On this day in 1979, The B-52’s released their self-titled debut album.

I filed a fairly unhinged essay on the future of the news today. There is no chance generative AI would ever come up with some of the sentences my overheated brain produced.

Small Dorset Town stands up to racism. Local anger in Wimborne is through the roof. But nothing reported anywhere. Meanwhile - six flag waving idiots turns up outside a hotel in Epping and its front page news.

NEW | on the politics’ biggest whiner… NIGEL FARAGE AND THE ‘ESTABLISHMENT HIT JOB’ The man who dined with Murdoch and whose party is never off TalkTV claims that The Sunday Times is bullying him and the man-boy who calls him "daddy". brokenbottleboy.substack.com/p/nigel-fara...

GB News featured a contributor linking Pride to beastility and paedophilia on Sunday.

Excuse me everyone but shouldn’t there be a massive picture of Jude Bellingham at the top of the BBC homepage?

“In one chapter entitled “The Art of the Bribe”, Cottrell and Files set out how politicians can be bought. They argue that bribes, if in the form of small gifts rather than cash, can be passed off as “a mistake of overexuberance in friendship”.

George Cottrell, a 32-year-old aristocrat nicknamed “Posh George”, is regarded as one of Farage’s closest aides. Earlier this year, he co-wrote a book entitled How to Launder Money: A Guide for Law Enforcement, Prosecutors and Policymakers via @rachel-rees.bsky.social www.ft.com/content/7a0f...

You have to read until the 14th paragraph to discover the rapist is banned from entering Rochdale, is tagged with a GPS tracker and is held in a home with staff that can alert at a moment's notice. It's a column about Billy Howarth, a man forming vigilante groups roaming Rochdale's streets

"US spy tech giant Palantir paid an effective tax rate of just 8% on their £25.3m UK profits. Most companies with profits above £250,000 pay 25%. How is a company that’s won £670m in UK public contracts (including a massive £330m NHS deal) able to dodge our tax rules? " via 38 degrees

🚨 Exclusive: The White House made a direct call to FIFA to ask Gianni Infantino to review Folarin Balogun’s red card. FIFA approached for comment and referred to the findings of its independent committee.

Also the passive voice: "rules broken".

In a Daily Mail interview in December 2017, Nigel Farage claimed he was "53, separated and skint". He argued that there was "no money in politics" and that he had spent twenty years spending more than he earned. In the eight years since then he has purchased 4 houses worth £4 million.

One last Swift appreciation post. 😍 We've loved celebrating these incredible little birds with you this #SwiftAwarenessWeek. Show the Swifts some love by filling the replies with your favourite swift Snaps and videos, like this incredible capture from @thehallofeinar.bsky.social. 👇

Gosh. BBC News referenced the allegations that Farage took coin from a convicted fraudster Gosh

Protecting women and girls only matters when the offender isn't one of their mates

Note that the BBC a) leads with Farage's denial, and b) leaves the ally's criminal conviction out of the headline

Sums up his presidency nicely

Going just by my general sense of how the British press operates, particularly regarding people who are entirely their own creation: they don’t want to break Farage, because he’s just too useful. But they do want to demonstrate that they could do that, if they wanted to.

The UK Government has axed an aid programme intended to keep one million girls in school just two years after it was announced The scheme was designed to support girls and young women going on to higher education in Africa, Asia and the Middle East 👇 🔗 www.thenational.scot/news/2...

Liz Truss set up CPAC Great Britain with a lawyer who used to work with sanctioned pro-Russian oligarch Firtash Many of guests at Truss’s gathering have also parroted Kremlin talking points New by me on Democracy for Sale open.substack.com/pub/democrac...

America keeps trying to get me to go to her birthday party and I’m like no girl u need to go to the hospital

Just had to explain who Peter Thiel is to my mother, a woman who has CNN on in her house every waking moment. Starting to think it’s a problem that men like this can just fly under the radar because their friends own the press.

Incredible moment where Fox News puts up a graphic with all the reasons it opposes the DSA and why people should be afraid of them

The scandal here is people in the SNP were advising a homophobe on how to achieve power without revealing her true intentions and political inclinations.

Swifts don’t stop to feed their chicks one insect at a time. Instead, they collect hundreds in a special pouch in their throat, then head back to the nest with a little insect-packed parcel. It can contain up to 1,000 insects. 🤯 Check out that throat pouch 👇 📷 @mart-the-gooner.bsky.social

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"a big Q is how to cut the welfare bill, I think theres an agreement it has to be cut" Yes theres an effort by politicians/media to convince us it has to be cut, when the reality is welfare spend is c.10.6% of GDP & as a proportion thats lower than most other European countries.

X owner Elon Musk indicates he would prioritise political violence (assassination of pro-migration politicians is the common sense meaning) over violence against "invaders" (refugees, asylum seekers, maybe ethnic minorities generally) while endorsing call for violence (killing) against both groups

BBC Newsnight invite a GB News presenter to comment *Switches off mumbling: if I wanted GB News I'd tune into GB News*

BBC #r4today is actively risking escalating tensions with irresponsible reporting. Yes, there are people smugglers. They are make wider assumptions beyond what they can reasonably claim to create impression of a wider issue, as opposed to how most steering boats are victims of gangs not leaders.

FFS #r4today, people are not "drawn" to the UK by working in the black economy. People are forced into working in the black economy once they have reached the UK seeking asylum because there are few alternatives. 1/

Evergreen post

Jonathan Hinder Labour MP and a former cop is busy making videos about Labour’s problems being down to pandering to ethnics and queers and “identity politics” and not the “working class” What a piece of shit!

Wow can't believe Starmer's managed to find £15bn down the back of the sofa on the way out for war. Almost as if we can always find the money for that, but mysteriously our pockets are empty for the things we actually need.

Imagine travelling thousands of miles just to spend your evenings doing zoomies over the same few houses... It's hard not to be impressed 👇 #SwiftAwarenessWeek

The Trump regime has trained the media to accept the idea that constant lying is part of a president's official duties. And the media have trained the public to accept it, too.

Hey guys, I fucked up so badly that fixing it would bankrupt the country.

Andy Burnham's incoming chief of staff, James Purnell, ran a lobbying firm that organised a meeting between a Labour minister and its own corporate clients – without declaring any lobbying. Yet another story about Labour and the lobbying industry... 🧵 democracyforsale.substack.com/p/burnhams-c...

This is a Refugee Tax. It was originally proposed by the Tories, and the only reason asylum seekers could be claimed to 'owe' any money is because they are banned from working. Another cruel Labour policy - that must be reversed on day one by Andy Burnham. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

A data protection claim brought against Mill Media has been dismissed in what is thought to be the first court test of the journalism exemption in relation to a SAR for personal data pressgazette.co.uk/media_law/co...

“If you zoom in on the guitarist’s sunglasses you can see a crowd of less than a dozen people… the organizers appear to have recently deleted that image.” 😬 🕶️

Silas Shelton had objected to Heartstopper at a school book fair, saying LGBTQ+ books posed a “mental health” risk to children. www.advocate.com/news/crime/h...

Every day I'm more ashamed to live in this country "Generosity": not the word I'd use for a levying a retroactive tax on people fleeing war and persecution, for the privilege of living in substandard conditions while politicians abuse them and strangers threaten to burn them out of their bedrooms

Monsters did this

I turn on my TV and this is what my Chromecast suggested. God damn it.

Reform head of local govt policy Bradley gave a glimpse into policies he plans to deliver. Watch out for this one

Fox News tries to explain the lack of crowds at the fair by saying they came, they saw, and then they went home so they coulld watch it on Fox News. Nice save, guys!

Jim Acosta scours the Lincoln Memorial reflecting pool looking for Trump's 350 foot long slash and can't find a trace of it. Fox News launches a vendetta against him for daring to question the word of Fearless Leader. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...