Here's UKIP's former Scottish leader David Coburn, who has denied taking Russian bribes after being named in Whatsapp messages between Nathan Gill and a pawn of the Putin administration, being applauded by Gill for arguing against Ukraine's entry to the EU

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Thank GOD for Andrew Fisher!! FINALLY we get to hear about Spain on #r4today The fastest growing economy in Europe & outstripping the US as well & how? Wealth tax, rent controls & a positive integration-focused approach to immigration & asylum!! 🙌👏👏👏

Keep asking the important questions.

Nigel Farage has spent £1m taking out adverts in the papers to distract from the Nathan Gill Russian bribe scandal. We can't let him buy himself out of this. We need an investigation into Russian influence in our politics.

I see Farage now hates emigration as well as immigration. The trouble is, he’s a big part of why people are emigrating. Brexit has made the U.K. a less attractive place for everyone.

She’s just asking questions.

On budget, Brexit and UK politics paddling in the shallow end of a problem that goes way deeper than just tax rises. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Ukraine should accept no limits on its sovereignty that have not been accepted by other European countries. If it’s forced to do that, it will be accepting second class citizenship in Europe and the principle that Russia can treat it as a state with inferior rights

Irate catching up on @mrjamesob.bsky.social today & £2M house guy who resents Motability scheme & disabled leasing nice cars. For many it’s the only way to get to work/study: w/o it, no hope or income. What a miserable attitude to have: feels like open season to punch down on the poor & vulnerable.

Farage really on the ropes there.

Another day, another dagger thru the heart of irony (RIP) as the“politically-appointed” non-exec director of the BBC assures us of his total impartiality! Is this what passes for humour at Tory towers or does the man have zero self-awareness? Time to end ALL political appts to the BBC.

“I feel strongly — [at the BBC] you leave your politics at the door,” Gibb told the House of Commons culture, media and sport committee, describing himself as “hugely impartial” and a “passionate defender” of the publicly funded broadcaster. 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

Precisely. This interpretation of ‘balance’ would involve the broadcast of a program in which Harris blatantly & repeatedly lied about winning a Presidential election she had lost & then encouraged her supporters to ‘fight like hell’ against the upholders of the actual result.

"The guidance was offered as an attempt to dispel misinformation … In practice it has had the opposite effect, becoming a catalyst for crime reporting reminiscent of the 1970s and 1980s – reviving a focus on race and migration status." www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

It would be harder to find a less sympathetic case, given that her parents paid £20,000 for their house which is now worth £1.2m. Why is somebody moaning about the very existence of inheritance tax a news story?

Fascist Reform leader Richard Tice would get REALLY upset if you shared this widely on all forms of social media so lots of people can keep it and bring it out before the next election to show that he is as big a liar as Keir Starmer. So please don't, he would be *very* upset.

Mahmood would rather soothe the racists than do the “hard work of confronting the economic failure… and cowardice that has enabled the rise of the far right.” As if making life even worse for immigrants will make our country happier and better off. It won’t. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Absolutely not

Imagine if 2000 children had gone missing from boarding schools. How much outrage there would be. Imagine how quickly there would be demands for inquiries and actions. Instead because these are unaccompanied asylum seeking children they will either be ignored or blamed for being trafficked.

From the obvious reality of this two-bit bigot to the orchestrated attacks on the BBC to the pathological arrogance of Johnson & Cummings, it’s oddly ungratifying to see so much of ‘How They Broke Britain’ still resonating this month.

Only ‘ancient history’ in the sense that being a Russian asset is part of Farage/Reform’s DNA. The links, bribes and shared goals of weakening the UK/EU with Brexit. Driving our country into an angry, racist, impoverished dead end that they can then exploit for power. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Okay, fairly obvious, but, despite delusions of some, the UK is not a "main destination" for migration. It's actually a competitive market, jobs, students etc. Between Mahmood's, effectively xenophobic policies, and Reeve's budget targeting international students, the economy as a whole gets screwed

As many of you know, I do a lot of volunteer work with asylum seekers and refugees. One thing that’s going on is that Labour’s hostility towards migrants and the counterbattery from Tories and Reform is causing horrific fear and anxiety among vulnerable people who deserve our protection.

Naomi shattered our minds by holding a party last night and then halfway through announcing that they'd eloped and we were in fact attending a wedding reception. Immense.

1) Start the worst European war since 1945 and commit every imaginable war crime 2) Decide how you want to be rewarded for your aggression 3) Leak the list of your desiderata to the US press 4) Wait for the US president to enforce your wish list on your victim. Russian policy 2025

Sign, repost and share this petition calling for a public inquiry into Russian influence on UK politics & democracy. We know Russian influence played a role in Brexit, but the Tory government didn't allow a full investigation. It's time we had one! petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...

Zack Polanski, "Our country stands In solidarity with Ukrainians" "Brexit was a disaster for economy and security, instead, alternative to NATO with EU"

@zackpolanski.bsky.social on the importance of spending multipliers & borrowing to invest Zack is, without doubt, a great communicator. And on him talking about democracy & the bond markets I'm reminded of Eddie Dempsey at the Durham Miners Gala when he asked "who elected the bond market?"

The most amazing thing about Danny Kruger isn't that he holds these views. It's that he voluntarily expressed them to a journalist. Mr Dunning was not available for comment. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Who the f%*k is Chris Mason? Just watched his dreadful interview with Starmer. Who the hell does this weaselly third rate journalist think he is, presuming to grotesquely insult and trivialize the British PM? Starmer may have some challenges, but he shd not have to put up with this uninformed crap!

Even for me (who's been saying that pol editors, journalists could just as likely be corrupted by Putin) ...the TOTAL absence of Nathan Gill's Sentencing on The Sun, Mail, Express, Star, Telegraph AND Times is astonishing.

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Am I the only one who baulks when journalists suggest Zelenskyy’s position in peace negotiations is undermined by the corruption scandal ‘whirling around’ him - what barefaced hypocrisy - the current White House is full of corruption and grifters that knock Ukrainian corruption into a cocked hat!!

The right wing elite are ruthless in protecting their own and getting what they want. They wanted Johnson. (And what a disaster that was for us). Now they want Farage. (Would be an off the scale catastrophe for the country). Time we woke up to the betrayal. www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/the-confid...

Sunak always get left out of the Covid fallout. Eat Out to Help Out. Concocted Furlow & Covid loans but allowed people to defraud it easily and then chose not to get the money back. Prisons. Unfunded NI decrease and July election. His wife’s non dom status. Another loathsome Tory

Farage can now be easily boxed in to a corner where his only ‘defence’ becomes: “Yes I spouted Kremlin propaganda & Putin worship but, unlike Nathan Gill, I didn’t need bribes to do it.” It is, once again, a question of whether interviewers have the temerity to shut down his whining obfuscations.

“Brexit was a waste of money that, now more than ever, we simply cannot afford.” The political refusal to admit how badly they screwed us over with Brexit keeps us trapped in inevitable, snowballing failure. We can’t let them dodge this reality forever. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

"I think that the government are increasingly aping the likes of Reform." @joshbabarinde.bsky.social on the importance of approaching asylum policy without needlessly dividing our communities. #BBCQT

“The interview which stood out the most was with Zach Polanski, it was refreshing because he does this thing where he answers a question then stops and says next question” Trevor Phillips

So many laughable assumptions in this opening sentence that I honestly don't know where to start. 🤦 "What I struggle to understand, I say to Danny Kruger in his office at Reform UK HQ, is why a serious Conservative, with a glittering future like yours, would defect to a party led by Nigel Farage?

"You can agree or disagree with him, but Polanski does not pretend to be something he is not. He is unusually willing for a politician to give a straight answer to questions. Does he want to rejoin the EU? “Yes." observer.co.uk/news/nationa...

“The world of 2026 is entirely different from 2016, the old red lines no longer make sense and Brexit was a waste of money that, now more than ever, we simply cannot afford” @jonathanfreedland.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

open.substack.com/pub/heatherc... “Not only does this agreement sell out Ukraine and Europe for the benefit of Russia—which attacked Ukraine—it explicitly separates the U.S. from NATO, a long-time goal of Russia’s president Vladimir Putin.” This is a complete capitulation to Russia - it’s treachery

So, #r4today reports on the Covid inquiry and the “too little, too late” Tory govt, then says they’ll be talking to *Lord* Gove about it. Ugh. That just sums up so much that’s so very wrong with our politics and media. Rewarding, rather than punishing, those responsible for failing us all.

This is Zelenskyy's "if necessary for years, if necessary alone" moment. A chapter in history that will be remembered both for the shame of Washington's betrayal, and for the dignity, bravery, defiance and resolve of the Ukrainian people in the face of it all.

Farage et al really mustn't be allowed to walk away from this scandal, and its wider implications: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Word of the day is ‘quockerwodger’ (19th century): a puppet politician whose strings are pulled entirely by someone else.

Rachel Johnson defending her brother on @lbc.co.uk currently just blamed the "statest establishment" for the failures. "He's getting all the blame and none of the credit" and "he did his best." Really Rachel? Well his best was appalling. This wasn't a gold club tombola. It was a pandemic.