2nd story on BBC radio 4 bulletins now Still huge questions to answer about Labour Together smearing journalists and sources As I revealed yesterday, senior Labour insiders knew - and person who commissioned it, Josh Simons, now a Starmer minister…. democracyforsale.substack.com/p/starmer-al...

"We’re charging graduates a higher marginal tax rate than somebody earning £150,000" www.thetimes.com/money/family...

Reform UK’s Jenrick is busy blaming Nottinghamshire Council for crumbling roads and chaos - conveniently ignoring that Reform UK runs the council. What a jenprick. Source: His Facebook account #UKPolitics

Sunday Times splashing today with story about Labour Together paying for a smear campaign against journalists investigating its undeclared funding Democracy for Sale broke story 10 days ago and we’ve been reporting on it ever since😊 Now we need proper accountability! democracyforsale.substack.com

Wow! This is some top-notch investigative journalism. The report claims the 3 million Epstein files released are only 2% of the total. The massive scale of what’s still missing is hard to comprehend.

When I lived in Japan, far-right parties used to drive around blaring out propaganda from loudspeaker vans. People saw them as public nuisances at best, dangerous nutters at worst. Interesting to see Matt Goodwin adopt the same strategy.

Unbelievably this wasn’t even raised on SkyNews just now during the interview with Reform's head of policy Zia Yusuf. If UK news shows won’t call this boll**** out let’s do it ourselves

Polish Deputy Prime Minister of Foreign Affairs Radek Sikorski: “Europe is now paying for this war. We are buying American weapons to deliver to Ukraine. US supplemental package ran out last year. We are paying, this is our security and therefore we deserve a seat at the negotiating table.”

Classic Zelenskyy: "We can also give ceasefire for Russians if they will do elections in Russia."😏🤌

Greenland PM Jens-Frederik Nielsen: "The Greenlandic people have never felt threatened. The first time they felt unsafe for real is when an ally talked about acquiring them, buying them. It's outrageous."

Sir Keir Starmer has just delivered the finest, wide ranging and most important foreign policy speech I’ve heard over the past thirty years. He’s mended bridges with our European neighbours and set forth a clear plan for stability, peace and wealth creation. It’s so refreshing

Polish Foreign Minister Radosław Sikorski just schooled Czech Deputy Prime Minister Petr Macinka into accepting that the European Union operates as a democracy. Populists have nowhere to hide when met with hard facts. An extraordinary exchange. Well worth a watch.

Russia killed opposition leader Alexei Navalny using toxin from dart frog, UK says www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Huge evening at Democracy for Sale as Labour Together’s investigation into journalists leading Sunday Times Want to thank all our supporters: without you, this story would never have happened Really shows the power of independent journalism Do support, if you can democracyforsale.substack.com

“I’ve said it time & time again - we need to leave the ECHR” says Reform candidate Matt Goodwin The ECHR protects us all. The rights within it – firmly implanted into UK law by the Human Rights Act – are the reason why families devastated by disasters like Hillsborough could demand justice

The commander in chief telling troops who they have to vote for is itself a presidency ending impeachable scandal.

"The collision of a multiparty electorate with a voting system designed for two parties is creating new risks for Britain". I signed this letter. It's not about blocking Reform;it's about the danger to democracy of a system that can't cope with multiparty voting www.politicshome.com/news/article...

BREAKING: “Russia has proved its appetite for aggression, bringing terrible suffering to the Ukrainian people." Keir Starmer accuses Russia of "using disinformation to sow division", in the beginning of his speech at the Munich Security Conference.

The President, two of his current Cabinet secretaries, his former strategist, his biggest donor, and his pending Fed Chair nominee are all in the files of a pedophile who ran a sex trafficking ring, while the attorney general and a former Cabinet secretary let him get away with it. Seems kinda bad?

Democracy is when voters choose their leaders. Autocracy is when leaders choose their voters.

Hillary Clinton: "The Trump administration's position towards Ukraine is disgraceful... The effort that Putin and Trump are making to profit off the misery and death of the Ukrainian people is a historic error and corrupt to the nth degree... He has betrayed the West. He has betrayed human values."

Johnson, Gove, Rees-Mogg, and possibly David Davis were plotting with paedophile Jeffrey Epstein and white supremacist Steve Bannon to bring down a British Prime Minister. Why this treason isn’t front-page news is a disgrace for the journalistic profession in the UK.

If you discovered that a British politician took money from the Russian government or any part of the Kremlin’s vast propaganda machine, would that politician ever be fit to hold any public office in the UK? (Just wondering…)

🚨Reform leader Nigel Farage has posted on X “1 million people living in this country don’t speak any English at all. 4 million people living in this country barely speak passable English” It’s racked up 2 million views AND IT’S COMPLETELY UNTRUE youtu.be/o56Tw8vSEfE?...

Well said! @elliechowns.bsky.social: "Reform, and before it the Brexit Party, and before it UKIP have been busy for many years fomenting his idea that immigration is the problem in this country. "It's completely untrue."

The cat’s out of the bag. 👇🏽 “…Brexit was not the will of the people but the will of the rich and powerful – Putin, Trump, the autocrats, the billionaire oligarchs, the libertarians and Farage.” “The Epstein files show that Brexit was never a “plucky British revolt”.

Two immigrants top relevant Sunday Times list for most UK tax paid, as "patriot" multi-billionaire Ratcliffe lives as an immigrant in Monaco, to protect wealth so vast it is unspendable, while whining about immigrant UK care workers and NHS cleaners not pulling their weight. FUCK RIGHT OFF, "SIR".

When Labour came to power in 1997, a staggering 283,866 people were waiting 6 months or more for an operation. By 2007 the number was down to 199. Just one astonishing fact I came across while recording this and it's a reminder that government really can change things - for the better.

Europe and the UK should come closer together – on security, on economy or on defending our democracies. Ten years on from Brexit, our futures are as bound as ever. So, it is in our common interest to be ambitious about our partnership.

This says everything we need to know about Reform Uk's view on women. Completely unacceptable. https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/feb/13/reform-matt-goodwin-fertility-comments-outcry-handmaids-tale

Reform, the natural home for traitors.

I have asked the BBC to scrutinise + correct the factually inaccurate claims made by Mr Nigel Farage about why net migration fell in 'Political Thinking with Nick Robinson' Here is the link if you want to do something like this. www.bbc.co.uk/contact/comp...

2024 Reform UK voters are also less likely to describe themselves as anti-Russia (48%) than other voters (66-79%) yougov.co.uk/politics/art...

I prefer it when ‘Traitors’ describes the TV program, not the people potentially electing the next government.

After Munich, Rubio will travel to Budapest to meet Hungary’s strongman premier Viktor Orbán, the EU’s most pro-Russian leader, who has blocked efforts to deepen support for Kyiv. If that doesn’t tell you that the Trump administration is pro Russia then nothing else will!!!

It doesn’t really matter *why* Trump’s desire to destabilise & divide Europe precisely mirrors Vladimir Putin’s - whether kompromat, self-interest, naked bigotry or something else l. What matters is that Europe treats both regimes like the enemies of progress & democracy they so clearly are.

Just checking, it's now ok to flee your homeland, because you're afraid for your safety, and seek refuge in another Country? Glad we've cleared that up. Let's hear no more about immigration and refugees then.

This ruling shows that proscribing Palestine Action was a grave misuse of terrorism laws. Labour must accept its mistake, drop its appeal and stop wasting taxpayers' money on suppressing civil liberties.

The Farage Files: Week One @mrjamesob.bsky.social and Henry Riley have been scrutinising Reform UK with a fine-tooth comb, uncovering a massive 22 stories. youtu.be/fyNKDMxg2bM

This is everything it should be - meticulously researched, deeply thought out, uncomfortably probing, scrupulously fair, AND ALSO outrageously entertaining. This is how progressives should tell stories. An hour flew by.

this feels like a spoof from The Day Today

I’ve managed to sort out The Times Magazine for this weekend:

Blue Labour founder, McSweeney confidante and Farage pal Maurice Glasman was proud of his connections with Steve Bannon and Peter Thiel when we interviewed him last autumn. Wonder if he’s having second thoughts after the Epstein files subscribe.bylinetimes.com/edition/79/b...

The problem with these Palantir deals is not primarily data security. It's the fact we are creating single points of failure in the NHS, armed forces, and police. Palantir has massive leverage over essential information and logistics systems. A bad idea.... www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

Trump is a total moron. The only scam is the one he’s pulling.

This is shocking. Cost of living crisis laid bare as almost half of Britons ‘have under £25 left at end of week’ Majority of UK adults forced to make difficult choices, with almost two-thirds found to be cutting back on essentials like food and heating www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...

Today, the Trump administration repealed the endangerment finding: the ruling that served as the basis for limits on tailpipe emissions and power plant rules. Without it, we’ll be less safe, less healthy and less able to fight climate change—all so the fossil fuel industry can make even more money.

Ellie Chowns, "Reform UK, before it was the Brexit Party, before when it was UKIP, has been busy for many years fermenting this idea that immigration is the problem in this country" "It's completely untrue" "Inequality is the problem in this country"

Reform UK’s Matt Goodwin thinks women should be warned about having children ‘too late in life’. Meanwhile he became a father at 39. See how it works with Reform UK?

I can't be bought. But if you pay £70 on Cameo I'll say hello to Hugh Janus or cheer on the IRA.