As if we needed any further evidence that Farage is an unsavoury and deeply unpleasant person. www.theguardian.com/politics/ng-...

No one goes to extraordinary lengths to suppress information unless they have something serious to hide. Trump's determination to prevent the Epstein Files from seeing the light of day is utterly revealing on its own terms.

Trump wants anyone else other than US to make up a Gaza stabilisation force and to fund its redevelopment. He incurs none of the costs but monopolises the benefits. America First. Under Trump, a purely transactional nation with no moral compass. Others are wising up to his recurring game plan.

As Trump becomes more vulnerable because of increasing public exposure of his past associations, pushback against him can begin, both domestically and internationally. A scandalous personal history is starting to unravel.

So far, so good. BBC News - BBC apologises to Trump over Panorama edit but refuses to pay compensation www.bbc.com/news/article...

Trump simply has to be impeached before the end of his second term: for the well-being of the American people; for global stability; for the sake of a future habitable planet; and not least to secure justice for the victims of the Epstein circle.

It would be outrageous for UK taxpayers' money to further line the pockets of Trump. This US president is no better than a mobster. The BBC must not pay compensation under duress. It needs to stand up to Trump, fighting for its reputation and independence from political interference.

There is little doubt that senior figures on the Right of the political spectrum in the UK are using Trump to undermine vital British national interests - and with Farage little more than a messenger boy for Trump.

Badenoch and Farage (increasingly indistinguishable) view everything through the prism of their culture wars, including the latest traumas at the BBC. Yet, as is becoming apparent in the US, that agenda is already losing its traction with voters.

From Trump's White House to Reform-controlled English councils. The linking thread of the populist Right. Why, governing chaos.

Donald Trump provides an object lesson in what happens when the political executive governs on behalf of powerful interests rather than prioritising the well-being of a country's citizens.

The only difference left between Farage's Reform and Badenoch's Conservatives is fiscal. Whereas Reform would bankrupt the country, a revived Tory Government would pursue austerity on steroids.

Demolition of the White House's East Wing to create the biggest and best ballroom ever! What could be more reflective of the main priority of the Second Trump Presidency; why, self-aggrandisement, not the well-being of the American people.

Looks like the Trump-Putin Summit has bitten the dust. Trump fooled again by Putin's mindset and motivation. Putin has a delusional belief that Ukraine is an integral part of the Russian Empire, not a sovereign state, with continuance of the war also a pre-condition for his own political survival.

The very essence of the Epstein scandal: one law for the rich and powerful, another one for everyone else; a cancer that is at the heart of contemporary global politics, not least all the way up to the pinnacle of the governmental chain in Washington DC.

One minute Putin is destroying Russia by continuing a campaign in Ukraine at unsustainable cost. The next minute, unless Ukraine accepts peace on Putin's terms, Ukraine itself will be destroyed. Foreign policy Trump-style. Not just inconsistent, but incoherently self-contradictory - if not pathetic.

At some point, boredom has to set in with the Donald Trump Show, as the politics of attention-seeking narcissism and outrage lose their attraction - and traction.

Trump and Putin. Round and round in ever decreasing circles. Putin appealing to Trump's ego and greed every time there's a prospect of decisive support for Ukraine from Washington;Trump endlessly falling for Putin's gameplay.

It's been said many times before but needs repeating. Trump displays all the symptoms of narcissistic personality disorder (NPD) - from living in a fantasy world of his own heroic deeds to hyper-sensitivity over any form of criticism. Map his behavioural pattern. This description fits perfectly.

ReformUK tainted with bribes for Russian propaganda lines; a still unexplained house purchase: Farage raking in a fortune through lucrative sidelines to the day job; Reform-controlled local councils reneging on promises or descending into chaos. Should anyone remotely trust this lot of hustlers!!

Even in the midst of a Middle East peace process,Trump can't resist showing his contempt for the rule of law, whether domestic or international.

A US President who has to take all the credit for literally everything. Anyone who has occupied any organisational leadership position will know just how destructive (and implausible) such leadership styles can be.

"'Faragism' is neoliberalism at its most inhumane, more destructive even than monetarism, and vindictive far beyond austerity." Same applies to Trumpians. They are very close ideological bedfellows. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Entirely appropriate that the Nobel Peace Prize is awarded to a politician fighting authoritarianism and not one heading an increasingly authoritarian règime. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

Too many voters just don't pay attention until it's too late! It was obvious from a country mile away that Trump was planning an authoritarian presidency. Same with Brexit. Buyers' remorse there, too. Will be the same story of regret if somehow Farage squeezes into Downing Street in 2029. Sigh!!

The irony of these charges, instigated by a president (contrary to the rule of law) who is himself a pathological liar (or else has little contact with reality). www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Imitation may be the sincerest form of flattery. But when it involves sacrificing a distinctive identity, as in the case of Badenoch's Conservatives with Reform, it spells disaster. And Heseltine is absolutely right. It is all too reminiscent of sinister, 1930s-style, far right politics.

The absurd idea that Trump should be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize to keep him engaged with developments in the Middle East and to sustain a child-like sugar rush. For goodness sake!! Aren't US presidents meant to be grown-ups.

Should an EU Referendum be held today, Remain would comfortably win over Leave. Paradoxically, Farage leads in the polls with a percentage support roughy correlating with this much diminished support for Brexit. Simply testimony to the current fragmented state of UK politics.

The last remnants of what was the most successful historical force in British politics being systematically destroyed by Badenoch. The Conservative Party: RIP.

The Tory Party and Reform are essentially fighting for the same segment of the electorate. Remnants of the more centrist tendency in the Conservative Party are rapidly being extinguished and with that any prospect of rekindling a wider appeal. Badenoch proving to be a disastrous Opposition leader!

Let's not beat around the bush. The kind of society Starmer placed his stake in the ground for in his Conference Speech is a civilised opposite of the rhetoric and policy adopted by Reform. It is they who are providing cover for thuggery and violence in our society.

We're seeing exactly the descent into chaos in US federal government that is the hallmark of the populist Right.

The drip feed of Epstein Files will expose the shocking hypocrisy of appropriating family and Christian values for naked political manipulation by those in and around the Trump camp.

The net is closing in. BBC News - Elon Musk and Prince Andrew named in new Epstein files www.bbc.com/news/article...

Never let us forget the crucial distinction between nationalism and patriotism. The former is a destructive ideology; the latter celebrates all that is best in a country's values. The difference between hate and violence on the streets of London and Last Night of the Proms!

Every time Farage is challenged over his financial affairs or lack of due diligence in his constituency, he comes up with feeble excuses around privacy or security, implying he alone should be immune from proper public scrutiny and accountability. The real explanation is that he has much to hide!

There's no point shaming Farage in grounds of morality. Like Trump, a concept alien to his DNA. His Achilles Heel is shambolic policy. Every policy launch requires clarification; brings denial it means what it does; followed by screeching U-turns; attached to phoney costings.

Trump's speech to UN General Assembly. A stream of misinformation and delusional nonsense.

Is there anything coming out of Trump's catastrophic White House that his clone, Farage, is not willing to imitate?! Is he incapable of thinking independently about which public policies are appropriate to solve Britain's long-standing structural problems?! www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Published during Trump's first presidency, Timothy Snyder's primer, On Tyranny, now compulsory reading. Virtually every lesson from 20th C on rise of authoritarianism is being compromised during second Trump presidency. US citizens need to take heed in mid-terms, before point of no return reached.

Just a reminder, in view of recent events. It was Trump who poisoned public discourse in the United States, going all the way back to his 2015-16 presidential campaign. His back story will always haunt him - in every conceivable way.

Trump making utter fools of MAGA free speech evangelists, whether over suppression of the Epstein files or censorship of talk show hosts. They thought they were signing up to libertarianism, instead of which they're getting large dollops of authoritarianism.

There is an obvious response to those American media companies succumbing to Trump Administration blackmail for commercial gain. To cancel subscriptions and boycott their services. That way, they will suffer a net commercial cost, let alone the enormous damage inflicted on their reputations.

The Trump Presidency is the biggest threat to free speech in Western democracies. No more bullshit about limits on free speech in UK and Europe. It is the Washington Administration that is a direct and present threat to free speech in the meaningful sense of political dissent.

Musk incites far-right violence on the streets of Britain. A few days later, his erstwhile boss rolls into town to wallow in British traditions and to be comforted by the warm embrace of historic British institutions. Trumpworld!!

The continuing disastrous legacy of Thatcherism fuelling, as it has, growing inequality and concomitant political instability. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Haemorrhaging its ideological right-wing fringe, the Conservative Party has no political future under Badenoch's leadership as wannabe Reform. Its only hope is a radical change of strategy, re-occupying vacant space on the mainstream centre right of British politics.

Twisted by personal demons, Elon Musk is a white supremacist, moulded by South Africa's apartheid system, which collapsed under the weight of its own stupidity.

Far too little acknowledgement is given to the amount of time and energy Starmer has had to devote to trying to minimise the damage to European security arising from the destabilising impact of Trump's presidency. It has presented challenges unmatched since the 2nd World War.