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...

Everything is always someone else’s fault. If only the publishing industry had been less woke; a decent editor might have saved him from the consequences of his dishonesty.

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...

When D3 was released in February 2011, it transformed how we build data visualizations for the web and ushered in a new age of unbridled creativity in information design, data journalism, and beyond. Today, it remains the backbone of modern, interactive data viz. Happy 15th birthday, D3 🎂 d3js.org

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.

So far four MPs have received money from X this year, after disclosures about non-consensual abusive imagery on the platform. It amounts to £7.5K and 90 total hours of work. Check out my app that's tracking them: easterlymould.github.io/x-mps/

Asif Aziz's Criterion Capital halts mass eviction after London Centric uncovered what was going on. Hundreds of Londoners now receiving bizarre door-to-door visits blaming misinformation and being asked to record videos saying they don't want to be evicted. www.londoncentric.media/p/asif-aziz-...

The US shows that abortion rights can be curtailed without sudden shifts in public sentiment. A small organised political movement can restrict rights without ever winning a majority. Enter Reform UK @thenewworldmag.bsky.social www.thenewworld.co.uk/zoe-grunewal...

London’s “worst mass eviction in recent history” is underway; hundreds of households across London told to get out of their homes this week by the same landlord, ahead of the renters rights act. The landlord? Billionaire Asif Aziz’s Criterion Capital. www.londoncentric.media/p/asif-aziz-...

Reform UK’s Matt Goodwin faced GB News complaint over colleague’s claim of ‘inappropriate comments’

Labour minister falsely linked journalists to ‘pro-Kremlin’ network in emails to GCHQ

Rupert Lowe's Restore Britain 'mass deportations' policy paper acknowledgements is an interesting read... - GB News staffers past and present (including 1 accused of criminal sexual misconduct) - The legal counsel for the anti-abortion, anti-LGBTQ+ Alliance Defending Freedom

If climate change isn't real, why is the US concerned about national security because of the melting of Arctic ice?

ICYMI: Fukushima's radioactive hybrid terror pig boom was driven by amorous mothers

Chatted for First Edition about lobbying in Westminster www.theguardian.com/world/2026/f...

🔴 Exclusive: Corporate donations British parties tripled over last three elections But here's key thing: almost none is from FTSE500/listed companies It's almost all companies controlled by super-wealthy individuals, or small, opaque firms New on D4S: democracyforsale.substack.com/p/revealed-c...

Jeremy Kyle is "interviewing" Reform UK MPs at their Birmingham rally. He's presenting his appearance as impartial journalism and claims that he's not "getting political" but he's there as Reform UK's event host, and it's Reform UK - not his employer, TalkTV - that's broadcasting the event.

Jeremy Kyle is interviewing Reform MPs at a live press conference Discussing who might take over from Keir Starmer as PM, Kyle just said: "She's had a makeover, Angela" Lee Anderson: "She's throwing her money away, isn't she, to be honest with you" *applause from the audience*

British values

US taxpayer “slush fund to get MAGA-style things going” & “fund European organisations to undermine government policies”, says Reform UK source. www.ft.com/content/f869...

Very clearly communicated argument about the plan 2 tuition fee system by Oli Dugmore

🔴 BREAKING: Labour Together paid controversial PR firm £30k to investigate journalists who were digging into how its undeclared funding Reporters from Sunday Times, Guardian and other outlets targetted *And* Morgan McSweeney knew about it Full story: democracyforsale.substack.com/p/exclusive-...

This quote from a Reform UK councillor sums it up beautifully. Cross-boundary moral outrages, exported online and sold (especially, but not exclusively) to generations that grew up before the internet, are such a central feature of radicalisation today. www.kentonline.co.uk/maidstone/ne...

"Rhe only reason we know any of this [about Mandelson] is because Epstein became entangled in the MAGA movement’s narrative. "What we still aren’t asking is how similar networks of influence are operating elsewhere today." New on D4S: democracyforsale.substack.com/p/release-th...

V interesting. And well done Anthropic for being upfront on the trade-offs here. www.anthropic.com/research/AI-...

One thing that really strikes me throughout this whole scandal – from Mandelson’s chumminess with Epstein, to passing Gov info to him, to his “I’ve done nothing wrong” response today – is Mandelson has told us who he was since 1998, and a whole succession of PMs have never actually listened.

NEW: Previously unreported Epstein emails show Peter Mandelson discussing a Panama-linked tax avoidance structure for a £750k Rio apartment - with Epstein as his "chief life adviser". Exclusive Tax Policy Associates report:

Have lost most of this morning to searching Epstein files docs at www.justice.gov/epstein/search The nexus between political power, inherited power and media power laid completely bare Corruption at the very highest levels, with impunity