The far right mega-influencers now openly encouraging Trump to "ignore" and "openly defy" federal judges in order to deploy military troops against American citizens. If only we had a word to describe that sort of regime.

Michael Heseltine lays in to the current Conservative Party for cosying up to “rightwing equivalents to the fascists of the 1930s”, Farage and Reform : observer.co.uk/news/nationa...

Trump admin officials continue to call every criticism a “threat” and immediately go to federal law enforcement or the military as their first option to respond to it - suppressing the right to dissent against the government by threatening people with incarceration for speech.

No one in Reform U.K. Ltd knows Nathan Gill the ex Reform leader in Wales who was convicted of taking bribes to promote Putin’s Russia. Here is Richard Tice not knowing him.

Being accountable to an international court means our Government has to answer to them if it tries to undermine your human rights. Be very suspicious of any UK politician who wants to remove that check on their powers. Share this and speak up for your freedoms.

Bloody hell. The French PM has just resigned!

Insiders say it is "inconceivable" that Farage wouldn't have known of Gill's foreign trips because he "micromanaged" them. So Byline Times have asked him about this and what he knows of Voloshyn, Medvedchuk, and Manafort. We haven't heard back 10/12

Chris Philp on R4 yesterday making 3 false statements about the ECHR and the GFA. 1. “The ECHR is mentioned only in the Multi-Party Agreement not the UK/Ireland Agreement.”. Wrong: the latter agreement requires the UK to support the former: they can’t be pulled apart like that.

Once you get into the habit... UK Tories suggest to cut development aid spending to 0.1% GNI. It used to be 0.7% under Cameron, then Johnson cut it 'temporarily' to 0.5%, and Starmer further to 0.3%. Though this is but an opposition party's promise, the quick disappearance of UK aid is stunning.

Badenoch's intro video is scenes from the Robinson march interspersed with footage of migrant boats.

You’d have thought that in 2025 this sort of thing would have become long since extinct. There is at this point a certain antique charm to it.

CEO is probably the only class of job where AI could perform better than its human counterpart. But then chimpanzees would perform considerably better than either.

Sorry I keep talking about this but I’m genuinely alarmed by the growing narrative that poverty is a cause of racism. First it’s super insulting of people on low incomes. Second it normalises & excuses racist takes. And third it deters real action on racism by shifting the whole focus to economics.

TLDR: the invention of species classification was essentially an essentialist and creationist scala natura idea from a pre-Darwinian era. It has some utility. But often does not, and when wedded to it we reinforce pre-evolutionary ideology. This includes in basic biology...

The Conservative Party's lurch deeper into xenophobic authoritarianism to catch up with the Reform Party means that Farage will inevitably move even further towards radicalisation to remain distinct from the Conservatives who will then lurch even deeper into..

The only appropriate way to headline this is: “Further proof that the country has lost its effing mind’.

The Cosa Nostra ripped up the traditional playbook for running a business. But we were never idiotic enough to celebrate their entrepreneurial flair.

We flounced out of the EU on the say-so of politicians who lied to us. And what a total shitshow that’s turned out to be. The polar opposite of what they promised. Now the call to flounce out of the ECHR. By the same people. Telling the same lies. Has the country been kicked in the head by a horse?

Palantir has pulled out of involvement with the UK Digital ID card, according to an interview with their UK CEO on Times Radio. They’re concerned about the reputational damage of being involved with an unpopular Starmer policy.

Nine jobs Nigel Farage hasn't updated his ­register of interests in months. Potentially hundreds of thousands of ££££ from his many "outside interests" remain undeclared observer.co.uk/news/politic...

Who needs peer review? The Trump administration promises easy access to federal grants to universities that agree to change their rules and processes to align with administration priorities. If your university signs this, it's time to start moving.

Jenrick allies are collecting no confidence letters from Conservative MPs calling for party leader Kemi Badenoch to quit, Hard to work out the strategy of these people. If it’s to copy Reform policies to lure back voters, it won’t work - they’ll go for the real deal.

It tells you everything you need to know about British politics that the only people who have ever had to apologise for Nigel Farage's long history of racism are the people who dare to call it what it actually is www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/nigel-fara...

This story is now big news all over the world... except in the UK.

Reform UK’s Nigel Farage with the Russian Ambassador (that he denied meeting), and with Oleg Voloshyn's wife Nadia Borodi, Voloshyn bribed Nathan Gill. Farage is still silent. It’s deafening. #ReformRussianBribes

This is not the first time a close associate of Farage has been revealed as a Kremlin influencer. By 2018, his aide Kevin Ellul Bonici had been revealed as a Russian propagandist, and the Russian embassy visits of Arron Banks and Wigmore had been exposed by @carolecadwalla.bsky.social 8/12

Byline Times has spoken to several people familiar with Farage and Gill when they were both MEPs in this crucial period. Insiders describe the two of them as "thick as thieves" 5/12 bylinetimes.com/2025/10/04/t...

An array of photos, interviews and videos of Farage and Gill completely debunk Zia Yusuf's claim that "most people in the senior leadership team have never really heard of the guy”. But there's much more 2/12

🔴NEW🔴 Thread 🧵 @bylinetimes.bsky.social can now reveal that, during the crucial period when convicted Reform leader Nathan Gill was most active, working directly with Russian President Vladimir Putin’s most senior ally in Ukraine, he was also one of Nigel Farage’s closest confidantes 1/12

Lucky for Nigel Farage that he never met that bloke who took bribes from the Russians, otherwise the media would be all over it.

In absurd bargain news, my latest book NOTORIOUS is just 99p on a time limited Kindle deal so rob me people. www.amazon.co.uk/gp/aw/d/B0F2...

The time has come to mute all those accounts that reply to anyone with: 'So you're absolutely fine with a Reform majority at the next election'. This sort of lazy, insta-response approach to political discourse is exactly what has made our politics so dysfunctional.

I would add one thing: we are bombarded with two claims: 1) the UK can leave the ECHR without lowering human rights protection and 2) the ECHR significantly limits what the government can do and hence the UK has to leave it. These cannot both be true. /1

Oh my god. Have I Got News For You just referred to this completely false claim as a fact!!

History repeats. That’s why in Europe we have the ECHR. 🇪🇺

.......I just looked at twitter for the first time in a while and literally the first thing I saw was a Matt Goodwin tweet complaining that British TV ads have too many black people

oh wow. this finally happened to me. a piece I wrote lifted wholesale by the Daily Mail, lightly rewritten and without any links back to my original piece of writing. most amazingly, a weird use of the word 'pacing' suggests to me that they did it with ChatGPT. archive.ph/LFmzR

Support for staying in the ECHR has been rising (probably a Farage effect of solidifying the majority who oppose him, maybe Trump osmosis effect). Media and political opinion on the right believes there is a strong public desire to quit. Badenoch has now committed the Conservatives to quitting.

This is not just theoretical now.

My husband was detained by ICE today Juan Muñoz, an American citizen, father of 2, and local government official, was peacefully protesting w. other elected officials. He was assaulted and taken away I have had zero contact or updates since #SOS @duckworth.senate.gov @durbin.senate.gov

Just heard Chris Philp on BBC’s Today programme explaining why the Tories want to leave the ECHR. He claimed ECHR isn’t mentioned in Belfast Agreement - which is simply untrue. The UK govt agreed to incorporate it into NI law & give direct access to the courts (Strand 3). Why no BBC fact-check?

Breaking on MSNBC: An FBI agent in the Washington field office has been fired for refusing to arrest and perp walk James Comey. This news was first reported by Reuters.

President Macron: “We were very naive to leave our public space to social media networks controlled by US or Chinese companies that don’t share our interests and not interested in survival of our democracies.” www.youtube.com/watch?v=MggN...

Conservative conference starts in Manchester tomorrow, and ahead of it a series of Tories have told me that while high drama and regicide are unlikely - for now - they face more prosaic and possibly more damaging foes: apathy and irrelevance. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

If you needed more proof that the coup in the US has Russian fingerprints all over it: cybersecurity trainings are now officially too woke for real warriors. "Mandatory Department training will be directly linked to warfighting or otherwise be consolidated, reduced in frequency, or eliminated."

A policy of leaving the ECHR, something that still sounds dangerously insane, is now the policy of parties garnering a combined approx 45% of support in the polls - and both Rfm and the Tories now seem content that winning power alone would be a mandate to do so.

Just had time to properly read this brilliant piece by @benansell.bsky.social. It left me even more convinced than I already was that what he calls Labour's (and indeed the Conservative's) "prole-whisperers" are horribly mistaken if they genuinely think chasing after Reform voters is the way to go.

After clashing with Maurice Glasman recently, I've come to realise just how pernicious he and his Blue Labour movement are. We could discuss his chumminess with Steve Bannon and JD Vance, endless pandering to the far right and evident hatred of the Labour left. But there's something even worse. 🧵

This is his repeated attacks on what he calls the "lanyard class". Who are the terrible people who wear lanyards? Doctors & nurses, care workers, teachers, managers, administrators, secretaries. The people who hold society together, who keep everything running, who do the jobs he wouldn't stoop to.

You might fine our deep dive into Glasman and his ties to Trumpland (particularly networks close to Thiel) interesting. We interviewed him in the Lords and it was.... enlightening bylinetimes.com/2025/09/25/b...