The sums involved in the MPs expenses scandal were chicken feed compared to the Farage £5m. HIs reaction - mind your own business - suggests he may not be cut out for this democracy thing app.prospectmagazine.co.uk/story/73952/...

‘Labelling drug couriers “terrorists” makes it easier to dismiss their murders and serves as a pretext for intervention. The term functions in much the same way “savage” did in the era of colonial expansion.’ Armando Ledezma in Venezuela. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

WATCH: Has Ukraine managed to gain the upper hand? how is it prosecuting its attack on Russia differently? My latest video for the Times www.youtube.com/watch?v=mA2R...

Corrupt, embarrassing, an utter failure: Trump's catastrophic handling of America's 250th anniversary iandunt.substack.com/p/ice-ice-ba...

Mamdani: "Those who led through exclusion & isolation have tried to win power & enrich themselves by turning us against one another ... today, too many of our leaders do not believe in a vision of this nation as an asylum for the persecuted, but rather as one that persecutes those seeking asylum"

I'll summarize this: Mamdani asked NYers to keep air conditioning at 78 degrees. A wave criticism hit online. A MSNBC broadcast pointed out the US Department of Energy recommends that 78 degree figure. Immediately after, the US Department of Energy deleted 6,000 web pages related to energy saving.

Really pleased that Morgan McSweeney has finally discovered that it's better to prepare for government. Thanks for that mate, nice one. Lucky there wasn't a lot riding on it, or you'd really have fucked up inews.co.uk/opinion/hard...

U.S.A.I.D. Cuts Killed People. That’s the Truth. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/01/o...

We knew GBNews is obsessed with immigration. We didn’t know that the obsession extends to the Jews who fled the Nazis in the 1930s - and that we should be wary even of their grandchildren app.prospectmagazine.co.uk/story/73892/...

A forensic demolition of Michael Grade's nonsense about how @Ofcom should be regulating @GBNEWS from two senior people who worked at the regulator and actually know what they're talking about www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

This is a very good article. The Faright bung sorry gift story stinks

I just signed Foxglove's petition to Andy Burnham: if you become our next PM, get Palantir out of our NHS. A secretive US spy tech firm with deep Trump ties has no business holding our health data. Add your name: www.foxglove.org.uk/campaigns/an...

Matt Goodwin's Ingerland. A free post open.substack.com/pub/davidaar...

NHS England admits it has been lying about Palantir’s effectiveness. Whilst the systems we build ourselves are producing better results with faster systems and happier medics.

Absolutely right

My latest review in History Today… www.historytoday.com/archive/revi...

This sounds familiar

Good use here by a local authority of its power to apply for injunctions. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

29 years ago today, “Buena Vista Social Club” was released. #jazzsky

Elon Musk is targeting Ro, calling him an “evil liar” because he dared to challenge him.🤔 Now, Ro Khanna is urging Elon Musk to debate him regarding his cuts to USAID and answer for his actions.

CNN shows a side by side of J.D. Vance taking credit for what Obama already had in place — an Iran deal Trump ripped up before killing a lot of people and wasting a lot of money (at Israel’s request) H/T @acyn.bsky.social

A wildlife rehab center collected the dead ducks to conduct necropsies.

This is great. He's getting absolutely hammered on this and every answer he invents is worse than the one which preceded it

Illuminating analysis… open.substack.com/pub/markurba...

EU referendum anniversary tomorrow.

The staggering waste & long term tragedy of Brexit epitomised in one small port. The “helped” also turns out to be the epitome of false BBC “balance”. A new building that’s redundant. How Brexit hurt and helped one small port www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Cults never blame the prophecy when it fails... instead, they blame the dissenters and non believers who prevented it from happening.

Anytime any respectable journalist mentions our two chief negotiators with Iran, Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff, they should note both receive sizeable paychecks from Middle Eastern nations with deep equities in these talks. It is a fundamental corruption.

Don't have anything to say about the Brexit anniversary except: What a goddamn waste of time.

If your 80-year-old grandpa was insisting that the reason the backyard pool has algae in it is because terrorists are trying to make him look bad and demanding the police arrest somebody, you'd put him in a senior care facility before the end of the day.

No joy to be found today. No satisfaction. Just frustration and a profound sense of squandered opportunity iandunt.substack.com/p/the-traged...

The joy today is that hatred lost. Doesn't matter what you think of Burnham. Farage tried to invite a race riot. He dealt in explicitly racial rhetoric. If he'd won, many journalists would have considered it a vindication of his approach and branded our outrage evidence of how out of touch we are.

Pro-independence activists have gathered in Stirling for the All Under One Banner march 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

And they keep coming!

i read the entire piece so you don't have to. the short answer is no www.nature.com/articles/d41...

“We've now fought a war, spent billions and billions of dollars, put enormous strain on our military, a lot of people have died, and it feels like we're back where we were before we started the war except maybe a little bit worse off.” 2/2

Outrageous war mongering - see this analysis bylinetimes.com/2026/06/18/t...

No, it's because only 3.1 percent of the Dutch population live in poverty as opposed to 20 percent of the British population. The Guardian really needs to stop publishing irresponsible lifestyle crap as news. (The Avondvierdaagse is a nice tradition though.) www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

was it Paddington?

The very nasty conspiracy theory that was tied to this had Russian disinformation written all over it and shame on the gullible idiots who fell for it

This is the perfect Kemi Badenoch line: obviously crazy, coarsens our politics and the kind of thing that collapses if she ever put herself somewhere she might face a gentle follow-up question. What does she think the Gestapo *did*?

The Gestapo marched hundreds of thousands of innocent people to their deaths. I've ended private schools' tax breaks to invest in state schools. No responsible leader makes vile comparisons like this. Kemi Badenoch is not fit to be Prime Minister.

My favourite ludicrous defence spending story was when the MoD decided to save money by deleting the 27mm cannon from the Typhoon and replacing it with ballast, until it turned out several years down the line that the ballast was going to cost more than the gun. So they bought the gun *as ballast*

Now is a good time to point out that under the last government the RUSSIA REPORT showed credible evidence of Russian interference in UK elections and yet both the last and current governments have continually turned a blind eye to the reports jaw-dropping findings youtu.be/4OPvHXCsrrc?...

Really important that this story gets out there. Classic Kremlin disinfomation and smear campaign and lots of people even on this site fell for it. inews.co.uk/news/starmer...

Disagree with lots of this, including the central argument, but it's very thoughtful. The best single idea in it is this: "Any platform that uses an algorithm more complex than ‘people you follow in chronological order’ to be treated as a publisher, and held to account for content."

This ⬇️ is a real American hero! Congresswoman Joyce Beatty is a Kennedy Center trustee who sued after the unlawful renaming of the center. Late Friday her suit prevailed and the center’s rightful name was restored. Thank you @repbeatty.bsky.social, we love you! ❤️

Elon Musk spent $290 million getting Trump elected. During this midterm cycle, he's spent $85 million. In total, that’s 0.0375% of his $1 trillion net worth. Oligarchs can rig the system at the expense of everyone else, and only spend pennies doing so. We must get Big Money out of politics.

While his mountain of horrible personal conduct could fill multiple books, one fact in particular stands out: A year ago, Musk’s actions directly led to the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people. He did it knowingly. And, worse — gleefully. Read more: www.theverge.com/tech/949259/...