The actor Michael Sheen used all his money to start a fake debt collecting business, buy 900 people in Wales's debt, and excused it. If Musk bought ALL $194 billion in medical debt in the U.S. and excused it in the same way, he'd still be the world's riches man by hundreds of billions of dollars.

On David Walliams: The Daily Mail reveals that “showbusiness reporters at The Sun were told to drop negative stories about Walliams because both that newspaper and HarperCollins are owned by Rupert Murdoch's NewsUK, even sharing offices near London Bridge.” archive.ph/2025.12.20-0...

OpenAI hires George Osborne to spearhead global ‘Stargate’ expansion ft.trib.al/kpZiA3a

Taking a financial hit for the cause of opposing authoritarianism and hate is a brave thing to do, regardless of how wealthy you are. Well done Mick Foley www.independent.co.uk/bulletin/spo...

Massively overdue. Very glad to see this happening Comes a week after a Labour MP in Commons cited Democracy for Sale’s cash for access investigation as evidence of how weak Britain’s are

This is something that is constantly pushed by online influencers to stir up anger for their own gain, and has been for a long time. Then "serious" figures regurgitate it and it starts to crystalise as somehow true

Go and get the Garth Marenghi meme.

Shameless

Britain threatened to cut off ICC funding over Netanyahu arrest warrant, claims prosecutor

Liz Truss is back. The short-lived UK prime minister and businessman Robert Tchenguiz are launching an ultra-exclusive club in London. Truss and Tchenguiz are hoping to recruit 700 founding members — each paying £500,000. Find out more here: on.ft.com/493H1hI

🔴 REVEALED 🔴 The Institute of Economic Affairs – the anti-state, anti-climate pressure group that "incubated" Liz Truss – was bankrolled by oil giants and Rupert Murdoch’s media empire. 📝 Exclusive findings from @desmog.com 👇

I wanted dinner recommendations so I scraped 13,000+ London restaurants and accidentally discovered Google Maps is running a shadow economy. Anyway here's a dashboard and a political economy thesis: open.substack.com/pub/laurenle...

And this isn’t the first time that allegation has been made by one of his team. A campaigner was caught saying the same on an undercover Channel 4 camera and later said it was a joke. That campaigner now runs the anti-immigration Centre for Migration Control www.channel4.com/news/exclusi...

Who has made this 🤣

The tech oligarchs are the most organised, determined anti democratic force we’ve seen this side of World War II For way too long this has been ignored, elided and under estimated What someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time

Feels like it’s going a bit under the radar among the ‘Farage schooldays discussion’ that Alan Sked alleged that Farage used the n-word in 1997, when he was in his 30s… www.theguardian.com/politics/201...

🔴 Nigel Farage’s Reform is more reliant on super-rich backers than any major party in modern British political history 75% of *all* Reform donations *ever* have come from just three rich men Is this what democracy looks like? New on Democracy for Sale democracyforsale.substack.com/p/75-of-refo...

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...

Another victory for the revolving door

Much like with their US counterparts, Glasman and fellow British culture warriors/reactionaries are so WEIRD. This is not how median Brits think nor what they care about Obsessing about lanyards and transhumanism is pure X brain rot

Sorry to keep banging on about it but it's literally *they are on Twitter and think it's the majority view*

And that's their 43rd councillor to be suspended or quit this year.... bsky.app/profile/josi...

I hate the "huh, not surprised" and "huh, were you surprised" responses to investigative journalism. Such a thoughtless way to trash months of work. Because you ARE surprised, because you are reading something that no one else has revealed before. It doesn't make you superior to not be surprised.

The Yookay meme is something British Journalists keep using as if it doesn’t obviously mark them out as overly online freaks.

Google pushing anti-trans stuff to me through sponsored products, because I searched “online book store” (couldn’t remember the name of the Amazon alternative). What a horrible mess

Meta earns $3.5 billion every six months from showing Faceboon and Instagram users 15 billion “higher legal risk” scam ad impressions a day, internal documents state. That haul vastly exceeds how much the company expects regulators To fine it for running scam ads. www.reuters.com/investigatio...

In 2008, Google created an ad-powered wiki encyclopedia called Knol, seen as a "Wikipedia killer" amid its highly-publicized launch. And the Wikimedia Foundation gave an unbothered response that I quite like: "the more good free content, the better for the world." Anyway Knol instantly flopped

It's genuinely crackers that in the UK, a social media company can *take advertising money from a fraudster*, the bank has to repay the victim out of its pocket, and the social media company doesn't even have to give the advertising cash to the bank! They make money on the transaction!

Trying to work out which article sharing option to go for

Pure ‘X Brain’ in action. Posting this nonsense to get engagement from anonymous racists who you’ve convinced yourself are median British voters. Meanwhile what percentage of British people align with her viewpoint? Sub 5%? Sub 1%?

www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i... Senior member of libertarian think tank left “scratching her head” at Republicans’ attacks on free speech! The modern right in the US and UK does not actually believe in free speech, and they’ve shown us this time and again

What on Earth is this? An "in depth" BBC article about free speech in the UK that only cites examples of right-wing/ 'anti-woke' speech being suppressed. How can you mention Lucy Connolly but completely ignore Palestine Action / Just Stop Oil? Gob-smacking. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Wrenching and enraging. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

"The report is part of a trove of documents from inside Meta that was recently disclosed to Congress by two current and two former employees who allege that Meta suppressed research that might have illuminated potential safety risks to children and teens on the company’s [VR] devices and apps..."

Absolutely shameful. Regardless of what you may think about the sentence length, this is so dangerous. She is not a martyr or a hero, she called for the deaths of innocents

Extraordinary scenes at Reform UK conference as Greater Lincolnshire Mayor Andrea Jenkyns arrives on stage singing her rock song 'Insomnia'

Ron Deibert is absolutely the voice that the infosec industry needs to be listening to right now. We are in a moment where fascism is consolidating power and most of the infosec industry is either playing along or is busy bragging about how much AI they've shoved into their products.

*taps the sign* www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

London Tory leader Susan Hall joined the board of Rupert Lowe's Restore Britain, which has policies that would seek the removal of 100,000s of legally resident foreign-born Londoners. Other London Tories are privately despairing. This is what she told us. www.londoncentric.media/p/london-tor...

It's hard to make this any more explicit... from a cynical political perspective anyone in government comms should be concerned about the incentive structures that most "local news" sites have, which are increasingly shaped by big tech aggregators that push clicky headlines onto phone screens.

Says a lot. A "ranking of every MP’s media visibility across the UK’s leading publications over the last 3 months." (Source: www.mp.govspendbase.uk)

Database of fires in derelict listed buildings here docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

The Telegraph has become a joke. If it’s not this kind of stuff, it’s DEI/solar panels causing the collapse of the West

What could go wrong?

A pro-Brexit group that bankrolled the Chagos legal challenge is planning a series of others to "tie [the govt] up in knots for the next few years". For this week's Observer, I take a look at the people behind the Great British PAC 👇 observer.co.uk/news/politic...

If you load this page it contacts 82 IP addresses executing 256 separate HTTP transactions to download 18MB of data writing 64 cookies to your device to tell you “no”

Lead opinion piece in the venerable Bezos-owned Washington Post tonight.

Exc from @ecourea.bsky.social Ex-Reform UK MP Rupert Lowe recorded making antisemitic remark at parliament www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

‘Stealing joy’: the sadness and symbolism of the crime at Sycamore Gap www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...