So I wonder if he paid tax on this, or like most of his other income streams, ran it though his company? Also makes me wonder, if the £5m was for services rendered in campaigning for Brexit, should that not also be liable to income tax???

"Pensioners have seen three times as much living standards growth as non-pensioners over the last two decades, a typical pensioner household now has the same level of income as the typical working-age household, and pensioners are less likely to be in poverty than the rest of the population."

Very thin skinned...

You know it's getting bad for Farage when even his cheerleaders are giving him grief

It's worth following @drvictoria.bsky.social thread on the Belfast riots.

The attacks in Edinburgh, in which an armed bare-chested white man terrorised Muslims, leaving five people injured, don't feature on a single newspaper front page this morning. Two tier journalism

Assuming dear Nige will be prioritising education in state schools and not reversing the VAT exemption on private schools then? www.telegraph.co.uk/money/tax/re...

This headline encapsulates the Trump presidency!

Some context...

Nick Ferrari suggests on LBC this morning that people should be concerned about the doubling of the ethnic minority population of Northern Ireland. Nothing to do with immigration, just too many black and brown folks is a legitimate problem apparently!!! youtu.be/_5S1cRvmZpc?...

"Corrigan's father, 51-year-old Peter Corrigan, of Vinter Terrace, Cambridge, was also sentenced to two years in prison after previously pleading guilty to assisting an offender on 8 September." Cold rage to follow??

However big a fool Kenyon is making of himself, he’s doing a great job of keeping the spotlight off his execrable boss, Farage

If you read one thing today, make it @stephenkb.bsky.social's admirably clear and rational analysis of the police's actions following Henry Nowak's murder, from the @financialtimes.com Inside Politics newsletter www.ft.com/content/aa94...

A reminder of what Nigel Farage said following the murder of Sarah Everard by a serving police officer.

I work in Medical research. Fun fact. Drugs are developed and tested on volunteers. For many reasons the volunteers are white. Drugs are literally developed based on efficacy with white people. So yeah. They are for white people.

Assuming that the care work will be taken up by resident British folk then?

Its a ase of bureaucratic detachment. Like flicking one end of a rope they have no idea the reprecussions at the other end and only see the small initial impact they workshopped or guessed, not the actual whipsaw at the other end of that impulsive wave.

Voters only worry about big policy areas (immigration, economy, defence, foreign policy etc) when the press tells them to. Most, left to their own devices are concerned with their local area, access to health services, jobs, housing etc.

A video is being shared widely online with false claims it depicts a UK "city council members meeting”. It actually shows an Indian Gujarati community event taking place in Blackburn.

@monkemma.bsky.social does it again. It's really worth following her full 🧵. Again highlights that there are no easy answers to complex social issues.

"If everybody always lies to you, the consequence is not that you believe the lies, but rather that nobody believes anything any longer." The Arendtian point is that constant lying by a propaganda machine does not lead to the lie being believed, but leads instead to cynicism. hac.bard.edu

I love the idea of booking a flight to New York and being diverted to Frankfort! They seem determined to wreck the US... www.reuters.com/legal/govern...

Broadcasters too reliant on vox pop interviews and failing to challenge politicians, says study

Yet again the local taxpayer will pick up the bill (between £300k to £1.2m) for someone who thinks this is all just a game.. share.google/gPNYnIShRc1k...

"She denied a charge of engaging in conduct in preparation of terrorist acts. However, Judge Mrs Justice Lambert said there remained a terrorist motivation to the attack." www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Not exactly a greyhound, but at least they got there in the end Standards watchdog launches probe into £5m Farage gift - BBC News share.google/97mtUTk4mpLk...

QAnon are eerily quiet now!

Reform UK's leader of Kent County Council, Linden Kemkaran, humiliates herself trying to find flaws in The Green LK, "How much have you taken off your long term debt in the last year?" Rachel Millward, "We're actually not in debt"

Worth remembering that Reform despises Academia, small businesses, and the public sector...the media never scrutinises this position!

Here's an idea; how about making public transport (outside of metropolitan areas) fit for purpose? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

This weak and flailing man cannot be a surprise to those who elected him OR those who abstained!

Isn't it time that politics came clean????

This is absolutely spot on from Emily Thornberry 👏

As the police find no evidence whatsoever of illegal family voting or voter coercion in the Gorton and Denton by-election, the BBC should ask themselves why, on the morning of the result, they gave so much airtime to these absurd and obviously racist claims from Nigel Farage

"the best way to make a small fortune, is to start with a big one!"

"You need to make part-time work more attractive and less frightening for young people on UC". Gavin Kelly spoke to High Resolution about the benefit reforms needed to address the NEETs crisis. Subscribe today ⤵️ buff.ly/bvnZ6OI

And the point of OFCOM is???????????

A nominee for a senior government post is proud to share his experience of physically abusing his daughter....says a lot about the US right now...

The business of the Patriarchy substack.com/home/post/p-...

"Rats and roaches live by competition under the laws of supply and demand; it is the privilege of human beings to live under the laws of justice and mercy." --Wendell Berry

I suppose economic growth news doesn't really sell any more.. Buried on the Beeb www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

'Too much immigration' says the immigrant! "Sir Jim - who is a resident of Monaco"

@buriedbybooks.bsky.social if you are a lover of pasties, you got to make a trip to Plymouth...the range of pasties will blow your mind. Also check out the Bedfordshire clanger, it's another take on the pasty en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bedford...

So Trump came up when I was debating with Andrea Jenkyns of Reform… And unbelievably she almost walked off the show.

I'm not averse to a graduate tax of sorts, but this rhetoric would have us thinking that we don't benefit from nurses and medics, teachers, financiers, engineers etc. And on the flip side, do we now start charging police recruits, firefighters, etc for their training costs?

I'm guessing the rise of AI decision making will only compound this issue. www.bbc.com/news/article...

Shooting someone inside their own home; this is not about immigration control, it's about terrorising a population...

Hello international World Cup ticket holders, Are you watching this. May want to check that your travel insurance covers hospital costs for being shot while in a Fascist dictatorship. @fifaclubworldcup.bsky.social