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Can't wait to read Liz Truss's new book.

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Mark Francois' Conservative Conference Diary mrhenrymorris.substack.com/p/mark-franc...

If you believe this, I have a bridge to sell you. The prime directive of the Conservative Party is to get and hold power. The idea that it would risk throwing away the opportunity merely because it involved an albeit uncomfortable arrangement with another right-wing party is clearly for the birds.

If you have a few minutes this weekend, do check out my new article in 'Nigel's Notebook'. It's partly about the many benefits of Brexit, so it's quite short. parodypm.substack.com/p/brexit-epi...

Burnham speech: An astonishing moment of radicalism and commitment iandunt.substack.com/p/burnham-sp...

🇨🇦PM Carney's speech to the 🇪🇺Parliament starting now, with an intro by speaker Metsola pointing out that both 🇨🇦&🇪🇺 are unions. "Our friendship is built on the same udnerstandig that united Canadians in 1867 and Europeans in 1951 – that we are always stronger when we work together" Two confederations

Kremlev, the Russian who sponsored Don Jr's wedding, is a former member of the Night Wolves biker gang, went to China with Putin and is personally sanctioned by Ukraine for his role in abducting children. He praises Stalin on social media www.propublica.org/article/dona...

Trump: Hudson Bay is now the Bay of America. The Northwest Passage is now the Trump Passage. People love the Trump Passage. Marco Rubio and Pete Hegseth disappeared up there years ago… New Private Eye on shelves now.

Learn the truth about our 100 day promises in the latest entry in 'Nigel's Notebook'. parodypm.substack.com/p/100-day-ta...

If you worry alot about AI, China's Robot Olympics is here to reassure you that things are going to be OK.

🚨 NEW from @ipsosintheuk.bsky.social Britain backs Binface 🚨 When asked who they would prefer win the Clacton by-election... 33% say Count Binface 21% say Nigel Farage 32% say neither 13% are undecided

A vulnerable homeless gentleman was found behind some bins, telling pigeons that he was going to run in the Clacton by-election.

“They’ve silenced her. “This is an attempt to punish someone who spoke the truth.” The "bizarre" moment @maitlis.bsky.social is forced to ask Facebook whistleblower Sarah Wynn-Williams to leave the studio.

Since the mainstream media distort what I say, I have started a newsletter, Nigel's Notebook, to speak directly to the people of Britain. Read my first essay on white privilege here, then subscribe for free to get them straight to your inbox. 😉 open.substack.com/pub/parodypm...

Zelenskyy: “If Ukraine burns, your Moscow will burn too”

English commentators need to stop analysing Northern Ireland through an English lens! When you see anti-immigrant riots in Belfast, Ballymena or Larne and immediately reach for "Britain's far-right problem", you're missing half the story. This isn't just racism. It's loyalist terrorism. 1/

UK tax has gone up significantly over the last 25 years But the tax paid by the average UK worker has not This apparent miracle was achieved by taxing “other people”: higher earners, capital, property, banks, etc The strategy has run out of road A 🧵 on what happens next.

A Congressman’s warning: “I really hope the British public learns the lesson from Donald Trump when it comes to Nigel Farage”. “Farage is a total fraud, and I hope they realise before its too late”

Wow. Wow. Wow the fucking Wow.

A quick reminder... Orwell feared we would kneel because we were afraid. Huxley feared we would kneel because it felt good. In Orwell’s world, obedience is compulsory. In Huxley’s, it is aspirational. #HuxleyNotOrwell #BraveNewWorld

Good morning and goddamn it's a beautiful day iandunt.substack.com/p/orban-defe...

Morally completely indefensible. Farage should sack Richard Tice immediately.

Israel's continued strikes in Lebanon are undermining any hope of peace. The UK must act now: sanction Benjamin Netanyahu and his security cabinet, and halt all UK arms exports to Israel. We must also finally proscribe the IRGC and support multilateral plans to disarm Hezbollah.

Impossible to disagree with a single word that Ben Rhodes (Obama era NSC official) is saying here:

Threatening war crimes and mocking Islam isn't a sign of strength, it's a sign of weakness. The PM should rule out UK forces and airfields being used for any attacks on Iranian civilian infrastructure. What more will it take for Starmer to call off the Royal Visit Trump craves?

The royal visit to the US should not go ahead inews.co.uk/opinion/king...

It's been a month since the US and Israel launched the Iran war. Reform has met the moment with a new military thinktank: Think, Tank! It's meeting at Beaconsfield Services. Mark Francois has been on the fruit machines. @mrhenrymorris.substack.com reports www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/728...

Lying about your own country in return for money from a foreign power. There should be a word for that.

OK. My career just peaked.

Important for understanding the context for Farage’s witless opposition to ‘net zero’.

This is an excellent summary of the US War on Iran current situation. I’m an existentialist and borderline absurdist and even I struggle with the current moment. This summary is just fantastic.

GB News has turned into the Reform channel. After a New World investigation found hundreds of breaches of the rules on accuracy and impartiality, Ofcom has failed to do its job and act. We've seen what Fox News has done to politics in the US. We can't let it happen here.

They said it would take 193 years to clean London’s air. We did it in nine. 💨 London has now met legal limits for nitrogen dioxide air pollution.

It’s crystal clear now that Trump has lost control of this war. He badly misjudged Iran’s ability to retaliate. The region is on fire. 1/ I’m going to explain to you in this🧵what I’ve learned - in part from closed door briefings - about the four biggest current crises.

My meeting with Donald Trump went very much as expected.

🗳️ Sarah Olney: "There is a very wide acceptance that it is time to scrap First Past The Post. It does not deliver the results that people vote for and this is an enormous missed opportunity."

We've seen before what happens when an American president launches an illegal war with no idea how it is going to end. Does the Prime Minister not understand that when he fails to stand up to Trump, especially when he's breaking international law, it makes our country less safe?

Ah well, at least Andrew was allowed to leave police custody with quiet dignity and grace.

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Trump’s endless flip-flopping on the Chagos Islands shows why Starmer’s approach is doomed to fail. Britain can’t rely on the US while Trump is in the White House. It’s time to strengthen our ties with allies we can depend on, starting with our neighbours in Europe.

It doesn’t really matter *why* Trump’s desire to destabilise & divide Europe precisely mirrors Vladimir Putin’s - whether kompromat, self-interest, naked bigotry or something else l. What matters is that Europe treats both regimes like the enemies of progress & democracy they so clearly are.

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The government must work with our European partners on retaliatory measures to hit Trump and his cronies where it hurts, unless he drops these tariffs. It's time to show that Britain stands with our allies and we won’t be bullied into submission.

There was, of course, absolutely nothing to stop these Tories resigning when their own Party was literally in the middle of doing all the things they now claim to be so unhappy about. (Come on Higgins!)

Deutsche Bank here with the good stuff. Game on.

Trump’s designs on Greenland are not about NATO security. America already has all the access it needs for shared security purposes. Like with Venezuela— it is *all* about theft of resources.