VAR Angela Rayner 🤝 key players should not be blocked

Go West! (But not yet)

what do we want! a big leap forward with the EU-UK summit! when do we want it! later this year!

Former Barcelona defender Gerard Piqué has been fined 200,000 euros for insider trading cincodias.elpais.com/mercados-fin...

how will Keir Starmer deliver his speech? wrong answers only.

You can't say anything these days

VARsenal

Want to know who is in Nigel Farage's inner circle? An FT deep dive: as.ft.com/r/6172c04b-c...

DEMOCRACY IN ACTION!

The first rule of British politics is learn how to count - slowly.

using the word psephological does not make you sound clever

The Greens win the Hackney mayoralty, famously a bellwether for England as a whole.

Victoria Atkins: "We know that mistakes were made in government. Rob was part of the team that made those mistakes."

hate it when the barista insists on a long chat

You don't change a pilot midflight

guess who this is

South Koreans are paying with their faces, instead of bank cards. The app is called Toss, so I guess you could call the users... www.ft.com/content/f48b...

The next Barack Obama has been found

"Fellow Labour MP Jim McMahon has been proposed for a knighthood, months after the former leader of Oldham Council was sacked as local government minister." How about we stop giving damehood/ knighthoods to serving MPs? It's just silly www.ft.com/content/b727...

It's David Attenborough's world, we're just watching it www.ft.com/content/82b3...

UK political scandal versus US political scandal

surely they should be allowed indoors

A lot of people go on about Patrick Radden Keefe and how he's an amazing reporter blah blah blah But the thing is they are right.

Restore Britain: the party seeking to outflank Farage on the right www.ft.com/content/f3bf...

Asteroid please.

In summary - all the parties have been found to have racist candidates, except the Lib Dems, because no one has bothered to check

FT exclusive: US Treasury secretary Scott Bessent had a fierce row with UK chancellor Rachel Reeves in Washington last month over her outspoken criticism of the Iran war, according to people familiar with the matter www.ft.com/content/85f8...

This doesn't make any sense. Broken windows theory (the evidence for which is questionable) is that the way to cut serious crime is by tackling low-level offences first. But serious crime has already been falling in the UK... so?

The best thing about this article (about a swinger's campsite in East Sussex) is that one commenter has found a way to blame the problem on the EU

In UNO that means you are losing.

Who are Reform UK voters? A good day to read these in-depth profiles of Farage voters (who don't all love Farage or hate net zero) www.ft.com/content/dbfe...

wondering how Farage would react if Labour said no new hospitals would be built in Reform constituencies?

The effects of our policies are so bad that we promise not to put them in your constituency is certainly an interesting campaign message

🚨What happens when a western firm is bought by a Chinese firm? The Chinese firm’s patent filings triple. www.ft.com/content/2b2f...

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Up Yours, Lenors!

Britain enters a new era - seven-party politics www.ft.com/content/6d97...

Picking an argument about tumble dryers on the sunniest day of the year 👌

Weird to hear Ian Hislop on HIGNFY say that Farage didn't have to declare the £5mn donation because he wasn't an MP The rules are pretty clear that he did need to have to declare it once he was elected!

I really would advise watching the video of the police arresting the Golders Green suspect before commenting about it. It can be found on here, but I’m not linking to the pieces I’ve seen which have it, because the takes in a number of ways are generally awful. That’s all I’m going to say.

When you're trying to plan a holiday but your companion is a moron

Graham Platner winning a Democratic senate primary *despite having a Nazi tattoo* is one of the clearest cases so far that charisma is the easiest path to success in modern politics (Piece from last year:) www.ft.com/content/2a5e...

Ok, so he's not denying that we could build a mined wall across the Channel

Reform UK ran a council for a year. Things were badly. Brilliant report by @jenwilliamsft.bsky.social www.ft.com/content/3c05...

Fact of the day - Mali is twice the size of Ukraine One of many reasons that the Russians are getting humiliated there: www.ft.com/content/9b9e...

I worry that the lesson some people on the left learned from Labour's antisemitism problem was not "Let's never do that again" but "It was all a lie, don't worry about it"

For context, the Serious Fraud Office has 600.

Please tell me this is the price for two barrels