"A Chinese hospital ship quietly docked in hurricane-hit Jamaica this week, projecting soft power into the heart of the Caribbean where a US armada is conducting a controversial anti-narcotics mission targeted at Venezuela."

What next? The Facebook peace prize The Amazon award for ending the most wars in a day The Truth Social prize for being the best president ever The Apple award for acing cognitive tests and being a smartest person The GOP lifetime award for definitely not being a pedophile

Zia Yusuf - the unelected multimillionaire policy chief of Reform - makes his fourth Question Time appearance tonight. The party has five MPs

I’m 56 years old, and for my whole life we’ve been asking some version of the question “what would WE, our generation, have done to stop the Nazis, either in Germany as they were rising, or around the world to fight for freedom. Now we’re answering the question in real time. Each of us & all of us.

What I read…….what I think

When you start talking about yourself in the third person you’re a twat. But when you were already a twat and you start doing it, I don’t even know what to call you anymore.

“In 2017 there was not a single asylum seeker who arrived on a boat. Today we have 46,000 a year and do you know why? It was because of the botched Brexit deal pushed through by Boris Johnson and championed by Nigel Farage. Nigel Farage should be here apologising” Daisy Cooper

In addition - the vast majority of diagnoses do *not* end with someone claiming a disability benefit or entering unemployment! Most people getting a diagnosis do in fact just successfully get a reasonable adjustment from their employers or make a lifestyle change and carry on with their lives.

2 in 3 of Nigel Farage’s current and former partners do not speak English as their first language.

The war will end when Russia stops fighting. Therefore, pressure has to be put on Russia, so that they stop believing that they will win. Why is that so hard to understand?

Pleased to discover that slightly misnaming the national chess championship you won as a school child is a much more serious offence than repeatedly racially abusing your fellow pupils and telling them they should go to the gas chamber

That Vickers looks like someone I would run a mile to avoid.

There are no words.

She seems nice

Look how visibly excited Robert Jenrick is by his brilliance as a statesman; how high on his own supply. It is astonishing that this bitter, angry, talentless bingo-caller is considered a serious prospect in a major party. If he or Badenoch are the best they can do, what does it say about the rest?

…and yes, I was part of the Epstein crowd.🔻

Why do trains in the UK cost so much at peak hours? It's mostly NOT due to privatisation It is because the UK state has not invested enough in its network to up capacity, and even today does not subsidise operations very much Want to be like 🇨🇭, 🇦🇹, 🇳🇱? POUR IN MORE MONEY

2014: “I admire Putin as an operator” 2010-14: Appeared on Russia today 17 times 2017: Knighted by a 7 year old girl on RT 2022: blames EU for Russian invasion 2024: “We provoked this war … of course it’s his fault – he’s used what we’ve done as an excuse” Is this not dodgy?

Funny how @zackpolanski.bsky.social suggesting a raft of policies to try and improve the lives of the vast majority is ‘fantasy economics’, but when Brexiteers were allowed to indulge their lunatic fantasies about leaving the EU it somehow became ‘The Will of the People’. 🦄🤔

Tax and benefit measures announced this Parliament so far benefit children the most. This is due to the abolition of the two-child limit, the expansion of Free School Meals to children in families receiving UC in England, and the above-inflation increases to the UC standard allowance.

this, but for Jonathan Gullis defecting to Reform

This is the hidden in plain sight heffalump trap in the Budget - Mahmood’s plan will deepsix whatever fiscal headroom the Chancellor has.

Deliberate leaks are not culpable, but accidental leaks are heinous. What a jolly political culture we have.

Is Farage still facing scrutiny over his partner’s £885k Frinton home. Is it aggressive tax avoidance? Has he misled voters? Where’s the transparency? What’s happening? Just asking questions. #FrintonGate

In 1968 Finland banned for profit education, the few private schools that exist in Finland have to reinvest any profit they make or pay it back to parents. It has been in the Top 3 in education for the last 20 years. There should be no profit in education or healthcare.

Clever use of *mean* here.

The OBR is run independently from Government. It literally was somebody else's fault. You'd think Kemi Badenoch would know that given her own party created it in Government, but apparently not

..., and, so, my government will be bold and brave... Then I woke up.

Reasons to resign: Tories: doubling the cost of mortgages; throwing birthday parties while people are separated from their dying relatives for reasons you imposed Labour: holding press conference & not saying thing that previously you had later said was not untrue but which the OBR didn't also say

Oh wow, that's awkward. #Gullis

If the cost of living crisis won’t move this government, maybe the collapse of their climate programme will. After 35 years of privatisation: - No new major water reservoirs built - 3bn litres lost to leaks every day - £85bn taken in dividends. Public ownership is the only credible fix.

🔴Trump Envoy Has Financial Ties With Former Adviser to Putin’s ‘Money Man’ Now Leading Kremlin Peace Talks Steve Witkoff’s real-estate empire is bankrolled by a former adviser to Kirill Dmitriev, head of Russia’s sovereign wealth fund and a key architect of Moscow’s Ukraine negotiations

Jonathan Gullis defects to Reform saying his former party has "lost touch with the people it was meant to serve". He should know. When he was in Government he took a five-figure donation from JCB, then stayed silent when it axed hundreds of his constituents' jobs just two weeks later

The absolute state of the BBC news just now - which seems determined to drag the government down over the budget. Where was all this attention to minute detail and concern for absolute accuracy when the Tories were lying their way through their chaotic reign for 14 years? It's frankly absurd.

The BBC (in name of 'impartiality') has entered some post-post-truth hall of mirrors, in which it holds the Labour Chancellor to some epistemological standard so high, that nobody can understand what the hell it actually means

Our economic woes are caused by Brexit, (Ukraine), Covid, Brexit’s ugly baby - our dismal immigration policy, Truss budget, 14yrs of austerity… All rightwing policies. Quite mad that our media acts as if Labour’s budget is the end of days, when they failed to adequately scrutinise any of that👆shit.

The president is a political cartoon of corruption come to life, a gaudy grifter who is selling off pardons and lining his pockets, building a golden ballroom and protecting his fellow sex predator elites, all the while regular Americans are suffering and struggling to make ends meet. Run on *that*

On the left: 2025 Stephen Pollard op-ed in the Jewish Chronicle claiming Farage isn't far-right and that antisemitism allegations are a nasty smear. On the right: 2019 lead article in the Jewish Chronicle (then edited by Stephen Pollard) on Farage's far-right links and use of antisemitic tropes.

"Give liberally and be ungrudging when you do so, for on this account the Lord your God will bless you in all your work and in all that you undertake" - Deuteronomy 15:10 "God loves a cheerful giver" - 2 Corinthians 9:7 "Budget for benefit street" - Badenoch - Odds of Remaining Leader 150:1

*Kemi reading the bible* "suffer little children" well that's enough for today, think I got the gist of it

Shabana Mahmood said this month that her migration policies are a "moral mission". Where is the morality in blocking an eight-year-old girl made destitute by a Hurricane from coming to the UK to join her parents? www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

It takes a special kind of right-wing British political party to literally sell black shirts. Are you going to tell them? Or shall I?

Get gun. Locate foot. Take aim..... I mean, this is lunacy. The UK has a shortage of doctors so what did the Tories do a few years back? They cut the number of university places to study medicine by about 15% because it is the most expensive degree to study. And now..... this.

Foreign doctors trained by the NHS face deportation under visa rules

Read this. A scrappy indie outlet standing up to Farage’s bullyboy lawyers in a way that should shame better-funded outlets

The UK state pension, worst in the world.

The Gospel According to Badenoch.

The richest 150 people in the UK get £120,000,000 richer every single day, and that's not share value. That's profit stolen from you through the Banks, Energy Companies, and Supermarkets they own. But the problem is someone getting £10 on Universal Credit?

Coincidence corner: Nigel Farage and crypto. From the new Private Eye, out now.