With friends like Peter Mandelson...

Another merchant vessel is struck. No further details as to if this is a dedicated attack, or a case of innocent bystander. Either way, attacks on merchant vessels are abhorrent. These are just regular people at work. They should not have to deal with this. #Hormuz #IranWar

👀 TheyWorkForYou tracks MPs' voting records and found that Nigel Farage has missed 77 votes in Parliament in a row. He last voted against draft regulations for the Employment Rights Act 2025 on the 18th of March. https://votes.theyworkforyou.com/person/26352/votes/2026

As misleading headlines go, that has to be up there with some of the worst! As is the claim that "Immigration is fuelling mass unemployment among under-25s." The "shocking new study" does NOT show that at all 🙄 🧵 1/21

@mrjamesob.bsky.social I’m not going to as you said previously Craig David it but is truly regular like clockwork, peace on Friday war on Monday

BBC statement on the non-story that's being pushed by Lord Ashcroft to promote his Farage biography “We do not ban any individuals from appearing on Desert Island Discs and that includes Mr Farage.” also - Ashcroft isn't most reliable of sources (think the “pig's head” claims in Call Me Dave)

Incidentally, Desert Island Discs had Diana Mosley on, so it’s hardly averse to having monsters on the show. And yes, she did choose some Wagner. (Die Walküre, naturally)

It’s such obvious bollocks. But it gets reported widely because hardly anybody knows any better any more.

Robert Kenyon is Reform UK councillor for Bryn with Ashton-in-Makerfield North (Wigan Council). He was a candidate in the 4 July 2024 general election, and he still wants to become a Reform MP. But this is the best he can do when asked about workers’ rights?

Can't we just drop him £75 quid in Cameo and get him to say whatever we want?

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Should we have a whip round? Drop a few million quid in his current account. Secretly. And then ask him politely to do his fucking job? Or shall we wait for the donors & disgraced Tories in his ‘top team’ to do it instead?

This magnificent campaign becomes more important by the minute. Crucial research here.

Drawing of the inimitable “Wayne In Basildon” @waynelynch.bsky.social Dip pen on watercolour paper.

The Lib Dems have written to the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) saying it is 'unthinkable' that there would be no full investigation if Nigel Farage's phone had been hacked, as he claims www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...

They are all collated on my website - ashoro.co.uk#overview and I think they spill onto he Media page too 😀

Off subject: Reference the Mystery Hour podcast Thursday May the 28th and the enquiry about the sequence of words Jerry and Tom and Hardy and Laurel ... this clipping from six years ago "one of the unwritten rules of English native speakers". Wish I had listened live. I would have 'phoned in.

Wait, has @mrjamesob.bsky.social just teased the return of " @henryriley1.bsky.social Reads An Erotic Novel Written By A Reform Member"!? @lbc.co.uk

So that’s two of the “Raise the Colours” organisers now charged with violent crimes & a fifth of the 2024 race rioters with domestic abuse. Makes you wonder whether “innocent patriotism” & “protecting women & girls” are just covers for thuggish racism & misogyny?

@mrjamesob.bsky.social baffled by Reform’s response about ‘vile’ Facebook posts eastangliabylines.co.uk/party-politi...

Nine of the more repellent things that Reform UK candidate in the Makerfield by-election Robert Kenyon has posted on social media in recent years.

This is where the whole, male anger / inceldom stems from being politically neglected / economically deprived / societally disenfranchised thing falls apart. They're the most privileged subsect of society and they're full of *hate*

I mean, Matthew Goodwin was available!

I’ve lost track of all the mad and bad things that Reform’s Makerfield candidate has said. From misogyny to absurd conspiracy theories and pro-Russia propaganda. What’s amazing is this is their top candidate. The guy they have chosen to fight the biggest by-election in living memory. This guy.

Follow this: First, Trump quietly buys up to $5 million of Dell stock. Then, he urges his followers to “go out and buy a Dell.” Today, his Pentagon awards a $9.7 billion deal to Dell. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

EXCL Reform MP under fire for helping 'Britain's biggest benefits cheat' who swindled £740,000 get bungalow in now-deleted video Ethel McGill claimed her father war pension and benefits for 12 years after he died, pleaded guilty to 14 charges @mrjamesob.bsky.social www.lbc.co.uk/article/refo...

I think this might be the single most viscerally disgusting act of either of Trump's presidencies. Truly, utterly, vile.

Evening.

Remember, @mrjamesob.bsky.social when you were discussing Trump and wrestling/UFC? Well, this is where we are now. The *actual* president.

I’m surprised to see this from YouGov. It’s a perfect example of how not to ask a polling question. “Clean energy” can be – and in most instances is – “cheaper energy”.

“The creatures outside…” open.spotify.com/episode/5VR4...

Roll up! Roll up!

Final part of the JK Rowling story. If you've ever wanted a fair assessment of some of the claims on this issue - from male pattern criminality to women in sport - this is for you. We take each of the statements Rowling has made and assess it empirically. Some of it stands up. Most of it doesn't.

Boom.

Read this book!

2000 words on Hitler & Mussolini ‘competing for the right wing vote’, please. Keep it friendly. We need to maintain access to both of them…

Just in case you’re feeling even vaguely optimistic about anything right now, please note that two UK political parties populated & led by profoundly racist people are currently being described as merely ‘right-wing’ in pretty much every corner of the UK media. This is how the worst stuff happens…

@mrjamesob.bsky.social Just seen your #FullDisclosure with #FernBrittan Fantastic hour; informative; entertaining; even educational, there are sh#ts in every industry so good to hear them getting their comeuppance.

Ah, we have discovered his truest darkest secret

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Nigel Farage claims his £5 million crypto windfall was leaked by a Kremlin hacker, and the chinny reckon stretched to Thailand and back – 23 sceptical responses www.thepoke.com/2026/05/26/f...

@mrjamesob.bsky.social Unhinged headline???

Really, really enjoyed ‘Finding Emily’ last night. And not just because of the air conditioning in the cinema. A student romcom with very Mancunian sensibilities. Highly recommended.

1/4 I really don't think Trump even understands what he is saying now. To suggest that Saudi Arabia and Iran might both join the Abraham Accords in the current political climate shows a level of detachment from regional reality that is difficult to fathom. #IranWar #Trum #FantasyDiplomacy

Infamy! Infamy! They’ve all got it in for me…

"for now we must treat this claim as unsubstantiated unless and until some further information emerges". @ciaranm.bsky.social, former Chief Executive of the National Cyber Security Centre, on Farage's claims of Russian hacking. www.linkedin.com/posts/cyberc...

Is she lying for him or did he lie to her? Or both?