I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture. They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1

The political and media establishment will try to bury the issue of Farage's ties to Russia, so please repost and share this petition calling for a public inquiry into Russian influence on UK politics & democracy as widely and as often as possible. petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...

🙄look upon this as the 21stC equivalent of that Margaret Thatcher/Jimmy Savile photo … #trump #nigelfarage

@theguardian.com Greg Wallace and Prince Andrew for strictly, dream ticket ?

@fordmotorsofficial.bsky.social @ 60K miles I am having to have a new wet timing belt fitted to my 9 year old Ford Fiesta ecoboost. The wet timing belt must be one of the worst automotive design faults in the last decade. Of course Ford who sell the costly replacement Kit of parts care little.

Farage has memory problems, he said he hardly knew him

Richard Tice told The Times in March he had “never met Nathan Gill” searchlightmagazine.com/2025/10/refo...

This tweet has been doing the rounds on Twitter now that Nathan Gill has pleaded guilty. If only someone had tried to investigate UKIP & Russian interference 🧐 There’s another timeline where the Guardian supported me, doubled down on the investigation & I look 5 years younger ..

Some journalists demolished Trump’s wild claims. But it was foreign affairs journalist Ishaan Tharoor who captured the larger story: “A senior foreign diplomat at the UN texts me : ‘This man is stark, raving mad. Do Americans not see how embarrassing this is?’ open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...?

When the Conservative party rats are leaving a sinking ship to join another party made up of rats in a leaking dingy, then the right is in a bit of a mess. @steverichards.bsky.social @theguardian.com @therestpolitics.bsky.social

Farage says his partner bought the house with family money. The BBC can’t find that family money: “Her parents, Bertrand and Chantal, live in a flat worth around 350,000 euros (£302,000) in a Strasbourg suburb. They, and their two daughters, co-own the flat.”

Can’t get enough of this. @raskin.house.gov rubbing Nigel Farage’s nose in his self-confessed love of Putin as he’s forced to sit & watch is delicious beyond words

It is very nearly the tenth anniversary of that brief moment when, for 2 or 3 days, British newspapers remembered refugees are desperate human beings who need our help, rather than scum that it's okay to threaten with violence.

Good morning world, if you still remember us and our suffering, we still exist.💔🇵🇸 chuffed.org/project/save...

Thought for the day, when I am forced to use the self checkout in the supermarket, why am I asked for age verification when buying non alcoholic lager? I am 71 and 11/12ths.

Thank God Netanyahu has nominated Trump for the Nobel Peace Prize. So thats a Genocidal War Criminal supporting a Felon and Sexual Predator! you could not make it up. @theguardian.com @therestpolitics.bsky.social

Sometimes the only thing that really hits the spot is a nice thick slice of bread and a good slathering of butter.

Western media enabling Gaza genocide and rewriting history. Scholars and journalists say Western media’s refusal to confront Israeli war crimes is a form of genocide denial and reinforcing impunity. www.middleeasteye.net/news/experts...

As a Jew I am far, FAR more alarmed by our institutions equating me and other Jews with the IDF, who are responsible for the murder of over 80,000 Palestinians, by dint of framing any critique against the IDF as ‘antisemitism.’ Linking all Jews to the IDF is *actual* fucking antisemitism.

They call this ad “fear mongering”. Compare with the reality above. bsky.app/profile/dhar...

Had to shake my head in disbelief this morning on Netanyahu’s claim about Iran hitting a hospital being a war crime !!With no trace of irony about his and his hateful cabal’s hypocrisy after destroying every hospital, school and clinic in Gaza, & whilst his troops fire into desperate food aid crowds

Trump is desperate for a Noble Prize and so I think Pakistan will be on his Christmas card list this year

‘As Mohammed bin Salman's economic and social reforms have made headlines in recent years, human rights activists have highlighted a parallel crackdown on dissent, including extreme sentences handed out to individuals for their social media posts.’ www.middleeasteye.net/news/campaig...

I seem to have been missed of the Honours List…….Again!

At least 225 Palestinian journalists have been killed in Gaza. “I want to see the journalists’ colleagues from all over the world using their conscience, moral .At least then we can feel that we were not abandoned and the world did not silence our murder.” www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

Over 20k people have now taken action calling for the release of Manahel al-Otaibi — a fitness instructor jailed by #Saudi authorities for her peaceful activism. As she faces retrial on 25 June, let’s keep the pressure up until she’s free. #FreeManahel globalcitizen.org/en/action/re...

I spoke with Seán on the Moncrieff show on Newstalk about the dark truth behind Saudi Arabia’s so-called “care homes” — where women are punished for disobedience and dissent. www.newstalk.com/podcasts/hig...

I hear Reform UK are campaigning in Scotland today. It would be tragic if this went viral again... ~AA

That would be awful. Don’t share this.

🧵 1/ Not enough people are linking Reform & MAGA. It’s time to correct that by talking about Nigel Farage, MAGA money, and a US PR firm with direct ties to Bannon. It’s not patriotism and pints it’s a shared plan and international far-right coordination. Grab a cup of tea and strap in👇

‘No plans to allow any aid into Gaza, says Israeli minister.’ — criminals. Starving a population is not defense; it’s a war crime. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

Saudi Arabia spent billions on sportswashing to distract from murder, war crimes, and repression. Now it’s diplomacywashing—using peace talks to whitewash its record. dawnmena.org/saudi-arabia...

Gaza medic deaths just the latest in Israel’s long history of changing its story over civilian killings. After 15 Palestinian medics and civil defence workers were killed by Israeli forces late last month, Israel began a familiar pattern of denial. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

Politicians want to normalise what’s happening in Gaza. Our moral outrage won’t let that happen. “Some may choose to ignore it, or justify it, or even support it, but they can never normalise it.” By @nesrinemalik.bsky.social ‬⁩ www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Israeli soldiers killed a Palestinian-American teenager and wounded two others in the occupied West Bank on Sunday night. www.cnn.com/2025/04/06/m...

There is something wonderful about Justin Welby, Did he go to Eton? his obvious entitlement, is astounding , and his tone deaf ear, deaf to the effect of what he says, or more often does not say on other particularly victims, is hard to believe. I think he is a truly spiritual chap, just wrong.

Here’s a song about #Signalgate – the flamboyant US security breach – adapted from one of our all-time fave Bee Gees songs, titled “You Were Not Supposed to Message it Through!” A quick turnaround, but only 5 of us as Alfie (really our best fake Bee Gee) is away 🔥👊💪🙏🎶 youtu.be/rPfwtXulKS4

Usually takes a shock to shake strategic orientations, and time for that to be processed. But the observation below is the right one:

What is the betting that the five eyes intelligence sharing group might soon be six eyes as Trump shares with his boss Putin? @theguardian.com @therestpolitics.bsky.social @shashj.bsky.social

Just imagine the mess we would be in if Johnson or Truss was PM. In Starmer we have an intelligent adult leader. @pippacrerar.bsky.social @theguardian.com @therestpolitics.bsky.social We are still in a dangerous situation but there is some hope, not a lot, but some

USA support for anything has always been transactional. E.G. In WW2 UK gave away many technological secrets: Radar? Jet engine? all the hardware UK was 'given' by USA was lease lend, and UK borrowed a lot of money from USA to buy more hardware, which UK paid back. @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social

@johnrdeni.bsky.social (sorry slight mis post) Ukraine has in its efficient and effective Agriculture one thing that Russia needs. Ukraine is a major exporter of grain and this export Russia would very much like to get control over. Perhaps to use as a projection of soft or not so soft power?

@drjennings.bsky.social I would suggest that that gesture was a sort of reverse virtue signalling? But IMO not unintentional, ie if you know you knew!

Defence spending must be increased obvs, less on traditional items and a great deal more on digital elements, Russian and Chinese hackers cause so much damage to UK, blatant cyber warfare, then we should be researching how to prevent others doing it to us, and also how we can return the favour

Just about to have an over 65 gym session but I am 71 and a bit, #fightingagainsttheinevitable

Europe needs to start an aggressive process to get control of its own digital infrastructure, Musk could turn off starlink and deprive NATO of this and other command and control systems, we must actively engage in independence in the digital field, from the USA

I wonder if the next war will be fought on the internet battlefield. UK and NATO need to harden and protect their access to the internet and not rely on Musk and USA who are increasingly unreliable allies.

Ukrainian people didn’t have a choice, Russia invaded them. Clearly might is right as Trump can negotiate with Putin with little reference to Zelenskyy. 1984 is getting closer and closer , @theguardian.com @greenjennyjones.bsky.social

Nice to see the Church of England really grasping the nettle of safeguarding, by kicking the can further down the road.