More in depth context about where people close to Reform do their business and funnel their money: www.opendemocracy.net/inside-refor...

I went to Porto Montenegro to find out why so many Reform money men have businesses registered to a grubby looking office building a stone's throw from the luxury yachts on the glittering marina. Feat. me visiting my first casino. www.opendemocracy.net/inside-refor...

HISTORIC MOMENT Today at 14:40 Dr Mark Russell from KCL pressed the button to execute the first ever job on the new OpenSAFELY service. Until today, OpenSAFELY was COVID only. Now we are open to critical analyses that improve all patient care, on GP records, securely, at scale. PICS! THREAD!

Day 589 of daily, uninterrupted, nationwide protests in Georgia.

Trump speaks live from the Make America’s Great American State Fair Great Again Fair! New Private Eye on shelves now.

“At one stage I even flew to Australia to get him to answer my questions” Nerve co-founder @carolecadwalla.bsky.social on her loooong decade investigating Nigel Farage* *including first raising questions about George Cottrell in 2018 🤔

The Metropolitan Police have launched a criminal investigation into a £500,000 donation to Reform from the mother of the convicted fraudster and Farage donor, George Cottrell www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...

the FT interviews Count Binface www.ft.com/content/e68d...

New from @martinmckee.bsky.social @tiagocorreia.bsky.social and me on the need to counter the assault on science

📣 NEW EPISODE 📣 Join us and @jeevunsandher.bsky.social as we talk: 🤑 Has Farage misfired? 🤬 Why is he so brittle? ⚖️ Should the regulator do more? 🗑️ Binface’s brilliance 🍏 podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/q... 🎧 open.spotify.com/episode/6Uuf...

The National Crime Agency have been "unable to identify the original source" of a £1m donation to a Reform fundraising vehicle. The NCA is now "seeking help from a foreign partner" in order to identify it www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Day 588 of #GeorgiaProtests People demand the release of regime prisoners & new, free & fair elections every single day. Today, we feel particularly validated as OSCE PA essentially stated there can be no recognized elections in the current circumstances in 🇬🇪. See below, details. 📷 Dato Simonia

I was today years old when I learned that Count Binface's alter ego was a classicist who had made a BBC radio series on the application of Athenian democracy to the present www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/serie...

On July 30, Byline Times joins @lincolnproject.us and @quietriotpod.bsky.social for a timely transatlantic conversation about what Britain can learn from Donald Trump's America. Limited to 480 seats. Join us: www.leicestersquaretheatre.com/show/the-aut...

Last night was Day 587 of #GeorgiaProtests People keep demanding new, free and fair elections, and unconditional release of all regime prisoners. 📷 MOSE

📣 OUR FIRST EVER LIVE SHOW 📣 We are excited to join up with @lincolnproject.us and @bylinesnetwork.co.uk @bylinetimes.bsky.social in a special show at Leicester Sq Theatre on 30 July to discuss how we beat authoritarians on both sides of the Atlantic www.leicestersquaretheatre.com/show/the-aut...

🔴 NEW: Nigel Farage’s ‘Pro-Sleaze’ By-Election Is A Sign Of Terminal Weakness The Reform leader's desperate decision to call a back-me-or-sack-me by-election is a sign of a politician who knows he is finally being exposed for the man he really is, argues Adam… Read the full story below.

Behind last week's headlines are some stories you might have missed... including a ridiculous amount of corruption, a hollowing of the state and the ongoing saga of Trump's attempt to restrict birthright citizenship, which is guaranteed by the US Constitution. youtu.be/zJnsFTLJcEQ

On my way, Clacton.

Nigel Farage wants a mandate for corruption. Hopefully he'll get a by-election versus a man wearing a bin instead: www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

Yet again, the Telegraph ran a spoiler of this public interest story - based entirely on a briefing from Reform. The same as they did when Anna Isaac broke the original story. We all know whose scoop this was @annaisaac.bsky.social

Revealed: Farage’s £5m gift reported to UK crime agency over money laundering concerns

Of course… it was another spoiler www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

"Ukraine is the only force that can actually confront Russia. Everybody else is just talking the talk and not walking the walk..." @zarinazabrisky.bsky.social with @goldbergradio.bsky.social @bylinetimes.bsky.social Listen: pod.fo/e/442c94 Watch: www.youtube.com/watch?v=honl...

"The collapse in U.S. support has been staggering. But it would be a mistake to view it as a temporary trend linked only to recent events such as the death toll and destruction in Gaza." Excellent and timely home truths for Israeli readers from @djrothkopf.bsky.social www.haaretz.com/opinion/2026...

Farage just called a referendum on the concept of objective reality iandunt.substack.com/p/farage-jus...

I missed this one a few weeks ago. It fills in lots of interesting background to the funding scandals that are hitting Farage and Reform right now.

In his book 'How to Launder Money', Posh George, the Farage aide at the heart of Reform's latest controversy, has a chapter on 'The Art of the Bribe' He and his co-author recommend small gifts (explainable as “a mistake of overexuberance in friendship”) and "Paying some of the target’s expenses”

Since Oct 7 2023, the Israeli military and settlers killed 240 Palestinian children and teenagers in the West Bank. Read the B'Tselem report. www.btselem.org/video/202606...

NEW: Before cryptobillionaire Christopher Harborne gave £5m to @nigel_farage, he gave £1m to Boris Johnson. For what?? Today @thenerve.news news reveals new evidence that tracks Harborne's investments in defence firm QinetiQ...to key defence announcements from Boris Johnson. 1/

Director of a Gaza Hospital, Dr Hussain Abu Safiya is in horrific danger to his life. The Foreign Secretary must demand Israel provides urgent treatment and releases him. He's been detained by Israel without charge since 2024 and reported to have new life threatening injuries.

Labour's Stella Creasy has launched an amendment to introduce a £100,000 cap on political donations. Now the Q is whether Andy Burnham will back it Olly Buston of Clean Up Westminster: “If your MP doesn’t back Stella’s amendment then they are basically saying they think politics should be for sale"

Think that Harborne is just some crypto-billionaire? It seems fairly recently he also became a defence investor. This and his donations to the Tories became more serious around the same time. He also meets Johnson at Chequers. Not long after, Johnson announces a big government deal. Coincidence?

NEW Stewart Lee column Want to protect women and girls? I’d keep them away from fake grassroots organisation Raise the Colours

Last night (3rd July) between 10.50-11.30 my electric cargo bike was stolen. Black Pakyak E+ with a baby carrier. First time I’d taken it to town 🥹 . I parked it on the Plain roundabout near the Cape of Good Hope pub. Secured it with a Diamond grade lock. If you saw anything please let me know.

‘Blink twice if you think Zuckerburg’s an arseh*le’ Here’s what happened when, thanks to Meta’s lawyers, Facebook whistleblower Sarah Wynn-Williams had to sit in silence at @hayfestival.bsky.social with @superwuster.bsky.social & @carolecadwalla.bsky.social (watch to the end for Tim’s verdict) 🧵⤵️

Cricket, warm beer and excess mortality are the markers of national character. This week's column is about the ignorance, snobbery and cruelty in the billionaire press, triggered by last week's heatwave. And about the grim condtions children now face in schools. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

🧵 Yesterday the Government finally announced the repeal of the Vagrancy Act, which criminalised those sleeping rough on our streets. After many years of cross-party campaigning, and many previous broken promises, this cruel and Dickensian law is now consigned to the history books. (1/2)

3 minutes on how Trump adminstration has tried to skew the midterm elections over the last 2 weeks youtube.com/shorts/msPZB...

"Am I losing the battle? Yes: Martin Lewis on the online scams that steal his identity and others life savings". Very pleased to see the Guardian giving this level of prominence to the epidemic of scam adverts... www.theguardian.com/money/2026/j...

This is a long, incredibly frustrating and necessary read. The BP CEO, John Browne, at the heart of this scandal has been showered with baubles and sits in the House of Lords. He has been accused of driving the cost-cutting that led to the Deepwater Horizon disaster: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Br...

All we have is each other: beautiful little video for Humanists UK by Janet Ellis youtu.be/D1_gSjvV8KI?...

The famous "Wedges" paper was used repeatedly to shut us up when we argued against the continued use of fossil fuels, and, esp, against carbon capture and storage and the mass use of bioenergy. "But these eminent scientists say ..." Now we learn BP co-authored it. www.propublica.org/article/wedg...

A quarter of terror attacks in Britain over the past decade have targeted Muslims, but some have gone largely unnoticed because of delays formally declaring them terrorism Most jihadist attacks, by contrast, have been declared within hours of taking place inews.co.uk/news/uk-terr...

Out now: MORE JAM TOMORROW POLL TAX One of the biggest blunders a modern government ever made. With the LSE’s Tony Travers morejamtomorrow.com/episode/poll...

All the data, methods, and citations are 100% free, open, and presented in the Drawdown Explorer. Drawdown.org/explorer

-From Quarks to Quasars 1/ Fired government scientists just launched a new site to keep climate data public.The site is called Climate.us & it was created by former staffers behind Climate.gov, the NOAA-run website long used by many for trusted climate information."

Few people understand the scope of the powers UK governments have granted themselves, to criminalise us as terrorists for expressing an opinion. Fewer still understand how illiberal the Court of Appeal judgement is. But @davidallengreen.bsky.social does.🧵 www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/law/th...

Nice shout-out for my stuff on the Terrorism Act and free speech , from @georgemonbiot.bsky.social