Great reporting from The Times on Farage’s income and relationship with George Cottrell www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/... If you’re interested in exploring Farage’s financial interests more, check out Farage’s entry on Accountability Now accountabilitynow.fly.dev/watch/intere...

Dodgy shops on your local high street? They're still paying rent. And what if they're actually *pricing out* the legitimate cafes, restaurants, thanks to the option of "simply not paying your taxes" and therefore having more budget to pay landlords. www.londoncentric.media/p/who-wants-...

Burnham’s new chief of staff was chief executive of lobbying firm Flint It’s like the British political elite is addicted to conflicts of interest www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

On X (for work) and spotted a GoodAd.jpg

FT Exclusive: A KPMG report on how AI is being used by businesses across the world exaggerated adoption of the technology with bogus case studies that appear to have been based on AI hallucinations. ft.trib.al/UweHRk2

Imagine having a megaphone that large and pretending you’re silenced.

New updates to the MP register of interests: - Nigel Farage (Reform) receives over £14,000 for 6hrs work from Rupert Murdoch's Sky News Australia - Rupert Lowe (Restore Britain) registers more income from X (1/2) accountabilitynow.fly.dev/watch/intere...

Some quick thoughts on Q1 2026 donations data from @electoralcommission.org.uk 🧵 HEADLINE STATS Total: £20.7m (excl. public funds) Biggest recipient: Reform £9.3m Biggest donor: Ben Delo £4m to Reform Donors giving £1m+: £9.2m (44%) from 3 donors Donors giving £250k+: £12.7m (61%) from 14 donors

61% of all political donations in the last quarter came from just 14 people Reform took in £9.3m from a handful of super rich donors British democracy is being bought. We urgently need action to take the money out of our politics

New updates to Reform and Restore Britain MPs' register of interests, on Accountability Now: - Robert Jenrick receives a £50,000 donation from Michael Cohen - Rupert Lowe receives over £6,5000 from X for 10 hours work accountabilitynow.fly.dev/watch/intere...

Nothing will change in the UK until the press is taken in hand, example #763,859

New idea. Next time we publish a report on a politician, I’ll keep the politician’s name blanked out for a week, and let everyone take positions before they find out who it is.

This may be my favourite argument ever advanced by a politician:

Great headline from BBC News

This is horrific www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... Well done her for fighting it but no one should have to go through this

How BBC Radio York covered York City's title-winning equaliser.

The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) has committed more targeted killings of journalists than any other government’s military since the CPJ began documenting them in 1992.

Dan Loeb has tens of billions of dollars under manangement btw lol

It gets worse: No 10 also tried to get Matthew Doyle - a close friend of Mandelson - a job working for him in DC. Remember - Doyle was asked by PM to investigate Mandelson's responses about links to Jeffrey Epstein & concluded he was "satisfied". A *clear* conflict of interests.

I know this is me still mourning a long dead world but it does feel remarkable that, not that long ago, British papers on the right would have run editorials and columns arguing that Hungary showed that only a solid, reliable centre-right party could defeat dangerous populists, but now? [crickets]

Crispin Odey abandons £79mn libel case against the FT over sexual misconduct claims ft.trib.al/ltCxjpR

How did you spend the Easter weekend? Someone spent it registering new accounts with London Centric to post rapid-fire comments in support of billionaire landlord Asif Aziz and his company Criterion Capital.

The 30 Rockification of real life is nearing completion

A company founded by a man who doesn't believe in democracy and which is aiding Trump's destruction of the American republic and whose UK arm is run by the grandson of Britain's most famous fascist, which helped him get his job, criticises "ideological groups." www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

NOT MY WORDS CAROL. THE WORDS OF ZEROGPT

This is exactly why so many transparency campaigners are calling for crypto donations to be banned

Sources told @theobserveruk.bsky.social that crypto donations had “come into a wallet controlled by a permissible donor” and were then turned into fiat, adding “this makes it much harder to track”. observer.co.uk/news/nationa...

NEW: Farage stops using Cameo www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

Least aware religious fanatic I’ve ever seen.

Dark money isn’t just a party political problem Main voice in this is ‘a forum for concerned members’ - actually Restore Trust is a Tufton street operation that refuses to declare its funders Incredible how much of our politics has been warped like this www.thetimes.com/uk/environme...

Excl: Reform UK is planning a purge of Whitehall’s most senior civil servants if it wins the next general election Nigel Farage’s party is proposing to sack virtually all the permanent secretaries and directors general, @theobserveruk.bsky.social has learned 👇 observer.co.uk/news/nationa...

This is one of those things that, like the in-door smoking ban, is proportionate and absolutely inevitable - and will prove very popular on introduction - but will still be frustrated for years by industry lobbying and lily-livered government.

This is a good lesson for journalists: Use plain language to state true things clearly.

i, for one, am delighted that we finally have a definition of “woke”

What if these straight men, one of whom was a prolific abuser of girls and one of whom is accused of sexually harassing multiple women, were gay? Thats satire, baby!

NEW: I wrote about how the far-right press and usually pro-Trump conspiracy outlets are covering the Iran war, and I have to say, it's a bit more interesting than I anticipated. For once, Alex Jones has found a news event that he thinks is both real and worrying: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

To reiterate: Having been fired as US Ambassador, Peter Mandelson asked for HALF A MILLION POUNDS as a severance settment

Not the big story from the Mandelson files, but I just find this astonishing. Here is Peter Mandelson, having been fired as US ambassador in September (and presumably knowing what else could come out re Epstein), making threatening noises about employment rights and how he "expects to be treated"

Excellent. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Completely mad proposal from the Commons to hide the names of MPs staff who have parliamentary passes which could prove invaluable to vested interests looking to buy access to Westminster. Staff members taking hospitality + freebies would no longer be identified.

SCOOP: Proton Mail provided Swiss authorities with payment data that the FBI then used to determine who was allegedly behind an anonymous account affiliated with the Stop Cop City movement in Atlanta, according to a court record reviewed by 404 Media.

The Matt Goodwin crash-out continues, and now it's international! He's writing in The Spectator Australia, showing more class as he complains about a "middle-aged cat lady" shouting 'GB News' at him on the doorstep www.spectator.com.au/2026/03/did-...

This perfectly illustrates my point that the British tabloids are aiming at a US audience. There like 5 people in the UK who think about this. But it is huge among US evangelicals. British politicians need to ignore UK tabloids, as UK tabloids are talking to an audience in the US for clicks.

This guy gets invited onto all sorts of media outlets as an insightful commentator and is involved in a professionally produced podcast. I mean, seriously. bsky.app/profile/rola...

Wow. Josh Simons has resigned as govt minister Follows weeks of reporting by Democracy for Sale and others about how he paid PR firm to smear journalists investigating Labour Together Huge thanks to all our supporters. Couldn’t have done it without you democracyforsale.substack.com/p/starmer-al...

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The US Justice Department withheld testimony that Donald Trump sexually abused a girl when she was 13 or 14 - according to a source who viewed unredacted Epstein files. This is the worst scandal in US history and should be the biggest news story on the planet right now. www.npr.org/2026/02/24/n...

NEW: A hobbyist has created Nearby Glasses, an app that warns you if someone close by is wearing smart glasses. 404 Media spoke to the creator who said he was inspired by our coverage that uncovers how men are wearing Meta's Ray-Bans to covertly film massage parlor workers.