How long before Farage gets his ear clipped in a fake assassination attempt?

Nobody who has watched Gary Neville’s phillipic is actually offended by it. Quite a few people think there is advantage to be gained by pretending to be offended. Spot the difference.

Is it possible for a dictator to rule the USA under martial law? I guess we’re about to find out.

Who thought the revolution would start at Asda in Broadford, Isle of Skye?

Trump has licensed every dickhead in the USA - where there are a lot - to be loud and proud. Having been class chumps for centuries they’re seizing the day. There’s always a knock-on in the Anglozone, and now every UK dawn can bring another prats’ day out. It’ll pass, or we will.

“You still wake up sometimes, don't you, Donald? You wake up in the dark and hear the silence of the generals.”

A key part of Farage’s message is to dress his fetid racism up as something else, something that is at worst justified, and may even be elevated. Hence his hysterical response to Starmer today. And why it’s vital to continue calling him what he is: a vicious saloon-bar racist.

Please let Trump pick himself in the next US Ryder Cup team. You know he wants to.

On the MAGA knuckledraggers at Ryder Cup, people saying “golf is better than this”, “golf means love and peace”. In England when I was young, Jews were blackballed by golf clubs. Blacks, Irish and working class didn’t bother to pick up an iron.

MAGA America’s obscene behaviour towards Europeans at the Ryder Cup is a foretaste of the World Cup next summer.

“Ted, have you seen Celia, my favourite cygnet, on the lake recently?”

Farage is now comparing paracetamol with thalidomide. Before you know it, he’ll be insisting that we suffered from EU membership, and don’t want or need any immigrants. But nobody is stupid enough to vote for that, are they?

Trump announcing his 2016 presidential campaign. The escalators never forget.

The Isak affair really buggered Newcastle’s pre-season - it’s taken 20% off their early form.

Stop dignifying and normalising the Farage/Robinson rabble with terms like “movement” and “protest”. They’re a purposeless crowd of criminals, misfits and losers temporarily bound together by dumb prejudices. Mostly beyond redemption. So don’t try to redeem them. #fascism101

Love that pretentious prick Elon Musk telling the Brown Shorts in London today to prepare to fight and die. “Er right Elon. Just wanted a piss up, a takeaway and a one-sided race riot actually. Can we put the dying bit on hold?”

Having doubts about the destination of MLK’s arc of the moral universe.

This seems worse than McCarthyism. The mad people are madder and more numerous, and the dissenting voices in authority are even more mute.

BBC Radio 4 Today is completely misrepresenting - to an audience which had previously hardly heard of him - the views and influence of an American far right activist. Shameful.

Cui bono?

“Thank you for your attention to this matter” is a fingernail raking a blackboard. The moron read it somewhere and was so impressed, thought, that’s what grownups say, and now he uses it after being passed the ketchup.

Belarus national football team is obliged to play World Cup matches abroad in empty stadiums because of their government’s support for Russia in Ukraine. Shouldn’t that now also apply to the USA team?

“Ted, have you ever paid any tax at all?”

Young Reform Androids. While it’s true that none of them is a woman, we should be more concerned with the fact that none of them is a human being.

Trump is now threatening with war half of the venue cities of next year’s World Cup. That’ll put VAR controversies in perspective.

Rayner and the party will both quickly recover, and be reunited soon enough. But no more Mr Nice Guy, please? Pounce on every pinch of r/w sleaze, there’s enough to choose from. They want hard ball, give them hard ball.

If the watchdog advises Rayner’s resignation for a minor Stamp Duty error, from this week there must be zero tolerance of Tory and Reformist tax dodging and grifting. Cut them down like stands of wheat.

Do all the staff at BBCNews, GBNews, the Telegraph, the Mail, and even the Sun, look fondly at those gangs of drooling knuckle-draggers gibbering about migrants, and think, “those are my people”?

Farage campaigns to leave EC. Result, UK economic decline. Farage supports Trump. Result, USA tariffs on UK trade, and economic decline. Farage tells USA to impose even harsher tariffs on British goods. Result..? Who is paying this man?

Strange that the BBC and press have nothing to say about Farage today.

The American actor and director Robin Wright has moved to the UK. “America is a shitshow and moving here is liberating,” she tells Variety. “I love being in the UK. There’s a freedom of self here. People are so kind. They’re living.” Can we swap her for Farage.

Is this “Elon Musk” character on Twitter just one big bot? Impossible to belief that a sentient human could deliver so much rancid bilge.

A state. A loch. A pin. Yorick.

Reform thinks that you are entitled to none of these. But you’ll get a flag instead.

In case anyone stateside is wondering, nobody over here calls Donald Trump the “President of Europe”. Nobody. “Ce pédophile orange, gros et stupide,” maybe. “President”? Never.

May as well accept that with the Tories in freefall, the Mail, Telegraph, Express, Murdoch empire and large sections of BBC would back Attila the Hun to overthrow Labour. They want only to extinguish the last flames of UK social democracy.

Most people will be simply embarrassed by this short outbreak of flagshagging in England. It’s about as unEnglish as you can get. It’s also charmless, impotent and ugly. It’s a footnote in a satirical history, along with hula hoops and Liz Truss.

The 21st century’s version of Imelda Marcos’s shoe collection.

The weather in this (undisclosed) part of northwest Britain is now so unrelentingly good that most of the rest of the inhabited planet will try to move here. We are going to be California or Provence, but far more beautiful and with distilleries.

No number 7? Traditional right wing isn’t right wing enough for this lot. They’ll have all 11 players on that flank, jostling each other off the pitch, over the stand, across the road, through the supermarket and into the chemical waste of the old canal.

It doesn’t fit the current narrative, but Liverpool - the city and the football club - have an unusually long and persistent tradition of popular racism.

So Putin didn’t even accept taking part of eastern Ukraine, in Trump’s “each side gives up something” formula. That’s because he wants it all, and with Trump around he thinks he’ll get it.

Reform should take this as a valuable lesson. If you don’t want juries of your peers to rule that your throat should be cut, try to be less hideous people.

The secret ingredient of Strictly Come Dancing is a modern fascist public schoolboy cosplaying as Dick van Dyke cosplaying as cockney Bert in Mary Poppins.

Very sorry to hear of Sean Ó Drisceoil. A truly good guy who did sterling work at Sabhal Mor Ostaig and who always went out of his way to help, in Skye or Lewis or where his heart lay, in Galway. RIP.

Newcastle v Liverpool at St James on 25 August has all the makings of a placid, after-you-Cecil, no account match with little or nothing riding on it. The ground will be half empty.

BBCR4: “Those parts of Ukraine that might be handed to Russia.” No no no… Trump has no authority to hand independent nations to Russia, and the Ukraine govt has said it will not do so. The Today programme, however, clearly has handed itself to Russia.

There have never been so many parties - from the Tories out to Reform, Retire, Reset, Resign, Regurgitate, whatever - all competing for the racist vote. They grow a little eco-system of their own, HQed in Musk’s Twitter.

That item before the window to his left? It’s the actual Club World Cup that he stole from Chelsea after gate-crashing their presentation! Everything glittery he sees, he wants. Mine mine mine… Chelsea apparently have a (completely devalued) replica.