Not now, Elder Gods From Outside Reality Frozen Under The Ice For Aeons

I say without hyperbole that this is the most brazenly corrupt action in US Presidential history. That it does not immediately lead to impeachment is a dangerous sign of how far the rule of law has declined.

Quite impressive that Andy Burnham already seems to be making all the same mistakes he made in the 2015 leadership election.

Nigel Farage’s claim that he paid for a £1.4mn house with his fee from a reality TV show has been challenged by corporate accounts that appear to show that the income remained on his company’s balance sheet after the property purchase. www.ft.com/content/88ce...

income remained on his company’s balance sheet after the property purchase. Farage bought a £1.4mn house in Surrey on May 10, 2024, just weeks after receiving £5mn from the crypto billionaire, but did not register the gift in his MPs’ register of interests after taking office the following month.

Farage previously was caught in lies about money he took from Moscow. Now he's been caught in lies about £5 mn he took from a Thai cryptobillionaire. Farage’s claim that he paid for a £1.4mn house with his fee from a reality TV show has been challenged by corporate accounts that show that the

Obviously this is racism

Easily, the most corrupt president in history:

If this isn't "designed to stir up hatred" against Jews, what is? Why are the Met not arresting them?

The fact that a neo-Nazi teenager who attempted to behead a Kurdish barber in Bristol last year has just been sentenced to almost 20 years in prison isn’t *national* news is enormously telling. It’s really not just a South West story, is it?

Josh Simons? Hm. Okay…

We are at the mercy of Bridget Phillipson’s ability to notice things and form a credible plan in response. Unfortunately she seems literally uninterested, across her various ministerial roles, in doing anything other than prosecuting a series of vaguely related if basically incoherent culture wars.

Fun fact: the magical child safety solution which Jess Philips cited in her resignation letter is a vendor-specific offering, which benefited from an intense PR and lobbying campaign, and was previously praised by ... Prince Andrew. I always keep the receipts. heatherburns.tech/2026/02/20/t...

It is wrong and criminal for government agents to kidnap someone, send them to die in a concentration camp, and disappear them, regardless of immigration status. But it's still worth noting she has a green card. The government doesn't even pretend this is about deporting undocumented people.

Tice declines to say if Farage’s undeclared £5m gift was only used for security

"A reminder that #Farage's undeclared £5,000,000 is his 18th such offence since becoming an MP. On top of the 8 such offences when he was an MEP. Anybody else would be in jail by now, but he serves the interests of the billionaires who own our media & who want a far right wing govt!" via Tim Longson

Imagine if Andy Burnham ran in the Arbroath & Broughty Ferry by-election and won, but then lost the subsequent leadership election and had to spend 3 years just being the MP for Arbroath & Broughty Ferry.

For too long, the UK has tried Chaos Without Ed Miliband.

RFK Jr. won't stop his attacks on medical science until he can endanger the lives of every American.

Not only do Substack platform Nazis; they lie about how easy it is to leave the site and take your subscriber list with you (as I did last summer). Every time I get one of these, it's Substack's fault, and it threatens my livelihood. This will tell you why: tomcox.substack.com/p/an-explana...

I just did a YouGov survey, and Zack Polanski was the *only* politician to be named in a question. Specifically in this question. No other party leader or MP was mentioned by name in any other section of the entire survey. I complained in the free text feedback box at the end 🙄

Completely unacceptable from the Board of Deputies. This nakedly partisan hypocrisy does not represent me or many other British Jews. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

This kind of crap from the BoD really undermines those of us who are trying to push against antisemitism across the political spectrum. Infuriating.

I mean - I agree with all of this, but Keir, you are not Shabana and Rachel’s minder to stop them coming to blows! If you agree with the Treasury view on this, intervene to remove the barriers the Home Office is putting to a deal! You are the prime minister!

My “this is not a golden calf” shirt is raising a lot of questions already answered by my shirt.

🗳️ ConstituencyClick 411/650 — Starmer 2024 🟥🟨🟩🟩🟩🟩🟨🟨🟩🟥 play.jmoxley.co.uk Suspect I might follow a similar trajectory after this triumph.

Not sure he’s really a ‘paper candidate’ - he seems more like a serious candidate who didn’t particularly expect to get elected. I’d be more interested to know about some of the Reform paper candidates who really didn’t want the job. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Amazing. So for eight months somebody counted how often each political party was mentioned across all UK broadcast media. Lib Dems are near the bottom of the table with a mere 645 mentions per MP. Top of the table with (wait for it) 70,732 mentions per MP? You'll never guess ...

I believe the Real Greens have just been IGV'd out of a second seat in Mid Scotland and Fife. Huge questions for Electoral Commission to answer after two elections of this.

Morning, all. Mind you _don't_ need photo ID to vote in Scottish Parliament elections, but you _do_ need to watch out for a nasty wee fash outfit calling itself "Independent Green Voice", which is nothing to do with the Greens.

I know it’s by no means the most important point but, on top of anything else, this nonsense is so tiresome. Does he think anyone (let alone Iran) believes it? www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

NEW | On the media assault against the Greens and one person in particular… POLANSKI IS PAINTED AS A MONSTER WHILE FARAGE ESCAPES PROPER SCRUTINY The same old playbook is in action. brokenbottleboy.substack.com/p/polanski-i...

Had this last week. It's not just that there are ads, it's that they've put the ad in *the worst possible point* in the film to put an ad. Arguably the worst possible point to put an ad in the history of cinema.

Good to know that Farage's dodgy house purchase in Clacton is being given press scrutiny at last - just a pity it gets more scrutiny in France than in the UK. Angela Rayner, on the other hand.... www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

A £5,000,000 gift from the party’s largest backer, is neither ‘purely personal’ nor a commercial loan. It is without precedent.

This can't, or shouldn't, be even remotely good enough, and surely wouldn't be accepted as such for any other party leader. Amongst many, many other things, it can't have been both 'unconditional' *and* 'to pay for my security'. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

The Times are attempting to migrate their entire stable of journalists en masse to Bluesky.

I do think it sums up “the weird way the Internet shapes politics unnoticed” that “some chants that people should knock off but are mostly an ignorable part of an in-person march” are given more explanatory power than “the website that is full of antisemitism of every stripe that MPs hang out on”.

Snickering like schoolboys with a whoopee cushion, while planning violence on an unimaginable scale

This is repellant, but it is also an opportunity. To win, Reform would rely on a lot of voters not fully signed up to its agenda – people sick of the established parties and want to roll the dice on something new. The more this stuff is publicised, the harder those voters are to win over (or keep).

Jesus fucking Christ.

I am extremely curious to see whether we'll have an urgent press conference from our useless ham Prime Minister where he wangs on about how there's an urgent need to tackle anti-immigrant sentiment and the far-right.

Reform Home Affairs spokesman Zia Yusuf advocates a future government would make decisions on locations of detention centres solely/primarily on political grounds.

The story here is less about the details in the story and more about the Home Secretary’s spad making heavy handed legal threats to try to prevent tha publication of the story.

I didn’t spend two years sneaking about like a creeping little prick, sending snotty WhatsApp messages and handing dossiers of Facebook screenshots to Sunday Times journalists for insane national panics, just so we could lose five hundred council seats to the Greens and concede Wales and Scotland

www.theguardian.com/politics/202... This is getting bloody boring now. These bleeders are as dodgy as hell and are not going to stop unless they’re pulled up on this shit.

They are unhinged. The way they are treating Zack Polanski is atrocious.

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