.oup.com/eurpub/artic...

This is absolutely splendid both musically and lyrically “People. What the HELL were you thinking?” Anyone in the UK who could adapt it (with the artists’ permission) to address it to the people of Clacton? m.youtube.com/shorts/arlEW...

Ah, but the spectacle of pompous, uptight men getting angrier and angrier with something slightly silly is extremely funny. Roderick Spode. Basil Fawlty. The entire comment section of the Daily Telegraph

PM Carney to Norwegian PM: "Interoperability also means sharing crews. And in the next World Cup, if you could share Erling Haaland with us, that would be greatly, greatly appreciated." #cdnpoli

The fact of the precedent is helpful in our history-obsessed land. But even if there wasn’t one, isn’t it fairly straightforward to say “fine you can stand down but not until pending matters are resolved” which then removes the silliness of two potential byelections.

Chris Mason should just go on and work for GB News now His hero worship for Nigel Farage is now just an open joke

Chris Mason looks pained as he tries but fails to defend Nigel Farage's latest stunt. Bizarrely Mason pretends it will be a problem for Labour. Just move to GB News Chris. Do us all a favour.

The Government must block Nigel Farage’s resignation until the Standards Commissioner finishes investigating him. The people of Clacton deserve the full facts. If a by-election does go ahead, all parties should stand aside. We cannot give oxygen to this vanity project.

Just because I advocate for solar panels, heat pumps and electric vehicles doesn't mean I can afford them!

In March 2005, a 29yr old David Beckham met two young footballers: Katie Goodland & Harry Kane. The occasion: a football academy opening. Kane would follow in Beckham's footsteps & become the English team's captain. Childhood sweetheart Katie Goodland became his wife. [photo & story verified]

I propose that we test leaving the ECHR by first removing ECHR protected rights from all Reform MPs, all Reform members & all Reform donors for a set period of no less than 5 years.

Wow, that was truly amazing, the Strawberry Full Moon rising over Ely Cathedral this evening. Seen from Little Downham outside of Ely, Cambridgeshire 😍🌝 I didn’t think it was going to shine through the clouds, but it certainly did 🙏🏻🥰 #Fullmoon #strawberrymoon #ElyCathedral #amazing #Wonderful

THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS A DOMESTICATED CAT

The TikTokification of Radio 4.

The end of an era - After almost a century we said goodbye this morning to our great companion of the airwaves Radio 4 198 LW. I shall miss her warmth and crackle. Here’s the final sign off at the end of #theshippingforecast before she fell silent… ❤️

"Tickets go on sale next Tuesday for the first Finnish cross-border train trips in more than five years – and the first to Sweden in 38 years." #Sufficiency yle.fi/a/74-20233368

This is the most comprehensive polling I’ve seen — and it is pretty compelling. This perspective is extremely important, ‘The side that best shakes off the old thought patterns of 2016, and grapples honestly with today’s lived realities and sentiments, is the one most likely to succeed.’

Carrying a chancer

Docking at platform 13 apparently…

Just realised this will be my son’s fifth prime minister and he’s 6.

MELONI, to Trump: “.. my popularity is none of your concern. I suggest you focus on yours.”

In accordance with ancient tradition, our next Prime Minister is announced to the nation while standing between a furry and a man with a bin on his head.

A balloon goes bang a tyre deflates = perhaps Reform should be renamed Retread, after all it's just another of Farage's political vehicles and bound to fail.

Uncle Vlad’s a bit skint at the moment.

Turquoise Travesty. Has a certain ring to it…

🚨 NEW: A Tory source predicts Nigel Farage will soon quit as Reform leader over the Makerfield by-election "We are watching the slow puncture of the Reform balloon."

Reform’s problem, and it is a very significant one, is that women vote open.substack.com/pub/iandunt/...

A Russian air defense missile blows up a fuel tank at the Moscow Oil Refinery following a failed attempt to shoot down a Ukrainian drone.

Surely it’s time for Honest Bob to launch a leadership challenge…

. Britain needn't join the Euro or the Schengen area if the UK rejoins the EU, says former French PM Michel Barnier. All the more reason to go on the National #Rejoin March in London this Saturday! #r4today #bbcbreakfast #GMB #PoliticsLive #C4News #Newsnight #toriesgone714 .

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Updated teaser for the scenes depicted in Trojan Horses - Brexit, Trump, Russia - on the 10th anniversary of the EU Referendum Amazing cast. Terrifying true story. 23 June 👉 www.thecockpit.org.uk/show/trojan_...

Tomorrow’s Independent front page:

In the month that BBC Radio 4 long wave transmitters fall silent my latest blog post on 102 years of long wave broadcasting andywalmsley.blogspot.com/2026/06/so-l...

With thirteen (at last count) far right parties, we've got enough of them to play the seven dwarves too.

Id we wake up next Friday with a Reform or any other far right wing MP then the UK is certainly going to get a far rigth wing Government next General Election If we get Burnham he will continue to try and split and damage the Labour Party and the chances are high that we get Reform at the next G.E

"turbo-diva". hahahhahahhahahahhahaahha!

the para before that also excellent! "Or when you present on Question Time as so useless that you achieve a feat unseen anywhere else in contemporary politics: having people wish you would talk more like a politician." her acerbic best!

Snow White Supremacist and the Political Dwarves

Marina Hyde on top form this morning.

The limits of a UK political system that has refused for ten years to make hard decisions are reached. There are no easy answers. There is no magic money / growth tree. Leaders are going to have to make choices.

The saga over this plan and this sorry conclusion is going to be *the* case study of why Starmer failed as PM.

We need to spend more on defence. But we can’t survive much more austerity. There are not many levers to pull. But signalling you’ll put EU membership in your next manifesto and begin talks now, would (almost certainly) rally sterling, reduce borrowing costs, boost invsmt & help the headroom.

We won’t watch the BBC Brexit: Ten Years On documentary. We don’t want to listen to anymore mediocre men justify why they ripped our country apart. The only benefit Brexit has given this country is the wonderful and dedicated Remain/Rejoin movement. We’re still here because Brexit is still crap.

I wonder if the median view in Britain is that we are reaching the limits of.... - taxation - public spending - overall national debt - an EU-UK reset .... and therefore we are also reaching the limits of changing *anything*. Hence the attraction of political outliers. Just a thought.