The prosecution said Taylor had told his wife he would hunt her like prey and kill her, and that he would "put you in the boot and set fire to the car".

To most sentient people, Trump is bonkers. To the hacks in the White House and the BBC Trump's press conference is "wide ranging" and "covering many topics"

“Retailers such as M&S and Waitrose and cafe chains Pret and Greggs remain members of the BCC.” So now I know where to get better chicken products from. Haven’t used Kant Find the Chicken for years. KFC, Nando's, and others ditch chicken welfare pledge www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

There is no reason to believe Trump's foreign policy is designed to benefit America or Americans www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state...

They locked up a Colombian child coming to go to Disney World with her family. What the hell are we doing? And why in the world would anyone come here for the World Cup/Olympics? www.miaminewtimes.com/news/immigra...

Guardian review of US justice department files reveals Epstein interacted with six CBP officers. The officer investigated denied any knowledge of trafficking underage girls

Chaotic authoritarianism doesn't work. Not politically and not to achieve policy goals.

You simply know he’s Reform and sure enough.. Kent county councillor Daniel Taylor sentenced to 12 months in prison after admitting behaving in a controlling or coercive way towards his wife He’d been violent & controlling for years In Sept 2024 Farage announced rigorous vetting of candidates 🤷🏼‍♂️

“Farage…decided the complaint was not serious enough to warrant a rethink about Goodwin’s selection… [He]characterised the complaint as “just Matt being Matt” Hmm. Not sure a pair of misogynists are the best people to judge what’s “serious enough”. Let’s ask her. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

I think I found the problem.

“It is time to acknowledge what has become tragically obvious: the Trump administration is operating as a massive criminal enterprise.” This absolutely captures it. Instead of "Trump Administration," we should say "Trump Syndicate." #TrumpSyndicate

Chris Mason- Labour/Starmer have questions to answer as Andrew Windsor facing justice. Big win for Farage as long as I don't report his repeated mentions in the Epstein files.

Folks, Have you seen this? Putin is in trouble, he's losing the war. What Trump did, was on orders from Putin. Trump is a russian asset, a spy. His loyalty is to Russia. - Europe better step up their assistance. - IN A BIG WAY.

If UK news shows won’t call this absolute boll**** out let do it ourselves

A heist in broad daylight

Don’t threaten me with a good time.

Struck by how supine so much coverage of the Royal Family continues to be, even now. “Business as usual” is the line I keep hearing. No, it really isn’t. And it shouldn’t be.

This feels very relevant... Private Eye claims that Andrew MW recently brought in a shredding company to Royal Lodge

If Ireland chose its head of state the old Gaelic way, a small circle of the current president's relatives would vote to pick a successor from the extended family. The public would have no say. And Brits would immediately recognise that as ridiculous. @mrjamesob.bsky.social @lbc.co.uk #lbc

What about the 2 million unreleased Epstein files tho

Lady in white, "Andrew Windsor was followed around by protection officers at all times" #BBCQT "The royal family would have known what he was up to many years ago" "The royal family aren't blameless in what Andrew has been doing over the Epstein scandal"

The fake news will say I said what I said in the previous sentence.

Ah Matt turn off comments. Why? Maybe to stop people pointing out that: a) All Reform MPs voted against the Workers’ Rights Bill b) He took a hefty salary from a Hungarian far-right organisation c) He doesn’t even live in the area—and likely won’t be seen after the election d) All of the above?🤔

"Dear Diary, They have arrested Andrew Mountbatten Windsor. What the police are calling 'misconduct in public office', sounds very much like what I call my day job"

The Jenrick/Farage fallout will be fun. Hard to pick a side, mind. Like being offered a choice between a hair sandwich & a toenail-topped panini.

Buckingham Palace has a long and ruthless tradition of distancing itself from scandal. Nothing matters to the Firm more than the perpetuation of the Firm itself. Be wary of stories that seek to put Charles and Co in a good light because a lot of it is nothing more than crisis and PR management.

Yet another sad reminder that there is a two-tiered justice system in America: One for the rich. Another for everyone else. If elites can be held accountable in other parts of the world, why can't they be held accountable in America?

This week's Thursday Reader Contribution on Bearly Politics is brought to you @andygjburge.bsky.social. In this post he does a robust comparison between Labour and the Tories when it comes to the management of the economy, and in it one of these two is found with their trousers badly down. 🐻

One has to wonder whether Mountbatten-Windsor is now sweating more, or not at all with this turn of events. I’ve always been quite unclear about just how this peculiar anatomical issue that he supposedly has actually works.

For the day that’s in it would really recommend reading this piece and watching video with Andrew Lownie about carefully curated narrative was created around Andrew - and ‘policed by armies of lawyers and PR people’ and a pliant media. democracyforsale.substack.com/p/inside-the...

@mrjamesob.bsky.social Bedford CC dealing with the bigots like an absolute boss.

The cover-up just never ends. Rest in peace, Ruben Ray Martinez.

BBC bosses don't seem to care their right-wing bias is getting dangerously close to election criminality "The Green Party have slated the BBC after it handed Reform UK their third Question Time slot in a row the week before a crucial by-election in England" via The National Newspaper

Turns out (says @jburnmurdoch.ft.com) it's not so much an oversupply of graduates in the UK (the same would be true of other similar countries but it's not) as an undersupply of the kind of jobs that a better-performing, more productive economy would supply.

🧵Milano Cortina Olympics is being targeted by Russian-state disinfo since Feb 04. In 6 days Matryoshka, a long exposed Russian-state disinfo bot network, published 35 fake videos on the topic. If you are a journalist interested in covering them, please reach out for details.

Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor arrested on suspicion of misconduct in public office www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c7...

Good to see our foreign policy is being dictated by Donald Trump.

“my children might see the children I voted to put in shackles, how shall they grow up”

Exclusive: The US State Department is developing an online portal to enable people in Europe and elsewhere to see content banned by their governments including alleged hate speech and terrorist propaganda, sources told Reuters reut.rs/4cySsA6

The Trump administration is planning to build a 5,000-person military base in south Gaza, contracting records show. The site is envisioned as an operating base for a future multinational force. Indonesia has already pledged troops. w/ @aramroston.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

FT exclusive: Global Counsel, the advisory firm founded by Lord Peter Mandelson, is set to go into administration as soon as Friday in the wake of revelations about the former peer and Jeffrey Epstein, its staff have been told. www.ft.com/content/ad5d...

Historian of medicine here. Yes. Yes, they did.

Everyone of these posts is superb, but this one is a masterpiece in the uses of detail and subtle emphasis.

‘BBC Bias’ Memo Was Authored by Lobbyist Tied to Pro-Trump Tech Giants

"I'm not saying everybody who's powerful is like Jeffrey Epstein, but so many people who are powerful who wanted to be connected to him" #EpsteinFiles @hardeepmatharu.bsky.social @peterjukes.bsky.social @goldbergradio.bsky.social @bylinetimes.bsky.social open.spotify.com/episode/2Yas...

Statement from Virginia Giuffre’s family: “Our broken hearts have been lifted by the news that no one is above the law, not even royalty... He was never a prince. For survivors, everywhere, Virginia did this for you.”

🔴Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor Arrested for Misconduct in Public Office as Epstein Files Undermine His Virginia Giuffre Denials Virginia Giuffre alleged she was raped by Andrew when she was 17. Key emails in the Epstein files – first revealed by Byline Times – add weight to these claims

"We only have the #EpsteinFiles because survivors kept speaking truth to power - power that has abused and corrupted..." @peterjukes.bsky.social @hardeepmatharu.bsky.social @bylinetimes.bsky.social with @goldbergradio.bsky.social open.spotify.com/episode/2Yas...

Always great commentary from @bylinetimes.bsky.social