"Farage was given a deadline of 1pm on Tuesday to respond to the Guardian about this article. He gave a video address at 2pm announcing he would force a byelection in his seat of Clacton-on-Sea."

Vote Binface, Clacton. It’s the sane and human thing to do. Vote @countbinface.bsky.social

Game on, Nige.

Allowing MPs to resign and then stand for reelection for the same political party in the same role in that party is some kind of Banana Republic bullshit isn't it? I'm open to ideas as to how it is a genuinely democratic act though.

Or, and go with me on this wild thought, the USA men’s soccer team were just not as good as the Belgium men’s football team at playing football.

TFW you're playing a video game and you screw up so badly you reload the last save point out of sheer desperation

They'll probably see more of him in the next few weeks than in the last two years.

“I am the most verbally and physically attacked public figure or politician of modern times.” The disgraceful Nigel Farage. Remembering Labour MP Jo Cox, born 1974, murdered 2016.

Amazing to be out there standing on a platform that you should be able to pocket £5m and not be asked about it

Be good if Reform didn't reselect him though, you know, for bantz.

Come to think of it, will the voters in Clacton have any idea he's resigned anyway?

Allowing MPs to resign and then stand for reelection for the same political party in the same role in that party is some kind of Banana Republic bullshit isn't it? I'm open to ideas as to how it is a genuinely democratic act though.

Stalin 'resigned' four times… purely in order to see who the loyalists were who would demand he didn't go. It's not an unusual act of real politik and/or narcissism.

A forced byelection. FFS Nigel Farage…. blah blah how much public money etc etc

I'm hearing a short of high-pitched whiney sound from my telly.

Farage's statement leaked. youtu.be/eRnd48yTC5A?...

Jesus, Mary and Joseph! Is what I might call my datacentres. Otherwise, fucking hell! It's genuinely insane, @oisinmcgann.bsky.social

Ceci n'est pas une Carte Rouge. (Allez Belgique!) (Pardon my Frelgian)

Nic is always worth a read. Expanding horizons and bringing flavourful fascinations every time.

If this World Cup has done anything for me, it's been to point me towards learning more about Patrice Lumumba, the politics of DR Congo's decolonisation and the terrible aftermath. Thanks to Michel Kuka Mboladinga, aka “Lumumba Vea,” or “Lumumba Lives.” edition.cnn.com/2026/06/24/s...

This 100% ignores that this isn't a *sudden* opening of eyes so much as an absurd bridge too far in the eyes of most people. Many tend to think of major political questions as outside of their personal lane or far above them, but everyone has opinions about the rule interpretations in sports.

Really strikes home when Trump's love of breaking any and all rules if it favours him or corrupt pals strays over into a leading sport. People still care about fairness, they're just resigned in general on economic and political matters.

Blimey, the number of people suddenly opening their eyes to the slow death of a rules-based international system because of a politicised footy red card rather than, say, an economy distorting tariff outburst, an invasion of sovereign land, or an actual genocide is breathtaking.

Ceci n'est pas une Carte Rouge. (Allez Belgique!) (Pardon my Frelgian)

well that was quick

60 years old. Decades of publishing experience. AI gorging on the jobs as it soaks up all the water. So, I’m retraining as a teaching assistant for Special Educational Needs and Disabled children. Onwards. Upwards etc etc

This is our kitchen garden patch. No pollinators in sight. Weird.

Where have all the pollinators gone?

Tragic 😥

It’s not the greatest country in the world. There is no greatest country in the world. Goodness me.

Now then…

Nigel Farage failed to declare staff, security and housing gifted to him by a convicted fraudster and crypto gambler who was charged for his role in a “dark web” money laundering plot www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...

I just watched “The Act of Killing” and I don’t know what to make of it, me, us all.

lol Threads banned the new Infowars. Silenced for TRUTH. Everybody go yell at them.

From my local (Newsquest) ad vehicle… sorry local news. Note what section the Reform story and Farage picture is in.

Made my own scoby from scratch :)

It's a Scott Walker kind of an afternoon. youtu.be/CXouo98jCck?...

The storm came last night But the heatwave didn’t break. All that thunder and lightning Full of sound and fury Signifying nothing. Ah, bollocks.

It is the weather for classic King Stitt. youtu.be/HdWP0ynPzC4?...

Oi, Weather: RAIN, YOU COMPLETE BASTARD!!!!

Wrapped our dog in a large dish cloth soaked in cold water. He looked as if he was playing the Virgin Mary in the school play. That's all I've got to give. The humidity and hayfever are mediating against anything more cerebral.

Close your eyes next time Thomas Tuchel gives an interview. It’s Werner Herzog. Tomas Tuchel is Werner Herzog on Ozempic.

England men’s footy in unimaginative draw. Nature is healing. PS: Ghana played well. Tediously but well tediously.

A test: You are a subeditor at a national newspaper, let’s call it The Graudniad What should stop you from letting this paragraph that went to press from going to press?

You know it's getting bad for Farage when even his cheerleaders are giving him grief

Probably a bit niche, but I think it deserved a little more love.

"What brought Richard M Nixon down? What really caught the public mind?" "Well, probably the tapes where he conspired against the Constitutional rights of US citizens." "The money? The venality?" "Sure yes." What brought down Trump? What did it for the American public? "Poor pool maintenance."

The UK does not elect Prime Ministers. It’s not that difficult to comprehend. The thing to really get upset about is that we don’t get to elect our head of state. That’s incomprehensible. If you want to be outraged by UK polity, that’s the outrage.

Can anyone shed further light (because we have THOUGHTS)

Great band names from a series of lots. Insect Pests of Food (I bet they played the ICA in London in 1983 at least once)