From @privateeyenews.bsky.social.👏

📉 Trump's approval rating has been dropping for months. But the University of Michigan's May consumer sentiment survey revealed something more striking: Republicans are beginning to lose confidence in the economy, too. GOP voters' attitudes about the economy hit a low point in Trump's second term.

I'm hoping that the sharp rebukes to Trump from both China and Russia will deter him from being a murderous warmonger yet again. China told him to "stop resorting to the threat of force at every turn" and immediately cease his judicial and economic coercion against Cuba.

Thank Farage www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...

Farage shouldn’t be able to control the media in this way, promoting himself when he wants to and running away when’s he’s in the shit. Stop letting him call the shots. Empty chair him. End the interview if he lies/wont answer. Refuse to be his propagandists. www.independent.co.uk/voices/nigel...

“In the days following the 2016 EU referendum, Epstein emailed another associate, Palantir founder Peter Thiel, describing Brexit as “just the beginning of a return to tribalism, counter to globalisation, amazing new alliances.” The Epstein files reveal how far those plutocrat alliances extended.

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'The ballroom he is planning to build at the White House will extend six floors underground, and have a military hospital, a roof of impenetrable steel and a drone base.' He's never planning on leaving, is he? inews.co.uk/opinion/trum...

'Chinese foreign ministry spokesman Guo Jiakun said the US should "stop threatening force at every turn", and that Beijing "firmly supports Cuba". He said Beijing opposed "any attempt by external forces to exert pressure on Cuba under any pretext".' That's Trump telt! www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

About damn time, too. From the Independent's newsletter.

Katy Austin has managed to write this entire article without once mentioning 'Brexit' and how it's all our own fault! www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

For those who think Robert Kenyon could ever be a fit and proper MP:

Good for Mayor Khan. Palantir sought a deal 'to help overhaul the Met's data and investigative systems'.🤔 Palantir already holds more than £600m of contracts with public bodies in the UK. Scary.

Goodoh - we need all the sharp satire we can get in these dark days.

They're harping on Cuba again to distract from their failing "excursion" against Iran, which they launched to distract from the Epstein files. 'Cuba's Foreign Minister Bruno Rodríguez accused Rubio of "lies" and said the island had never posed a threat to the US.' www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

@georgetakei.bsky.social's description of the US regime is 'plutokleptokakistocracy - where the ultra wealthy steal from you and run the country in the most insanely inept way imaginable.' I like that.

The Cuban government can hardly deny the accusation that it hosts foreign military bases. There's one in Guantanamo Bay, for starters.

Can rip-off pricing ever be justified? With me in the studio to discuss this are the £11m-a-year boss of a supermarket chain, the chief executive of a privatised rail company and the head of a water industry trade association.

Tobacco company Reynolds American donated $5 million to Trump’s super PAC. Then, an executive and two of their lobbyists had lunch with Trump. Days later, the FDA rolled out new guidance that would allow tobacco companies to start selling e-cigarettes. Everything is for sale.

They got their disastrous Brexit and they got their damaging immigration cuts (we need the workers, skills, taxes and cultural diversity from these folk!). The one-man, one-policy Reform Party has no leg left to stand on.

Farage still owes this fine from a county court judgement in 2025. He says he "knew nothing about it". Is he too dishonest for public office, or too stupid for public office? Either way... www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...

This is a shocking indictment of the abject failure of UK news shows to get the actual facts about net migration across to the public and call out the bull**** by the likes of Nigel Farage. If UK news shows can’t get the job done let’s damn well do it ourselves!

A 50% drop in net migration just since last year; an 80% drop from its peak in 2023. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Goodoh!

From Twitter.

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'Finch, 19, leader of Warwickshire County Council, was voted in as leader of Nuneaton and Bedworth Borough Council on Wednesday evening with backing from Conservative councillors.' Are they insane? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Pretty simple job. 1. Do you want to be in Reform? If yes, you're clearly unsuitable for an elected position. If no, then work is done.

@bylinetimes.bsky.social have found his tweets bylinetimes.com/2026/05/20/r...

Is it now valid to call the USA a rogue state?

Reform are actually advertising this post. I've volunteered already - I think it's my patriotic duty.😆

Now Mandelson's replacement has suddenly gone - and no-one is telling us why. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Hee! From @privateeyenews.bsky.social.

In Saudi Arabia’s Khamis Mushait prison, 200 Ethiopian men are awaiting execution. Most were sentenced in mass trials without legal representation, according to Ethiopia’s Tigray Youth Affairs Bureau. 🧵1/5

🚨BREAKING PMQs🚨 Starmer: "But the £5 million question is, why did the Reform leader keep this donation secret? I see. He is not here to answer." "And what did the billionaire lining his pockets ask for in return? Those questions need to be answered. That's why he's not here."

Starmer attacks Farage by asking why he kept his £5M gift a secret. Conveniently Farage is still missing from action. Where is he hiding? #PMQs

Guess who runs Staffordshire County Council - Reform UK. They're throwing around taxpayers' money like water in the councils they run, it's rather shocking.

🚨 EXCLUSIVE: Reading the Riot Act: Reform UK’s Makerfield By-Election Candidate During the Summer of Trouble The archive of Robert Kenyon’s suspended X account reveals intense activity after three children were murdered in Southport in 2024

A good example here of an attempted use of what the New Statesman called the 'Slapp trap' - a 'Strategic lawsuit against public participation' - which comprehensively failed. www.the-londoner.co.uk/we-won-our-d...

As the Smiths didn't quite put it, 🎵 Ban the vox pop, Ban the vox pop. Ban the vox pop, Ban the vox pop 🎵

'The MPs say the current FPTP system is "broken". The new political backdrop of multi-party politics which has emerged in recent years, with smaller parties challenging Labour and the Conservatives, has reignited calls for electoral reform.' Funny, that.🙄 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Reform candidate in Makerfield, Robert Kenyon, has had his X account suspended (and that takes some doing!), though the exact reason(s) have not been disclosed. However:

Call me a cynic, but I'm wondering if Streeting was trying to snooker Burnham in Makerfield by actually mentioning Brexit.

The march of illiberal authoritarianism continues as it completely takes over the British right. Michael Deacon in the Telegraph proposing what Thatcher never dared: after dehumanising & impoverishing the unemployed stripping them of the right to vote. www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/05...

*Voluntary* price limits (the SNP's new policy is not voluntary) in return for 'easing of packaging policies and a potential delay to rule changes around healthy food.' I want to know what 'rule changes'; I quite like healthy food.

The default assumption should be that anything that this administration says is a lie until proven otherwise. Tяump lies about everything.

Labour should not be moving the goal posts on immigration rules - for the 1.7m people who have literally earned their 'earned settlement status’. It’s wrong. www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...

Pictured left: What Trump has been thinking about Pictured right: What Trump hasn’t been thinking about