The prime minister says he will fight on. That looks increasingly unlikely. Read @jamesrball.com's full analysis: buff.ly/vSkdPHk

Burnham arrives at Euston...

FREE TO READ 🔓️🚨 The regulator is now probing the channel’s Donald Trump interview over “material misleadingness” ✏️ @editormattkelly.bsky.social

my biggest takeaway is that voters think there’s something intrinsically English about the Farage brand, and yet his policy preferences owe more to MAGA radicalism than to traditional English shires

New idea. Next time we publish a report on a politician, I’ll keep the politician’s name blanked out for a week, and let everyone take positions before they find out who it is.

Reform UK leader Nigel Farage has said there was "no obligation" to declare a £5m gift he received from a billionaire backer before he became an MP. Sky’s Beth Rigby points out the rules

Reform are refusing to talk to our reporters at the election counts. Champions of free speech? 🤣🤣

A new book predicts migrant riots, Brexit wars and a dismantled BBC - and none of it feels outlandish ✏️ @rostaylor.bsky.social

Since I've been editing a report for Transparency Intl this week that looks at this, we should know: - how much Reform paid the Standard - any in-kind donations it also made - any donations the Standard's owner has made to political parties or Reform-aligned funds. We won't.

In an extract from his new book, the music business insider behind the acclaimed social media account explains how he hit rock bottom and how he fought back ✏️ Anonymous

It is a moderately good film series for 8-12 year olds.

The son of GB News co-owner Paul Marshall has developed a solution to the small boats problem: laying mines in the world’s busiest shipping lane ✏️ Rats in a Sack 🐀

Our latest issue is now on sale 🗞️ A special kind of agony Featuring @tombaldwin66.bsky.social, Tilly Lawless, John Osbourne, Jack Dart, @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com, @jonnelledge.bsky.social and more Subscribe today: buff.ly/IGN7uyY

One detail I hadn't realised about parliament finishing today - today is the last day a hereditary peer will ever sit in the House of Lords.

"Thirty-four years on, the Sun is surely setting, just like its proprietor. Its readership is much diminished, its political power is all but used up, and it doesn’t even make money any more… "Stop to think for a moment: what’s the last Sun front page that you can actually remember?"

Reform had a six month period last year when their polling average didn't drop below 30%. It hasn't hit 30% once this year.

Palantir put out a 22-point summary of their CEO's book The Technological Republic. It's pitched as a defence of the West, but if you read it through the VDA framework, verification, deliberation, accountability, what it's actually doing looks rather different. twitter-thread.com/t/2045574398...

Latest cartoon from Martin Rowson 👨‍🎨 “Wargasm Issues”

Network and All the President’s Men are 50 years old. Both diagnose the beginnings of today’s political diseases ✏️ Phil Tinline

God, these lovely, peaceful morning hours in Europe before that stupid cunt wakes up.

This might appear counterintuitive, but please read, share widely and if you can, help. Ofcom will never act against GB News if nobody tells them when the rules are being broken. So let’s tell them.

I'd urge everyone to read this. We demonstrate that GB News is a blatant mouthpiece for Reform UK. It routinely, systematically and blatantly breaches Ofcom's rules. And Ofcom has utterly failed to do anything about it.

SPECIAL INVESTIGATION 🚨 Read Alan Rusbridger's report on how GB News effectively became Reform TV @arusbridger.bsky.social FREE TO READ 🔓️ buff.ly/VKnNVEU

They said it would take 193 years to clean London’s air. We did it in nine. 💨 London has now met legal limits for nitrogen dioxide air pollution.

As I am fond of saying, Britain leads the world in offshore wind power and for god's sake the govt need to do 2 things. One is to run ads saying Windmills Are Beautiful And Look At All This Power That They Make For Us, and the second is force the electricity companies to lower bills drastically

Wholesale electricity was nearly free overnight because of wind power. Why isn't that headline news on #r4today?

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Sorry, couldn't resist.

Now we've Taken Back Control, the likes of the Sun and Mail are demanding we unquestioningly support a mad American president ✏️ Rats in a Sack 🐀

The Allister Heath headline generator is so convincing, it’s almost as unhinged as the real thing – 23 absurdly Heathian favourites (H/T @martinnicholls.bsky.social) www.thepoke.com/2026/03/02/a...

Reform are in denial about why they lost by 12% in Gorton & Denton (60% white, 80% UK-born) after losing by 11% in Caerphilly (98% white, 98% UK-born) to Plaid Cyrmu Both seats unusual in seeing more people vote than at last Welsh Senedd/last GE: more voters turned out to stop Reform than supoort

I've been unemployed for a few months. I now set myself pretend jobs to prevent the rot setting in. My son thinks this guy is funny, which is a good enough excuse to make something. Any requests?

Tracey Emin: A Second Life establishes beyond doubt her significance in British artistic history ✏️ Matthew d’Ancona

LIVE SOON ⏳ Is Labour done for? Political editor @jamesrball.com and Lucy Reade discuss the fallout from the Gorton and Denton by-election. open.substack.com/live-stream/...

You'd think Reform would be delighted that a white, working class plumber got elected and they beat the metropolitan elite university lecturer.

Yesterday, the magnificent Allister Heath headline generator demonstrated how thin the line between parody & reality can be. Today, Dick Littlejohn uses his Daily Mail column to explain that he 'knows' how much better 'things' were 25 years ago, because he has been watching old episodes of The Bill.

Morning.

In honour of the Sunday Telegraph's editor and offical maddest columnist, we have created the Allister Heath headline generator... stirring-fox-7e1fab.netlify.app

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Labour needs to find an authentic centre-left account of how to manage immigration and integration – and that means changing its policies too. @sundersays.bsky.social for @thenewworldmag.bsky.social www.thenewworld.co.uk/sunder-katwa...

I think @philtinline.bsky.social has hit in a really important idea here – working out why we keep getting trapped in doom loops is going to be crucial in the next few years. Working out how to escape them, even more so.

That’s the way to do it… www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cq...

Matt Goodwin's candidacy in Denton & Gorton "illuminates the balance of risks & rewards for Reform, presenting itself as a potential govt, in embracing the sharper edges of the online right." Our @sundersays.bsky.social for @thenewworldmag.bsky.social www.thenewworld.co.uk/sunder-katwa...

Muhammad Yusuf got completely floored by Victoria Derbyshire. #UKPolitics

If Trump were in a period of mental decline, his current behaviour is exactly what we would expect to see. Full article 🔗 buff.ly/DDpzCud

Giving Braverman the education brief is quite a choice for Reform. I was on an education commission with her once before she went completely mad and she knew absolutely nothing at all.

Measles spreads easily. Ensuring you and your loved ones are up to date with your MMR or MMRV jabs is the best protection. Contact your GP to get vaccinated.

Dispatches from the #GortonandDenton by-election: local community Facebook groups are being flooded with some really dodgy 💩. One for my neighbours in Levy and for investigative journalists - not sure whom to talk to about it. See a few screenshots here, and 🧵on why I think it's sus below.

You’ve taken your daughter to a birthday party. In the air, invisible, is the measles virus. Even if she survives, the virus may never be done with her. Elizabeth Bruenig on what measles can do to a body, to a brain, and to a family: