It’s not that these people still exist. That’s just biology. It’s that they are still being paid to shit in their own hands & start clapping.

Emphasis matters.

So pleased Laura Kuenssberg is back this week. That means there is no chance Robert Jenrick will be asked about his promise to cut flight tax after a £40k donation from an airline owner.

OK, I did the debunk without it! bsky.app/profile/monk...

For the love of God, could the "common sense" brigade PLEASE develop some actual COMMON SENSE?! No, the NHS has not ordered staff not to use the term "it's raining cats and dogs" for fear of either upsetting or offending anyone... Please engage your brains for a minute🙏 🧵1/15

EU: The European Union will require sale of mobile phones with “user-replaceable and longer-lasting batteries” starting in 2027. The regulation demands “availability of spare parts and manuals for 10 years to curb planned obsolescence”.

20 years of pickup truck design progress in one photo

The Press knew. They laughed. The Tories knew. They didn’t care. All I see now is hypocrisy.

This smart dog knows about politics, he literally gives a shit.😆😆

A video viewed over 1.7 million times appears to show an interview with two Muslim women saying people shouldn’t bring dogs to the beach. It’s generated a huge amount of negative engagement and comments, but it’s fake. It’s been created with AI.

Is the Republican Party officially declaring itself to be a Christian party? Is belief in Jesus’ resurrection in the platform now? This is not a “big tent” — this is theocracy.

The Conservative councillor who ordered the chopping down of the trees in the middle of the night on Armada Way in Plymouth is now standing for Reform UK. Not surprising considering Reform is a retirement home for failed Tories.  www.plymouthherald.co.uk/news/plymout...

And nobody around Trump will show this to him

Trevor Phillips said on Sky News this morning that "everybody in the country who could read a newspaper" knew in advance of the Mandelson appointment that he was problematic is this the same Phillips who interviewed Mandelson on October 08 2023 and didn't ask any questions about Epstein friendship?

Barges will be needed to build Swansea's new £8m riverside cycle path — a mile-long route along the Tawe linking the city centre to Swansea.com Stadium. Plus new routes for Gowerton confirmed.

This makes the scale of Rayner's alleged error - for which Reform hauled her over the coals - look like monopoly money

NEW: Richard Tice failed to pay almost £100,000 in corporation tax, benefiting his investment company which made large donations to Reform UK. First time Reform's deputy leader's tax affairs can be directly linked to finances of Nigel Farage's party.

It is often very easy - as it generally should be for DC pots. But not universally so and we need to improve that.

In case you’re confused - the £100k of tax Richard Tice failed to pay here is totally different to the - £92k of tax not properly withheld on dividends - the £600k side-stepped via highly aggressive tax avoidance Industrial scale grifting revealed by @danneidle.bsky.social and Gabriel Pogrund

🔥SEN. @ossoff.senate.gov : “Ivanka’s husband Jared Kushner’s on the Saudi payroll for $2 BILLION— as he leads 🇺🇸 diplomacy + asks sheikhs for billions more… Never have we seen so little effort to hide so much corruption. The Mar-a-Lago mafia taking corruption to spectacular new heights.”

By the way, Romeo Lavia stood on Bruno last night and VAR did nothing. Bruno even complained to the ref. Zero consequences. No replay shown on tv either. But if you mess with someone's hair bobble you're going to get sent off.

Richard Tice apparently does not think that Richard Tice should resign over the incredible amount of tax found to be owed, despite calling for Angela Raynor to do just that over something objectively much, much smaller if she had "any moral decency"... www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...

Disclosure: I'm a member of the Labour Party. But everyone paying attention knows I call it as I see it. I've investigated Rayner, Starmer, Lavery, Zahawi. I've refuted accusations that Jeremy Hunt (twice), Rishi Sunak and Nigel Farage avoided tax. I annoy everyone.

The Israeli army struck civilians in the Lebanese city of Mayfadoun. And then, the Israelis double-tapped the medics who arrived onto the scene. And then, they triple-tapped the next wave of medics. And then, they did it one more time for good measure.

Reform Deputy Leader Richard Tice’s companies failed to pay £98,368 tax due on special dividends transferred to a parent company which then donated and lent large amounts to Reform UK bit.ly/4vFmFER

When Boris Johnson failed his security clearance, spooks restricted his access to intelligence. Looking at his Cabinet, they certainly succeeded.

Richard Tice deputy leader of Reform ran four shell companies which did not pay any tax on profits between 2020 and 2022. He's now offering to "put things right". Go on then Richard - resign. www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...

After making catastrophically ill judged decisions about the Iran War, it takes breathtaking chutzpah to make ad hominem attacks on a bloke who has made the right calls.

🚨Sun Times: Richard Tice’s companies appear to have failed to pay £100,000+ in corporation tax on profits, while funnelling over £1 million in donations to Reform UK. Tice calls it a “technicality” but critics say it looks like aggressive tax avoidance benefiting both him personally and his party.

Yesterday we had a journalist post on Threads to say the press doesn't like Labour and holds Labour to higher standards than other parties. It confirms what we all knew and see every day. But shocking that someone in the media bubble actually said it out loud!

Why the public are reluctant to make the trade offs necessary to increase defence spending. By me, based on some new Public First polling https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/defence-spending-public-government-competency-problem-b2958939.html

Looney Tory MPs tell Mail that "British children as young as four will be 'brainwashed by Brussels' because of Labour's decision to rejoin" Erasmus.

Our new report: Richard Tice signed accounts wrongly claiming £98,000 of tax exemptions A 🧵 with the evidence:

Spending a short time studying in Europe is brainwashing?! These people are not well. If you‘re frightened that a few weeks in Europe will result in brainwashing or mind control, then you shouldn‘t be in parliament, you should be in therapy or an asylum.

Do you laugh or do you cry? Trump got trolled.

They told the Pope he doesn’t understand the Bible and then they quoted Pulp Fiction.

We are living in a timeline so dumb it's exhausting.

When you accidentally say the quiet part out loud.

The Iranians are playing this brainsick dullard like a yo-yo.

My wife and I have a secret to making our marriage last. Two times a week, we go out to a nice restaurant and have a good meal and a nice glass of wine. She goes on Wednesdays and I go on Fridays.

I think it’s time for a change at the top but framing Starmer as a Bond villain? “007 you need to take out the PM” “Why?” “Well he inherited a mess, incorporated breakfast clubs, spent billions on infrastructure /green energy, improved workers rights etc… he’s just like Blofeld” Stupidity

Spoiler Alert: It's not a 'bombshell' or 'shocking' - it's the 45th Treasury report on payments to the EU as a result of Johnson's Brexit deal - to cover things like Farage's pension. Not sure why the Express chose to quote right wing 'free speecher' Frank Furedi of Orban's MCC Brussels think tank.

#Hogsbreath is too stupid to be the Secretary of Defense!

To be fair, it's three days walk from Jerusalem to Damascus.

Laura Kuenssberg poses the question why can't Starmer move on from the Mandelson problem. One reason is her and Chris Mason's 24/7 obsession with trashing him.

Granted The Graun has been deservedly sliding into the mire for a long time but flippin' 'eck, this is Daily Express levels of nonsense. "Bond villain"? WTAF? www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Latest in @theatlantic.com The Ukrainians are now longer pretending that Donald Trump's USA is their friend. Their honesty is important as they seem to understand how much Trump is helping Putin and how important it is that Europe stick together. Gift Link. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

I regret to inform you that “drunken idiot who isn’t interested in working” is the best case scenario for FBI director in a Trump regime.