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How those with the most wealth pay very little tax. andygjburge.substack.com/p/the-financ...

This is when you know an organisation is screwed. The company is collapsing and the boss blames the staff.

That's the difference between parental support and structural privilege. Nobody should begrudge parents wanting the best for their children. But when opportunities depend more on who your parents know than what you can do, privilege becomes self-perpetuating. That's the problem we need to fix.

Back in the US after a long break in the UK, I am suffering from total sticker shock after visiting a couple of DC supermarkets. I have never seen prices like it. Inflation numbers here are going to soar & are not yet telling the full story. The difference between late May & today is staggering.

UK Establishment Press boosting the Far-Right the exact same way the US media did in the mid-2010's by treating any time Donald Trump spoke as live breaking news

Shocked that Brexit was a Putin Plan? Four years we document confirmation of this by the US Army who saw it as as the “First Step in a Russian Information Blitzkrieg on the West” @nafeez.bsky.social @bylinetimes.bsky.social bylinetimes.com/2022/03/02/t...

The Alexander Yakovenko who told a fellow diplomat: “We have crushed the British to the ground. They are on their knees, and they will not rise for a very long time.”? See fascinating article by @peterjukes.bsky.social and work by @carolecadwalla.bsky.social in bylinetimes.com/2022/03/08/p...

Yeah, this is getting absurd. Zero scrutiny. BBC News broadcasts Reform UK speeches in full without interruptions www.thenational.scot/news/2667178...

This is just the maddest argument. These people would trap us in poverty to keep a decade old commitment, which no one ever actually made, to an electorate which no longer exists.

Jenrick has set out how Reform would maximise our “Brexit freedoms”. And this is their list. This is the very best they can come up with. “Re-legalise imperial units” It’s truly pathetic that this is the pinnacle of their Brexit fever dream. And that anyone would still back this ruinous idiocy…

The allegations against Donald Trump for sexual assault seem to have a common denominator: He is physically violent and intentionally inflicts pain on his victims. He likes to slam women and girls up against doors and walls as he roughly manhandles them. Donald Trump is a sick and twisted person.

Good answer... #RejoinEU #JoinEU #Breturn

From Zelenskyy. Patriot interceptors that could save innocent lives are sitting in European countries for weeks, which they paid for, unable to be transferred to Ukraine because Hegseth refuses to sign off.

This went on for the rest of the full hour, at which point the BBC apologised for having to go to the weather and urged viewers to follow continuing live coverage on iPlayer. Forty-one minutes of unfiltered, unchallenged propaganda by a far right party with 8 MPs, now third in the polls. Discuss.

Still going on. Twenty minutes uninterrupted coverage so far. Robert Jenrick is currently talking about sex chat bots.

What is the BBC's justification for maintaining this level of coverage of Reform now it has slipped into third place?

BBC News just interrupted its coverage to go, live, to Nigel Farage - a man with no contitutional standing in our setup - responding to the budget - a document which nobody has seen yet. WHY

“While each of us (voted Brexit) for different reasons, we all believed that the UK could do a better job of running its own affairs than *unelected officials* in Brussels could." Ben Houchen... November 2020 Six years later 👇👇👇

Number crunching: Royal Mail From the latest Private Eye, out now.

"Suicidal provocation of Russia while our armed forces are at their most woeful state since WW2". Mate, the Russian army is currently pulling T-55's out of storage and losing ~1,800 men a day in foot and motorcycle assaults that achieve nothing. This is "poke the bear" nonsense.

If patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel, then "performative pietism" is surely the panic room inside.

The presenter of #r4today opines.

Guardian reports Police Scotland will get round to watching the documentary at some point ... No rush lads.

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...

Should we really entrust Britain's health data to a particular American firm? Demonstrators across the country think not | Aidan Baker

Don't get the resistance to stocking up advice. Those in rural and semi rural areas experience regular power cuts. It's a regular occurrence. It makes sense to be prepared. In our experience, losing electricity is child's play compared to being without water.

Reform and Tories have pledged to reverse ULEZ repeatedly.

Ten years on, the Brexiters plan to leave the EU and cosy up with the US looks even more disastrous. That their Brexit was boosted by Putin makes it even more historically catastrophic. We mustn’t forget the people who did this or let them near power again bylinetimes.com/2026/06/23/w...

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

BBC report sanitises the overt racism: It notes that organisers warned marchers not to talk to journalists, then gives the "anti-immigration group"'s own sanitised description of itself. It does not report they chanted "England for the white man" in the streets. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Kent Anti-Racism network organised a counter-protest today to register local disapproval of a smaller v ugly Herne Bay march by the maximally racist "Kent Nationalist Movement" who shouted "England for the White Man" and "Remigration Save Our Nation" into a loudhailer www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Fallout from the Starlink restrictions could hit US weapons exports such as the F-35. There were already concerns that the F-35 has a built-in software kill switch. And the US actions on Starlink just turned that risk from theoretical to something proven and real. Very costly choice by the US.

Herne Bay MP Sir Roger Gale described Kent Nationalist Movement a "far-right organisation", saying "Its effectively the Kent National Front" + should be treated with "contempt" He added "Herne Bay is a diverse little town, a happy little town; it has few, if any, problems caused by immigration".

Grok fact-checks its master 👇🏽 👀

A fascist opened fire on people of colour in Trappes and Verriere near Paris, killing one person and injuring 5 more incl a 12 yo girl who was shot 8 times. He opened fire at a children's playground and a hijabi woman. He also shot dead a young black man. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/o...

Nigel Farage’s attack on the RNLI and co is a new low even for this bottom-feeder. He wants to prosecute anyone who saves lives of people that he doesn't like. Desperate Farage diverts attention from investigations by pledging laws that can't work. archive.ph/5UYnG/

Economically & strategically desirable. Politically astute.

Very impressive that he's talking about this.

"Legal migrant numbers are at a historic low and small boat crossings have halved, yet that didn’t stop anger at asylum seekers spilling on to the streets. "There is no level of migration low enough to satisfy some people. There is, however, a level of migration low enough to make us all poorer."

There are forces on the Right trying to divide our society with fear and hatred. The Labour Government is determined to defeat them: to build a Britain of inclusion, tolerance, and compassion.

What this shows is that kissing Trump’s ass always fails. He reacts only to pressure. In this case terrible US polling, screaming Republicans, and catastrophic damage being done to US defense companies.

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This is excellent!

MP famous for absenteeism from EU Parliament, House of Commons & Clacton constituency slams teacher 4-day week idea "Says Nigel Farage, who ranked 748th out of 751 MEPs for voting participation and has managed to vote in barely 31% of Commons divisions since ..." www.facebook.com/TruthAgainst...

Exactly my thought when I first heard the policy. If you want people to integrate, don’t keep them hanging around for 15 years with the threat of deportation hanging over them. 5 years is fair and plenty long enough. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

James Orr - Reform UK's ex policy chief - has stepped down from management roles at Cambridge university following media scrutiny The FT reported last month about complaints from two students. Orr has denied any wrongdoing and said his decision was voluntary as.ft.com/r/adb55c2d-2...

Most things have got better in my lifetime. People were poorer in the 80s, our school sports field was next to a rendering plant, there was more violence and racism in society, the roads were more dangerous, the food was worse. Sorry to the online world dealing in faux nostalgia.

This from the man who hasn't turned up for his day job but is still taking our money. We deserve better than this. We deserve better politicians. Is it time for proper employment terms and conditions for MPs? #Farage #WorkshyFarage