As this graphic makes clear, gas - which is a very expensive form of generation - sets the market price of electricity in the UK way more than it does in other countries. Want lower electricity bills? Get behind renewables, not drilling for more North Sea gas. www.theguardian.com/business/202...

A bit of good news to start the day. Football isn’t coming home, but the Tates are 😆

Where is the COBRA meeting? Comforting and reassuring words from the PM? Money made available for security so people don’t feel like they are living in fear?

Palestine Action defendant ‘missed the last year’ of his mother’s life while behind bars - https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/palestine-action-defendant-missed-last-year-his-mothers-life-while

What is this if not foreign interference in UK democracy? There's an Elections Bill going through parliament. Time for an amendment. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

'Patriot News' reporter Chris Atkins (scatatkins.bsky.social) was just kicked out of Liz Truss' CPAC conference for asking the wrong questions. So much for free speech.

So the one minister with Treasury experience is a no-go because he‘ll spook the markets, while a minister with no treasury experience, who hasn’t expressed a single idea on fiscal policy, and whose main contribution to the economy will be negative won’t be? Sorry, this is just ridiculous.

A 14-year-old boy has been charged with planning a far-right terror attack on two mosques in Sutton, south-west London, and racially aggravated vandalism of a car If convicted he would be one of the youngest ever terror plotters in Britain

George Cottrell has been "hiding in plain sight" for years, @carolecadwalla.bsky.social said at our hearings last week. Only now are we catching up.

13 MILLION adults in England are locked out of an NHS dentist, and preventable tooth decay is the #1 reason kids end up in hospital. No more dental deserts. No more DIY dentistry. Sign the petition now to tell our new PM to fix NHS dentistry for good: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/fi...

I went to Porto Montenegro to find out why so many Reform money men have businesses registered to a grubby looking office building a stone's throw from the luxury yachts on the glittering marina. Feat. me visiting my first casino. www.opendemocracy.net/inside-refor...

Dodging questions isn’t new for Nigel Farage. What happened here? Nigel Farage terminates interview with German newspaper after being forced to deny links with Russia www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...

NOT NOW SUPER EL NIÑO #NotNow

Palestinians in the occupied West Bank village of Burin fly colourful handmade kites in an annual festival held under the shadow of Israeli settlements and rising settler violence.

Not the use of the word "detained" here to make it appear as though the settlers have some legal capacity to be doing this. If i ran up on a US Rep with a rifle and prevented them from leaving it would be, correctly, described as kidnapping; and doing so with political ends would be terrorism.

Stop the elephant trophy hunt now actions.eko.org/a/stop-the-e...

Can we all pause a moment to appreciate the leader of the opposition, whose party got 2.2% vote at the most recent by-election, saying she has serious policies, like actively opposing net-zero *on the same day* that the seas around us boil and British citizens die in wildfires? Is she on glue?

Spotted last night on hoarding around a partially-demolished abandoned former hotel on the seafront in Clacton 🗑️

The BBC cancelling Winterwatch is such a shame, especially when we need to be connecting with nature more than ever. If we want people to protect our wildlife, we have to show them it! Add your name to ask the BBC to reconsider. you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/do...

His claim to be fighting for the people of Clacton would have been somewhat more convincing if he hadn't been forced to go back more than two years before finding a clip of himself there

absolutely spot on re Nigel Farage’s speech - from Tom Peck

Left: Nigel Farage says he wasn't in politics at the time George Cottrell was donating to him Right: George Cottrell literally had business cards with Nigel Farage's email on them

The US hit 90 targets in Iran overnight. Iran responded with strikes on American bases in Qatar, Kuwait and Bahrain.

Farage has tended to keep his distance from "Tommy Robinson" - but we can see what the views of his fraudulent funder are

Having failed to interest any papers in this story, I resorted to writing a letter to The Times, like in olden times. So when all that's left to watch is NASCAR racing sponsored by Cheetos, I can at least say I tried. #ITV #Sky #Comcast

The £5Mill-Farage-crybaby-by-election-farce is the funniest political blunder of recent times. He’s now campaigning against a bin. And Reform losing their shit in a frenzy of humourless self-righteousness just makes the whole thing even funnier and more absurd. Keep going guys. We needed this.

In case you missed it, here's Count Binface's appearance on the BBC this morning.

FIFA congress: Fire Gianni Infantino actions.eko.org/a/fire-infan...

Burnham urged to ditch ‘dangerous’ UK-US NHS drug deal Exclusive: health groups call on expected next PM to rip up agreement, which analysis suggests could lead to 229,000 excess deaths by 2036

Be a real shame if people put these up everywhere in Clacton :( link in bio for a free poster download x

I trust the people of Clacton to judge me on my record. Apart from the record that shows I have visited American more times than Clacton, have never held a constituency surgery and rarely bother to drag my arse into Parliament to do my actual job.

Farage - 'I came out at the end of Brexit with very little money'

Oh, it’s getting worse!

🧵 Amid all the speculation about Nigel Farage's 2pm statement, it's worth noting paragraph 40 of the Procedural Protocol to the MPs' Code of Conduct. If he announces he's resigning and seeking a by-election, that would not automatically end the investigation into whether he breached the Code in...

Clacton residents on Nigel Farage calling a byelection, Man, "He's done nothing in Clacton so far, so I don't see the point" Lady, "He promised all these things and has gone back on his promise. He's in it for himself"

surveys.38degrees.org.uk/to/F0dipDoG

Game on, Nige.

Banter outcome: Farage wins his self-inflicted by-election, standards commissioner rules against, recall petition, 2026 becomes the year of two Clacton by-elections

🆕 Farage finds himself at the centre of another uncomfortable money story. @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com, @mattgreencomedy.com, @jonnelledge.bsky.social & @seththevoz.bsky.social discuss whether Farage is a liability to the party that supposedly revolves around him. ➡️ linktr.ee/ohgodwhatnow...

Everyone needs to read this. Shame on the politicians of this country.

Labour's Stella Creasy calls for a cap of £100,000 on donations Do you want to know why Labour's Samantha Dixon refuses to cap donations? Keir Starmer's Labour accepted £4 million from an offshore firm - Quadrature Capital - in the Cayman Islands for the 2024 General Election

If you’d like to join our class action lawsuit against corruption in FIFA, which we are planning to make the biggest in history, please click here - rebootfifa.com/sign/ - and please share.

NEW: Before cryptobillionaire Christopher Harborne gave £5m to @nigel_farage, he gave £1m to Boris Johnson. For what?? Today @thenerve.news news reveals new evidence that tracks Harborne's investments in defence firm QinetiQ...to key defence announcements from Boris Johnson. 1/

Things are starting to look very dark for Farage. He's stuck in a ferocious scandal where he cannot get his story straight and his excuses raise more questions than they answer inews.co.uk/opinion/nige...

What did we teach our kids about sport? Have fun Play fair No cheating No hurting people Accept the referee's decision Be gracious in victory, humble in defeat It's not whether you win, it's how you play the game We taught them those things because the lessons transfer to life in general.