Otto English

Massive news. Notorious is 99p on Kindle for just this month. HUGE bargain and people love this book www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0F2FHD18...

Farage tying himself in angry knots here ... as he refuses to answer the basic question: Is it racist to call Kemi Badenoch a "Nigerian scammer"?

I’m seeing people reacting by pointing out that he’s obviously wrong. I appreciate that, but it’s also a pointless exercise. The problem isn’t that he’s wrong. The problem is that this is normal in American politics — and it’s been normal for a while.

Prince Maurice's grave is interesting, because it was a good example of the conflicting thoughts families had. Princess Beatrice refused repatriation of the body. She felt he belonged with his men. But she fought for years for the right to spend her own money on a custom headstone. This was blocked

Wesbite sounds like a knock off brand of Weetabix that you might pick up in a German or Austrian supermarket

Imagine a world where we are no longer dependent on oil and nuclear energy. It's coming and it's better and that's why the vested interests are doing everything in their power to stop it

What a weird thing to say

That’s me doing ballet age 4. Thanks for asking

Congrats to Brazil and to Serbia. It’s comforting.

Good news - they had the gall to put a leaflet through my letterbox - my cocker ripped it to shreds in seconds and I found him spitting it out two minutes later !!!

Living in the States, I can't think of one thing that isn't allowed to be imported because it's in metric.

X is a fascist website run by a fascist. Jeremy Corbyn should be true to his principles and get the fuck off it. He does not do that. And I shall leave it up to you to decide why that is. But frankly i find it hypocritical

Perfect.

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.

Something about drinking Bolsonaro tears.

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Of course the UK 'doing a better job' has meant that, instead of 60,000 'unelected bureaucrats' as employed across all EU bodies to serve 27 countries, the UK now has an extra 100,000 bureaucrats aka civil servants to cover the same jobs just for 1 country...

Bolsonaro's loss is not just a loss for Bolsonaro. It's a loss for Trump. For Musk. For Milei. For Netanyahu. For Farage. For Meta and Zuckerberg. For the meat barons, the fossil fuel corporations, and the rest of the neocolonial looters. And it is a massive win for humanity and the living planet.

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

Amazing 👏

There is a surprising minority of Reform 2024 and Leave 2016 voters. It can often be closer to a sixth than a quarter in other surveys, eg 17% of Reform voters favoured join with YouGov in Sept, compared to the 29% of Reform supporting respondents were join in a hypothetical referendum in ours

Wait.... 29% of Reform voters would consider rejoining the EU... and 16% don't know And a mere 51% would vote to stay out. My giddy aunt - this is bonkers

First Orban, now Vučić. Both fundamentally undone by rank corruption of their regimes. Which is so often the reality of the authoritarian right in power. Really worth paying heed to in Western Europe right now

The achievement of Serbian students overthrowing Aleksandar Vučić can't be overstated. In 2024, they began protesting. In 2025, they transformed a protest movement into civil dissidence. In 2026, they became a political party — and two months later, crushed a corrupt state-entrenched authoritarian.

Tomorrow, the University of Oxford will host the racist academic Amy Wax, who was suspended from U Penn for her racism. Oxford apparently has a passion for hosting bigots who are famous predominantly for their bigotry.

Beautiful scenes in Serbia tonight where a student-led protest movement has overthrown the corrupt and autocratic Vučić regime. www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...

Strewth

It’s time this sort of politicking stopped and thinking what’s best for the electorate was central to policy.

Yes, but your two big ideas so far have been police and crime commissioners and Brexit. Shall we check on them first?

London is actually getting pleasant to live in. Complete opportunism by the Right but also very stupid politics. When will it dawn on them that the petrol heads and SUV lovers in their ranks are actually a small minority of the electorate?

Finding some of the reaction on here to the 'stockpiling' stuff a bit odd. The Russians successfully firebombed the last prime minister's house! There was a cyberattack on a French supermarket a few weeks ago!

Plus, of the 56 signatories of the U.S. Declaration of Independence, 41 owned enslaved people... either at the time of signing or during their lifetimes. So maybe that Xer should pick better role models for 2026.

Reform and Tories have pledged to reverse ULEZ repeatedly.

Leaky Sue strikes again.

Post #Brexit , hundreds of thousands of European families left Britain, including with their British born children. Moving house, job, school, country, is never easy. The impact on these families and on many others (European citizens in UK, UK citizens in Europe) can’t be properly measured. 1/

Currently on @lbc.co.uk @lewisgoodall.com has Bob Jenrick's on the ropes and it's delicious

Poll finds that in a head to head Burnham would comfortably win against every other party leader.

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NEW headline voting intention from Ipsos 📊Labour on 32% with a lead of +8 – the largest Labour lead Ipsos have recorded this parliament 📊Conservatives take second place the first time since June 2025 📊Reform UK down 3 points and Greens down 5

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