" Grow your own fox in a window box " - First floor #FoxOfTheDay shared by @wikipickie.bsky.social , top work !

“What Mamdani has in common with people like Polanski -but also Trump and Farage - is that he acknowledges people's lived experience and seeks to act on it. Whatever one thinks of his solutions, tonally, that is very different from most centrist politicians who, on the whole, just propose tweaks.”

In Love Actually, it says that no one on the planes on 9/11 sent messages of hate only messages of love, but I like to think at least one person phoned and told their boss to blow a goat.

This is what is happening. It is cynical. It is strategic. It is organised. It is well funded. And we need to pay attention. The far right - and their cheerleaders, mimics, tribute acts, and handmaidens have identified two presentational frameworks that give them cut-through and traction. 1/7

BREAKING NEWS: IKEA now include an enthusiastic yet unqualified assembly otter with every purchase.

A different kind of doorstepper . Thank you to @damians78s.bsky.social for this morning's #FoxOfTheDay

He aced his cognitive test, you know.

I habitually check BBC News every morning. The In Depth political section is "What would a Reform government look like?" They're friggin' obsessed.

Climate crisis latest! More heat in the atmosphere means a higher frequency of extreme weather events... which is probably why my house flooded last night. They've known about this since 1954 - and carried on regardless - so I'll invoice Shell and Esso for the clean up. Hope you're all dry!

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Watched from above . . . Thanks to @joshface.bsky.social for this morning's #FoxOfTheDay

On Farage, the economy and how spent he looks when he can’t work the Maga playbook www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

And with no hint of shame, humility or personal responsibility, the Tory who detonated the economy with his mini budget and whose party trashed the place with austerity and Brexit, then scorched the earth with unaffordable pre-election tax cuts, tells Reeves to apologise. Insufferable. (iPaper)

⚠️ "I'm told that calling the left the party of murder, and saying violence is coming, and you better fight back or you die, is not enough to prosecute this odious man. But we don't have to do business with him, do we?"

Yesterday marked the anniversary of Trump's re-election, and one year later, voters are rejecting Trump and his hateful policies and ideology at the ballot box. This is great news for democracy and can fill us with hope!🎉

‘Honest’ Bob JenPrick has got more front than Brighton, the little CockSpittle… 😡😡

Liftoff for Ariane 6 on flight #VA265 carrying the @CopernicusEU Sentinel-1D satellite to space.

There is no bandwagon Robert Jenrick cannot spot and try to take advantage of This, after complaining that Birmingham is full of foreigners

The FTSE 100 is now higher than the end of yesterday. This is markets, again, backing what Rachel Reeves said once they had time to consider what she'd said. Up over 20% since Labour came to power and at record levels.

Thread. Shouldn’t need saying but apparently it does.

This wife talking about her husband becoming radicalised by Farage and those like him really is quite extraordinary in its heartbreaking understatement. "He absolutely wanted it to be [a terrorist attack]. The grin on his face. He wanted an I-told-you-so."

🇺🇸 Former UK Ambassador to the USA Lord Darroch: "We are seeing Trump Unleashed: no filters, no guardrails, and the belief that the usual rules - the checks and balances, the decisions of judges and courts - don’t apply to him." https://substack.com/home/post/p-177979877

Once again, this isn’t journalism. It’s stroking the ego of a politician who’s done great national harm. WhyTF should we take Farage seriously? Just because he wants power? Even more reason for ruthless scrutiny. His track record is racist and ruinous. Any serious journalist would say so. (iPaper)

"This is ancient history." That is all Reform have to say about their former Welsh leaders links to the Kremlin. No accountability. As unpatriotic as you can get.

All power and a full recovery to Samir Zitouni, the absolute best of us. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

"And though Farage laments the lack of greater control over fish, the blunt truth is that the biggest cost to the UK’s fishing industry has come from the loss of regulatory alignment with the EU on animal health standards" https://bit.ly/47Fytf9

I'm just asking questions.

Finally. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cr5e723qv0no

The wait is over 🙏🏼

As always , only the comfiest spots will do . Thank you to @theresamcmanus.bsky.social for this morning's #FoxOfTheDay

Farage is predicting a General Election in 2027. I predict there won't be and, as usual, he's spouting headline grabbing horse shite.

The beautiful real-time motion of the aurora

Whenever doubters tell you the super-rich can't be taxed, show them this ... 👇

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The naked racism on display from the usual suspects over the train stabbings is outrageous. You'd think white Brits had never committed a crime. Ian Brady, Fred and Rose West, Myra Hindley, Peter Sutcliffe, Harold Shipman and countless others would all pass the Matt Goodwin test of Britishness.

Well-meaning Americans in my mentions: kindly do not recommend extremely illegal actions that could land people in the UK with a ten year prison sentence

Good to see unelected gobshite Zia Yusuf on the Laura Kuenssberg show. For a moment there I thought they might go for a week without representing a party with ONLY FIVE MPs!

The Daily Express has been fined 'nine times' so far this year by IPSO over inaccurate headlines but you would never know it. When will the UK press be properly punished for deliberately publishing disinformation? #IPSOfail

Funny* isn't that the Media complain about the 15% payrise for Train Drivers over 3 years, or the 22% payrise for Doctors over 3 years. But they ignore the 76% payrise for CEO's over the last 5 years, or the 38% payrise for Bankers in 1 year. *Disgusting

Re-joining would change the game for Labour and it's the only game in town. No amount of fiddling around the edges will fix it." @therejoineuparty.com londonlovesbusiness.com/labour-needs...

Daniel Hannan was born in Peru.

And by "our borders" I assume you mean in Dubai, the country you live in.

Sir John Curtice - Indepedent pollster - confirms what we all already know. The Labour Government need to stop doing everything Farage wants them to do. The much bigger challenge to Keir Starmer is the Green Party. Lower bills. Tax billionaires. www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/1...

“There is a concerted effort to turn this into a positive story about the monarchy bravely ejecting this one bad apple. I find it bizarre that there is no serious discussion of whether we must also look at how inherited privilege passes to and is used by unsuitable, undeserving people. Not a peep.”

▪️ If it's an immigrant... "See!" ▪️ If it's not an immigrant, but they're not white (or don't have a white British name)... "See! Next generation of immigrants!" ▪️ If it's a white guy with a British name... "See! See what these immigrants made good peaceful people do?!"

Can we please not have Farage wriggle out of this one. His denial is not where this should end. He’s up to his grubby neck in dodgy shite. Beyond time our media stopped handing him free passes and started to properly scrutinise him.

Hannan and Frost in the Telegraph. Sunak in the Times. Kwasi Kwarteng in the iPaper. Johnson in the Mail. Gove editing the Spectator. Farage everywhere. All of them shamelessly honking out their ‘Listen to me!’ garbage, as the country flails around in the unbelievable mess they’ve made. Nauseating.

Jesus Christ. We go mad about one bloke we wrongly released, yet hear next to nothing about this horror? www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Serious material. Light touch. Fresh analysis. Nuanced conversation. Human warmth. In short, all the stuff that is sorely lacking from most political programmes.

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