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Thank you to the hundreds of devoted supporters who were there to cheer me on at the press conference today.

What were they thinking? My ConHome piece on the pro-Ukrainian British politicians who backed Trump in 2024 and how their tribalism got the better of them. conservativehome.com/2026/10/26/d...

Roses are red That great wave was off Kanagawa

Barack Obama did not hold back today. “He's got the White House looking like Saddam Hussein opened a cheesecake factory."

"They can start cutting people's faces up. They can stab someone. They can shoot someone." EXCLUSIVE: Our hidden cameras capture the leader of Turning Point UK organising a fake rally for a foreign government and helping arrange a murder-for-hire with loyalist paramilitaries.

Pensioner poverty has halved in the past 30 years, as the shadow work and pensions secretary Helen Whately claimed. But how much of this was down to the Conservatives? Almost all the fall she’s talking about happened under Labour.

remember this next time you hear the phrase "Russia hoax"

You may have seen reports about the campaign for charities to be more 'transparent' about who funds them. Well it turns out the mysterious new right-wing think tank behind it won't say who funds or runs them, and used fake names for the authors of the report which launched their campaign

The Exposure documentary showing undercover footage of many Reform officials being racist and sexist is on ITV at 10.20pm tonight, so whatever you do, don't watch it.

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His co-defendant, a Mr S. Doo, entered a plea of “Ruh-roh!”

An undercover investigation by ITV Exposure into Nigel Farage’s Reform UK has found multiple elected councillors and party candidates expressing racist views and using offensive language, calling Muslims “parasites” and describing black children as “animals”. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

OK, there is something very, very weird going on in the press right now. It certainly appears, from the outside, as if certain people are being very much protected in a way that was not afforded to certain other people! Let's start with the facts around Lola Salem... 🧵1/

We need a British version of this (mainly because the people who need to see won't empathise unless it has a Union Jack)

Not many people know that AA Milne had a much smaller brother called AAA Milne

It seems that Nigel Farage has taken the hint and has decided to spend more time in his constituency of Clacton. So much so that he has bought a new house for himself and his family in the local area:

NEW | On disappearing stories… MICHAEL GOVE, LOLA SALEM, AND A SUDDEN SILENCE Why did a series of newspaper stories vanish and why are right-wing organisations involved in a coordinated campaign to forget about one particular contributor? brokenbottleboy.substack.com/p/michael-go...

Given His Holiness is about to undergo lung surgery, this is probably a smart call.

Still the greatest Mick Hucknall video ever. What a voice

Exclusive: Do you remember the polling company Redfield and Wilton, which appeared from nowhere in early 2020, whose polls quickly appeared in lots of publications? The company’s director is a registered solicitor, prompting questions over where the polling expertise came from. Here’s the answer…

Andy Burnham hits back at Kemi Badenoch: "How can she justify turning her back on a deal that is potentially on the table now to add billions to the UK economy?"

The accountancy giant Deloitte fabricated corporate documents to help Roman Abramovich conceal at least $10bn in assets and dodge large amounts of tax. We found more than 1,000 corporate records that had been “backdated” – given a fake earlier timestamp – sometimes by as far as five years.

The layout for the execution in the US has been released by the state department

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it transpires that billionaire David Reuben moved his tax residence to Monaco under the Tories www.theguardian.com/news/2026/oc...

Pop Bands in the News day twenty-five: Madness. Don’t let the nutty boys pick the England team, mate. It’ll be an embarrassment.

The person responsible for carrying out the totally independent investigation into Reform and clearing the party of all wrongdoing has been identified.

Declaring war on welfare while splashing billions on a wealthfare privileged elite is immoral. www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...

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Well, that's a hell of a thing to leave next to a statue of Joan of Arc.😏

Happy tenth anniversary to the time the Reading Chronicle didn’t know what a plant room is.

For a long time I have heard rumours of secret flights into Dubai: plane loads of complete nutcases. I have never believed it and still don’t. If true, it should bring down Isabel Oakeshott as she is one. 🤪

So the Green Party’s leader is too much of a coward to actually lead his party. Figures.

Maya’s come as the honey monster #traitors

Asked to respond to whether his team were 'not German enough' or 'not white enough', Klopp said there was no point in giving room to 'such people and their utterances', adding: 'I have little time in everyday life for idiocy'. Story: @kateconnolly.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/football/202...

Man City unveil their 2027-28 kit

The inventor of bubblewrap shoes has popped his clogs.

Man City when asked to provide their “irrefutable evidence.”

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