The Nobel Prize committee should announce the World Cup winner tomorrow

Today, the European Commission has fined X with €120 million for breaching the Digital Services Act.

Bank of England waking up? BOE to stress test private equity and private credit industries, can't compel firms to participate. Some will volunteer, only to impose their will on the outcomes. Industry is estimated to have assets of £8.23 trillion. Govt pushing for deregulation.

It sure looks like Russian intelligence attempted to use military drones to assassinate the President of Ukraine inside an EU country. Looking forward to more thoughts from Belgium on why freezing Russian assets is an escalatory move that might compromise the peace process.

Zia Yusuf - the unelected multimillionaire policy chief of Reform - makes his fourth Question Time appearance tonight. The party has five MPs

My investigation into far-right street patrol, Essex Spartans, builds with this sequel to Concierge Nationalism, exposing the linked networks, from Reform U.K. to Tommy Robinson and Neo-Nazi Homeland group. shorturl.at/wguFn

Nigel Farage used an LBC appearance in September to accuse the Bank of England of being “dinosaurs” for seeking to place restrictions on the use of Stablecoins by crypto firms like Tether. He did not declare that Reform had just received a £9 million donation from one of its biggest investors

Soft power via the back door in Epping. Yes those are local so called ‘independent’ Cllrs Maria Markham and son Shane Yerrell, posing with nationalist vigilante group, Spartans, and cosy with never elected Reform Cllr McIvor. He’s gotta be running the independents too hasn’t he?

The super-rich rightwing are pouring money into Reform. Do ordinary voters really think their aim is to even out social inequality and make their lives better? Do they think they’re doing it so Farage invests in infrastructure and public services? Ffs. Democracy being beaten to death in plain sight.

If I were a political analyst, I might interpret this as sign of strategic desperation from both Reform UK and the Conservative Party, revealing internal weakness and ideological convergence on the right. Albeit Reform so far managed to recruit the least able, cites Gullis et al.

When Boris Johnson was under investigation for misleading Parliament about lockdown parties, Dorries claimed the inquiry was a “witch hunt” and that Johnson was being “hounded out by a kangaroo court, insisting he had not knowingly misled Parliament, despite evidence to the contrary and fines.

It's all bad but hadn't seen the bit where Farage says: "The European Union is the prototype for the New World Order." That is a seriously, deeply problematic term that taps into Illuminati and antisemitic conspiracy theories. How the fuck did this man direct the course of our politics?

Wait, what! Rachel Reeves said she didn’t know Nathan Gill either!

What a Public Inquiry Into Russian Influence in British Politics Must Also Investigate: Boris Johnson and Alexander Lebedev If you think the Nathan Gill conviction is bad, wait to you hear about another Leave campaigner and his connections to Putin's inner circle open.substack.com/pub/pdjukes/...

Richard Tice didn’t mind being OVER platformed by among others @bbc the past few years despite having had 4 MPs out of a total of 650 sitting in parliament. #mediacomplicit

These knuckle-dragging grifting initiatives are so intricate they must take an age to plan. Unfurl a flag on a sand dune and stick up a GoFundMe page. 🙄

Lemme fix this. Trump fabricated lies about immigrants …

NEW: Something remarkable happened recently and hardly anyone noticed – GB electricity demand was 100% covered by clean power We took a look at the data and this has happened for a record 87 hours in 2025 to date, twice as often as ever before 🧵 www.carbonbrief.org/... 1/7

Farage says Reform UK are ready to fix Broken Britain. After sliding down the polls since Nathan Gill sold Britain to Putin for £40k, Farage says he’s grown out of his racism, while leading the party that incited Farage riots but still in bed with Swastika Musk.

So after sliding down the polls since Nathan Gill sold Britain to Putin for £40k and Farage says he’s grown out of his racism while leading the party that incited Farage riots and in bed with Swastika Musk. Let’s do a round up of where Reform UK are.

If LinkedIn won’t listen to women, on algorithmic bias, get a man to say it for you. “The truth is, most systems are designed to maintain the existing hierarchy. Meritocracy is the story organisations tell themselves so they don’t have to confront that. Or, perish the thought, change it.”

Those who do not remember history are doomed to be tried by it.

Cheering the two child limit ending isn’t patting Starmer’s Labour on the back or ignoring his record. It’s acknowledging 8 years of hard campaigning and ridding the country of a cruel, toxic policy. Half a million children won’t be hungry anymore. Celebrate today. Tomorrow, pick the next fight.

The founder of an investment company who bought an £8.5 million London flat after supplying 50 million faulty PPE masks during the pandemic has had a criminal restraint order imposed on the property. www.thetimes.com/uk/crime/art...

This Nazi enough for you @AllisonPearson?

Nigel Farage campaigned to scrap the ECHR. Now he’s under scrutiny and suddenly panicking about losing jury trials. Turns out when your freedom’s at risk, fair trials and checks on state power start to matter. You can’t have it both ways. #RuleOfLaw #ECHR #JuryTrial #ReformUK

This is a fundamental shift in a bedrock of society and it seems just wrong to let this go without a big fight

Having spent the last few days back in Ukraine — reminded how this amazing resilient culture just grows stronger with every atrocity committed against it—it’s so obvious JD Vance’s peace plan ventures are all about saving Putin’s face

Posting this for those calling the chilling details emerging about Farage’s racism, a hatchet job.

Where was Farage today? Lemme guess, he was busy making plans for Nigel.

John Major, "Populism is no longer a fringe problem of a few outlandish politicians. It is now mainstream and professional" "We should recognise the threat it poses to democracy" "Democracy has a lot to lose" "Established political parties need to defeat populism, not copy it"

BBC out of their minds. Did they think gen pop wouldn’t find out they deleted the sentence describing Trump as the “most openly corrupt president in American History” from, a REITH LECTURE. Reith, whose principles centre on ethics, impartiality, & civic responsibility. The irony is lost on no one.

It’s so similar to when you say something in the board room and they are all quiet, they know the script. Next a man repeats verbatim what you just said and they all start clapping. A tale as old as time. | Carole Cadwalladr

BBC out of their minds. Did they think gen pop wouldn’t find out they deleted the sentence describing Trump as the “most openly corrupt president in American History” from, a REITH LECTURE. Reith, whose principles centre on ethics, impartiality, & civic responsibility. The irony is lost on no one.

So it turns out Carole Cadwalladr’s Ted Talk was correct. Which begs the question: Why is it so easy for these men in power to discredit brilliant women as maniacal? A tale as old as time. #russia

Farage, man of the PayPal, platforms solution to U.K. economy - a member of Barclay dynasty - name ring a bell and governor of a posh school - Haberdashers, who neglects to mention on her profile that she is Reform UK backer. Plus an alleged, sexual deviant, bankrupt, in debt to tax payer. Hey ho.

So turns out Carole Cadwalladr’s Ted Talk was correct. Which begs the question: Why is it so easy for these men in power to discredit brilliant women as maniacal? A tale as old as time. #russia

The way Republican men talk to AI bots like they’re human is so telling.

So Farage is a friend to Wales is he? Let’s have his WhatsApp then and he can sit us down an tell us all he knows. Friend to Wales be damned.

Farage, man of the PayPal, fighting for the workers, platforms the solution to the U.K. economy, a member of the Barclay dynasty - name ring a bell and governor of an Independent school - think really posh - Haberdashers, who neglects to mention on her profile that she is a Reform UK backer.

Gibb; “ I had no editorial role whatsoever at the Jewish Chronicle”. Lee Harpin, reporter at the paper; “RG made a habit of calling into the office on print days to check up on what stories were topping the news list, and offering a view’”

Farage - man of the PayPal, fighting for the workers, platforms a member of the Barclay dynasty - name ring a bell and the governor of an Independent schools trust - think really posh - @HabsTrustSouth who neglects to mention on her profile that she is a Reform UK backer.

So Farage is a friend to Wales is he? Let’s have his WhatsApp then and he can sit us down an tell us all he knows. Friend to Wales be damned.

this is abhorrent

Labour's anti-asylum policies are already fundamentally inhumane and discriminatory. Applying them retrospectively is pure cruelty though. It serves absolutely no purpose. Meanwhile it will increase the costs and bureaucracy of an already dysfunctional Home Office. www.thetimes.com/article/6f83...

The Daily Mail, GB News, and the far-right press are tightening their grip on Britain. Their racist fearmongering and agenda-driven coverage distort public debate. This isn’t journalism, it’s influence masquerading as news. We need scrutiny, not silence Lisa Nandy.

This first drew me to Declassified UK. 2020 they published a series of articles critical of British military’s role in Yemen and its relationship with Saudi Arabia, after which UK MOD blacklisted them. This led Council of Europe to issue a media freedom alert with concerns about press suppression.

Never more pertinent a reminder. Peter Oborne frames Morgan McSweeney as “Britain’s most powerful individual.” Writing on how a back room strategist seized the levers of power and what that means for the global rise of the far right www.bylinesupplement.com/p/the-most-p...

Even a broken clock is right twice a day.