Why do we still have oppressive defamation laws? Because of highly effective lobbying by a handful of libel lawyers, and a Government that broke its promise to act. Important investigation from Peter Geoghegan and Jenna Corderoy: www.newstatesman.com/investigatio...

Half-expect to be told next the £5m was for a secure ballroom in Clacton.

FInally, one regulator will look at Nigel Farage and his (changing) explanation of the secret £5m he pocketed. Even Ofcom has shown a twitch of life But the media regulator still doesn’t get it app.prospectmagazine.co.uk/story/73586/...

Nigel Farage is posting “We now have 200,000 reasons Reform should be in government” The 200,000 illegal migrants figure Farage is using is over several years and let’s remind ourselves how we got into this mess in the first place - BREXIT youtu.be/A6fCl-uOEVY?...

The count on you being exhausted by the firehose of corruption and bullshit. But THIS. THIS is grounds to march on DC and demand the END of this mafia administration. This is the biggest middle finger to America.

The most accurate portrayal of the pro-Jim Crow, white nationalist Roberts Supreme Court I've seen yet.

It’s weird that the BBC loves Reform and Farage so much because if Farage ever became PM the BBC would be finished.

Farage has many questions to answer, for a man who's been on bbc question time 44 times. Perhaps they could ask him one next time he's there. They certainly jumped quickly enough to tell us,about Polanski's £70 fine for council tax non payment. #corruptfarage #reformcorruption

Farage has already had a run-in with the Parliamentary Standards Commissioner this year.

🇺🇦⚡️The Ukrainian defense forces have regained control of Odrazne and its surroundings This refers to a populated area in the Dvorichansky district of the Kharkiv region.

We've become numb to this stuff, but a president accusing a journalist of treason -- a capital crime -- for reporting on an ongoing war is not normal, and we should never accept it as normal.

Just masked thugs harassing innocent bystanders in the name of the flag

Aside from some nice photos and a few flogged planes…did Donald Trump actually achieve anything in China?

⬇️ Economy down £240bn. ⬇️ Investment down 18%. ⬇️ 4000 fewer doctors in the NHS. ⬇️ £90bn less in tax revenue. 💰 All so he could pocket a few quid. He doesn't care about the working class, he is taking the country for a mug.

Energy Secretary Chris Wright: "The world runs on hydrocarbons. It did when I was born, it does today, it will when I die. We just simply don't have replacements for most all the uses of hydrocarbons. In fact, in the US we're at a record high 74% of US energy comes from oil and natural gas."

Reform passed over its most experienced Suffolk councillor – an ex-Tory – for a former party operative with no elected experience. He will now lead a £1bn authority overseeing schools, social care, highways and Suffolk’s huge local government reorganisation. @eastangliabylines.co.uk

The utter horror and humiliation of this man as the president of the United States.

Q: Admiral Cooper was asked yesterday about the strike on the girls' school-- TRUMP: Well, it's under investigation Q: Are you able to confirm it was a US missile TRUMP: Who are you with? Q: BBC TRUMP: Fake BBC. You mean the ones that put AI in my mouth?

Won't someone please think of the billionaires?

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Trump to NYT's David Sanger: "I had a total military victory. But the fake news, guys like you, write incorrectly. You're a fake guy. We had a total military victory. I actually think it's sort of treasonous what you write. You should be ashamed of yourself. I actually think it's treason."

I took a business trip to Paducah, Kentucky. I checked into a little, sparse motel. There was a book on the nightstand called " What to do in Paducah." There was no chair so I sat on the bed and opened it. There was just one page of text that simply said "You're doing it!."

Andy #Burnham can go for a jog on a busy public highway in his Everton shirt and shorts with no security. Farage needs £5 million worth of security wherever he goes. That speaks volumes.

Q: Did you talk to Xi about the cyber attacks that he's done in the United States? TRUMP: I did. And he talked about attacks we did in China. You know, what they do, we do too. We spy like hell on them too. I told him, 'we do a lot of stuff to you that that you don't know about.'

Trump brought the NVIDIA CEO on his trip to China to lobby Xi Jinping to buy advanced AI chips, even though it would create a U.S. national security threat. It turns out Trump also bought millions in NVIDIA's stock. The President's corruption is a national security disaster.

Well exactly. Brexit is a shitshow but, more than that, it’s an epic lie-fest. Farage squats at the epicentre of that political dishonesty and voting for that is voting to be conned, voting for prejudice as policy. It wouldn’t be any old disaster, it’d be a Farage disaster. Ruinous, racist chaos.

Also, watching some stubborn candidate refuse to cooperate when they have no chance of winning and so gifting the seat back to a Tory… or now Reform. This is why the right has a stranglehold on power. The idiotic tribalism of it all is genuinely heartbreaking at times.

The rightwing lobby group Policy Exchange is already under investigation over political bias, but they’re launching a campaign to shift the UK to the right ⬇️ https://goodlaw.social/tobr

NUJ responds to Farage doxxing a photo journalist who was doing their job. www.nuj.org.uk/resource/nuj...

So, Labour tears itself apart to try to stop Farage being our next PM just as he finally faces scrutiny in a monumental corruption scandal which could… and really should…end his political career. I’d go hard on that rather than each other right now guys. giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

Farage did say Brexit would make us richer… We should have known that by us, he meant him £5,000,000 richer.

Lost in the news this week: the real story behind Palm Beach International becoming Trump International is not the renaming. It is the coercion that produced it and the extraordinary terms hidden inside the deal.

Enten: "We're talking about a record. President Trump -- 79% of Americans disapprove of him on gas prices. This is a record high in terms of looking back at every single president this century. It's scary if you're a Republican looking at these numbers."

NEW: Trump is going to give himself $1.7B from the treasury to pay his allies who were prosecuted under the Biden administration- including pardoned insurrectionists. This is a “settlement” deal in his $10B suit against the IRS. abcnews.com/US/trump-poi...

No one ever lost money telling billionaires what they want to hear. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Why exactly would a Thailand-based economic migrant secretly give Nigel Farage £5 million as a 'reward' for delivering Brexit? I won't get to ask either of them this question but every single journalist & broadcaster granted access could...

It’s 2026, in Oklahoma has finally made child marriage illegal. Congratulations? Also WTF.

BBC News now reporting as breaking news Nigel Farage being investigated over that £5m 'gift'. Gives 2 statements in defence of Farage, one from Farage, one from Reform. Nothing on who the donor is.

Trump brings the wealthiest oligarchs in US to China with him from Elon Musk to head of Apple and Mastercard. Are they in China to help fight for American workers? Nope. They are there for 1 reason: To make more money for their companies by selling products in China and building factories there!

How dare Farage say he's been the most physically attacked politician of modern times when two MPs were literally murdered? He just opens his mouth and the lies tumble out.

Farage is as (un)popular as he was two years ago! The country is not changing their minds on him

President Obama: “We pulled it off without firing a missile. We got 97% of their enriched uranium out. There’s no dispute that it worked and we didn’t have to kill a whole bunch of people or shut down the Strait of Hormuz.”

How long do we have to continue with the utter farce of this deeply corrupt spiv being considered seriously for our highest political office? Farage should be nowhere near power… but it seems it’s being bought for him by a crypto billionaire who thinks everything’s for sale. Including our democracy.

Oh what a tangled web they weave... Farage now admits he bought the Clacton house, having told everyone last year that his partner Laure Ferrari bought the house.

Ukraine managed to liberate more land than Russia seized in April, putting pressure on the Kremlin's narrative that Moscow's victory is inevitable. https://cnn.it/4dG15sS

Today, Daily Mirror is the only newspaper that is facing up what has actually happened in this country and what we now have to reckon with, rather than speculating about the future.

Anything you’d like to say, Richard?

Reform councillors are wasting no time in tackling the most pressing issues of the day, such as... er... monitoring UFO activity over Doncaster.

This is encouraging. UK third in the G7 for cumulative growth

The president is negotiating against his own administration to shake down taxpayers for $10 billion. The corruption meter is flashing red and sounding the alarm. ca.news.yahoo.com/doj-consider...