More than a dozen Russian shadow fleet vessels struck by Ukraine in the Sea of Azov. Making it even more difficult to keep Crimea supplied www.reuters.com/world/europe...

Only 12% of people think Farage has been honest about his financial affairs, poll suggests - www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...

Labour calls on Farage to ‘come clean’ over £5m gift and work with crime agency over money laundering concerns - www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...

Bin versus contents of.

Ed Davey urges government to block Farage's resignation until standards inquiry concludes - www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...

So, there is a precedent for vetoing an MP's resignation Viscount Chelsea (Henry Cadogan) applied for the Chiltern Hundreds in 1842 The Chancellor (Goulburn) refused because, get this, Cadogan wanted to resign to obstruct an investigation for bribery h/t @fascinatorfun.bsky.social and @gazhay.com

HE HAS STRICT DEADLINES.

All this "Chiltern Hundreds" talk makes me surprised that Scottish MPs have not demanded a special Scottish version, so that they can resign by becoming the Laird of eastern West Fife, or the Thane of Rockall.

Skeleton racer Vladyslav Heraskevych, the Ukrainian face of the Milano Cortina Games after his helmet controversy, called for a coalition of national Olympic committees to oppose the IOC’s provisional lifting of Russia’s suspension, and said visa bans and boycott talks should be on the table.

The forthcoming Clacton by-election raises profound constitutional questions. For a start- is a Count allowed to have a seat in the House of Commons?

Remembering Marty Feldman, born this day in 1934.

#Ukraine struck another 9 #Russia "shadow fleet" tankers in the Sea of Azov last night Kyiv has now struck 21 vessels in 72 hours: 19 tankers hauling fuel toward occupied #Crimea, one cargo ship, and one ferry in the occupied port city of Kerch #UkraineWar

Story of the day so far is the eel that fell out of the sky and narrowly avoided hitting a man on the head.

I hear that Denmark is threatening to bring Belgium into the argument

Trump's threats to invade Denmark will go down in history as the moment at which American allies finally admitted to themselves that the old world has died. It's impossible to just sit out Trump and things will never go back to "normal"

Somebody might want to tell these people that JD Vance has repeatedly stated that Greenland should be American, so the idea that this is just an idée fixe of one “erratic“ President Trump is for the birds.

FARAGE RESIGNS: What we heard from his announcement:

"An Israeli strike has killed 3people ahead of a public screening of a world cup game in the Gaza strip. 2 children were killed.. along with a member of the Egyptian relief committee, which organised the event. The strike occurred moments before the Egypt match against Argentina"

Oh dear Lord, I wasn't expecting that! 🤣🤣

this is imo an example of how data center hatred isn't just reflexive nimbyism

As much as the Binface thing is a jolly jape and all that, and totally understandable in the first day or so of all *this*, maybe someone actually pressing Farage on the serious stuff, and treating it all a bit more seriously, may actually do more good in the long term? I dunno, I'll go away now.

skyview.social?url=https%3A... Unroll The Crimea fuel blockade intensifies...

Ukrainian forces struck Russian oil refining facilities, attacked tankers in the Taganrog Bay, and hit a military airfield overnight. meduza.io/en/news/2026...

Russia's best weapon to defeat Patriot missiles is Donald Trump.

Sorry, this had to be done

if you're an american who hasn't bothered to follow uk politics before, now is the time

"Invite European Countries to join the UK" is peak British political humour

The world thinks British politics is mad because we've had 7 prime ministers in 10 years. They'll go mental if Count Binface wins Clacton

...and he's facing Farage.

So it looks like Farage will be facing off against Binface. A tedious worn out joke of a perennial candidate who is given undue attention by a press who should know better and who appeals to some of my least favorite instincts in British politics. Choose your own punchline from the two below.

Wtf, CNN. Crimea is not "highly contested". It's an Ukrainian territory occupied by Russia. youtu.be/sge6SbGrXfA?...

Quite striking how the tone of media commentary around US/NATO has shifted over the past 18 months, from "Can we still rely on the US?" to "Here's how Europe might cope [or not] by itself".

If I knew all it took to make Farage shit the bed and show himself up for what he really is in a public broadcast was £5 million, I'd have suggested a GoFundMe on Twitter back in 2014.

TIL that the French word for dustbin, "poubelle", began as a sarcastic tribute to Eugène-René Poubelle, Préfet of the Seine, who in 1884 made domestic dustbins mandatory in Paris. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eug%C3%... (He also made sewer connections mandatory; he got off lightly as eponyms go.)

Labour calls on Farage to ‘come clean’ over £5m gift and work with crime agency over money laundering concerns - UK politics live

Robert Jenrick has never been especially keen on rules anyway www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...

I think it's only fair we keep pushing this story about the money as well, as it means Tice will also retreat, leaving only Pochin, Jenrick, and *shudders* Anderson to conduct damage limitation in the media, which is - frankly - too hilarious an opportunity to pass up.

I might have to break with normal practice and listen to #R4Today

One of the Whoiest seasons of DW. Some runs just have a magic touch, so that even the stuff that doesn't work can't bring it down. The Pertwee/Manning partnership is at peak charm, the productions are ambitious and the writing is frequently smart, imaginative & witty. A template season.

News outlets don't need to "cover the controversy" if the "controversy" can be explained by one word: racism. There's nothing to unpack

When you wanted to "wrestle back the agenda" but the agenda is now whether or not you can beat a bin.

Now Google have ruined their translator with AI youtu.be/CvhA4GXQfrA?...

Revealed: Farage’s £5m gift reported to UK crime agency over money laundering concerns

Reform UK Councillors Gone: Updated Leon Graham has defected from Reform UK to the Conservatives.

On the night of July 3, Russian riot police swept central Moscow near Kitay-gorod, detaining around 100 people, two-thirds of them minors. Teenagers describe being beaten and shocked with stun guns inside police vans. However, no charges were filed. meduza.io/en/feature/2...

Reform MS is director of a ‘non-political’ anti-independence organisation

1/ A Ukrainian attack on a Russian fuel convoy heading to Crimea across the Sea of Azov has likely crippled effects to supply the fuel-starved peninsula by water. Russian warbloggers are dismayed and scornful about the Russian government's tactics. ⬇️ bsky.app/profile/spec...

As with most British nationalist assumptions about Scotland being too poor, too wee, and too stupid, the idea that Scottish nationalists are useful idiots fot Putin doesn't stand up to much scrutiny- we are perfectly capable of governing ourselves better than Westminster does.

Some of the staunchest and most effective opponents of Kremlin imperialism are Finland, Sweden, the Baltics- all free and sovereign nations of adound 10mil people or less- what's stopping us from joining them?