What does a wealth tax actually look like? We sent Brighty Buoy and his tiny balls to Wimbledon to chat to fans 🎾

Reform UK wants MORE privatisation of the Britain's NHS, social care and public services ... meme via Michael Taylor

Shock! Illegitimate child of so-called "Count" Binface traced, reveals forced working in horrific conditions in 1980s before finding obscurity behind a cornershop in Evesham. More on this breaking story in 3, 2, 1

If everyone gets their act together, I do genuinely think Farage could end up losing to Count Binface. A lot of other people clearly agree. When I first checked the odds against Binface winning, I expected it to be something like 50-1 against. It's actually less than 4-1. Make it happen, Clacton!

A group of lemurs is called a conspiracy. #WildlifeWednesday

One from the archives: "A video of Nigel Farage shows him saying that as an MEP he could earn as much as a Goldman Sachs banker through claiming expenses and employing his wife" (which he did) When Farage talks about how much he's supposedly sacrificed financially by going into politics...

Never before has a politician announced their intention to run for re-election on an explicitly pro-sleaze, anti-transparency ticket. Never before has a politician gloried in having enriched themselves by breaking the rules, and then demanded a mandate to continue doing so indefinitely

Searing truths from binface (no really)

when you’ve just seen mitch mcconnell

Worth remembering that Count Binface is highly likely to actually care about representing the people of Clacton's interests in Parliament, and showing up for weekly surgery days. Though it'll be the following day if there's a bank holiday.

No by-election will get him out of this.

The reason I have owned so many cars is not what you think. I fix them. Because once they are healthy... I can harvest their souls for sustenance...

"US spy tech giant Palantir paid an effective tax rate of just 8% on their £25.3m UK profits. Most companies with profits above £250,000 pay 25%. How is a company that’s won £670m in UK public contracts (including a massive £330m NHS deal) able to dodge our tax rules? " via 38 degrees

eBay Live must be doing really well for the UX designer to have resorted to putting the hateful force-feeding of video nonsense where the notifications/updates icon used to be. I hate this kind of behaviour from product owners/designers with internet apps and websites.

An absolute banger of an exclusive from the Sunday Times. It's devastating. For the first time, I'm uncertain if Farage can actually survive this www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...

Inside the web of money behind grifting Nigel Farage and Reform UK

Who’s filling Reform’s coffers?

Holy shit, they said it out loud: "we show you which ideas can be paid for, legislated, and sold to voters" Which is why voters should absolutely know /who/ is paying. #GBNews #UKPol #ThinkTanks petition.parliament.uk/petitions/75...

This venn diagram is just a circle, isn't it.

Forget Spotify, and what's an iPod? Here's the proper roadtrip jukebox. What's taking over from whatever is on @bbcradio2bot.bsky.social ?

Copy Cat 😺

Since getting it I've been chasing a weird mixture/timing mess made on the Audi by a previous owner - timing belt out, distributor wrong - it ran, but rich. Got timing right, but needed to get it to pull properly on hills. It felt off & sometimes, utterly gutless. Checking CO needs the right tool.

Happy Brexit anniversary

Cars which now have MOTs, a short series:

It's the 10th anniversary of the dumbest moment in modern British history so let's celebrate some of the idiots who made it happen. First up ... Jacob Rees-Mogg and his promise of cheap food and wine... In fact food prices have increased some 12% as a direct result of Brexit (LSE) 1/5

Brexit because this pipsqueak David Cameron was scared of Fartrage so he held a referendum, lost and then ran away. 10 years of decline that this man inflicted on the U.K. and still it continues.

I fixed the rev counter by changing the ITT V3003-393 for a V3001-519 I had salvaged from a scorched board, got the oil pressure warning banished, fixed the interior lights including the gear selector, and refreshed the radio wiring so all four speakers are good. No work/money - #audiavant for sale

🪹🌿🧡 nature is amazing 💚 🌿💛💛💛🤎🧡💛💛💛🍀🪹

Starmer resigned? But it won't change anything because the money gets what the money wants. And Burnham looks very much like someone with ideology for sale... This petition is going to fail, sadly - if only it had reached the right amplifiers :/

Still a better Doctor Who serial than the talking paving slab. And scarier than the Candyman.

It was Krasnov's first codename

This. This x1000.

There are no “legitimate concerns” about trans people. There aren’t any about women’s safety or fairness in sports or kids being kids or fucking toilets. If there were you’d have heard of them before 2018. I am a cis white woman so you have to listen to me or I’ll cry.

@rachelmillward.bsky.social on why water should be run for people and planet, not profit 💧🌍💚

It’s a stupidly high bar but I believe this to be Craig Brown’s finest work

You can always tell when The Stranglers have been in to return their books.

People living with life-limiting illnesses that will only get worse shouldn’t have to be put through repeated benefits reassessments. They add stress and paperwork at a time when people are already dealing with so much. It has to stop. 🛑 www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...

Privatised water is such an obvious scam that it's achieved the impossible: getting 82% of Brits to agree on something. The only issue to score higher was the public’s desire for Tony Blair to stick to retirement.

Rishi Sunak tells Radio 4 that "AI is changing every aspect of our economy and our lives, and if I was back in office and looked at my diary and where I was going to spend my time, I would spend it on that" At no point does he or the BBC mention the £373,000 given to him every year by an AI company

Top of the to-do list for the Tony Blair Institute's biggest funder, Larry Ellison? That would be, um, AI, attack net zero, get closer to Trump... https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/may/26/tony-blair-labour-abandon-net-zero-support-donald-trump

2026 Me: Hey 1996 me, in 30 years time you'll be furious at everything Tony Blair says and think John Major makes some pretty sensible points 1996 Me: Fuck, so I'm doomed to become more conservative as I get older 2026 Me: Well not exactly

Once you've been rejected as Prime Minister you should just leave politics forever and be placed in a retirement community but strapped into something like a cross between Second Life, Risk, and Farmville.

If Burnham can't win an election without the Greens giving him an easy ride, how's he going to beat Reform in a general election?

I think it's great Lego made a Fiat 131 Mirafiori.

Apparently Farage claims the data on the £5m gift was obtained illegally, which prompts the question, “what else is the little shit hiding?”

As a science fiction writer I really fucking resent tech bros for ruining the phrase "artificial intelligence." 80 years of it being all about cool androids and interesting computers destroyed by five years of "Spicy autocorrect making everything shittier for money." NEVER FORGIVE.

I don't think this petition will reach enough people. But it should have :( petition.parliament.uk/petitions/75...

“Am I a joke to you, Susan?”

A Snake Sculpture 6th-11th Century AD, from U Thong Thailand.