Dorset, England

Interesting. 38 Degrees are currently running a petition to get Palantir out of the NHS...

I've been told that Matthew McGregor, currently chief executive of campaign group 38 Degrees, will go into Downing St as Burnham's director of political strategy www.ft.com/content/cba0...

I've just seen about 40 kids sneak into watch 'The Odyssey' without paying by hiding in a giant wooden coat.

The water industry is braced for Andy Burnham to set out plans to take control of Thames Water as the utility warned of “material uncertainty” over its long-term future. www.ft.com/content/7f5a...

The water industry is braced for Andy Burnham to set out plans to take control of Thames Water as the utility warned of “material uncertainty” over its long-term future. www.ft.com/content/7f5a...

Guardian: Nigel Farage told senior figures in Reform UK he would need “a million a year” to cover lost earnings if he stood for parliament in the 2024 general election, sources have told the Guardian, raising further questions about why he was given £5m by a crypto billionaire.

Keir Starmer’s parting words to Kemi Badenoch at his final PMQs

A very emotional PMQs. History will remember Keir Starmer much more kindly than the present; he was unfairly vilified with no justification. A decent man who did a lot of good overall for the country. Kemi Badenoch got the tone spot on too; a bit of humour with mischief but also kind words too

Sir Ed Davey at PMQs: “can I also pick up a remark from the opposition about the by-election we're about to see in Clacton. I have to tell her I cannot back joke figures with ridiculous policies, which is why I'm supporting Count Binface”

Keir Starmer’s parting words to Kemi Badenoch at his final PMQs

wry response from Keir Starmer as he says he did scores of sessions of PMQs as premier adding: “I have answered, or at least given answers, 2,800 times”

looks like Thames Water has given a 14% pay rise to its chief executive and a 26% rise to its finance director

this is a very striking sign of the times in the Tory Party 2026

The UK squandered £10bn on personal protective equipment during the Covid-19 pandemic, a public inquiry has said, as it hit out at the contentious “VIP lane” for procuring masks and gowns as “unfair” and “inherently biased” www.ft.com/content/2a56...

The thing about Kemi Badenoch's purge of any Conservative member to the left of Enoch Powell is that she's so close to a Tory revival if she only realised it. All she needs to do is to lead a party that is not obviously mad and wait for Reform to crumble, but she can't even manage that

The current leadership contest at Unite might appear from the outside to simply be an internal power struggle between two rival leftwingers But the outcome has wider implications for the financial health of Labour, which relies on the union for much-needed funding. www.ft.com/content/2df4...

the first-ever Plaid Cymru first minister of Wales has challenged Andy Burnham to prove his commitment to devolution by giving an array of new powers to the Welsh administration Rhun Ap Iorwerth accused Burnham of breaking a past promise to overhaul the Barnett formula www.ft.com/content/a1fe...

You'd think the intelligence services having to raise the national terror threat level because of a surge in Nazi terrorism might have been a bigger story

We should never take these people seriously when they talk about "free speech on campus," ever again.

Nigel Farage Says He Is Being Treated Like 'A War Criminal' By The Media www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/nigel-...

The President just announced a 20% toll on all cargo shipped through Hormuz, payable...to the US>

Whoa… this could actually be something

Democratic Senator Elizabeth Warren has called on JPMorgan Chase boss Jamie Dimon to say whether he lobbied the UK government against a tax on bankers’ bonuses on the advice of child sex offender Jeffrey Epstein www.ft.com/content/4f49...

Crypto billionaire Christopher Harborne was granted a lengthy pause in a legal battle because of severe illness, a period in which he gave £12mn to Nigel Farage’s Reform UK, court documents show www.ft.com/content/b5b3...

Always think those look like a sea urchin on a stick. (Which is probably a seafood delicacy somewhere.)

Europe’s slow electrification is a ‘major mistake’ www.ft.com/content/fbeb...

allotment

Nigel Farage has sent an email to Reform UK supporters tonight saying “we don’t know whether there were any political motives” behind Ann Widdecombe’s murder. But police have already ruled that out, saying there was “no information” to suggest the murder was “politically motivated”.

river Thames at midnight

shared without comment - via the Politico politics email

BBC reporting a murder investigation into the death of Ann Widdecombe www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cp...

"I'm just going to interrupt you there Chris, because we're hearing there's a result in from Tunbridge Wells, and... as expected, that's a Lib Dem Hold."

"Perhaps most concerningly of all for Nigel Farage, a full 40% of those who voted Reform at the last election today consider him to be sleazy" - YouGov

this seems to be key

Two baby beaver kits have arrived at Ealing's Paradise Fields. Reintroduced in 2023 with Ealing Wildlife Group and Citizen Zoo, beavers are already stopping Greenford station from flooding and saving us money on infrastructure. Here’s what they’ve been up to 🦫

Daily Mail Poll.

So they're all taking this really well

the FT has made a video about Palantir: www.youtube.com/watch?v=kJ5X...

Spokesperson for William Hill said: “Count Binface continues to garner support in our Clacton by-election market and we now make him a 7/2 shot to steal the Kent seat from Nigel Farage, down from 5/1 yesterday."

the FT interviews Count Binface www.ft.com/content/e68d...

Arthur's Seat

A Brit in the semis of Wimbledon, England still in the World Cup and Nigel Farage spending the summer arguing with a bin. Oh this happy breed of men, this little world, This precious stone set in the silver sea

absolutely spot on re Nigel Farage’s speech - from Tom Peck

imagine if Count Binface won in Clacton

Confirming that the Green Party will not stand in Clacton at this by-election, Green Party Leader Zack Polanski said, “This is a desperate stunt from a desperate politician whose lifetime of grifting is finally catching up with him”

Me, a rough tough fat little middle aged woman: Regularly walking through London with a laptop, phone, bank cards etc etc just for work like a normal adult Big strapping alpha blokes in Nige's imagination: hewp, is too skewwy to wear watch, pwease tell me how many bongs der time is mister big bens

How weak are Farage's watch straps? Does he tie timepieces to his arm with rubber bands?

Currently wearing like 48 watches up to my armpit and enough necklaces to look like white Mr T and marching up and down the cylce path in Easton yelling "MUG ME YOU COWARDS", and no one will come me because they think I'm mental but I guess I'm just built different. 💪

After all a monkey won in Hartlepool.