So, Labour tears itself apart to try to stop Farage being our next PM just as he finally faces scrutiny in a monumental corruption scandal which could… and really should…end his political career. I’d go hard on that rather than each other right now guys. giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

⬇️ Economy down £240bn. ⬇️ Investment down 18%. ⬇️ 4000 fewer doctors in the NHS. ⬇️ £90bn less in tax revenue. 💰 All so he could pocket a few quid. He doesn't care about the working class, he is taking the country for a mug.

Absolutely right. Do not feed the monster. Do not fuel the machine. You will feel happier, freer, wiser and better for it.

Hold on let me get my Emergency Gosling Stairs out of my car 😂 ♥️ TT: potterhuahua - Vancouver, BC🇨🇦

Jack Dart is director of reformwatch.org and this is one of the best local election commentaries I've seen.

This is very good indeed

Not to excuse this, & it’s a while since I presented anything on the BBC, but I do recall noting an almost subconscious desire to disprove bogus allegations of bias by being particularly tough on Labour & Lib Dems (Ed Davey once complained!) This is another victory for right wing media gaslighting.

Very interesting

Richard Tice will be speaking to Laura Kuenssberg because I'm still afraid of scrutiny. I thought the best person to explain why there is nothing wrong with accepting a £5 million gift would be the man who repeatedly avoids paying tax.

When I opened Friday’s show by saying that all we were waiting for now was Kemi Badenoch to declare herself the real winner of the elections, I was actually and absolutely joking!

It’s so depressing the Reform now have over 1,000 councillors in England. The Brexit referendum was like a gateway drug for making racism publicly acceptable, wasn’t it?

Just met a Reform UK voting couple who had no idea that it opposed: Recent rise in the minimum wage End of the two-child benefit cap Expansion of free school meals, free breakfast clubs Help with school uniforms Horrified that they would lose big from Reform How many others voted without knowing?

Every party uses the word 'reform' because it means change and *implies* change for the better. However, it only really means 'change'. X has a certain 'form' and we intend to change it, to 're-form' it. Scrutinise very closely everyone pledging 'reform'!🙋

Of course he does.

now thats an anecdote with a punch, from Gillian Tett www.ft.com/content/c0ae...

Not content with being conned once by Farage, over Brexit, swathes of Britain are going back to get conned again.

Recent work trip to Romania/Bulgaria. Schengen makes everything so easy. And there’s not a day goes by I’m not grateful for my Czech passport and EU citizenship. Díky, Češi, že jste mě přijali mezi sebe. robjcameron.substack.com/p/the-brexit...

Haugh Wood yesterday

Reform UK are refusing to explain why Nigel Farage posed for a "Christmas drink" with far-right activists, some of whom took part in a violent attack at a church. One of the men pictured with Farage was convicted of assault by beating last month, after storming an anti-racism meeting at the church

Sharing, without comment, British newspapers’ depictions of the only Jewish person currently leading a UK political party . Times. Mail. Telegraph. Sun.

Oaks in mist along a footpath near Sheepstor, I hope to see them again soon. Taken April 2024, #Dartmoor #Devon #photography #oaks

I actually can't believe that Farage and his party of xenophobic shitbags are running and polling so high and that the media are just treating it like it's normal. It's nightmarish to watch.

Farage has assessed - perhaps correctly - that nativism and NIMBYism are the ideological core of the British right. The strategy that logically follows - "concentration camps, but not where you live" - would be comical if it didn't entail concentration camps.

🧵 On the upcoming elections & Reform It can be useful to look across borders for similar or different developments & patterns. A recent German poll shows 27% intend to vote AfD. Asked which party they trust to solve Germany's problems, only 14% say AfD. [52% say none.]

Nigel Farage: here he sits in Parliament, still selling the same snake oil, now repackaged as Reform UK, positioning himself as the answer to a crisis that he personally played a large part in engineering.

Oak wood 🌳 #trees #woodland #treeclub

I would like to see more interviewers treat Reform’s policies with some seriousness. How many detention centres will be needed? Who will run them? How many prison officers will need to be recruited? Will the police detain migrants or will a new force be recruited? How will this be staffed? etc etc

On this day 70 years ago-May 1, 1956-the polio vaccine was first made widely available to the public. The vaccine’s developer, Dr. Jonas Salk, did not patent the vaccine so that it would remain available to as many people as possible in the US and internationally. Image: Harvey Georges/AP.

Good grief.

The Telegraph are "Happy to correct the record" - but does that mitigate the potential harm the original inaccuracy may cause the Albanian community in the UK? 💰 Funded by ads: #Instagram, #ThreeUK, #SagaInsurance & #LovePaper

Interesting reference just now to "the left-leaning Daily Mirror" on the Today Programme. I hope this practice is going to become routine, & that we'll be reminded of the political affiliations of The Daily Telegraph, The Mail, The Sun, The Express & The Times. It would actually be quite healthy.

Pollution levels in Paris after 10 years of advancing sustainable transport.

BREAKING: Marking 40 years since the Chernobyl disaster, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy accuses Russia of “nuclear terrorism” and urges the world to “force Russia to stop its reckless attacks.” 🔴 More on aljazeera.com

Today is #NationalPenguinDay so we're remembering that time we made a Penguin out of Penguin Books. It's a Penguin Penguin. 🐧

Apart from the actual stats, the most reliable indicator that immigration is plunging (to our obvious economic detriment) is Nigel Farage turning his dishonest attentions to the mythical millions of benefits claimants.

Fifteen minutes before the President announced he was pausing strikes on Iran, somebody moved $500 million in oil futures. Somebody knew. Somebody told them. Or somebody is them. New piece ↓ open.substack.com/pub/adamkinz...

Your Wednesday night when Russia is your neighbour

Almost everything we argue about is a substitute for the thing we should be arguing about: the immense wealth & power of an oligarchic class, which captures governments, ruins lives and wrecks the living planet. This class redirects our rage at scapegoats. To resist its lies is to resist its power.

#Photo by Ibraheem Abu Mustafa for @reuters.com

Celeste Roberge’s sculpture “The Weight of Grief” #art

MP introduces Bill to prevent England water companies from "delaying" payment of fines. Companies negotiate fines, which are later deferred/waived. It is a licence to abuse. Execs rewarded for boosting profits through illegal practices, face no fines. Bill won't become law. Govt/Tories oppose it.

Odesa , Ukraine , April 2026

The Canadian system has its problems but I would take it any day over the US medical killing system.

“Farage was on the fisheries committee in Brussels for years and barely made an appearance - then when there was a big debate on the fishing industry in the UK Parliament, led by our own Shetland MP, not one Reform MP bothered to show up to contribute” www.thenational.scot/news/2601974...

I also missed this. My apologies. Follow Adam!

⚡️ Ukraine no longer advises against travel to Hungary

one immediate dramatic consequence of the Hungarian result: Magyar has promised to repair relations with the EU and unblock a €90bn EU loan for Ukraine

It’s a great moment to remember that in the leadup to this popular uprising, the first major gut-punch was delivered by Budapest Pride. Poetic justice. 🇭🇺🏳️‍🌈