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They had to pay to bring Melania to the small screen somehow

I’m struggling to understand how you “investigate fraud” by driving round town, masked and tooled up, grabbing people off the street for looking foreign.

The Telegraph’s political editor is saying, more subtly, what others are saying brutally.

Turns out pizza-gate was more or less real, but full of Republicans and not Hillary or Obama. Go figure.

Saw this on Instagram earlier, and it floored me. You need to stay for the entire 19 seconds...

Was this really the endorsement Reform was waiting for?

Before they removed..

This is exaclty why David Frost should play no role in our legislature.

"We have recorded the names so that others do not fall into the same trap". Which, ironically, makes it more likely that AI will use those names again in the context of HMRC appeals.

Pick the right wing disinformation of your choice. Then follow 2 to 5. My current No. 1 is: *Immigration into UK leads to lower living standards*

WOW! New #BrokenNews arrival IMMINENT: youtu.be/TWPOfVdmYig

2025 Reform’s Flagship KCC was embroiled in controversy when leader Linden Kemkaren was secretly filmed shouting at & berating Councillors telling one 'you can fucking suck it up'❗️ Complainants were forced out amidst threats of violence Reform found it so funny Tice had a 'suck it up' T-Shirt made

I prefer Shakespeare: Flattery is the bellows blows up sin.

How Presidential

The Fulton County search warrant & its implications for the 2026 & future elections is critically important news & not getting the coverage it merits. Read my most recent piece to get the download & understand why this is such a significant development. open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...

This is absolutely shocking. Something has to be done about this appalling situation in which so many now find themselves. The government needs to act

Well knock me down with a London Gin. Monty Python were not the first to come up with a philosophy drinking song. Here’s John Carey, author of Sally in the Alley, in the early 18th century.

Reform UK Councillor Mick Cockerham of Newton Abbot South is showing, through this sick statement, what British values mean to Reform politicians. #UKPolitics

US & UK seem to be competing in some sort of perverse self-immolation olympics.

Oh my God, it's true! boston.craigslist.org/gbs/evg/d/bo...

Let's hope this positive news gets as much attention as the people who try to convince us that the UK is a murder ravaged hellscape. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

So, incredibly, the White House has chosen to escalate in blue Minnesota and retreat in Maine to protect a vulnerable GOP Senator. It's confirmation that Trump-Vance-Miller view ICE as a partisan govt-backed militia to attack blue America while propping up their regime. 1/

True as this is, it's still a hell of a lot better than having the Conservatives in Government.

Bullets in the head will shoot you dead But Rhetoric is the worst

"Water freezing when it's cold could have been predicted"

Not arcane and not archaic, as some media outlets would have it. The Parliament Act has been used 7 times to push legislation through, exactly as it was designed to do, last time in 2004. And on 3 other occasions the Government has threatened to use the Act, and the Lords gave way.

Here's Reform UK's Mayoral Candidate in Hampshire agreeing with and reposting Paul Golding, the leader of Britain First. This is the same Dr Chris Parry that told David Lammy to "Go Home". Reform UK & Britain First. Let that sink in. Archived here: archive.is/VwrXB

"Donald Trump isn't the first person to be given someone else's Nobel Prize medal. The last recipient of an unearned Nobel medal was none other than Nazi propaganda chief Joseph Goebbels"

Wonderful 1960s Avengers episode on TV last night, displaying the sexist attitudes of its time. Golf Club captain, an elderly lech, to Mrs Peel: I'd like to give you a few strokes, on or off the course. I probably watched it as a child.

What's $3 million mean? 200,000 idiotic sycophants in the world?

Dishonesty in politics is nothing new. But don't then pretend that the Greens are somehow a breath of fresh air.

The U.S. Embassy in Denmark removed 44 Danish flags honoring Danish soldiers killed in Afghanistan outside the building, drawing outrage from the country’s veterans amid heightened tensions between Copenhagen and Washington. https://wapo.st/4rfbSOz

(Everything I Do) I Do It for You

This "my way or the highway" strategy has been a disaster for both Labour & the Conservatives. Parties are not just vehicles for their leaders, to be driven this way or that by whoever's currently at the wheel. They are coalitions built out of multiple traditions. Wise leaders make that a strength

Maybe Tillis would feel more comfortable hiding his identity by wearing this?

Oil proceeds are going into a private account in Qatar that US Treasury cannot block. The entire arrangement is grotesquely illegal and corrupt. Rubio's answers are dissembling. And we can't seemingly even get intelligent questions for him. bsky.app/profile/atru...

If you want to chat privately, use a chat app. If you use an app like Bluesky, expect other people who see it to respond.

Well done Labour. This is truly how to take advantage of the flight of academics from the US. And this is how to build a high-tech high growth economy with "massive science and tech investment" [Labour Manifesto 2024, Government press release 2025]

If Bilbo had Chat GPT

We hope the good people of #SanFrancisco will forgive us for adapting a song about their city in 1967 to address the shocking and tragic events in #Minnesota in recent weeks. This is dedicated to Renée Good and Alex Pretti, and in solidarity. Our version is called "Minnesota" ❤️ youtu.be/BRHxXHZmVAM

All this &: Goodwin assumes that things comprising identity - religion, ethics, history, norms of civility etc. - are inherited, which couldn't be more wrong. Even something like a regional accent in children trends closer to peers than parents. There is no gene for liking jam first on your scone.

Director of Cybersecurity uploads sensitive files into public GPT

Cell Block Tango

I will simply never recover from reading this sentence: "Since Georgia implemented work requirements in 2020, they have spent twice as much on Deloitte consultants and administrative costs as on healthcare for people."

As wild as this sounds, I really do think “president connected to notorious pedophile sex trafficker, corrupting law enforcement to cover it up, now in explicit violation of a specifically tailored law,” while easily impeachable in its own, is at most the fourth worst scandal this week.

Our generation will have this unifying moment as well. Keep resisting everyone!

NEW ANALYSIS: UK household electricity bills have risen over the last 5 years. BUT: Despite frequent claims that net zero is to blame: 2/3 of the increase is because of high gas prices shows new @ukerc.bsky.social report. Arguably without renewable energy the UK would see even higher bills today.

My boss now and forever Thank you!