Let Jude take it!!

Meanwhile in Crimea..

Having a cable stream at least 2 min behind all your neighbours takes a lot of the suspense away but at least you get to guess who scored.

Vinnytsia💙💛

‼️ Russia: “In Russia, amid the fuel crisis, prices for vegetables and meat have begun to rise sharply.” 👀 ru.themoscowtimes.com/2026/07/10/v...

One step closer to the European Union. Ukraine and Moldova have delivered. And the EU is delivering too. Today’s agreement by EU Member States to open another cluster in the accession negotiations marks further progress for Ukraine and Moldova.

Picturehouse Central, we're so back.

As the Smiths didn’t quite say: 🎵Ban the vox pop, Ban the vox pop, Ban the vox pop, Ban the vox pop🎵

George Cottrell's mother is "understood to be of relatively modest means, and yet has donated a total of £1.75m to Reform". Now police are investigating. And why is Cottrell "a permissible donor"? www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Who could have predicted it? (Broadcasters during the referendum campaign for a start)

'The heat waves will continue until morale improves'

In other words, continuing to shrink in real terms.

These are parties that are increasingly not only utterly unfit for office but entirely unprepared. There is no platform here that can be spun up into a governing philosophy. It’s all reactionary position taking.

Yes, but one of more than enough such days to put them beyond the pale.

My story from the Donbas has been published in French magazine Eurozine www.eurozine.com/dispatch-fro...

Big read from @lucyfisher.ft.com & Charles Clover on the weakening of UK’s hard and soft power. Soundings from diplomats show ‘not only has much of the country’s military firepower withered but its image across the world is also much diminished’ www.ft.com/content/17eb...

FT today (left) WSJ (right)

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Count Binface just tore @bbcnewsnight.bsky.social a new one. In response to a request by Paddy O'Connell to take his bin off: "Here we go. You want to get serious? I would say, what are we doing on a programme that used to do proper investigative journalism and now is a souped-up podcast." Ouch! 😂

Makes me quite angry. Time and goodwill wasted because of stupidity, timidity, the futile Reform-lite strategy, British exceptionalism, neglecting the interests and spurning the help of actual allies.

🇭🇺📺 Hungary’s state propaganda media went off air as Péter Magyar’s government appointed temporary leadership. Orbán-era propagandists were fired, and M1, the main news channel, is now airing an apology for lying for 15 years. Simply beautiful. (Translated with Google Lens.)

The triple lock is now projected by the OBR to inflate state pension spending to *9% of GDP* (compared to 7% with an earnings link). As I wrote in @arguablymag.bsky.social, socialism for the old and capitalism for the young isn't sustainable. www.arguably.uk/p/how-burnha...

Hot Bin Summer

First they ignore you. Then they laugh at you. Then they collect you every Friday morning, alternating between recycling and general waste. Then you win. #ThePeopleVersusTheEstablishment

Kyiv right now. Russia attacked the city with ballistic missiles.

A new @CovertCabal and @Jonpy99 video: Has Russia Finally Run Out of Tanks? Analysis of 4+ Years of Russian Tank Storage www.youtube.com/watch?v=f3nu...

Good social science sometimes states what should be obvious, but sadly isn't. Can't wait to read this important article! The "polarization" frame is yet another invention of the reactionary centrists, which ultimately only helps the far right and weakens democracy.

‘Farage gamble turns to farce’ ‘Farage gambit falls flat after rivals refuse to contest 'fake' by-election’ The verdict is in, Farage may have made his last attempt to deceive voters.

i know nothing but this seems like a great opportunity for Badenoch. What other seat, let alone high profile contest, can the Tories run a policy platform to the right of the BNP a few years ago and feel confident of getting most of the centre & left voting for you but vs Farage in Clacton?

⚠️ Best for Britain CEO, Naomi Smith: “Farage has stopped at nothing in his race to the bottom, including orchestrating a disastrous Brexit that 62% of voters now agree is a failure and normalising a strain of intolerance that risks ushering in a far nastier and more dangerous politics."

There is precedent: no one serious ran against David Davis in 2008. Also, some guy called Andy Burnham said Davis should pay the costs of the vote.

Suicide by cop vibes

Farage seems to have taken Belgium's victory quite badly.

“Making money is not a crime”

I'm in a meeting, someone let me know if I'm running for Clacton MP when you know CHEERS!!!! Zack P, DMs open, ta.

“I’m not a crook”, Nigel Farage (2026)

On Nigel Farage’s announcement that he will make a statement about his future in public life later today, Leader of the Liberal Democrats, Ed Davey said: “I hope it’s that you haven’t got one. “You’ve caused more than enough damage already."

Maybe Farage has learnt from the crisis management of the accused pedophile he stumped for in this US, Roy Moore, who hid from the press. Yes I will keep mentioning Farage helped this guy. www.nytimes.com/2018/06/06/o...

I'm announcing the new Faragecoin

We're so back

Trump‘s disastrous Iran war has changed centuries old norms around international maritime trade and defence. To better understand this I spoke to Ian Ralby, maritime lawyer and expert in this field. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/b...

Yeah, and the July one isn't going much better.

Things are starting to look very dark for Farage. He's stuck in a ferocious scandal where he cannot get his story straight and his excuses raise more questions than they answer inews.co.uk/opinion/nige...

George Cottrell scandal has something for everyone. Robert Jenrick not really trying to bluff it out www.ft.com/content/7a0f...

More members of Liz Truss's cabinet are in Reform than in Badenoch's shadow cabinet...

Looks to me like they’re effortlessly fucking him up, just by suddenly noticing things they’ve known about him for quite some time

This video is a great summary of the story plus lol at the Tory rejects simultaneously realising they might have jumped onto a sinking ship and excited they might wrestle control of it.

I mean, I know George Cottrell calls Farage "daddy" but I'm not sure that strictly qualifies him as family

Reminded of Patrick O’Flynn, then Ukip’s economy spokesperson, describing Farage as “snarling, thin-skinned and aggressive” back in 2015.