💥 70,000 signatures! 💥 ...and the petition closes on June 8th. Imagine if we can get it over 100,000 before then - and open a Parliamentary debate in time for the 10th anniversary of the Brexit vote on June 23rd 2026. That'd be powerful. All hands to the pump! Sign and share, share, share! 👇

In 1977, I went to see Star Wars, fired with a crazy excitement. Just 8 minutes in I learned that one of the heroes - a woman - was ‘part of the rebel alliance’, fighting for freedom. I walked out, announcing loudly that Star Wars had ‘gone woke’ - and I never had anything to do with it ever again.

Kingpin, but bigger and stupider.

The New York Times editorial board: “Americans should be cleareyed about what the president is doing. He is taking their money and showering it on criminals.”

Justice department added a provision to slush fund that the IRS is “forever barred” + “precluded” from examining the tax returns of Trump, his family, company & “related companies” The agreement applies to anything filed before the agreement was reached #ThisIsAmerica www.justice.gov/opa/media/14...

The day before he was announced as Reform's candidate in the Makerfield by election, Robert Kenyon was busy scrubbing clean his Facebook page. Wonder why? Find out why here: searchlightmagazine.com/2026/05/refo...

Outstanding work here Morten 🥂

“.. What we are talking about is nothing short of the sitting president of the United States looting from the Treasury for his own gain,” she said. @financialtimes.com www.ft.com/content/5733...

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Another Trump screw up substack.com/@rawstory/no...

Kudos to whoever made this.

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“.. We spotted nine Polymarket accounts .. who made collectively $2.4 million betting almost exclusively on U.S. Military operations. .. “.. Now, here is the crazy part. 98% win rates.” @mediaite.com www.mediaite.com/media/news/6...

Sometimes, a scandal is so big you have to pick off one piece of it. So in the case of Trump's insane stock trading, pick this: He did 6 trades of Intel stock. That company now counts the US government as a $9 billion stakeholder, thanks to Trump's intervention. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

It's terrifying & true! There's a story about a woman that was detained who's from New Zealand. I really think that other countries' leadership needs to get involved.

He needs more soldiers.

This drives me nuts. There has always been this argument that we can’t tax the rich heavily because they - and their wealth - will ‘leave the UK’. Meanwhile, they have been busy avoiding tax anyway, and contributing nothing. Can we please just bury this forever and have everyone pay their way?

Why should we care? If they don’t want to pay tax in the UK, they’re already avoiding it, so we lose nothing with their departure. Nothing.

Trump demonstrating that he already supports China’s position on Taiwan, ie that it is not independent. Also his wider position - that he loves dictators.

But of course it does. We know whose side they’re on. I think we also know whose side they’d be on if this were 1940. The claims of patriotism are a ruse; they’ve always had the hots for foreign dictators.

Nigel Farage led the Brexit Party which won the referendum which was all about 'taking back control' So how come TWO-THIRDS of Reform's donors are based overseas ...

Nigel Farage is threatening to sue Ben Habib who says Farage took a £1m bribe to back Boris Johnson. But don't repeat this because it makes Nigel Farage 🤬

Yes, I can hear you Nigel Fandango.

Farage did say Brexit would make us richer… We should have known that by us, he meant him £5,000,000 richer.

Nigel Farage can’t keep his story straight.

This story is becoming absolutely devastating for Farage.

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Ah yes, one of those famed Guardian journalist NUJ card-holding assassins.

I firmly believe that if you helm a project that will cut some jobs by more than 40% so you can make your schlock entertainment, you should be stripped of your union membership and blacklisted from the industry

This is what I've been talking about for years. Ai isn't coming for us writers, directors, or our cast; it's coming for our crews. Right now Ai is entirely investor subsidized. Whether or not this slop tsunami overtakes Hollywood really comes down to whether or not the cost of tokens comes down.

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What Starmer seems to be saying is that there is a process for triggering a leadership election and that this is how it should be done, rather than simply vacating the post and seeing what turns up. Having been through the whole Cameron/May/Johnson/Lettuce/Small Boy scenario I’m forced to agree.

I laughed more than I should have.

Does anyone have a full list of 2026 Reform councillors who have already left/have been sacked/don't exist/never wanted to do it/don't have UK passports/aren't 'ready' to take up posts/thought they'd be in Parilament/wandered into the wrong building/turned out to be two kids in a long raincoat?

Reform are currently losing councillors at the rate of one a day.

new zealander everlee wihongi was due to meet with her lawyer yesterday. then ICE moved her to their most notorious tent facility in texas: 3000 people, highest death rate, most sexual assaults. and today, she disappeared off the system. please RT: www.webworm.co/everleehasdi...

The whole of the rest of the world is baffled by its existence.

Lisa Nandy: “I don't think anyone in this country wants to reopen the Brexit debate.” The Country:

Trump will return from China younger, fitter, stronger.

That’s a long blink. Maybe he was trying to befriend a cat?

Well this aged terribly

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Catherine West believing she can get 81 backers is up there with Reform voters believing Farage will be PM on Monday. www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c1...

“In fact, the leaders they assassinated were more lenient and accommodating than those who replaced them. “The new Iranian leaders are younger, more energetic and have concluded that the US only understands the language of force.” 2/2

The scale of Trump’s catastrophic failure in Iran is still emerging. Tehran University Professor of American Studies Foad Izadi: “The Trump administration sought to change Iran's government. They haven't been able to do that. 1/

⚡️US falls below Russia in survey of global perceptions. The global perception of the United States has fallen for a third consecutive year, now ranking several spots behind Russia, a survey commissioned by the Alliance of Democracies Foundations revealed on May 7.

Zelensky 'allows' Putin to hold Victory Day parade as Trump declares 3-day Ukraine, Russia ceasefire. The declaration makes no mention of a ceasefire on attacks elsewhere in Russia.

Well, I certainly did a double take.

Because nobody cares.

Zelensky has issued a presidential decree “allowing” Russia to hold its annual Victory Day parade in Moscow. The decree provides exact coordinates of the Red Square that shall be excluded from the list of Ukrainian strike targets. Phenomenal power play.