Many rural area are still years away from broad band. It is not profitable to run cable miles for isolated communities and single properties. As with all privatised state “ services”, they not services they are profit streams. Where there is no profit there is no service.

Watch @joshuareynoldssl6.bsky.social GRILL eBay bosses. If Joshua can find banned, unsafe products on eBay with 30 seconds of Googling, why can't eBay identify them and stop them being sold?

'An Unmitigated Disaster': Piers Morgan Slams Brexit And Says UK Would Vote To Rejoin EU www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/piers-...

Russian/North Korean losses, 24 Feb 22 - 28 Jun 26: 1,400,970 personnel 12063 tanks 24844 armoured vehicles 44920 artillery 1901 MLRS 1454 air defence 436 aircraft 353 helicopters 1754 ground robots 377500 UAVs 4790 cruise missiles 33 ships/boats 2 submarines 113135 vehicles 4360 special equipment

It's great to hear Ed Davey and the LibDems arguing for the Single Market and Freedom of Movement so strongly here. More of this please! It's such a relief to hear it discussed positively! #RejoinEU 🇬🇧🇪🇺

That is a different order of political deception, and it matters more now because he is asking the country to take the Manchester free zone model national. As Starmer is to Blackrock, so Burnham is to Blackstone. Please read and share my Substack article, it's free! substack.com/home/post/p-...

Please consider becoming a member of @thenerve.news to help us continue our public interest investigations. We can & will keep going but need your support 🙏 9/ www.thenerve.news/membership

Harborne is also suing former Reform deputy, Ben Habib. Habib claimed Harborne gave Farage & Johnson £1m each to fix the 2019 general election that gave us Brexit. In a previous episode of #HarborneReceipts, @thenerve.news investigated 8/ www.thenerve.news/p/christophe...

Johnson didn’t reply to @thenerve_news’s press inquiries. Harborne, through his lawyers, Schillings, threatened defamation proceedings but wouldn’t comment or explain what was defamatory. Harborne is suing @wsj for reporting on his ownership of Tether. 7/

Harborne’s fortune derives largely from his investment in Tether, a cryptocurrency. But what has gone under the radar until now is his investment in QinetiQ, which began in early 2022 when he became friendly with Johnson & switched his donations to the Conservatives 6/

Johnson flew to Poland en route to meeting Zelenskyy in Kyiv. And Harborne didn’t just supply the jet. The leaked schedule notes he went too. And he had his own interest in Ukraine. He was & still is the largest individual shareholder in UK defence company, QinetiQ 5/

Harborne’s gift of £5m to Farage wasn’t his first act of generosity. He also gave £1m to Johnson *after* he left office. What for, you ask? Neither are saying. But in contrast to the flights, he did declare this. 2 months later he flew on Harborne’s jet to Ukraine 4/

Harborne provided his private jet & pilot to Johnson in Jan 2023, after he’d resigned as PM but when still an MP. There is no record of the gift in Johnson’s Register of Members Interests. 3/

NEW: Boris Johnson failed to declare to parliament a gift of private jet flights from the same cryptobillionaire, Christopher Harborne who gave £5m to Nigel Farage, leaked documents reveal. New #HarborneReceipts investigation from @thenerve.news. 🔗 below 1/

If broadcasters want to reach us they need to make it worth our while, not us paying forever increasing cost of the *privilege*

Climate change *is* an economic issue.

1/4 This may be the most significant development for the Strait of Hormuz to come about since the MoU was signed, and could define what happens over the coming days. This is clear evidence of Iran deciding to unilaterally manage the Strait - which speaks to the interpretations I set out earlier.

Just 10 people have already poured $617 MILLION into this year’s midterm elections. In the entire 2008 presidential cycle, the last election before Citizens United, total billionaire spending was $16 million. This is not sustainable. We need to get Big Money out of our democracy.

📚 GEOPOLITICS (Culture) A decade after the EU Referendum, British politics remains fundamentally poisoned by a project that produced no benefits, writes Chris Grey Read the full piece below.

Burnham’s new chief of staff was chief executive of lobbying firm Flint It’s like the British political elite is addicted to conflicts of interest www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Why are we standing by and watching this happen? “Israel continues to commit genocide by deliberately targeting Palestinian children in Gaza, an ⁠independent UN inquiry has found…. about 30% of the people killed by Israeli forces have been children.” www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...

In 1976 we didn't let a bit of hot weather bring life to a standstill. I was at school and can distinctly remember carrying on racially abusing other pupils as usual.

To look the other way?

It has been a sickening marvel to witness the hypocrisy of men and women for whom I was no longer "Christian enough" justify sexual predators, applaud the deportation of families, defend violent insurrections, and champion genocide... johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/i-was-a-pa...

Let's boost my petition today which calls for stronger regulation of all our news media through the creation of a single, powerful regulator across broadcast, print and online news, with powers to action on misinformation and the blurring of fact and opinion! Currently at just over 2700 signatures!

@superleggera.bsky.social why are we not following through on this? eastangliabylines.co.uk/environment/...

Farage pocketing £5m from a crypto billionaire makes the MPs expenses scandal look like chicken feed

“the plotters had far-right views, but hoped to kill Republican officials”

BBC isn’t backing down. Trump sued them for $10 billion, which means discovery cuts both ways. So the BBC wants his phone logs, daily diaries, and communications. They’re defending the case by asking: did their documentary damage Trump’s reputation, or did January 6 do that all by itself?

Sadly, education in much of the U.S. is so poor that something like this might have to pop up on billboards to get through.

We were all supposed to be furious about the ‘gifts’ of glasses and Taylor Swift tickets… And yet now we’re not meant to care about about £5m. If the playing field were level, Farage’s political career would be over.

@nialloconghaile.bsky.social David here distils Brexit exceptionalism in a paragraph: "I don't want to be a Spanish tax resident." "I don't want to pay for a visa." "But I should still be able to live there whenever I please." The sense of entitlement is almost anthropologically fascinating.

“If we lose, people might investigate us" is a helluva campaign pitch for "innocent" politicians.

Question: Are Ukraine's strikes on Russian oil infrastructure having a real impact, not only undermining Russia's war machine but also making regular Russians feel costs of war in unignorable ways? Answer: Picture of car line waiting to get fuel, so long that there are port-a-potties along the way.

"Crazy these damn libs! It's like they want people to be able to live or something!!!" Red hats everywhere, also we need to stop calling them red necks because actual red necks where the name originated would have beat these red hat ass holes to a pulp.

The BBC has requested that Donald Trump hand over his phone records from Jan. 6 as part of his defamation lawsuit against the broadcaster.

This is worth reading in full. @peterfrankopan.bsky.social foreignpolicy.com/2026/06/25/r...

Nigel Farage didn’t listen to voters and he tried to dismiss our legal action – but the court wasn’t buying it. We’ll see Reform in court to get to the bottom of just what they’ve been doing with your data: https://goodlaw.social/cd9q

Discussions often overlook the fact that the EU not only has its own interests, but that its area of operation and its ambitions are changing quite rapidly too. It is not the organisation that the UK left, and any re-set or re-join proposal will need to take account of that.

The crisis in UK higher education is worsening week by week — Exeter University is one of the best in the UK, with superb lecturers (and several You’re Dead To Me guests), but it’s planning massive job cuts in History, Archaeology, Classics — see the petition below to lend your voice in support

OK then Europe, looks like we need to be stepping up the development of our own digital infrastructure, which I predict nations like Canada and Australia would opt to join. The USA will ultimately become digitally isolated if it continues on this path. Is this what Americans want?

Despite what you've heard this week, we're delivering on our manifesto with over 4,600 teachers recruited into where we need them most – secondaries, special schools and colleges. That's alongside more teachers in training, more rejoining and more staying in our schools.

AOC ruthlessly hammers Mike Johnson over revealing remarks: ‘Pedophile protection program’ www.rawstory.com/aoc-26771202...

Well done to #HopeNotHate "Reform UK leader Nigel Farage is so incenced at the work of anti-extremist campaign group Hope not Hate, that he has filed a second complaint against the organisation in under a month. leftfootforward.org/2026/06/nige...

I'm with Jo, are you?

Excellent points

So @lbc has exhumed Vulcan Redwood on Matt Frei's gig. Just weird 🤪

I think the general consensus would be the public would be more than absolutely happy to tell this Trumped-up annoying orange to absolutely and ultimately "fuck right off!". If it helps I'll publish my Stratum lists. Digital sovereignty time.