Farage and Reform wasted police time? A Greater Manchester Police investigation found no evidence of any intent to influence or stop any person from voting at the Gorton and Denton by-election.

Migrants are making our saves, tackling, passing and scoring the goals yet a Right-wing co-owner could invite the anti-migrant head of an anti-migrant party to the club? We’re enjoying a great season but this @SunderlandAFC own goal would be stupid. www.itv.com/news/2026-03...

Trumpflation, fossil fools, war, Huw Edwards, that missing mobile and no repairing Bob Monkhouse's bad jokes. Monkhouse said people laughed when he announced he wanted to be a comedian then didn't when he was. The latest Pierce Vs Maguire podcast. www.youtube.com/watch?v=LoIL...

Don't try to out-Reform the Hard Right Reform is the call in a special "Babelfish" paper sent by Labour donor Dale Vince to Starmer, Ministers, MPs and Peers. Babel fish BTW in the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy put into ears would translate languages www.datocms-assets.com/194873/17742...

Yep and couldn't happen to a nicer Hard Right prat. "Matt Goodwin’s intellectual suicide. In his new book, Reform’s in-house academic set out to articulate his ideas. He produced trash." www.newstatesman.com/ideas/2026/0...

Derby day will be tasty on Sunday between Newcastle-Sunderland at St James’ Park but it really was blood and thunder here. The Colosseum is one of the few monuments I’ve visited more stunning inside than outside. Lovely Rome weather anarl.

Buckle up

Forcing people building new lives in Britain to wait much longer before they are given security is cruel, unfair and counter-productive but is it really, as Angela Rayner says, "unBritish"? Pierce Vs Maguire youtu.be/_DI9JRISpaI?...

Make them pay every single penny owed. End of.

Tell Trump No. We saw him boast he didn't need Britain's help. The madman's lost control of a war he couldn't justify and doesn't know how to end. "Trump urges UK and other nations to send ships to help secure Strait of Hormuz after Iranian attacks." www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/ck...

Happened in Iraq, now happening in Iran. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

Bloody hell 👏 And before you ask, the answer here is No. I'm not brave enough. "Journalist donates kidney to teenager after appeal to local newspaper.' www.holdthefrontpage.co.uk/2026/news/jo...

RIP

Who would've thought "influencer" HSTikkyTokky could be accused of being a manosphere fake. There is another Dubai angle, obvs. mol.im/a/15642659

What did they do and talk about with him? More questions for Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor and Peter Mandelson.

Why only fossil fools would blame renewable energy for a fossil fuel crisis. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Fuel industry is already price gouging in the UK, ramping up prices for petrol(+7p a litre), diesel(16p) and heating oil(doubled) that was ready for sale in the country. Hammer the profiteers. www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...

Operation Epic Fail www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...

Starmer was right not to join Trump's attack on Iran but wrong to appoint Mandelson UK ambassador to the US. Enjoy the latest @PierceVsMaguire podcast here youtu.be/rEyuKHRwBhk?...

Those Mandelson Files www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...

Trump's war isn't going well and he certainly hasn't won when Iran is hitting ships, effectively closing the Strait of Hormuz. Soaring fuel bills are why bomb-happy Right-wingers who wanted Britain to join the attacks are backtracking or falling silent. www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...

Farage waves the white flag and surrenders to a British public firmly against Trump and Netanyahu's war And awks for Reform when Nigel's own backtracking will make it difficult to keep a straight face when the Hard Right Trumpists mock Starmer's U-turns. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Trump blinked first tonight from an economic backlash in the US as pump prices soar. Iran’s regime is battered but still in place and attacking neighbours to create an oil and gas crisis puts pressure on the US President

🤯🤯🤯 www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Apparently not

"Trump accused of 'hitting schoolgirl who refused to perform sex act'." Accused in Epstein files finally released while the eyes of Americans and the world are on his war against Iran. Timing that's a coincidence or conspiracy? mol.im/a/15622635

Tory peer’s crony VIP lane company received £24m from taxpayers for unusable anti-Covid gear. The company goes bust owing the same taxpayers £1.1m. He should be in the Tower. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

Yep, many are state-regulated tax-free subsidised scammers. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xtir...

Do social media "influencers" enjoy cut-price, free or paid trips to Dubai in return for positive posts? Just wondering.

"No to war." - Spain's PM Pedro Sanchez “You can’t respond to one illegality with another because that’s how humanity’s great disasters begin.” www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

Trump is no Washington, Lincoln, FDR or Obama but he is a Nixon. Starmer not joining Trump attacking Iran is discussed in the latest very lively ⁦‪Pierce Vs Maguire‬⁩. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ziBh...

Churchill oversaw a 1953 coup that replaced Iran's first democratic leader Mohammad Mossadegh with an autocratic Shah so Britain could grab the country's oil. Trump is clueless about history but on Iran I'm relieved Starmer is no Churchill. www.theguardian.com/world/2020/a...

US-Israeli first strikes against Iran. Against: Starmer, Davey & Polanksi For: Farage & Badenoch. UK Left(Lab, Lib Dem, Green)-Right(Con, Reform) split.

Plastic patriot tax exiles who fled to Gulf states to avoid paying their fair share back home should be charged the full whack if repatriated by the UK Government.

Trump wants Iran’s oil just as he did Venezuela’s in another imperial grab. The US President hailing Putin, Mohammed bin Salman and his oppression in America show the attacks aren’t about human rights. Let’s not mourn a dead Ayatollah but fear what comes next for Iranians.

Trump now leading the war, breaking international law with his aggression just as he breaks the law in the US launching war on Americans.

Here we go. Israel attacks Iran, backed by the US. www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...

Political earthquake special Pierce Vs Maguire after Gorton and Denton. www.youtube.com/watch?v=HreG...

Either Labour changes or the Greens grow www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...

Evening all. Peter Mandelson arrested. www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/ce...

Bit not said out loud is preparations are starting for a state funeral and coronation in, I'm told, 12 months. No wonder William Mountbatten-Windsor isn't calm when he faces Qs about what he knew about Uncle Andrew and could soon inherit this crisis. www.mirror.co.uk/news/royals/...

What drives Gordon Brown? Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor and Peter Mandelson are the latest to feel the fury of a son of the manse and ex-PM still fighting for social justice. Me for @newstatesman1913.bsky.social. www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-...

I bet Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor is sweating now.

Happy Birthday Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor www.mirror.co.uk

All politics is local. Picking and losing the wrong fight over English councils makes you wonder whether Starmer and his Government have a death wish. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Reform UK would be back to the future under multi-millionaires and the worst failed Tories. Farage is taking the urine. news.sky.com/story/who-is...

Why is this expensive centralisation going ahead anyway, distancing services from local people? Elections in even zombie councils should never be halted but Reform MPs - including Jenrick and Braverman - were in a Con Govt that scrapped some in 2021. www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

RIP Chris Boffey, a brilliant old school Fleet Street journalist and raconteur who entertained many a pub with his doorstepping stories. Always had a wry greeting when you met him.

“If the far right get in in this country, we are doomed." “The immigration from asylum seekers in this country is minuscule, minor. " "We’ve got a country now that’s bordering on neo-Nazi rhetoric, which I find really abhorrent.” - @TraceyEmin www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...

Why the Princes of Darkness could bring down a King and a Prime Minister. Here's the latest Pierce Vs Maguire podcast. www.youtube.com/watch?v=jCRs...