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There's another way of putting this: "Markets prefer fascists" www.economist.com/leaders/2026...

Farage tying himself in angry knots here ... as he refuses to answer the basic question: Is it racist to call Kemi Badenoch a "Nigerian scammer"?

Remembering DYLAN THOMAS — born 112yrs ago today in Swansea, Wales

One of our finest purveyors of the spoken word - Michael Sheen - performing the poetry of fellow countryman DYLAN THOMAS — born 112yrs ago today — in UNDER MILK WOOD (1954)

Oh dear God

NEW: Trump is a Russian asset. And the UK government is finally waking from its decade-long slumber Read this. And order a wind-up radio. broligarchy.substack.com/p/the-dark-t...

www.ft.com/content/8255... But not UK Banks, obviously, or we'll need a bailout within a couple of years, obvs

www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli... Umm, if English villages can hold these, why can't the nations of the UK? @torstenbell.bsky.social Ask Uncle Andy would you?

Fascinating Jeremy, now tell us about the time you cut national insurance twice as an electoral game despite knowing we couldn't afford it.

Elon Musk Just what an incredible fall from grace… From innovative, eco-conscious, cool nerd… 
To depraved, entitled, evil, war-mongering, self-radicalised fuckwit.

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Just a reminder to all Reform UK members to put your clocks back to 1936 tonight.

Then maybe don’t send him to bloody boarding school… #Cruelty

EU Member States are serious about protecting the International Criminal Court and a world governed by international law. In The Hague, I met ICC President Tomoko Akane to convey the EU’s strong support for the Court, its judges, and their work.

The fall in immigration is mutilating Healey’s Budget iandunt.substack.com/p/the-fall-i...

University of Nottingham, right now, is cutting 560 jobs. Do we need to rebrand universities as very large, very clean, land-based oil rigs to get government support?

The White House and the Kremlin share an ideological agenda, a worldview and a geopolitical strategy inews.co.uk/opinion/usa-...

Nuffield Trust finds that the NHS surcharge (at £1035/year + £776 for students + children) raises 60% more than the cost of the healthcare it covers, putting £2.5 billion into the NHS Rapid drops in immigration therefore hit the NHS finances www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/articles/ana...

116 children didn’t come home from school that day. Never forget. Aberfan

"This hatred, it’s like a cancer. It spreads because people will always say, ‘Oh, it’s just the illegals.’ It’s not. “From what I experienced, it was anyone who was remotely different, different creed, different colour, different sexuality.” www.theargus.co.uk/news/2665180...

It seems so They are getting themselves in a right old mess on immigration Appeasement rarely pays dividends A first big misstep by Burnham imo

This is damning. So much could could have been done at the time, with what was known about COVID, and with what what resources we had. It’s hard not to read callous neglect into these findings. And that intentional neglect was layered with lies - like the “protective ring” - which did not exist.

Alternatively “NO IT FUCKING ISN’T!”

In troubled times Trump’s attempt to sue the BBC ... which is backfiring on him quite spectacularly... brings both hope and amusement newrepublic.com/post/216805/...

These guys will do anything to kill reform. They're partisans. They don't give a damn that FPTP is mangling our electoral system or that it could hand total executive control to Nigel Farage. They just care that a few times a century Labour has a majority. www.politicshome.com/news/article...

Pistyll Rhaeadr is Wales' 3rd highest waterfall. Located near Llanrhaeadr y Mochnant (The church of the waterfall of the policemens stream). Built in 1902 by minister Dan Duwiol to attract people to his chapel. The pump was originally powered by children. It is closed on Tuesdays for maintainance.

Tumble weed across legacy media about ITV's exposé of Reform. Can you imagine the hysteria if an SNP councillor advocated for concentration camps or a Muslim Labour candidate said he wants to shoot MPs he considers traitors? The Mail front pages, Telegraph thinkpieces, and somber Today interviews?

ITV footage shows racist, sexual, violent rhetoric among Reform members. These lunatics say “King Charles is a f***ing Muslim… " and want him to be beheaded. They want concentration camps for migrants, violence against minorities. Return of the Nazis, 100 years after the Cable Street resistance.

The Sovereign Grant to the King doesn’t count as taxable income. Payments by the state to Britons, such as the state pension, carer’s allowance, contribution-based jobseeker’s allowance, and contribution-based employment and support allowance are taxable. That's the law.

Newport in Gwent is known as Casnewydd in Welsh. The name means new (newydd) case (cas) as it was once home to a thriving case making industry. Suit cases and brief cases were exported around the world. Today it is home to several head cases.

A would-be Reform UK MP told an undercover reporter that Muslims could not be British and asylum seekers should be put in “concentration camps”. Refers to black children as “animals”. Reform is a party of sleaze, scandals, misogyny and racism, devoid of humanity. Will history repeat itself?

Reform's entire strategy regarding the ITV revelations by the undercover journalist is "why aren't they investigating all the other parties because there are bad apples in all of them..." Meanwhile Here's Alan Feeney Reform councillor in Solihull

"Siri, show me an image that confirms the English haven't a clue when it comes to basic geography"

Mr Urdd has bowed to commercial pressures and has done a deal to promote Del Monte to raise funds for the Eisteddfod...

Exclusive: Reform mayor Luke Campbell is under police investigation for allegedly cyberflashing a female member of staff Campbell, an Olympic gold boxer, is accused of having shown a a senior female officer four fully “naked and sexualised images” of himself observer.co.uk/news/nationa...

Yup. And when are those people going to be challenged on it and held to account?

Musk is an enemy of Europe. There is no justification for continuing to use his products

Katie made Scaramucci look like a tenured professor.

I want to believe in “a better America” and to agree with those who say “this is not who we are as a country.” But, hope is not a strategy. It’s not enough to say it, it has to BE it, and until then, the world must treat with 🇺🇸 as it currently IS - depraved, disloyal, disruptive and dangerous.

Yes, we definitely need to cut welfare costs.

“Look in the mirror, 🇺🇸”. No matter how many times you say “this is not who we are as a country”; right now it IS. 🇺🇸 has twice elected a corrupt, selfish bully who abandons allies, deals with enemies, rejects science and medicine, attacks other countries, harms the vulnerable and pardons criminals.

Slow round of applause for the coward EU official who came up with this little piece of bullshit last night. iandunt.substack.com/p/these-are-...

Reform’s Robert Jenrick said his party would use “lethal force” against people crossing the channel in small boats. This inflammatory and inhumane rhetoric does not reflect the values of the people of Wales. We have a duty as politicians to call out such dangerous language.

He concludes it had “little impact” - but how does he know? The vote was so close that just a marginal impact on a small number of voters could have been decisive. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Reminder that the EU had no compunction about banning Russia Today. If anything, Musk’s behaviour is more egregious - directly assisting a foreign enemy's military attack. And this is on top of his support for race riots, Nazis and CSAM! By any measure, a threat to national security.

"Smoked in the exhaust fumes of a Lancaster bomber, seasoned with ash from a Benson & Hedges cigarette, Nigel Farage's dandruff and the drool from an XL Bully..."

@paulbernal.bsky.social Well, leaf blowers have some uses that I can appreciate 🤭

More confirmation of the parlous state of #biodiversity on these islands. Environment Act ia not delivering. We need #NaturesRights now www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Andy Burnham says he holds Nigel Farage 'significantly responsible' for UK's miserable decade www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...

Hmmm… who to believe… Andy Burnham or the compulsive liar who got sacked twice for lying, lied to Parliament, lied to The Queen, cheated on two wives and ignored the Ministerial Code. Tricky one.