“As the airplane took off, Epstein started touching me forcibly in between my legs, and I freaked out. I realized, this is not a modeling opportunity, I've been kidnapped. They whisked me away to the island. I was stuck there. They never arranged any modeling opportunities, I was completely conned."

Hey Keir Starmer — 86% of Labour voters want to #RejoinEU. That’s not a hint, it’s a mandate. Time to rebuild our future with the European Union. And a special message to 13% of Reform UK voters: “You’re in the wrong party.”

"We're not like other parties, and I won't tolerate disloyalty," says Farage, as he introduces a cabinet that is 50% disloyal people from another party. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

They owe her, and all of us, an apology.

For "Belief that Britain was right to vote for Brexit has fallen sharply" read "Ooops, bugger"

This is the interview Donald Trump didn’t want you to see. His FCC refused to air my interview with Stephen Colbert. Trump is worried we’re about to flip Texas.

We’ve got a media that’s obsessed with creating chaos whilst wilfully misrepresenting reality to further the far right. Change needs to come and come quickly

The messages between the far-right former Trump adviser Steve Bannon and the late convicted paedophile Jeffrey Epstein reveal how Bannon worked with Boris Johnson and Farage to “overthrow” Theresa May at the height of the 2018 Brexit crisis in the UK bylinetimes.com/2026/02/16/b...

Should the U.K. join the EU? A clear difference between people who want to move society forward, and those who wish to drag us backwards.

If any other First Lady had moved out of the White House and refused to live with their husband, it would have been a huge scandal. Yet- nobody thinks it's unusual that Melania lives somewhere in NYC and never appears with the President unless it's a paid performance-$ extra for hand holding.

Good grief. Everyone knows they were just friends.

Only 46% of Brits now identify as Christian according to the last census.

😬Not the best look for Reform’s Gorton & Denton candidate Matt Goodwin White supremacist far right activist says “you've appeared on our podcasts, had dinner with us, had us write for your Substack, and sought our advice on how to write your social media posts” Tad awkward😬

substack.com/@redpencilsc... Epstein had quite the welcome parade when he was released from jail, including Fergie and her two daughters, Leon Black, Sultan bin Sulayem, Andrew Farkus, Henry Jarecki, an unknown, and Martin Nowak.

Dan wasn't even born before decimalisation (nor was he anywhere near the UK when he was born) but still he yearns for Britain's pre-decimal times 55 years later.

One in five children infected in the recent London measles outbreak were reportedly hospitalised. Don’t believe the anti-vaxxers when they say “it’s a mild disease” or “it’s better to get immunity naturally”. It isn’t.

The big question question for next week will be “How long can Chris Mason survive paid his BBC’s political editor £270,000 salary, after alienating so many with his overtly anti Starmer ‘reports’ & ‘interviews’❓ We want news not his biased views wrapped up as news, glib comments & tortured pros❗️

Dear BBC , please sack this over paid and Reform loving mediocre political commentator.

Matt Goodwin said in a post on X: “Welcome to the UK. Where you go to prison for 18 months for anti-immigration tweets. This is insane.” No. What is insane is shrugging off incitement to racial murder. Put this man in the bin, not the House of Commons. www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...

The death toll from Musk’s budget cuts will surpass that of every war in the last few decades combined. He knowingly triggered famines and collapsed health systems, yet he faces no consequences. We need to stop calling it cost-cutting and start calling it what it is: mass murder

In case you missed it ... Natural changes in demographics and the lived experience of Brexit mean there's now a majority of 8 million for rejoining the EU. And that's without any real campaigning on the issue! Everyone knows that Brexit was an attack on the EU by Putin and the Epstein Class. 🇬🇧🇪🇺

This is the Gov looking for your input on the BBC. It takes a while to complete (15/20 mins) but it’s pretty comprehensive and covers most aspects. Please share. I’m surprised many people haven’t seen it yet. www.gov.uk/government/c...

Won't be a revelation to anyone but the reason all the worst people on the right are pivoting to talking about race and culture rather than immigration is so they can keep banging the drum even as net migration figures fall (UK) and even reverse (US). This is the next step and it always was.

@warrenoates1.bsky.social @toekneee.bsky.social @paddyopatrick.bsky.social @ceremonialgeek.substack.com

Backing Rejoin would turn the next election into the second Brexit referendum Sir Keir always wanted. It’s the logical step that might give him his best chance of winning.

If this country was truly “pro-life,” we would have Medicare for All, a Green New Deal, gun reform, universal child care, and a living wage. The right-wing agenda isn’t about “life.” It’s about control.

It beggars belief that people don’t see this man for what he is — a traitorous Putin puppet!

Hysterical punchline.

This!

I can remember a time when a political party celebrating the launch of a book on how to launder money, written by a convicted fraudster who is also a long-term aide to the party leader, would have been seen as a rather large (& bizarre) red flag. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

It's quite obvious that criminal damage and terrorist activity are entirely different things. It's yet another move of this increasingly authoritarian Labour Government to try and conflate the two.

Today's Chapter of Truth AWARD WINNER 🎯 "The day we come to terms with this reality that Pam Bondi is just Trump's Ghislaine Maxwell, the sooner we make sense of it all" ( ht @msgrumpybunny.bsky.social & 1andonlyhoov ) Impeach Bondi

What a bunch of…. Nothing good comes from these people. Nothing hopeful for the communities of Gorton and Denton. Nothing to make anyone’s lives better. It’s just an ugly pitch to boost Matt Goodwin’s needy ego. Voting for this is voting for hatred and failure. manchestermill.co.uk/goodwins-gan...

Nadhim Zahawi's "I saw a man who hadn't slept" story is so hilariously pathetic that I doubt even he believes it www.lbc.co.uk/article/lond...

The main argument against rejoining the EU is that it would "embolden Farage". Bullshit. It would expose Farage. It would force him to oppose the majority of voters, remind them that his last "Great Crusader" left us poor and powerless, and force him to admit he wants us to remain that way.

It doesn’t really matter *why* Trump’s desire to destabilise & divide Europe precisely mirrors Vladimir Putin’s - whether kompromat, self-interest, naked bigotry or something else l. What matters is that Europe treats both regimes like the enemies of progress & democracy they so clearly are.

Please enjoy our research paper on how Bluesky is the preferred home of academics of all stripes, including professors of rare moths. (Yes, we actually have lots of entomologists here). academic.oup.com/icb/article-... 🧪

Farage is clearly misleading the public. The main reason that net migration fell by 445,000 (year to June 2025 it was 205k, having been 649k a year before) is that immigration fell by 401,000. The BBC should fact-check/verify and report that this was untrue.

Remembrance doesn’t need flags on lamp posts or a date in the diary, writes Stuart Burrell. Sometimes it’s simply stopping, noticing, and understanding what happened where you stand. eastangliabylines.co.uk/lifestyle/hi...

Brexit is on course to cut UK trade intensity by 15% (OBR) londonlovesbusiness.com/how-much-cou...

My column in this week's @newstatesman1913.bsky.social, on bad data used in bad faith. FOI-ing the stats myself, I didn't find a great deal of difference in sex offending rates: 5 per 10,000 Afghan men, 7 per 10,000 UK men:

Left: Former Conservative Home Secretary now Reform UK supporter Suella Braverman says we need to leave the ECHR because the ECHR stopped the Rwanda plan Right: BBC News, "The Conservative's Rwanda plan announced 18 months ago has been ruled unlawful by 5 Justices here at the UK's Supreme Court"

Robert Peston, "Are you firmly in favour of rejoining the European Union?" Zack Polanski, "Firmly very much in favour" "Brexit has been a disaster under any criteria, under any measure" "Whether its economically, socially, culturally"

Starmer: "The real fight is not in the Labour Party. It's with the right-wing politics that challenges that. The politics of Reform... Divide, divide, divide. Grievance, grievance, grievance. That will tear our country apart... I will be in that fight as long as I have breath in my body."

Jim Ratcliffe accused of hypocrisy after saying UK ‘colonised’ by immigrants

Another super rich, tax dodging cunt to add to the list.

Ash Sarkar, "Jim Ratcliffe is a stinking hypocrite" "He became a tax resident of Monaco to save £4 billion that could have gone towards British schools, the British NHS, towards British defence, instead he decided he wanted that money for his own pocket"

Sir Jim Ratcliffe lives in Monaco, which has been colonised by immigrant tax dodgers.