Nigel Farage “prepared to go to prison” to protect the crypto interests of Thai-based stablecoin owner Christopher Harborne, who has given Farage’s party £15 million and Farage £5 million.

The effective way the clarinet player does a musical call and response to the singer is just mesmerizing. "Tu vuo' fa' l'americano" by Renato Carosone: cover by Hetty and the Jazzato Band, an Anglo-Italian jazz quintet. @Rainmaker1973 #globalmuseum #music #jazz

Weirdly inaccurate article by Kevin McKenna. He claims Kate Forbes was “hounded out of politics” by the SNP leadership. In fact she was finance minister (2018-20), cabinet secretary for Finance and Economy (2020-23), and Deputy First Minister and cabinet secretary for the Economy & Gaelic (2024-26)

The eight countries which have won the World Cup since it was first held in 1930 Brazil 🇧🇷 (1958, 1962, 1970, 1994, 2002) Germany 🇩🇪 (1954, 1974, 1990, 2014) Italy 🇮🇹 (1934, 1938, 1982, 2006) Argentina 🇦🇷 (1978, 1986, 2022) France 🇫🇷 (1998, 2018) Uruguay 🇺🇾 (1930, 1950) England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 (1966) Spain 🇪🇸 (2010)

At the recent Alliance for Responsible Citizenship conference, ex deputy first minister Kate Forbes was flanked by far-right figures who were “using their Christian faith to justify stripping away civil liberties, personal freedoms, and democratic structures,” says Humanist Soc chair Jennifer Buchan

Solicitor William Peter Dooley struck off and ordered to pay costs after fabricating evidence and manufacturing a false email chain to conceal his failure to meet critical appeal deadlines for clients pursuing claims against NatWest/RBS’s infamous business abattoir, Global Restructuring Group.

Rock historian at Southeastern Louisiana University Joseph Burns considers Arthur ‘Big Boy’ Crudup’s ‘That’s All Right’ (1947) to be the “first rock and roll song”. Elvis Presley covered it seven years later.

Strange how the FT’s George Parker makes no mention of the scandal around Morgan McSweeney’s failure to disclose £730,000 in donations to Labour Together, the “thinktank” he ran. Parker ought really to have read Paul Holden’s The Fraud before heading for this pub lunch.

So, presumably the free speech absolutists of Silicon Valley will be queuing up to pay her costs... bsky.app/profile/ianf...

Go on, girl. I think Facebook over-estimates how fond people actually are of it. It's full of ads and strangers and AI slop. Wouldn't take much of a tipping point for people to finally just ... tire of it, and everything that comes with it, and leave.

Sarah Wynn-Williams, NZ-born author of Careless People, sues Meta over its attempts to silence her. The ex-director of public policy at Facebook claims the tech giant’s gagging order, which blocks her from speaking about the company or promoting her book, is “improper and unlawful”

The Border Collie who saved 13 lives. Part of the K-SAR ECID canine unit, Tsunami, 8, helped sniff out survivors buried under rubble following Wednesday's Venezuelan earthquakes in his final rescue mission before retirement.

Nigel Farage has gone from claiming he was “skint” in 2017, to owning five mortgage-free homes with his French partner Laure Ferrari. The Reform UK leader has only declared two of the properties to parliament’s register of members’ interests, a serious breach of ethical and legal standards.

Trump once called crypto a ‘haven for drug dealers and scammers’. Yet since returning to the White House in January 2025 he has raked in $2bn from crypto, including $515m from World Liberty Financial and $636 from CIC Digital, a holding company for his memecoins and digital trading cards.

Tsunami, the rescue dog, an eight-year-old Border Collie, has become a national hero in Venezuela after saving at least 13 people’s lives in the aftermath of Wednesday’s 7.5 magnitude earthquake.

Is it all over for Today? The background to fears Today may have no tomorrow is that BBC News invariably gets twitchy when the director general isn't a journalist. The arrival of ex Google exec Matt Brittin as DG is seen some BBC journos as the equivalent of Darth Vader joining the Jedi.

How 100 volunteers are saving Scotland's rainforests. They have spent tens of thousands of hours collecting seeds from trees which colonised Scotland after the last ice age: hazel, sessile oak, dwarf birch, willow, juniper, birch, wild cherry, wych elm, yew and elder. @severincarrell.bsky.social

Trump must now pay $5 million to former Elle columnist E Jean Carroll after SCOTUS refuses to hear his appeal over a jury’s finding that he sexually assaulted and defamed her. Carroll’s lawyer Roberta Kaplan said the decision “ends [Trump’s] quest to avoid accountability for his actions.”

”We was hoodwinked”. Inhabitants of former steel town of Ebbw Vale admit to buyers’ remorse after falling for Farage’s lies a decade ago.

The Albanians won't tolerate it. Massive ‘Flamingo’ protests in Tirana against environmentally destructive tourism development plan linked to Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump.

A brilliant journalist and a lovely person too I got to know David a little bit when I first worked in Parliament in the early 2000s His journalism brought down Neil Hamilton, Mandelson (the 1st time), and in his latter years his campaigning journalism highlighted the case of the WASPI women RIP

So the Mail on Sunday now decries Margaret Thatcher’s flagship ”Right to Buy” policy, introduced in the Housing Act 1980, and all who profited from it?

Farage’s mask has slipped. He’s rattled and losing control The Reform UK leader’s attempts to bat away questions about the £5m he received from crypto billionaire Christopher Harborne (aka Chakrit Sakunkrit or จักรฤษณ์ สกุลกฤต) backfired spectacularly last week. liveapp.inews.co.uk/category/449...

After the shocking anti-Muslim stabbings in Edinburgh, Lord Provost Robert Aldridge has said “Let us unite against those who seek to create division and hatred.” Suspect Lewis Hawkes, 36, has been charged with attempted murder and offences “aggravated by reason of having a terrorist connection.”

ex MSP Kate Forbes shared a stage at Jordan Peterson-devised ARC event with Nigel Farage, Paul ‘hateful likes’ Marshall, James Orr, Claire Fox, anti-abortionists and members of European far right. Core themes at the “anti-woke” gathering included evangelism, hostility to net zero and climate denial.

In the not too distant future, the heatwaves that are currently scorching western Europe will seem comparatively mild... unless we change our ways by burning less fossil fuels, accelerating the switch to clean energy, protecting forests and building climate resilience.

Former SNP chief executive Peter Murrell sentenced to five years and three months for embezzling party funds.

Lewis Hawkes, 36, has appeared in Edinburgh Sheriff Court and been charged with five counts of attempted murder linked to terrorism following Friday night’s anti Muslim attacks in Edinburgh. He was also charged with assault and robbery, breach of the peace and culpable and reckless conduct.

Unpicking some of Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch’s wilder fantasies about North Sea oil and gas www.cisl.cam.ac.uk/news/blog/dr....

UK attorney general Richard Herner has deleted his X account, and is now posting on Bluesky.

Thinking of the women of Iran, enduring so much www.independent.co.uk/news/world/m...

strange how this shocking story of shirtless white man rampaging through the streets of Edinburgh on Friday night, attacking random Muslim people with what appear to be knives and axes has had so little coverage. Will Nigel Farage be urging his followers to respond with “pure cold rage”?

Dutch photographer Ed van der Elsken (1925-90) had an uncanny knack for turning everyday moments, such as this group of young Moluccan men arranged around a Ford Anglia, into social history.

Exposed: Peter Thiel’s invite-only Dialog society and its 222-person retreat. The Powerscourt agenda includes sessions on world war III preparedness, disinformation and Taiwan’s role in AI. Guests are graded on a hidden scale based on wealth, fame, relationships, and number of Instagram followers.

Henry Bell (1767-1830) revolutionised passenger travel by providing the first scheduled paddle-steamer services in Europe. He launched the Comet in July 1812 and she made her maiden voyage on the Clyde on 6 August 1812, with novelist Sir Walter Scott aboard. Now, a full-sized replica has been built.

FT exclusive Nigel Farage’s 2015-16 Brexit rallies were unlawfully funded from the EU budget. European monies paid for anti-immigrant posters during the demagogue’s ‘Say No To The EU’ tour

If the media had properly explained the damage that Reform UK’s policies would inflict on Britain, would anyone be voting for Nigel Farage’s one-trick party?

Clear genocidal intent from Israel’s national security minister Itamar Ben-Gvir in this call for “all of Lebanon [to] burn” in response to the killing of four Israeli soldiers by Hezbollah, hours before Israel and Hezbollah announced a ceasefire.

Nigel Farage claimed Reform UK came second in the Arbroath and Broughty Ferry by-election. In reality, Reform came third, after the SNP, which retained the seat, and the Conservative Party, which came second. @fullfact.org fullfact.org/politics/ref...

Well, h/t to @iandunt.bsky.social for making me spit my cornflakes in my coffee:

Two East Midlands Railway trains involved in collision near Bedford, as Thameslink spokesperson urges people not to travel until later today. www.independent.co.uk/bulletin/new...

Resounding victory for Andy Burnham in the Makerfield by election. The main populist / far-right candidates — Robert Kenyon and Rebecca Shepherd — got 18,807 votes between them, 6,165 short of Burnham’s total. Still no room for complacency?

Reform have now lost six by-elections in a row in England, Scotland and Wales. Their national poll rating is 26% – below Labour in 1983 – and Farage’s approval rating is -37. They’re very far from the voice of the people and need to stop being treated as such.

Attorney General Richard Hermer becomes the first cabinet minister to order his department to leave X over concerns it has become a sewer for racism and the fuelling of far-right violence. Story by @catneilan.bsky.social

Trump's war on Iran achieved nothing. The Iran deal is proof. @kennethroth.bsky.social

Mamdani shows it’s possible for a politician to be critical of Israel while supporting Jewish constituents.

Nearly every indicator of climate change is flashing red. But citizens, businesses and policymakers still hold the tools to bring the planet back into balance.

There’s a fundamental tension between extreme wealth and the very possibility of democracy. Extreme wealth is always an extreme power. It’s the power to stifle competition, shape public discourse, influence policymaking, buy elections, and stall social progress. @gabrielzucman.bsky.social

Incredibly, Nigel Farage has been on #BBCQT 38 times. The fact he’s never been on Desert Island Discs, or that he imagines he’s been “banned” by that programme, is irrelevant. @privateeyenews.bsky.social