In addition to retaining the "prince" in his title, Prince Andrew remains (very aptly) a 'Vice' Admiral in the Royal Navy and also remains eighth in line to the throne. And there's nothing you plebs can do about it. But something something about tourists...

What absolutely brilliant bait from Jim.

When I see announcements like this, I have to ask - how many of the people out there who are so vehemently anti-migrant would actually pass English at an A-Level standard?

Jenrick says, Handsworth the area I went to school in isn’t integrated as he didn’t see a white face and the closest he has seen to a slum? So is he saying we should pay minorities much more for their low paid jobs and welcome them to The Cotswolds with their mosques and temples???

“Terrible things are happening outside. Poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes. Families are torn apart. Men, women, and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared.” Diary of Anne Frank January 13, 1943

I wouldn’t gently point it out, I’d get ‘Farage boats’ on the sides of buses, t shirts, drinks coasters, full page ads in the papers. Hammer that phrase until it becomes omnipresent.

This is the judgment on the PPE/Medpro claim. A cracking £122m win for the Government Legal Service And is wonderful to see the government bringing a claim in contract against a shoddy supplier. This does not happen often, and it should happen far more. www.judiciary.uk/wp-content/u...

Looks like Michelle Mone is going to have to sell that yacht (from Feb 23)

"We have a debt crisis so I've joined the party that was in power for 14 years and under whom debt massively grew." "Commentator of the Year"

I’ve heard it say that Nigel Farage has no less than seventeen nipples spread over his chest and back. I’m, of course, not saying it’s true, but we have no evidence saying otherwise. It could be true, we just don’t know. That’s how this works, right?

Nigel Farage says he has 'no idea' if Donald Trump is right about paracetamol being linked to autism as we thought the drug Thalidomide was safe? This is just awful. There has been no link to paracetamol and autism. But you notice this is about WOMEN and CONTROL. Trumps project 2025

"The vaccines cost $79 billion to develop & deliver..provided health & economic benefits globally worth between $5 trillion & $38 trillion in the 1st year based on avoided infections, hospitalisations & deaths. That is a ROI of between $60 & $475 per $ invested" www.newscientist.com/article/2496...

That’s a good line. More please.

#BBCNews - Farage faces questions over who funded £885,000 Clacton constituency home www.bbc.com/news/article...

Nigel Farage’s party is scrapping green initiatives in local authorities across the country after taking millions of pounds in donations from oil and gas interests bylinetimes.com/2025/09/11/r...

It's almost like young people are interested in institutions facing up to their history in a frank and nuanced way www.thetimes.com/uk/environme...

Farage would be irrelevant if the media had treated him like the do left wing politicians and that's all you need to know about why he is where he is.

You have to credit to Farage for setting the agenda says the press as it rushes to ask him what the agenda should be.

Last November Farage told Sky News: “I’ve just exchanged contracts on the house that I’ll be living there in – is that good enough?… *I’ve bought a house in Clacton* What more do you want me to do?” Oh, I dunno Nigel. Tell the truth? www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Rayner resigned. Your move Farage.

If people knew how little Stephen Colegrave and I pay ourselves to run a profitable newspaper and remunerate our journalists, they would see how squalid it is to paint us as some kind of offshore media oligarchs But of course, that is what most UK journalists are used to

“Farage has given two contradictory versions – one that he bought it and the other that his girlfriend owns it. If the second one is correct then he has ­engineered a massive saving on stamp duty, larger than the one that forced Angela Rayner to resign.” – @goodlawproject.org https://bit.ly/4m81Zzt

"Farage has given two contradictory versions of the purchase. One that he bought it and the other that his girlfriend owns it. If the second is correct then he has ­engineered a massive saving on stamp duty, larger than the one that forced Angela Rayner to resign." www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news...

Can we convince you to continue your campaign against those who seek to get out of paying stamp duty, @thesun.co.uk? How about you, @telegraphnews.bsky.social? Surely, you're outraged about this, @dailymail.co.uk? Anyone?

It looks like Tamar of Georgia, Queen of Kings, has picked up her copy of Women Who Ruled the World: 5000 Years of Female Monarchy. Thanks Tamar, I hope you enjoy it (you’re in chapter 5!) #womenwhoruledtheworld @wearefootnote

Today’s the final day at London Centric for @rachel-rees.bsky.social. For some reason she’s decided to leave one of the nation’s leading news outlets to go work for a niche business publication called the “Financial Times”. She’s broken loads of stories and is a star who’s worth following.

EXCLUSIVE: Reform UK’s deputy leader Richard Tice co-owns a second home purchased for £4 million in 2013, Byline Times can reveal – despite attacking Angela Rayner for supposedly owning a “property mountain” bylinetimes.com/2025/09/05/r...

The whole story in three posts.

Rayner is absolute class. She's been a bit silly in organising her taxes, but that's not why they hate her. They hate her because she did not know her place.

Former London’s Burning actor John Alford, 53, has been found guilty at St Albans Crown Court of sexually assaulting girls aged 14 and 15 at a friend’s home. Not trans. Not brown. Not Muslim. Not foreign.

Nigel Farage, who uses a private company to deliberately reduce his tax bill on non-parliamentary income from 40% to 25%, says Angela Rayner mistakenly paying less tax "screams entitlement".

"Tonight, Matthew, I'm going to be The Drunk Fash."

Since this is apparently a resigning matter, I’ll just leave this here… www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

UK 30 year gilt yield, down from the breathlessly reported 5.75%, is now 5.51%. Not that you will hear this from all the journalist accounts who were gunning for Reeves all week. Please share.

*sound on* This is Andrea Jenkyns's ACTUAL singing entrance to the Reform UK conference. Utter crackpots. And anyone who thinks this kind of idiotic look-at-me amateurs are how this country will "rediscover its pride" needs to have a lie-down.

Got an interesting scoop coming on Richard Tice shortly @bylinetimes.bsky.social...

Hey Mail, Telegraph, Sun, and Express!

"Farage claimed last year to have “bought a house” in his constituency, but the property is actually owned in the name of his partner, meaning he legally avoided higher-rate stamp duty on the purchase of an additional home – given that he already owns other properties."

Oh no

Nigel Farage uses private company to pay less tax on GB News earnings www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

More deep insight from the hospital radio DJ who is somehow politics editor at the BBC.

On the same day in the Telegraph:

This is a huge story. Don't let him get away with it. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Nigel Farage uses private company to pay less tax on GB News earnings Exclusive: Reform leader’s use of television star-style arrangement is a practice criticised across the political spectrum www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

NEW: An Oxford report warns that misleading media coverage is shaping public debate on immigration and human rights. The study finds the ECHR is frequently misreported in deportation cases, fueling misconceptions that erode trust in the legal system. 🧵 [1/8]

there’s a tweet for every occasion

good to see everyone keeping a sense of perspective