Simon Boitoult

Simple but hugely impactful Banksy installation in Regent's Street. Make it permanent.

Brilliant from @carolinelucas.bsky.social on Farage’s failed Brexit experiment 👏 bylinetimes.com/2026/05/01/n...

Good. It’s easy to forget that climate change denial & shilling for fossil fuel companies provided a template for Tufton Street, Brexit & pretty much every egregious example of persuading populations to vote against their own interests. The story of Don Pearlman should be taught in kindergartens…

Bad night for Nige

“It’s deeply shocking that Reform has developed such close ties with Orbán’s regime, an authoritarian govt with an appalling record of rolling back democracy and civic rights” Where ‘deeply shocking’ = entirely on brand. Hungary shows us we must never give them power. www.desmog.com/2026/04/08/m...

visits the pope → pope dies leads Iran negotiations → talks collapse flies to Hungary to prop up Orbán → Orbán loses in a landslide Man’s got a streak.

Dick says he’s being unfairly targeted. He’s just a lovely multi-millionaire politician “giving hope to millions of people”… by failing to pay tax, while claiming to give a shit about their lives and their public services. “Moral decency” is for other people. Not special little rich-boy, Tice.

The Cardinal of Washington Robert McElroy has called on Catholics to go beyond just prayer in their struggle to protect democracy and end the war in Iran. It's almost as if the Catholic Church has been reborn since Leo took over as Pope. I've seldom seen it so willing to stand up for what's right 🕊

With #Artemis2 still in our minds, we sat down this evening to finally watch Hidden Figures. What a fantastic movie and inspirational story, everyone should give it a watch.

When Angela Rayner underpaid £40,000 stamp duty on her flat, Richard Tice said it was "morally completely indefensible” and she should immediately resign if she had “any moral decency”. Now we learn he personally made £91,000 in excess payments by failing to pay the tax his company legally owed

Problem is, Jenrick, you can go on #r4today and bemoan the state of the economy and the cost of living, you can claim to be oh so concerned… but we all know you’re full of shit. We know you don’t care. You spent years failing us as a Tory. You’ve swapped rosettes, not had a personality transplant.

As I have also long tweeted an Irish HGV driver/employee generally will be more valuable to a UK company than a UK employee.. if the UK business even stays in the UK rather than relocating to EU. "Brexit will get worse before it gets worse" @uncle-duck-60.bsky.social www.politico.eu/article/eu-b...

All have been card-carrying Tories at some point, some as recently as a month ago. Welcome to the new Tories — same as the old Tories, except… Nope, I’ve got nothing, they are just the same. Full stop.

This is a great message of unity, hope and community – and as someone who had a relative hurt in the Manchester attack, I can only say it's very moving to hear it stated so simply and eloquently. #HopeNotHate

Seen on that other site...😆 What's really in the Epstein files!

#donaldtrump

A BRIEF HISTORY OF JIM RATCLIFFE'S HYPOCRISY 1️⃣ Complained about too many immigrants. 2️⃣ Supported Brexit to get rid of immigrants. 3️⃣ Promised to build cars in Brexit Britain. 4️⃣ Moved his car production to France. 5️⃣ Moved himself to Monaco to avoid paying tax. 6️⃣ Complained about too many immigrants.

Brilliant again from @philmoorhouse.bsky.social As I keep saying... "Brexit will get worse before it gets worse" www.youtube.com/watch?v=AYeU...

This made me ugly cry 😭 I will never claim that he was perfect…every president in my lifetime has pissed me off for one reason or another. But…dammit, I’m so tired of the constant feeling of uneasiness and uncertainty 😔

Cue Farage and all the brexity cultists howling about Reeves betraying Brexit and no one in the loud right wing media and political culture retorting that they’ve all gone mad. You can’t deny reality and call it patriotism. Well, you can but it makes you a delusional populist idiot.

Hence my long ago advised "Invest in Pontins".. As tweeted many times these last 9 yrs, there'll be ever more Brits deciding to holiday at home as accessing our continent becomes progressively harder across their chosen "(still descending) Gammon Curtain". (worse than) back to the 1970s for us plebs

In a span of 24 hours this Criminal Gang running the Republican Party has tried to indict 4 Democratic Congressmen and 2 Senators for telling truths critical of Fuhrer Trump, and now closed a major U.S. airport without explanation. Trump's administration is a clear and present danger to this country

The damage of Brexit goes on and on ... 😡 "Children’s bike manufacturer Frog Bikes is facing administration. The company's challenges were compounded by the effects of Brexit, which added further complexity, cost, disruption and uncertainty to international trade”.

Giving Redwood - and all those lying brexity others - peerages is such a betrayal of democracy and our country. Their legacy is disgraceful. And they won’t be held to account for that. It’s a form of political cover-up and denialism that traps us all in their relentless failure.

This report fails to tell truth this is because GB is no longer part of same single market under mutually recognised legal authority. Instead GB now needs border controls it hasn't got the extra capacity for "How Britain became a dumping ground for illegal meat" www.telegraph.co.uk/business/202...

Uncharacteristically mild wording from Ian but unerringly accurate as always.

One of the maddest elements of Brexit - and there are *many* - is the rewards that continue to be lavished on the blithering idiots who sold it & continue to be proved wrong about everything every day…

Daisy Cooper, "The European Union is right on our doorstep and you just can't fight geography" "For the benefit of our country, to get Britain growing again so we can end the cost of living crisis, we have got to get a better deal with the European Union" #RejoinEU

Multimillionaire Brexiter, Tim Martin, urges pubs to back Reform. Just like he urged the country to vote for Brexit. Too bad if it makes you poorer. Too bad for the children he’ll push back into poverty. Tim wants more money. And he couldn’t give a shit about the cost for everybody else. (iPaper)

Bravo, Maestro.

Same in the UK, probably getting worse with the disappearance of ‘intellectual’ Tories & Reform’s glorification of pig ignorance. I never know how to articulate this without making the problem worse! (As demonstrated above.)

We were warned and warned and WARNED.

The world’s wrongest man, Daniel Hannan, contending that Trump’s utter unfitness for office only emerged *yesterday*… Because it’s the only way the irredeemable idiot can cling on to the delusion that he’s not an irredeemable idiot.

Spot on ...

It's actually fascinating to watch these English fascists and fcukwits suddenly finding the MAGA Jesus in order to spread their far-right grift to the USA. Liz Truss will be next, because she's more desperate than any of them!

I just saw Stephen Miller referred to as PeeWeeHimmler and now I can’t unsee it. 😂😂

Being told to stop campaigning to rejoin, being told that it’s not yet time.. oh don’t even *think* of a customs union. Progressives bringing a carrot to an armed conflict - the insanity of cautious incrementalism. Beyond tired of being told to shhhh while autocrats set fire to our democracy.

Beagling around ... happy days.

Starmer’s speech came closer to the truth about Brexit than ever before. But the gap between truth and action is still the whole story. eastangliabylines.co.uk/news/brexit/...

Thank god for that !! At last. Now you have identified the problem ... with a huge majority .... lets do something about it and fast. Customs Union would be my first objective.

What happened is precisely what the world's leading macroeconomists predicted would happen.

Boris Johnson promised to govern as an amiable and cynical clown. He positioned himself as a clown, the country elected a clown and then we were governed by a clown, as demanded. Starmer presented himself as a serious man for serious times. What did we get? More clown.

Brexit detonated our economy and our politics. Since then, our country seems to have lost its mind, veering off to the right, reawakening the racism genie, ruining itself to try to hide the dishonesty and snowballing damage of it all. And now Farage could be PM ffs. Mindblowing self-inflicted idiocy