Guy Clapperton

TRUMP TODAY: "She wasn't a member of my family. She I guess dated my son a long time ago" TRUMP NOT EVEN 2 YEARS AGO: "Kimberly has been a close friend and ally"

Not now, octopus invasion! www.economist.com/britain/2026...

Truly wild to have lived through moral panics about teenagers wearing hoodies and Muslim women wearing the head dress to now experience 'but is a large group of organised far right activists in balaclavas really that scary'

James Orr in this excellent undercover sting of dodgy funding to Reform UK (expose Channel 4 news) describing the electoral commission officers in less than charitable terms. If you want to know who Orr is, my report for @bylinetimes.bsky.social gives context. bylinetimes.com/2025/08/26/j...

Suella Braverman on the Today programme adopting Reform’s latest wheeze about the nonexistent “uniparty”. Just watch - if Farage loses ground to Binface it will be because of this latest conspiracy, not because he misjudged his move spectacularly.

Reform have now lost six by-elections in a row in England, Scotland and Wales. Their national poll rating is 26% – below Labour in 1983 – and Farage’s approval rating is -37. They’re very far from the voice of the people and need to stop being treated as such.

The joy today is that hatred lost. Doesn't matter what you think of Burnham. Farage tried to invite a race riot. He dealt in explicitly racial rhetoric. If he'd won, many journalists would have considered it a vindication of his approach and branded our outrage evidence of how out of touch we are.

Well done to the demonstrators who turned out in their masses to counter the far right in Brighton. Good people outnumber these hateful little nobodies and always will.

I’m old enough to remember some rightwingers calling out Obama for having an opinion on Brexit, presumably they’ll be shocked by this

Goodwin: "I'm not an expert in Tom Stoppard. But to go back to Sunak. I think Rishi Sunak himself - or say Suella Braverman - they may describe themselves as British Asian or British Hindu, but may say "I am not entirely sure I fit a definition of English". But Sunak certainly does not say that.

Staggering. Yet another stunner in a day that still hasn’t ended.

Ok, everyone else across Europe who can’t stand Eurovision, next year everyone vote for Australia en masse. Then all the European Eurovision fans will have to get up in the middle of the night to watch when it’s hosted in Oz.

Jonn’s newsletters are always worth a read.

“Sorry about Frank, he’s a real armchair critic” From the latest Private Eye, out now.

Welcome to Reform's Farage Camps. A determined attempt to politicise and weaponise migrants with threatening language and behaviour that evokes the worst excesses of tyranny in the 20th century. #FarageCamps

It's not a political party. It's an engine of enrichment for greedy millionaire white men. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Can we just appoint Romesh Ranganathan’s agent to negotiate everything please.

Happy 13th anniversary to that terrible misunderstanding at a WI meeting.

If Starmer does a reshuffle after the local elections it'll be an admission that he's given up on even the pretence of effective government. An awful time to shuffle the pack again and reset everyone's specialist knowledge to zero, just as they're getting a handle on their department.

This story is completely insane. Beyond belief.

Senior Tory MP claims knife crime went up by 72% in London. In fact offences fell by 11% in the year to September 2025.

The battle against Trump is a battle against genocide iandunt.substack.com/p/the-battle...

Last night a lot of people will have seen Lawrence Rosenberg grilled by Claude Littner on The Apprentice. I took more of a "listening" approach for the new series of The Near Futurist podcast - if you want to know more about his vision for the future of PR, take a listen: pod.fo/e/3faeec

These guys are obsessed. They spend more time slagging off Britain than they do Iran

There's having a brass neck and then there’s whatever this is from Boris Johnson

“I think Iran was probably preparing something”, a line that every time I read it I can feel a braincell going “to hell with this, I’m out” and firing off for the last time.

On the one hand Donald Trump is saying Iranian military assets are now obliterated. On the other he is crying out for help from allies who don’t actually support his attack. Why does he need this help after he’s “obliterated” everything?

Yes everything is terrible but let’s not lose sight of the fact that someone has written the Headline to End All Headlines.

"Every news organization, for days, has been leading with Trump’s...impetuous (and illegal) strike on Iran ....[This] means that you’re seeing far less about some of the things Trump wants to blot out from existence, [like] his appearance in the Epstein files." - The great @sulliview.bsky.social

I'm so out of popcorn

The Trump Comma bsky.app/profile/rbre...

Almost have to admire Nigel Farage's level of commitment to never spending a weekend in his own actual constituency, at this point.

just billionaire Sir Jim Ratcliffe throwing out some serious made-up numbers on TV

This couldn’t be clearer. Bannon’s texts to Epstein in mid July 2018 - “overthrowing May right now” and in “London with Boris” as well as his appearance on LBC with Nigel Farage are prettying damning evidence of a cross party plot with foreign backing

incredible, even when it's for his paramilitary fascist goon squad, trump still doesn't pay his bills

My latest tip sheet: why you have seconds to make the right impression in a media interview, why now is the right time to invest in training and how to introduce someone on stage: www.linkedin.com/pulse/second... #mediatraining #publicrelations #mediamentorguy

Relevance, poor soundbites and being too transactional - this week's tip roundups. #mediatraining #publicrelations #mediamentorguy www.linkedin.com/pulse/media-...

Proud dad moment: my daughter’s website is published, with a video of her singing from Carmen to mark World Opera Day. Please click and share! www.charlotteclappertonmezzo.co.uk - thanks!

Media training tip: why brevity is best: guyclapperton.substack.com/p/brief-is-b...

I’ve missed the deadline for the prize but I love Kathy’s work so reposting anyway!

Asking for a bit of help this time - also welcoming my new VA Jo and there's a bit of a rant about briefing clients. #mediatraining #publicrelations #mediamentorguy www.linkedin.com/pulse/can-i-... via @LinkedIn

New on Substack - maintaining eye contact online. open.substack.com/pub/guyclapp...

Too many assumptions, awkward questions and how will your casual chat look in writing? My latest media tips sheet on LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/pulse/never-... via @LinkedIn

Really, Reform UK? THIS is what you're going with? That this man, who served as an MEP next to Nigel Farage for years and was made leader of your party in Wales by current deputy, Richard Tice, is just "one of tens of thousands of people Nigel meets on an annual basis"?~AA

Fun fact: Farage's girlfriend's parent didn't pay for his house, they live in a £300k flat in Strasbourg. So who bought a £885k house for Farage in cash and why have lügenpresse let this story drop⁉️

And a rattling good evening it was too. Thanks to all four of you and Miles Jupp for chairing - we thoroughly enjoyed it.

The BBC is still saying that Jimmy Kimmell made comments about Charlie Kirk. He made comments about Trump’s reaction - flags at half mast when there were none even for Carter for example - which is a very different thing. His only comment about the murder expressed sympathy for the family.

Our prime minister in the UK has many faults, he’d probably admit this. He does not, however, claim medical expertise. Please everyone, be a bit more Adam and a bit less Donald.