Farage claims his failed-Tory recruitment drive is because he needs people with experience of govt. What he really means is - experience of lying. Repeatedly and shamelessly. He has a stellar line-up with Braverman, Zahawi and the v practised, ‘Honest Bob’. What a grim bunch of grubby little cheats.

The same people who tell us “oh, dear boy, you don’t understand” when reassuring us about Palantir embedding itself in the British state were almost exactly the same people who told us Russian interference, Cambridge Analytica and phone hacking were just ‘conspiracy theories’

It’s a serious criminal offence to conspire to remove a UK Prime Minister Meanwhile, let’s have a look at Steve Bannon’s well documented and ultimately successful attempts to remove Theresa May (with Epstein’s support) from 2018-19 bylinetimes.com/2025/11/19/d...

Reform by-election candidate Matt Goodwin, who has spent years talking about free speech and all that crap chickened out of a hustings today. As you can see - ALL the other candidates turned up

Reform politicians are happy to throw insults from a distance. But when it comes to debating their ideas? No show. Richard Tice pulled out. Farage won’t face me. Now their candidate in Gorton & Denton has ducked our candidate Hannah Spencer. Vote Green.

Now more details in the Epstein files reveal Bannon as part of a successful plot to topple Theresa May with Nigel Farage, Boris Johnson and Jacob Rees Mogg, here’s an article from the archive about Johnson and Bannon’s collaboration bylinetimes.com/2023/04/24/b...

@bbcnewsnight.bsky.social Starmer says he wants to give people dignity and respect . What about carers who give up careers and pensions to care for loved ones. They reach 66yrs lose carers allowance and have the council tax reduction taken away Virtually nullifying their pension that has been paid

Channel 4 documentary shows Starmer's reasons for banning Palestine Action were a lie. It was really about protecting the profits of the arms industry. Matthew Alford reads my latest: jonathancook.substack.com/p/listen-ch4...

@bbc.s.cafe.ap.brid.gy UK Government are abusing carers. When they reach pension age carers allowance is taken away Council tax reduction is removed. Years of sacrifice means pensioners have to live in poverty. Very often carers leave pensionable jobs a Nd lose their security 4 old age

Good piece by Mon biot: "Mandelson’s treachery is an extreme instance of the dominant mode of UK politics over the past 45 years: the subordination of democracy to the demands of the ultra-rich." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Lower-income families face 137-year wait for living standards to double, says UK thinktank. Two decades of weak pay growth have left poorer households stuck, Resolution Foundation says, fuelling political unease. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

No-one seems to have noticed, but many of the core developments in the Mandelson/Epstein story these last few days have been broken on this website. @pickardje.bsky.social and @petergeoghegan.bsky.social are both posting each breaking development on BlueSky, not X.

Europeans shunning US as Emirates and Asia travel prove popular, says Tui. Travel company reports lower demand for US amid signs Trump immigration crackdown is deterring travellers. www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Why didn’t the Biden admin release the Epstein files? Why are we still getting this drip, drip, drip of revelations when presumably dozens of people in DoJ under both admins know what’s in them. It can’t be about “protecting” the victims because they are being hurt most by the continuing cover-up.

£240m. With no tender. Palantir. I wrote to Wes Streeting last week demanding answers. Every day without any transparency deepens the scandal. Palantir out.

I am deeply suspicious of parties which court cryptocurrency donations, given the potential for money laundering, by organised criminal gangs and malign foreign governments. Yesterday in Parliament, I rang the alarm bell at Farage's continuing closeness to wire fraud convict George Cottrell.

So glad to see George Cottrell being named in parliament yesterday. He was Farage’s head of fundraising when he convicted of an offence related to money laundering & is still close to & funding Farage. Crypto is an urgent democratic threat to the UK

A £240m defence contract without tender. Their fingerprints all over our health care data. A meeting in the USA but without any minutes. Everything around Palantir stinks. www.thenational.scot/news/2584192...

Productivity increases between 5% and 13% with working from home, and worker wellbeing improves hugely too. But Farage doesn't care about reality. Or productivity. Or your wellbeing. He cares about the workplace property investors who bankroll him. www.greatplacetowork.com/resources/bl...

It's hard to pick the one maddest element of British politics, but the tradition of committee room table-banging noise assessment before a leader is destroyed surely has to be in the running.

Why I'm not doing The Week In Labour. (Somebody should) open.substack.com/pub/russinch...

How access journalism works. Every political editor/correspondent falls in love with the SpAd who provides them with scoops. Until, inevitably with McBride/Timothy/Cummings/McSweeney, the SpAd's demise becomes the next scoop. Rinse and repeat. Ad nauseam

Rep. Raskin, "The Department of Justice has been in a cover-up mode" "There's no way you run an intl child sex trafficking ring with just two people committing crimes, Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell"

Another f**king traitor 🤬👇 Andrew 'shared confidential reports with Epstein' from role as UK trade envoy, new emails allege www.lbc.co.uk/article/andr...

Harrods is our own Epstein scandal. This govt has blocked justice. And the survivors are furious with Keir Starmer 👇👇

This is the only mention of the hour long @zackpolanski.bsky.social interview with the BBC this morning Cherry picking the scaremongering theme and misrepresenting what has been actually said BBC right now is nothing more than a failed propaganda machine Enjoy your incoming reform government

Elon’s emails to Epstein. Location: Starbase, Texas

Jeffrey Epstein survivors speak out #SuperBowl #SuperBowl2026 #SuperBowlXL "I was 14" "I was 16" "I was 16" "17" "14" "There are about a thousand of us" "It's time to bring the secrets out of the shadows" "It's time to shine a light into the darkness" "Release all of the Epstein files"

Have to say… “uber-woke, net-zeroist, rejoinerism” sounds very appealing. Particularly in light of the fact that anti-woke, fossil-fuel-ist, brexitism has been such an exhausting and ruinous shitshow.

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The president is now attacking a US Olympian as a “Loser” and misrepresenting his words for his mild unspecified criticisms about things going on in the US right now.

America, 2026

The Daily Telegraph currently owned by a private equity vehicle RedBird IMI - based in the UAE and led by Italian American Gerry Cardinale and Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed Al Nahyan. Patriotic news. For patriotic people. Who don't want to pay taxes.

“It could take years to restore Brexit losses” Especially if Farage comes along and tears up the ‘reset’ as he threatens. Honest to god.. it’s such a tedious, idiotic, resource-sapping mess. There’s really nothing patriotic about it. Prejudice costs such a lot. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Met with Farage’s senior adviser recently www.varsity.co.uk/news/31135

Terrifying that such powerful people have mad and dangerous religious extremist views.

Peter Mandelson got five-figure payoff for sacking as ambassador. Despite his Epstein disgrace, the Labour veteran secured an exit payment equivalent to three months’ salary. Implying that Mandelson received an exit payment of between £38,750 and £55,000 before tax. www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...

It is genuinely insane/deeply disingenuous to be calling for the PM’s resignation while red-carpeting Farage into No10. If you’re serious about calling out abuses of power and the undermining of democracy through political corruption, you investigate and expose all of this 👇 too.

Farage - a total hypocrite on the Mandelson appointment. And, besides, the Epstein files expose him too. A grubby apologist to Trump. A useful idiot to Bannon. And a traitor to the UK. open.substack.com/pub/adambien...

And speaking of scoops… McSweeney’s brand of political genius looks more like the Cummings variety every day.

Acive duty military are being ordered to buy a ticket to Melania and watch it, whether they want to, or not. www.thedailybeast.com/obsessed/mil...

We need a full, transparent inquiry into foreign influence on our political parties & institutions. Not a witch hunt, but a bipartisan effort to protect democracy, including scrutiny of tech giants embedded in our sovereign information ecosystem. While we are at it: Move all Govt accounts off of X

In which Jeffrey Epstein, who laundered money for the Russians, explains how Donald Trump was doing exactly the same thing, and how this accounts for most of his wealth.

These are the stories the elite don’t want to come out. No wonder Washington Post fired most of its staff this week….

Reform-run Kent council accused of fabricating £40m net zero savings. Disclosures show figures cited by council leader rested on unfunded ideas listed briefly in budget papers. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Post-Brexit sales of British farm products to EU fall by 37%. NFU warn it could take years to restore Brexit losses despite efforts to smooth negotiations on farming and other elements of UK-EU reset. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Reform Vs Green. Hate Vs Hope. Hundreds and hundreds of people out on the streets today making sure hope wins. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

“Keir Starmer – how dare you speak about justice?” This week, the PM waxed lyrical about how Epstein victims had suffered unacceptable barriers to justice. All while HIS OWN GOVERNMENT has repeatedly blocked justice for Harrods trafficking & abuse victims. The hypocrisy is wild.