I mean obviously he doesn’t want police security, they’d find out where he was going and who he was meeting.

Badenoch is not only excluding those who support net zero, but also those in favour of the U.K. remaining part of the ECHR. Badenoch's desperation to appeal to far-right voters is leading the Tory Party into a very dark and dangerous place.

Well, well, well. Who'd have thought it from this fount of poisonous disinformation? liveapp.inews.co.uk/category/464...

You'd think the intelligence services having to raise the national terror threat level because of a surge in Nazi terrorism might have been a bigger story

It's time for the world's democracies to stand up to the bullying and hectoring of the Trump administration. The U.S. is behaving more and more like a rogue state and a danger to all of us.

Ann Widdecombe's horrific and tragic death is, according to Farage, "a terrible reflection on modern Britain." This from the man who has largely made it that way. I have no adequate words to describe this disgusting, mendacious creep.

What a truly disgusting individual Musk is. That's now a given, so when are the democracies going to find the guts to defend themselves and clip his wings?

The Government must block Nigel Farage’s resignation until the Standards Commissioner finishes investigating him. The people of Clacton deserve the full facts. If a by-election does go ahead, all parties should stand aside. We cannot give oxygen to this vanity project.

This sordid attempt to make blatant grift and corruption a people versus the elites argument says everything we need to know about Farage and the Trumpian far-right in Britain.

Farage was trying to stoke race riots on the streets of Britain. Now he has the gall to try and take the high ground about his personal safety because the Sunday Times did an investigation into his finances. He really is an abomination, a slimy self-absorbed little toad. substack.com/@iandunt/not...

Not a great football fan, but this is another example of how Trump, the malignant narcissist, tries to corrupt and destroy absolutely everything and everyone he comes into contact with ... www.theguardian.com/football/liv...

"This “shifting baseline syndrome” ... is, said nature writer Robert Macfarlane, an “enormously powerful and I think very pernicious, psychological mechanism whereby each new generation measures loss from the degraded baseline that it grew up into." www.theguardian.com/environment/...

About time! Through X Musk is trying to tear down our democracy. Now what about all the other government departments & politicians currently using this irredeemably toxic platform... BBC News - Culture secretary quits X in protest at 'misinformation' www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Layla Moran at the #RejoinEU rally in Parliament square 👏 "LibDems want to be at the heart of Europe again" "It's been ten years since that disastrous vote" "We see lower prosperity, higher inequality, less security, more division" "Definitely less opportunity"

"What the f*ck is going on, because this doesn't feel normal," says Emily Maitlis. META whistleblower Sarah Wynn-Williams is under such a strict legal gag that she was asked to leave The News Agents studio www.thenewsagents.co.uk/article/why-...

"Trying for regime change one book at a time." open.substack.com/pub/jeanette...

Yes, stupidity has never felt so stupid .. or so blatantly corrupt. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Meanwhile, UK political debate is focused on the so-called "net zero zealotry" of Ed Miliband

A thousand times this. The BBC would also benefit from not giving a shit what the Daily Mail has to say about anything.

I’m not saying the debate in the U.K. has moved to the right, but Ed Miliband is basically seen as Pol Pot for aiming for a climate target first agreed to by…I think Theresa May’s government? Definitely Johnson’s. And this chat is going on during the middle of a record-breaking heatwave

"Starmer’s personal interests are immaterial and so are those of the Labour Party. This is about the future of the country. It is of historic importance that it is done well." liveapp.inews.co.uk/category/447...

Ian Dunt on the impact of legal confusion on individual lives in an era marked by manufactured moral panic and political cowardice ... open.substack.com/pub/iandunt/...

Disinformation and foreign interference via digital platforms are doing so much harm. We can’t go on like this and still expect to live in a cohesive society. While we never saw the ‘rent boy’ angle pushed on this, millions would have & will now firmly believe it’s true.

1. X is owned by a Nazi who is interfering in British politics. 2. Starmer and Labour post almost exclusively on X. 3. Musk is flooding X with content that's addictive and harmful to children. 4. Starmer continues posting on X. 5. Rather than censoring X, starmer bans kids from using social media.

"[Grade] said the rules required due impartiality, giving flexibility to broadcasters to offer different opinions across its programming, adding that the real red line was stopping politicians from delivering news bulletins" To rise so far and yet be so stupid .. www.theguardian.com/media/2026/j...

This extraordinary article puts into context the obscene scale of Elon Musk’s wealth. The poverty of his soul is revealed in how he chooses to use his power - by crushing the poor, the disadvantaged and the most vulnerable. He is the poster boy for the rotten nature of our modern world.

Nothing says “dying civilization” like gladiator fights at the capitol for the emperor’s amusement.

Tomorrow’s Independent front page:

Extending definitions and misusing legisation in this way to categorise protesters as terrorists is profoundly anti-democratic and authoritarian. We face a bleak future if these punitively unjust sentences are not overturned ... www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

This has nothing to do with stopping crime. It is to do with a global far-right movement, coordinated on X, organised by some of the most powerful men in the world from Silicon Valley to the White House inews.co.uk/opinion/fara...

This reluctance to commit resources to the country's defence has to be the end of Starmer's premiership surely? It undermines all the positions he's taken on the world stage ...

At moments of crisis, leaders have a responsibility to speak to, and for, their country. The PM should be on the airwaves, telling the stories of the children, teenagers and families who have been burned out of their homes; naming those responsible; and leading a national fightback against them.

Condemning riots isn't enough. We need policy action, including an immediate appraisal of X as a vehicle for coordinating far-right disorder. And we need political leadership, to challenge white nationalism as an idea, not to validate it daily and then complain when it turns violent.

Everyone on X and elsewhere who called for a violent response should be charged with incitement. Everyone involved in the pogrom should be locked up with exemplary sentences. Govt should make it clear that will be the response in future anywhere else. Enough.

He can't say it so I will. Reform politicians are on the side of Putin's war of genocidal aggression (where some of their money comes from?) but Reform voters are persuadable .... www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...

Why do they do this? As an editorial decision it looks like desperation in case Chris Mason's preferred candidate loses ....

“The rightward drift… is now a state of emergency. It is violent. It is racist. It is motivated by some of the very worst instincts in the political condition” And much of our media is guilty of normalising this horror, instead of calling it out urgently like this… open.substack.com/pub/iandunt/...

Nigel Farage's first act was not to heed the advice of Mark Nowak. His first act was to take to social media. @MaxWilkinson.bsky.social on why Farage's divisive and hate-filled rhetoric makes things in Britain worse.

The Trump Administration should not be using the tragic murder of Henry Nowak as a political football. This is blatant foreign interference designed to fuel division. The Prime Minister must summon the US Ambassador immediately.

What kept you? But, however, late in the day, this needs to be said 👇 www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

She & the Prime Minister are very late to the party, but welcome for all that ... www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

“This is not about a criminal definition of incitement, but the ordinary meaning of the word. On that basis, there is no doubt. For a third summer, Reform UK is actively trying to foment unrest, as a means of getting to early election, because they hit a ceiling of support and the only way is down.”

Could we stop treating Farage like a PM-in-waiting? Latest from IPSOS:

Then take government off Musk's platforms and stop channelling visitors to a toxic, anti-democratic hellscape ... And the same applies to state use of Peter Thiel's Palantir - it's not just joined-up thinking, it's a life and death struggle for decency & truth. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

The Neo-Nazi and Far-Right Coalition that Converged on Southampton Over Henry Nowak’s Murder There were Nazi salutes and 'White Power' chants on the streets of Southampton, after the Reform UK leader called for "pure cold rage" in response to Nowak's death...