my colleague Simon Shuster has done a deep dive into Ukraine's most succesful drone and missile designer, and it is quite a story www.theatlantic.com/national-sec...

🔴 For the past year @lucasamin.bsky.social and I have been investigating Palantir in the UK What we found was a company with unrivalled political access, selling a product many data experts in the NHS don’t use, and don’t rate Please read and share democracyforsale.substack.com/p/its-just-a...

Farage , in an incendiary attack on the media in general and Times in particular, says his daughter has played no part in his public life Here she is with him in public!! 👊

#Danegeld www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

The investigation into Nigel Farage's undeclared £5m is expected to conclude imminently, and rivals are preparing to "throw the kitchen sink" at it. But will he even run? And do the people of Clacton care? I visited on the hottest day of the year to find out observer.co.uk/news/politic...

Exclusive to all right-wing papers: It’s clear that Andy Burnham has been a complete failure as Prime Minister, although he hasn’t technically taken up the role yet. From the new Private Eye, out now.

It grieves me to share Julia but this is telling. Farage has had to get on stage. And it ain’t going well

It's looking increasingly implausible that Donald Trump wrote The Art of the Deal.

Simple: the people who support this do not recognize that a billion is way bigger than a million.

⚽️ CARTOON OF THE DAY 😕 (From @dennisgoris.bsky.social )

More than 1,300 deaths a month in England due to long A&E waits, figures suggest Senior medical staff call for solutions to tackle root causes of excess deaths amid tenfold increase in a decade www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

Why Peter Thiel Is Decamping to the End of the World - Argentina Don’t mean to cause any comparison with this, but didn’t many Nazis flee to Argentina after the fall of the Third Reich? Gift article below www.nytimes.com/2026/05/28/w...

When politicians say they can't hold corporations accountable, remember: they can. They just choose not to.

There is so much poetry in Stephen Colbert celebrating his finale on the exact stage where the Beatles changed culture in 1964. Singing "Hello Goodbye" surrounded by his family, his band, and his crew before Paul McCartney flipped the final power switch. This was the perfect full-circle goodbye!

‘Look! I think I can see where Nigel Farage is hiding.’

🎧 New PAGE 94 Podcast OUT NOW This week: BURNHAM WOULD, WESLEY SNIPES The team discuss the Labour leadership, play Helen’s new quiz ‘Faction or Fiction’, and Saba Salman joins for a post-pre-mortem on the local elections. YouTube: youtu.be/jaQ5mW4xp24

In just months, Zohran Mamdani has shown what politics looks like when leaders actually try governing for ordinary people instead of donors and cable news panels. Affordable housing, childcare, transit, workers’ dignity and immigrant protection are not “radical” ideas.

After the Coutts affair, Farage nearly doubled his shareholdings in GB News parent company 1. No other presenter has such a stake 2. No political leader in the UK (I know of) owns so many shares in a media company 3. No Ofcom regulated media company supports just one political party

Blatant corruption!

"We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both." –Justice Louis Brandeis Words spoken many years ago that are just as relevant today. We must continue the fight to get big money out of politics.

Robin Williams warned the US about Donald Trump and his links to Miss America Pageants and underage girls in 2012. Really should have listened.

Guilty until proven innocent: shoppers falsely identified by facial recognition system struggle to clear their names

Do the laws not apply to the rich and wealthy? Kleptocracy? Quid pro quo. Bribery. You name it. All of this is wrong and illegal. Shameful.

‘If Anyone Can Become an Englishman, What is an Englishman?’: Reform UK’s James Orr on the ‘Great Replacement’ open.substack.com/pub/bylineti...

NEW: Palantir’s revolving door. A new investigation by @thenerve.news has found Palantir has recruited more than 30 senior officials from UK govt, a strategy transparency experts say poses an ‘acute risk’ of corruption. 1/ Link ⬇️

Kind of a perfect metaphor for the media and the role they've played over the last ten years

Mail is running a poll on whether the UK should rejoin the EU. Takes seconds to vote and it's going hilariously well... www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...

Current status of the Strait of Hormuz dispute

Good luck to my friend Viktor Orban with the election in Hungary. I hope that one day I get the chance to emulate his good work of controlling the media, undermining the independence of courts, rigging the electoral system, politicising the civil service and surveilling political opponents.

"Eighty-five countries have sought a roadmap to phasing out fossil fuels. A conference this month offers hope they could unite," write Mark Hertsgaard and Kyle Pope of @coveringclimatenow.org

Can you imagine how many people approved it before publishing? Shameful.

In a blatant act of provocation yesterday, Sadiq Khan allowed Christians to perform the Passion of Jesus in Trafalgar Square - a disgraceful show of dominance by a religion from the middle east.

Do read the full document linked here. These ghouls are increasingly Trumpian in their contempt for the truth…

We tracked down the superyacht owned by the world’s sixth richest man. Larry Ellison won’t like what we did to it 🛥️🏴‍☠️

Funding for populist-right ‘media-political complex’ exceeded £170m in 5 years. Handful of billionaires, often resident abroad, funding the push to the right. Organisations such as GB News used to push billionaire interests through right-wing ideologues. All part of the billionaire takeover.

Ban corporate donations to UK political parties to protect elections, says thinktank. Must ban all political donations. Anything less is unenforceable. It is bribery by corporations and the super rich. They buy power. Any ceiling, say £10k, will favour the rich. How many people have £10k spare?

That’s funny, because Nate Swanson, who used to be the point guy on Iran at the NSC but got fired because of Laura Loomer, warned of this in an article written four days before the war started. It was called “Why Iran Will Escalate.”

The right doesn't seem very happy with one another lately.

‘Best case scenario’ here is that a man with realistic ambitions to be Prime Minister will record himself endorsing your support of base anti-semitism in return for £76.

Reform’s Richard Tice avoided nearly £600,000 in UK tax. Complex plan used offshore trust in Jersey, three shell companies and a string of dormant businesses. His property company paid nothing in corporation tax on multimillion-pound profits for most of 2018 to 2021. archive.ph/c5EcY

Zelenskyy: "We received a request from the United States for specific support in protection against "shaheds" in the Middle East region. I gave instructions to provide the necessary means and ensure the presence of Ukrainian specialists who can guarantee the required security."

Beautiful from Private Eye on the massive toddler-tantrum that Matt Goodwin and Reform are having, because they got whooped in Gorton and Denton.

KFC, Nando's, Burger King and others ditch chicken welfare pledge. It is about profits. They prefer "franken-chickens" which mature quicker but have higher rates of premature death and muscle disease. What are people eating? Customers not told anything about chicken welfare.

So glad to see George Cottrell being named in parliament yesterday. He was Farage’s head of fundraising when he convicted of an offence related to money laundering & is still close to & funding Farage. Crypto is an urgent democratic threat to the UK

Pls read whole piece. Neither Mandelson or Mosley were asked about Mandelson’s role in fixing Starmer’s visit to Palantir & subsequent £240m deal. It finally made headlines on Weds when a q was asked in Parliament. But honestly, BBC also has qs to answer open.substack.com/pub/broligar...