Odd people join Reform. Even odder people seek election as a representative of it. www.lbc.co.uk/article/ice-...

More should follow suit.

Relevant story in Private Eye about Ethiopian runners being denied entry to the US to attend the U20 world cross country championships in Florida. The team are the current the world champions. It's a big ask. England and Scotland footballers shouldn't attend the World Cup.

FIFA on alert after 17,000 fans cancel World Cup tickets in one night

This should be the end of Farage but the media will protect him.

Grifting his nasty arse off. An absent, racist MP worshipping at the MAGA altar from the Brexit rubble, demanding power without accountability. And apparently, being given it. Every day Farage proves himself unfit for public office. And every day he gets his free pass and laughs his way to the bank.

Farage, cut from similar (if much cheaper) cloth as that self obsessed lunatic Trump. www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/farage...

They claim they’re putting personal ambition aside and defecting to Reform to help fix the country. To stop that pisstaking farce, they should be made to hold by-elections in their constituencies and let the voters decide if that’s ok with them. Please sign. petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...

We've spent ten years being proved right about all the things the loudest, biggest voices in the UK media insisted, often obnoxiously, we were wrong about. The real kicker is that there's no consolation whatsoever in being correct. Brexit, Putin, Johnson, Truss, Trump, Twitter, Netanyahu etc etc...

Newspapers and major news websites ought to be required to have a 10cm box in a corner of page 1 that says: "The principal owners of this newspaper live in [country] and [do/do not] pay tax in the UK]."

Nigel Farage complaining about a crackdown on free speech in the country he seeks to govern while presenting his own show on a national TV station in that very same country stretches brazenness to breaking point.

In an extremely crowded field, I reckon Robert Jenrick is one of the worst, most dislikable politicians in modern Britain. Here’s why 👇🏻

I’m utterly bored of #BBCLauraK and her ridiculous efforts to rationalise Trump.

Trump has transformed the justice system into a Putin-style autocratic protection racket. The wealthy are not audited or investigated, if convicted they are pardoned. Political opponents are targeted. Unidentified masked agents grab people off the street, and protesters are shot.

I'm delighted to welcome Robert Jenrick to Reform! One thing our party urgently needs is more frauds.

Running in 20 areas, the scheme has seen specialist NHS teams sent in to support trusts with cutting the backlog of work and improving efficiency and productivity. Learnings from this programme will now be taken forward to help the whole NHS. 2/2 www.gov.uk/government/n...

If you want to actually help ID ICE agents today, might we recommend starting with these two (and no, don't do it in the replies):

Absolutely not. Move the World Cup AND the Olympics.

UK economy set to have returned to growth despite budget caution

I just saw someone use the term "slopulism" and it's a very good word. My proposed definition: "Junk policy aimed at populism-inclined voters which will go nowhere and achieve nothing but which strategists believe will win support."

A right wing fifth columnist defending the right of the world's richest man to transform a social media platform into a sex abuse image generator.

Trump’s real base of support — billionaires, Big Oil, Big Tech, crypto, defense contractors, & Wall Street — know that the midterms may limit what they and Trump can get away with moving forward. 2026 could be the last year they can cash in and loot the country. Be warned.

Like Johnson & Brexit buried the UK Conservative Party. Trump may well be the political collapse of Republicans in this era Rather than asking who is going to inherit Trump mantle, in year we could be talking about which candidates can escape the odious distinction of having been connected to him

Such patronising guff - “all the rural people want is to lick off a little of the muddy fox blood from the master of the hunt’s riding boots before offering their youngest daughter to a Freemason dressed as a sex beagle”

Elon Musk and his fascist friends in the administration never complain about censorship in countries that actually censor Americans. They comply with regulations in Saudi Arabia, Russia, and China. They complain about Europe only because they hate liberal democracies

He's a Christian like I'm a poorly baked lemon curd pie circling Pluto

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Erika Kirk, a grift that keeps grifting.

You might miss it, mainstream media aren’t talking about it - but Labour have delivered a shed load of things already - more to come.

Ideal name for a Kemi Badenoch book imo would be “Crash and Burn” or “Car Wreck” as well

For all of Farage’s bombast and bravado, Reform is basically just a retirement home for disgraced Tories - and the media should be reporting it as such

IOS26 - what is the issue with it? My phone is very glitchy since the update. Anyone shed any light?

Can’t say I’m surprised to see neo-Nazi Steve Bannon in photos with serial pedophile rapist sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein. No wonder he’s scared of going back to prison and why he fights to keep the orange felon in power to save him. MAGA is fucking disgusting.

The Daily Telegraph's Camilla Tominey has dramatically different views on allegations of antisemitism over the course of a single week. Dismissing them in relation to Farage as a product of a "frightened left"; but writing a whole column criticising Primal Scream.

The UK far right is increasingly infiltrating the Anglican church so this is bang on trend.

Nothing says Christian fellowship like using the most important festival in your religious calendar to Tweet about your hatred of the "woke liberati"

Steve Bannon’s close relationship with Jeffrey Epstein deserves even more scrutiny. Every day. Bannon has manipulated press coverage for years, even while being a superspreader for rightwing extremism and idiotic conspiracy theories. Reporting every day. Bannon + Epstein.

Bannon & Farage, both in the Epstein files.

Steve Bannon & Nigel Farage.

Very sad apple.news/ACikm1J-vTQy... and the end of an era. Those Xmas shows were something else so let’s hope that the BBC pays worthy tribute to a true comedy legend. @bbcnewsnight.bsky.social

Sharon Davies nominated for the Lords by @kemibadenochmp.bsky.social is absolutely hilarious and ridiculous. For what ffs? What on earth has she achieved and contributed? Shows BadEnoch up for the ghoul that she is.

“The point of modern propaganda isn't only to misinform or push an agenda. It is to exhaust your critical thinking, to annihilate truth.” - Garry Kasparov

I’d say an excellent example that Farage’s racism didn’t end at school is he went to a dinner last year where they sang “we’re all racists now” and laughed at Hitler Jokes.. Enough said 🤷🏼‍♂️

It really is astonishing what a pathetic, insecure, needy asshole this guy is …

Perfect

Imagine #Biden had pardoned all of these criminals just days into their sentences. There would have been mass-scale-meltdown by the media but not a whisper. US is now a full scale-Trump-criminal-enterprise