He’s not standing there, so makes sense… BBC under pressure to bar Farage from Senedd election debates

You cannot make this shit up. 😳👇

UK ministers urged to cap political donations to ‘rebuild voter confidence’. Letter from 19 organisations says a cap would help to protect democracy, weeks after £9m donation to Reform UK. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Reform UK Review 2025 After winning local elections criticising councils for raising council tax, Reform UK councils plan to raise council tax. Worcestershire applies to raise it by 10%.

Reform UK Review 2025: 6% of Reform UK councillors have been suspended, resigned or defected this year alone. A higher percentage than any other party.

We've always had these dead-eyed socipaths around. It's just a few years ago they were ignored and now they're "senior fellow" at places funded by evil millionaires + going on podcasts with a brain-rotted ex-PM.

They call everyone else snowflakes, but they're one long blizzard of self-loathing and everything triggers them. Strange and inadequate people.

We do really need to sort out the rules on lobbying in the UK. open.substack.com/pub/democrac...

Brain fog affects millions of us – from menopausal women to long COVID sufferers. But a Carmarthenshire social enterprise believes the answer might be growing in their west Wales mushroom units

🔴 A Lexicon for Life: Episode 2 —Grace Jay Griffiths, Joanna Scanlan and John Mitchinson take the word 'Grace' for a walk, noting its connection to gratitude, and discuss the grace of animals who help and rescue humans from danger www.bylinesupplement.com/p/a-lexicon-...

Senior Reform candidate writes: "People from other religions should eat bacon for a month to prove their Christian sincerity and credentials." www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...

Reform UK have repeatedly said that Kent is their "flagship" council and "the shop window" for how they intend to run things. When they are exposed as planning to slash social care for old people, in order to hire their cronies as advisors at £150k a pop, I think people should believe them. ~AA

Wonder if Semi GoodEnough still stands by her assertion that sex crimes caused by second-rate cultures that lack basic decency. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Supporting LGBT+ rights is political in a way that breaches the civil service code and opposing them is not political in a way that precludes charitable status is a... complex position to hold, although one managed by former LGBA hate group with charitable status trustee Kathleen Stock.

Imagine if serving in government was as prestigious as landing a job at Google. In Finland and Singapore, it basically is. Public service is seen as a privilege, a place where the most ambitious people go to solve the biggest problems. That’s the culture we should be striving for.

Kent County Council was won by Reform at local elections in May, when their candidates promised to cut council spending and keep taxes low 👇 www.kentlive.news/news/kent-ne...

Bill Clinton releasing a statement saying 'release the Epstein files, you cowards' was not on my bingo list.

Is the government going to sit and watch while the #PalestineAction hunger strikers die? Is most of the media going to carry on ignoring them? Just how callous has the Establishment become? www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

The full spiked 60 Minutes CECOT package, clean & subtitled. 1/5

With that much redaction that means that Trump is clearly throughout the #EpsteinFiles.

DOJ briefly uploaded this letter from Jeff Epstein to serial child molester Larry Nassar: "Our president shares our love of young, nubile girls. When a young beauty walked by he loved to 'grab snatch,' whereas we ended up snatching grub in the mess halls of the system."

Accounts of abuse survivors and the furore around the #EpsteinFiles reveal the extent to which astoundingly rich and powerful men believed themselves to be above the law - and a Harrods abuse survivor tells of the same patterns in her latest piece for @sussexbylines.co.uk :

SLAVA UKRAINE! @marshfamilysongs.bsky.social doing lovely stuff here www.youtube.com/watch?v=vvML...

Any litigator who has stressed over bundles and redactions can now at least realise they did a better job of it than the US government. Amateur hour disclosure.

My final Monkey Cage is broadcast on Radio 4 on Christmas Day - I hope you have enjoyed the latest series - I am proud of what we created www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

This guy is always interesting & often very informative. Seems like some US farmers want Trump's government (!) to repeat the mistakes made by the EU in their agricultural policies. @sylvanaquafarms.bsky.social Now that's really idiotic. www.youtube.com/watch?v=_DvF...

Enough is enough. The House of Lords is a rolling scandal - sign @electoralreform.bsky.social‬'s call to demand change. It takes 30 seconds. action.electoral-reform.org.uk/page/3342/pe...

The story of Farage and Putin, told by British-Ukrainian soldier Shaun Pinner on a destroyed apartment block in Kyiv.

“The White House’s dead-eyed shark has monetised his presidency so well that he can pay whatever it costs to discredit institutions that may threaten him.” Stewart Lee this week on Trump and the BBC lawsuit.

The homes of more than 10,000 New Yorkers are now at stake. One of NYC's most notorious landlords, Pinnacle Group, has sent 93 buildings -- 5,000 rent-stabilized apartments -- to a bankruptcy auction actionnetwork.org/petitions/10...

A federal judge ordered poultry companies Friday to pay for cleanup of the Illinois River Watershed in Oklahoma’s decades-long poultry lawsuit. The companies must also pay penalties to the state and limit the amount of poultry litter used as fertilizer.

Yes! 🎯 "..Reform is basically just a retirement home for disgraced Tories.."

I quote from Andrew Tate’s X profile: ‘Unmatched perspicacity coupled with sheer indefatigability makes me a feared opponent in any realm of human endeavour.’ Erm… This is certainly not the case when it comes to boxing Andy. Oh dear. You poor little love. 😉

BREAKING: At least 16 files from the Epstein release disappeared from DOJ's webpage, including a photo of Trump, with no explanation.

You would think they’d be better at this with the consequences being so high.

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The fact Farage isn't sueing ITV, BBC , National Newspapers etc as the publishers - tells you everything .

We must operate under the assumption that EVERY redaction is a detailed account of Trump raping children. It's the only reasonable conclusion until he proves otherwise.

"For the first time, Reform voters are getting the chance to compare what their new councillors promised – including council tax cuts – with what they’re actually getting, which for many looks likely to be the opposite” www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Plans show £60m ‘gap’ in Reform Kent council’s budget even with council tax increase www.ross-shirejournal.co.uk/news/nationa...

The Welsh Government has been accused of trying to disguise the fact that a new £120m diagnostic centre branded as a ‘health park’ will be operated by a private sector company ✍️ Martin Shipton

Donald Trump threatens Britain’s broadcaster. Nathan Gill goes to jail and Reform goes quiet. Tommy Robinson declares he won’t fight for Britain. All this, and more, in Pecksniff’s Diary. eastangliabylines.co.uk/pecksniff/pe...

One tiny correction: "the worst, most dishonest prime minister we've ever had " needs the "ever" taking out, and "to date" inserting before that comma. Because if RefUK win, you ain't seen nothin yet.

The worst, most dishonest prime minister we’ve ever had, rocks back and forth in his Daily Mail cubbyhole spewing out idiotic bilge to kid himself that he and his disastrous Brexit weren’t an almighty national fuck-up. A deeply pathetic threat from an abject failure of a man.

The White House has been caught. The administration inserted a photo of Bill Clinton, Michael Jackson, and Diana Ross into the Epstein files and falsely implied it showed them with victims. In reality, it’s a publicly available fundraiser photo featuring Jackson and Ross’s own children.

🎥 Chasing Farage, part two! @johnsweeneyroar.bsky.social is back on the trail of the Reform UK leader, looking into the long history of racism allegations against him. He visits Dulwich and meets reporter Michael Crick, who first confronted Farage on the subject back in 2013 youtu.be/PVa118JRRSk?...

Why the current attempts to pretend Kemi Badenoch's leadership of the Conservative Party has been anything other than an unmitigated disaster simply won't wash www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/kemi-baden...

There is growing evidence that the law does not protect employees from harassment or violence. Liz Saville Roberts MP and Baroness Carmen Smith write what needs to be done. 👇👇