There will be lots of speculation about tax over the next 6 weeks, for better or worse. This chapter is a plea for the government to think about how to make the system work better, rather than just raise the taxes which pose fewest short-term political hurdles. Some highlights:

These 2 speeches, which, as Nick points out, on the same day, precede what Gill has pled guilty to by 4 years, are more damning for Farage as they also precede Brexit. All European secret services would have been alarmed by this & would/should have been investigating. 1/

I think we really should stop using antifa and just fully say anti-fascist and get them saying they are against anti fascism. Using antifa is giving them some distance and I genuinely think some of their base don’t even know that’s what it stands for.

After spending 43 years in prison for a crime he didn't commit, evidence hidden by the prosecution reversed his conviction. Rather than finally enjoying freedom, ICE abducted him for deportation Depraved. www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

Richard Tice - "Please welcome to the stage... Nathan Gill" So much for Tice's claim to have never met Nathan Gill.

So when this story broke this morning, there were no before pictures, so I went on Google Maps and saw the scale of the devastation. Now it's been added to the BBC article. This wasn't just any explosion. This was what every single employee was trained not to do, ever. But someone did it...

Israel Agrees To Go Back To Killing Palestinians On Less Frequent Basis

something quite brain-melting about the hard right's position apparently now being "we hate all Muslims and distrust Muslim states, aside from that one Muslim place that still has slavery because that sounds fun"

Most people seem to have missed who retweeted this picture of Farage in Gill’s office a few days after Gill began receiving his first bribes from Oleh Voloshyn (Oleg Voloshin). None other than…

The picture of Farage with the T shirt from Gill’s briber’s wife, taken the day Gill appears her Pro Russian TV channel, is taken in Gill’s office

Same day. Same plenary session. Same visit to Gill’s office. Same Farage, Same Gill, same wife of sanctioned pro Russian agent. Six days after the first bribery charge

This.

i hope the nobel committee have quietly told trump that he’s a shoo-in for the 2028 peace prize provided the ceasefire holds and he doesn’t invade any american cities and/or other countries and he stops murdering people in international waters

It's worth adding that Hamit Coskun is an asylum seeker - what Jenrick would call 'an illegal immigrant' - and one who has self-evidently 'got into trouble with the law in our country'. But to Jenrick, Coskun is clearly the right sort of 'illegal immigrant' in the right sort of trouble.

If a news organisation is making -200% margin after five years, it is not a commercial operation and should be assumed to have a different purpose.

Health Experts Recommend Standing Up At Desk, Leaving Office, Never Coming Back https://theonion.com/health-experts-recommend-standing-up-at-desk-leaving-o-1819577456/

If the National Governors Association chooses to remain silent, Illinois will have no choice but to withdraw from the organization. We should be standing as one against the idea that Donald Trump can call up the National Guard against our will.

"Puppet judge." Perfect.

This is quite bizarre. Would be all over the media in the UK, I'm sure.

This is a must-read

The brilliance of Britain is that it is a concept. Its whole point is it is a *liberal* place. We don't care what religion you are, what colour your skin is, what your backgorund is, what your beliefs are. We don't subject anyone to the choices of others. We invented liberalism. /2

Chris Mason: "Islamists!"

I was a skeptic about the import of the Epstein files. But 3 invasions of cities, one military buildup outside Venezuela, a government shutdown, and so many other things meant to distract have me convinced whatever’s in there is the biggest presidential scandal in U.S. history.

Judge Diane Goodstein crossed the Trump administration last month. Yesterday, her home burned, her husband was injured and it's being investigated for arson. www.postandcourier.com/news/crime/s...

OK, let's take this seriously. I had an odd half an hour and via Apple Books had a quick look at the three claims I knew most about - two re the post-Brexit bilateral preferential trade agreements replicated from the EU versions and one about cheaper bananas. All are wrong or wildly implausible. 1/n

Unhinged. Trump is not mentally fit.

Men in balaclavas set fire to a mosque in East Sussex last night. It's only appearing on the BBC's local coverage, rather than its main national headlines, despite coming just a week after the (also under-reported) firebombing of an asylum hotel in London last week www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

history teacher in 50 years: So in September, that’s when the president signed an executive order criminalizing anti-fascism and saying all resistance would be crushed student: oh so that’s when the whole country realized they were living under fascism teacher: haha what? oh no lol not at all. no.

On the anniversary of The Battle of Cable Street, let us remember that the Daily Mail was cheering on Fascists then and continues that proud tradition today.

Nigel Farage, Richard Tice, Dr David Bull, Paul Nuttall, still haven’t said a word about their MEP colleague from UKIP to Reform UK, the Reform UK Leader in Wales Nathan Gill. 8 charges of Russian bribery, all admitted. Reform UK are on the hook for this.

He's so scared for his kids' lives that he's signing copies of his little book at the Tory Party conference in a few days' time. Just in case you're intrigued as to who he is.

This really is quite amazing. Police brutality on full public display, instant dismissal and massive compensation in any law-abiding country. But this is not a law-abiding country. This is America.

Whenever I see headlines like this, I always immediately think the tone is, 'Yeah, what do they do, eh?'

It’s increasingly clear that convicted Russian influencer Nathan Gill was a senior member of Farage’s entourage. (Banks and Wigmore were also in and out of the Russian embassy sharing FBI files, RT talking points, and discussing gold and diamond privatisation deals)

£75m of assets frozen (FT)

Maybe there aren't more autistic people, but life has got more difficult for autistic people.

Ahhh there it is.

Was thinking exactly the same. Generals are not easily bought by politicians.

54 seat majority on the basis of less than a third of the vote. *chef's kiss* #prnow

On the morning of Keir Starmer's conference speech here's a new post on an odd psychopathology in British politics - our main parties don't like the people who vote for them - the dreaded Professional Managerial Class. And so they are acting out like a divorced dad seeking cooler voters. 1/n

This is like selling the belongings of dead concentration camp prisoners.

Pritzker: "People of Illinois, we need your help. Get our your cell phones, record and narrate what you see. Put it on social media. Peacefully ask for badge numbers and identification. Speak up for your neighbors. We need to let the world know that this is happening and that we won't stand for it."

I mean yes this is funny, but the fact that these unconstitutional stormtroopers are so directionless that they literally stand around waiting for random nonwhite delivery guys to bike past them is just pathetic. No mandate, no mission, no clue. Just racism.

This can't be shouted loud enough, Reform are guilty of working for a foreign state that sees the UK as an enemy. It's not just laughable, it's insulting that they pretend to be in any way patriotic or acting in this country's best interests.

Wanna bet?

So, asylum seekers are already issued with a biometric "ARC" card to demonstrate their status and stuff. Eg, it demonstrates their ineligibility to work. So how would a universal ID card help to cut illegal working? And why is the ARC card not a proof of identity? www.gov.uk/government/p...

What goes 'Ha ha *clunk*'..? Someone laughing at a joke in Saudi Arabia.