No, but yes, he does, literally, say Stalin. Never mind Sunak, who planned *the exact same thing* only 3 years ago. Ed Balls is married to the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Affairs. So principled of him to make his independence so clear.

Can you imagine a news channel presenter editorialising that price controls are a good idea. Of course you can't. Here's Eton educated Wilfred Frost explaining why capping the prices of essential items so people can afford to eat is a bad idea.

I think we can say now that we’ve investigated “how far can we push the destructive cruelty, before reactionaries are satisfied” as deeply as we need to, to conclude the answer is “they will never be satisfied, they will always want more”.

Farage’s vetting of Candidates is second to none, as seems there is none..👇🏼 Reform candidate in Makerfield by-election wrote about Asian men ‘assaulting white people en masse’ & ‘an invasion of foreign criminals’ on his X account Metro reveals And ‘friends’ with a British neo-fascist activist 🤷🏼‍♂️

This makes Watergate look like the height of good governance.

I always make a point of looking at the BBC Archive account on YouTube. Today's posting is all about advanced technology in December 1986 - some new idea called email! In terms of timescales this is like a 1986 programme covering the end of the Second World War. www.youtube.com/watch?v=JqJ1...

Looking at saintsweb.co.uk - comments such as "I feel the punishment is ridiculous in severity - has there been a heavier punishment ever (aside from Juventus and Rangers) We haven't killed anyone, we haven't bribed anyone, we haven't partaken in match fixing, we haven't fielded ineligible players."

How in Satan's ballbag do you get your account permanently suspended from X these days? Reform's candicate for Makerfield, Robert Kenyon, is not off to a great start...

‘Most bashed bridge’…

Sixty six Labour MPs have tabled an amendment to the Representation of the People Bill, calling for the Government to "get to grips with the broken First Past the Post voting system" Tabled by Alex Sobel MP, the amendment would push the Government to set up a National Commission on Electoral Reform

David Frost recalls the morning after the Brexit Referendum. He tells the Freedom Association that "we need to recapture some of that sense of excitement and potential, that something great was happening."

NEW | A look at Simon Heffer’s new publisher. Spoiler: it ♥️ ‘race science’ guys and antisemites… BARON BLACKWATER’S VERY BAD BOOK CLUB He’s promoting his Enoch Powell book in The Telegraph and Spectator. His chosen publisher is a far-right cesspit. brokenbottleboy.substack.com/p/baron-blac...

It was kind of Robert Jenrick to set me up for an obvious joke at his expense.

The new leader of St Helens Council . They're fucked.

BREAKING... David Bull has been relieved of his post as chair of Reform, replaced by Lee Anderson. Is he another to fall out with Nigel Farage? Or let us think... Dr Bull has a TV show which is broadcast from Manchester. Might there be something happening in the news there shortly...?

Great Times sport article here about former Football League grounds: www.thetimes.com/article/05a3...

I think this maybe the most niché bit of trivia I’ve ever heard.

Oh what a tangled web they weave... Farage now admits he bought the Clacton house, having told everyone last year that his partner Laure Ferrari bought the house.

Lots of Isthmian North derbies in 2026-27 with Fakenham, Gorleston, Lowestoft, Mulbarton and Wroxham all placed together.

the Wes Streeting resignation is written in a way that suggests he's failed to get the 81 signatures needed to prompt a leadership battle he calls for "the best possible field of candidates", implying he wants Burnham in the race and he doesn't even mention wanting the top job himself

BREAKING: Reform UK leader Nigel Farage bought a £1.4 million property in cash shortly after receiving a £5m personal gift from billionaire donor Christopher Harborne, according to property records seen by Sky News.

"So just imagine what the Reform leader would do for £5M..." via The Daily Scar

If Celtic and Rangers ever got into the EPL how would they be able to cope without getting establishment decisions like this? Absolutely shocking - but not surprising - that this was given and Hearts' stonewall penalty at Motherwell on Saturday night wasn't.

The BBC has decided that an English commentator should cover Hearts v Falkirk on 5 Live. Why? He's out of his depth when it comes to the significance and history of the title race and can't be saved by the excellent Pat Nevin. It's worse than when the BBC sends Chris Mason to cover a Scottish story.

Finally the country will get chaos with Ed Miliband

I'd like to think - but in no way confidently - that the 10th anniversary is marked next month by someone significant saying this. Instead the entire news agenda will be led by Fleet Street still complaining: "We didn't get the Brexit we voted for."

Hearts captain: “Tonight, we can make history” Celtic captain: “Three points and we finish the job on Saturday” Rangers captain: “Hurry up driver, I want to be home for Married at First Sight Australia”

This is Higher Education now. The dumbest thing I have ever seen. Hey, taxpayers! You paid for most of this! It's all being thrown into a burning dumpster! *Slow handclap of all slow handclaps*.

"Reform’s Kieran Lay asks council to monitor UFO activity at airport" You never know...Maybe they can offer me asylum on their word..away from all you. www.independent.co.uk/bulletin/new...

All change at the Eastern Daily Press in Norwich as the square peg in a round hole editor gets a nice head-office sinecure. With a few honourable exceptions the last thing Newsquest/Archant has provided in recent times has been "great reporting". www.holdthefrontpage.co.uk/2026/news/re...

One of those “road men” we’ve heard so much about.

Good piece on the contradictions and hypocrisy of the Corcoran (who she?) 'discrimination' case: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

lol

What the fuck is going on here? Clive Myrie just said 'the post, which has now been deleted, was said to be insulting to Nigerians'

'We don't need you': Reform shuts door on local media hours after taking control of Suffolk County Council www.ipswich.co.uk/we-dont-need...

Greens take control of Norwich City Council whereas Reform are the biggest party on Norfolk County Council. A unitary city authority can't come soon enough!

I think we now have the answer

Not sure that's the "extraordinary margin" Farage was hoping for.

Five seats in Norfolk still to declare: Reform UK: 40 Green: 12 Liberal Democrats: 10 Great Yarmouth First: 9 Conservatives: 6 Independent: 1 Labour: 1 Reform UK needs 43 for a working majority...

Great Yarmouth.... The man who was too mad for Reform appears to have whipped the electorate into taking their own pen to the ballot because the deep state might erase your vote...

FPTP has had its day. Hethersett (Norfolk) Labour 1158 / 26.348% Reform 1155 / 26.280% Conservatives 1133 / 25.779% Green 551 / 12.537% Lib Dems 398 / 8.987%

Sherelle Jacobs eclipses Allister Heath as the Telegraph's most dim columnist.

This was Reform's best chance at a constituency gain, and they came up just short: in the final BBS model before polls opened, they had a tiny edge, it was a total tossup. SNP will be extremely relieved by this ^AF

Current state of play in Great Yarmouth - Great Yarmouth First 4 seats, 7149 votes, Reform 0, 3024.

It’s almost like people aren’t happy about Westminster deliberately inflicting the obviously idiotic and crooked Boris Johnson on us all, swiftly followed by the Mandelson wing of the Labour Party on a platform of singing God Save The Queen, hand-on-heart in front of giant billowing Norsefire flags

Nigel Farage's beaming face is featuring heavily in the local elections coverage, but the truth is that the real architect of Reform's gains is the man whose disastrous 'Blue Labour' strategy we were confidently told would prevent them bylinetimes.com/2026/05/08/l...

Rupert Lowe's Great Yarmouth First Party appear to be now three seats up on Reform because Farage is just too much of a centrist!

Interesting notes from Peter Kellner's Substack... kellnerp.substack.com/p/yesterdays...