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EXCLUSIVE - Today the Guardian is publishing the Boris Files A trove of leaked data from the office of Boris Johnson. It reveals how Johnson is using the relationships forged in the UK’s highest elected office to facilitate his personal enrichment. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
These utter lunatics shouldn’t be anywhere near power. And it is a terrible indictment of our politics and our media that they are.
This feels like the biggest story from the Guardian's Boris leaks... he took £240k from a Venezuelan hedge fund after meeting Maduro. And having denied he was paid. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Vaccines prevent serious illnesses and premature deaths. This is our generation’s uncontroversial lived experience. Don’t be gaslighted out of it!
Quite apart from Tice going out to defend Farage's shady house purhcase and making things ten times worse, for the guy who says he will be the next UK Chancellor of the Exchequer to end on: "I'm not a tax expert - you're asking the wrong guy," is objectively hilarious. ~AA
Tice turned quickly from cocky piss-taking… to realising he’d ballsed it up…. to claiming ignorance. What an absolute arse. These people should be nowhere near power. Nowhere. Near.
Don Quixote - he’ll be charging at them with a lance shortly. Deranged.
But like the tangerine tyrant in the White House, a useful Trojan horse for the unscrupulous über wealthy interests who seem keen to attend his Reform rally of villains, charlatans & vaccine deniers. bsky.app/profile/bear...
And it’s not even original, so far, so Farage.🙄
Great article, behind the pantomime of grotesques and the American-style rally of style over substance, the usual deep-pocketed suspects gather like vultures. Farage is their pint-posing Trojan horse and the same grievances will be leveraged & amplified to inflame the hard of thinking to elect him.
Champagne Populism: Farage’s Reform UK sells £250k access while railing against elites. Pints for the people, bubbles for the sponsors - and Andrea Jenkyns belting out a power ballad in sequins that made Liberace spin in his grave.
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Now this is a tax return that I would be very, very keen on seeing. Do feel free to give it a share. www.change.org/p/urge-nigel...
In Italy all holders of public office, Members of Parliament, Mayors etc. are legally obliged to publish their tax returns and list of assets (shares, properties etc.) every year. The principle is that if you hold public office this information is of public interest.
Whenever Nigel Farage is properly challenged, he reminds me of those 1920s burlesque entertainers, whose act consisted of swapping the position of fans or balloons, really fast so nobody could catch a glimpse of their fanny.
Farage always opts for the faux outrage, “how dare you” counter attack with his interlocutor: talks fast & fakes things. A shallow man with a thin skin and no plans other than division, perpetual grievance & personal enrichment. A Trump tribute act for the suckers who fell for Brexit.
Putting "if you ask me, how are you going to do this? I can’t really give you an answer" on tape is a gift that his opponents should be making famous for 4 years
This week on Bearly Politics 🐻 Enough platitudes: Starmer must finally confront racism with courage, not bunting. The far-right are emboldened, lies go unchallenged, and Labour looks paralysed. www.bearlypolitics.co.uk/p/enough-pla...
On Chris Mason, the new enthusiastic Farage fanboy. It’s absolutely irresponsible how the BBC has let him report on that party conference. And let me repeat : The BBC is an important institution and they are getting a lot right, as well. But here they haven’t.
You have to credit to Farage for setting the agenda says the press as it rushes to ask him what the agenda should be.
The howls of protest when said media is challenged for their endless promotion of Farage, is surreal in terms of denial and abnegating responsibility. He was a one man band for decades but was platformed & covered as if he were the PM himself. He is their Frankenstein monster, they need to own it.
Two weeks ago, tax barrister Setu Kamal tried (and failed) to injunct me. Today? He’s decided to sue the UK for £3 billion.
He’s thin skinned and weak when challenged. The media doesn’t do it nearly enough.
Even if one hadn’t clocked it by the 3rd word in, the absence of block capitals is a total giveaway.
When Mamdani won the NYC mayoral primary there was loads of talk of how "social media won this for him!" and they fail to understand it wasn't just the slick videos, it was the CONTENT of them. Zack Polanski also understands this.
Social Media is dominated by the messages from the Hard Left and the Hard Right (studies)… “a 2019 study found that communities in Italy and Germany that received broadband internet access earlier than others also saw earlier upticks in support for populist parties. “
If you vote Reform you will be voting against women’s equality, for more harassment in the workplace and beyond (as if there isn’t enough) Remember 41% of the Farage Foot Soldiers arrested in last summer’s disgraceful riots had already been REPORTED FOR DOMESTIC ABUSE
Following Farage’s announcement that he plans to make “serious cuts to the welfare budgets” if he wins the next election, I’ve seen this claim being repeated from last year’s headlines again. So let’s take a look at the the reality rather than the weaponised version 🧵 1/21
Journalists questioning Nigel Farage should be pointing out Brexit has been a primary factor in the sky rocketing number of small boat crossings. How hard can this be? youtu.be/cKXFjbxSBBI?...
The president of the United States just declared war, actual military war, not a metaphorical one, on a major American city, and one governed by his political opponents. In any other period, this would be impeachment-worthy.
My god.
But it’s not a cult 😵💫 , they’re not racist and they really do believe in ‘law & order’, except when it’s one of their own, then it’s biased/2-tier justice.🙄
Farage promise to "stop the boats within two weeks of winning gov't" unravelling. Apparently, it means "after passing laws", "as quickly as possible", he "believes", the boats will still cross, but all will be deported "if necessary" and "sensible", "unless we have a duty of care". Bravo, Beth! 👏🏽
"Farage has given two contradictory versions of the purchase. One that he bought it and the other that his girlfriend owns it. If the second is correct then he has engineered a massive saving on stamp duty, larger than the one that forced Angela Rayner to resign." www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news...
How to put this nicely? Absolutely nobody is risking their life crossing one of the world's busiest shipping routes in order to be denied the ability to work and forced to live on less than £50 per week. You have to have brain worms to think otherwise. www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/09...
Next year’s birthday parade..?
I haven't been listening to Today for the past few days Coming back I was shocked by the hectoring tone used with Darren Jones Of course it hasn't been a good week for Labour, but denigrating democratic politicians as a class does nothing but serve the rise of fascism in this country
Indeed, the tone was appalling. The desire to turn turmoil into chaos and the fact the PM would not pre-judge an ethics committee enquiry into ‘political weakness/poor judgement’ was surreal. It’s as if the past decade of Tory sleaze, scandal, ministerial code breaches & incompetence didn’t happen!
“Nigel Farage says….” has been the headline of the decade. Look at what he does, ffs. Look at his tax affairs. Look at his grifting. Look at his lies. Look at his prejudice. Look at his allies. Look at his manifesto. Look at his Brexit. He is the embodiment of personal greed and national failure.
What utter dickheads we are… Rayner fought for workers: sick pay, maternity rights, protection from unfair dismissal Farage and his MPs voted it down Rayner gets binned over £40k in stamp duty Farage dodges £44k, shrugs & strolls on The mega wealthy win again.
The parliamentary register of interests shows that Farage has made nearly £400,000 from GB News since August 2024, for c190 hours’ work. This suggests he is being paid more than £2,000 an hour by the news channel. All paid to Thorn In The Side Ltd owned solely by Farage 25% tax rather than HR
In class-riddled UK, ordinary people pay taxes & are caned for any shortfall, inadvertent or fraudulent. The wealthy pay for aggressive estate planning & tax minimisation advice & are lauded for their sagacity. Two tier standards of accountability. I don’t see Farage self-refer to ethics Cttee!
I can only like this once so let’s hear it for @sturdyalex.bsky.social’s truth bombs about our woeful media, their poisonous political coverage & collective amnesia of the last decade of blatant Tory ethics breaches not only being ignored, but tacitly condoned & the miscreants rewarded 👏🏼Get a grip!
Isn't this exactly what just happened? Have people got mass fkn memory loss? Five years ago an ethics investigation took SEVEN MONTHS, resulted in a finding of several serious breaches, which was then ignored by the PM and resulted in the ethics advisor AND the bullied employee having to resign. 1/
Thank you! I was shouting at radio 4 this am: for years the Tories f**ked up, cheated, lied about it, brassed it out for weeks on the media rounds, telling us: “we’ve drawn a line under it & we all need to move on”! Where were our dogged political reporters then? Oh, on Bozo’s WhatsApp group. 🤬
My weekend deep dive in which I blame your nan for the state of the country (not really).
Sweet mother of god who is the woman interviewing Darren Jones on @bbcRadio4Today, hellbent on portraying this week’s events with Rayner & the reshuffle as “chaos” & a catastrophic loss of public trust? Seriously, did she sleep through 2016-2024?🤯
Alex and I wanted to turn around our instant reaction to today’s big news for you before bedtime 🎧👇
"Commentary *like this* about a deputy Prime Minister felt politically unsurvivable" - Chris Mason, BBC ten o'cıock news. This script over these pictures treats vandalism & criminal damage as a legitimate form of democratic voice. The BBC should avoid doing that, esp in broader current climate
The most important news from today's reshuffle:
Gift article because I encourage everyone to read this account of SEAL Team 6 murdering a group of North Korean fishermen in a failed espionage mission that was hidden from Congress.
You have to keep pointing out this ridiculous, obvious, weapons grade absurdity, moral corruption & hypocrisy. Even - no, *especially* - when you’re wondering whether it’s even worth it anymore… It’s *always* worth it.
Farage tells Reform conference: “We refuse to have our children’s minds poisoned with a twisted interpretation of history.” What I suspect he really means is that he wants children to get taught a bunch of self-affirming lies about the past aka fake history and that's really very dangerous indeed.
A copy of “Our Island Nation” in every child’s Xmas stocking, courtesy of racist uncle Nige?
Led By Donkeys have got Fartrage's number.
The whole story in three posts.
If Rayner had set out to minimise her tax bill, she could have waited til her son turned 18 before buying the Hove house. She didn't because she wasn't trying to minimise her tax bill.
Right wing media has had it in for Angela Rayner from the start - they couldn’t bear a working class woman being so powerful & dynamic. She made a mistake and has paid heavily for it. Very much hope she’ll return at some point in the future - our politics desperately needs more voices like hers
Two things can be true at once. Rayner was foolish in her conduct and right to resign. It’s also true she was always despised by much of the right wing press because she was a working class powerful woman.
Rayner is absolute class. She's been a bit silly in organising her taxes, but that's not why they hate her. They hate her because she did not know her place.
I’m disappointed. I’m proud. I’m frustrated. Angela Rayner should have paid the tax she owed - but she also did something almost unheard of in British politics: She owned her mistake and resigned.
Hair shirts, self-flagellation and a few weeks in the stocks required while her property should be seized by the state: would that partially satisfy the ideological purists?
Two very good letters. Sorry she’s gone, but it was right decision, even tho no-one will give any credit for it.
Prime Minister Starmer's (hand-written) response.
If Keir Starmer had presented Rayner’s head on a spike at PMQs before the ethics adviser had considered her case, it would still not have been enough for Badenoch.
I really feel for Rayner. The hypocrisy, misogyny & classism in response to her error - not that I’m condoning the error - compared to the ways in which the posh & wealthy are treated when they do it on purpose, has been stark & depressing. That AI featured on Sun front page especially disturbing.
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More deep insight from the hospital radio DJ who is somehow politics editor at the BBC.
We have gone from court reporter Kuenssberg to village gossip, Mason: it’s so far from serious political analysis, it’s farcical. This isn’t news it’s infotainment, with sadly precious little information at that.
What on earth has possessed people to believe that Reform’s motley collection of our most abysmal, prejudiced and corrupt politicians - all with a proven track record of epic and piss-taking failure would be a remotely credible government? Seriously people… and media… you’ve lost your goddam minds.
After Jamie Raskin wiped the floor with Farage in Congress the other day & exposed his lies, hypocrisy & shallow populist agenda, isn’t it time our supine media: a) quit saying what a brilliant communicator he is; b) stop fawning & grill him properly; c) not crown him PM 4 years before a GE!🤯
And now we go to our senior political correspondent who has an exclusive in this ‘Farage tax bombshell’..
Will outraged tax payers be daubing their heart-felt comments on the walls of Chez Farage next? Or does he get a break/round of applause given it’s a company tax minimisation scheme so ‘hats off to a canny business man’ etc?
This is a huge story. Don't let him get away with it. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Misleading media coverage is shaping public debate on immigration and human rights, a study from the University of Oxford has found. Analysis revealed frequent misreporting and mischaracterisation of immigration tribunal cases, risking undermining trust in the legal system.
Well worth a read. The debate needs more honesty. 👇👇👇👇👇👇 Bravo @ox.ac.uk @profjacob.bsky.social @stevepeers.bsky.social @georgeperetzkc.bsky.social www.ox.ac.uk/news/2025-09...
"Farage was wearing a GB News pin. He was there to launch and promote a show in a company he has shares in." Is Farage in the US to represent Britain, as he claims, or to represent a right-wing news channel launching in America that very day? 🤔
Reform = Tory compost heap, where the most rank go to rot out their days.
Christ this is appalling.
Watching @raskin.house.gov eviscerate Nigel Farage in Congress was a rare joy. Finally someone called out the charlatanry: Free speech for me, not for thee - while wearing a GB News pin in Washington.
It was so utterly delicious, I watched it twice! Battered, filleted & spit-roasted Farage. What’s not to like?!
Jenrick and his enablers are playing a dangerous game, informed by a playbook that ended horrifically in the 20th century. The pearl-clutching paranoia re the “destruction of British culture” (whatever one assumes that to be and I’m sure Scotland, Wales & NI might beg to differ) is utterly toxic.
Farage dodged parliament, went to the US, slagged off the UK, lied to Congress, grifted for donations and hoped to persuade the US to punish us for the Online Safety Act. And got his arse handed back to him. You’d think our ‘patriotic’ media would go nuts. But no. Some quiet mumbling. Beyond feeble.
He’s an utter disgrace and our media little better. Rather than repost his a** roasting by Raskin, we had latest outpouring of toxic, anti-immigrant effluent from Jenrick in The Spectator. Impartial & balanced reporting my a**e! They have an agenda & are playing a dangerous & irresponsible game.
Sitting here wondering why @BBCRadio4Today thinks anyone should care about the latest toxic twaddle from Robert Jenrick in the Spectator. Mass emigration is apparently his latest wheeze to ‘protect British culture’. Nasty little man who daily plumbs ever lower depths.
“I can say what I like, and so can my voters… but anyone who challenges us or calls us out for racism must be silenced” Farage and MAGA ‘free speech’ is simply a foot-stamping insistence that they get to say what the hell they want without scrutiny or consequence - even if they’re inciting violence.
Potential Reform voters should ask themselves whether Farage's performance in the US today represents the sort of poundshop MAGA culture they want their children to grow up in.
Gone down the paranoid authoritarian ruler route pretty rapidly: didn’t even take him a year to reach the ‘send in the troops’ phase.
Neither the pressure, the truth or even his own words read out to him. Frog face hopped off when the water became too hot for him. Will the abjectly hopeless UK media learn anything from this?
Hey, Sky News! Hey, BBC! See how easy it is?
A day late to this one & tbh I’m struggling: what a prickly, defensive little man and for someone who kept telling @maitlis.bsky.social her assertions re the persuasive powers of social media were “patronising”, he was pretty bloody patronising himself. Well done Emily but it was a painful listen.
Good bit of myth busting, which does also include comments by @laurenhstarkey.bsky.social and myself, for some of the utter nonsense churned out about people seeking asylum, and repeated unquestioningly by some media commentators in today's @bigissue.com. www.bigissue.com/news/social-...
Absolutely! Gather around UK political journalists and learn a few lessons. Farage isn’t your beer drinking buddy, he’s a dangerous charlatan and dog whistle racist who regularly gets away with his schtick with little challenge & far more nudge-wink bonhomie from the media than is healthy.
Could someone in the UK please do the exactly same thing?
Bit of a paradox that it takes a US Democrat to challenge Farage, whereas UK Labour does a decaf tribute act for him
Moskowitz: Do you think the Epstein list should come out? Farage: I have no opinion on it. Raskin: It’s been reported that he’s called for it to be released Moskowitz: I have it here. Do you agree with yourself?
Nigel Farage looks uncomfortable as Jamie Raskin uses his opening statement to absolutely demolish him
It was a thing of beauty. Listened to it twice now just to savour a pinpoint perfect takedown of this slimy, divisive, snake oil salesman.