I have donated to Count Binface. I think this is the first time I have donated to a political candidate. Ko-fi.com/home/coffees...

And so the desperate Count Binface smear campaign begins......

In case you missed it, here's Count Binface's appearance on the BBC this morning.

In one move, Farage has turned from a threat into a laughing stock inews.co.uk/opinion/one-...

"If he wants to spend the summer arguing with a bin, I wont stop him." <stop stop he's dead gif>

Count Binface. Election candidate.

I adore you Leon, Egyptologist here, they were built by a largely volunteer force (corvée labor) of 25,000. The builders were very well fed, paid in bread and beer, and received excellent medical care. There was no slavery whatsoever, it is a common misconception.

On my way, Clacton.

‼️🇫🇷 So Le Pen will run and will appeal. She thinks that suspends the prison sebtence. But if she loses her final appeal she would have to wear the tag in the heat of the campaign next year - which she said she wouldn't do

Belgium head coach Rudi Garcia on his conversation with Folarin Balogun after the match: “He came to talk to me. I really liked that. It is not his fault. He is not the one to blame - that's what I told him. I really appreciate the intention that he came to see me. I appreciate this player."

Fair play this is funny.

Saying you're the "most physically attacked" MP when two MPs have been killed in the last decade is just horribly self-absorbed.

Game on, Nige.

Any Clacton residents who want to nominate your friendly neighbourhood intergalactic space warrior, ping me a line!

The game is on: Binface vs Farage. Bring it.

Wow, political parties actually working together to make Farage look like the tit he is. Hopefully the other parties will donate to Count Binface's campaign to really try and humiliate him

I can reveal that Labour isn't putting forward a candidate for the Clacton by-election....

🚨 BREAKING: Kemi Badenoch says the Tories will not stand against Nigel Farage in the Clacton by-election "We're not standing in a fake by-election"

Looks like it may happen: Tories saying they won't run anyone. That's on top of Lib Dems, Restore and Greens. Now just waiting for Labour... Would be hilarious.

RIP Penelope Keith Sheer class.

⚖️ Devastating news today from the US Supreme Court, where a 6-3 decision gives the Trump administration the go-ahead to bring Temporary Protected Status (TPS) to an end for Syria, exposing more than 6,000 Syrians to potential deportation. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...

Credit where credit is due, Finally Sally Nugent asked Nigel Farage real questions about £5m on BBC breakfast. His answer literally is "No one cares". WTAF. (I've speeded it up to 1.3x to fit within the BlueSky video limit)

David Cameron had zero credibility as the face of Remain. He spent years shitbagging the EU for the right wing press and then tried to do a reverse ferret and say we should stay. A reckless and misplaced overcomaiden r on his own abilities led us to this.

I’ve got 1.2mn UK citizens living in the EU and 3mn EU citizens living in the UK who would beg to differ that ‘Brexit has altered nothing’

“In itself, Brexit alters nothing.” What an extraordinarily stupid, privileged, complacent, ignorant thing to write.

This, from Israeli National Security Minister Ben-Givr, is the what unvarnished evil and inhumanity sounds like: "For every tear of an Israeli mother, a thousand Lebanese must weep." When you dehumanize other people to this degree, there's no limit to the atrocities you'll carry out.

You already got one, and you didn't like it.

I've had 2 journalists today asking if Miliband as Chancellor would be a "Liz Truss moment" and find it difficult not to just respond "are you on crack?".

Horrific. www.ft.com/content/6454...

"I have accepted Keir Starmer's resignation as my chief servant and have invited Andy Burnham to lay out details for how many meals a day he'll give me"

No joy to be found today. No satisfaction. Just frustration and a profound sense of squandered opportunity iandunt.substack.com/p/the-traged...

Am working with an all French training group and we feel it's not fair to compare the UK to Italy in terms of Prime Minister defenestrations. France and the UK are the new Italy.

The attack was 110 days ago. It probably doesn't seem 'a long time ago' to the parents of the children.

God I love this country. We're just so ridiculous.

Retrospectively changing conditions under which people have come to a country is illiberal and wrong. It should have no place in any part of the classical liberal or libertarian tradition. The fascist tradition is a better place for such views.

One of the biggest mistakes by the government was to tolerate and pander to this group. Far right extremist thugs posing as patriots, who should have been clamped down on from day one www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

We talked about the dangers of concentrated media ownership at the 2026 Cambridge Disinformation Summit. It seems some systems are fragile by being too heavily leveraged on parasitic power. www.reuters.com/business/med...

For those fools dumping on Middlemarch. "But the effect of her being on those around her was incalculably diffusive: for the growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistoric acts;" /1

If Andy going for his run is going to be a daily picture any chance of a Go Fund Me for some new shorts

The yanks are feeling envious of us again

Farage is as (un)popular as he was two years ago! The country is not changing their minds on him

aoc 340 EVs

When I rule the world, learning about the post WW2 repair and rebuilding work will be compulsory in all European schools (especially British ones). In the meantime, I'm so glad @iandunt.bsky.social and @dorianlynskey.bsky.social have done this. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/e...

The rewriting of history carries on. It was the 2016 Brexit referendum that has crowded out more important issues from British political life. The single biggest cost of Brexit is its opportunity cost: all the things that could’ve happened between 2016-24. But sure, let’s talk about “SW1 pathology”.

Of course they are concentration camps. And @anatosaurus.bsky.social is right that once you accept the euphemism you are halfway to normalizing the thing.

We’re defending Western Civilization by kicking Plato and Shakespeare out of university classes.

Incoming Hungarian PM Péter Magyar went on Orbán's state TV today for the first time in 18 months: "This factory of lies will end once the Tisza govt is formed... What has been going on here since 2010, which even Goebbels or the North Korean dictator would have been envious of, cannot continue."

A lot of very confused Anglosphere reactions to Peter Magyar's ideological themes is just another indicator of how much the stances of Angela Merkel and her wing of the CDU in the 2010s led too many in the US and UK to forget how damned conservative much of the European Centre Right actually is

It's so funny to me that right-wingers love to pretend to love the Middle Ages and the Crusades and all that and then complain that the Pope shouldn't get involved in politics.