Kinda weird that the party that controls the House, the Senate, and the White House claims there's rampant voter fraud.

It's an excellent piece. The answer to how the likes of Ridley thrive is very simple. He's an Eton educated Oxford graduate who is also a hereditary peer. He may be exceptionally stupid, but that is enough in this country to cover you in armour plating and propel you onwards in your career.

Finland's President Alexander Stubb with a confident explanation why countries can't narrowly be judged on GDP alone. Welfare system nations aren't just the happiest but also economically successful. [Spain is currently the EU's economic powerhouse.] In the end, what are countries for? People.

Okay, this is quite outstanding from Bedford Council.

Been reading up on Lowe. What a charmer. Here, he means rude football chants, doesn’t he?

NEW - I'm thrilled to announce I was asked to interview Robert Jenrick at a car boot sale for the New Yorker. open.substack.com/pub/mrhenrym...

Why didn't Farage just answer the question about Reform's education policy? Why did he seek to mock and ridicule the journalist asking a perfectly legitimate question and try to deligitimise the FT? Easy. That's who he is. An arrogant man who doesn't have any policies beyond pointing at the sea.

🚨 BREAKING: Nigel Farage has announced that Robert Jenrick will be Reform UK's Shadow Chancellor

This is also how every call to "slash red tape" or "deregulate" should be handled. Regulations can always work better or be streamlined, but 98% of the time their purpose is still valid and the right wing clowns bloviating about it are the last people on earth you'd trust to iterate implementation.

We're so ready to settle on Mars.

He’s talking b*llocks There is nothing in the Equalities Act holding back white working class boys They do face lots of challenges, but the Equalities Act isn’t one of them One thing is certain, those boys will be harmed by Reforms policy platform

A self made millionaire whose parents had nearly nothing, but could afford the £25k fees for Hampton School??? It’s just farcical for a bunch of upper class millionaires to pretend they want to do away with legislation that protects us all, in an attempt to promote white working class boys 🤷‍♂️

"We're not like other parties, and I won't tolerate disloyalty," says Farage, as he introduces a cabinet that is 50% disloyal people from another party. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Wow.

No need to listen to a billionaire who moved to Monaco to save paying £4bn in tax. Caricature by @bjennings90.bsky.social.

Great post. I missed that Elon cited the Irish as part of our heritage. For decades, nativists insisted that the Irish were papist thugs who were ruining America. That idea is so thoroughly buried that in 30 days, people with ancestry from all over will be wearing shirts saying “kiss me, I’m Irish.”

Wild to see wealthy Reform politician "explaining" to poor people they don't understand their own experience. Let's make sure every single person in Gorton & Denton (and the country!) knows exactly that Reform is bankrolled by dodgy donors. Mask is off. www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/exclus...

Get your crack cocaine and heroin! Crack cocaine! And heroin!

We are at an airport restaurant. A robot just drove up to us with our food, said, "Hi! Here I am!" and then drove away with our food.

Farage has said he wants to throw the NHS to corporate vultures. The UK won’t get that back. How could they be so reckless 🤯

Very interesting read. Also I have just purchased the Paul Holden book The Fraud. Thank you @bylinetimes.bsky.social

📌 ICYMI — The End of Morgan McSweeney: Peter Oborne on Keir Starmer’s Departing Chief of Staff As McSweeney resigns, we re-publish Peter Oborne’s exclusive Byline Times…… https://bylinetimes.com/2026/02/08/the-end-of-morgan-mcsweeney-peter-oborne-on-keir-starmers-departing-chief-of-staff/

Sill amazing to me how many Americans who are seemingly literate in foreign policy issues do not appreciate the important points Sikorski is making here.

America, the only country to go from barbarism to decadence without civilization.

This has been the coolest part of the last few months, all of these people stopping Kat on the street to just shoot the shit about what’s working and what’s not because they know her from Instagram or the TV. It happens… a lot. They’re usually people who say they don’t vote but now they will.

The community note is the icing on the cake.

Zahawi should be embarrassed and ashamed to show his face in public, but, no, that lack of shamelessness means he has no idea how stupid he sounds

Again, in actual democracies, ministers resign all the time, under threat of a no confidence vote in the parliament. We have a system where legislative confirmation totally fails ex ante to screen out wildly unqualified people, & ex post accountability depends on a toothless extraordinary measure.

TPUSA halftime performer Lee Brice took a heroic stand against country music's trans cartel

Stop trusting things that bend and cower to Trump. But don't forget who they are.

If my followers have been inspired by the fierce resistance the Twin Cities has put up to ICE, you should make it a point to take a trip here (April through October 😬), enjoy the wonderful things MN has to offer and support our small businesses. It continues to be a really tough time for them.

Great idea!

A friend of ours was able to be a test subject for an mRNA vaccine for an aggressive form of breast cancer. Completely worked. It is one of the greatest miracles of science and like 40% of the country turned it into The Jab because they are mushheaded simpletons.

Hello. Former Index On Censorship staffer here. To be very clear, having your request to speak at a society of which you are not a member does not count, in any sense whatsoever, as censorship. nation.cymru/news/uproar-...

How far are we from "Everyone on this planet is alive because I allow it". Don't think it's very far.

This was excellent

🧵1 Following a petition signed by 114,659 people, today (16:30-18:50) Parliament held an excellent debate on Russian influence in UK politics. MPs I'll list in this thread know, offered details and remedies. Full debate starts 4 mins in: www.youtube.com/watch?v=BXlk... +The Citizens live notes ⏬

Turn up for a debate on serious matters like Russian involvement in British politics? Or Threaten a university with withholding funding for refusing to ‘debate’ racists? Reform UK always picking the important stuff.

This is pretty menacing. Sarah Pochin wrote to Bangor's university student run debating society requesting that she attend to "answer questions from students." When they said "no" Reform rolled all it's tanks onto the lawns and said they'll cut funding to the entire university if they win.

No-one seems to have noticed, but many of the core developments in the Mandelson/Epstein story these last few days have been broken on this website. @pickardje.bsky.social and @petergeoghegan.bsky.social are both posting each breaking development on BlueSky, not X.

"I moved to Dubai because I'm a proud British patriot", said nobody ever.

Thank you Bad Bunny for such an excellent illustration of a walkable neighborhood #SuperBowl

Macbeth: SHIT

I said DON'T panic

I know it’s been a while (sorry) and it’s not even great light to show you, but I’ve just finished my first embroidery of 2026. 😊 I hope it was with the wait and that you enjoy!🪡🌿🦉✨ *Completely freehand stitched, no pattern, paints or sketch. #stitchedart #thesewingsongbird

Good Tsar Bad Boyars

Perfect