This is the most basic stuff. For anyone to be asking it is concerning. For someone who seemingly seeks to be Prime Minister, it is deeply concerning. What we know is that a man has been charged with the murder of Anne Widdicombe, and a trial has been provisionally set for June 2027. /1

I’d just read the piece by @rafaelbehr.bskyb.social about Reform being a perpetual grievance and glanced at FB

Robinson already boiling down the PM's name and title down to his surname. #r4today

As ever, Blue Robbo asks the "where's the money come from?" question with zero interest in the answer. #r4today

#r4today Just remember, right-wing journalists and politicians called her 'Rachel from accounts.' The disrespect shown towards the former Chancellor, Rachel Reeves, was disgusting. www.ft.com/content/62c3...

The Tories will simply rehash their brilliant economic policies of 2010; i.e their signature policy every time they re-enter government. #r4today

Scalise: "The Bolshevik takeover of the Democratic Party is in full swing, and communism is on the ballot this November"

Can't get numb to this: The United States is stuck in a war it started, cannot end, and may further escalate to no avail, having dismantled its diplomatic apparatus, depleted its military stockpile, and destroyed its credibility. A historic strategic mistake harming millions in many different ways.

Those journalists shouting across Downing Street sound absolutely pathetic. #wato

The FBI director is traveling to Russia weeks before the midterm elections. “His host is likely to be the FSB, the Russian security service that is heir to the Soviet-era KGB” www.politico.com/news/2026/07...

Had to look it up to confirm, but I remember going to the IMAX Waterloo on my 2nd or 3rd date with my partner - in 1999. #r4today

Lisa Nandy's job has been expanded! She's now in charge of the internet too! Nandy has had two years overseeing Ofcom's regulation of TV. Now she is overseeing social media and online safety, too. Gosh.

Several of the 11 Cabinet Ministers stood down and, therefore, weren't sacked, Blue Robbo. #r4today

I heard that as giving freak hair to the elderly - yes, please Nick. #r4today

The BBC version of constructive criticism of the new government already sounds like cynical nitpicking. It's Day 1, guys. #r4today

Lee Anderson calling for subsidies, or as his leader calls them, Harbornes. #r4today

Council tax, of course, was based on another massive cockup by Nick's hero, Mrs T, that no one likes to talk about. #r4today

The media will have the hump about the new Chancellor because their speculation was completely wrong. #r4today

Andrew Marr could've stopped Brexit in its tracks in 2018, but he chose to gang up on Carole Cadwalldr with Oakeshott on his eponymous BBC show and rubbish her evidence of wrongdoing. @lbc.co.uk

Here I am in 2017 pretending I hardly knew George Cottrell, the convicted fraudster who calls me "Daddy" and was my right hand man and a key fundraiser during the Brexit campaign.

Mattinson really bigging up her own work here. BBC providing free advertising space. #r4today

Gove was in charge of Levelling Up. Anyone remember any achievements or wins, quick or otherwise? #r4today

The historical echoes of this WC Final are that the Spanish 2010 win was againgst a Dutch team trying to kick their way to victory and Argentina's 1990 Final loss was equally disgraceful. #r4today

Something #r4today and BBC News more generally might like to consider in their daily work.

One of these things is not like the other

Not really sure what I just attended. www.theguardian.com/football/202...

Laura Kuenssberg, Andrew Neil, and the BBC apparatus which gave Cambridge Analytica a chance to undermine @carolecadwalla.bsky.social’s investigation before it was published, called law breaking ‘rule breaking’, demeaned her as a mad cat lady, and fluffed Farage, deserve all the ignominy of history

Four British Prime Minsters on, Ukrainian victims of war are still suffering from Boris Johnson negligently allowing Abramovich to have a say in how the proceeds of the sale of Chelsea would be distributed.

Let us rejoice that by going for the bag as soon as he could, Elon could keep himself (and possibly all others) from ever being a trillionaire.

Even The Spectator. “being cursed with vision, hearing and sanity meant enduring an event that made Truss’s premiership look like a model of tact and foresight.” Attendance at the Far Right CPAC was described as the equivalent of “the attendance at a paedophile’s funeral”.

This is so, so bad. She’s taken the very narrow point that domestic drilling may result in oil and gas with a slightly lower carbon footprint than some imports and extrapolated it out to make sweeping claims about UK emissions increasing that are entirely false. So deeply unserious.

Farage's shamelessness, solipsism and boundless self-pity are such that his column on the death of Anne Widdecombe becomes a demand that people apologise to him. He's the real victim here.

George Cottrell helped Farage with a camera crew so he could go into the English Channel and film the boats to “warn the nation”/aka whip it up into a frenzy of racist anger… But when it comes to rich aristocrat fraudsters funding him, Farage believes in “Christian forgiveness” Oh please. (Times)

New @ftm.eu investigation: Russian clubs owned by sanctioned individuals and companies are set to receive World Cup compensation money from Fifa, as they did after Qatar 2022, an illegal operation which could make Gianni Infantino's organisation liable for prosecution.

Just because my convicted fraudster chum set up an account with an obscure Australian payment company just before his mother transferred £500,000 to Reform from sources the NCA were unable to trace, that doesn't mean there's anything dodgy going on.

Clive Myrie: "After weeks of completely fevered speculation based on gossip and wishful thinking, we'll revert to reporting actual news tomorrow live from Downing St." #bbclaurak

Soft focus, Hello-style interview from #bbclaurak of Temu-Thatcher.

Everyone too polite to ask Rees-Mogg why he's on the take from the US government? #bbclaurak

The lie of the Thatcherite 'economic miracle' has to be nailed. It has imprisoned UK politics & public life for four decades. FACT: UK economic growth: 1970-79: 2.7%pa 1980-89: 2.6%pa The Thatcherite economic miracle was a mirage based on North Sea Oil, privatisation & debt.

It's a variation of the old joke where the guy says he sells apples for 5 cents a piece, but he pays 10 cents. The other guy asks him how he gets a profit. The first guy says, "I make it up on volume."

Peter Thiel in Argentina ... and the world at large It's about about a tech-oligarch vision of global political and economic control newlinesmag.com/argument/wha...

"Farage says the main parties are denying Clacton voters their democratic rights by not standing candidates. Let’s hope Farage respects voter rights by participating in the all candidate on-stage debate" via Brett Knight

Thatcher and Geoffrey Howe's Monetarist experiment between 1979-81 cut a swathe through British manufacturing. Thatcherite keepers of the flame always deem this necessary, but it might just have been a cock-up they've positively spun. @lbc.co.uk

The State Department official in charge of doling out US government money to the likes of Toby Young and Rees-Mogg is this bottle blonde Aryan. #r4today

This is not some private individual or non governmental organisation making these donations, it is the State Department of the USA. That's like out Foreign Office giving money to Hamas, Hezbollah and the Houthis.

Tuchel sounded like a bloke down the pub just watching the match unfold, rather than the coach paid to do something about the passivity of his team during the game. #r4today

Farage’s furious clash with Times editor stuns figures close to him

Direct foreign interference in British politics - we have rules against foreign governments funding parliamentary groups, but this is fine?? Seriously?? www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Axel Springer, the company that owns Politico, awards its top prize to...Antichrist lecturer Peter Thiel. No mention of the $50 million Thiel gave the son of Axel Springer's CEO to start a venture capital fund. But the CEO lauds Thiel's "courage and non-conformity." www.welt.de/wirtschaft/a...

What a graphic. @cnn.com #$NVDA #$TSLA #$AEO