Time to remind everyone that Farage and Badenoch would have jumped in with both feet on day one. Neither of them will ever be fit to lead the country.

Trump has learned a very costly and humiliating lesson: don’t ever start a war you can’t win. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...

Starmer suggesting to the British electorate that they try becoming a throuple with Burnham. I’m not sure this is what the electorate had in mind.

Burnham must look to the future and appoint sime new fresh talent. Miliband was emphatically rejected by the electorate at a geneal election and carries a lot of baggage. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

The £5m Farage took looks increasingly like his redundancy. Mail and Telegraph both moving over to Restore, and, more significantly, Musk now backing it. British politics obviously isn’t going to get any healthier, but Farage now looks a busted flush.

Even if Trump had not been so obviously deranged, why did American voters not think ahead? Why did they put the world in this position?

In any fair, rational and just country, all three would be behind bars. As it is, the one on the very far right may well be the next Prime Minister.

BREAKING: Count Dracula defects to Reform. thattimwalker.substack.com/p/count-drac...

Now these are individuals who should be arrested en masse for terrorism. www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/6/...

Good grief.

Sickening. www.thecanary.co/global/world...

Threat or promise?

A billionaire becomes a trillionaire as vast swathes of the world’s population can’t even afford to feed themselves.

In all honesty, I’m not sure if Reform’s soundbites de jour — ‘Bullets, not benefits,’ ‘warfare, not welfare’ etc — is going to arrest their falling polling.

Few cabinet ministers have resigned on a point of principle — Lord Carrington comes to mind — and Healey may have an ulterior motive — seeing himself perhaps as Starmer’s successor — but right now this looks like a man listening to his conscience which is rare in modern politics.

One reason the Tories have been so good at retaining power is their ability to remove leaders who are ‘falling apart’ very swiftly. Starmer should have gone a great many crises ago, but, even now, damaging the party every hour he remains, he may yet cling on for many months.

Enriching himself and impoverishing others seems to be working out very well for Farage

How many millions of Zuckerberg’s cash did you take Sir Nick as you figured this one out? www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

The only man getting rich out of this sickness.

Why? www.aljazeera.com/amp/news/202...

‘Burnham declined to describe the catastrophe on the ground in Gaza as a genocide…’ www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Reform constantly doing a bad Donald Trump act. www.standard.co.uk/news/politic...

Middle England believes in nothing if not law and order. The far right’s strenuous attempts to incite lawless behaviour out of a family’s tragedy — against that family’s explicit wishes — will not play well with them.

The politics of Farage is like alcohol. No problem isn’t made worse by turning to it.

Broadcasters considering screening Farage’s press conference should keep in mind the wishes of Henry’s father. ‘We do not want his death to be used to create further division, hatred or tension.’

The razor-sharp political insight it must have taken to discern this.

If a state’s argument for bombing, starving, machine-gunning, imprisoning, torturing and raping its neighbours is that it’s concerned they might one day do that to them, hasn’t that state lost the argument? Hasn’t it become the monster it feared?

A lot of people hate Zack because he asks awkward questions. I’m all for it.

A question that now demands an answer. thattimwalker.substack.com/p/why-does-t...

Good grief.

Farage plans to ditch workers’ rights, cut the NMW, scrap the Equality Act, legalise discrimination, take us out of the ECHR and have a deregulation bonanza to remove our protections and make it easier to exploit and endanger us… for profit. He couldn’t give a shit about working people.

Mail on Sunday now a laughing stock for putting on its front page what a conman told it to put on its front page.

Trump’s comments have zero credibility now and are — to the extent there is any method at all to their madness — simply about market manipulation and profiting out of death and misery.

"Hey, Nigel, how does this work for those on zero hours contracts? Nigel, Nigel, don't run away...."

‘After managing to lose the 2015 General Election to David Cameron and saying he would step down as leader to give Labour a chance to “rebuild”, Ed Miliband apparently now sees himself as the “comeback kid.”’ subscribe.bylinetimes.com/edition/86/m...

Political and royal correspondents would be made constructively redundant overnight if they were banned from using phrases such as ‘a senior minister told me’ or ‘a senior courtier told me’

What would take guts would be a fair and proportionate tax raid on the billionaire classes.

It’s turned out Nazi again.

The bad guys win in the Netanyahu/Trump war of choice.

Why?

‘This House, and the people of this country, deserve better than yet another Mandelson cover-up.” www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

For one, brief, shining moment, it looked like economic literacy, security and sanity were all coming back into fashion.

Let it be clear: you are wanted here.

A lot of issues need to be debated in the Labour leadership contest. Among them — Rejoining the EU; Fair taxation for billionaires, even if they happen to own media empires; Israeli donations to government ministers, in addition to others who seek to influence government policy with cash.

I’ve not exactly been extolling Streeting’s virtues on here, but his offer of rejoining the EU might well give him real traction. Starmer idiotically left himself vulnerable on this issue: it’s bloody obvious to everyone now why we are so badly under-achieving economically.

‘Husseini rejected descriptions of the protests as “hate marches,” stating: “It’s actually the complete inverse: it’s a protest against the most hateful acts possible: war and genocide.”’ www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

Wishful thinking.