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What were they thinking? My ConHome piece on the pro-Ukrainian British politicians who backed Trump in 2024 and how their tribalism got the better of them. conservativehome.com/2026/10/26/d...

🚨 Reform’s Sam Journet has resigned from the Essex cabinet after just 4 months, citing workload. But questions remain over his year as a councillor, including complaints, an arrest, allegations from a former colleague, and questions over his business interests. So what’s really going on?

Another job ad with no salary scale Give us a break

Don't suppose anyone out there know where I can find a photo of Badenoch's current Shadow Cabinet - for a lecture slide. Lots out their of the previous iterations (eg see below) but can't find one for the current one. It's for a lecture slide.

"I'm sorry it took me 2 weeks to reply to your email, I do not abide by the culture of imediciacy to which you appear to subscribe, life is too short and too heavy to constatntly be in a state of fight or flight due to an inbox, but to answer your question no"

🚨 ‘We stand taller in the world’: Nigel Farage says Brexit has been a ‘success’ Asked on Radio 4’s Today whether he saw Brexit “objectively as a success”, the Reform leader replied: “Yes, I do.” A different message from 2023, when he said: “Brexit has failed” www.politics.co.uk/2026/10/we-s...

As in Hungary, the authoritarian regime in Serbia is being dismantled . “For years, we failed to fulfill our duty. We kept silent, turned a blind eye, reported events one-sidedly, and failed to ask the necessary questions. For that, we owe our viewers an apology,” news anchor Goran Eror said.

🚨 NEW: Andy Burnham hosted the first-ever Rough Sleeping Summit at Downing Street, bringing together businesses, charities, housing providers and local leaders. Labour has committed a further £432m support beyond winter, to get everyone sleeping rough off the streets before Christmas.

Absolute bastards. I have an HSBC mortgage and by the end of next year we’re likely to be paying £1k a month (not for a castle, a small terraced house) more than we did before Truss, Putin and Trump shafted everything. This feels like sheer profiteering. www.theguardian.com/business/liv...

Reform deviant in charge of party vetting. Send dick pics if you want a job in a Reform Cabinet

"when United Airlines began printing its in-flight magazine on lighter paper to save a single gramme, the fuel cost saving across its fleet was close to $300,000 a year". That is a phenomenal fact. www.ft.com/content/2f16...

Half empty is being generous

Can’t actually attract an audience but was broadcast into people’s homes by BBC and Sky anyway who are most determined to keep up the resuscitation attempts on this dying entity.

Liz Truss will appear on @news.sky.com at 0730 to discuss her new book. Few days start better than this.

🚨 Israel has detained an SNP MP and a Greens MSP who were trying to enter Palestine 👉 www.thenational.scot/news/2...

Oxford Street is one of the world's most famous high streets. Pedestrianisation can help unlock its full potential, creating a safer, greener and more vibrant destination for shoppers, visitors and businesses alike.

Since his ennoblement in Boris Johnson’s 2023 resignation list, Tees Valley regional mayor Lord (Ben) Houchen has claimed more than £25,000 in tax-free daily “attendance” allowances from the House of Lords for 73 days when he hasn’t voted, spoken or performed any recorded parliamentary activity.

#Onthisday 2021. Standards committee accuses Owen Paterson of “egregious” lobbying breaches The 30-day recommended suspension was enough to trigger a recall petition. But Boris Johnson whipped Tory MPs to delay and overhaul the standards system. Facing a furious backlash, the govt promptly U-turned

The Conservatives have dismissed Andy Burnham’s focus on everyday irritations as trivial. But voters do not share Westminster’s sense of scale. By mocking his small fixes, they risk exposing their own detachment Piece for @politics.co.uk: www.politics.co.uk/2026/10/burn...

Not much hoo-haa about the ceasefire Melania Trump has reportedly brokered between Russia and Ukraine on here. Why is that? Leftie bias again? 🤪

For the last four weeks, I've been doing a slot on Matt Chorley's programme on Radio 5, in which we take an interesting or historic parliamentary vote and discuss its significance. So far we've done Norway (1940), the Shops Bill (1986), seatbelts (1981) and yesterday we did Iraq (2003).

Help Iran… whatever you make of that wtf Please collapse US economy

The absolute terror of car free 15 minute cities

Appreciating I am hardly best placed to say this, but bring back shame.

The "Professionalised" Reform Party. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

No more waiting for the green signal. In one week, the Oxford Street pedestrianisation begins. More space. Less traffic. Our nation's high street deserves no less.

The Reform ‘project’ promised professionalisation and discipline. But vetting failures, undercover investigations, internal rows, performative stunts and a self-defeating public debate over national identity suggest it is unravelling Piece for @politics.co.uk: www.politics.co.uk/2026/10/is-t...

Police are assessing whether Reform UK candidates broke election spending rules, while the party admitted making 'administrative errors' during the Scottish Parliament election in May

London shouldn’t give Stormont any more money - extra cash has been perversely making things worse for the public. The Executive is an emperor with no clothes: It’s strutting around buck naked and far too many people who know this are silent.

Is the Reform project unravelling? Nigel Farage set out to build a mainstream, professional party. A continual drip-feed of scandals and mismanagement is dragging it back to the fringe Weekend long-read for @politics.co.uk: www.politics.co.uk/2026/10/is-t...

“We're not f****** stupid enough to p*** off the entire woke south or centrist south really of the country,” “You need to seem palatable to everyone...We just need to get f****** elected, that’s all that really matters. We won't necessarily say what we are doing, part of the point is to not [say].”

A Reform councillor was filmed describing Asian homeowners as "parasites" and saying no more than 1% of Britain's population should be non-white.

A Reform councillor has been recorded calling for King Charles to be decapitated because he “is a Muslim”, while another one said of Asian people: “drag out of their homes, stick them on planes and **** them off to Pakistan.” It’s part of an undercover investigation by ITV Exposure

Reform vetting process this evening

Disgusting

'Children living in London aged between 4 and 18 are being asked to help name two baby beavers born in west London. A family of beavers released at Paradise Fields, Greenford in 2023, returned the animal to the capital for the first time in more than 400 years.' 🦫 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Detail of young fella died in tiger enclosure as reported by @news.sky.com is totally prurient. No respect? No morality? No privacy? Who needs to have this information? Gruesome “journalism” Click click click Fuck and off with your infotainment! Grotesque

So, a Trump supporter told me that, “nobody gives a sh*t” about Indigenous Peoples Day. Please, tell me, do you care about Indigenous Peoples Day?

We remember

The Spectator has deleted all the articles written by Lola Salem, Michael Gove’s ex-girlfriend. Michael Gove is the editor of The Spectator.

It's full steam ahead for Oxford Street’s pedestrianisation. More space. Less traffic. This is how we build a high street fit for the future.

Couldn't ask for a better start to the week than Matt Goodwin arguing we shouldn't rejoin the EU because it's become so right wing and populist.

Reform spokesman Zia Yusuf is currently on the Today Programme. He seems to be arguing that asylum seekers are to blame for ambulance waiting times, youth unemployment and exam results in Wales. You couldn't satirise this. It's its own parody - which is a source of its strength.

Yes. Let’s not forget that 🤪

Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesperson: “If the Strait of Hormuz is open, why did America reach out to Russia to solve the diesel problem?”