Yes, Stephen Yaxley Lennon (aka Tommy Robinson) is in the Epstein files. Here’s Steve Bannon, while running around the UK encouraging Johnson, Rees Mogg and Farage to topple Theresa May, bragging to Epstein of his description of the convicted thug as the ‘backbone of Britain’

It’s amazing to me that Musk had the sheer gall to tweet that the ‘bomb’ was that Trump is in the Epstein files knowing full well… that he was in there too. These people are astonishing. No shame. Just zero shame or self-awareness.

Andrew should testify before US Congress over links to Epstein, says Starmer

Much of the media will be very disappointed by this decision to deny Andy Burnham special dispensation to fight a by-election. Those parts of the media are bored and restless unless we’re changing PM every couple of years. But it looks nuts to the rest of the world.

NEW: Trump withdraws Mark Carney’s invitation to the Board of Peace.

Trump disinvites Canada from Gaza ‘Board of Peace’

"In the run up to the '24 election, all the people around Trump demanded full disclosure of the Epstein files." "Now they've seen what’s in the files, they're not so keen." The deadline to release the Epstein files passed a month ago - so where are they?

Potential headline: Incoherent, rambling American president backs down on military force on Greenland and pleads for talks, in moment of humiliation for the US

Thank goodness I'm not Angela Raynor, otherwise the press would have hounded me out of office.

This is truly awful prose

Farage has just said that he is happy to accept Tory failures! Good luck with that.

Reform voters will never vote Tory again, apart from Nadhim Zahawi, Nadine Dorries, Jonathan Gullis, Ben Bradley, Danny Kruger, Jake Berry, Marco Longhi, Aiden Burley, Anne Marie Morris, Lee Anderson and Andrea Jenkyns.

❤️‍🔥Tory sources confirm that Nadhim Zahawi made approaches to senior members of Kemi Badenoch's team about getting a peerage just weeks before defecting to Reform UK - but was turned down.

Nadim Zahawi arrived in the UK from Iraq as a child refugee. His family claimed asylum once they were here. Today he has joined Reform who will stop all in country asylum applications. Under his new party, his own family fleeing persecution would be immediately deported.

Amazingly, Zahawi only got round to deleting the below after the press conference announcing his defection to Reform.

We rightly were disgusted by the grooming gangs scandal - would we platform the mate of an Asian Grooming Gang Leader? Of course not. It’s almost like the victims of child sex abuse (often female) are cynically used until the story moves on. And somehow powerful men are always to be excused…

Disappointed w BBC for that Mandelson interview. A slap in the face to Epstein victims. He was part of the system of male power which enabled & dismissed abuse. The media went after Mandelson correctly in my view. Now the media is aiding his swift rehabilitation & PR. 1/2

Political journalists mourn the breakup of the Westminster bubble. Policies rather than gossip may have to be reported in future if they want to keep their jobs.

About time

Have you read my Bluesky history? Calling a person you don’t know dishonest seems a bit disrespectful to me.

I’m not often lost for words but…

This is fucking grim. Somebody invented a white guy, an "IT professional" named Edward Crabtree, who stopped the Bondi shooting and spread it all over the internet, which was picked up by AI agents and slop aggregation sites. The real hero is a fruit stand owner named Ahmed el Ahmed.

As we hear about yet another mass shooting in the US, it's worth remembering that I described the UK ban on handguns as "ludicrous" and said our gun laws were "repressive".

I know it's hard for a lot of Labour supporters to accept but it's true: silence and equivocation in the face of racism, failure to employ all legal means to defeat it, is de facto collusion. It just is. And it has to be condemned, not denied or excused.

Left: Netanyahu, "From the Jordan river to the Mediterranean sea, that will always remain in Israel's hands" Right: Keir Starmer says the chant from the river to the sea is an anti-semitic chant

This clip from 2019 of Matt Frei asking Farage about Arron Banks funding his lifestyle is wild considering recent events. He’s not only walking with convicted Russian asset, Nathan Gill, but at the end when again asked who’s paying for it all, he says: “Russians!” youtube.com/shorts/nRAkR...

I think that Strictly tonight wasn’t fair on certain contestants. People used to the stage were brilliant - but that’s their job.

'Him and his minions would be hanging outside Jewish prayers.' 'Banter doesn't exist if you're not friends with that person.' Stefan Benarroch explains his interactions with Nigel Farage at school, and what he has made of the Reform leader’s response to the allegations. @natashadevon.bsky.social

I’ll never forget the look of hatred Nigel Farage had for me at school, simply for existing

FIFA really is the most corrupt organisation in the world www.independent.co.uk/sport/footba...

FIFA really is the most corrupt organisation in the world www.independent.co.uk/sport/footba...

Delighted to reveal that I will be announcing the very first winner of the LBC* Peace Prize on Monday**. *(morning show) **I’ll probably forget

"He so exactly reminds me of the Farage that said those things back then." Peter Ettedgui says he has to switch off the TV when the Reform leader is on because of how much it reminds him of his schooldays.

Thank God for Bluesky: A little love letter to the people who would not compromise with Nazis iandunt.substack.com/p/thank-god-...

Farage has been dismissing evidence of Russian ties to the Salisbury Novichok attack since 2018 🧐

Not a single tech platform believes they are high risk for suicide or self-harm content, according to a bombshell Ofcom report.

Rather than apologising for his antisemitism, Farage demands the BBC apologise for the antisemitism of Alf Garnett, a fictional character created to satirise antisemitism, who was portrayed by a Jewish man.

The BBC have brought this on themselves. They have platformed him at every opportunity. Look forward to Chris Mason’s opinion on how the BBC should react following on from his personal views on how government figures have lied and mislead the public.

Anybody seen this reported in the media, considering the hysteria around small boat arrivals I'd expect this to be front page news. How is Labour expected to get its message across when our media wilfully refuses to report any positives.

If I was part of the media circus who called Rachel Reeves a liar after the budget and then moved onto calling her a liar about her success as a school girl chess player I'd be cringing with embarrassment when the OBR and the British Chess Championship corrected their lies.

Chickens coming home to roost BBC. He doesn’t need them now his press conferences are covered live by news channels. Non of his claims can be fact checked or corroborated live so, like Trump, he can say what he wants and get away with it.

Farage had to come out hiding early because Tice tried to defend him earlier & libelled the target of Farage’s vicious anti-semitism. Rarely have two people deserved each other more.

So tell me again how Nigel Farage, who just took the largest ever political donation, from a Tory mega-donor, and another donation from the Viscountess wife of the non-dom owner of the Daily Mail, is planning to "take on the establishment"

This little timeline, from Monday to Wednesday this week, tells us all we need to know about Chris Mason: simply contradict yourself without contrition when the truth has found you out. 3 days, 3 screenshots from BBC News….

Truly shocking that Rachel Reeves had the audacity to call herself the U14 girls chess champions when she won the U14 girls chess championship but some bloke thought she was talking about something else.

Kemi Badenoch asks why the head of the OBR had to resign over the Budget leak but not Rachel Reeves Starmer: "Last year they left us with a £22bn blackhole. This year, the OBR did a productivity review on their record in office, costing an extra £16bn" #PMQs

Mason found a way to circumvent the BBC rules on social media by voicing them in mainstream news programmes. Even more effective for influencing opinion?

This is how Chris Mason, like a child filled with wonder, described "the choreography and theatre that surrounds a Budget" in Feb 2024, when a male Tory Chancellor was in post. "Plans, or even just options, can be floated... Reaction to them can be tested. Opponents can be teased or wrongfooted." 👀

Watched BBC 6 o clock news. Just a completely unserious broadcast. Chris Mason, acting like a children's entertainer, giving a prolonged impenetrable editorial. Not a whiff of informative content about the Budget or what it means for the country. Just playschool blah blah bollocks.

Big change by Chris Mason on BBC News at 6. Instead of giving his personal views (News at 1) he is now speaking for the viewers. I pay his wages. HE DOES NOT SPEAK FIR ME!