Not to point out the obvious, but Ann Widdecombe was not an MP, hadn't been an elected official in nearly 6 years, or a Reform spox in 3, and it's incredibly unclear why either side would be building policy around such a broad definition of politician.

Marco Rubio oversaw the closure of USAID with no input from Congress, and this is how they are using taxpayer money

Explain it to them, like a four-year-old.

Left: Michael Gove on BBC News, "Some of the PPE we ordered was deficient, that's because we were maintaining high standards" Right: Nurses wearing bin bags for PPE

Interesting. "The risk of interference in the UK’s democratic process has been added to the national risk register." Follows new measures announced last week to "safeguard our democracy, including tougher checks on company donations and a cap on overseas donations" (bill moved to September)

Careless of Nige not to mention this when he claimed he had to take a £5,000,000 bung to pay for security. #nigelfarage

This is very good, and extremely challenging for those of us who support it.

God I wish the media wouldn't treat Trump's verbal farts as serious policies deserving of detailed analysis.

Remember yesterday when Trump said we would charge 20% tolls in the Strait of Hormuz? Yeah, that’s already changed. Now he says gulf states are going to “invest” in the US instead. (That’s not going to happen either, btw.)

This isn't just administrative incompetence; it is a grotesque betrayal of taxpayers and frontline staff. Favouring political allies over robust planning cost billions.

Nigel Farage, "the state has consistently refused to provide me with any protection at all" The state: He was offered a package including a bodyguard, car and trained driver, but rejected it.

this is a very striking sign of the times in the Tory Party 2026

No John that’s not going to happen

Obviously the actual targets here are immigrant languages, but I find "it didn't occur to these English MPs that there are other indigenous languages apart from English and Welsh" and "they are deliberately targeting Irish, Gaelic and Cornish" to be equally believable explanations for this

Fundamentally, this is not a number that indicates Nigel Farage is likely to be Prime Minister.

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He claimed he had to pocket a secret £5m crypto gift because the state 'would never help' with security. Now we find out he actually turned down taxpayer-funded protection. The professional victim act is totally busted. He just wanted the unmonitored cash. 🛑📉👇

EXC: Nigel Farage declined offer of taxpayer-funded security inews.co.uk/news/politic...

Telling your followers to burn down hotels with asylum seekers in them is "hurty words". But Dan Hodges doing a few tweets is grounds to call the police.

Trump says the US military will serve as mercenaries by taking over the Strait of Hormuz and charging everyone a fee to transit equal to 20% of their cargo.

Hard to put into words how big of an own-goal it is for the United States to normalize shipping tolls at all, much less tolls at 20%. It's the kind of thing that appeals to someone who has only ever known how to run short-term scams.

This is beyond telling. Not only does Farage check whether all media are ready for him to lay the wreath. He also rubs his hands when he's done. Whoever released the full footage - thank you. It shows everyone who he really is.

You'd think the intelligence services having to raise the national terror threat level because of a surge in Nazi terrorism might have been a bigger story

Erling Haaland and the rest of the Norwegian men's team are paid the same as the women's team. In 2017, they took a voluntary pay cut to allow the women's pay to be increased. The move came from the players' union, not management.

Talk TV presenter Kevin O'Sullivan here, shortly after the police warn that media speculation about Ann Widdecombe's murder risks jeopardising their investigation

Channel 4 News: “Police have asked the public not to speculate. However, Nigel Farage has done just that, which is why we will not be showing his words.”

Farage always lies to save him in the short term, but they stack up. Nigel Farage's 'Assassination' Claims Rubbished By Mechanics Who Fixed His 'Sabotaged' Volvo

I’m old enough to remember when Farage was paid £40k to speak at a conference for Nomad Capitalist, a company that gets passports for (albeit wealthy) economic migrants, facilitating the global mobility he often campaigns against.

In case you had forgotten Apart from the financial scams Farage fires up Trump to attack the BBC

Nigel Farage has sent canvassers round Clacton giving out a link so constituents can ask him questions It would be a shame if that link got out to the general public wouldn't it? Anyway, the link - Reformparty.uk/clacton #VoteBinface (@countbinface.bsky.social)

Prompted by a line in The Bear's post, I'd like to see the media start using the phrase 'legitimate concerns' every time they talk about the Reform financial investigations, every time they talk to Farage and the rest. Throw their phrasing back at them.

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Pretty classy message by the Norwegian Embassy. #WorldCup

'7% said it was OK to burn down migrant businesses. 8% said it was justified to burn migrants out of their homes. 11%a greed with intimidating migrants out of an area.' In 1998, 28.88% voted against the Good Friday Agreement. That was 483,206 people who weren't fussed about carnage ending. [1/2]

That’s the top four ranked teams in the world through to the semifinals.

Who doesn’t rent their spare room back to themselves to offset tax, keeping it £1 less than the amount which would trigger a required to declaration according to Parliament's reporting standards. Working class hero.

Hi England, here’s the Christmas tree we’re sending you for Trafalgar Square this year.

The criminal who funded Nigel Farage before his election made undisclosed donations to Reform UK in an apparent breach of electoral law. www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/... Latest from me and Insight

Imagine if literally anyone from Labour had done this….

“The Guardian now understands the Met inquiry, which began in February 2025, is broader than [George and Fiona Cottrell] & is looking at other financial issues relating to Reform.” www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

This is actually the precise opposite of the Manchester argument. It was specifically predicated on getting to a position where it was no longer *reliant on fiscal transfers*, and to get there itself. It’s the antithesis of victimhood. If burnham wants that for other places, good

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Commander Magyar said Ukraine’s Unmanned Systems Forces struck 28 Russian shadow fleet vessels in the Sea of Azov overnight, recording 73 successful hits. The targets included 21 tankers, 4 tugboats, 2 cargo ships, and 1 special-purpose vessel. He said 76 vessels were hit over six days. #Ukraine

Mat Bell’s eye-catching photograph is one of the shortlisted entries for the Australian Geographic nature photographer of the year 2026 . An Adélie penguin to propel itself from the water to the safety of an iceberg. Photograph: Mat Bell/Australian Geographic

2/2 Now part 2 of the video showing overnight drones hits on Russian vessels in the Sea of Azov. The breakdown of the 28 hits is: 21 tankers, 4 tugs, 2 cargo vessels, and 1 special-purpose boat. It takes the total to 76 Russian ships hit in 6 days.

Setting the narrative by 'just asking questions' so that whatever comes from the police investigation, the integrity of it is doubted by his hardline supporters following his invitation to speculate. He has politicised murders in the past, this time he has done so after the murder of a colleague.

How low will Farage go. Police say this was an interrupted burglary by a 26 year old white British male. And the police probably thought they had to spell that out in the certain knowledge Farage would do what he’s just done…because it’s always about HIM.

When someone tells you who they are, believe them the first time.

Nigel Farage has sent an email to Reform UK supporters tonight saying “we don’t know whether there were any political motives” behind Ann Widdecombe’s murder. But police have already ruled that out, saying there was “no information” to suggest the murder was “politically motivated”.

Amendment watch... Lib Dem MP Lisa Smart has an amendment to the Representation of the People Bill which would ban politicians from taking payments from foreign state broadcasters. Richard Burgon's would exclude oil and gas companies from the list of permissible donors.