“The only thing worth writing about is the human heart in conflict with itself” — William Faulkner

Nigel Farage is a threat to national security inews.co.uk/opinion/nige...

If you suggest police officers shouldn’t kick people in the head, you’ll get the chief of the Met condemning you on national television. If you say the police are institutionally racist against whites and suggest people should riot, you’ll get invited onto a BBC couch to expand upon your theories.

The line up for the Gala this evening, in case you're wondering: Mike Wozniak, Paul Foot, Sharifa Butterfly, McClaine Bierne, Lou Wall, Emma Hughes and Adam Riches. That's pretty impressive. www.exetercornexchange.co.uk/whats-on/exe...

This is demonstrably true.

Exeter Comedy Festival kicks off today with the Gala. Still tickets available. Loads of great acts on throughout ECF. The big names have sold out but there are some real gems with seats available. We're so lucky to have this going on, don't miss it! www.exetercornexchange.co.uk/book-tickets...

Months of dedication for no money from many of the people involved, just to make something worthwhile happen in our town, so reposts very welcome.

What Reform did today was an incitement to rioting and an insult to a grieving family. This bloke should have hung his goddamn head in shame.

Jesus fucking Christ. The BBC needs to sort itself out allowing this far right racist propaganda to go out unchallenged. Lock these cunts up.

There's at least 2 fully documented incidents of major civil unrest in the UK caused directly by Nigel Farage and Stephen Yaxley-Lennon. Both need to be arrested and Farage needs to be barred from holding any political position in the UK, Reform needs to be proscribed as a terrorist organisation.

I assume Farage wont be blamed for this despite the "pure cold rage" on display.

Don’t let Nigel Farage hijack Henry Nowak’s death www.thetimes.com/comment/colu...

Henry Nowak’s father’s words outside court, who is probably the person we most need to hear from today.

Don't tell me it's the political movement, or the policies, or the public will and not the individual. This woman destroyed much of what I loved about Britain, the way Trump is fucking America over now. That Jesse Armstrong line from Succession about Logan Roy appealing to "the meagreness of men".

It was Bob's first visit to Covent Garden.

I’d say the tedious fucking ashtray disqualified himself from Desert Island Discs with this interview in March 2015. See also: not being invited on A Good Read or Front Row. The man’s got nothing. He is the Archbishop of Fuck All.

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Well, this video is a heckuva trip.

Nigel Farage has gone all quiet about his friendship with Trump. Let’s not let him distance himself from the trainwreck. Please share this fawning video.

✔️ Rob Kenyon of #Makerfield. Certified Perv

I couldn't love this woman more if I tried.

Fucking have him.

#NewBookDay Absolutely loved #Gothic. Proper old school horror like I used to read at an inappropriately young age! Diving straight into #Sarafina as boy, this guy can write the dark stuff... @pfracassi.bsky.social @blackcrowbooks.bsky.social #BookSky 💙📚

✔ Rob Kenyon the Pervy Plumber from #Makerfield

Oh man the baby sun from Teletubbies got old. Jesus he looks like Woodstock from Peanuts on cocaine. He looks like Stuart Hall in a wind tunnel.

Come along! It'll be fun!

Nevermind the Guardian list, how many of the 93 books cited at one time or another by Mark E. Smith have you read

Nigel Farage insisting "I cannot be bought," after being exposed for secretly trousering £5 million from a crypto billionaire, buying a house with the money, and then immediately launching a lobbying campaign for the crypto industry, is quite something

This is me! Please come along if you can. It’ll be anything but dull.

A week today C. B. Everett (aka Tom Killgannon author @martynwaites.bsky.social) will be discussing his new thriller The Final Chapter, an ingenious mystery about writing, friendship & the stories we tell ourselves. Tickets £4 (redeemable against purchase of book): thebookery.org.uk/event/c-b-ev...

Standards watchdog launches probe into £5m Farage gift. Good luck justifying this Nige www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Nigel Farage’s partner, a former waitress not known to have any private money, bought a £1 million house for cash shortly after he secretly received £5 million from a Thailand-based cryptocurrency billionaire - the same house that he claimed, months previously, that he was about to pay for himself.

How about a criminal investigation and a permanent ban from public life for taking bribes and lying to the electorate? A wrist slap for breaching a code, a suspension and by-election is more prize than punishment for tantrum-prone Farage who’s barely an MP anyway. observer.co.uk/news/politic...

This hit me so hard this week.

Have you already seen the Ghosts on the Underground documentary? It’s so ambient and unsensational, I love it youtu.be/3Bf_bxfE5gw?...

Reading the media the last few days, you’d have thought that Reform had swept to power across the country. The reality is they have less than 1,000 out of 18,645 seats and control just 12 of 369 councils. More or less the same as The Greens. Everyone needs to take a breath.

Lib Dems control more English councils than the Conservative Party, the Green Party and Reform UK. Not that you'd know this from yesterday's coverage. The media's lack of curiosity and imagination and its inability to explore beyond the populist noise is as depressing as it is boringly predictable.

I cannot quite believe I am writing this but apparently Nigel Farage has been invited to speak at the big Jewish communal rally against antisemitism on Sunday (as well as Starmer, Badenoch, Davey but seemingly not Polanski). What next, invite Oswald Mosley to address the people of the East End?

"I can stay here and do that."

Interesting analysis for those of us interested in hope and aware of the big graph that shows Reform peaked in October last year and is sliding inexorably down.

What was the last week of terrified screaming at the Green Party, if not a firm recommitment that nothing to the left of Sir Keir’s Labour will be tolerated and, if our politicians and media outlets are forced to choose between left and right, they will start prepping for the transition to fascism?

Let’s not forget…

However you dice it, it’s been a great night for Thai-based cryptocurrency billionaires & Vladimir Putin - who, incredibly, is currently getting more good news from the UK than Ukraine.

Crucial point by John Curtis on BBC - Councils flipping from Labour to Reform are because Labour are losing **to the left**, & Cons to Reform Chasing Reform failed Labour; they lost the base & didn’t convince many on the right (Failed Tories too) Watch everyone learn the wrong lesson anyway

Around 3:40am a massive short position in Oil Futures was placed An hour or so later: an Axios report on a potential US-Iran deal to end their conflict. This is, yet again, The US Treasury manipulating the Oil Market via intervention + headline. There is no deal. This is fraud.

Fixed it for them

Nobody over the age of 14 should be allowed access to it. Adults taking it seriously is what ruined it.