The Sun in 2014 calling Farage what he is. In some ways a saner time bsky.app/profile/sund...

Voter priorities from today’s General Election in Norway exit polls 🇳🇴.

Latest news commentary: Royal Navy Type 26 frigate secures record export success with Norway www.navylookout.com/royal-navy-t...

Robert Jenrick, the Tory Shadow Justice Secretary and former Home Office Minister, joining protesters outside an asylum hotel is one of the most disgusting acts by a frontline British politician in living memory.

Crime and the perception of crime: @jburnmurdoch.ft.com via @stephenkb.bsky.social www.ft.com/content/9623...

Breaking Bloomberg: The FBI redacted Trump's name in the Epstein files. "An FBI [Freedom of Information Act] team redacted Trump's name—and the names of other prominent public figures—from the documents, according to three people familiar with the matter." www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...

I don't understand why the administration keeps saying that other countries pay our tariffs. This is simply not true even in the most optimistic scenario (e.g., a US importer negotiates something with their foreign partner). If the policy is good, why lie about it?

Motherfucking wind farms…

"The image of Israel as a liberal democracy in a tough neighbourhood, surrounded as it is by genocidal proxies, has been obliterated into a million pieces." Matthew Syed tells Matt Chorley that Israel's PM Netanyahu has "played it badly from the start". #Newsnight

Labour says Farage’s plan to repeal Online Safety Act shows he is siding with ‘extreme pornographers’ over children – UK politics live

New post just out: "Britain isn't broken" We have our problems but the doomerism is getting out of hand. I look at the real picture on crime, migration, social cohesion and the economy - rather than the dsyoptian fantasies of the radical right. (£/free trial) open.substack.com/pub/samf/p/b...

Interesting again today how Trump said that because of the EU trade tariffs agreement that the USA could afford to pay for Gaza food aid. Of course it’s not the EU paying anything but the US consumer footing the bill.

Professionals working with children given ‘vital guidance’ to tackle threat of AI-generated child sexual abuse material www.iwf.org.uk/news-media/n...

Childline: Supporting children impacted by domestic abuse in the home they are living in www.sunderlandecho.com/news/opinion...

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🔴 From Lawnmower Mishaps to Expenses Scandals: 10 Fresh Embarrassments for Reform UK Nigel Farage’s newly-expanded party is already struggling with costly U-turns, police investigations and increasingly bizarre behaviour My latest for @bylinetimes.bsky.social bylinetimes.com/2025/06/23/f...

Just did a podcast with the Institute of Economic Affairs: tax cuts, tax rises and the wealth tax. buff.ly/HxbLZO5

Farage’s latest policy would let super-rich foreigners pay a one-off £250k fee and live here exempt from all tax on their foreign assets. Experts have said the policy would cost £34bn over five years. As I wrote recently, Farage is an economic car-crash waiting to happen…

Reform UK is proposing a "Britannia card" that would let wealthy foreigners pay a £250k fee to move to the UK, and live here exempt from all tax on their foreign assets What they don't say: it would cost the UK £34bn Report here, and thread below: buff.ly/gpe2Dpf

From Dan Neidle bsky.app/profile/dann...

Farage's non-dom tax break gives up over £30 billion in current tax revenue (£33.9 billion) to raise about £1.6 billion instead at £250k/head. It then gives away the £1.6 billion raised in tax cuts as if it was new revenue! (Could give away £1.6 billion from the current tax keep £32 billion)

Gibraltar CM personally fact-checking the bad actors.

Sound familiar? …”the PVV is still hardly a political party in the conventional sense. Exploiting a loophole in Dutch electoral law, Wilders chose not to allow any formal members into his party. As a result, neither PVV ministers nor parliamentarians are actual members of the party.”

Macron said this on the eve of the 3rd United Nations Ocean Conference which kicks off this Monday in Nice, and amid rising pressure for nations to turn decades of promises into real protection for the sea. #EuropeNews

Russia is at war with Britain and US is no longer a reliable ally, UK adviser says

TikTACO.

Public procurement lawyer here. Increases in defence spending really need prior fundamental reform of HMG purchasing. Else it will just be, like NHS PFI, a lucrative revenue stream for contractors and suppliers.

Everything you need to know about the British voting public

Does #NigelFarage stand for #workersrights? Improved #sickpay? Cutting #fuelduty? No he does not. He voted against these measures. Farage will not vote for working people - he will vote against them.

#ReformUK #Farage

🚨 NEW: Nigel Farage’s policies labelled ‘Trussonomics on steroids’ following major speech After Farage made several multi-billion pound pledges, @eddavey.libdems.org.uk said the address was further evidence Reform is not a “serious opposition” Full story 👇 www.politics.co.uk/news/2025/05...

The Telegraph has disappeared this from their website, possibly out of mortal shame. You know what to do... (Link is to archive copy. The internet never forgets.) archive.is/2025.05.25-1...

Rayner understands the Political realities of modern Britain, Reeves and Starmer clearly do not. The spending review will be the next test, if it’s more austerity then you might as well give Farage the keys to No10 now. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

This is why the Labour vote share has collapsed and the party is unpopular. Too busy dancing around an impossible manifesto commitment on tax and adhering to Treasury orthodoxy. Progressive policies will neuter Reform. www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-...

US to start European troop withdrawal discussions later this year, US NATO ambassador says reut.rs/44GL41L

Jeez. Just listen to Tory Mel Stride responding to a leaked recording obtained by Sky News of Chris Philp admitting UK couldn’t return asylum seekers to Europe post-Brexit, despite promises made at time “It seems to me what Chris Philp was stating was just the blindingly obvious”

What I struggle with on this platform (in echo chamber terms) is, that while the language today was probably wrong, there is no question that the majority of the UK population are concerned over the levels of net migration (especially recently)/1

this is very awkward for Kemi Badenoch

“Very awkward” is very “Yes prime minister.” There is something very loveable about British understatement (thanks @pickardje.bsky.social )

NEW Reform’s green energy assault in Lincolnshire ‘puts 12,200 jobs at risk’ Party intends to block projects despite net zero industries contributing nearly £1bn to local economy, analysis shows www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

This is exactly the right line: being green *is* being pro-growth and pro-jobs. People who are "anti net zero" are zealots threatening Britain's livelihoods and future prosperity.

This is exactly right on what the government is getting badly wrong on the politics and policy of immigration:

It is time the Labour government published the Defence Review. This is classic dithering amid other examples the Cabinet Office and Treasury have sat on due to dithering and inaction on recommendations already made. Whilst other countries have repsonded to Trump's disengagement /1

Smart as ever. I want Labour to use its majority to start delivering the change it promised, to make noise about the change it has started to deliver, & to stop being afraid. Left wing economic populism with social democracy please.

Canadian and Australian right wing leaders both lose their seats within weeks. Meanwhile UK Labour thinks going to the right is the way to win, even though the right reject them and the left are alienated by them. Read the f*ing room. More importantly, feel the threat from progressive voters.

This sums the whole situation up quite nicely.

You’re telling me that right wing voters that Labour was trying to appeal to voted for a right wing party anyway and left wing voters decided not to vote for Labour because they’re too right wing now? Who could have possibly predicted this.