🔴‘Trump Has Already Rigged the 2028 Presidential Election’: US Defence Insider Regardless of how people vote, the chances of a Democrat Government coming to power in 2029 is now virtually nil, argues @brynntannehill.bsky.social bylinetimes.com/2026/01/22/t...

Big thanks to Nerve fave Jason for doing the first video version of our Recommender slot 🙏 Shout out too to @roughtrade1976.bsky.social, & @thirdmanrecords.bsky.social for hosting Film by @sheridanflynn.com See the rest of Jason's picks on the full film on our YT: www.youtube.com/watch?v=WBLK...

Lavrov: Crimea is no less important to the security of the Russian Federation than Greenland is to the United States. And, of course, when what is happening around Greenland is justified by claims that otherwise it would be seized by Russia or China, there is no evidence to support such claims.

This rhetoric emerged from revival movements that thrived during war, plagues, and social collapse, when death was constant and evangelism fed on fear. So, creepy!

1/ Apropos of nothing in particular, I was reflecting on monarchs that have been labelled as mad in the history books. A short 🧵

It will not surprise you to learn that Toby Youngs 'Free Speech Union' has obtained a High Court injunction banning the publication of a list of its donors open.substack.com/pub/democrac...

This picture from Billy Graham's 95th birthday explains so much about 21st-century America.

I’m hearing a lot of well versed people dismiss Farage and Reform’s rising popularity in the same way folks downplayed Trump during the Biden era. If things remain as they are, which they very likely will. Farage will be our next elected PM. And we know perfectly well what happens next.

🔴 ICE thugs are coming to Britain Farage and Badenoch want to bring masked-up deportation squads to the streets of Britain - and the rabid far-right is calling for them to go even further

Big “Mission Accomplished” energy incoming.

Any word from Nigel Farage?

My trend analysis suggests that 2026 is shaping up to be worse than 2025. This trajectory started back in 2016 when David Bowie died.

UK govt says not enough money to do basic things. In 2023 Starbucks paid £7.2m in UK corporation tax on sales of £548m in Britain & global profit of $5.8bn. The UK has become a colony, its resources and people are harvested by international corporations. www.theguardian.com/business/202...

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🐕 This week… Working with Big John, Bertie, and The Nerve 🎥 👀 Looking for Nigel who seems to be everywhere but nowhere 🤷🏽

Every time I see the words ‘Covid Fraud’ I’m reminded that 6 years on I’m still paying back my Covid bounce back loan.

Putin should have accepted Trump’s deal. Now Russia’s collapsing economy could lead to his downfall | Simon Tisdall

Looks like a @vicbergeriv.bsky.social masterpiece.

Russia is already at war with Europe. Few are willing to admit it. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...

For months the lead news stories on BBC 6 Music have almost exclusively been about migrants. Seems very odd.

US geopolitics is just an endless WWE storyline now.

The platform architecture forces convergence: authentic conviction expressed through the same escalating, performative patterns. Which isn't great for functional democracy.

An investigation into Russian interference in our politics is long overdue. And we all know who should be questioned first.

Where’s Nigel? And why won’t he answer our questions? Who introduced his good friend Nathan Gill to a Russian spy? 🧐 Cracking new film from @johnsweeneyroar.bsky.social & @sheridanflynn.com for @thenerve.news

A wee film I shot with the great @johnsweeneyroar.bsky.social for the brilliant @thenerve.news youtu.be/y5OwzvIOFEM?...

How Britain replaced the US as Russia’s villain of choice www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...

When politics can provide no real solutions for people's lives, welcome to 'The Carousel of Scapegoats': distracting, psychological projection to make them feel 'better' – because the lives of 'others' can be made worse New Byline Times print edition available in shops / subscribe.bylinetimes.com 👇

This a make or break for Starmer. If he doesn’t clearly stand up for the British tax payer, for British institutions, British culture, and free speech he’s done for. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

✨Actual copies of my first ever actual book! If you would also like to hold a copy, they will be on sale from Friday this week! ✨ www.aurorametro.com/product/ince...

Hopefully everyone is adequately appeased by now and we can all just casually move on.

1. In the wake on Mamdani’s win, we’ll see a lot more far right anti-urban sentiment. Here’s a thread on its roots and evolution. The idea that the city is evil and corrupt, and the countryside innocent and pure, goes back a long way: to Theocritus in Alexandria, and to the Old Testament. 🧵

Fucking hell.

Why the Caerphilly by-election result shows Nigel Farage's party is much weaker than most of the coverage of Reform suggests bylinetimes.com/2025/10/24/t...

Got to watch the first 2 episodes of Marco Bellocchio’s new HBO drama Portobello at the Carson Soho. Going out on a limb here and say it might be in the same league as 2019 Chernobyl. youtu.be/xWfP35FJ0vQ?...

Every accusation is an admission. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Lords Heseltine & Kinnock seem more alive to these self-evident truths than most members of the Commons. Similarly, I find thinkers with direct lived experience of far right dictatorship, Greeks of a certain age for example, crystal clear about what’s happening now.

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Got to see the brilliant and inspirational Power Station film last night in Hackney. A beautiful toolkit for activism and people power ✊🏿✊🏽✊🏻 youtu.be/TaoJzRiZ25s?...

It’s increasingly clear that convicted Russian influencer Nathan Gill was a senior member of Farage’s entourage. (Banks and Wigmore were also in and out of the Russian embassy sharing FBI files, RT talking points, and discussing gold and diamond privatisation deals)