Jeremy Smith

This story went up late on Friday and got less attention than it otherwise might have done. A sentencing hearing on Friday was told three participants in the Tory election-betting scandal - dismissed at the time as "a flutter" - would have made nearly £50,000 if undetected www.ft.com/content/510e...

A company led by overt fascists with clear sympathies and commercial to a US regime that is an adversary should not have access to information about MoD processes, or be awarded any business that puts the MoD in the position of relying on them.

Healey is wrong to claim that Heathrow extension will boost GDP. That's false. it simply diverts resources from more useful and sustainable projects, with huge disruption along the way. It only serves the interests of Heathrow's owners.

Pretty extraordinary for the Jewish Chronicle to run an op ed & news story about Nigel Farage warning of antisemitism in the Greens without mentioning that he is the only serving major party leader to have been criticised by Jewish groups for using tropes linked to antisemitic conspiracy theories.

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.

We all need a timeline cleanse, so here is the most adorable #chess piece ever! A knight, made of antler. Dating 11/12th century. Found at the Burgstein, Lichtenstein-Holzelfingen. 📷️ me

The Room Next Door - Kemi Badenoch

Billionaire David Reuben says he quit UK for Monaco ... actually already there since 2014. Worth £28bn, objects to non-dom tax changes. Doesn't want to be taxed on the same basis as UK residents Super-rich happy to make profits in the UK, want special treatment, hold govts to ransom.

We've ended up in a country where Jenrick spouts nauseating racist cr*p.

Trump: "We could fix Chicago in literally three, four weeks. We'd bring in the military."

🔴NEW: Ben Delo has given Reform £44MILLION Delo’s money comes from his now-closed crypto exchange BitMEX In 2019, a BitMEX investor asked about the status of his investment Delo responded by sending this meme, according to court documents. There’s more, a lot more (new investigation🧵)

Delo and his fellow crypto tycoon Christopher Harborne have now given Reform £100m+ Reform has pledged to deregulate crypto. Delo and Harborne say there is no quid-pro-quo. But should crypto money buy British democracy? 🔴Read the full story: democracyforsale.substack.com/p/reform-meg...

As I've often said, America is not a civilised country #Hegseth

Quelle surprise a super-rich exodus recent story is shown to be complete bollocks This billionaire said to have quit Britain over fears of a potential Labour wealth tax actually moved to Monaco in 2014 when the Conservatives were in power. Next. www.theguardian.com/news/2026/oc...

The pitch here seems to be, ‘we’ll build the houses and infrastructure we failed to build during the 14 years we were in government, but we’ll do it in the most damaging and lowest quality way possible’. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Any solution to the crown court backlog that relies on pumping thousands more cases into magistrates' courts is bound to fail.

The ability to pour hundreds of millions of pounds into a loss-making TV channel, bent on wrenching British politics sharply to the right, is yet another of the ways in which extreme wealth is trying to remake UK democracy. It needs to be part of any serious conversation about political funding.

And he didn't do it alone.

This is insane.

"Like so many things in the Trump era, you can thank .. John Roberts for this entire mess. Had the worst chief justice in history not overseen the wholesale degradation & kneecapping of the lower courts, we wouldn’t be here. Just as much as Todd Blanche, Roberts owns this.." Important read:

The United Kingdom of Great Breturn and not to forget Northern Ireland.

Thread. Surprised it took so long, honestly.

A cash-strapped rural police force struggles to deal with Red Diesel gangs. Until its chief inspector realises can get the Met Police to deal with the problem... ...if he pretends they're Iranian. A new six part comedy starring Toby Jones.

Vor zehn Jahren haben die damalige kolumbianische Regierung und die Farc-Guerilla einen Friedensvertrag unterzeichnet. Ich erinnere mich noch gut an die Hoffnung im Land. Heute ist die Gewalt zurück. Die neue Regierung setzt auf militärische Repression statt Versöhnung. #Kolumbien

Just helping with editing here. These bots aren’t sentient. They’re doing what they’re programmed to do. OpenAI, a private company supposedly bound by laws, committed federal crimes.

Liar. Small boat crossings peaked under Johnson in 2022 reaching 46,000 in 2022. In current year they are 18,565 and falling. Also prior to Boris Johnson's Brexit there were none.

CARTOON OF THE DAY…

The self-styled 'nasty party' out to prove it can be the Much Nastier Party.

Marco Rubio: “Iranians are radical religious lunatics.” Also: Have you met Paula White, the White House faith advisor?

Who's the idiot in the middle?

Pogroms. Jewish terrorism. Ethnic cleansing. “These are not the words of outsiders. They are the words of people who once ran the Israeli state,” writes Alan Rusbridger

Just to remind everyone, since many reporters and politicians seem to have forgotten, Iran was not close to having a nuclear weapon. And it was negotiating when Trump and Israel attacked it back in February. The nuclear weapon story is just a Trumpian lie.

"I am the way, the truth and the code".

BBC website finally mentions "Tommo" slashing a boat www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

This assumes that Trump's war of aggression (and choice) was right. A wholly false premise.

"Gays for Gasoline"

Not yet confirmed but election results in Berlin with a significant increase in the vote for Die Linke underline that the left can provide an alternative to the right & far right

BBC News is becoming outrageous. All day plugging the ultra reactionary outpourings of tax-dodgy immigrant (to Monaco) Jim Ratcliffe

‘We cannot allow race to be reintroduced into our politics. We cannot allow Briton to be set against Briton.’ Bravo Rishi Sunak www.thetimes.com/article/e89d...

If you add in £130m losses on “Reform TV” (aka GB News) the effective subsidy of Farage’s party from just four men tops £200m. You just have to join the dots app.prospectmagazine.co.uk/story/75017/...

Isn’t Sir Jim Ratcliffe an immigrant to Monaco? Happy to be corrected on this of course …. And do British people abroad only consider themselves “expats?” And never “immigrants?”