More Reform UK transactions worth millions reported to National Crime Agency

Nigel Farage vs "the establishment" He went to private school, worked as a stockbroker, has been a professional politician for 31 years, has his own TV show, is a brand ambassador for gold, is mates with POTUS, accepted a secret £5m gift, and owns five houses bought outright with cash What a rebel

So, there is a precedent for vetoing an MP's resignation Viscount Chelsea (Henry Cadogan) applied for the Chiltern Hundreds in 1842 The Chancellor (Goulburn) refused because, get this, Cadogan wanted to resign to obstruct an investigation for bribery h/t @fascinatorfun.bsky.social and @gazhay.com

VEEERRRRY punchy statement by UEFA on the reversal of the American red-card suspension. And quite right, too. "We express our disbelief at such an unprecedented, incomprehensible and unjustifiable decision." www.uefa.com/news-media/n...

“Pro-nonsense”?

For no particular reason, obviously, this weekend I found myself remembering all those allegations about mysterious dark money funding untraceable Facebook ads during the Brexit campaign.

If Shakespeare were alive today he’d be in a pub crying that he didn’t write this.

The US turns 250 and Taylor Swift gets married. I think we all know which is a bigger deal | Marina Hyde

Some seldom use narrative principles. Boreshadowing Snubtext Allengory Checkov's Gran Worst Person Perspective Oh No Matopoeia Bird Person Perspective Poirotdox Metaflaws Dancethropomorphism Second Failson perspective.

STAANDAAAARD! DOUBLE STAANNDAAARDS! (No one will get this)

Ahead of England’s next World Cup match, we’ve seen lots of claims about Mexico’s home advantage - so we’ve done a little number crunching. The stats show Mexico are formidable at the Azteca… but so is England’s away record. 🇲🇽🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

Have some fun with our new fantasy cabinet builder. Danny Dyer for Chief Whip anyone? bestforbritain.org/fantasy-cabi...

These are all the dogs we sponsored in June ❤️‍🩹

Richard Burgon MP calls out Farage for earning £22,500 an hour from second job. “The public knows that when an MP can earn more for a couple of hours of so-called work than a nurse earns in a year, there’s something deeply broken in our politics.”

Awesome 🤣🤣🤣🤣

This is Penny. She came up with her own trick. Really hopes you like it, and will repeat it as many times as necessary until you acknowledge that you do. 14/10 (IG: pennycorgipoo)

A US military worker killed my son in Britain, and still we fight for justice. I’m angry that others are waiting too | Charlotte Charles

So henceforth and forever more, it will be completely accurate—and utterly inactionable under the common and constitutional law of defamation—to state the following fact: DONALD J. TRUMP IS AN ADJUDICATED RAPIST.

sidebar: how in the name of iambic fucking pentameter is this mournful fartcloud a fucking poem?

Everyone is talking about Trump’s mock up arch at the Great American State Fair, so I filmed it from top to bottom and front to back for everyone who can’t see it in person.

The curious case of the cremation ashes left at Newbury racecourse burger van

David Sedaris on his Duolingo obsession: ‘“Today is the last day,” I told myself – but I was powerless to stop’

NEW: The Meltdown Blowing up a bill signing. A shouting match with a GOP senator. A sparely attended rally. Iran tensions. NATO broadsides. And - oh, yes - that green reflecting pool One day that captures how Trump has gone from unpredictable to chaotic: www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

I’ve just cleaned out the trap under the shower. Please send your finest admiration and praise, I still have the rest of the bathroom to do.

Your delivery of goosebumps for the day. (Trying and failing to keep Nigel Tufnell’s reaction from my mind though)

Massie: "I think it's ironic that we control the House, Senate, Supreme Court, and the White House, and we're yelling 'election fraud'? I mean, we won all the damn elections."

Clearly the rape convictions are chief amongst his offences but the sheer laziness of that alias ought to be on the charge sheet somehow.

Pete Buttigieg says his family was effectively swatted — except, instead of calling the cops, someone called Child Protective Services, lied and said Buttigieg had admitted to 'committing unspeakably violent crimes' and that his kids were at risk. The kids are not and were not at risk.

Here are the top 5 dogs of the week!

Sooner or later ‘man up’ becomes ‘man down’.

At last, an economic policy we can all get behind – doubling the royal family’s funding | Marina Hyde

Ignore the miserabilists: Andy Burnham as PM is a moment when things really can get better | Polly Toynbee

Welcome to Scottish Summer youtube.com/shorts/iN4DW...

Jack Hulme. He was born and spent all his life in the pit village of Fryston West Yorkshire, that he photographed for over 60 years. He said he felt humbled by all the fuss his pictures had caused. He had never considered them worthy of attention.

I'm confident nobody will share this.

It was inevitable, wasn't it🙄 Of course the Telegraph would run with something like this👇 So let's remove some of the rose-tinted spectacles and also look at some of that data comparing 1976 with modern heat waves Because the 1976 nostalgia porn is wearing a bit thin at this stage 🧵1/23

More than 500 mothers and babies died or were harmed at ‘toxic’ Nottingham NHS trust, report finds

Ace, by @davidallengreen.bsky.social: theemptycity.com/blog/2026/06... "Given this appears to be an Order of the High Court in respect of its general jurisdiction in respect of a general private law claim, it would seem what Oxfordshire CC has done here could be done, in principle, by any other LA."

Farage: I can spend my £5m on Ferraris if I want it's none of your business. Reform voters: He's one of us.

Rejoin. And we can get back to having prime ministers in multiples of five years instead of five minutes. #itsnotacoincidence

Happy 10 years of Brexit 💃💃💃

youtu.be/jn7dAO4NVTQ?... A decade on, a reminder what we got courtesy of @larryandpaul.bsky.social

Just found this school picture of the England No18, although he’s spelling his surname differently these days. #FIFAWorldCup #EngvGhana

‘Bright, glossy and rotund’ – the best supermarket strawberries, tasted and rated

Trump the Peacemaker. JonathanPie.com youtu.be/ndkFtUKLNZY?...

😉"The other increasingly noticeable thing about Farage is that he is incredibly thin-skinned and can’t help showing it." "Remember, he spent the first part of this campaign in sulky seclusion after people found out about him taking a personal gift of £5m from a Thailand-based crypto billionaire."

childhood trauma has deep biological impacts. ucla found it changes how your cells' mitochondria (their energy makers) produce fuel. in 143 adults, early adversity linked to blood cells making energy differently—a mechanism tied to lifelong health issues.