By your friends will you know them www.desmog.com/2026/03/24/k...

Old saying: you can judge a man by the company he keeps.

Probably more helpful to think of them not so much as “Canadian wildfires” but rather “climate change wildfires currently consuming Canada”

Those who question the presence of Palantir in public services have been accused of risking lives and overloading of the NHS. Well, all of that is based on sketchy, unverified data. Whereas, their power over the system is very real. A scandal is gathering here. giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

Bankers reported the £5 million gift to Farage from Harborne over concerns it was a form of money laundering. The Guardian gave Farage until 1pm to respond, he called the by-election at 2pm www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

All the people who are saying it's too expensive to tackle climate change today are the same people who twenty years ago said that climate change wasn't really happening

Brilliant, as usual!

So that Brexit referendum... I don't want to labour this because it stirs very mixed emotions but here are some thoughts on that campaign and vote. I pitch them as statements but they are opinions. /1

Russia is at war with the UK and Europe. They literally tried to burn down the PM’s house. Farage, Reform, Yaxley-Lennon and Trump are Russian allies. To any British person supporting these people or this activity: -this is a betrayal of your country -wrap yourself in a Russian flag not 🇬🇧

Are there riots in Liverpool yet? “This is Callum Peacock. He battered his girlfriend with a golf club, threw bleach and paint at her, and burned a memorial shirt of her deceased grandmother but has avoided an immediate prison sentence.”

Warning - this is very upsetting. Please watch it anyway and remember it every time you hear any defence whatsoever of fox hunting.

"30 women have been murdered in Northern Ireland in the last six years - not one road was closed, not one protest. What was the connection? They were murdered by white locals."

Oh this is priceless - what an ignorant bullshitting windbag. Fake-angry outrage about stuff he’s got totally wrong.

Every day, a migrant saves someone's life in an operation, teaches a child, cleans a building, is a good neighbour or parent. That never leads the news. No gangs rush down streets thanking people who *might* be migrants. But as soon as an atrocity happens, all "migrants" are held responsible. 1/3

Since this doesn't seem to have been noted as much as it should... A founder of Raise the Colours, the flag-obsessed ‘patriot’ group, currently faces a murder charge. RTC members were present at last night's Southampton protest, where the far right crassly sought to recruit over Nowak's murder.

This is much better from Starmer bsky.app/profile/impl...

Is it possible on Bluesky, which has many good uses but is now being overrun, to mute everything from the US? The Trump shit of course, but also just the whole US, its culture, the vacuous celebs, the existential flailing about, the media, complicit because of its disappointing shellshock?

I can excuse @iaindale.bsky.social's ignorance here. Just because anyone with a very basic economics education should recognise the lump of labour fallacy doesn't mean he should. But the arrogance combined with the absolutely deliberate refusal to think is quite remarkable.

Farage thugs manhandle man with pacemaker after he objects to the Reform leader's chauffeur parking in disabled bay that he needs to use. Lovely People. www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...

So then let’s get this thread started! Matthew Goodwin is speaking in Budapest at 17:00 CEST this evening, at this event hosted by MCC: mcc.hu/en/event/202... And I’m signed up to go. Updates in this thread The tag is: #BadLossBudapest

Reminder.

It is a sign of how completely out of control these people are that courts should even have to make such an order.

There’s no negotiation to be had here. The US can do as it wants but the IEA cannot slip into some kind of fake reality.

This is actually very funny. How deranged do you have to be to think that a serial liar and conman like Farage has ever been a target? He’s had, and broadly continues to get, the easiest ride from the media in British politics.

The first time Charlie Chaplin spoke onscreen, he implored the people of the world to resist the rising tide of fascism. Nearly 90 years later, it remains a timely message.

Just like the Tories, Labour's centrist hacks think themselves omniscient and infallible - they cannot fail, they can only be failed. So when they do fail, they blame everyone else. We saw it with the Tories, and it's already started from the Starmerites with this idiotic dreck: archive.ph/rHoXA

Welcome to the UK where a right wing academic seeks to defend a man who wrote: 'Head for the hotels housing them and burn them to the ground.' By describing that incitement as "anti immigration"

What does a malignant sociopath reaching the highest office in the land, leading to the greatest policy error in British history, then allowing his fecklessness to cause tens of thousands of unnecessary deaths during a pandemic tell us about the elite private education system’s place in England?

Yinke Bankola says he was 9 when the sixth form Dulwich school prefect Nigel Farage, aged 17, asked him where he was from, then told him "that's the way back to Africa". www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

“In 2017 there was not a single asylum seeker who arrived on a boat. Today we have 46,000 a year and do you know why? It was because of the botched Brexit deal pushed through by Boris Johnson and championed by Nigel Farage. Nigel Farage should be here apologising” Daisy Cooper

You will be shocked to discover after reading these stories that while Rachel Reeves claimed to have been the "British girls under-14 [chess] champion" she was in reality merely the "Under 14s British Women’s Chess Association (BWCA) Girls" Champion. This is getting utterly ridiculous now

Racist slurs aren’t racist, is Farage’s latest defence. He’s tried: - I didn’t say it. - Nobody was offended. - It was ok back then. - I was just a kid. But he’s been doing it for years since, it was offensive, it wasn’t ok, and he definitely did say it. A vote for Farage is a vote for hate.

Hoo boy, another fictitious "EV market slows" headline from the Times *EU EV sales are up 25.6% in 2025* Receipts in thread.

Farage is such a compulsive liar, one benefitting enormously, for years, from the media’s lack of scrutiny & challenge. Here at last we see a challenge, highlighting directly conflicting statements made just days apart. Let us hope this empty, nasty little charlatan is finally going to be exposed.

‘I can categorically say that stories being told about me from 50 years ago are not true’ - a statement from Nigel Farage tonight on claims he racially abused fellow school pupils That firm denial tonight is different to what he said in interview with BBC Wales Political Editor Gareth Lewis 👇

This is so extraordinarily bad. It is impossible to now know how much more self-censorship the BBC is engaged in re Trump. The internal BBC saboteurs who started all of this need to be removed. And the BBC needs to stop bending itself out of shape or its reputation will never recover.

I ask again why any Government is still on X. Grok has clearly been shaped in its owner’s image and likeness I would very much like to know what Governments’ and journalists’ red lines are if this sort of thing is not. apple.news/At85Jo9xFRzC...

Growing backbench pressure about how government uses X I hope this pressure can link up with pressure to recognise strength of prima facie evidence thst X is in breach of legal duties (in systemic failure of its complaints system to be compliant with UK law) www.politicshome.com/news/article...

A problem in aligning with Reform’s view of the migration situation is that you have to adopt its distortions & lies to justify your actions: being like Reform means Labour have to become liars. Another problem is that Labour then lose (more) credibility, while reinforcing Reform’s false position.

I simply do not understand why these figures have not become as famous as the ones on the side of that stupid fucking bus. Imagine what could have been done with this kind of money. And why is it not mentioned to Farage every time he opens his lying malodorous face hole.

🚨🚨 Huge revelations about Farage from those who knew him in his youth. On the record. "He would be sort of singing these kind of ‘gas ’em all’ sort of songs” “I have a very strong memory of him using the W-word...and the P-word for those of south Asian origin" www.theguardian.com/politics/ng-...

This is what has to happen once the elected government adopts policies to ape Reform. Just like them, like Farage over Brexit and every other issue he raises: - they have to start lying in order to justify it. This is the hidden cost of being Reform-Lite. They have to become liars.

The Home Secretary says "we have become the destination of choice in Europe, clearly visible to every people smuggler and would-be illegal migrant across the world" That is a factually untrue claim: the Home Office shows that the UK is fifth, getting 1/10 claims, while Germany gets 1/5 claims

Published today in Earth System Science Data: The Global Carbon Budget 2025 essd.copernicus.org/preprints/es...

This a big deal: "China’s carbon dioxide emissions have been flat or falling for 18 months" China's economy has grown by ~5% in the last year, so this comprehensively debunks the idea (again) that emissions are tied to growth. So yes, faster progress needed, but this is how you turn the corner.

Is there a journalist out there who still understands what a story is? Woodward and Bernstein, if they were trying to make a living now in British journalism, would be long-term unemployed.

I called this out on #BBCQT last night and I'm calling it out again now. He is gaslighting a nation.

Good grief, why has it taken so long to make this statement?! Anyway, finally, glad it’s here, and it’s good to finally get it out there. Farage is an arsonist, one who seems to have done rather well out of his political profile. Posh boy flag waving simplistic conman.