Given the polls, you’d expect Reform to be clamouring for attention, knocking so hard on the door to The Tribune’s office that the wood threatens to split. You’d be wrong. In the course of reporting this story, not one of the party’s 30 candidates agrees to an interview, even over the phone. Why?

NEWS: Bette Midler just released a new music video for her remake of "All You Fascists Bound to Lose"—featuring Barbara Hershey, other celebrities, and crowds from the No Kings protests in a joyful, powerful show of resistance. You have to see this.

£98k a year is a helluva benefit for Farage.

Farage said the NMW (£12.71/hr for 21+, £10.85/hr for 18-20) is too high. And he’s going to torch the welfare bill… Meanwhile, he’s the highest earning MP, trousering over £1M/year for not being an MP, taking foreign cash, investing in crypto with Kwarteng and just taking the piss out of everyone.

We need more action and we need it quicker. Meanwhile companies are allowed - even encouraged - to poison us, our children, the land,... and get rich doing so. Use of toxic Pfas in consumer goods must be urgently restricted, MPs say www.theguardian.com/environment/...

👉 NEW VIDEO -- "Straight up murder": Former Marine Commando EXPOSES Israeli war crimes in Gaza WATCH HERE 👇 www.youtube.com/watch?v=80Qr...

Says it all. Shameless tosspots.

A similar line from Kallas to the Biden administration's - "Israel is going to do this anyhow, our sanctions wouldn't make a difference". Sanctions would absolutely make a difference: they'd empower those who are trying to stop the pogroms. By not taking steps you are empowering the Kahanist govt.

Taps sign while Badenoch is speaking...

After recognising the "evictions, settler violence and demolitions" in Israel's illegal West Bank settlements, foreign secretary Yvette Cooper once again refuses to impose a UK ban on trade with those settlements. #DCUKparliament

Rare sighting of a column chart taking a dip at Hove Beach. #dataviz

And they think of themselves as a civilised nation. Delusional. Israeli soldiers using sexual assault to force Palestinians out of West Bank, report says www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...

Hungarian taxpayers paid American “post-liberal” Rod Dreher $105,000 last year to produce propaganda for Orban’s regime. www.jaccusepaper.co.uk/p/the-strang...

Most dangerous line from Robbins yet Among all the postmortems of the Mandelson disaster “the direction from No 10 was that we must make clear that these decisions were made entirely independently of ministers and they were not consulted, other than being told the outcomes”

Here's how trade minister Chris Bryant misled parliament about UK aircraft parts for Israel. www.declassifieduk.org/minister-mis...

We recently revealed the government allowed UK companies to send drone engines to Israel without export licences. Asked about this, trade minister Chris Bryant refuses to answer. Bryant also misled parliament about UK aircraft parts for Israel. www.declassifieduk.org/revealed-how...

“Farage rarely turns up to do his actual job. Yet he finds time to jet off around the world on his donor’s private plane and trouser half a million quid while families struggle. Reform are not on your side. They’re just in it for themselves” It’s so obvious, it hurts. www.desmog.com/2026/04/18/n...

Any candidate that takes money from Palantir should not receive your vote. Co-founder Joe Lonsdale is pouring millions into a PAC to buy off Democrats, especially in California. techcrunch.com/2026/04/19/p...

Articles about Jared Kushner's diplomatic role with Iran that mention Kushner has received billions from the Saudi government (2/28-4/19): NYT: 5 of 58 WashPost: 1 of 43 WSJ: 0 of 40 AP: 0 of 26 CNN Wire: 0 of 18 NY Post: 0 of 17 Chicago Tribune: 0 of 4 LA Times: 0 of 4 Boston Globe: 0 of 2

Great how your phone gives you memories. It's two years to the day since Rachel Reeves told me if Labour won the general election they would send the National Audit Office in to investigate the Teesworks saga. The authority responsible hasn't published audited accounts since then, yet nothing.

Would it be impolite to mention that Barack Obama got a deal with Iran with no bombing, no destruction, no schoolgirls killed, no US soldiers killed, no Strait closed, and no global economic crisis?

Today, a lot of people will be talking about the manifesto that Palantir released. In addition to pouring over what those words mean, I invite you to ground the conversation in what Palantir has already done. Its work with Israel and ICE show us exactly what it stands for.

🔥SEN. @ossoff.senate.gov : “Ivanka’s husband Jared Kushner’s on the Saudi payroll for $2 BILLION— as he leads 🇺🇸 diplomacy + asks sheikhs for billions more… Never have we seen so little effort to hide so much corruption. The Mar-a-Lago mafia taking corruption to spectacular new heights.”

The Iranian government ridiculed EU top diplomat Kaja Kallas’ calls to reopen the Strait of Hormuz and respect international law.

We should be learning from other countries...

Sanders: The people have got to determine the future of what happens in our country and in the entire planet, not a handful of extraordinarily wealthy, arrogant, anti-democratic multibillionaires. That’s what they want. They have their goals. They are not our goals.

Bliss.

BERNIE: “The time is long overdue for members of Congress to listen to the American people and end US military aid to the extremist Netanyahu government.” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Pretty terrible that heavily-indebted Sotheby's has donated to Reform UK. Via Private Eye

1. Powerful visualisation of the cast-iron link between deprivation, health and lifespans One of the most important official data sets there is ... Full report here ... www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopula...

Pope Leo XIV in Cameroon: “The world is being ravaged by a handful of tyrants.”

Imagine if instead of spending billions of dollars supporting terrorists or weapons, the United States had spent that money helping the people of the United States

Claims and ideas which happen to favour the ruling class don't dominate public life by accident. They're paid for by oligarchs and corporations then promoted by media outlets other oligarchs and corporations own. Once they've been drummed into our ears enough, they're internalised as "common sense".

"There is no justification for a regressive system in which the super-rich contribute less than the rest of us," write @josephestiglitz.bsky.social, @gabrielzucman.bsky.social, and @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social.

So Nigel Farage popped over to Shetland and it went well for him.

BBC News leading all its bulletins on demands by former Government advisor Lord Robertson for more defence spending, without at any point mentioning his current paid senior role for US defence lobbyists

“King and Queen will not meet Epstein survivors during US state visit.” Just the perpetrators… www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...

This is stunning.

Prince William, heir to the UK throne, collected £2.5m rent for rat-infested Dartmoor prison via the Duchy of Cornwall. The Duchy owns multi-billion property, runs businesses, pays no corporation & capital gains tax. The Duke voluntarily pays income tax but details are not known. archive.ph/NjkbH

Man Who Threw Molotov Cocktail At Sam Altman’s Home Claims He Was Following ChatGPT Recipe For Risotto https://theonion.com/man-who-threw-molotov-cocktail-at-sam-altmans-home-claims-he-was-following-chatgpt-recipe-for-risotto/

“Last night we were excited for school today. The Israelis came and closed the road with barbed wire … we want to be back in school,” said 11-year-old Rashid al-Hathaleen. What is happening on the West Bank must not be forgotten www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...

It's a good night to read this excellent piece, on the Orban regime's network of financial support for the nationalist right in Britain. For many on the radical right, the tills are about to stop ringing. democracyforsale.substack.com/p/orbans-brits

People will be closely studying how Hungary's opposition pulled off their win in such a pro-incumbent system. Important to note that the theme was corruption. Democrats need to get much better at calling out Trump's corruption.

Well how about that. Private firms providing services to NHS made £1.6bn profit in two years, research finds www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

"When you have a president who's running the country like a mob boss instead of a government, who's running the government for himself, of himself, and by himself, & for his cronies, instead of the people, by the people, and for the people, there's only one solution, & that's impeachment & removal."

The real headline: crypto crook (who pleaded guilty to breaking US money laundering rules) plans to try and buy UK politics www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/202...

SEEN ON ANOTHER PLATFORM: (Hope it happened!) "BREAKING: The Hungarian Association of Banjo Players protested JD Vance's campaign for Viktor Orbán by playing the "Dueling Banjos" song from the movie Deliverance through electric amplifiers outside his hotel each morning starting at 5am. ===========

Dear G!  How are you?  Nice story about J. E. in New York mag, you look great on the picture. I know you are very busy flying all over the world. How was Palm Beach? I cannot wait to go down. Give me a call when you are back in NY. Have a great time! Love, Melania