The hidden scandal of the disastrous case Prince Harry and celebrities brought against the Mail is that the lawyers’ costs were £50 million! Piece by me arguing that instead of attacking trial by jury Labour must radically reform a legal system that treats justice a playground for the rich

The hidden scandal of the disastrous case Prince Harry and celebrities brought against the Mail is that the lawyers’ costs were £50 million! Piece by me arguing that instead of attacking trial by jury Labour must radically reform a legal system that treats justice a playground for the rich

Sky News, "Nigel Farage perhaps was not expecting at 10pm to find that Count Binface was his only rival" "The motive seems to be the Standards Commissioners Inquiry"

Game on, Nige.

"This cynical empty gesture by Farage is exactly what I would have done" - me, for Unherd.

Messi’s tears at having achieved something for his team contrast markedly with Cristiano Ronaldo’s tears at not having achieved something for himself.

"In one chapter [of Cottrell's book] entitled 'The Art of the Bribe', [he] sets out how politicians can be bought....'Long-term relationships keep the bought person in hand while you're making money'". Subtle. www.ft.com/content/7a0f...

Nick Candy, Nigel Farage and the billionaire grift On one hand Farage and Reform denounce migrants. On the other they welcome the world’s richest migrants to London On the one hand, Farage claims to be for the white working class On the other, he courts crypto billionaires. Podcast with Peter York

www.nytimes.com/2026/07/04/u... "Nicholas Pinto is among the losers. A frequent crypto trader who voted for Mr. Trump in 2024, Mr. Pinto said he invested a total of roughly $500,000 in the #$TRUMP coin, and has now lost about half that investment". Feels like a new Darwin award is needed

This is very good. Lays it bare.

Nick Candy, Nigel Farage and the billionaire grift On one hand Farage and Reform denounce migrants. On the other they welcome the world’s richest migrants to London On the one hand, Farage claims to be for the white working class On the other, he courts crypto billionaires. Podcast with Peter York

It’ll never happen, but it’d be a powerful statement if Belgium simply refused to play the match, or fielded an ineligible player of their own. Something like that has to happen at some point. This corruption can’t continue unchecked.

Should start a podcast called There's No Such Thing as a Two Point Poll Lead, which is just me sobbing every week about the number of pollsters reporting non-statistically significant differences as meaningful.

Why the trans movement keeps losing – and why it matters Piece from me on how overconfidence and overreach allow backlash politics to flourish

Times scoop: Farage failed to declare that a criminal and crypto gambler funded his office in the run-up to the election. Murdoch is coming for him.

As a Latvian I can confirm that inciting hatred against Jews was how the russian occupiers consolidated their power.They preached that capitalism=fascism and that Zionism was the source of capitalism, and therefore the root of all evil.The consequences of russian hatred can be seen with Gen Z today.

Why the trans movement keeps losing – and why it matters Piece from me on how overconfidence and overreach allow backlash politics to flourish

@nickcohen.bsky.social For old men like Trump narcissism is suppressing the knowledge that one day their powers will fail. They will vanish from the earth. Rage and lies are Trump's way of denying the inevitability of death – the one failure no one can refute nickcohen.substack.com/p/trumps-nar...

Brexit the wound that never heals Powerful interview with Mark Leonard from the European Council on Foreign Relations, and piece from me on how the BBC was silenced

The lesson of this is the one we learned in the 30s. You cannot appease fascism; you must destroy it.

The treatment of this woman is absolutely outrageous and one of the most egregious corporate violations of free speech I've seen. I have just bought the book as a fuck you to Facebook. It's available here uk.bookshop.org/p/books/care...

It is now almost 100% of the time that when I do vox pops in rural America I get asked about Britain supposedly being taken over by Muslims and crushed under the boot of Sharia law. I was just asked suspiciously if I am a Muslim myself when I pushed back

Trump’s narcissism could take the world down with it Piece from me on how vain old men will destroy anyone and anything to block out the knowledge that death will soon destroy them

Trump’s narcissism could take the world down with it Piece from me on how vain old men will destroy anyone and anything to block out the knowledge that death will soon destroy them

Trump’s narcissism could take the world down with it Piece from me on how vain old men will destroy anyone and anything to block out the knowledge that death will soon destroy them

Trump’s narcissism could take the world down with it Piece from me on how vain old men will destroy anyone and anything to block out the knowledge that death will soon destroy them

Good piece by @nickcohen.bsky.social on those on the left who have thought it wise to get into bed with Islamists and go along with their antisemitism: open.substack.com/pub/nickcohe...

Brexit the wound that never heals Powerful interview with Mark Leonard from the European Council on Foreign Relations, and piece from me on how the BBC was silenced

There's more substantial policy direction in this Burnham speech than the median commentator expected, I hope it's not too tedious for them to rewrite their articles...

The Lost Brexit Decade Powerful interview with Mark Leonard from the European Council on Foreign Relations Plus, piece from me on how questioning Brexit has become taboo for the Tory press and the BBC, which has been bullied into accepting the unacceptable

She wanted to be in this war and argued that the only reason Keir Starmer didn't want to is that he was in hoc to British Muslims. Not a serious person.

The Lost Brexit Decade Powerful interview with Mark Leonard from the European Council on Foreign Relations Plus, piece from me on how questioning Brexit has become taboo for the Tory press and the BBC, which has been bullied into accepting the unacceptable

As Jews are killed just for being Jews for the first time since the Nazi era, piece from me on how the worst of the left is playing into the hands of Islamists and the radical right

Farage was for years very consciously "playing Jeremy Clarkson" and I think what has changed is that Farage has gotten nastier and Clarkson has gotten nicer.

This is really interesting. As Foreign Secretary: Would annoy left die-hards with memory of the Iraq war Would annoy right die-hards with a suspicion of the “Davos class” Also an interesting signal of he’s going to leave foreign affairs to his foreign secretary?

In Spain today: installation of solar panels above major irrigation channels. Channels of more than 100 kms transport water from dams to farmland. - Reduces evaporation -Provides large agricultural areas with power & supports irrigation -Decreases use of water in food production, doubling the crop.

As Jews are killed just for being Jews for the first time since the Nazi era, piece from me on how the worst of the left is playing into the hands of Islamists and the radical right

At last!

Rupert Lowe's statement that "I detest far-right ethno-nationalist neo-nazism, I’ve never been driven by that" is generating a clash over principles, positioning/tactics, reputation & boundaries among several voices, including a variety of ethno-nationalist factions within Restore Britain.

Would it be unpatriotic to fall asleep?

Quite a lot of people lost someone, maybe an elderly relative, during the heatwave. My Aunt Barbara, very ill with advanced dementia, died yesterday aged 91. She was unmarried, no kids and I had been taking care of her affairs for the past few years. That’s the least interesting thing about her. 1

sure bud

As I said to @nickcohen.bsky.social on his podcast, we have to stop using “populist“ as if it’s always bad. Democratic elections are populist. They can’t not be. You don’t beat ethno-nationalist populists by being sensible and managerial. You have to do good populist. Like this.

We have literally just lost a prime minister partly over our inability to find money for wars.

Enjoyable and thought provoking listening to @sszy.bsky.social talking with @nickcohen.bsky.social on the latter’s podcast, and nice to hear Nick showing all our ages by referring to the influence on uptake of the podcasts of the “logarithms”.

New substack, wherein I welcome bsky.app/profile/cmmo... call for more public ownership: chrisdillow.substack.com/p/on-the-pro...

Or: just stop being shit.

Extraordinary detail in the new book on Trump's second term administration

Huge storms over London. We must sacrifice another prime minister to appease the angry thunder gods