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Trump is BIG MAD about Obama saying the White House now looks like Saddam opened a Cheesecake Factory: "He's not a smart guy. He's not smart at all ... for you to say it's a Cheesecake Factory, that just shows why you were a lousy president"

On this day in 1971, on a typical rainy October afternoon with shoppers wandering the length of the shopping parade at Clarkston Toll, a blast killed 22 people and injured 100 more in Scotland's worst peace-time explosion. 📷 Newsquest

The BBC news summary this morning went seamlessly from "critics warn PM scrapping triple lock would be electoral suicide" to "critics ask if PM has nerve to make tough decisions" and I don't think it's a particularly pro Burnham stance to suggest he might not be the entire problem here.

Joe Walsh Is Right......

Not a dicky bird about thugs trying to sink a dinghy with a rescue worker on board or their claims to be "forming an army". Two boats of people seeking safety land and bingo bango they're the ones portrayed as the issue. Labour is complict in the rise of the far right. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

In May of 1940 there was a mass panic in Britain - stirred up by the tabloid press - about 'fighting aged men' who had come to Britain as 'refugees' posing a threat to the women and children of this country - and essentially forming a 'fifth column' that could, at any moment rise up against everyone

Very nice to hear a sane voice from Piddington. Serious respect to this woman, who is apparently already being othered by more bigoted villagers.

Haha, a more fitting logo for Google.

Meet the National Rebirth Party. If this is what British Fascism looks like, the greatest threat from it is that people might die laughing.

Twice divorced Richard Tice, currently in a relationship with a divorcee, speaking for a party led by twice-divorced Farage, tells us unmarried people should be deprioritised for social housing.

New York magazine calls Israeli genocide genocide. nymag.com/article/comm...

One of the first "outrageous" claims I saw as Jason Arday's media hounding unfolded was that he ran 30 marathons in 35 days! Wow! What a thing to claim! And the newspapers all suggested there was no evidence he actually did it. Well, they clearly didn't look very hard 🙄 🧵 1/26

He didn’t change. They did.

Newsom: "That $400m Qatari plane? That's not a $400m gift. It cost you $936m. That was what was appropriated as he's cutting food stamps and cutting your Medicaid. He put a billion dollars in the Pentagon budget to retrofit his private plane because that's going with him after the presidency ... "

This is what happens when the government is run by a felon reality TV personality, Fox News hosts and right-wing podcasters.

SLAVA UKRAINI

See, it's funny because it's true. #Sad

Love this. The people's choice: Binface versus Farage in Clacton.

watched the odyssey last night. film ruined by everyone speaking english instead of ancient greek.

Waiting for BBC Scotland to tell us in its reporting on Anas Sarwar's peerage that a couple of months ago he said he'd never accept a peerage and in 2022 said: "The House of Lords has no place in 21st century politics. It is unacceptable…to have unelected representatives wielding such power."

Nigel Farage: Andrew Tate is an "important voice" for young men: June 2024.

I strongly believe in giving the man a chance. But keeping Shabana Mahmood as Home Secretary suggests the vicious attacks on immigrants and refugees, and self-defeating attempts to outrun the far right, are likely to continue. Which is pretty damn depressing. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Proof that @ofcom.bsky.social is simply not functioning and needs the most massive shakeup. This is a factual matter. Clear error. Yet it cannot bring itself to act because ….GB News. What is the point of an @Ofcom like this?

The toxic influencer who has made "hyper-masculinity" his brand was arresting wearing Doris Day clam-digger slacks and a kicky purple blouse.

What’s the thinking behind Reform’s going after Binface? Farage could simply chuckle and say that eccentric candidates are a thoroughly British tradition and he wouldn’t change it for the world. Instead, by cooking up elite conspiracies Reform come across as genuinely rattled.

Seemingly Cottrell's mum has donated £1.5m to Refuk / Refuk-linked entities. Which seems a lot for a 'retired stylist' whose deceased husband left her a £1.5m estate. Reminds me of how Farage's gf could fund that Clacton house... There is no suggestion of any wrong-doing though. Or right-doing.

I despised Ann Widdicombe but no one deserves what happened to her. Yet it says so much about the hate and division far right politicians like her have created I was relieved to hear the suspect police are looking for is a white man and the "protecting women and girls" crowd won't be out rioting.

Matt Goodwin has missed some key facts: 1. Andy Burnham was not already an MP. 2. Nigel Farage was already an MP. 3. Burnham wasn't under investigation by the Parliamentary Standards Commissioner and the National Crime Agency whereas Farage is.

I’m sure this is well-meant, but if I had just called a by-election after facing allegations of financial impropriety, I’m not absolutely sure the first thing I’d do would be… offering the returning officer thousands of pounds in cash.

Never before has a politician announced their intention to run for re-election on an explicitly pro-sleaze, anti-transparency ticket. Never before has a politician gloried in having enriched themselves by breaking the rules, and then demanded a mandate to continue doing so indefinitely

Too many democratic socialists and anti genocide types here. Why would a Labour politician, particularly a minister, associate with that?

He creates his own reality & expects us to believe it. The FELON's FANTASY: Meanwhile, back on EARTH 1:

Dog rescued in Venezuela after 6 days in rubble! Such goodness all around 😍

This is quite something. Kudos to Major Watson. Genuinely brave.

And there are ordinary people who persist in thinking that Reform is intended to benefit them! There's a reason billionaires pay for the politics that suit billionaires.

A bit more of Mahmood’s performative cruel stupidity here Most asylum seekers have no control over where they are housed or for how long or how long it will take the H.O. to make a decision and for appeals to be heard AND, meanwhile, THEY‘RE NOT ALLOWED TO WORK www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

Happy 80th birthday to the Vespa. Here's one I made before...

On March 26, 2026, during a debate on violence against women in Germany’s Bundestag, left-wing MP Kathrin Gebel was repeatedly interrupted by AfD MP Martin Reichardt. She responded: “Mr. Reichardt, the clitoris has 3,000 nerve endings, and you’re still more sensitive. That’s quite an achievement.”

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.

In a disastrous ruling, the Court of Appeal in London has overruled the High Court and upheld the government's decision to ban Palestine Action as a terrorist group. Defining a protest group as terrorists has created an absurd situation where thousands have been arrested for holding up signs.

This:

Nigel Farage thinks calling women sluts, saying they can’t drive, saying they don’t deserve equal pension rights and making disgusting comments about them online is “laddish behaviour”. Reform UK has a misogyny problem, and it goes to the top.

A view very clearly developed in London and not Belfast. ~86% of Northern Ireland's population were born there. A further ~7% are immigrants from the rest of the UK and ROI. ~6.5% are immigrants from outside the UK & ROI, many from the EU. The uncontrolled immigration argument is nonsense.

Elon Musk has become the world's first trillionaire. Here's my hot take from last year on why all the money in the world won't ever make him great.

If Muslims or members of the Asian and Black community had set fire to white people’s homes with children running for their lives, do you think we would be discussing legitimate concerns or focussing on who radicalised them and ideological and contributing cultural factors?

When I rule the world a written application justifying ownership of a stupidly big car. Almost all current owners will have them confiscated if they're not approved - and they're unlikely to be approved.