So today, £5million-giftboy, Farage bins his planned appearance on #bbclaurak But as soon as he wants scrutiny-free attention, he’ll be back. How dare he use the media when it suits him and shun it when it doesn’t. No one wanting power should have that kind of control over their own accountability.

“£240 Billion of income that has disappeared” So far… And Farage wants to scrap Labour’s reset, scrap the Brexit deal altogether in fact… and go to a leave-the-ECHR-no-deal Brexit. Has the country completely lost its mind? When will this idiocy stop? Prejudice as policy is ruinous.

Anti-science far-righter thinks actions don't have consequences: Farage campaigned for Brexit Brexit made queues between UK & EU inevitable Farage complains about queues Diddums ... via Reform Are Not Your Friends

Ha ha ha.

Last week, a gentleman returned this rather dilapidated copy of this famous book to us after 50 years. He had found it in his attic! Presumably this means there is a pristine copy somewhere in our libraries....

X owner Elon Musk atttributes the Hungarian landslide on a majority of the votes cast in a general election to a "Soros organisation" take over. (Musk also claims Trump would not have been elected US President again in Nov 2024 without Musk's support)

38d.gs/sitl What's the rush to allow Big Tech Inc. to take ever more control of our data & our lives?

c.org/TLGx2yfM6P Does anyone know why this is a good idea?

Konstantin Kisin continues to lie about what he said about Rishi Sunak. He said Sunak could not be English because he is brown and Hindu. Kisin saying he regards him as British, and not English, is *obvs* saying he can't be English because of ethnicity and faith.

Well, this looks interesting.

Blimey.

Christianity is the biggest, most profitable scam in America.

Artemis II is a thing of beauty open.substack.com/pub/iandunt/...

So it turns out the real scandal of the Gorton and Denton by-election was the willingness of media organisations to collude in Nigel Farage's attempt to undermine the result of a free and fair election www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/how-the-bb...

I can understand the amusingly-hysterical daily mail's rush to register their un-founded reaction. But - the Beeb?

“That’s why Reform’s fossil-fuel funded politicians are so opposed to climate science and… Net Zero… Not because Net Zero is an economic failure but because its success will hit their donors’ profits” Farage: Never acts in the national interest. Only ever his own. open.substack.com/pub/democrac...

No wonder Big Tech hates France - & EU - when they propose laws which help prevent Big Tech re-selling us items which now don't really need to be replaced.

Oh.

Can anyone name this ICE agent?

Whooops!

This is an extraordinary saga that Sunder is pursuing indefatigably. The BBC has repeatedly tried to excuse itself from responsibility for allowing Nigel Farage to lie egregiously about immigration without challenge. It is illustrative of a much wider malaise & so very important. Thank you, Sunder.

Private Eye on the recent hissy fit Farage had when YouGov published polling results that show he isn’t as popular as he thinks he is… “He's a thin-skinned, corrupt demagogue whose party has dodgy Russian links and most true British patriots would rather chop their hand off than vote for him” Yes!

“You’d think he’d be busy monitoring the wildfire consequences of the war he’d just started. But, no, he entertained himself by slagging off the British leader to any British journalist who’d listen.” And they did more than listen. They disgraced themselves. www.independent.co.uk/voices/trump...

Anyone who wants Britain to join the war in Iran needs their head examined open.substack.com/pub/iandunt/...

Great post.

Reform big kid says that there might be civil war if voters exercise their democratic vote...er... www.facebook.com/share/p/1KoY...

“Rarely has a British political party unveiled a programme that combines cruelty with impracticality on such an extravagant scale.” Chilling on Reform’s increasingly confident fascism. High on viciousness and greed. Very low on wisdom. A ruinous combination. www.independent.co.uk/voices/zia-y...

Yeah but it's no inaugural FIFA Peace Prize or a borrowed award from another Nobel Peace Prize winner, is it? So @realDonaldTrump-y wins 2-1.

It seems that boring ol' Rachel-from-accounts' boring economics is working. Who knew? Not those who get their...er, news from those outlets who criticize just for newsprint sake & media exposure.

If the Brexit years really were behind us, Reform would no longer be a threat, there’d be no talk of leaving the ECHR, no Brexit peerages or whining about ‘Brexit betrayal’. Instead, there’d be accountability and an electoral price to pay for the damage done. A ruthless reality check. No prisoners.

I like the government pivot to reminding voters that Farage is an avowed enemy of NATO & Europe & an ardent admirer of Vladimir Putin, who routinely orders the murders of critics & opponents. It is politically effective & morally essential.

The only question worth asking at these incredibly flash Reform press conferences that take place every week now, is who is paying for all of this and what do they want in return bsky.app/profile/pete...

Staggering that 24% of voters in this advanced country continue to believe in a bunch of entitled bigots with unworkable policies, whose very ideas put us in the abject chaos we are in. Truly God awful idiots, and I make no apology for saying that.

In these times of political volatility, somethings remain constant (said Johnimator, rather haughtily).

Today Larry The Cat, has been resident at nr 10 Downing Street for 15 years. He is a stable genius who does NOT appear in the Epstein files. When asked for a comment, Larry jawned and decided to sleep on it.  | Polina Sparks

Er...

Well, this is a good start. www.ft.com/content/f4ed...

Oh.

LibDem's Daisy Cooper: New Dept of Growth Based in Birmingham Closer ties with the EU "We are the 6th largest economy in the world, but for most people life is too hard and too expensive" "We see wealth creation and social justice, not as an either or, but as two sides of the same coin"

It is so embarrassing that it has taken nearly a decade for a British minister to say this, a statement of the absolute bloody obvious

High gas prices – not green policies as some politicians claim – remain the main reason UK households are paying more for electricity, according to new analysis.

It's o.k. It's not fascism. The State is telling us that.

Badenoch's strategic genius on full display here, telling centrist voters to fuck off, including in the 60+ seats the party lost to the Lib Dems, so she can focus on competing with an extreme right party ahead of her in the polls.

The rot starts at the top