“I didn’t vote for THIS,” say the manosphere podcasters who simply had no way of knowing that Trump would lie about being a populist to get into office and then govern like a autocratic lunatic once in power, other than the fact that he did it for 4 entire years before that.

📌 ICYMI — Revealed: The Staggering Amount of Time Nigel Farage has Spent on ‘Second’ Jobs Since Becoming an MP The Reform UK leader has logged more than 1,100…… https://bylinetimes.com/2026/03/05/revealed-the-staggering-amount-of-time-nigel-farage-has-spent-on-on-second-jobs-since-becoming-an-mp/

Once upon a time he was their ‘monster of delusion’… Now we’re back here again and the right‑wing press are on his side. These papers are a disgrace.

I say Trump is a clairvoyant….

Given Trump's illegal war that is devastating the Middle East and pushing up energy bills, Keir Starmer should advise the King to call off April’s state visit to the US. A state visit should not be given to someone who repeatedly insults and damages our country.

America always howling about nuclear threats, is the only country to ever drop a nuke on anyone…two actually. And now a dementia ridden, terminally ill narcissist with raging sadism who will happily burn the world down before he dies has started a fckn war and has the nuclear codes. Congress: 🤷‍♂️ 🤷‍♀️

Turns out all the Brexiters shilling for Trump really hate British sovereignty.

Quite a moment, even by local standards.

Just fascinating to see Blair, a man whose reputation was ruined by the Iraq war, advocate joining a war that is exponentially stupider and more chaotic. How is it possible to learn nothing from the worst mistake of your life?

Aside from anything else here (and there is a lot to unpack), the idea “Donald sending a few angry posts on truth social” is more humiliating than anything since Suez is remarkably psychologically illuminating. Our only job in the world is apparently to hang on America’s shoulder.

Feels like a day to reup this recent Democracy for Sale story Tony Blair’s Institute privately pressed a top European Union official working on the rebuilding of Gaza to work with Donald Trump’s Board of Peace. democracyforsale.substack.com/p/revealed-t...

A juxtaposition for the ages…

The gulf between what people think of Tony Blair commenting on war in the Middle East & what Tony Blair thinks people think of Tony Blair commenting on war in the Middle East is positively Badenochian.

Why is it that all those staunch UK patriots waving flags and shouting about ‘taking back control’ are urging us to be subservient to a foreign power and join them in an illegal war?

The ongoing conflict in Iran and closure of Strait of Hormuz has caused WTI and Brent crude oil prices to spike.

The Iran war is causing a sharp rise in the price of jet fuel, a major cost for airlines that will soon be passed on to travelers.

Declaring "Mission Accomplished" - that always works out well for US Presidents

Servile ghoul

My debut piece for @thenerve.news - about how Paul Marshall and the Legatum Group are reshaping the norms of political influence 👇🏻

there are like 50 people in the country who want the UK to get involved in the Iran War, one of them is Kemi Badenoch, one of them is Nigel Farage, and the other 48 are newspaper columnists

It really wasn't factored in what would happen to the straight of Hormuz, huh? I wonder what other variables were not considered. All of them?

One theocracy toppling another.

I’ve spent years, decades, obsessing over the Bush Administration’s Iraq WMD lies, writing about them, debunking them. I can think of no lie about Iraq WMDs told by Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld et al that comes even close to the enormity and absurdity of this lie from Donald Trump.

“privately, Trump has voiced extreme unease about how the rising American body count “looks,” and few officials close to him believe he has tolerance for a protracted quagmire, sources with knowledge of the matter tell me” - Swin for Zeteo’s First Draft morning newsletter. Have you subscribed yet?

It's what happens when it's almost exclusively made up of unresearched commentary pieces written by rich people who have no talents, skills or knowledge but society refuses to allow them to fall down a social rung. Six figures for churning out 200 words of nonsense a week? Lovely.

(Seriously, I really want one of those nonsense jobs that rich people get for their untalented kids. A seat on a museum's board, three meetings a year and a handsome salary? Excellent. Can I supplement that with a "Head of Nonsense" title at a Think Tank that gets me on every BBC show? Marvellous!)

FT comments section this morning - saying what everyone else is thinking, right?

Kemi Badenoch is incapable of anything other than 'attack dog' mode. She has all the gravitas of a student debater, winging it on the basis of her under-researched notes, and seems to think that by the sheer force of her condescension Starmer will be crushed into submission. No. #pmqs #politicslive

What they’re basically saying is that Starmer and the UK isn’t allowed to operate an even moderately independent foreign policy outside of the United States. That is both ahistoric, wrong and weird for people who constantly tell us how sovereignty is what matters most.

Badenoch seems to stoop lower every weak. This is proper 'enemy within' stuff.

Trump promised no new wars and has engaged in military action in Iran, Venezuela, Yemen, Somalia, Nigeria, Syria and Iraq. Trump promised to end the Russia-Ukraine war in 24 hours. It's still raging a year later.

As Nigel Farage is now so concerned about the influence of "foreign-born voters" can he finally explain why a Kazakhstan-born billionaire appears to be bankrolling his own political party?

Racial abuse is routine for any person of colour in Britain with any kind of profile. Literally nothing is being done about it. BBC News - Arokodare third player racially abused this weekend www.bbc.co.uk/sport/footba...

Former UK PM Gordon Brown is providing - voluntarily and not for the first time - information to the police about abuses of power relating to the Epstein files. As PM Brown was briefed against by people such as Alistair Campbell and Peter Mandelson as being ‘psychologically flawed’ ….1/

a guy who claimed to be named John Barron and sounded a lot like Trump called into C-SPAN to complain about the Supreme Court's tariff decision and call Hakeem Jeffries "a dope" (John Barron is a pseudonym Trump has used for himself when talking to journalists)

*30%* ffs. I wonder what that figure would be by now if our media weren’t still almost exclusively populated by intellectually indolent wankers too pompous to admit that they never had the first idea what they were encouraging everyone else to vote for. (With a side of plums who deployed ‘balance’.)

Illegal migrant in small boat stopped from entering sovereign territory without a permit.

Tucker Carlson asks U.S. Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee on what basis PM Benjamin Netanyahu, whose family is from Europe, has the right to displace Palestinians who have lived in Palestine for thousands of years. Video: Tucker Carlson Network via X (@TCNetwork)

Boris Johnson colluding with right wing Americans to undermine the UK. Where have I heard this before? bylinetimes.com/2026/02/16/b...

US envoy Mike Huckabee says it would be ‘fine’ if Israel took all Middle East land

“‘Don’t go to the US – not with Trump in charge’: the UK tourist with a valid visa detained by ICE for six weeks” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

We are going to war with Iran to follow up on our decisive and perfect war with Iran 8 months ago.

BREAKING: President Trump has apparently withdrawn his support for Keir Starmer’s deal to hand the Chagos Islands over to Mauritius because the UK has not agreed to allow the use of British bases to attack Iran www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...

Anniversary of a confession in the clear: The networked evil that brought us Farage’s, Putin pleasing, Brexit. Here is the missing clip in which Farage confirms that Brexit would not have been possible without Bannon, Breitbart and by implication Cambridge Analyitica’s “help.”

The messages between the far-right former Trump adviser Steve Bannon and the late convicted paedophile Jeffrey Epstein reveal how Bannon worked with Boris Johnson and Farage to “overthrow” Theresa May at the height of the 2018 Brexit crisis in the UK bylinetimes.com/2026/02/16/b...

We all know why Farage is making these wildly misleading and completely inaccurate claims - I know it and in your hearts you know it too - so however you decide to vote in this by- election please don't be taken in by the politics of division offered by Reform

Europe desperately wants the US to be Normal Again so it doesn’t actually have to engage with any of the hard work (and spending) that engaging with reality actually involves. So if Rubio gives a speech with ~better vibes~ it gets lapped up, even if it’s meaningless on substance.

Not sure if Man United owner Jim Ratcliffe will see this being as he literally migrated to Monaco to avoid paying tax in the UK, but we wanted to put this up outside the stadium anyway…. 📍 Old Trafford, Matt Busby Way

Obviously zero reflection in any of this on how operating the largest empire in human history may have turned us into a multicultural nation. We are here because you were there. #Empireland www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Bondi's performance before the House today serves as a stark reminder that Trump Administration officials routinely lie. They lie to congress, they lie under oath, and they lie to the American public. Meanwhile, we now know that Trump is mentioned in the Epstein Files over 1,000,000 times.