A deeply concerning analysis by @richardjmurphy.bsky.social I'm not qualified to assess its merits, but it sounds as if we should at least be highly alert to the possibilities he raises. www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2026/05...

In the GOP’s defense, they don’t seem to have anyone who isn’t in the Epstein files.

Just...I need everyone to realize how far we have fallen. This is, like, the sixth thing Trump said in this presser that would have been career-ending for any politician of 20 years ago.

‘If Jesus had been Trump’ - this week's Tim Bradford cartoon 👨‍🎨 View collection: buff.ly/SzTbVOZ

Nigel Farage insisting "I cannot be bought," after being exposed for secretly trousering £5 million from a crypto billionaire, buying a house with the money, and then immediately launching a lobbying campaign for the crypto industry, is quite something

Voluntary.

It is astonishing* that Angela Rayner's tax affairs - in which the Standards Commissioner found her to have acted "in good faith", in an attempt to protect her disabled son - is STILL a bigger story than Farage trousering £5 million in secret or Tice's taxes. *It's not astonishing, but should be.

Farage doesn't think the usual rules apply to him. He thinks he's a special case and that the world needs to stand around clapping as some Thai dwelling crypto billionaire hands him £5 million for making Brexit happen. This is NOT normal www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Do you understand why Nigel is so anti Net Zero? He gets paid to be. He puts foreign oil interests over the UK’s stability of being energy self-sufficient. www.desmog.com/2026/04/30/r...

crucial context: Peter Mandelson was sacked from the first New Labour government for having a £373,000 *loan* (not a gift) from a Labour colleague (Geoffrey Robinson) to buy a house

Today in "which lying liar is lying to me?"

Sorry for the plug but I feel obliged to reshare this. Farage told a podcast before running for election: “There’s no money in politics, there’s no money if you’re straight [i.e. not corrupt]." Around the time he got £5 million from a crypto billionaire before going on to back crypto deregulation.

When Democracy for Sale started publishing stories about how Labour Together under then minister Josh Simons hired a lobby firm to investigate journalists I *really* couldn’t have foreseen this…

Does that include the £5mn?

The fact that Keir Starmer has drafted Morgan McSweeney back in to save him has to be funniest part of all of this. Truly committed to never learning a single lesson you have to give it to him

A woman demonstrating her exceptional intelligence in contrast to a wealthy but arrogant individual.

Elon Musk is not elected, not nominated, not confirmed. He does not represent anyone. Only himself and his vast fortune. His presence at an official visit by a president is a small-d democratic abomination, but also accepted with a shrug.

Exactly right. Trump is a corrosive force. He didn’t merely damage policy — he normalized dishonesty, cruelty, and shamelessness at the highest level. The most lasting harm is what he’s done to our standards for leadership, as our children grow up watching this become “normal.”

Any sane person would describe a party getting more votes than all the opposition unionist parties *put together* as a resounding majority. But when it's a progressive pro-independence SNP majority then the rightwing billionaire owned press is all "yeah but uh no but uh yeah but". 🙄

Same day, different issue, same story. We keep seeing this pattern of cowardice from a government that promised change, but delivers the same old corporate power. It appears to govern on behalf of the rich and powerful, which means against the public interest. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

This illustrates everything wrong with Starmer's government: caving in the face of corporate power, putting oligarchs ahead of children's wellbeing, dithering, breaking promises, leaving us unprotected. Yet commentators claim to be mystified by his unpopularity. 🧵 www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

People, we deserve better than this shite. Even if you are not supportive of Zack Polanski and his party, this has revealed two things. The poor quality of journalism in this country, that is in urgent need of reform and how the establishment want the status quo to remain unchanged

Health minister Zubir Ahmed is latest Streeting ally to resign, saying Starmer's position is 'wholly untenable'. Part of the right-wing coup to ensure that Mandelson protege becomes PM without proper contest. Streeting is tainted, will push labour even more to the right. Must change policies.

Nigel Farage faces questions over failure to declare use of donor’s helicopter. What will he blame this time? He didn't declare £5m gift from Thailand-based billionaire. His participation in in the House of Commons is low. May be he has memory lapses.

BREAKING: Starmer can win back Wales! Note for editors: current Labour Westminster polling in Wales = 8%

1/14 Trump’s latest Truth Social post on Iran is revealing not because it exaggerates success, but because it reveals how he appears to define military victory itself. I know it is Trump - and is probably nonsense - but it does deserve analysis. #Iran #Geopolitics #MilitaryStrategy

This letter is really something, my god.

I know there’s a lot going on with the Labour Party, but it is all in the bounds of democratic politics. This however, paid collusion between the leaders of two political parties in the run up to election, if true, is a scandal of staggering propositions

BREAKING: The Scottish Greens have demanded that the head of the Electoral Commission resign after it refused to investigate the far-right "party" Independent Green Voice

Funny old world. Press complaints org says it’s OK to call the Genocide in Gaza - a Genocide. www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/05...

This guy nails it. 🎯

Good thread 👇🏻

Spot on👇🏻 And so far none of our esteemed political journalists have seen fit to ask anything about actual policy. Continued government by vibes and sound bites. 🤦🏼‍♂️

It’s so odd that Chris Mason & his colleagues are not inducing a ‘crunch moment’ for Farage. Why is he not obliged to explain how he became an MP pushing cryptocurrency after being given £5 million by a cryptocurrency billionaire? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

They have zero ideas. There's just nothing there.

This is just sinister 👇🏻🤔

Laura K this morning pushed Richard Tice on the Reform councillor who reportedly made racist comments about Nigerians but didn’t mention the other one who reportedly said the Holocaust was a ‘hoax’ when Tice countered that antisemitism was their priority.

I believe @scotnational.bsky.social are investigating.

Bloody hell.

This 1952 memo from the Pentagon UFO files is superb There is no point preparing for aliens ‘because no one of consequence is going to take this rubbish seriously unless it happens. At that point, our policy will be determined in the traditional manner of grand panic.’ 🤣 www.war.gov/medialink/uf...

2023: Keir Starmer, "If you don't like the changes that we've made, I say, the door is open and you can leave" 2026: After disastrous local election results, Keir Starmer doubles down ensuring even more people leave the Labour party

The living embodiment of “status quo” , after 2 years of catastrophically poor judgement, Tory cosplay and increasing authoritarian responses to anti-genocide protests now expects us to believe he is about to embark on radical change 👇🏻😂 Get in the bin 🚮

Thread 🤔👇🏻

Exactly

Don’t give credibility to any election commentary that doesn’t mention how our elections work. If they don’t explain, or even mention FPTP, they’re not giving you the whole picture and are just perpetuating a narrative that’s kept us thinking we can change things in a system designed not to let us.

Seriously tho

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