Left: Fiona Bruce making an excuse for Nigel Farage saying "Up the IRA", saying, "he says he was tricked into doing that" Right: Nigel Farage saying "Up the IRA" then smirks when Claire Byrne scolds him on Irish TV #BBCQT

Appalling - vulnerable children are not cash machines The avg charge to the state by a private provider for a child in “care” is now £384,020 a year. 6 x what Eton charges. Some providers now levy more than £1m per child per year, rising in a few cases for children with complex needs to £3m+

Why all the cancer breakthroughs? Thursday #F24Debate asks about the avalanche of innovations... and the challenges of preventing the disease

Staggering levels of corruption. They’re using every possible lever of power to enrich themselves and their friends and families. And the “party of fiscal responsibility” simply doesn’t care.

UK publishing generated £7.4 billion in revenue last year. Compare that to: Premier League football: £6.6 billion Home entertainment: £5.6 billion UK film industry: 2.8 billion Now tell me again why authors don't deserve fair contracts and better pay.

Children in care www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

🚀 Elon Musk has shifted focus from SpaceX to UK politics, amplifying far-right voices to his 240mn followers. We found a third of Musk's recent posts focused on the UK, a 10-year high, raising concern about his political influence ahead of a critical by-election. as.ft.com/r/b1cb096a-e...

Not for the first time. @wired.com shows the way...

In a detail which will surprise no one, the first of the "patriots" to plead guilty to offences connected to the rioting in Southampton on Tuesday night has a criminal record as long as your arm, including.... possessing a knife.

“Mere minutes after DOGE members had accessed the agency’s data, there appeared to be login attempts from an IP address in Russia” www.wired.com/story/he-ble...

How Musks incitements, payment systems and embracing of bots and paid foreign influencers distorts any trend you’ll ever see on his site

All about the framing. Same people who were losing their minds about Starmer's *declared* small donations, screeching "WHAT INFLUENCE WAS LABOUR PEER BUYING IN EXCHANGE FOR A SUIT AND SOME EYEGLASSES???", now present Farage accepting millions of dodgy foreign crypto like some sort of achievement.

None of these tax dodging, foreign-based crypto billionaires and moneymen give a single shit about our country or democracy. They’re buying Farage power so he’ll remove our rights and protections to maximise their profits. It really is that simple and that corrupt. www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...

A video collection of London Irish's last season 2022-2023. Enjoy: youtu.be/X9Q2KSFZunI?...

A reminder of what Nigel Farage said following the murder of Sarah Everard by a serving police officer.

So the police force accused by Nigel Farage of "anti-white racism" is over five times more likely to target black people for stop and searches than white people The figure is higher than the average for England and has got worse over recent years www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

Amazon will spend $200B this year on AI infrastructure — including data centers — while forging ahead with over 30,000 layoffs. And don't forget: the company paid nearly $8B less in taxes last year thanks to Trump's big ugly bill. This is what corporate greed looks like.

How many of us feel in a cold rage today? Mine is directed at Farage & this comment on yesterday's Guardian piece by John Crace is spot on. The writer uses a pseudonym or I would credit them but, to whomever he or she is, I say bravo.

Fantasy threat of “two tier policing” whipped up by deeply corrupt and malignant far right racists, ethnonationalists and Musk’s X - excitable media outcry. Very real and sinister threat of fascist authoritarianism trashing our country and democracy - *no* serious scrutiny from mainstream media.

This headline is a travesty. It's not a protest and it's got nothing to do with Henry Nowak. It's a racist riot. Call it that.

Bring. In. A. Cap. On. Donations. £15m given to Reform by just one crypto billionaire in the past year. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

The way the entire British media is suddenly discussing 'two tier policing' as if it is a real thing worth seriously debating, rather than the obvious far-right white supremacist fantasy it has always been, is very alarming

There's a fundraiser to support the charity that helped Henry Nowak's bereaved family. Let's all do something good and chip in to help them. 2wish.enthuse.com/pf/henry-nowak

Keep talking about the £5 million. Keep talking about the £5 million. Keep talking about the £5 million. Keep talking about the £5 million. Keep talking about the £5 million. Keep talking about the £5 million. Keep talking about the £5 million. Keep. Talking. About. The. £5 million.

61% of all political donations in the last quarter came from just 14 people Reform took in £9.3m from a handful of super rich donors British democracy is being bought. We urgently need action to take the money out of our politics

1/5 The way the right talk about George Floyd as if it were some sort of moment of victory for ethnic minorities is so twisted His murder was traumatic because almost every black family in the UK has experienced or been fearful of police harassment or police brutality from a young age

It's not unlike watching current coverage of net zero or the EU prior to 2016 or Boris Johnson's ascent to power or Liz Truss taking control of the Treasury or Donald Trump etc etc. The BBC should be a bulwark against obvious propaganda & demonstrable lies, not an 'impartial' chronicler of it...

Wait, you're telling me that we could effectively address climate change, everyone could work fewer hours, and 9 out of 10 people would be richer? I'm in!

The Epstein files, and the roles of Mandelson and the former Prince, have shone a torch into the dark venal workings of rich and powerful men, and we have one person to thank for that… Virginia Roberts Guiffre, and her amazing bravery against the odds

Enjoyed writing this for @iandunt.bsky.social excellent substack. Labour does have a genuinely inspiring vision and impressive track record. It's called net zero and if the government talked about it more it might start to improve its fortunes. iandunt.substack.com/p/guest-post...

In the face of frenzied right-wing attacks, this government has successfully executed one of the most ambitious climate change projects in the world. Time to give credit where it's due iandunt.substack.com/p/guest-post...

Further evidence the net zero economy is one of the few parts of the economy that is booming. Truly insane that now is the time politicians start attacking one of the only sources of growth for UK businesses. www.businessgreen.com/news/4530440...

What Reform did today was an incitement to rioting and an insult to a grieving family. This bloke should have hung his goddamn head in shame.

Why Farage's 'White Lives Matter' speech and Reform's increasingly desperate descent into explicitly far-right rhetoric is a sign of the party's growing fears that their time at the top of British politics may soon be coming to an end bylinetimes.com/2026/06/02/n...

Criminal Checks for MPs, Donations Caps and Electoral Reform: Labour Rebels Push for Tougher Elections Bill From banning crypto and oil company cash to radical reform of our voting system, Labour backbenchers are testing how far their own Government is willing to go to protect British democracy,…

Racist politicians whip up racist outrage. Widespread disorder ensues. The courts treat widespread disorder with the severity that they have always treated widespread disorder. Racist politicians cry “two-tier justice”, whipping up racist outrage. Rinse. Repeat. It’s so fucking tedious.

"I really hope the British public learns the lesson of Donald Trump, when it comes to Nigel Farage." Congressman Brendan Boyle says the Reform leader is a "fraud", but is it too late for the UK? www.thenewsagents.co.uk/article/i-ho...

👏 Naomi Smith, Best for Britain CEO: 🚨 “It’s no surprise Reform UK’s supporters recognise they’ve been let down by a failed economic consensus, but they need reminding it was politicians in Westminster, not Brussels, who chose to shut SureStart centres and drag their heels on building homes"

When the father of a murdered son makes a public statement saying "we do not want his death to be used to create further division, hatred or tension", then I believe it's incumbent on any news outlet reporting on Farage's comments to ensure people know he has chosen to disregard the family's wishes.

Listen to the people who loved their boy and not the people who want to use it to stir hate.

At the heart of the Mandelson scandal is the relationship between Mandelson, Blair and his foundation, current UK Ministers, and Thiel and Palantir. This is a scandal about the politics of influence and its abuse. This information should be made public.

Reform UK wants to shut this down. If it did so, it would throw a million people out of work. Why? because it is beholden to the fossil fuel industry. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Absolutely not shocking. This is Reform. No idea how things work… what laws really mean… how they protect us… Just peddlers of prejudice. Puppets for whoever’s bought them. They don’t even find out what their party is about when they decide they want to be an MP. All of them unfit for office.

Hello Paris. This is how to celebrate a football triumph. Not rioting, damaging vehicles and shops and fighting with police.

The blood on this man’s hands. Determined to prevent a deal with Iran. Determined to eliminate Palestinians. Determined to kill Palestinian statehood. Determined to drag the wider region into a spiraling circle of death. The war criminal of our era. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...

Yesterday I witnessed something extraordinary: the author Sarah Wynn-Williams sitting silent on a stage at @hayfestival.bsky.social. And she got a standing ovation. I hope the attempt to censor her backfires magnificently. I have just ordered her book. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Annnnd yet another day where MSM reporters have heard, seen or said nothing re Farage’s BS Russian phone hack, dodgy £5 million, £1.4 million house bought in cash or him changing stories every 5 minutes… But mention Sturgeon being innocent of embezzling £400,000 and the monkey chatter is deafening❗️