Plastic patriot open.substack.com/pub/writesbr... Can you help expose the truth about Farage and his money and foreign allegiances? Please take a look at what Sam is working on. And I have 5 free one month subscriptions to share to his paid level Substack - message me if you'd like one!

Pete Hegseth, spent $6.9 million on lobster tails in September 2025 for the military. $2 million on Alaskan king crab, $15.1 million on ribeye steaks, and $1 million on salmon. $140,000 on donuts, $124,000 on ice cream machines. We need a warrant for the freezers at MarALago.

Sadly we are at the point where my addict is to always ask the person’s actual role do not assume they are a doctor.

How the hell is this person touring the country... why the hell are reputable venues booking her? It's just totally disgusting that such hate figures are mainstream and people just nod along like it's normal www.change.org/p/katie-hopk...

🙏🇺🇦 Zelensky: 11 people are in hospitals in Dnipro. People may still be trapped under the rubble. Over 30 people have been reported wounded across Ukraine. There are also casualties in Chernihiv, Odesa, Kharkiv regions. Four people have been killed.

He’s either clueless or, more likely, this is a cynical attempt to manipulate the image of the typical #Reform voter as the famed hard-working and hard done-by white Brit. He’s a shameless racist and bigot and anyone who supports them should search their conscience. #Farage

“Reform plagued by vetting issues” Candidates found to have “grotesque” views. Come on. It’s not the vetting, is it. It’s the party. Whatever they do, they’ll always attract the racists, homophobes, misogynists and haters. Because that’s Farage. That’s Reform. www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...

Corruption in plain sight.

"Palantir is not just a problem of profiteering from our national healthcare system— it's a fundamental threat to the democratic control of our public infrastructure + the privacy of every citizen. By giving our taxes to this company, we are aiding their operations everywhere." tinyurl.com/3ejuyv89

This entire pointlessly destructive war so far has cost the US military around $60 billion, which is around twice the amount cut from USAID which saved millions of lives.

"Maugham used social media to describe the Good Law Project’s podcast as looking into 'what happens when you take an antichrist-obsessed billionaire and a company named after an evil seeing stone in The Lord of the Rings and you put them at the heart of the NHS'."

I have attended the sentencing of John Ashby today, which will be featured in an article being published by The New York Times next week Before then I wanted to clarify some confusing reporting I've seen. The rape was religiously motivated by hostility against Muslims, although the victim was Sikh

@adsilent.bsky.social hey anyone there?

Something shifted for me overnight and I can’t now “unsee” it. I think Starmer needs to go. A steady accumulation of misjudgments, in policy and personnel. Too many to blame all on poor advice, bad luck, or difficult circs. I thought he’d be a safe pair of hands; but, now I think it’s weakness 🧵.

Bizarre

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@tommctague.bsky.social justice read your insightful piece www.newstatesman.com/politics/lab... It’s very depressing but has the ring of uncomfortable truth! Helpful tho actually. But one thing you say in it that OR ‘told MPs’ (re the vetting issues) but this is the only place I’ve heard that?

@tommctague.bsky.social justice read your insightful piece www.newstatesman.com/politics/lab... It’s very depressing but has the ring of uncomfortable truth! Helpful tho actually. But one thing you say in it that OR ‘told MPs’ (re the vetting issues) but this is the only place I’ve heard that?

Not to be seen on the BBC TV News, doesn’t suit their agenda . Also not to be seen in the Telegraph, Express, Mail, Sun, etc. And nowadays not in the Guardian either.

The public don't know the detail of how the system of Govt works. The news media have whipped up a non-story to bring down the PM. That's the basis of this media circus. PM's rely totally on their officials to brief them & carry out Govt policy. PM's do not do detail. They've got too much to do.

Useful thread #robbins #starmer #mandelson

Sir Humphrey reincarnated

How tragic that you could publish, then re-publish, then re-publish, then re-publish, then re-publish a cartoon like this over and over again...

‘Leaning against’ = civil service /public sector speak for ‘we say no’ #robbins #starmer #mandelson

This morning I’ve seen Olly Robbins’s appearance before the select committee described as ‘box office’, while a commentator flagged up another key political moment with the words ‘bring the popcorn’. That’s one of our main problems right there.

Telegraph newspaper editorial on Mandelson's appointment in December 2024 versus editorial today

"free speech" baby

@eddavey.libdems.org.uk your statement today in HoC comparing to 2022 and calling for KS to resign left me astonished. Not for good reasons.

#Palantir what IS going on here? @purgepalantir.bsky.social

Exciting job in #Bradford still a few days left to apply - please share! #cofe #narthex #anglican www.peridotpartners.co.uk/jobs/chief-o...

Exciting job in #Bradford still a few days left to apply - please share! #cofe #narthex #anglican www.peridotpartners.co.uk/jobs/chief-o...

THREAD. Today I'm giving away 3 signed hardbacks of my latest book, each with fab linoprint bookmarks, made by my mum Jo. Repost & reply to enter. You might like it if you like: Folkloric creatures Old records Intricate psychedelic stories The idea of circular time All shares much-appreciated.

Really hilarious if it wasn’t so desperately sad that these are our elected representatives in Parliament @houseofcommons.parliament.uk

If we had anything approaching a ‘free’ press in England ReFUK would be all over the front pages for their financial behaviour’s. But we don’t have a free press.

NEW: Richard Tice failed to pay almost £100,000 in corporation tax, benefiting his investment company which made large donations to Reform UK. First time Reform's deputy leader's tax affairs can be directly linked to finances of Nigel Farage's party.

"It can't get worse" is what put Trump in power

Very illuminating especially the linked Substack piece #labour #Starmer #Mandelson

I had DV clearance throughout my time in HMG (98-14) and fear of the vetters was a real thing: you lose your clearance, you basically lose ability to work in almost any FCDO job. But… As I wrote here, I don’t think system was rigorous or remotely professional. 2 open.substack.com/pub/arthursn...

For the first time in decades, consensus broke at the UN Commission on the Status of Women. The United States cast the lone “no” vote on a document aimed at improving justice systems for women and girls worldwide. Misogyny is the official policy of the US under Trump.

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youtu.be/_PV1RdLMhko What an amazing new programme! #theology #sacredmusic #tec #narthex #cofe #music

BBC News is going very hard on its investigation into advisers who help people ‘fake’ asylum claims, focusing especially on people who falsely claim to be gay. But it doesn’t say what percentage of claims are made on the basis of sexuality. As of 2023 — the last available figures — it was 3%.

The bell of Liverpool Town Hall chimes 97 times for each of the Liverpool fans unlawfully killed in the Hillsborough Disaster, 37-years-ago today

Mmhmm

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Must read. Utterly chilling. #USA #Trump #Musk #DOGE #MAGA

This is just another variant on “how dare the Bishop of Washington ask the President to exercise power with mercy.” Some so-called defenders of Western culture seem remarkably ignorant of what bishops and other clergy are supposed to do, ie advocate for peace and mercy.

Partly agree; yes to spiritual leaders & people of faith engaging with politics.Yes, reasons for constraints on faith/stats relationship but we shouldn’t be silenced. In 1989 at RC teaching college I co-wrote a creative piece on this based on Mary/Magnificat. The nuns liked it! #cofe #tec #narthex