Nigel Farage is a threat to national security inews.co.uk/opinion/nige...

What Reform did today was an incitement to rioting and an insult to a grieving family. This bloke should have hung his goddamn head in shame.

This is particularly damning from an actor who once played his mum on screen.

One of my favourite ways to upset car bros is to explain my belief that the order of priority in all road planning decisions should be 1) Pedestrians 2) Cyclists 3) Public transport 4) Emergency access 5) Essential services access 6) Privately owned vehicles. Drives them to distraction.

👏 Ed Matthew, the UK programme director at the E3G thinktank: “Clean energy is cheaper energy – it protects our bills from prices skyrocketing, its running costs are virtually zero, and it doesn’t cause climate change which threatens economic collapse"

NOT NOW MOSQUITOES!

Probably mistook her for Kirsty Noem.

1. I've Got a Feeling 2. Blackbird 3. She Came In Through the Bathroom Window 4. Helter Skelter 5. Girl 6. Maxwell's Silver Hammer 7. Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band 8. Happiness is a Warm Gun 9. I'm So Tired 10. Let it Be

Nigel Farage has gone all quiet about his friendship with Trump. Let’s not let him distance himself from the trainwreck. Please share this fawning video.

Nigel Farage’s claim that he paid for a £1.4mn house with his fee from a reality TV show has been challenged by corporate accounts that appear to show that the income remained on his company’s balance sheet after the property purchase. www.ft.com/content/88ce...

Meanwhile… www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

Starmer of the Antarctic www.thenewworld.co.uk/henry-morris...

I think this is basically wrong? Even if we accept the patronising understanding of voters as requiring immediate gratification, it requires you to agree that, given time Starmer's policies would have succeeded in addressing our malaise and...I don't think you can assume that?

"The desire not to have an argument means we rarely make an argument..."

Operation Flog Dead Horse www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...

Someone is trying to build 1300 "intergenerational" homes, with assisted living places, social care, health facilities, and 40% affordable homes. On an old landfill site. Even the locals are in favour: 1300 vs 300. What could possibly go wrong? Enter: National Highways

The most tragic thing about the direction of these election results is just how avoidable most of the damage was. The govt could’ve gone out of their way to show what a Labour govt and Senedd together could do to improve lives, instead of treating Wales as an afterthought.

Post 1: The Greens are having a huge influence on government policy. Vote Green! Post 2: The Greens have completely failed to influence government policy. Vote Green!

Checking out various election broadcasts for Holyrood and Senedd and The Heritage Party Wales one is absolutely wild. "...[during Covid] Wales became a police state as totalitarian as any communist nation in the Cold War era."

With the news focused on Mandelson vetting and Iran, it’s easy to forget just how awful the Conservatives are. But Badenoch always manages to pop up with a helpful reminder.

One of my favourite things about podcasts is being able to listen while I get on with other things. I can't do that with Podyssey though. I have to carve out some time and allow my entire attention to be swept up in the story. It's always worth it.

This is one of the best descriptions of British politics I've ever seen and it's only 20 seconds long 😯

The drive-by on Newsnight's remit that reduced it to yet another both sides, political pugilism show was an absolute travesty. It's still occasionally worth a watch when @vicderbyshire.bsky.social is at the helm though. She always knows when to let a debate breathe and when to intervene.

Celebrate #IWD2026 by hearing all about the very first woman and the war that has been waged against her for three millennia. Then make sure you are subscribed at ko-fi.com/podyssey by tomorrow to receive the illustrated guide to the ep and an invite to the live zoom Q&A this Thursday at 8PM (GMT).

At the end of this #Sportscene Scottish Championship titles animation, I was sure they were going to reveal the identity of the next Doctor. #doctorwho

Nigel Farage lashes out at a FT journalist and refuses to answer the question. Is this how Reform UK would ignore media questions if they got into government?

I’ve heard this being reported all day, as if this is an intervention of earth shattering significance

A little taster for season 2 of this brilliant podcast. I can't wait for the new episodes to drop.

Every time the Irn-Bru coloured despot turns up in the news (so about once an hour) I'm put in mind of this song. I Burn But I Am Not Consumed youtu.be/qoyc83-56EY?...

Something that slightly worries me. If there is one thing that could make Brexit popular again, it's reminding everyone how much Starmer is against it.

I think I might take one of these "under 20 minutes" AI skills courses the UK Govt. seems very keen on everyone doing and live-post it here... Maybe we can all learn something together! The press release sends me to aiskillshub.org.uk/aiskillsboost/ - let's go and see!

Latest RocknRoll Politics podcast: podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/r...

And while we’re recommending YouTube films, here’s the inimitable @petergeoghegan.bsky.social doing the Lord’s work. Because nothing says ‘free speech champions’ like, erm, going to Court to keep who funds your payroll secret. www.youtube.com/watch?v=oP0O...

Typically insightful from @lewisgoodall.com into the spate of Tory defections. I’m amazed at the number of intelligent pundits claiming that this is damaging to Reform. After almost a decade of austerity, people were utterly fed up, yet still gave the Tories a majority because Boris Johnson.

It's now received wisdom that Farage is taking on too many Tories. But is that really the case: especially when you remember that what he really wants to do is not differentiate from them, but to take their place. My piece on the Jenrick defection. goodallandgoodluck.substack.com/p/jenrick-wa...

Forensic analysis of objective video evidence. This is how you serve readers searching for clarity.

Of all the perfectly acceptable, not to mention irrelevant details that this utterly despicable cunt seems to disapprove of, it's the word 'poet' that he spits out with the most disdain. This is the US right now. Absolute maniacs from ICE to the media, to the apricot Pol Pot who loosed them.

About time someone put all this woke history right. @mrhenrymorris.substack.com doing a national service by getting this out there.

I love how @nikkimcr.bsky.social on @americanfric.bsky.social gets more articulate in direct proportion to how angry she is. Pretty sure it is the other way around for most people.

Meanwhile Robin Ince genuinely has been cancelled for daring to voice his opinions and for defending trans people. Where's the outrage from the "cancel culture" lot? What are the Free Speech Union doing to help him?

@sellingamirror.bsky.social I like how the person reflected in the second mirror, appears to be doing something slightly different to the person in the foreground. Reminiscent of Manet's 'A Bar at the Folies-Bergère'

So today I found out that my TED talk ‘This is What a Digital Coup Looks Like’ was TED’s most watched talk of the year. It’s sort of amazing & terrifying. Because this *is* what a digital coup looks like. www.youtube.com/watch?v=TZOo...

This is a glorious paragraph. Great work. No notes. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

A quick reminder of who Nigel Farage was most concerned about when Putin's tanks first rolled into Ukraine

Farage says he can't remember being continually racist and antisemitic. The axe forgets. The tree remembers. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

It's the same political culture that allows this clownish monster, who should never have been allowed anywhere near the levers of power, avoid taking responsibility for the reported 23000 lives cut short by his incompetence. 38d.gs/bojo_all_df

That they could be found to be so obviously corrupt, or open to corruption and the only penalty is four or five’s months away from the HoL cuts to the heart of what is wrong with our political system. There’s no accountability, no penalties and no responsibility taken for any wrongdoing or harm.