The Vice President is abroad campaigning for a dictator. The President is threatening to wipe out an entire civilization. Congress is on recess. This is a total collapse of American moral leadership — at a historic scale.

In other news, Trump & Vance continue their work for Putin by helping to reelect another anti-freedom, authoritarian strong man. Further proof that as long as Trump is in the White House, America does not stand with the free world. www.mediaite.com/politics/tru...

JD Vance: "I see that those who hate Europe the most, who hate its borders, its energy independence, the people who hate its Christian heritage, they hate one man above all others and his name is Viktor Orban. And if they hate him, it means he's on your side."

Rep. Ted Lieu isn't backing down.

One-eyed Montague now seeing this solely as a way to hit the Labour government. #wato

Setting aside the reparations debate (complex, not one that we should dismiss) the idea that you ban every citizen of say, Jamaica, because its govt's policies, shows that REFUK isn't a serious party. But the USA shows us that unserious parties can be in govt. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Here's some World News that'll probably get spiked for Kanye News on today's BBC #wato.

Donald Trump and JD Vance should not be tampering with Hungary’s elections. The Putin-Trump-Netanyahu Axis should leave Hungarian democracy alone. The world’s greatest warmongers should leave peaceful people alone.

Why is Aylesbury the county town?

It's more important for JD Vance to show his support for fellow far-right, ethno-Christian nationalist Viktor Orban, than it is to condemn him for being in the pocket of Putin, who is providing intelligence to the Iranians to use against US forces. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Another Conservative mess that Labour are having to clean up and won't get any thanks for it from left or right. www.theguardian.com/money/2026/a...

This is not “intervening” in an election. It is interfering in it. Enough of these normalising euphemisms.

Remember a year ago when the bbc could not get enough of reporting on DOGE, on both sides of the pond? The fact that the costs outweighed what was saved & in the states it just resulted in massive cuts to e.g. cancer & Alzheimer’s research has not been reported at all #r4today

Kanye may be news, but really it's not at the same level as a serving Vice-President of the United States turning up in a European country to interfere in its election. #r4today

The opportunity for some grandstanding from the appalling Webb can't be passed up by him. #r4today

Utter bullshit news story there on behalf of Reform. #r4today

Because Vance is a living node in a Russia-funded propaganda machine; everyone should please notice that there is nothing American about having to fly to a foreign country to try to influence its election so that your own career can continue as planned.

“It’s difficult to cover him in a way that conveys how unhinged he is. Journalists are trained to be like, ‘OK, what did he say that was newsworthy?’ So you convey that to your audience. But in reality, when you actually watch, you see he's full of hatred, lying constantly, and very incoherent.”

Any interest I have in the moon mission fades the moment I hear Trump‘s voice celebrating it. It’s the ultimate irony that the craft is named Integrity.

Tump says Putin explained NATO to him. Wow. That explains a lot

Matt Goodwin, ex-academic & failed Reform candidate in Gorton & Denton, is in the pay of Viktor Orbán's authoritarian regime in Hungary. Goodwin for all his rhetoric about 'national sovereignty' and 'taking back control' is in the pay of a foreign government.

3/ e) The US's old alliances with #Europe are now destroyed. Just when Russia was about to collapse economically, Trump saved them. Now the Trump regime is assisting the pro-Russian regime in Hungary, which is actively cooperating with Russia. All of Europe now considers the US an enemy.

Wait one damn minute. Steve Hilton has an endorsement from Charlie Kirk on his TikTok page. But the “endorsement” is an AI video… posted by Hilton after Charlie Kirk died. We don’t need a fact check for this one. This is just weird AF!

Trump: "NATO is a paper tiger. Putin is not afraid of NATO. Putin's afraid of us. Very afraid of us. And he's explained it to me a lot of times."

Presidents are usually asked to speak in ways that Don’t make others in the global community feel less sympathetic to us if terror attacks happen

From Roger Scruton cafes to paying Matt Goodwin $10k a month, Viktor Orban has built a network of populist right think tanks, journalists and activists Today Democracy for Sale delves into Orban’s allies on the British right Well worth a read democracyforsale.substack.com/p/orbans-brits

🚨 Exclusive 🚨 Fifa's new prediction markets partner has no working product, is unlicensed everywhere except Gibraltar and its CEO paid a six-figure sum to Indian regulators last year to settle allegations of serious insider trading. josimarfootball.com/2026/04/06/i...

President Barabbas speaks:

Hey media-- Pam Bondi is not a victim -- she willingly carried out Trump's political agenda to prosecute his political enemies and undermine free and fair elections. Todd Blache is not shouldering a "burden" or "walking a tightrope." He is a willing accomplice. Language matters.

How the BBC and Daily Mail Spread Reform's ‘Family Voting’ Lies substack.com/home/post/p-...

Seems like a falsehood from Jenrick, according to the article which he only shows the headline of - "orange marmalade" could be used

The economic costs of #Brexit: - loss of 6-8% GDP - business investment 18% lower than in comparable economies - employment & productivity 4% lower - ~1 in 10 CFOs spent 6+ hrs/week dealing with Brexit fallout – approx £250m DAILY in lost tax revenue

This sort of facile populism is really damaging to trust in politics. Most British MPs are highly attuned to the cost of living crisis and challenges faced by their constituents.

There’s been a lot written about the Clapham chaos this week. It’s probably one of the biggest global news stories about London this year. There’s a lot of emotion and speculation. So we tried to establish the facts and understand what *actually* happened. www.londoncentric.media/p/clapham-ch...

American Protestantism is really something else. The Pope is like “God doesn’t want us to invoke his name when we kill people” and Franklin Graham is like “God loves it when our powerful leaders hulk smash the evildoers you woke fool.”

"Under Bondi, in the first six months of Trump’s administration, DOJ quietly closed more than 23,000 criminal cases, abandoning hundreds of investigations into terrorism, white-collar crime, fraud, and drugs..." www.propublica.org/article/trum...

Deeply depressing. Just lazy soundbites and bad economics. Populism without racism is infinitely preferable to the combination. But Greens badly need something that actually resembles a coherent economic strategy. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Vance will hit the campaign trail in Budapest next week — he’s going to Hungary to campaign for Viktor Orban

Apparently the M&S guy (Adam Hawkesbee) is married to Claire Coutinho and was involved with Onward the right wing think tank now run by Sir Simon Clarke . Interesting that #R4today didn’t mention this (or maybe didn’t know?) . I do however agree that the Police need to do a lot more on this

ORACLE'S LARRY ELLISON: “Citizens will be on their best behavior” with AI surveillance systems "We're constantly recording and reporting everything that's going on." Welcome to the dystopian AI surveillance state. @NicHulscher

M&S is a national retail organisation but it singles out the Mayor of London to take action? #r4today

*taps the sign*

I.e. this is as much Theresa May, George Osborne and David Cameron's fault as anyone else's, #r4today

I think this oil industry guy might be leaning towards "Team Kemi", #r4today

Kim Leadbeater is not calling for a fundamental societal change, Simon Jack. She's warning of a societal change which seems to be underway. Most of us are not unpleasant to shop or hospital staff, and find threats of violence to MPs and others alien and horrifying. #R4Today

may this define her for the rest of her life. she was willing to stoop this low and still got fired. girl, bye.

Pam Bondi and Donald Trump may think her firing gets her out of testifying to the Oversight Committee. They are wrong - and we look forward to hearing from her under oath.

As Iranian drones target the UAE, Bellingcat reveals a number of instances where authorities downplayed damage and mischaracterised interceptions. Meanwhile the UAE’s attorney general warned that publication of images or videos of strikes is illegal. www.bellingcat.com/news/2026/04...

WHITE HOUSE STATEMENT: "Pam Bondi regrets that she must leave her position as US Attorney General for her new, very urgent duties as a fill-in receptionist at The Shield of the Americas, where she will help very important Kristi Noem complete many complex, urgent jigsaw puzzles."