An honest question: What does Nigel Farage have to do before his finances and donations are properly scrutinised? On the day a former Scottish politician is rightly convicted for embezzling 400000 from his party, that question appears more relevant than ever. @bbcnewsnight.bsky.social @lbc.co.uk

What a mess. A choice between the Banal Party, the Racist Party and the Even More Racist Party www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Who remembers this gem of a song?

the FT has two pieces on the slow-motion collapse of UK higher ed. 4/5ths of unis are doing voluntary layoffs; 38% are doing compulsory. Meanwhile Britain and its flatlined productivity growth sleepwalks through its unprecedented loss of advanced capabilities www.ft.com/content/8097...

A website keeping track of how many Reform councillors have resigned. This is what the internet is for.

As the UK hits 35C it is hitting 55C in India, just a few Centigrade from causing instant death. This is the most heavily populated country on the planet with 1.47 billion people. More than all of North America and Europe combined. Imagine if they all have to leave.

Vibrant and rare White Auroras appearing over Norway 🇳🇴

This number has risen to at least 24 Reform councillors elected just over two weeks ago who have resigned, been suspended or expelled from the party. So much for Reform vetting procedures!

“Respecting” the result of a referendum held 10 years ago, when it’s increasingly clear that it was won on the basis of a pack of lies and that Brexit is doing massive damage to Britain’s economy, status & influence in the world, is a total abdication of responsibility.

Trump is a more accurate seer than Nostradamus

🤔 An internal crisis is brewing in Russia: dissatisfaction with Putin's policies and the course of the war is growing among Russian elites and security forces, — The Guardian ➡️ Putin's inner circle is gradually losing trust in him, and the Kremlin dictator himself is becoming increasingly isolated.

Fascists are always anti-women too.

Or he’s simply lying

The more you know ... As of May 23, 2026, global sea-ice extent is 3rd lowest on record for the day, about 220,000 km² above the record daily low set in 2019, and about 1.9 million km² below the 1991-2020 average.

80% of Reform's funding comes from people who avoid tax by hiding money offshore. Our idea of true patriotism is to hoard money while contributing nothing towards public services. Just ask Richard Tice.

Absolutely spectacular, no notes.

Farage complaining that info on his five million pound bribe was leaked by Russian hackers is like complaining that your child sex dungeon was discovered by burglars.

Farage plans to ditch workers’ rights, cut the NMW, scrap the Equality Act, legalise discrimination, take us out of the ECHR and have a deregulation bonanza to remove our protections and make it easier to exploit and endanger us… for profit. He couldn’t give a shit about working people.

Farage's Reform UK handed £15m by offshore millionaires, while patriotic Brits pay taxes Wealthy people, big business, foreign-linked money funding Reform, shaping UK politics. What have they been promised in return? End political corruption. Criminalise receipt/payment of all political donations

Magnificent rant about marketing-induced bilge about “generations”. About time too. My LinkedIn timeline is full of pseudo-scientific platitudes on how people of different ages are ”radically different”. www.ft.com/content/ff49...

Beware, women. Aanalysis of 80 Reform, Reform-supporting X accounts found over 2y, mentions of abortion increased by 40%. Despite new law in April preventing women in England & Wales from facing a criminal investigation for having an abortion, & despite high public support for abortion in UK

The UK’s drift to authoritarianism. Utterly disproportionate use of the law to stifle legitimate dissent. www.theguardian.com/law/2026/may...

Like day follows s̶h̶i̶t̶e̶ night... "A Reform UK councillor who vowed to try and address anti-social behaviour and "people feeling unsafe" during her campaign was convicted of assault four months before the local elections." www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Aiguilles de Chamonix tonight ! 🤩

In a few billion years — experts still argue over the exact number — our Milky Way Galaxy may get to know the Andromeda Galaxy a *lot* better. But… if and when they collide and merge, what exactly will happen? Why, let me tell you! www.scientificamerican.com/article/what... 🔭 🧪

In the Labour purges of ‘26, 1.2 million have died, millions more sent to camps, but thankfully, beloved Daily Mail journalist, Giles Udy, has survived to tell the tale. #media

With each byelection costing ~£30K that's £3million of council tax payers money Reform UK have wasted, so far ... "Nearly 100 Reform UK councillors have now been kicked out, suspended, disqualified, resigned or defected — including 22 in just TWO WEEKS since local elections" via ReformUK Exposed/X

Meanwhile in England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Farages Deform Uks untrained so called Councillors are now dropping like flies, but as usual it's been kept away from the main News. 22 of them went within just 2 weeks. thedailybritain.co.uk/reform-counc...

LAUGHABLE front page from The Express… A newspaper that backs Reform whose leader and MPs voted against laws on: Stalking Harassment Drink spiking Upskirting …and sharing intimate images without consent. A pathetic excuse of a newspaper.

Introducing a full PR system before the next election would be a push. But if you wanted an interim, Reform-hampering alternative, placing alternative vote on top of the 650 existing constituencies might do the trick. Would also obviously make results (a bit) fairer.

Beinn Leoid and Meallan a Chuall today. Very damp, but we got a view from the 2nd summit

We appear to be in Starmer 1.0 territory with Andy Burham. Whether on Brexit, or now on immigration, rather than standing on his principles, Andy seems to be saying what he thinks his electoral audience wants to hear. What he really thinks is unclear.

Useful list of alternative search engines that prioritise privacy to set as default instead of Google www.qwant.com

Not only does Trump's IRS settlement hand him a $1.8B slush fund. It also bans the agency from auditing Trump and his family, allowing him to avoid nearly $100M in penalties and get away with any future tax-dodging. He is the most corrupt president in American history.

Here are some pics from yesterday’s Corbett, Glas Bheinn (776m)

Sunshine and showers, and at times a vicious wind, for a new Corbett today. Meall Horn (777m)

Farage’s various Brexits were always Ponzi schemes, with Russian and US investments. Don’t be surprised if the latest one collapses suddenly and catastrophically

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...

Just amazing. Ring Nebula (M57) JWST

I must say that ‘Where’s Wally’ is more fun www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Who better to criticise someone for being selfish than the man who took a £12,000 donation in exchange for helping a billionaire pornographer save £45m, then defected to Reform just to advance his career.

NGC 2170: The Angel Nebula apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap26051... Reflecting the light of nearby hot stars, NGC 2170 is joined by other bluish reflection nebulae, a red emission region, many dark absorption nebulae, and a backdrop of colorful stars.

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Got to love a Tory that was a Tory THIS YEAR saying never trust a Tory. Despite being in some of the highest offices in the UK as a Tory, she pretends her quarter of a century being a Tory didn’t happen. You don’t fool anyone, Suella Braverman.

The country needs effective reforms. It won’t get them, because the people who are in a position to push for and implement those reforms, benefit from the way the country currently is. So there is no motivation to change things

⚡️General Staff: Russia has lost 1,351, 150 troops in Ukraine since Feb. 24, 2022. The number includes 1,140 casualties that Russian forces suffered over the past day.