With nitrogen-based fertiliser prices still around 70% above their 2024 average, the EU is considering stockpiling supplies and ramping up production, as conflict in the Middle East drives up pressure on farmers and threatens higher food prices across. www.ft.com/content/6414...

As British farmers look with envy at the terms of the EU's deal unveiled on Tuesday, a former minister admits that Britain’s flagship post-Brexit trade deal with Australia was a failure. www.politico.eu/article/ange...

In a blow to Farage’s Reform UK, a government review recommends political donations in cryptocurrency could be blocked and also recommends political funding from Britons living abroad be capped at about £300,000 a year… www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

11,000 Japanese citizens stormed their parliament demanding their PM stop following Trump into war. 82% of Japan opposes this. Protesters surrounded Japan's National Diet building today chanting: "Japan's FUTURE is not in Washington. Stop bootlicking Trump." This is epic really

Same old same old, Reform using third party to turn opaque crypto transactions into cash and hide donors, Electoral Commission confirm that they are limited in the information they can obtain from crypto providers that are based overseas. observer.co.uk/news/nationa...

Trump has no strategy, no plan, no understanding of the complexities of the conflict he has ignited, his gamble has failed and America's allies will pay for it. apple.news/AhXhSCfIrQRa...

Telegraph Journalist, “Mr President, are you disappointed with Keir Starmer?” President, who has no legal justification or legal authority to wage what he has described as a war, “Yeah” Telegraph “Exclusive: Trump – I’m ‘very disappointed’ in Starmer over Iran” See how it works?

Weird Reform’s post-match analysis of Gorton & Denton was that they lost due to an “Islamo-communist alliance in which hardline Muslim patriarchs supposedly forced wives to back a female atheist and a gay Jew.” That works on Twitter, not in the real world. www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-...

Iran’s peace was within reach, but, rather than allowing diplomacy to conclude, the US and Israel attacked Iran when, as revealed by Oman’s foreign minister, a principles agreement could have been signed within days. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

After 15 years hard work, and initial funding from the European Development Fund - when the UK had access to when it was part of the EU - the UK's first geothermal power plant has been turned on to meet the electricity needs of up to 10,000 homes. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Farage’s stupid stunts fit a familiar pattern. His allies in Germany’s AfD — courting disaffected working-class voters — are rallying at a notorious Nazi site and their leader fined for using the banned Nazi slogan “Everything for Germany.” Ring any bells? www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

On this sixth anniversary of Brexit, take a moment to reflect on how much better off Britain is — as explained here by Baron Hannan of Kingsclere, ennobled for his role in delivering what has been described as “the single stupidest thing any country has ever done”

Slovakia’s prime minister and Trump ally, Robert Fico, is worried about ‘psychological state’ of ‘dangerous’ president and has privately told European leaders that he fears the US president is ‘out of his mind’ after Mar-a-Lago visit. www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2...

Listening to head of MI6 Blaise Metreweli’s words makes you realise just how asleep at the wheel British politicians have been over Brexit, exploitable right-wing populists and all their ‘friends of’ groups…

Classy as ever, Trump launches attack on film director, Rob Reiner, who was found stabbed to death alongside his wife… news.sky.com/story/donald...

Russia - along with other states - are ‘exporting chaos’. Assassination plots, sabotage, cyber-attacks and the manipulation of information mean that “the frontline is everywhere” in this “age of uncertainty” the new head of MI6 will warn on Monday. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Critics warned the UK–US trade deal was built on loose terms and vague commitments. Now the cost of that ambiguity is emerging, with Washington telling London it is pausing a $40bn technology-related agreement in Trump’s latest shake down. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/13/b...

The Times - There are no serious economic papers arguing Brexit has benefited Britain. The ongoing cost for each of us is £3,000. But, as ministers hunt for growth, the evidence suggests restoring frictionless trade with the EU would deliver major gains. www.thetimes.com/comment/colu...

Dulwich College has said allegations that Nigel Farage made racist and antisemitic comments to fellow pupils at the school are "profoundly distressing" and "entirely at odds with the Dulwich College of today". news.sky.com/story/politi...

All the bastards were there at Jacob Rees-Mogg’s mad hatter’s tea party, IDS, Bill Cash, John Redwood and the Bruges lunatics celebrating 75 Brexit benefits including more expensive food and borrowing costs, lower GDP and a £90bn annual loss to the Treasury. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Should stablecoins be welcomed by people other than the issuers, criminals of various kinds and the US Treasury? NO. Last month, S&P downgraded Tether’s USDT to “weak”. This is not a trustworthy stablecoin, but it is the one Nigel Farage is promoting. www.ft.com/content/a5f4...

Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch, who supported Brexit in 2016, now admits Brexit was a “shock” that has damaged the UK, as 100 MPs voted for Britain to rejoin a customs union with the EU. www.ft.com/content/d358...

This country is in this economic mess because one man with a pint and half a fag sold the UK a myth that ‘sovereignty’ would make us richer. Instead we’ve ended up with lower growth, lower wages, weaker services and higher borrowing costs — the Farage tax. www.bearlypolitics.co.uk/p/the-farage...

Essex police assessing “alleged misreported expenditure by a political party” following a referral from the Met acting on documents submitted by a member of Farage’s campaign team.Tory & Labour candidates in Clacton say Reform’s campaign was a “juggernaut”. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

UK is under attack from Putin’s cyber army, warns Yvette Cooper

The clown show continues…“Reform UK councillor’s business has been handed a £40,000 fine after the company was found to have hired someone without the legal right to work in the UK.” www.ft.com/content/de36...

Richard Tice has been accused of discouraging racism victims from speaking out after he claimed allegations against Nigel Farage from his school days were “made-up twaddle”. www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...

BREAKING: Nigel Farage has been reported to police by a former member of his campaign team over claims of falsified election expenses. Given the serious nature of the allegations the Met’s specialist crime group will assess the documents that have been submitted.

More Reform sleaze… Farage under more pressure after Electoral Commission asked to investigate his links and promotion of cryptocurrency Tether after Reform declared a £9million donation from Thai based Tether investor, Cryptopher Harborne. www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...

CPS says Farage MEP’s Jonathan Bullock, Julia Reid and Steven Woolfe followed a script given to Russian asset Nathan Gill by handler Oleg Voloshyn. At least eight UKIP/Brexit Party MEPs now linked to Kremlin-tasked efforts coordinated through Reform’s Gill. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Nigel Farage won't apologise for his history of racism because "if he apologised, he would be turning to his own support base and saying, ‘You’re all guilty too,'" a Reform source tells the Times. So essentially he was a racist and he believes his supporters are racists too

Farage spotted me in the lower-school playground. He was about 17. He towered over me. “Where are you from?” he asked. Within seconds of offering my rather confused and sputtering answers, he had a clear response. “That’s the way back to Africa”. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

The number of former Dulwich College pupils accusing Nigel Farage of outrageous racist behaviour rises to TWENTY-EIGHT forcing the Reform leader to adopt increasingly desperate tactics to deflect attempts to get him to apologise to his victims. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Farage dragging his jackboots over sacking a Reform UK council leader who told a black British lawyer to “fuck off back to Nigeria” called Sadiq Khan a “narcissistic Pakistani” and said migrants were “colonising the UK”. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Donald Farage demands apology from the BBC over its reporting that he made racist comments at school as confirmed by twenty former schoolmates. news.sky.com/story/politi...

After previously donating £1.8m to the Tories and a further £1m to Boris Johnson, a Thai based crypto investor donates a record £9m to Reform UK whose leader actively promotes the stablecoin Tether whose key investor is the same Thai based donor to Reform. www.bbc.com/news/article...

Court filings allege close Farage ally George Cottrell fronted betting accounts for a betting syndicate and sought UK clients for offshore Tether.bet despite his lawyers previously insisting he had “no involvement” with Tether or crypto firms. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Farage wrong-footed amid fears that the UK government is weighing a ban on cryptocurrency donations to political parties as they fear hard-to-trace crypto donations could let foreign money seep into UK electoral events once again. www.politico.eu/article/uk-c...

UK’s top law officer says Nigel Farage had “clearly deeply hurt” many people with their descriptions of his behaviour and urges him to apologise to school contemporaries who claim the Reform UK leader racially abused them while at school. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Time to admit the truth, Brexit has been an unmitigated economic failure. Investment is worse off by between 12pc - 18pc, employment by between 3pc - 4pc and productivity by between 3pc - 4pc. There have been few more devastating assessments than this. www.telegraph.co.uk/business/202...

Rachel Reeves: “We are freezing Russian assets and let me be clear I don’t actually mean the honorable member for Clacton.”

The devastating truth Brexiters can’t face and why Michael Bloomberg called it the single stupidest thing any country has ever done- it’s costing the UK £90bn in lost tax revenue a year and the average Briton is now worse off by between £2,700 and £3,700. www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...

Just like Trump has his lunatic RFK jr, Reform has Danny Kruger : As a Christian I don’t judge people but “the Left are the enemy”, “parasite”, “malignant growth”, “gnostic”, a “false faith”, a “lethal threat”. And it went downhill from there… www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

UK pub and hotel group JD Wetherspoon – whose founder campaigned for the UK to leave the EU – is using Ireland as a springboard for its expansion into mainland Europe to avoid Brexit-­induced red tape, www.independent.ie/business/wet...

Why are UK asylum claims rising while falling in EU nations? Russia and other hostile states are manipulating population flows to destabilise Western democracies and we mustn’t forget the role of Brexit and Farage – the great admirer of Vladimir Putin. www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-...

Trump flattery will get you nowhere. Fawning after the US president is not only humiliating — it doesn’t work! on.ft.com/47Rqywz

According to the National Bureau for Economic Research, Brexit has had negative impact and was the catalyst for the UK’s economic downfall with GDP falling by 8%, investment down by 12% and employment down 4% from where they should all be since 2016. www.thelondoneconomic.com/politics/bre...

Labour instructs MPs to vote down a planning bill amendment restricting removal of protected animals such as dormice, badgers, hedgehogs & rare habitats such as wetlands and ancient woodlands from new rules allowing developers to sidestep environmental laws. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Trump, a historically litigious figure, has been involved in over 4,000 legal cases and filed over 2,000 lawsuits as a plaintiff who uses litigation as a key business and political strategy. His success rate is relatively low, around 25%. uk.news.yahoo.com/lawrence-o-d...

The Gill–Voloshyn saga exposes how Russia courted allies across British politics. Ex-Ukip MEPs in Farage’s Brussels bloc even spoke up for Moscow — and Gill, seen by colleagues as Farage’s right-hand man, was central to it all. www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...