A platform backed by Peter Thiel and advised by Donald Trump Jr. is taking anonymous crypto bets on UK elections, missile strikes and the death of world leaders. In Britain no regulator will touch it A Nerve explainer by @tuckerian.bsky.social www.thenerve.news/p/polymarket...

Was Bannon/US keen on a Johnson PM because May’s Chequers Plan would have allowed negotiation on a replacement returns agreement equivalent to Dublin, thereby avoiding the ‘Boris wave’/ small boats issue? Was the migrant crisis engineered to give Farage something to mobilise the far-right with?

Why the biggest lie in British politics is the claim that Nigel Farage, who has received more corporate bungs than any politician in our history, "cannot be bought" www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/the-cameo-...

Bunch of young thugs just got off a tube all testosterone and Tommy Robinson chants, but just looked exactly like the football hooligans of my youth, these things come round unfortunately

One of the biggest mistakes by the government was to tolerate and pander to this group. Far right extremist thugs posing as patriots, who should have been clamped down on from day one www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

Despite claiming to give his paymasters “nothing in return” for their money, the truth is that Farage has been assiduous in serving their interests. Last year, as Christopher Harborne was handing millions of pounds to Reform UK, Farage was taking to the airwaves to openly promote his company

Sneaking a giant screen into the flagshagger march is one of the funniest things @ledbydonkeys.org have ever done. "STAY HYDRATED" 😂🤣😂

Revealing report on Polymarket by Ian Tucker @tuckerian.bsky.social for @thenerve.news: An analysis found that 70% of Polymarket traders have recorded losses, while 0.04% have captured 70% of profits Once odds are treated as information, they can shape the outcomes they claim merely to forecast

Christopher Harborne is a new entry on the Sunday Times rich list top ten - worth £18 billion. He bought Reform for 0.1% of his fortune...

Le Pen and Farage are old friends. They were both MEPs together. They took money from the EU, but did no work for it in return. Le Pen has since been convicted for embezzlement. It's time Farage's finances were put under the microscope too. #FarageOut

link to petition petition.parliament.uk/petitions/76...

A Politically Exposed Person buying a £1.4m house with cash that they got from crypto seems like the sort of thing that would set off *all* the money-laundering checks?

For most people, but interestingly, those rules never seem to apply to people like Farage, Johnson et al😏

And Wes Streeting is the answer? This country is feckin screwed

Kevin Warsh is Peter Thiel’s guy. (They’ve known each other since college.)

Amazing timing, absolute chefs kiss shit. Is someone plotting this?

This was stupid when the police were asked to investigate Zahawi and Rayner, and it's stupid now. There's no evidence of dishonesty by Zahawi/Rayner/Polanski and the police should simply say that and not get drawn into these games. Carelessly paying wrong tax is not a crime.

Very disappointing today that baliff regulation, and crucially an Independent Regulator, wasn't in the King's speech even though work has been done on it. It's something @mmhpi and other charities need as a way to protect many vulnerable people.

What a difference a few years make, eh Wes? My view on a possible Streeting challenge? The timing will prove it to be wholly self serving, his links to Mandy will be an issue and in terms of leaning, he’d make Starmer look like McDonnell (but it’d read as continuity) and we’d be back at square one.

Quite. It’s a lot more to do with media needs than voters’ requirements

For Reform politicians, that’s quite a challenge

This is all happens in 2023. Farage goes apoplectic on GB News about Coutts/Nat West. He is supported by Boris Johnson. GB News owner makes a mint shorting NatWest stock. Boris Johnson offered a GB News slot

We think Trump’s rampant corruption in the US is different. But he must have looked at the millions made by hedge funds during Brexit, and the billions handed out in crony contracts here during Covid, and thought… I’ll have some of that. Britain still leads the world

Marshall Wace has gained around £11.7 million in that time period by betting against the bank. The fall in share price was mostly due to the exit of Dame Alison Rose as CEO after Coutts closed Farage’s account. Farage presents a show on Marshall’s GB News www.standard.co.uk/business/gb-...

Until the UK can come to terms with its place according to international investors - as a services economy - the political turmoil will continue. And even then finding good solutions to global issues such as large company dominance is a huge problem. ecipe.org/insights/res...

NEW: Safeguarding minister Jess Phillips resigns from government. "The desire not to have an argument means we rarely make an argument, leaving opportunities for progress stalled and delayed."

For people wondering "why do Labour MPs think Starmer has to go?" the fourth paragraph of this sets it out.

Classic problem - focus on getting elected, rather than what we’re going to do when we get there.

Well, there's a part of being PM right now that is clearly being seen as on the side of ordinary people, on which Burnham is currently scoring well. On the substance though, as to whether there is any significantly different policy direction, we don't know.

UK politics increasingly specialising in avoidance is how we got here. Particularly avoidance of difficult decisions forced by reality.

'Keir Starmer implicitly reminded his audience, that Keir Starmer appears not to be the answer to the question, a question he himself put.' 'He *is* the leader of incremental change, and today reminded us that that will not change, even incrementally.' Lewis on form with a short, sharp piece.

Absolute disgrace that Nigel Farage is invited to speak at an antisemitism rally. Letter from British Jews objecting has received a few thousand signatures in a few hours.

Super-clear instructions from @katie0martin.ft.com on How Politicians should Talk to Bond Markets. Any MPs or Spads on here, please have a read. as.ft.com/r/ce555d52-c...

If you like data, here is something interesting for you: Bridget Phillipson interview on LK: 9m 40" LK number of interruptions/talking over: 31 Richard Tice interview on LK: 8m 23" LK number of interruptions/talking over: 9

This kind of crap from the BoD really undermines those of us who are trying to push against antisemitism across the political spectrum. Infuriating.

They have zero ideas. There's just nothing there.

After 14years in opposition, it beggars belief that this is all Labour/Starmer have got

Difference in Vote Share from Local Elections (2025 to 2026) 💚 Green (+7) ⬆️⬆️ 🌳 Tory (+2%) ⬆️ 🔶LibDem (-1%) ⬇️ 🥀 Labour (-3%) ⬇️ 🟣Reform (-4%) ⬇️

Remain of the view that there is not a single Westminster leader who is offering anything even close to a coherent realistic policy direction.

His closest aide sentenced to 10.5 years for spying for the Russians. Failing to disclose £5m donation and how he bought a house in Clacton. A decade of school antisemitism and racism. Cavorting with Neo Nazis and planning mass deportations. What is the media love about Farage?

Essential thread 👇

Was just on LBC to talk about what the local elections mean for Starmer and his leadership bylinetimes.com/2026/05/08/l...

"becomes" ever more obvious... some interesting replies to this, I think many of us do feel it instinctively but one part of the modern landscape is a breathlessness that moves on so quickly as to be a protection against serious analysis

Plus, Trump promoting fruit flavoured vapes, could they hate young people more?

“Thanks Martin, I found a lost pension from when I was 22, its now worth £45,000!” So can you do what Rose did? Martin shows you how to check… This is just a snip from the full Martin Lewis Money Show Pensions Special watch it on www.itv.com/watch/the-ma... ITVX

A Reform UK candidate sent messages mocking disabled residents as “ponces of society,” "lazy c****" and "skanks" with “made up ailments" while mocking their appearance. He boasted to one recipient that reporting his conduct to the party would be ineffective because he is “a board member for Reform"

If the mainstream press refuses to investigate Reform’s candidates and their scandalous backgrounds and attitudes, I guess @bylinetimes.bsky.social will have to do it. These are just some of our exclusives from the last couple of days Www.bylinetimes.com

Just watched BBC News have to spool through 17 party politicians from England, Scotland and Wales on election eve. Not the fault of my old colleagues but the antiquated Ofcom rules around election coverage- at a time when online is a wild west- have never seemed more ridiculous.

New @therestpolitics.bsky.social Q and A - anti semitism, polarisation, how Russia is losing power in Mali, and how the King comprehensively outplayed Trump podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...

As before, the main damage done by this US administration as with all such cults is to their own country which will take some time to recover. And again, this isn't a new world order just the more rapid than expected decline of the major power under the weight of terrible leadership.