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Why the next 12 months will determine whether British politics steps back from the brink, or embraces a dark future under Nigel Farage and the far-right www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/my-six-pol...

Why the next 12 months will determine whether British politics steps back from the brink, or embraces a dark future under Nigel Farage and the far-right www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/my-six-pol...

Good interview in the paper, this. I think Sadiq is right: London 'needs' to be less successful than it is for a bunch of political arguments here in the UK to work, hence the fictions being invented about it:

Congressional investigation now.

Why the current attempts to pretend Kemi Badenoch's leadership of the Conservative Party has been anything other than an unmitigated disaster simply won't wash www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/kemi-baden...

Jeffrey Epstein & David Walliams leading all the bulletins but Kemi Badenoch knows that only men from ‘different cultures’ pose a threat to women.

How showbusiness 'journalism' really works

Jo Cox was murdered before the vote by a far-right terrorist & this is the language this complete disgrace chooses to use

Why the current attempts to pretend Kemi Badenoch's leadership of the Conservative Party has been anything other than an unmitigated disaster simply won't wash www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/kemi-baden...

"One influencer said that in a previous interview with a government minister they were asked to pre-submit questions for approval and warned against going off subject matter" www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

The increasing convergence of mainstream media organisations, clickbait and the far-right has been one of the worst parts of 2025. They know full well it wasn't just some "anti immigration tweets". He called for people to join him on the streets, burn down migrant hotels and "start the slaughter".

🔴A British academic and his wife have been told their cousin can't come to the UK for Christmas. Despite sending over 100 pages of evidence, the Home Office said that they could not prove "a genuine relationship". bylinetimes.com/2025/12/18/t...

A day after the government announces its investigation into foreign financial interference in UK politics...

The "political genius" of Morgan McSweeney in one chart

Suspect some female Tory MPs are quietly dying inside at this. When you’re so desperate to get in a bit of gratuitous foreigner-bashing that you find yourself arguing *against* preventative strategies that try to prevent sexual violence, ffs, what have you become?

"They've ruined Christmas" British academic and his Nigerian wife repeatedly stopped from hosting family members in the UK, including at their own wedding, due to visa restrictions brought in by Keir Starmer’s Government as part of its immigration crackdown bylinetimes.com/2025/12/18/t...

Cutting the number of lobby briefings in half is one thing. Saying they will simply cancel the briefings altogether on some days, in exchange for 'press conferences' where they choose which news organisations they can exclude questions from is quite another.

Because our politics is in such a terrible place, I think we downplay quite how awful Kemi Badenoch has been. In any other era the leader of the Conservatives saying 'only migrants commit sex crimes - mass deportations now' would have not just been career ending but would've sunk the whole party

Even by my low expectations for Kemi Badenoch ‘violence against women and girls is something done by immigrants and nobody else’ has shocked me.

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Green Party Deputy Leader @rachelmillward.bsky.social writes for Byline Times about what she learnt from visiting migrant women in Calais and why she belives it's time to move away from the politics of cruelty in 2026 bylinetimes.com/2025/12/18/i...

Another McSweeney profile talking about rescuing Lambeth from Militant and Ted Knight By the time McSweeney arrived in London, Militant had gone and Lambeth Council was led by Jim Dickson - a Blairite and now Labour MP for Dartford It's mad mythology www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/lab...

"Globalist agenda". This former Labour MP has been on one hell of a journey

This is ridiculous. There clearly has not been a 660% increase in terrorism in the UK over the past year. How much is it costing the criminal justice system to arrest and prosecute all these people for the crime of wearing a t-shirt or holding a placard? news.sky.com/story/terror...

Nigel Farage said that the 'Raise the Colours' campaign was a "grassroots movement driven by ordinary people”. Kemi Badenoch said they should be "welcomed" as a symbol of "unity" Now the campaign has pivoted to racially abusing migrants and intimidating charity workers on the beaches of France

Matthew Goodwin objects to prosecuting this: ‘I think it’s time for the British to gang together, hit the streets and start the slaughter. Violence and murder is the only way now. Start off burning every migrant hotel then head off to MPs’ houses and Parliament, we need to take over by FORCE.’

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🔴I've spent the last week speaking to aid workers and migrants in northern France who've been attacked by dogs and racially abused by the far-right. This is a new phenomenon - Raise the Colours have made five trips to Calais & Dunkirk in the last month - and they're becoming increasingly volatile.

Nigel Farage said that the 'Raise the Colours' campaign was a "grassroots movement driven by ordinary people”. Kemi Badenoch said they should be "welcomed" as a symbol of "unity" Now the campaign has pivoted to racially abusing migrants and intimidating charity workers on the beaches of France

The ‘Raise the Colours’ campaign, widely praised by politicians and commentators as a "grassroots" campaign for "unity" has now pivoted to harassing migrants and charity workers on the beaches of France. Activists were seen stabbing dinghies and releasing dogs to intimidate migrant and aid workers

Welcome to the UK where a right wing academic seeks to defend a man who wrote: 'Head for the hotels housing them and burn them to the ground.' By describing that incitement as "anti immigration"

How Nigel Farage is walking straight into the Government's trap on its inquiry into foreign financial interference bylinetimes.com/2025/12/17/k...

"A little festive advice to those in Reform" Keir Starmer tells Nigel Farage's MPs. "If mysterious men from the East appear bearing gifts, this time report it to the police"

🔴Keir Starmer Is Setting a Trap for Nigel Farage With Foreign Interference Inquiry As Reform opens the door to crypto funding, the Government is finally starting to take action against the threat of foreign political interference, reports @adambienkov.bsky.social bylinetimes.com/2025/12/17/k...

How Nigel Farage is walking straight into the Government's trap on its inquiry into foreign financial interference bylinetimes.com/2025/12/17/k...

"Fun & joy are very powerful political forces & not ones the left are terribly used to dealing with" The final print edition of Byline Times may be my favourite of the year. What is the 'politics of feeling' & why does it matter? Plus 'A Red Top Christmas Carol' with a Mr Murdoch & his 3 Spirits 👇

Theresa Villiers on Badenoch. Oddly I hope she's right but this is the latest in the Telegraph's 'Whisper it' series. The record of this series is not good.... (thread)

Interesting background on Paul Doyle, who drove his car into the Liverpool parade www.thetimes.com/uk/crime/art...

The Government launches an urgent review into 'foreign financial interference' in UK politics following Nathan Gill's conviction. I hear the Gill case and Reform's £9 million donation from a Thailand-based crypto investor have woken ministers up to the potential threat

Again these people aren't patriots. They hate our country and are allied to others who hate it too. Nothing will ever be achieved by seeking to appease them

Okay, when are we going to answer back? Push back? Fight back? Anything? Because our way of life and society-building institutions are under attack from outside. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

I'm been at a Richard Tice press conference at which he: • Refused to say whether he still believes Nigel Farage's school accusers made up their claims, calling the row "old news". • Refused twice to condemn a Reform candidate who said David Lammy should "go home" to the Caribbean.

The enemy within

A good piece which adds to my sense that the political cost of dramatically reducing immigration and even reaching net emigration, is likely to be far greater for the government in terms of the impact on the economy, taxation and public services than the alternative

I am a TV journalist so by definition, I watch A LOT OF TV. I cannot think of a single drama in which this - or anything like this - has happened. This geezer is just making shit up. And the increasingly laughably self-styled Newspaper of Record is publishing it.

I know the shameless hypocrisy is the whole point but seeing maybe one of the single most socially conservative MPs currently in the House of Commons welcome a pornstar into his party isn't not making me feel fucking mental

There were 2 Labour Cabinet Ministers last week on TalkTV Harry Cole slot which plans to invite back an overt racist who'd ban the Home Secretary, Lord Chancellor, Leader of the Opposition & Deputy Speaker from parliament & all blacks, Asians, Jews, Hindus, Muslims & Sikhs from the civil service!

Fraser Nelson is the latest Farage apologist to dismiss the racism allegations against him, saying that there's never been any evidence of him ever being racist as an adult. Just completely untrue. There is extensive undeniable evidence of it www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/nigel-fara...

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.