Stephen Miller's suit here shows one of the biggest problems with men's tailoring today. 🧵

Man of the people https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/nigel-farage-direct-bullion-gold-payments-b3005861.html

Let's take a look at this claim as "revealed" by the Daily Mail. TLDR - It's taken them a reeeeeally long time to "reveal" this law 😜 So what's the reality behind this headline? 🧵 1/23

This is remarkable.

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Nigel Farage pocketed a £5 million Brexit reward. When he promised we would be better off, he clearly only meant himself. 10 years on, it's time to end the chaos and fix our broken relationship with Europe, starting by joining the single market.

​James O'Brien delivers a blistering breakdown of Farage's defense over a secret £5 million gift from a crypto-billionaire. O'Brien exposes the hypocrisy of Farage claiming he "wasn't in frontline politics" at the time,pointing out that he literally owned the majority of shares in ReformUK. 🏛️🔍👇

New line dropped

Exactly 10 years since the Brexit vote, the verdict is in.

Can confirm that no trouble is expected this evening in Belfast after Jeffrey Donaldson was found guilty of raping and sexually assaulting two children.

Four people in hospital after knife attacks in Edinburgh. An arrest made. BBC report say man shouted about "protecting the country". Sone signs the attacks near a mosque at petrol station & pizzeria may have had anti-Muslim or anti-migrant/minority motives (tbc) www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

This is what he believes www.thetimes.com/article/5d9c...

Morning.

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This game is stupidly entertaining.

The Gestapo marched hundreds of thousands of innocent people to their deaths. I've ended private schools' tax breaks to invest in state schools. No responsible leader makes vile comparisons like this. Kemi Badenoch is not fit to be Prime Minister.

The media tells us we must listen to voices from the right. Can we metropolitan liberals have some time too? ✏️ @jonnelledge.bsky.social

- How did you allow fascism to happen AGAIN grandad? - We were just too worried that, if we intervened, the fascists might call us mean names, darling. Such learned helplessness! Greece investigated Golden Dawn financing, declared it a criminal organisation, banned it and jailed its leaders. DONE.

OCEANIA HAS ALWAYS BEEN VERY CLOSE TO A DEAL WITH EURASIA

A reminder that Brazil banned Twitter for failing to stop the spreading of disinformation. There is nothing stopping the British government from doing the same.

I honestly can’t understand why Elon Musk’s X isn’t banned in the UK. It has become a poisonous vehicle for spreading hatred and dissension, and is run by a white supremacist agitator, who explicitly incites violence. Surely there is a criminal sanction for this?

What are the Government, police and security services doing about the people who are quite clearly in the pay of a hostile foreign state, and using their platforms to whip up actual pogroms on our streets? This is a major national security issue and absolutely nothing seems to be happening about it

The government needs to leave X. EVERYONE needs to leave X.

You'd think refusing to legitimise a website enthusiastically dedicated to harassment, white supremacism and child porn would be an open goal, but what do I know about politics?

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.

Elon Musk is paying fascists to riot and attack minorities in our cities. Some he is paying, others he doesn't need to, the X algorithm and revenue program do the rest. The UK's leading nazi thug is posting from a Moscow hotel room right now. We need to wake up to foreign money and the far right.

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So who were those concerned citizens expressing their legitimate concerns by throwing bins at the police in Southampton? Seems it was a roll call of every two-bit fascist in the country.

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Labour has today announced that more than 10 million free breakfasts have been served through its breakfast club programme in England, "helping families with the cost of living while ensuring every child starts the school day ready to learn."

Badenoch asks about welfare spending. The below should apply.

Keir Starmer's response to Nigel Farage at PMQs just now was probably the most powerful and eloquent I have seen him in the Commons. The full answer is worth reading.

Stephen Lawrence was killed by six men. It took 19 years for two of them to face justice. Four never did. Henry Nowak's killer has been convicted and jailed within six months of his death. The two cases *are not the same*. www.thenewworld.co.uk/james-ball-o...

It’s housing. There simply aren’t enough homes. Successive governments have promised to solve the problem, but none of them have managed it, perhaps knowing any policy would benefit their successor. It’s time for that to end ✏️ Hannah Fearn

Farage is desperate to stir up another summer of race riots. Last year he was almost totally unopposed by the government, who tied themselves in knots to avoid criticising the racist rioters. As a result Reform had their best summer on record. Maybe don't make the same mistake this time?

When the father of a murdered son makes a public statement saying "we do not want his death to be used to create further division, hatred or tension", then I believe it's incumbent on any news outlet reporting on Farage's comments to ensure people know he has chosen to disregard the family's wishes.

The Intelligence and Security Committee demanded a full inquiry into Russian meddling in British politics. It never happened. A new report makes clear that it needs to happen – now ✏️ @paulmason.bsky.social

"IT ABSOLUTELY WILL STOP!!!"

This chart is bonkers. I think there's two possible explanations for why the UK runs so far ahead of other European countries – neither of them good. And the annual April price jump speaks to a wider issue. For more detail, see my column in this weekend's Observer. observer.co.uk/news/busines...

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A new letter signed by more than 60 MPs and Lords is based on the original smear published by the Daily Telegraph ✏️ @editormattkelly.bsky.social

Reform’s leader says Christopher Harborne did not fund the property – but who did remains in question ✏️ Rats in a Sack 🐀

Ok, north London is going a bit crazy.

Far right newspapers are trying to run a smear campaign against Misan Harriman. We can't let them. Add your name to the open letter, and stand against hate and division. goodlawproject.org/s/4ca10b

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Looks like someone has

Using the data from refukked.lovable.app and a completely arbitrary non-scientific method, I am predicting that at the current exponential rate, all of the local Reform councillors will no longer be councillors by the 12th October. You can bookmark this if you want.

I just took part in The National Conversation to share my views on what it's really like living in our area right now. It's a major UK-wide project by researchers at Oxford University, and it only takes a few minutes. You should have your say too! www.national-conversation.ox.ac.uk