Billionaires say they can't afford to live in a Britain with a wealth tax. NHS workers, school teachers and retail and hospitality staff can't afford to live in a Britain without one.

British political parties should be financed by fivers and tenners from British voters. Not by £9m bungs from Thailand-based crypto bros.

Corruption

Sane, informed, informative and fun, and always offering a unique perspective, @quietriotpod.bsky.social is the best of the political podcasts out there, in my opinion. It makes others podcasts feel samey.

I keep hearing podcasts discussing opinion polling and the shite Tory voter. Are they a new phenomenon? I thought the really shite Tories had joined Farage.

The Naked Week BBC R4 described Nick Clegg as a “Shite in Whining Armour” Bullseye!

Imitation is the sincerest form of not knowing what the fuck you’re doing politically.

So, if Iceland & Norway decide to apply to join the EU, that would mean that the only European countries NOT in it or seeking to join it would be Russia, Belarus and the UK…

"Media coverage of net zero is more than twice as likely to be negative than public attitudes and is driving a false perception that net zero policies are unpopular with voters". This has led MPs to significantly underestimate support for climate policies and overestimate opposition to clean energy.

“Trump’s behaviour has solidified a pan-European solidarity. If we are now in a world of ‘spheres of influence’, with Russia, China, and America, it becomes imperative to discover the strongest and most unified iteration of Europe, and quickly, so that it can defend its own space in this world.”

Attention BBC and Daily Mail newsdesks. It is being reliably reported that Reform UK MP Richard Tice dodged a £600,000 tax bill. Where's the media coverage?

Are people starting to rumble this lying charlatan grifter for the lying charlatan grifter he is? I do hope so or we’re truly screwed.

Our public services aren’t for a secretive profit-hungry US tech firm. Sign the petition to tell the Government to scrap all contracts with secretive US tech firm Palantir. you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/st...

Imagine if this was a Labour or Tory MP. These Reform grifters still get treated like exotic celebs rather than politicians

BBC Radio 4 comedy hasn’t lost its edge… The Naked Week, Episode 1 was razor sharp.

Not content with Russia, now it's North Korea bylinetimes.com/2026/03/12/r...

This dynasty of deplorables with its Insatiable greed illustrates the essential need for the separation of powers. Is the US constitution equal to the task.

At the local elections let’s see how many Reform supporters remember the broken promises and how many have the memory of a goldfish. Or do they like to be lied to and treated like fools?

Soon as this genius thinks he's "won enough", world can go back to trying to recover from this crisis AND the last one, caused by his previous brilliant idea: tariffs. Meanwhile, he's at his golf club taking selfies and Congress - only body with the power to stop this - continues to enable him.

BILLIONAIRES: SYMPTOM OF AN AMORAL SYSTEM - Buying elections - Contributing massively to global heating - Owning the means of communication - Evading regulations, laws, and taxation sojo.net/magazine/dec...

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@quietriotpod.bsky.social @pimlicat.bsky.social @sturdyalex.bsky.social

You know, when Benjamin Franklin wrote about the only truly certain things being death and taxes, he did not mean those as *alternatives*. It was not death OR taxes.

This is a rotten idea

And it's done by ministerial decree: MPs don't get to vote on it.

I have finally given up my Labour Party membership. I applaud some policies and have defended many unpopular decisions. Last straws: Water Companies Gaza Smearing Journalists! Palantir Privatised Child Support Services Human rights Mandelson Bye election defeat by Greens Inauthenticity

For much of my political lifetime, Hannah Spencer's views would have qualified her to be an unexceptional Labour MP. For Starmer to castigate the Greens as 'extreme left' is risible.

Oliver isn't holding back...

And all based on an idiotically shallow and wrong diagnosis: that Labour is losing votes to the right AND the left. It's simply not true. Look at the fkn numbers. Labour LOST a few votes to the right - that were on loan and never coming back. It is currently actively LOSING votes only to the left.

Until yesterday you couldn't get Reform UK off #r4today and Mason, Robinson, and Webb going on and on about them. This morning, barely mentioned...

A reminder, one day ahead of a by-election in which the Greens are favourites to defeat Reform, that the Daily Mail owner's wife recently donated £50,000 to Nigel Farage's party

In proportional voting, instead of transferable votes, how would it work if we had two votes? One to rule out the party we abhor and one for our preference. The party which received the most negative votes could then be removed. Is this naive and unworkable? I could live with these choices.

wow

Judge imposes no sanctions on Goodwin for pamphlets in breach of election law www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Alex and his expert guests pay an extravagant compliment to the intelligence of his audience in this searching episode. Real research into many quite surprising areas.

A bee on Quince blossom in February (mid Devon). The rain stopped yesterday. Is Spring on the way? Birds are singing and the rooks are making an infernal racket.

Wonder if Farage met Maldives President Muizzi on his trip to undermine UK foreign policy. They may have much in common. Muizzi faces allegations of money-laundering & a 2024 report from the Maldives Monetary Authority linked him to corruption, citing irregularities in money transfers.

Pay attention to Cameroon. Trump is off-shoring a Gulag operation

🚨 Cabinet Office investigating Labour Together and Josh Simons over campaign to smear journalists But...ministers overseeing inquiry have received £150,000+ from Labour think tank Experts and MPs demand 'full independent investigation' New on D4S: democracyforsale.substack.com/p/revealed-g... 🧵

Oliver Bullough’s new book, “Everybody Loves Our Dollars”- How money laundering won, is beautifully written and enthralling. It’s real vivid storytelling. I’m enjoying the audio book. He is gently spoken and humorous about a subject that we should all understand. A factual thriller. *****

Starmer finally answering questions re Labour Together spying on journalists BUT: How is Cabinet office right body to look into own minister, Josh Simons? And: voluntary PR industry body is *not* a regulator, whatever Liz Kendall says Need independent inquiry www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

I regularly see people wondering how it's possible that there are so many musicians and writers and film makers and artists from a tiny nation like Iceland. And the answer is really simple: State funding for art education and artists. I literally get a salary from the government to write books.

George Cottrell, who Farage says is like a son (jailed for laundering criminal money ), writes a book, How to Launder Money. At the launch, Farage, Tice, Nick Candy, the billionaire (with the biggest house in Regents Park), Leila Cunningham, James Orr,(Vance’s Sherpa) : from The Rest Is Politics

#SmallProphets Whoever at the BBC commissioned this little masterpiece, thankyou! Rarely is anything so original, heartwarming and funny shown these days. So much TV is generic and sensational. We are halfway through & loving it. This is BBC gold. Great cast and brilliant homunculi!

Why am I, once again, the only person in the fkn country who is doing this? If Nigel Farage's mouth is moving, ESPECIALLY when he ad-libs, chances are he is not telling the truth. That is the story. The only story that matters. It is what he fears. Being pinned down about lying.

Osborne said he could “unequivocally state that Jeffrey Epstein never invested in Hedosophia or any Hedosophia Fund”. “The fact that I sought his opinion, along with many others, does not give him an advisory role” He added his “association” with Epstein was one “I bitterly regret”.

With apologies to @pickardje.bsky.social who dealt with part of the issue. I had not seen this post. bsky.app/profile/pick...

Perhaps Farage would like to comment