Now more details in the Epstein files reveal Bannon as part of a successful plot to topple Theresa May with Nigel Farage, Boris Johnson and Jacob Rees Mogg, here’s an article from the archive about Johnson and Bannon’s collaboration bylinetimes.com/2023/04/24/b...

The same people who tell us “oh, dear boy, you don’t understand” when reassuring us about Palantir embedding itself in the British state were almost exactly the same people who told us Russian interference, Cambridge Analytica and phone hacking were just ‘conspiracy theories’

😠😠😠😠😠😠😠😠😠 Funny how the media is baying for the blood of one man, but nods through this b’stard!

Many commentators promised high and low that Trump would, in fact, be a benefit to Britain. I would now like them all pulled into a studio and made to account for where their assertions came from. Preferably while squirming.

One of the best things about Bearly Politics is the people around it. This reader contribution from @metaphorqu.bsky.social is thoughtful, generous, and deeply relevant to where we are right now. While I've been critical about the government, this did make me stop and think. 🐻

Just putting this out there as someone who adopted a dog from the Dog's Trust, but the "Buddy" Christmas and is perfect.

@danneidle.bsky.social and the team at Tax Policy Associates have been sharing their attached calculator - and it is a fantastic piece of work. Having had a look at what a 2p increase in taxes would mean for my own income, it is, honestly, minimal and easily absorbable on a monthly basis.

Dripping tap. Two hours to identify the correct cylinder valve part, £10 each. 48 hours waiting on 24 HR delivery from Royal Mail, 10 minutes to replace.

Took the boy to the beach today, I think he was enjoying it

Farage insists Reform isn’t racist. I’ve got 20 documented cases that say otherwise. When the fringe and the manifesto sing the same tune, you don’t have a crank problem - you have a culture problem.

Calling Reform racist isn’t slander. It’s maths. 20 incidents. 18 months. 1 Farage in a permanent huff.

The Tabloid Witch Hunt of Rayner: This isn’t just about tax. It’s about women being hounded and investigated for years as men who routinely do worse are ignored… I have the receipts to prove it and if the “crimes” aren’t there? Well, they just invent them. youtu.be/bVd2fReoS8Y

My weekend deep dive in which I blame your nan for the state of the country (not really).

I wonder if a Labour govt minister will register the legitimate concerns of the counter protesters who object to the racist intimidation of immigrants and asylum seekers?

The threat to our society is not from asylum seekers in small boats. It’s from politicians and media cynically whipping up fear and prejudice, labelling them all as criminals, inciting hatred against people for where and what they’ve fled from. It must stop. For all our sakes. It’s deeply sinister.

The House of Lords is the only legislative chamber in the world into which you can all but openly buy a place. It's a feudal anachronism and it's long overdue for abolition.

The case for abolition of the House of Lords in a nutshell: Michelle Mone, Shaun Bailey, Ben Houchen and Evgeny Lebedev. And Charlotte Owen.

Watching saving lives at sea. Heroes every one of them.

Israel is deliberately starving Palestinian children to death. It cannot be sugar coated. It is a fact - an engineered famine - and it’s abhorrent. #Genocide #Gaza

And also just a quick thank you to everyone who has supported me into making it to the finish line, which is now within touching distance. I am very grateful. 🐻

Ed Davey being quite excellent on the BBC this morning.

There’s a myth doing the rounds about the founding of the NHS - and it’s doing so for a reason. A brief history of the founding of the NHS and why commentators on the right are very keen on revising it.

'A Tower of strength' St Michael's tower on Glastonbury Tor at sunrise.

This really is not getting the attention it should. The Tories' latest proposal is to exclude *any household that includes any foreign national from any benefit*. And when asked about it, they keep citing small boat crossings - a minute fraction of migration - to justify it. ~AA

Hospitals are supposed to be where the suffering stops. In Gaza, they are where the killing continues. Channel 4's Gaza: Doctors Under Attack has exposed a terror campaign that sends a horrifying message: No One Is Safe. Not Even Here.

This is absolutely brilliant satire that succinctly explains how the Daily Mail radicalises people.

Rediscovering the simple pleasure of home baked bread

Another uneducated MAGA idiot

I kind of think this should be bigger news Cc @skynews @bbcnews @itvnews @lbc @BBCNewsnight @BBCBreakfast @bbc5live

On the anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic, we thought we'd answer a question that's often asked, "If they raised the Mary Rose, why not raise the Titanic?" Allow our scaled diagram to explain...

@stevebraysodem.bsky.social found not guilty. #BrexitBrokeBritain www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...

Well, well, well. 🧐 www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/uk-worl...

A little while ago, my parents' cat Bridget went missing. As the weeks dragged on, they became extremely worried. My dad devised a way to distract himself: he began to paint Bridget's adventures, imagining her travelling through time and popping up in some of art and music's most iconic scenes.

Exciting news (for me) thanks to @listifications.app someone called @fresh-newlook.bsky.social has just blocked me and I have no recall of any interaction with them. Do they hate dogs? Is analytical chemistry not their thing? What could it be🤔🤣🤣

I don't recall the police arresting anyone planning the various farmer/tractor disruptions in London.

Correct me if I'm mistaken, but this very alarming story has been 100% ignored by the big press outlets in the UK. Surely this sets a very unfortunate precedent, I grew up srrounded by Quakers, they're not exactly known for acts of violence, literally the opposite. www.quaker.org.uk/news-and-eve...

The government has published their Pathways to Work: Reforming Benefits & Support to Get Britain Working Green Paper consultation. It is a very long document with supporting files. But please give it a read through. To much of the media is syphoning these plans down to a single word: 'cuts'. 1/2

On this afternoon's dog walk, saw my first butterfly of the season. I think it's a comma with ragged wings but Odin was too keen to keep snuffling so I had to keep walking.

Lilac before dawn. St Michael's tower on Glastonbury Tor.

👀 Gove is incredibly rattled and under pressure at this afternoon's covid inquiry hearing. It didn't take long for him to have a pop at us and our director, @jolyonmaugham.bsky.social Could it be something to do with this by any chance? 🧵 goodlawproject.org/michael-gove...

As Honest Bob Jenrick tours the country repeating far-right conspiracy talking points about “two-tier sentencing”, here is the letter his own government sent to the Sentencing Council last year approving the very Guidelines he now claims are evidence of “two-tier Keir”. The man is a fraud.

I hope it passes!!

one more time

The magic was all to the West this morning. This was taken about 30 minutes before sunrise on Glastonbury Tor.

The late Janey Godley was right. Blue Sky do your thing.

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The storm within. Photograph taken on Glastonbury Tor a little while ago.

If your romantic partner is not also your best friend, then what is the sodding point? inews.co.uk/opinion/part...

Despite endless stories that suggest the opposite, unemployment has stayed steady - & historically low at 4.4% The panic about too many people & too many of them being on benefits is misplaced. The problem is the wealth we all create goes only to the rich #r4today