If you receive legal threats from Nigel Farage for your reporting of Reform, please get in touch. We have employed a defamation lawyer specifically for this purpose and would love to help (and we do so on non-commercial terms). www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Farage really on the ropes there.

Curse of Private Equity. Four of UK's biggest dental firms have raked in £1.2bn gross profit over the past two years, Market controlled by My Dentist, PortmanDentex, Rodericks Dental, and Bupa Dental Services. Prices 3.5 times more than NHS dentist. No govt curbs profiteering.

If Belgium is doing this, why can’t we?

Newmarket MP Matt Hancock gave a £37bn Covid testing contract to Jockey Club director Dido Harding, who subcontracted it to Grand National sponsor Randox, employer of Tory MP Owen Paterson, whose late wife chaired Aintree racecourse. That's how the Tories handled the pandemic.

The Covid enquiry: “Too little, too late. Scientists ignored”. The Climate crisis: Too little, too late. Scientists being ignored. Maybe best for all if we simply ignore the self-serving anti-science deniers, most notably Trump, Farage, Tice, Reform U.K. in general, along with the US GOP.

Thank you for your service and your sacrifice. 🫶

UK electricity bills up 163% since 2008. Wages haven't. 6.1m households in fuel poverty, £4.43bn debt Profiteering: Energy sector average profit margin 23%, grid sector 38%, gas extraction 58%. Profit last year £30bn. 128,000 a year die in fuel poverty. No govt checks profiteering.

Morning everyone. Keeping track of Reform UK crashing the council clown car has become a daily compulsion for us. And it NEEDS to be daily, at this rate! Have a gander at this lovely lot, in our Reform Watch "Hall of Shame"... Details in the link in the thread below. ⬇️ #Reform'sHallOfShame

School pupils are to be taught how to tackle conspiracy theories, spot 'fake news' & root out misinformation. The Daily Mail, ajudged by Wikipedia to be an unreliable new source, is furious. You don't have to be Sherlock Holmes to work out why.

Today is a year since the devastating Valencia flash flood which killed 229 people. It was a climate change induced event, much as #Melissa is & also the extreme floods in Da Nang, Vietnam yesterday. Why then are the climate deniers esp. in Reform U.K. not being challenged? 🤔

Well we don't have dodge bullets at school. Or ICE thugs coming to kidnap us if we don't have white skin. Or soldiers marching down the streets, dropping tear gas bombs from helicopters, for literally no reason at all. So it's not quite as hard as growing up in the USA.

Conservative MP Mel Stride claims PIP benefit is thousands of pounds per month. No it is an absolute maximum of £720 a month, and most people only get £250 or less. Meanwhile he claims £1,250 a month in rent on his expenses Lying, thieving b******

"15 years ago, Polish workers came here to find opportunity. Now Poland is growing twice as fast as we are," says Kemi Badenoch. Any ideas what may have happened in the interim?

Obama's Legacy The moment 45 million poor Americans get affordable healthcare because of the Affordable Care Act.

🔴 Conservatives Accused of ‘Trumpian’ Tactics After Barring Second Byline Times Journalist From Conference Veteran award-winning investigative journalist David Hencke has attended Conservative party conference since 1987 but is now hundreds of pounds out of pocket after being blocked from attending

Do read all of this.

Amazing bit of 2019 footage this. Frei doing a great job of trying to hold Farage to account as he and Nathan Gill go walkabout. And I suspect Farage will come to regret his quip at the end about Russians if it does the rounds again.

I wonder if this guy is related to "Boris Johnson" who introduced "voter id" as Prime Minister in 2023 ... off the back of some crazy US conspiracy theories ... and in the process, made digital ID pretty much inevitable.

The Davis Downside Dossier David Davis famously said there would be no downsides to Brexit only considerable upsides - so we started recording them. yorkshirebylines.co.uk/regular-feat...

We must publicise more the hypocrisy of Reform. Farage got Brexit which ended freedom of movement, and immediately got himself a Belgium passport so that it didn't affect him. Tice rails against renewables yet installs solar panels and other green measures in his companies buildings to save money.

Ed Davey, "It's so frustrating, so infuriating that Nigel Farage gets such an easy ride from the media" "As he lies, as he divides, the BBC and others given Farage so much time and attention" "But they never hold him to account for all the damage he has already done" "The damage of Brexit"

Farage’s plan to scrap indefinite leave could collapse the NHS… Which would be incredibly good news for someone wanting us to move to an ‘insurance based system’ FYI the average American pays £480 per month for private healthcare Please wake up folks.

One week ago: Trump departs after luxuriating in an unprecedented Second State visit. Today: Trump attacks the UK on the floor of the UN. Labour's diplomatic efforts are bearing fruit already. 👏 👏 👏 Who could have predicted that Trump would turn out to be mercurial and untrustworthy?

....and with his left hand 😬....dear god

Why is the right so angry? They control the entire government and they’re still miserable f*cks. Joy Reid nailed it.

Welcome to England Mr Trump. We hate you this much.

Mark Payne stabbed a 14 year old boy multiple times nearly killing him, he was convicted of Attempted Murder but only spent 4 years in jail. He also sexually harrassed two teenage girls. Now he is out on streets 'protecting women and girls'. These people ARE the threat.

Oh.

Beauty. Freedom. Goodnight Blue Sky

This is awesome

I look forward to Nadine Dorries squaring her frequent & frenzied attempts to get me fired for telling the truth about her absurdity & awfulness with her new party’s commitment to ‘free speech’.

On the basis of what I've seen tonight, we should all chip in to send Farage back to the USA every few weeks. They tore into him in Congress like nobody has ever done in Britain. Deer in headlights are models of composure compared to Mr Squirmy. Do yourself a favour. Track down some of the clips.

Racism has cost the UK yet another nurse. This will be the cost, you will be left with racist thugs and no healthcare.

Labour enabled this. There's no other possible conclusion.

If you don't understand the real implications of this, you must be a fool, or a Deform supporter. Sorry, they're the same thing.

It's ridiculous isn't it. Nigel Farage can negotiate with the Taliban, but he can't talk to his constituents in Clacton. Because it is too dangerous.

Reform MP says they will negotiate with the Taliban.

Refreshingly brisk on farming & inheritance tax from Guy Singh-Watson, hitherto owner of Riverford Farm. Riverford, now owned by its employees, had a turnover of £113m in 2023-24 and made a profit of £5.7m. He’s been awarded farmer of the year by the BBC twice. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

The utter hypocrisy and exceptionalism shown here is outstanding but sadly not uncommon for the ‘British enclaves’ in Spain British immigrants in Benidorm who no doubt can’t speak the language, mix and mingle only with British people, bemoaning immigration to the UK 🥴

This is all becoming very dangerous and the Government's failure to show any kind of resistance to it is a disgrace www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

When Spain announced a wealth tax there was the usual outcry. Two years on, the predicted exodus of the rich has not materialised. There are actually MORE of them. https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/aug/16/spain-put-up-wealth-taxes-pandemic-billionaires-stayed

2025: Nigel Farage says tells Downing Street that he wants unelected Reform candidates to be in the House of Lords 2011: Nigel Farage says unelected officials do not have any democratic legitimacy

Brexit red tape has completely changed my business.... Since Brexit, trading with our largest export markets - Italy and Spain - has become so much harder. It used to take about a week to get a pallet of salt from Anglesey to Bologna, and now it takes up to three months. @WalesforEurope

New tax data has allayed fears of a mass non-dom exodus from the UK following Labour’s crackdown on their tax status www.thelondoneconomic.com/politics/no-...

This former model, with no background in history, has been put in charge of curating what is "appropriate" at the National Museum of African American History.

Again: shock.

Every day, politicians and the right wing media whip up hatred and fear of migrants. None of them say this is wrong. None of them make the positive case for immigration. None of them tell the truth. And then, today, someone did speak out, and the sodding BBC sodding apologised for them. I give up.