Just noting that when Sarah Everard was kidnapped and murdered by a police officer and a vigil held for her on Clapham Common, Farage urged people not to attack men or the police.

Friday bank hols begin in the MIL’s garden.

If journalists were doing their job properly, it would simply not be possible for the public to be labouring under this degree of ignorance when it comes to immigration. inews.co.uk/opinion/immi...

How about: a) I believe the UK should rejoin the EU; but b) Neither we nor Brussels are ready for a formal negotiation; and c) EU membership would not be a panacea for our national challenges; so c) I will work to build trust and lay foundations with the EU, while advancing other priorities.

Ok. Have been in meetings since 8am. What did I miss?

The biggest majority in the modern era, and terrified of your own shadow for two years. It beggars belief. I've never known any govt. to have less to lose, and never known a greater need for political honesty than now. But, hey, best stay cautious. You don't want to become unpopular do you?

Christ on a bike. These Labour MPs would put a Branch Davidian death cult to shame. And Belle Ribeiro Addy as the high priestess of enshitification.

😡🇬🇧😡🇬🇧😡🇬🇧😡🇬🇧 Sorry BBC/ newsPapers/ GBeebies etc etc This is ‘the actual truth’.

East Surrey County Council Results (new council) 🔶 LDM: 40 (+34) 🌳 CON: 10 (-34) 🌍️ GRN: 8 (+4) ➡️ RFM: 5 (+5) 🏘️ LOC: 5 (-9) ⚪️ IND: 4 (=) Liberal Democrat GAIN Changes based on notional results from previous councils.

What's happening is we're moving to a European party system but without PR.

Ed Davey's North Korean hold on south west London.

A reminder of the expected timings for the remaining English results to be announced today and tomorrow. We'll be updating as much as possible on here, alongside at: electionmaps.uk/le2026

In leafy Thames Ditton we have had a fairly sporty local election cycle with smear campaigns alongside the stake board wars. Enter Reform UK to add a slightly off brand sex scandal.

Greens after the elections

I’ll be quite angry if they do that, to destabilise the government right now just to get a headline before the local elections would be pretty despicable.

I’m in exactly the same position, I’m about to go and leaflet for them locally but feel very cross about this. I will vote for them to keep Reform out and because my local councillors are excellent but if they keep game playing like this I’ll consider how much I volunteer.

A sunny Saturday and time to enjoy some reading outside my usual East Surrey liberal lawyer echo chamber (and the first magazine that my Gen Z son and I have shared and both enjoyed). Thanks @jaheale.bsky.social for the inspiration for a new series of dinner table debates!

Robbins does at least corroborate PM's claim that no minister was told of the vetting issue with Mandelson. He confirms he did not share it with them.

Over the weekend, Labour MP @graemedowniemp.bsky.social called for the pension triple lock to be reformed to fund higher defence spending “If there is to be a true whole of society approach to defence, and younger people could be expected to die, what are older people willing to sacrifice?”

Yes. Those being vetted are assured that their data will be held “in the strictest confidence”. That undoubtedly gives rise to an enforceable legal duty of confidence.

Ed Davey and the inexorable drift towards conservatism by @jamesgraham.theliberati.net www.theliberati.net/quaequamblog...?

People don’t like to see the poors, do they? This is the joy of being both posh and having no object permanence, because if they’re not on your high street, they don’t exist. I know exactly the type of people who have that perspective and I will keep the rude words about them inside me for now.

Article on my “village” objecting to a food waste project. The main concern that Thames Ditton is too posh for it www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Most of all, it’s a testament to the resilience and determination of the Hungarian people — and a reminder to all of us to keep striving for fairness, equality and the rule of law.

💥🇭🇺🗳️First results of the Hungarian parliamentary elections are in: with 14.72% counted, the opposition leads with mandates nearing a two-thirds majority. Everything points to Viktor Orbán’s defeat and Péter Magyar becoming Hungary’s next prime minister.

Richard Tice and his fellow travellers may have a huge collection of Union Jack ties and may go moist eyed at the sound of the National Anthem but they ain't patriots. Patriotism means paying your taxes.

“What would our [naval commanders] say if they knew we had been bailed out by the French” says Badenoch. Fun fact Kemi. We have had a longstanding naval cooperation arrangement with France to do just that. We relied on their carriers when ours were being built.

You don’t need to think prior U.S. administrations have clean hands—obviously they don’t—to believe the current one is acting in uniquely dangerous and unprecedented ways.

I AM GOING TO BURN DOWN THE SHED UNLESS WE HAVE PIZZA ROLLS FOR DINNER TONIGHT [mom sighs, rolls her eyes, writes "pizza rolls" on the grocery list for next week] I HAVE DECIDED NOT TO BURN DOWN THE SHED

I have a father and mother in law in Iran. I have a sister in law. A niece. She's 14. She likes silly pink headbands and purses and dresses, just like kids her age all over the world. There are 93 million people like her in Iran. People who do all the normal mundane life things as the rest of us.

SNL UK is absolutely putting its American counterpart to shame dear lord

Please stop and read this: Farzad Seifikaran BBC Persian: ‘Reading messages from friends, family, and buddies in Iran and not knowing what to say, even feeling ashamed to say "take care of yourselves," and knowing there's nothing we can do about it... it's heartbreaking...’

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In 4 weeks Trump has transformed Iran from a country where people poured into the streets to overthrow the regime into a country where people poured into the streets to stop America. Great work.

Also enjoying Piers Morgan realising what Trump is.

I don't suppose he clarified which one?

BREAKING: Pope Leo XIV declares the Iran War is “unjust” and “is not resolving anything.” After suggesting Trump is committing war crimes by targeting civilian infrastructure, he called on Americans to contact Congress to help end the war.

I completely agree with Marjorie Taylor Greene is a sentence I never thought I would ever write.

I am not Roman Catholic but Pope Leo is an inspiring figure in many ways and I am genuinely grateful for his intervention.

The President of the United States is threatening to commit war crimes and wipe out a "whole civilization" — all because he started a disastrous war of his own making and had no plan and no strategy for how to end it. This is abhorrent, and the American people do not support this.

Do you know how EXTREMELY FUCKED UP SHIT HAS TO BE for me to be reposting Tucker Carlson positively???

You already know that Nigel Farage is rarely in Clacton - but do you know he's also frequently missing from Parliament? 👀 Where is Nigel?

Trump’s gone insane and so have oil prices, spiking inflation & making the poorest in the world suffer more. We can’t be confident he won’t fire a nuclear weapon. Then there’s climate change, ravaged public services, generational inequality. And Reform want us to focus on a lie about marmalade 🙄

I’m reminded of Churchill: ‘We shall f*cking fight those bastards on the f*cking beaches, we shall fight on the f*cking landing f*cking grounds, we shall fight in the f*cking fields & in the f*cking streets,we shall fight in the f*cking hills; we shall never f*cking surrender.’

Are pensioners are now better off than working-age people? IFS Deputy Director Jonathan Cribb describes how pensioners' incomes have changed over time in our recent podcast. 🎧️ Listen here: ifs.org.uk/articles/are...

With Lord David Frost - possessor of the world's most mediocre mind - announcing his conversion to Catholicism, this timeless Tweet is well worth a resurrection (geddit??!!) ...

UK politics now in a bidding war of universal fuel subsidies (sorry, "support") to, per ed davey "keep britain moving". The reality - that consumption must fall - is going to be a nasty surprise

Iran's president has released a statement through state media addressed to the American people: "The Iranian people harbor no enmity toward other nations, including the people of America, Europe, or neighboring countries."