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Where was Farage’s closest aide and Reform UK Welsh leader Nathan Gill heading when he was arrested for taking bribes from Putin’s pal Medvedchuk? To a Kremlin sponsored conference in Moscow, to talk about the role of crypto currencies in politics The warnings are there for us all to see

Important news even if it surprises nobody. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/11/u...

It's astonishing he can recall so much detail about the time he did his O levels, where he went, what he ate, etc, but can't recall a single thing about the 60 or so accusations of his racism and bullying around the same time.

Like clockwork.

I'm not very good at this social media thing. This evening I made what was by any measure, a frankly amazing chicken pie, with little heart-shaped pastry decorations on top. My family wolfed it down. I took exactly zero pictures of it.

As an Arsenal fan (who isn't getting cocky yet thanks to decades of bitter experience), I'm torn - could I be content being beaten into 2nd place - if Spurs got relegated?

It’s as if racists often have a whole raft of other objectionable personality traits too. 🤔

For goodness' sake... So stupid and reckless. If he wanted to placate Trump, he should have just done what FIFA did and given him some kind of shiny trinket with an illustrious-sounding title. This is insanity.

This is going to be a more interesting episode of 24hrs In Police Custody than usual...

This is my second to last will and testament, Only a rough draft, A handwritten estimate

Please be careful in London. I have spent 25 years there, but I have never heard a story as frightening as this one from today in which nothing at all happened.

NEWS! Russian bot dreams of life beyond repeatedly typing "Vote Reform"

Probably Chris Barrie, of Red Dwarf fame. The story goes that as a 6th-former, he used to call the teachers in the staffroom, doing an impression of the headmaster, instructing them to go pick up litter in the playground..

On a whim, I started watching Johnny Mnemonic last night. Hadn't seen it in >20 years, and loved the short story by William Gibson. Wow, but it's bad. Really, really bad. Keanu is awful - and his acting isn't even the worst on display. Managed 30 minutes of it. Embarrassed for everyone involved.

On a whim, I started watching Johnny Mnemonic last night. Hadn't seen it in >20 years, and loved the short story by William Gibson. Wow, but it's bad. Really, really bad. Keanu is awful - and his acting isn't even the worst on display. Managed 30 minutes of it. Embarrassed for everyone involved.

So the Refukkers received £200,000 from this obscure design firm at a rate of £25k/week last summer. A business whose website uses their accountant as a registered office and only appears to have a mobile number for contacting them. At a time when they seemed to owe HMRC £200,000. Seems 'odd' 🤔

Ok, let’s do this🙄 We’ll start with an explainer covering: 🕒What is a 15-minute city 🏫What on Earth is going on with Oxford 👽Where the conspiracy theories have come from And then we’ll look at the Telegraph article 🧵 1/25

Amazing new tool on offshore property ownership from Dan Neidle and co. Found a few interesting results near me... taxpolicy.org.uk/2026/01/29/w...

REFORM - leading in the polls - charges prospective candidates £125 to apply to run as an MP - before selecting a GB News host who is a colleague of the party leader and one of his MPs to run instead. You'd honestly think this was newsworthy. But apparently not.

Here's new Reform MP Suella Braverman, boasting about the time she took a trip to see a wall on "the land border between Italy and Turkey" which caused "crossings on that border to plummet"

Has anybody collected pro-Trump headlines from UK newspaper commentators in one place? First & second term. Especially ones attacking his critics. If not, bung me your favourites & I'll do it myself.

Whatever Farage says, remember this tweet

Turns out it's not the other person in the OP who communicates in a challenging fashion..

I remember Greg Palast writing about this back at the time. And Rob Newman's The History Of Oil show (2007) made the same point..

“When you hear a voice, you know there is life. That’s enough to make you risk your life to recover this soul.”

This is what Apartheid Israel's genocidal regime is 'suspending'. With the support of its allies like Australia, Canada, European Union, United Kingdom & United States (some of which will 'deplore' Israel's next move in the genocide, without taking any action to stop it): bsky.app/profile/msf....

I once drove past Toby Young, who was standing outside a building just north of Blackfriars Bridge. He was looking intently at his phone, so didn't see me doing the Nescafé shake in his direction..

I once saw Terry Venables sauntering amiably along a street in Mayfair. He looked very happy indeed.

I once poured the then Health Secretary Frank Dobson (maybe 1998?) an orange juice at a function at the Chelsea and Westminster hospital. I split a bit, but he was very nice about it

I mean, obviously this was going to happen - but actually seeing it is (a) mind-blowingly insulting to the victims, and (b) definitely not going to make it go away.

The comments here nicely encapsulate my thoughts about Alexander Johnson, his entitled, careless negligence (and freedom from consequences), and the terrible, deadly legacy of his time as PM

Wow @thetimes.com, that’s impressive An entire article about “freak heat” in the Dolomites causing mayhem amongst skiers without once mentioning climate change…🤷🏼‍♀️ 🧵 1/5

What hero. And as with Samir Zitouni (www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...), what a testament to the fortitude of humans who just happen to find themselves living in a country other than the one they were born in.

I just saw Chris Rea checking his tyre pressures.

Four hours after the hero's name was released BBC News still calling him 'member of the public' His name is Ahmed el Ahmed He's a Muslim How many Jewish lives did his heroism save?

I dunno. My wife took our two kids to see Elio in a 14-screen multiplex in Wimbledon (London) at the end of the summer. They were the only ones at the screening.

Being a British parent is so weird bc you're actually worried about paying the sky high rent/mortgage & getting GP appointments but the entire press keeps telling you you're worried there's a trans person or immigrant nearby & the vat on Eton means there'll only be two skiing holidays this year

Oh my. I don't have a subscription for the Times, so am happy for anyone that does to let me know if they've scrutinised any alleged youthful indiscretions by (for example) Farage, or Johnson, with the same laser-like focus. Unless this is a very clever satirical piece, in which case..

Here is a list of reasons why some of my hearings and trials this year have been delayed and kicked off into the long grass, stuck in our record court backlog. Serious allegations which will now be tried *years* after the event. 🧵👇

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

'We have historically high welfare spending.' No we don't. 'We have a historically high proportion of working-age people not actually working.' No we don't. 'The number of Britons emigrating is skyrocketing.' No it isn't.

I was no. 100,559. Keep it moving..

Over 100,000 signatures in a day. Let's get that to 1,000,000 by the end of next week. For a decade and likely much longer foreign and belligerent governments have inflicted lasting damage on our democracy and our society. Enough is enough. petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...

Come on Leeds! (Not a sentence I've ever uttered nor typed before, but these are not normal times)

Wow - this guy must be really, REALLY bad with money if an extra £208 per month will “ruin” his retirement. Let’s take a look at his situation based on what he told the @Telegraph Because this does NOT add up! No, this is not a “poor pensioner” scrabbling around for pennies… 🧵1/9

Just shaking my head sadly at how my local Tesco has effectively cancelled Christmas from the calendar. (Apart from the two long aisles jam-packed with festive produce. And the Christmas decorations hanging throughout the entire store)

Hopefully the angryheads will be happy to see both the John Lewis and the Waitrose Christmas ads populated almost exclusively with white actors. I gather that it's quite important to them, for some bizarre reason.

Reform UK Ltd gets 92% of its funding from climate change deniers and fossil fuel corporate interests, provoking negative reactions | Mark Cunliffe @markcunliffe.bsky.social @centralbylines.co.uk

Fun fact: Today is the 1 year anniversary of Farage's foreign national girlfriend Ferrari buying his house. With unexplained wealth. That should be investigated...