Coincidence corner: Nigel Farage and crypto. From the new Private Eye, out now.

All of the companies that make the software I use are increasing their prices, to account for an "investment" in AI. I'm sat here imagining how my clients would feel if I added 30% to each invoice, because I "really got into gambling".

#RemyReviews Billy Wilder's 'The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes' (1970) 🔍released 55 years ago OTD "...white canaries, missing midgets, hooded monks, German spies, ruined castles, a steam-punk submarine, the Loch Ness Monster!" my #movie #review @framerated.co.uk 🎻 medium.com/framerated/t...

Lobbyist / ex Tory MP Ben Howlett has been done by an undercover sting. As ever, the most revealing thing is how very very cheap it is buy access in British media/politics — and especially how Howlett controls one of the biggest UK pol Twitter accounts! democracyforsale.substack.com/p/breaking-o...

Samara Weaving has reached the next level of the nightmarish game in READY OR NOT 2: HERE I COME. Watch the official trailer NOW!

Great culture can save lives. Literally. Amazing letter in today’s @thetimes.com about Tom Stoppard

Sammy Davis Jr.’s Top 10 Films 🎵 With the Sammy Davis Jr. estate, we’re sharing excerpts from the entertainer’s 1980 memoir ‘Hollywood In A Suitcase’ and highlighting his top ten favorite films. See what Sammy had to say about each selection: boxd.it/QkNBE/detail

As Jonathan Gullis joins Reform UK, it's only fair to remind people of this. All forgotten, is it, Dickie? ~AA

Sounds like a must-listen in the midst of ghost story season... www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

There’s a reason I will probably never have a stuffing recipe in my cookbooks, and it’s because I can’t beat Vincent Price’s.

A story Stoppard told several times, in several places:

“Well, I learned one thing. ... This works good on clothes, but don’t try it on your dog.”

And here's David Coburn again in the European Parliament accusing the EU of "unwarranted imperialism in the Ukraine" Coburn denies taking any money from Russia to make these statements www.youtube.com/watch?v=52W7...

And Here's David Coburn on Russian state television accusing the EU of "interfering in the Russian sphere of influence" on Ukraine www.youtube.com/watch?v=hrJS...

Here's UKIP's former Scottish leader David Coburn, who has denied taking Russian bribes after being named in Whatsapp messages between Nathan Gill and a pawn of the Putin administration, being applauded by Gill for arguing against Ukraine's entry to the EU

Left: Luke Johnson, Chairman of Gail's Bakery, who was pro-Brexit, criticises Labour for not understanding the private sector and how wealth is created Right: The thing he voted for, Brexit, costs the UK £90 billion in lost tax revenue every year #BBCQT

It’s the fact that he has a Chateau in France 🇫🇷 what is it about none of the f*ckers wanting to live in this country. We need to have a full investigation into Brexit Funding and foreign money in our elections.

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Next time someone asks what's the matter with Musk's Twitter, show them this: An account in India, amplifying a billionaire from South Africa being cheered by an Irish passport holder (using an alias) to encourage civil unrest in the UK.

My Tory opponent from the 2015 General Election: “the fraudster embezzled £9,018 from now dissolved Revival FM. Polson, the Christian radio station's financial director used the charity's direct debit card to pay for a casino outing. news.sky.com/story/ex-eas...

This is Rosie. We do not know what she is asking for, but we need you to give it to her right away. 13/10 please hurry (IG: rosalinathepittie)

Imagine TV News covering this farmer protest - banned, but turned up anyway, grinding capital to a halt - if it were about Palestine or climate change, not inheritance tax. Would they present protesters as heroes? Or showing "I need to get to work" and "me auld mam missed her hip operation" voxpops?

"For a century, the BBC has been our classroom, our concert hall, our stage, our storyteller and our window on the world. Politicians need reminding: its much more than a news channel."

I’m a past winner of the Orwell Prize & won partly because I exposed Vote Leave’s unlawful activities. Michael Gove was its co-convener & refused to answer a single q. He’s now a judge of the prize & our world is truly one that Orwell would recognise bylinetimes.com/2025/11/25/m...

It's not their responsibility to win the trust of any one group, it's their responsibility to report the news honestly, impartially and accurately

Gibb; “ I had no editorial role whatsoever at the Jewish Chronicle”. Lee Harpin, reporter at the paper; “RG made a habit of calling into the office on print days to check up on what stories were topping the news list, and offering a view’”

Happy Birthday to the legendary Billy Connolly who turns 83 today, and who from a young age realised the importance of #Libraries. 'When I was an unhappy little boy, going to the library changed my life. It may even have saved it.' Happy Birthday Big Yin. 🎉🎂🌟❤️

I mean why TF is Gove a Lord now? He spent Covid plotting with Cummings and grifting his sorry arse off, having already lied himself inside out over Brexit - another reason our country is in such a mess. He gets a peerage. We get to pay for it all. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

The only reason Gill stopped being the Reform UK leader in Wales was because he failed to win a seat in the 2021 Senedd election. Zia Yusuf keeps trying to make this sound like this is ancient history, and Reform washed their hands of him, but nothing is further from the truth.

Good trouble, a young lady starts reading some Charlie Kirk’s quotes to MAGA Congressmen who had his pictures outside of their office. “I saw you guys had a Charlie Kirk picture outside so I thought I’d read you some of his quotes ….”

The first time I saw Christopher Lee was as a guest archer on THE GOLDEN SHOT - they even showed a clip from DRACULA HAS RISEN FROM THE GRAVE.

Boris Johnson didn't apologise to Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, even when she told him in person the lasting impact his comments about her had on her detention in Iran, her husband tells the BBC

“Religion” here in the sense that Anders Breivik understood it… Why does the media have to pretend to be surprised by bigotry, when it’s always the same nonsense? www.bbc.com/news/article...

'Quatermass IV'. Daily Mirror report on the never produced BBC continuation of the Quatermass saga. (22nd November 1972). The script would eventually see the light of day in 1979, with John Mills playing the Professor for Euston Films.

Just tell them that they must be based in the UK & pay all taxes here.

Richard Tice, March 2025: "I have never met Nathan Gill, and he has never had anything to do with Reform,"

Word of the day is ‘quockerwodger’ (19th century): a puppet politician whose strings are pulled entirely by someone else.

Key points: Met police say investigation into other politicians is ongoing. Gill sought to recruit multiple MEPs including 4 British ones. The judge gave strongest possible quotes about the gravity of the crime and the damage done to public trust.

Analysis of the right-wing channel’s output suggests its pundits and presenters have generally presented the Epstein allegations as a distraction, or a non-issue for the US President over recent days @bylinetimes.bsky.social bylinetimes.com/2025/11/20/g...

The Covid enquiry has concluded that the reality we all witnessed *was* the actual reality, and the version which Johnson, Cummings et al insisted was happening was a total fabrication. It’s incredible that we have to have lengthy enquiries after the event to establish consensus reality now.

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If you're trying to convince your friends to spend time on Bluesky rather than X, maybe show them this. X is not "the public town square" or about "free speech." It's "just what Elon Musk wants you to see." If you see stuff he doesn't like he'll step in to make sure you don't see it for long.

Thousands of rare American recordings — some 100 years old — go online for all to enjoy A collaboration between UC Santa Barbara and the nonprofit Dust-to-Digital Foundation laist.com/news/arts-an...

Having Johnson & Cummings in Downing Street when Covid struck was, just like Brexit, an entirely avoidable disaster caused largely by utterly appalling journalism. And now exactly the same clowns, arses & bigots with bylines are rolling out the red carpet for Farage. www.thetimes.com/article/1b15...

Cummings worked very, very hard at being the mysterious and aloof genius at Oxford. The sort of Hamletesque chap who makes a big brouhaha about "wanting to be alone with my thoughts." An absolute poseur. Clever people don't do that.

UK Covid Inquiry concludes: 23,000 deaths could've been prevented if the March 2020 lockdown had been imposed just a week earlier. No mistake by any prime minister in living memory has caused so many deaths in the UK. The tragic and catastrophic price of Boris Johnson's incompetence & negligence.

Eat out to Help Out was killing people, but they “kept it out of the news”.

This is what happens when you put a preening, lazy, populist, dilettante in charge of a country. Johnson was completely out of his depth and more concerned with his pathetic perceived popularity than leading this country through the greatest crisis since 1939. www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cm...