EUROVISION NEW: President of Spanish broadcaster, RTVE, says it is no longer correct to describe the song contest as apolitical in strong statement. "The current events and the genocide currently taking place make it impossible for us to look the other way.” www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...

Mad times when it's a British king who's trying to convince an American president to resist tyranny.

So depressing that KCC is being run by flat earthers & conspiracy theorists.

It is hardly needed but this is yet more evidence in favour of the blindingly obvious www.bloomberg.com/features/202...

The grift goes on. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Johnson’s corruption know no bounds

Polly Billington MP, the Labour MP for East Thanet, said Cllr Kemkaran was risking lives in Kent by questioning the safety of clinically tested and approved vaccines:

A very important read. Thank you @liamthorp.bsky.social

"So, the very same day free speech champion Nigel Farage denied banning critical journalists from his events, his team did exactly that. "In theory, this could be more than just painfully ironic for Farage. Evidence sessions to Congressional committees are given under oath…"

As others have pointed out "anarcho-tyranny" is a contradiction in terms. How can a cruel oppressive government impose non existent laws. Allister puts the moron in oxymoron.

Angela Rayner’s stamp duty & what happens when Nigel Farage isn’t permitted to bullshit his way through an interview. tinyurl.com/4rrn2mkx

Oh.

The whole story in three posts.

"There is an ugliness to some of this - 𝘺𝘦𝘴 she should've done better - but it doesn’t equate to what we saw in the last gov’t with people on the make.” Angela Rayner’s resignation has provoked sympathy in some, vengeance in others.

Ours does 👇🏻

I don’t think any piece about Reform’s conference speakers should be published without mentioning that they’ve allowed an anti-vaccine conspiracy group to host a panel. Sadly this story doesn’t flag it

This is the best think since @mrjamesob.bsky.social roasted him live on @lbc.co.uk in 2016. We need more of this! #Faragelies

This'll be very telling when he comes to speak. If Farage uses his appearance in front of that committee to encourage a foreign state to bully his own country, he'll have crossed a very specific line.

"There is not a free speech crisis in the UK. Keir Starmer has not shut down GB News," Ruskin says. Farage seems "most at home with the autocrats and dictators of this world", he adds. If he's serious about the Online Safety Act, he should be in parliament, he says, not here.

Nigel Farage branded 'far-right, pro-Putin Trump wannabe' in blistering US Congress takedown www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...

Nigel Farage is claiming to Congress that the UK gov deliberately withheld details of the Southport attacker from the public. This is dangerous and it’s false. The attacker was under 18, and so a court had to give express permission to release his name in exceptional circumstances, which it did.

Nigel Farage, lying to Congress here. The New World, the magazine I edit, was banned from Reform's conference this morning, three months after they accepted our request for a press pass

Farage is a rat scurrying into darkness. Oh, wait ....

Wait, so you’re telling me Reform’s DOGE unit *hasn’t* solved the crisis in local government finance? I for one am shocked www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

I listened to this live at the time & no one has come near @mrjamesob.bsky.social since in giving Farage a proper grilling

Nick Timothy did delete his post but did not apologise. More fundamentally, Timothy was criticising the police for protecting the delivery person from a racist mob. Not sure how, if he *had* been working illegally, that makes it ok?

There are many, many recent moments that I'd like to see all the people professing to be deeply outraged by Bob Vylan comment on. From columnists & politicians to the Chief Rabbi. (Perhaps they have but I can't find any...) I'd probably start with this one. www.middleeasteye.net/news/senior-...

www.lbc.co.uk/opinion/view... Mine for @lbc.co.uk

After Kemi Badenoch mocks Keir Starmer for skipping PMQs in order to attend the G7 and NATO summits, Conservative MP Mark Pritchard condemns her "partisan" jibes, adding that "I may get the whip withdrawn for saying that, but so be it. There are some things that go beyond party politics."

The latest @iandunt.bsky.social Substack is not just on point but a hilarious take down of what pass for intellectuals on the populist - and 'ethnopluralist' - right, with an excoriating account of 'Goodwin's visit to London': iandunt.substack.com/p/they-hate-...

Wait till he goes to Celtic Park..,,

What do we think?🤔 Hmm…. A Daily Mail headline so clearly designed to make you furious. Being shared by salivating Tory MPs who love a good rage farming story! So, what’s going on here? Let’s take a look!👀 🧵 1/13

This tweet aged like milk in the sun

History teaches us that alliances between oligarchs and fascists, while initially beneficial to each other, usually don't end well.

Don't know about you, but my evening has been immeasurably brightened.

Steve Bannon is urging Trump to cancel all of Musk's contracts, launch investigations into him, and deport him.

Bye bye - now for the rest of them…

Ready for @sanders.senate.gov & @mrjamesob.bsky.social

Looking forward to seeing @mrjamesob.bsky.social & @sanders.senate.gov on stage this evening!

My grandmas were immigrants, my mum & sisters in law are immigrants; my sister & nephews are migrants. My kids study maths, Shakespeare, dance, act & score tries alongside the kids of immigrants. My dad’s life was saved by immigrants. Immigrants have made us richer, wiser, stronger Win the fight

Canada will "never ever" yield to US threats, Prime Minister Mark Carney vows as his Liberal Party declares election victory.

"Do you even own a black suit?"

Mine for @theipaper.com inews.co.uk/news/world/t...

I’m dying 😂

Whoever did this. 🤣

Nigel Farage Was Asked How He Plans To Pay For All Of Reform's Policies – And Couldn't Answer www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/nigel-...

Lewis Goodall, "I can see what a Brexiter might make the argument that we've got preferential treatment" "We're in a net position where we've lost trade with the EU, we have a more distant economic relationship with the EU, and we've got 10% tariffs"