A man has been running around stabbing people on the streets of a UK city and large elements of the nation’s media are strangely not interested The Mail ranks a story about Gordon Ramsey’s daughter being pregnant higher. The Telegraph is more interested in a voracious pufferfish. I wonder why?

BBC News - Five injured in suspected anti-Muslim attacks after armed man roamed Edinburgh streets www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... I'm sure any moment now we can expect a video from Nigel Farage in a field expressing his "pure cold rage" at this horrific crime spree.

Terry Reintke MEP, "Does the EU want the UK back?" "Abso-f*cking-lutely" "We want you back in the European Union"

Let's be very clear that vicious anti Muslim hatred by politicians and their trillionaire mate Elon Musk create the conditions for this kind of vile attack. Sending huge solidarity to the Muslim community in Edinburgh and beyond.

The mainstream media haven’t made it clear how his ‘party’s’ funding and hierarchy works, either. @yorkshirebylines.co.uk @bylinesnetwork.co.uk

Michel Barnier tells the Guardian that the UK could rejoin the EU without being forced to join the Euro or the Schengen area. That’s exactly what @benjudah.bsky.social concluded in his essential Rejoin analysis for @arguablymag.bsky.social last month. www.arguably.uk/p/a-good-rej...

Actually, they call him a Nazi because he repeatedly gave a Nazi salute on national TV, is trying to start a race war in Europe, and is partially responsible for 14 million deaths due to his interference in the U.S. government. For all that, no one wants him hurt, just indicted.

The joy today is that hatred lost. Doesn't matter what you think of Burnham. Farage tried to invite a race riot. He dealt in explicitly racial rhetoric. If he'd won, many journalists would have considered it a vindication of his approach and branded our outrage evidence of how out of touch we are.

The next PM could - and in my view should - properly stick it to Trump (as Meloni has just done); announce a plan to undo Brexit; put immigration to bed for at least one electoral cycle; take their government off Twitter; unequivocally condemn Netanyahu & resurrect Leveson 2… A boy can dream.

It's a sad face day for Chris Mason, but he's doing his best to console himself...

This is fascinating. The BBC’s own scrutiny of its flagship TV News discusses its clear bias towards selective reporting of crimes committed by immigrants & asylum seekers and no one from the News team will defend it. What is going on behind the scenes? www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...

Liking John Fugelsang.......

Farage: "Reform still is the big national party on the centre-right. A disappointing morning, but we keep going." Refuk's policies are closer to the National Front of the 1970s than to the centre-right, however much he tries to claim the mainstream.

At last somebody says it!💥 The EU is a pragmatic institution. It knows that over 80% of younger UK voters are passionately pro-EU. It will be them who take us into the Euro once the Brexiter generation has passed. As for Schengen, that'll depend on Ireland as we're linked by the Common Travel Area.

Ukrainian drones over Moscow for a third day. Relentless. #explodey

@mrjamesob.bsky.social @lbc.co.uk Asks the fourth estate to do its job of interrogating Farage and not cravenly let him to use them as a megaphone: He asks them to refuse to play Farage’s recorded messages while he continues to refuse to speak to proper journalists.

🔴 'Burnham is a Giant Step Backwards to a Better Sort of British Politics' "He is a reversion to when Labour PMs were men of the people. Blair dismantled that world & the deep morality & wisdom that went with it, turning Labour into the political wing of the London metropolitan elite" Peter Oborne

Reform’s problem, and it is a very significant one, is that women vote open.substack.com/pub/iandunt/...

A 100% must-read.. open.substack.com/pub/iandunt/...

Reform have now lost six by-elections in a row in England, Scotland and Wales. Their national poll rating is 26% – below Labour in 1983 – and Farage’s approval rating is -37. They’re very far from the voice of the people and need to stop being treated as such.

The Farage effect. A losers’ charter. Everything gets worse and costs more when prejudice is turned into policy. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Do it now! www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

This is terrifying and all too real. The right wing think tank nexus that brought us hard Brexit has moved on and is now seriously pushing for policies and propaganda backing the wholsale ethnic cleansing of Britain. We've never seen anything like this. bylinetimes.com/2026/06/18/r...

Almost one in six members of the House of Lords holds a paid political advisory role that, on Transparency International UK's analysis, carries a significant lobbying risk. "At least six peers go further still, sitting as directors or senior partners in lobbying and political advisory firms."

Sarah Pochin is one of those terrifying people who has no idea how stupid she is or what words mean. But at least she’s unwittingly confirmed that the biggest threat to “our women” is wrapped in an England flag. Awkward for Reform.

🔴 SCOOP: Farage doesn't seem to want to answer questions about his money. So I went looking - and found that the Reform leader's personal company is in breach of UK company law democracyforsale.substack.com/p/revealed-n...

How utterly broken a system must be for the Keir Starmer ‘rent boy’ conspiracy theory to gain traction. This stuff doesn’t happen by accident. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/j...

You know all those NHS improvements to waiting lists and additional operations claimed to be as a result of using Palantir’s FDP platform? Guess what. 854% of the claimed wait list improvements were at one hospital, co-chaired by Matthew Swindells, concurrently acting as an adviser to Palantir”

That would be the head MAGA propagandist head-hunting Webb, Trevor Phillips *and* Douglas Murray in under a week. Again: what is it about British political commentators that might attract America’s most comically malignant far right media figure? Is it their deep integrity and attention to detail.

Perhaps they should dump Felon47 in it, he could do with a period of reflection..

The brass neck of Hunt who was in government for the entire austerity shit show that saw defence spending drastically cut

Some have argued that Elon Musk is a mass murderer for having terminated USAID. I examine this claim and conclude that if Hitler—who never personally killed anyone in his life—is a mass murderer, then so is Musk. Indeed, Musk is a mass murderer of world-historical proportions.

But NI, in a de facto Single Market for goods is not, at least a loser unlike GB : We estimate that nominal growth of household incomes is 3 per cent higher than what it would have been, so Northern Ireland is at least not a loser after Brexit, when all the other British regions clearly are,”

Just 5% of Brits take A-Level history. Without that knowledge then the UK govt can keep hoodwinking the majority about history. In Ireland it’s 20-25%. It’s also one of the compulsory subjects [you either must take geography or history].

Stop the clocks! The Daily Mail has found a rich bigot it considers *too* right-wing. They must be really worried about Rupert Lowe biting big chunks out of Farage's base.

Cannot imagine a more telling sign of Russian desperation. A wonderful, historic landmark of tremendous cultural value being attacked out of fear and what must be a growing understanding of Russian failure.

Farage argues that the mainstream media constantly distorts what he has to say. This is the guy who has built his brand on uncritical coverage in the Daily Mail, Daily Telegraph, Daily Express and - sadly - the BBC.

I remember the huge pro EU marches in London. No trouble, family friendly joyful occasions. I also remember the smaller anti EU marches, ugly, aggressive. nasty affairs. We are the majority. It’s time we put the ‘ugly’ in their place.

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.

How! geddit? www.theguardian.com/media/2026/j...

Why can we proscribe Palestine Action who have never committed terrorism. But not Tommy Robinson and his supporters who have?

This might be hard for Americans to hear, but the USA getting humiliated by its abject failure as a power during this Iran War might be the best thing possible at this time. The country needs to understand there are consequences for electing a crook.

To all the people glumly stating you can’t go after Elon Musk because he’s rich: you have been trained into holding this false belief. There is absolutely no physical or natural law stating that really rich men cannot be punished. The only barrier is cowardice.

Swirling into chaos: No.10's inertia threatens national security open.substack.com/pub/iandunt/...

Here are the finalists in Makerfield's first ever 'Virgin Tosser In A Cheap Suit' competition

Could have been a brain surgeon if an immigrant hadn't stolen his job.

What's disturbing about Reform voters is that they're mostly poorly educated, politically naive & ignorant of history & much of the world around them. They either flatly deny they're racist or they actually revel in the fact that they are. And they don't let facts get in the way of their bigotry.

The pledge not to raise general taxation is basically this government’s original sin and a synecdoche of everything that’s wrong with it - timid, and forced into a series of unpalatable, harmful and unpleasant manoeuvres that please literally nobody because of its timidity.

It's pretty disgraceful that there has been absolutely no mention of this from the Prime Minister. It's increasingly clear that some attacks, correctly, warrant disgust, emergency measures and days of media coverage. Others seem to be met with silence.