Bob MacGregor

That's quite the self-own 😂

Imagine thinking “goddamit - we can’t shop at Aldi as we are racist”

Kemi Badenoch’s flagship Tory policy document overstating the cost of net zero by nearly £500bn due to an embarrassing spreadsheet error shows the rot of bad-faith climate math. Doubling numbers to justify scrapping green targets is deeply reckless. Why weaponise bad data? 🤔 #ClimateCrisis

It's now just two parliamentary by-election wins in 26 attempts for Reform - and in this one they couldn't even beat the Tories and only just got their deposit back.

here's Wednesday's post: "Dear Leader craps the bed — and then himself — at the UN" he’s such a fucking embarrassment. thanks for reading, and please sign up for my daily newsletter to keep getting the good stuff —

“Blood, sweat and oil”: terrible working conditions at Saudi Aramco exposed in new report New report by Fairsquare has exposed dire working conditions for migrant workers at Aramco northeastbylines.co.uk/news/world-n...

Anthropic employees: NEXT-GEN AI COULD WIPE OUT HUMANITY WITH A SUPERVIRUS! Normies: that seems like a big leap. How would this AI disseminate such a virus in the real world? Anthropic employees: oh, through the wet labs we built and hooked it up to, of course. Normies: …😬😤

it's Saturday, and it's time for "this week in stupid: September 19 edition" — God lowers prices, Donny airs his vices, and so much more... thanks for reading, and please sign up for my daily newsletter to keep getting the good stuff —

This is what Trump did on 9/11.

Criminal investigation launched into Reform UK donations www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

The House voted to condemn “socialism” earlier this week. Listen, I’ve been in and around politics for over 50 years. I grew up during McCarthyism and the “red Scare” of the 1950s. I’ve seen all of this fear-mongering before. Here’s what’s really going on.

“Every time [Farage] tries to persuade the country he’s running a serious party and that it isn’t a one-man band, something seems to happen to make it look like a dodgy, third-rate clown show.” What an u̶n̶l̶u̶c̶k̶y̶ ̶c̶o̶i̶n̶c̶i̶d̶e̶n̶c̶e̶/nailed-on inevitability… Ffs enough now. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Jesus! That's abominable hate speech. How are these people not in court?

The party of free speech

It’s almost as if immigration is good for the economy…

Reform UK suspending Tim Montgomerie for daring to have an opinion is prime comedy. Nothing screams "confident political movement" quite like purging your best media operator the second they say something mildly inconvenient. 🍿

​If your political party is up to its neck in dodgy offshore donations and police investigations, simply point at a contained border event 1,500 miles away in North Africa and scream 'invasion!' Works like a charm every single time. 🎭 #ReformUK

Why did the British government suppress a report warning that ecosystem collapse must now be treated as a core national security threat? That’s what Caroline Lucas explores in a column for the Nerve and in her new podcast When Nature Becomes A Security Threat, from The Rest is Politics.

Check out those Reform voters! (Source: www.ft.com/content/4932...)

Republicans are shit at governing, but they're awesome at performative wankery — so they're throwing red meat to the MAGA chuds by persecuting Dr. Fauci for his imaginary crimes. thank you for your attention to today's post, in which I mock their dumbfuckery. link is here: bit.ly/4vVYPni

here's Thursday's post: "it’s time to leave Dr. Fauci the fuck alone" — Republicans are being shitweasels again. thanks for reading, and please sign up for my daily newsletter so you never miss a post —

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Trump's own immigration agents admit it: they were ordered to target last summer’s redistricting rally in LA. Use federal law enforcement to target political opponents. Politicize the Department of Justice. Defy court orders. That is blatant authoritarianism, ordered by Trump.

Reform UK already have a comprehensive plan for social care: me and my rich mates will be just fine thanks and the rest of you can go fuck yourselves.

Trump’s assault on science goes beyond the ideology of particular topics like env justice. It goes after the fundamental idea that knowledge should inform decisions. One grant was terminated for keywords “promote policymaker's use of scientific evidence". www.highereddive.com/news/inside-...

🚨 NEW: Reform UK's bank account was frozen for two weeks in 2024, including on the day of the general election Days earlier, bankers at Arbuthnot Latham reported nearly £1m in payments received by Reform to the National Crime Agency for "suspicious activity"

Wonderful piece on the widespread failure to teach the British enough about Empire by a proper specialist in the subject, the great Alan Lester @aljhlester. Full of interesting background about Gove and his extremist paymaster, Paul Marshall that I didn't know alanlester.co.uk/blog/teachin...

"At the dinner after his ‘Antichrist Lectures’, Thiel asked several people present how they would feel if they woke up the next morning with $200 million in their bank accounts."

Standing up against the establishment on behalf of *checks notes* "a very successful aristocratic family".

When you come third place to a bin

Inside the web of money behind grifting Nigel Farage and Reform UK

#NEVERNigel #NEVERReformUK #JogOnJenrick

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Italian Senator Carlo Calenda: "Maybe we should understand what the Russians are.They’re the ones who take&deport Ukrainian children to Russia,the ones who kill civilians I see many people around who speak,who have a public voice,who basically keep saying:"Well,but Russia still has its reasons"

And there it is… www.desmog.com/2026/04/30/r...

Trump thought suing the BBC would intimidate them. Instead, they turned his own lawsuit into a legal headache that could force him to defend his actions surrounding January 6 under oath. That is the kind of self inflicted karma no political strategist could have scripted.

In 2018, a famous lawyer won a $289M verdict for a man who got cancer after using Monsanto's glyphosate weedkiller for years. Today, that same lawyer works for Trump, who signed an EO expanding glyphosate production and whose DOJ defended Monsanto in court. His name? RFK Jr.

📌 ICYMI @nafeez.bsky.social Official data completely contradicts Nigel Farage’s false claim that ethnic minorities are favoured at the expense of white children, reports Nafeez Ahmed

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WTF!?

Nice!

In this new Empire mini-series, @willdalrymple.bsky.social and @anitaanand.bsky.social explore the extraordinary lives of the Duleep Singh sisters, the daughters of the last Maharaja of the Punjab. Listen to the complete series now by signing up at: empirepoduk.com

These declarations are made out in the open, now with automatic translation. Western politicians and commentators who pretend not to notice these grotesque declarations by *the national security minister of a state which their countries arm and fund* are complicit in them.

Today is a win for decency The result marks not just a clear rejection of the politics of “pure cold rage” called for by Nigel Farage during the campaign, but also a rejection of the cosy media consensus that his party is somehow inevitably heading for Government. @bylinetimes.bsky.social