I think the White House badly underestimates the strength of the pan-European folk memory of 1930s appeasement, and how deep it still cuts. I suppose this is what happens when you learn in school that WW2 started in 1941 in Hawaii.

Thanks to Brexit, we no longer have to put up with unelected bureaucrats. In other news, the new leader of Reform in Scotland is Lord Malcolm Offord, totally unelected in any capacity whatsoever and appointed as leader by me alone. Still, it's only Scotland.

This photo was taken in 1911 using glass plate technology by Herbert Ponting who was part of Scott's Antarctic expedition, The composition and detail are exquisite with the band of white snow/ice creating a perfect frame around the two people and the ship in the distance Iconic imo

It will not surprise you to learn that Toby Youngs 'Free Speech Union' has obtained a High Court injunction banning the publication of a list of its donors open.substack.com/pub/democrac...

Copenhagen town hall square, Denmark right now. Massive solidarity with Greenland demonstrations. Source: dr.dk

. They’re looking into her background to try to find a way to retroactively justify the guy shooting her in the face through her car in a lynching

The Norwegian Nobel Prize committee has been forced to make a statement, declaring that the prize cannot be transferred. It's hard even to comprehend how stupid this has become

NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte: We saw just last week the use of the Oreshnik missile on Lviv&continued attacks on civilian&energy infrastructure.Russia is trying to deter us from supporting #Ukraine, but we will not be deterred. …Ukraine's security is our security.

According to UN human rights monitors,2025 was the deadliest yr for civilians in #Ukraine since 2022.Russia killed at least 2,514 civilians&injured over 12,000-far more than in 2023 or 2024 97%of these casualties happened in Ukrainian-controlled areas from attacks by Russians,MFA of Ukraine stated

I am delighted to welcome Nadhim Zahawi to Reform UK. He will bring useful experience, such as claiming £6,000 to heat his stables and avoiding £3.7m tax by hiding £27m offshore and threatening to sue anyone who asked about it.

Ffs. These people are without shame. All grunting around in the trough demanding peerages and then sulking off to Reform: home from home for corrupt Tory millionaires who’ve already had one long go at screwing us over and think they deserve another shot. They can all go to hell.

I don’t think we should have ceded control quite so quickly and without so much as a fight.

.@gideonrachman is right. This would be the flex. Europe has cards to play. But will it choose to play them?

This should be a legal requirement for being allowed to sell networked devices. Bose open-sources its SoundTouch home theater smart speakers ahead of end-of-life

This was sunflower oil rather than petroleum. Food production.

One of the first things a Farage government will do will be to make sure "the young are taught correctly about our history," and if that doesn't set off all manner of alarm bells then it should. (MAIL)

So Boris Johnson, Prince Phillip, Andrew Bonar Law, Freddie Mercury, George I, George II, Richard E Grant, Douglas Carswell, Rudyard Kipling, Cliff Richard, Joanna Lumley and Spike Milligan weren't British? Interesting www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Zelenskyy to Putin, 2022: "Do you still think that we are "one people"? Do you still think that you can scare us, break us, make us make concessions? ... Don't you understand who we are? What we are for? What we are talking about? Read [my] lips: Without gas or without you? Without you.

Great to have such an enthusiastic support for rejoining Erasmus from the Vice Chancellor of Oxford University on #t4today No stupid questions about whether this was anti-Brexit. Just unequivocal celebration of the chance to broaden our horizons again. A step on the road back to sanity.

This is what true patriotism looks like! A sad middle aged man, puffed up to look like Rod Stewart & an immigrant himself, eating ‘English’ grub in an Islamic country whilst slagging off the UK, Islam and migrants. Charlie Muggins: Our Fluff Our Stain Our Belch Our Stray Pube. 🇬🇧

Why can't immigrants who come to the UK integrate as well as this?

A reminder that this is the same man who has just spent the past week calling all the Jewish victims of his own horrific anti-semitic abuse liars

From Kim Darroch, British Ambassador to the US, 2016-19. Author of Collateral Damage: #Britain, America and #Europe in the Age of #Trump

Three weeks without a Reform representative on Laura Kuenssberg! Anyone would think we were avoiding questions about election fraud, MEPs taking Russian bribes, me being a racist bully at school, Reform officials calling LBGT people nonces or my dodgy house purchase.

I grew up in the 70s and 80s. If you weren't there, just a little clarification on that Spectator piece. Literally, NOBODY admired Hitler. Apart from nazis. Hope that helps.

This. Hitler was always the baddie for the vast majority. Songs sung about him were mocking ones, not paeans or Hitler Youth ones. Farage's boyhood professed admiration for him was neither normal nor mainstream, so Spectator columnists trying to make out otherwise is shocking.

I can’t be proud of any Britain that wants Farage in power and flies flags to express nationalist inadequacy.

Meanwhile Robin Ince genuinely has been cancelled for daring to voice his opinions and for defending trans people. Where's the outrage from the "cancel culture" lot? What are the Free Speech Union doing to help him?

Gutted. Infinite Monkey Cage is by far my favourite radio show. But also, the BBC shouldn’t be pushing out people with morals. None of this is OK. I’m sad for Robin, sad for the show, sad for the fans, and sad for all the many people the BBC is too scared to support.

The very same commentators that spent years condemning anti-semitism in UK politics as a major national scandal, have suddenly lost interest now that it implicates one of their own www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/the-farage...

This is what large-scale supply chain protection looks like in the age of drones. A large Ukrainian anti-drone tunnel over logistics routes stretches for more than 40km.

Word of the day, should you be feeling a little huffish, is ‘apanthropy’ (18th century): a love of solitude and the desire to be away from other people.

I have never been able to figure out right wing Christians. If Jesus was around today saying the things he said then, they'd hate him and call him a commie/marxist.

"His problem: Once someone makes a successful jailbreak, all the other prisoners know a jailbreak is possible. This changes the conversation in the prison yard. Guards are eyed differently, the warden’s mystique is diminished." www.wsj.com/opinion/trum...

Dictators like Trump depend upon fear to enforce loyalty. Once defections start, it can be hard to get people back into line. In the last month or so, we’ve seen defections from MTG, all of Congress on Epstein and leaders on Venezuela, and Indiana on gerrymandering. That’s a sea change.

What the fuck have i just watched

The Lt. Gov. of Indiana has now deleted this post which confirmed that the Trump admin threatened to withhold federal funding from Indiana if they didn’t gerrymander.

I remember going to see him in panto as Mother Goose in Edinburgh over 40 years ago!

Russia Hails Trump’s New National Security Strategy as ‘Consistent With Our Vision’ www.mediaite.com/media/news/r...

Piers Morgan saying “the woke brigade are the least tolerant …” - it’s almost like some are so intolerant they make a fuss about all the girls raped with Epstein circle or that the US president is legally a sexual predator - Christ, it’s like they wouldn’t even give a rapist a break, bloody Nazis

Three more British MEPs in Nigel Farage’s bloc now alleged to have “followed the script” given to Nathan Gill by an alleged Russian asset, according to prosecutors. At least eight UKIP and Brexit Party MPs were focus of efforts by Nathan Gill www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Shamina Begum must be held accountable for her actions when she was 15. Whereas I should not, because I was a mere child.

No Reform representative on the Laura Kuenssberg show for two weeks running - that's a record! It's almost as though we didn't want to talk about the 28 witnesses to my teenage racism and antisemic abuse.

The key with all this stuff is that you want the AI to do the grunt work, the boring shit, and reserve all the creative thoughtful stuff for yourself. So basically take the precise opposite approach to the way we usually talk about it.

There is sooo much wrong with the UK's media and politics.

Brace yourself, but it appears that when it comes to emigration, the Mail and the Telegraph may be full of ***t www.economist.com/britain/2025... From The Economist

Yep, he wants nothing but deregulating crypto to help his crypto business and scrapping net zero to help his aviation fuel business. Which by pure coincidence are two of our policies.

All those on @lbc.co.uk (presenters and callers) defending Nigel Farage should remember that he was actually sacked from LBC (contract not renewed) because of racism towards Black people (using the BLM movement as a proxy): www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/scottis...