Tell me again how the whole Binface thing isn't going to stick to him like glue throughout this by-election and beyond. It's exactly the kind of silly season summer nonsense the mainstream media like. There's no way Farage had "Binface gets interviewed on Radio 4" down on his hopes for today.

Rachel Reeves showing a fine heretofore undisplayed sense of humour...

People still do not get it. Trump saying today that Ukraine will get a license to build Patriot missiles means that Ukraine will get no new Patriots for years. It means Russia can attack Ukraine until 2028 (at the earliest) and Ukraine will get no new interceptors.

Hell yes!!! This 🇺🇸 ⚽️ team 👇⬇️

😳 Trump just flubbed his way through his meeting with Zelenskyy, at various points referring to the "Islamic Republic of Japan," repeatedly calling Zelenskyy "President Putin," and railing against the "JCPOC" Here's the blooper reel:

It was one time, and he corrected himself, too. time.com/6998204/ukra...

Trump seems think the US is at war with the "Islamic Republic of Japan"

Trump is seen here bragging about the war crimes he and Hegseth may or may not commit.

Research shows that between 2019 – when ULEZ was introduced – and 2024, estimated deaths associated with air pollution in London reduced by around 40%. Transformative policies like this can face opposition when first proposed, but public health outcomes are hard to argue with, writes Jane Burston

1. The Pentagon has refused to provide an accurate accounting of the costs of the Iran War, so Popular Information crunched the numbers. The DIRECT COSTS are at least $103 BILLION in the first 120 days. This is $73 billion more than the latest official estimate.

But I would rather Furhage wins and then faces justice 🤞🏾

Racists online saw this photo, doxxed her, and found out she had a previous arrest (the charge later being dismissed). Meanwhile she is a mentally disabled working mom minding her business. If someone can put me in contact, I’m happy to offer her a housing relief stipend thurmanperryfoundation.org

🤣🤣🤣 Perfect answer

Their goal is to create so much chaos and so many crises that it starts to feel like nothing you do makes a difference. Don’t believe it. Every action matters. Keep showing up and remember the resistance will prevail!

Ha ha! Discuss. Legislation www.legislation.gov.uk/aep/Edw2/7/0...

Whenever Trump says something about another country the U.S. media breathlessly reports it as a fact. Where is the reporting that Japan has converted to Islam and joined the Iran War?

Banzai akhbar! Or something….

Wow. And huh.

How Robert Jenrick identified as a migrant who came on an earlier boat to run against Ukip in 2014! bsky.app/profile/sund...

I guess Farage would get 12-15k on a reduced turnout (in ballpark of 33%) if he can get half of the Reform voters to bother. His share should rise if his voters think its a real vote & other party voters mostky do not 10% vote Binface (younger prog vote) while most Conservatives do not bother

BBC News - www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c2... Ruth Ellis - last woman to be hanged in UK - gets conditional posthumous pardon, says Lammy - BBC News A bit late for her.

Great article by James Waterson of @northeastbylines.co.uk on the false economy of disability cuts. Disability cuts damage the whole economy – the Purple Pound shows why northeastbylines.co.uk/business/eco...

Fwiw, this is exactly the thing that got him impeached in the first term when he did it to zelenskyy.

Oh dear

Serious question: Does the president not know what’s in the deal he made with Iran? There are no nuclear concessions in the MOU Trump signed. He is a serial liar and would overstate any gains, but on top of that, there’s a live possibility Vance/Kushner/Witkoff lied to him that they got side deals.

Farage’s meltdown was the worst speech in modern British political history Reform’s leader triggered a by-election at the end of a rant that veered wildly between incoherent defences and bizarre anecdotes #TheNewWorld www.thenewworld.co.uk/lucy-reade-f...

Researchers say a coordinated influence campaign they suspect to be linked to Moscow is impersonating German media to exploit East-West divisions ahead of Germany's September state elections. #TheCube

It's such a *weird* intervention. And obviously completely baffles the poor survivors.

The public sees through Farage and his antics - they oppose this silly by election stunt and they think him dishonest. Brilliant response from Labour, Tories and Lib Dems (come on Greens, do better) - I’m backing Count BinFace. He’s more transparent than Farage..:) yougov.com/en-gb/articl...

There's something about Jenrick that reminds me of this classic Jeffrey Archer clip - defensive, rude, arrogant, smug... www.youtube.com/watch?v=qCv-...

Trouble is when you’re talking complete and utter bollox with not a ion of truth involved it’s so easy to just churn it out and make yourself look desperate.. Even when you’re a seasoned bullshitter like Jenrick

A...uh...special military operation

"Trump believes the country, and all its people, and all its money, and all its law enforcement, exist to make sure he wins all his online arguments and never has to say he’s sorry. We are living under the dictatorship of the absolutely smallest man alive. That makes all of us smaller as well."

It’s getting trite but if this were Biden the NYT would have a full spread about his unfitness for office

Reform is looking less and less like a political party and more and more like a laundromat for dirty money.

Daisy Cooper, "Nigel Farage used to say leave means leave" David Lammy, "I hear it's the people vs the establishment" "A city trader, Putin admiring professional politician who is pals with crypto billionaires, vs Count Binface"

More Reform UK transactions worth millions reported to National Crime Agency Exclusive: Bankers have raised potential money-laundering concerns over loans and donations involving senior party figures Now wwe know why he left. He knew this was comming out today!!! www.theguardian.com

tbh, am a bit disappointed that Count Binface's tax policies are the same as every other party.

Last year's Budget introduced a “mansion tax” - an annual charge on homes worth £2m or more. The Mail on Sunday reported that Andy Burnham may lower the threshold to £1.5m. We've looked at how that could work, what it would raise, and which parts of the UK would pay the most.

so this incident in the pub, in which a "mob" bashed Nigel's car up so badly it was written off, but it seems no-one filmed it? for socials? and he didn't tell his insurer or the police or the media? gee whizz, i wanna know more about this, sounds terrible

Farage is suddenly all about the right of families to be kept out of the media spotlight, which is a bit odd considering what he did to Henry Nowak's family just a couple of weeks ago.

Nothing says 'man of the people' quite like a politician calling a by-election at public expense on the issue of whether or not he should have the right to secretly take donations from Thai-based crypto billionaires and a convicted fraudster

So Farage claims his car was damaged and written off by a mob outside a pub but oddly did not claim it on insurance....so there is no record of this ever happening...

Paxton warned Texans not to lie about their address to vote. Then voted six times from an address he'd already moved out of. Somebody call the tip line on the guy who runs the tip line.

The hotter our summers become, the more useful solar panels on farmland could be. Across Europe, farmers are using them to shade crops, reduce water loss and generate electricity. Why isn't Britain?

So, there is a precedent for vetoing an MP's resignation Viscount Chelsea (Henry Cadogan) applied for the Chiltern Hundreds in 1842 The Chancellor (Goulburn) refused because, get this, Cadogan wanted to resign to obstruct an investigation for bribery h/t @fascinatorfun.bsky.social and @gazhay.com

It’s a complete pile-on in the media, everyone going for Reform. And because the representatives are all unserious people they’re all falling apart in front of the microphones. The Times meanwhile is pushing on the seemingly dodgy financial dealings swirling around the party.

Farage’s stunt to call a by-election to “let the people decide” his fate has completely backfired. All the major parties have refused to stand a candidate, as has Rupert Lowe’s fascist Restore. Lowe is no doubt relishing watching Farage wriggle on a hook.