How surprising that this multimillionaire, multi-home owning, MAGA-Putin-crypto-and-fossil-fuel-loving, employment-and-human-rights-hating, rule-dodging, grifting, hypocritical, racist, lying, brexity, corrupt, far-right, moaning, misogynistic “man-of-the-people” has turned out to be so unpopular.

Doctors say that explosive diarrhea can be a sign of a serious medical condition. A guy who snorts cocaine off toilet seat seats and drives dead bears around in his car says its nature’s way of expelling the toxins from 5G radiation. For busy Americans, it can be hard to know who to trust.

That's not really all that's driving "polarised views", is it? Perhaps information ecosystems that reward engagement over accuracy might also be a fairly significant contributor to those dynamics? But I guess its easier to blame Russia than US tech oligarchs.

Not at all surprisingly the people quoted from the opaquely funded Policy Exchange and IEA think tanks agree the NHS is part of the problem. BBC News - We are living fewer years in good health: Is the NHS part of the problem? - BBC News www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Sort of have to admire that the Starmer team run a Facebook page, an X account, an Instagram, a Substack, and a LinkedIn, all with distinct voices that sound nothing like each other OR Keir Starmer.

Congratulations to Britain on becoming the kind of country where the police have to walk on eggshells when talking about a murder case, because one false move could set off a week of fascist rioting by the vicious far right swine our whole system is increasingly designed to please and impress.

Yes it’s the waitress test isn’t it. You can tell a lot

I always had this rule when hiring. However smart or impressive someone seems, if they seem like a bit of a dick it's not worth hiring them. I had deliberate tests, like how they treated admin staff.

Cheers Dad

Ahead of England v Norway in the World Cup, enjoy this classic from my old pal Patrick Kidd in The Times

Any Reform type latching onto the success of England is a friggin' hypocrite. The majority of the team are of Caribbean, Irish and African descent. Add in the team's respect for other cultures and emotional intelligence and the lads are everything Reform voters despise about the country.

Nigel Farage will soon be the least popular political party leader in the UK by some margin. The confidence trick isn't working any more www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/the-nigel-...

Still at least he's authentic. You'd never catch Binface going on imaginary walks.

Lmao at ITV getting into a stand up argument with Thomas Tuchel live on TV

My kids have measles, I lost my job, and a parasite that the CDC no longer monitors has given me explosive diarrhea. But at least now there’s no plaques honoring Black scientists at the Smithsonian.

Great moment to ask him about his fellow travellers definition of when you can be English, I guess.

The best news is the semi-final is on the BBC so we don't have to listen to Sam Matterface and Lee Dixon again.

Glad Tuchel is acknowledging how poor we were. Curious how he plans to fix it.

Zahawi dodges the question about Reform finances, pushes Farage's false prospectus (below), introduces the red herring of an establishment stitch-up... #BBCLauraK moves on, closing Fahnbulleh down, and not following up any of her own questions, while Zahawi shouts.

I thought the best person to go on Laura Kuenssberg to defend me against charges of financial irregularity would be Nadhim Zahawi, who claimed £6,000 to heat his stables and hid £27m in an offshore account then threatened to sue anyone who asked about it.

Allison Pearson still immaturing with age, I see.

This is so enjoyable. How can we keep it going? Fake some dossier that "proves" binface is funded by EU grants? Or that the bins in refugee charity offices have been given little capes in solidarity?

There is simply too much focus in the UK media on a puffed up narcissist with a ludicrous title who pops up to spout idiotic soundbites whenever actual adults are trying to discuss the future of governing Britain. For example, here he is talking about Count Binface.

Naval blockade by a country without a navy.

Seriously being suggested that Binface has a "position of public influence"

The true sign of whether you're a Londoner is if you know that you need to give every Standard article a close reading, which would tell you that Andy Burnham has not, in fact, said this. (Don't know why Andy is giving his exclusive London articles to the Standard not LondonCentric TBH)

Unions fighting *against* taking big money out of British politics 🤯 Btw this is the same GMB that is vociferously anti net zero www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Anyone who campaigns against net zero is a complete shit.

The current stack of charges against Farage and Reform. Just in case you’d lost count. Spoilt-brat richboy, Tice, calls it all “a politically motivated smear” rather than the frenziedly greedy and corrupt piss-taking that it is. “Reform and Farage have repeatedly denied any wrongdoing” (iPaper)

A very successful aristocratic family *with a family member convicted of fraud*

As a former Trade Union Rep who attended dozens of these, I had a full body shudder at how badly they fucked this one

Labour MPs to rebel on party funding reforms and demand total crypto ban www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

V enjoyable piss-take of the Farage v Count Binface “people v the establishment” by-election and dismal Jenrick’s LBC phone-in about it, where he got handed his arse by ‘the people’. Or was this an establishment stitch-up too? We all see you, Robert. And you Nigel. And you’re ridiculous. (Times)

I don't know exactly what percentage of the world's problems can be traced back to the notion that successful hedge fund managers and real estate executives are inherently qualified for any and every job in government, but it's not zero.

Donald Trump: Tax cuts backing, gold-loving Apprentice star Nigel Farage: Brexit backing, pub-loving I’m A Celebrity star

the amount of time i spend clawing money back for my mum that has been taken disingenuously by companies makes me wonder how many of our older people are being robbed by these vile hounds

Labour: Tories had 14 years in government to sort PIP out. Tories: Labour had 14 years in opposition to sort PIP out. PIP was introduced in 2013, 11 years before Labour took over, but everybody, including the media, just parrots the same old crap. #R4Today

And this, people, is why we have media studies. And may be why it has fallen out of favour by some.

‘If you’ve ever held yourself back from discussing the climate emergency because “it’s too controversial”, it’s because the oil industry has strategically invested in your silence’ Margaret Klein Salamon @climatepsych.bsky.social

I'm a serious journalist off to do some fully representative vox pops on whether feminism has gone too far. Going to start at a Magic: The Gathering tournament, hit up a UFC cage fight, then its off to the replies to an Elon Musk tweet about how the girl in Stellar Blade "totally looks over age".

Fortune cookies were invented in the United States by a Japanese immigrant.

Photos exist! Albeit of the pistol given to Belgian PM Bart de Wever, who apparently didn’t look in the box (and neither did his team), so unwittingly brought home a live firearm that had to be handed over to the police on the tarmac at a Belgian airbase.

Climate action was one of the Conservatives' only honourable records in government. They were too embarrassed to talk about it then and they shit all over it now.

Ann Widdecombe was the patron saint of the whinging boomer. Despite having NHS, free HE, affordable housing, well paid jobs, generous final salary pension schemes etc she was seemingly unable to count her blessings. Sadly, there are many like her.

This is just another example of our risible two tier advertising regulations. Hard checks for TV, radio, print newspapers yet slop, shite and scams rife online... Cool in 90: the fake portable air conditioners sweeping the Internet www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

There’s a strand in British culture, from Victorian Times to the Krays and Mockney movies, when British aristocrats would find common cause with underworld gangsters. I think politics is going through one of those phases right now

Imagine being lectured on democracy by someone who was given a seat as an unelected parliamentarian in the democratically unaccountable House of Lords by Boris Johnson. How do we vote you out, Claire Fox?

As the Smiths didn’t quite say: 🎵Ban the vox pop, Ban the vox pop, Ban the vox pop, Ban the vox pop🎵

Incredible scenes as Badenoch rules herself out as a candidate

Two headlines from today's papers