Our latest tactical voting advice to stop Reform: stopreformuk.vote/parl/gorton-... Parliamentary by-election 26th Feb 2026 🟢 Gorton & Denton = GREEN #Manchester #ByElection

So great to see Mandelson and Global Counsel introducing Epstein to Vincent Tchenguiz, an early investor in SCL (Cambridge Analytica parent company) and co-founder of a company with indicted oligarch Firtash jmail.world/thread/EFTA0...

If you're in need of some bedtime reading, this is quite a thorough account of Firtash and Tchenguiz, with interesting supporting actors.

Cemented locks and deflated diggers: the war over privately run allotments

When Norfolk Police ask Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor if he has any special dietary requirements whilst in custody:

Observation: leaders praise Trump, but then add their conditions to their pledges. Qatar: FM/PM says they’ll donate $1B but add a condition of Palestine statehood Turkey: demands 2-state solution Albania: asks to free former Kosovo President prosecuted by ICC Morocco: demands Palestine ownership

🇮🇹 #Italy, the Winter Olympic hosts, has called for a reversal of the decision to let 10 Russian and Belarusian athletes compete with national flags and anthems at next month’s Paralympic Games. www.theguardian.com/sport/2026/f...

A great post by the excellent @writesbright.bsky.social. Do read it. writesbright.substack.com/p/media-dera...

@mrjamesob.bsky.social Bedford CC dealing with the bigots like an absolute boss.

"This is a disgrace" Hillary Clinton shamed #Trump over Ukraine Clinton outraged by Trump's actions Clinton points out that the conflict in Ukraine stems from Putin's desire to control the 🇺🇦 people, condemning the exploitation of suffering for profit #Ukraine #Russia news.online.ua/en/this-is-a...

Reform’s new “head of policy” has said Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is a “regional Slavic conflict”. He added: “It is a conflict happening in the world that I don’t care very much about.”

Fact Check: Nigel Farage claims the FT ignored the Mandelson-Epstein scandal it was on the front page for SIX days (long before he appears to have even noticed it)

Reform’s Matt Goodwin, candidate in the Gorton & Denton by-election, received a salary from a Far Right propaganda group linked to Hungary’s Orban. Details below.

The Trump administration has paid $128.5 mn for a warehouse in Social Circle, GA, which it now proposes to convert into a concentration camp. Only 2 yers ago, the facility was acquired for $29 mn by a Moscow-based real estate company, PNK.

👏 Ukraine regains over 200 sq km in five days – AFP

Senior Reform UK figures attend launch of How to Launder Money book www.theguardian.com/politics/202... Following the dirty money.....

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🇬🇧 A Good Law Project investigation has uncovered a network funded by Hungary’s authoritarian leader Viktor Orbán, that uses profits from refining Russian oil to platform far right and anti-trans campaigners in the UK. goodlawproject.org/putins-megap... #Russia #Britain

Oh look! We’re talking about immigration again! Instead of corruption money & pedos permeating our politics! 🤩 Brilliant! www.youtube.com/watch?v=OhZk...

Bath Abby in Bath, Great Britain #WindowsOnWednesday #Photography #Monochrome #B&W #Architecture #Interiors 📷

Really enjoyed this conversation about lobbying, influence and money in politics with James and Ethan on @lrb.co.uk podcast

Jamie Raskin says Trump’s name appears in the Epstein files “thousands and thousands of times.” Trump loves slapping his name on everything—so let’s be accurate. They’re not the Epstein Files. They’re the Donald J. Trump Epstein Files.

NEW: Special Report | Russia’s FPV drone campaign in Ukraine institutionalizes intentional civilian harm as a tool of war (1/5)  Read more: isw.pub/RussiaFPV Key Takeaways ⬇️

Farage got it wrong. We don’t trade more outside the EU, we trade less. Farmers are not better off (exports down 40%) fishermen are not better off - our whole country is not better off.  cepr.org/voxeu/column...

Failing to pursue closer integration with the EU creates tension with the Government’s growth ambitions. The Brexit impact on GDP per person may be bigger than feared; the impact on GDP per person may well sit above 4 per cent already. Read more ➡️ buff.ly/VWHNFCb

Regressive Taxation. Wages taxed at marginal rates of 20% to 45% + National Insurance. Capital gains taxed at 18% to 32%: dividends taxed at 8.75% to 39.35%; No NIC levied. Successive govts appease the rich. Difference in rates/NIC fuels tax abuse industry, public purse robbed of billions.

Before Labour gets blamed for this (as Mandelson is connected) this huge NHS data contract went to US billionaire-funded Palantir. Under Sunak in 2023. The US can’t even look after their own, no business should be given to them by the UK. www.theguardian.com/society/2023...

McSweeney has resigned Source: Sky News 🚨 Breaking News

I warned Starmer about Mandelson. My wife Bunty did So did Dean our paperboy Ramrod our Lab did. Jill in the village shop baked some warning baps for him & Simple Sally, who helps Jill, warned him using dance & spit. Ronnie Pickering warned him. So did Chaka Demus. And Pliers. Why didn’t he LISTEN?🤦🏻‍♂️

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Dominic Dyer: @number10cat.bsky.social Larry the Cat will have been in Downing Street 15 years next week, he is the most stable thing about British politics these days

I deleted my post from before… I thought it was fake So I went to WH Smith and here it is An unbelievable attempt to sanitise this man and normalise what’s he’s done.

People will continue to cycle in the rain if you provide the infrastructure to make it safe and comfortable for them to do so. The greenery alongside cuts the risk of flooding, as well as improving the look of the street.

Mass reports of Russian operations paralyzed at the front in the aftermath of losing Starlink. "Command and control of troops at the front is virtually paralyzed.

I present the most interesting graph ever made. HUMAN ON BICYCLE beats every other living thing. www.scientificamerican.com/article/a-hu...

Zack Polanski, "Ultimately it does come down to Keir Starmer" "This sort of chaos is not a good thing for the country" "You learn as politician that you have to take responsibility for the decisions that you make" "This is above politics, it is about protecting our democratic institutions"

This is Nigel Farage with Nick Candy, the treasurer of Reform UK 👇 Candy appears numerous times in the Epstein files over more than a decade, The National has uncovered. The Scottish Greens are putting pressure on Reform to explain the links.

Breaking News! Code Yikes! Current global sea surface temperatures now rank 3rd hottest on record, as of Feb. 4, 2026, or about 4.36 standard deviations above the 1982-2011 mean (first 30 years of data). The Climate 8-ball says, "F&%kery ahead!"

Everybody knows it was an Israeli operation. But they aren't allowed to say that.

icymi here’s the story from last Sunday of how FT revealed the money trail from Epstein to Mandelson’s husband and then to the former ambassador himself

Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again. #Pinks #ProudBlue

Krishnan Guru-Murthy, "Was Epstein a Russian agent?" Andrei Kelin, "I have no information" Krishnan Guru-Murthy, "Perhaps you benefit?" Andrei Kelin, "Why? We are serious people" *His smirk at the end says it all*

Snowdrops are not indigenous to Britain, & likely introduced around the 1500s, but now fully naturalised They likely began their life here in monastery herb gardens, perhaps used medicinally They have long been linked to celebrating light's victory over darkness

Sure the 🇬🇧 media will be all over this 🙄 #farage #reformUK “Without foreign money and a complicit UK media, Nigel Farage would still be working in the City as a low-level commodities trader. And the United Kingdom would be an altogether greener and more pleasant land.”

Footage from a residential district of Zaporizhzhia that was struck by the Russians.

"I admire Ukraine": EU Ambassador Maternowa on Russia's night attack "Today, I slept in the bathroom. Again. It was a very noisy night. Russia attacked heat and electricity facilities. This is not a side effect of the war.

NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte: Putin has long thought he could wait us out, that Ukraine was weak, that your supporters would grow weary, that our will would falter. He was gravely mistaken. Ukraine is strong, and our support is unwavering.

Evidence from recent Russian missile attacks points toward mostly new missiles being used, implying that the Kremlin has finally burned through stockpiles.

“There is essentially a global wave of governments being captured by big money, whether that’s big crypto money or big tech money." *Really* recommend this interview I did with @oliverbullough.bsky.social on how money laundering is taking over the world www.youtube.com/watch?v=uEkK...