There's an exceptionalist belief that the UK's immune to the worst political extremes. In reality, we were lucky not to get a fascist government in the 1930s. Now that the world's richest man supports our most extreme political party, we need more than luck. We need to get the money out of politics.

looks like we might see Andrew Neil on Question time as a becomes a climate refugee for a month or two

"They Thought Trump Would Help Free Imran Khan – But They Were Terribly Wrong" The former Pakistani leader remains behind bars, prompting those Pakistani-American groups that backed Trump and Republicans in 2024 to now worry they got 'played' by the president and his team.

We can start to take any comments from the government about youth-bans on social media seriously the moment they withdraw from X. Not one second before.

134 years ago this cartoon was drawn, and in 134 years the problem has only gotten worse.

Cannot be overstated that, for the far right, Reform already is and always was the compromise choice, just a foot in the door, it's not what they're after and Lowe delivers for them.

Pick a Bond Villain from photos you already have in your phone

Remember if you ever consider doing a fraud, don’t buy amusingly naff stuff with the money, it sticks in the memory. Embezzle £10m and shove it in crypto? Cheat HMRC out of a few million through phoenixing? People will soon forget! Buy an overpriced wine coaster and a gaming headset? You’re stuffed.

If you're still trying to figure it out after a decade that might be a clue....

Can we all now agree that running the government like a business was an incredibly stupid idea?

‘My phone was hacked by the Kremlin who exposed the £5m bung no-one is supposed to know about’ is certainly an interesting new angle.. I wonder if the journalist involved has broken any other major scandals? 🤔 Oh!

The fundamental problems with HS2 are political indecision leading to an ill specified project and the complexity of the contracting process, but who can resist a soundbite about bat tunnels ?

This is a good example of slanted reporting and how exceptionalists amplify the points in a disingenuous fashion. So, fast track for the UK? In actual fact, you only need to read the article. A 🧵

Oh the terror of her poverty struck life

Here’s just one detail from @thenerve.news #HarborneReceipts timeline. On the *exact same day* Christopher Harborne gives Reform £3m, Nigel Farage says Reform will lift cap on stablecoin ownership. Where does Christopher Harborne’s money come from, you ask? Stablecoins!

Worth reading all of the decade-old article linked (& translated) here. Quite shaming for a lot of UK hacks happy to let him bullshit away to his heart’s content…

This looks like bullshit stenography to me. Glen Owen also ‘reported’ Farage’s lies about French police & a monoglot mechanic ‘telling him’ his car had been ‘tampered with’ in an ‘assassination attempt’ when he was trying to distract attention from something else. Also, Putin *wants* him to be PM!

30% of very little is very little Read these types of articles with great caution ⚠️

Game changer. Was on it last night after another glorious night out in actual London, as opposed to the hellscape of the same name that exists exclusively in the fevered minds of online racists who hate their own country.

It’s as though the last ten years simply haven’t happened.

#Cornwall deer 🦌

Privatisation the grift that keeps on grifting

For anyone thinking of buying space x shares from Elon

there seems to be a correlation between each Andrew scandal becoming public and the late queen promoting him either into roles like this or into another bullshit military officership or peerage

Once again, there is no pleasure in accurately predicting the dishonesty of Farage & his crew or the dereliction of duty across much of the media.

@paulbernal.bsky.social saw this and thought immediately of you 😉

Some questions for Sophie Corcoran: - if you applied to 10000 Interns for Barrister experience, why aren't you describing yourself as an aspiring barrister? - are you doing the GDL next year? Your degree isn't in law. - why no posts about your interest in law? - or was this all to wreck the scheme?!

Man Who Ran 'Conversion Therapy' Program Arrested For Trying To Meet Teen Boy For Sex #CrooksAndLiars

in my field if you don’t check your sources and sources’ sources you are asking to be taken for a ride by Spectator columnists and Tufton St thinktankers selling Farage as the answer to the calamity caused by their last three projects

#Cornwall #Heron

So obviously Burnham needs to copy Farage/Mahmood

Kevin_Maguire calls Farage "enemy of the truth." The report says 49% think migration is rising. Reality? Down 69% to 204k . Farage knows the truth. He just needs you to believe the lie. Because if you knew migration was falling, what would be left of Reform? 🎭

two reasons why i’m not only no longer a labour voter the opaque right wing thinktank the centre for social justice has two unexpected commissioners who help it hide behind charity status can you spot them ?

Andy Burnham’s role with Iain Duncan Smith’s think tank just shows he’s more of the same https://www.thecanary.co/uk/analysis/2026/05/20/burnham-csj/

Try watching the video before making an absolute baked flan of yourself George

Did she spend the prize money on a house?

There's no "study," this is based on a crank manifesto with only four footnotes written by a bunch of health grifters. Why is the Guardian covering this like it has any academic credibility?

Chris Bryant, "Up until now, it has been perfectly legal to import Russian oil products processed in a third country into the UK. Up until now." "It's only now because of this government, with the new sanctions that come into force today, that that is not going to be able to be possible."

dear JD vance what part of the pope is infallible did not understand?

you get a excellent view of the post AI economy

that’s the soft underbelly of Trump’s corruption if the democrats can just get their act together and target the brokers

Standard Chartered CEO collecting £12.7m refers to workers as 'lower-value human capital'. Wants to replace 7,500 jobs with AI. Pat on the back and 'stab in the back' are normalised in predatory capitalism. Shareholders/Execs want more. Light years away from Cadbury/Quaker capitalism.

An organisation's culture is set by its leader, Starmer dislikes making political arguments and has essentially convinced himself doing so is silly symbolism, so "persuasion" has dropped out of the government's mental toolkit entirely.

Billionaire Trump donor, private equity boss in line to make millions from Thames Water bid. Attempted to fund Robert Jenrick’s bid for Tory party leadership. Wants exemptions from sewage dumping fines. Will extract returns, customers will be fleeced. Privatisation of essentials has failed.

Stick to fiscal rules or risk market revolt, IMF warns UK. Rules are straitjackets imposed since 1997, suspended for bank bailouts. Prevent govt from nationalising essential industries, setting target for full employment, ending poverty. Rules increase power of finance industry archive.ph/oA2iH

Met Police will ask the CPS to consider charging up to 57 people & 20 companies over the Grenfell Tower fire Alleged offences include corporate & gross negligence manslaughter, misconduct in public office & fraud 72 people were killed in the disaster

That means that people on what used to be called tax credits before it was subsumed into UC dont earn enough to both survive and prosper If only we had a government brave enough to challenge the consensus imposed on us by Nigel lawson instead of fiddling around the edges

You, poor people, your fecklessness is the problem. Why aren’t you saving the money you don’t earn instead of recklessly spending it on stupid things like food and rent?

what would I do at this point , i’d arrest him for false accounting and let him prove which of his potential lies is true

so brexit has effectively destroyed every party including ukip I struggle to understand why labour can’t just exorcise this oligarch funded nightmare and just get on being a labour government