But we'll welcome former Tories Jonathan Gullis, Danny Kruger, Lee Anderson, Nadine Dorries, Ann Widdecombe, Lucy Allen, Jake Berry - the former chair of the Tories, for God's sake - Andrea Jenkyns, Maria Caufield, Lia Nici ... 20 of them so far. They should never be forgiven. Except those ones.

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." 👀

Trump begging Judge Cannon to bury Jack Smith’s final report “indefinitely” tells you everything. When a president wants evidence sealed forever, it’s not about justice it’s his own survival. He knows he’s guilty! #transparency #JackSmith #USDemocracy #Pinks

Pete Hegseth's nameplate during today's cabinet meeting featured an unfortunate error. (Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/AFP via Getty)

NEW: Trump just called JD Vance incompetent.

Taylor Swift (8 feet tall, limbs the length of anacondas) remains silent on the White House using her music. Meanwhile, Sabrina Carpenter (3 feet tall, fists too tiny to hold ladybugs) is charging headfirst at ICE, ready to pummel any rent-a-Nazi that dares to speak her name.

Lutnick demonstrates why he's called Nutlick: "The greatest cabinet ever for the greatest president ever. I can't be more proud of how you did it, sir. You created the greatest cabinet. It is a joy to be at this table."

“ i’m so surprised!!”……. said no one ever.

🚨Some personal news. I'm thrilled to announce that I've just filed my first copy for The New Yorker. A profile of Jonathan Gullis. "You get the sense that offstage, Jonathan Gullis struggles with being Jonathan Gullis." open.substack.com/pub/mrhenrym...

What a profoundly nasty person (also we seem to move ever closer to a reproduction of Orwell's description of Winston Smith's trip to the cinema, as the audience cheered images of people killed in the water "then there was a wonderful shot of a child’s arm going up up up right up into the air")

I want us to hang on to the fact that the people who were murdered were just civilians out in boats, most likely fishermen, who had never even heard the sketchy conclusions of American officials for which they were executed, much less had a chance to defend themselves.

Look how visibly excited Robert Jenrick is by his brilliance as a statesman; how high on his own supply. It is astonishing that this bitter, angry, talentless bingo-caller is considered a serious prospect in a major party. If he or Badenoch are the best they can do, what does it say about the rest?

“The president should be removed from office because he is plainly insane.”

The most dangerous moment in every authoritarian regime is when it realizes that its power has crested and is now falling. This is when they realize that if they are to achieve their maximalist ambitions, now they have to throw the dice — because no matter how bad the odds, their odds are best now.

In many countries, throwing the military under the bus and blaming them for stuff you made them do, often breeds the sort of events you read about on the front pages of papers like coups and revolutions and whatnot.

Am enjoying Owen desperately trying to give her an out (in what - one assumes - is the most flattering clip of the interview) and her happily blazing past it and saying no, actually, Pol Pot is our model here

Last week: In response to WaPo’s story on the Sept. 2 boat strikes, the Pentagon says “This entire narrative is completely false.” Today: The White House confirms that a 2nd strike happened and that “Secretary Hegseth authorized Admiral Bradley to conduct these kinetic strikes”

A summary: “You guys. Admiral Bradley is totally the bad guy, and you’re all stupid for asking questions. Also, those two men hanging onto a boat for their lives were an imminent threat to your grandmother, so we had to circle back and kill them. Shut up about it.” Karoline Leavit

Seriously. Take ten fkn minutes off to be a person.

Given these defections, the Reform Party should rename itself the Reconservative Party. Or Retories for short.

A reminder that London is far safer than many major cities, that crime is falling and that racists hate both these truths because they undermine their vicious little divisive narrative. Multiculturalism works. London works. And those who hate both things hate themselves most of all.

Compare the YouTube thumbnail with the actual scene in the video.

Jonathan Gullis defects to Reform saying his former party has "lost touch with the people it was meant to serve" He should know. When a Tory MP he took a five-figure donation from JCB then stayed silent when it axed hundreds of his constituents' jobs.

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.

Looks like Trump and Hegseth might be preparing to throw the military under the bus on the second strike. This is why you don’t execute illegal orders. Because you are responsible

Gen. Yakovleff, former NATO commander: Trump works for Putin. For him, Trump is a dream. He’s someone who does everything he wants for free

“Labour are total bastards. They’ve caused all the problems of the past 2000 years. Just paraphrasing UK media, including BBC Does anyone remember this kind of coverage of Tories, when, for 14 yrs, they were lying through their teeth, directing untold billions of public money to their friends etc?

If only UK media, including the BBC, had been 0.1% as critical of the Tories over their 14 years in power as it is over Labour, which has so far had only 1 year to clear up the mess it Inherited.

Brilliant piece on what our children will and won't thank us for in the era of AI. Naomi is SO GOOD on all of this: naomialderman.substack.com/p/preparing-...

Jonathan Gullis defects to Reform saying his former party has "lost touch with the people it was meant to serve". He should know. When he was in Government he took a five-figure donation from JCB, then stayed silent when it axed hundreds of his constituents' jobs just two weeks later

Oh wow, that's awkward. #Gullis

Think this is exactly right - political journalism that is completely abstracted from policy, which was not the norm before 2017, has become the default. Impossible to have a serious attempt to either shrink what the state does or widen the tax base (have to do at least one) on that basis.

Two more Conservative MP rejects hop over to Reform UK. Jonathan Gullis and Lia Nici. More and more, Reform UK looks simply as if the Tories ran off stage, then came back on two minutes lates, wearing a comedy moustache-and-glasses disguise. ~AA uk.news.yahoo.com/former-tory-...

I must have missed the wall-to-wall coverage of demands for an investigation into Nigel Farage's lies about being a racist Or about whether he knew Nathan Gill Or about who bought his house in Frinton

Mason declares that in his judgement we have been misled by Rachel Reeves. It feels unprecedented that the BBC has made a "call" on a story, and is something that was absent throughout the terms of notorious liars such as Johnson. There were certainly no "calls" about Brexit lies. #r4today

Tesla November car registrations drop 58% in France, 49% in Denmark, data shows reut.rs/3MxVGc4

COMING SOON: AI + Guy™

WTF is Jared Kushner doing at an official Ukrainian Peace Deal negotiation??? He’s not a member of any Cabinet. So any civilian nobody can just sit in on Government negotiations now? That can’t be legal (not that this regime cares about the law)?!

Very good piece on the quite fast rollout of "AI-powered" textbooks in South Korea. The government went from making the textbooks mandatory to supplementary because of complaints and now the textbook companies are suing because "the market suddenly disappear[ed]." restofworld.org/2025/south-k...

The Trump apologist checklist after Trump or his administration does something awful: 1. Fake news, it didn’t happen. 2. It might’ve happened, but it would be OK if it happened. 3. So it happened, so what. 4. Whatabout [insert names of various presidents here]

Alina Habba’s parents emigrated to the US from Iraq citing persecution.

Stunned. What WERE the chances?

youtu.be/PDBiLT3LASk?... we really, really need to make people watch this scene and maybe even be quizzed on it.

The GOP in Congress “Nothing to see here”; “I don’t know the details, but I trust the President”; “But, Hunter Biden”. Utterly uninterested in doing their job. Selling out their souls for greed and ambition. Ignoring the constitution and betraying their voters. Corrupt to the core. 🤮🤮🤮😡😡😡

Funny how it’s only the female reporters who have the backbone to ask pertinent questions of the felon-president, and are ready to be berated & insulted because of it. They’re not afraid to do their job!

“We’re pardoning drug kingpins yet committing war crimes supposedly to control drug flow.” Here’s why…take a listen!👇🏼 #itstheagenda #pinks

Peterborough City councillor Rylan Ray appeared in court charged with 26 sexual offences, including allegations involving children. Elected in 2022 as the Conservative councillor for Eye, Thorney and Newborough, Ray had been one of the youngest councillors. He previously worked in schools...

He really does.

This is the most alarming story I’ve read today. Giving up the fight before it’s started

Since we released this @johnsweeneyroar.bsky.social documentary two years ago, more information has come to light that Boris Johnson went to this meeting to discuss a 'backchannel' to Putin with Alexander Lebedev, who was working for the Kremlin in Crimea at the time youtu.be/QkZzN3XHEPY?...