Full Farage

Dubai is one of the most explicitly geopolitical constructs on the planet

These are the kind of people who pay Boris Johnson £100,000 to make a speech.

Again, would love to put some of these questions to him myself, but Reform have banned Byline Times from attending any of their events

The opposite is 20 years of nation-destroying wars, right?

Spurs v Palace is The Wasted Opportunity Derby.

Slot is not wrong www.bbc.co.uk/sport/footba...

Six years ago, his principles were entirely different.

But apart from that...

Good. This isn't Spurs being precious. 1. That stuff is for actual 'bantz' accounts. 2. The PL shouldn't be indulging in such nonsense 3. All it does if fuel conspiracy theories about bias 4. Cry-laughing emojis should be banned for adults. 😂

It's looking increasingly likely that Enic's promise to 'rip up the wage structure' was referring to paying lower wages in the EFL. What a club.

Ah, so it's work-experience season at the PL.

From yesterday's Observer.

Manchester United fans unveiled a pro-immigration banner during Sunday’s fixture against Crystal Palace in response to comments from minority owner Sir Jim Ratcliffe. More from @lauriewhitwell.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/athletic/707...

It‘s a debate how good these Spurs players are (FWIW not much, IMO). But I’m pretty sure not enough of them are the kind you want for a relegation scrap.

Trace it back - not even that far - and it's always foreign (usually western) powers stealing other people's stuff. Always.

Sore loser and child racist Farage demonstrates how little he has moved on from his schoolboy days.

Just naked racism from Farage and the Mail. Only British and commonwealth citizens are allowed to vote. It's not 'stealing' to legally take part in your own country's elections

Well, no, they’re not just as wrong. The bigger error is not seeing that “trying to win over voters from a party on the opposite end of the spectrum, whose values your core voters oppose” is not same as “chasing voters from party on same side ideologically whose values your core voters like.”

Remarkable that so many of Britain's most senior political reporters feel no shame in making a living by passing on the political equivalent of transfer gossip, giving credence to claims that, where they not protected by anonymity, would be dismissed as obviously self-serving.

This is a different Citeh but still, no PL team is better than pulling other teams apart. What a goal.

Oh I say.

Nice piece on The Annie: www.mirror.co.uk/money/regula...

This also a very good distallation of how it's all gone horribly wrong at Spurs, from @jackpittbrooke.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/athletic/707...

You can always rely on The Daily Star.

The definition of madness is...

Sobering but necessary Spurs reading from @migueldelaney.bsky.social. www.independent.co.uk/sport/footba...

It’s a running joke in academia that Matt Goodwin is bad at maths. This sort of thing is why: the combined Labour/Green vote could have split in any way possible and Goodwin would have finished 2nd or 3rd. He did not lose because progressives coordinated. He lost *in spite of them not doing so*.

C4 New's Gary Gibbon describing Hannah Spencer as a 'class warrior.' C'mon, man, you're better than that.

I knew Gorton would see them off. The locals there have previous. Here's a pic from Gorton in the early 60s of them dealing with fascist Oswald Moseley when he visited the area.

a sombre morning for british columnists as they move their "The electorate has spoken, we must listen" articles to the recycling bin and upload their "the greens victory shows just how far the west has fallen" articles instead

A consistent recurring theme of Farage byelection losses over a decade - Oldham 2015 with Ukip, Peterborough 2019 with Brexit Party, Gorton & Denton 2026 - is to talk loudly about electoral challenges about minority voters. But never to actually put the case to authorities. Media should spot pattern

That's 'shit or get off the fully compostable ecopot', surely?

The medical story is the justifiable lead, but also of interest is that Munn was yet another of those appointments heralded as 'all will be well' and that Enic were deadly serious. Execs, DoFs, managers, players - there have been so many, but so many letdowns.

FWIW wasting police time is a criminal offence that carries a potential custodial sentence. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

It's getting to the point when it would be a mercy for friends to gently lead him by the arm and say 'hush, Kier, it's over. You tried your best. Time for that book about Bertie Mee you've always been meaning to write.'

Want a definition of fighting elitism: a working class plumber beating an ivory tower academic who has his own TV show on a channel owned by a billionaire

There'll be some Blue Labour ministers and MPs sweating now. Peter Kyle in Hove as an example. Good. Hopefully they reflect and change.

They all thought we were a small-minded racist little backwater who'd bow down to their hateful rhetoric with little effort on their part. They expect a fight in Brighton Pavilion, they never thought they'd have to fight in Gorton. They were so wrong.

Increasingly feels like the GE victory for New Labour (let's have it right: that's what it is, at best version 2.0) was a glaring case of winning a battle but not the war. A thumping majority thanks to FPTP but built on sand that the government has been busy undermining almost all by its lonesome.

Our party has just come third in Gorton and Denton, a previously safe Labour seat - an area where we haven't lost an election since 1931. It is those running our party who are to blame. We need change at the top and serious lessons need to be learnt:

I'm hearing that, had Muslim women not been told by their husbands who vote for, they would've voted for one of the parties offering a menu of undiluted Islamophobia. More as we have it...

Attacking Muslims is just sensible, grown-up politics. Appealing to Muslims is inherently underhanded, the politics of division.

If I was in the Greens, I'd be checking very carefully what might lurk in socials and any for skeletons in cupboards, to get ahead of the inevitable monstering. If they thought the right-wing media were giving them a hard time before, just wait and see what they'll do now.

They don't actually believe this, it's another lie. The point is to sow the lie and reap the hate. The Trump-Bannon playbook.

Stand by for Maurice Glasman opining on Newsnight that this result, far from being a rejection of everything he's wanged on about, is further proof that Labour must shunt further to the right and wibble, wibble, can I have my appearance fee, please?

Good to see Labour Together getting called out. It was always an oxymoron, that took people for morons.

The right are furious that a white, English tradesperson got elected.