This is also a field test. If the press lets them muddy the waters on executing a woman in Minneapolis despite multiple witnesses and video recordings clearly depicting what happened, the message they'll take away is that there's nothing they can't get away with. Nothing.

The reason Gold Bullion Direct paid Farage over £400,000 is because they know his followers are really gullible. But this comment is particularly ridiculous. If I'm out walking a dog & it starts chasing wildlife, I control it. I don't encourage it to chase things down and rip them to pieces.

The story of Farage and Putin, told by British-Ukrainian soldier Shaun Pinner on a destroyed apartment block in Kyiv.

You don't want to share this, because it will upset Nigel Farage.

English hospitals that cut registered nurses saw more deaths while those hiring nurses saw more patients survive. Even when hospitals tried to fill gaps with non-nurses, deaths still went up. Major new study exposes dangerous NHS variation www.thetimes.com/uk/healthcar...

The EPSTEIN Files are a much quicker read than I expected.

“400 million people around the world have experienced long COVID, not to mention the millions of people living with ME/CFS, chronic tick- and vector-borne illness, and other IACIs—and more people are getting sick every day,” says David Putrino, PhD, the Nash Family Director of the Cohen Center. “

Listen to this American still working 40 hours a week when he's 88 because his wife got sick and he had to sell his house. This is what they want to do in the UK.

BOOM!! 100,000 signatures! Now let’s have a date for the debate petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...

Farage's great political achievement was to get the BBC to normalise the politics of the NF and BNP. Reform are identical to these fascist parties of old but their treatment by the media is totally different. Our peace and security is being pissed away by idiots.

Richard Tice publicly sticks to Reform’s police that renewable power is a “massive con” and supports its plan to tax solar farms. But behind the scenes, he just can’t stop installing solar panels in his businesses… www.thenewworld.co.uk/rats-in-a-sa...

Word of the day is ‘tamalou’: a French name for an older person who no longer greets their friends with ‘how was your holiday?, but with ‘t’as mal où ?’, ‘where does it hurt?’. There follows an enthusiastic account of aches and pains and doctor’s appointments.

Jamie Raskin, who I’ve never heard of before but now has my regard. Talking about farage. Good words.

Nigel Farage looks uncomfortable as Jamie Raskin uses his opening statement to absolutely demolish him

Sick of BBC continuously promoting Reform U.K. and ignoring other parties with far more representation? Please sign the petition petition.parliament.uk/petitions/71...

A reminder that you can listen to the newsletter as a podcast if you prefer using your ears to your eyes. This morning I got a little bit worked up.

Be afraid

Letter of the day (in the Times)

Watch @oliviablakemp.bsky.social’s brutal takedown of driven grouse shooting in just 90 seconds from last weeks debate in Parliament. @wildjustice.bsky.social

87% of musicians report financial losses, with average EU tour earnings down 45%. For 59% of UK musicians, touring in the EU is no longer viable. This is not just a blow to income; it’s a cultural and soft power loss. Without European access and exposure, young UK artists are less visible abroad...

Nigel Farage is either 'deliberately lying' or 'extremely stupid' for promising to reopen coal mines and restart blast furnaces, former Labour leader Lord Kinnock tells Sky’s Trevor Philips

This is an extremely important point ⬇️

Over on Twitter, Grok's owning the Brexit knuckle-draggers...

More trouble for Starmer on the way - for as Boris Johnson showed, a large absolute majority is worth little if you can't convince your ministers and MPs to back you:

this opinion column dissects a 2024 study that concludes chronic fatigue patients just don’t wanna. “effort preference”, not fatigue, is why we struggle. i am weeping because more doctors are going to read & believe the malformed study than the column dissecting it. more dismissal & gaslighting.

Born in the decade after WW2 we had many advantages, gifted to us by the sacrifices & collective values, of our parents’ generation. My wealth came through hard work, luck, but also a supportive state. I should be paying back. Rachel Reeves should be taxing me more...

Nigel Farage wants to dismantle our NHS and replace it with this ... meme via Clare Underhillhead

DAILY MIRROR: Reviving community spirit: How All Souls church defies Keir Starmer's 'island of strangers' narrative and fosters unity across Bolton’s diverse neighbourhoods. - by Ros Wynne Jones, Claire Donnelly

The ultimate irony of halving net immigration numbers: You can do it without reducing small boats crossings at all!! This is Nigel Farage’s immigration doom-loop & Starmer is up to his neck in the death trap like the Tories before him 🤦‍♀️

Excellent article covering attitudes to climate change and long COVID. There is such a thing as society and we cannot exist without it.

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Brilliant idea! Next they’ll invent seatbelts and call them “freedom straps.”

I really need folks to stop acting like disability is full of people “scamming” the system. The average person has no idea how hard it is to qualify. How dehumanizing the process can be. How much you have to sacrifice & give up. It’s designed to make you quit.

🔴The Founding Myth of Morgan McSweeney Why reports of Keir Starmer's chief adviser's supposed campaigning genius do not appear to match up with the facts www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/the-foundi...

Political - Countries w Universal Healthcare

Music is joy! #AGoodPlace Source: www.reddit.com/r/MadeMeSmil...

🤬 Water privatisation has been a complete failure. It's time to re-nationalise‼️

Sesame Street had him pegged back in 1988.

Outstanding analysis from the excellent @andrewrawnsley.bsky.social observer.co.uk/news/columni...

This is about all of us. Never forget that.

I think a lot about what Carl Sagan said in one of his final interviews.

Mainstream radio presenters like Vanessa Feltz are perfectly happy to contribute, in their own small way, to the rise of the extreme far right. Her interview with me on LBC just now was chock full of lies. Calls herself a journalist. Really I wonder how they sleep at night.

If “trying harder” could solve chronic illness, no one would be chronically ill. Non disabled people have no idea how hard we try. How much effort goes into managing our conditions to avoid deterioration to our baseline. How hard it is to survive in an ableist society.