Journalist based in the EU. UK reform needs PR, an elected second chamber representing the metros and regions, a written constitution and a return to the European Union #FBPE "Ensemble nous sommes plus forts" especially in the age of Trump 2.0 and Farage
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Trump has been planning this for a while. Even before he was re-elected his son-in-law Jared Kushner was lobbying for it. The Israeli far right will now drive all the Palestinians out of Gaza. The coming humanitarian disaster will be even bigger than that we have seen so far
Russia accused of jamming GPS of Ursula von der Leyen's plane during Bulgaria trip. The incident comes less than a week after the shock wave of a Russian strike severely damaged the EU delegation in Kyiv www.euronews.com/my-europe/20...
Leaked ‘Gaza Riviera’ plan dismissed as ‘insane’ attempt to cover ethnic cleansing. Prospectus proposes forced displacement of entire population and puts territory into US trusteeship www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...
John Bolton: Putin is getting away with murder in Ukraine and has hoodwinked Trump. Putin is now trying to reshape NATO youtube.com/shorts/s-4Pq...
We live in hope….
Pecksniff: Hush… what’s that sound? The Liberal Democrats are coming! In which Mr Pecksniff lays before his readers for their approval certain observations and speculations reflecting on the political life eastangliabylines.co.uk/pecksniff/pe...
Dear Lisa Nandy, The #BBC is driving the nation into the hands of fascism by constantly platforming Reform. We all know that is because the organisation has been loaded with right-wing agitators who cleave to a GB-"News" agenda. Do your job, rebalance the national broadcaster!
Is the BBC now the official mouthpiece for Reform? A study of the BBC’s Question Time has raised concerns about representation and political impartiality yorkshirebylines.co.uk/news/is-the-...
That is precisely what is happening. But don‘t forget the opposition: Rupert Lowe
Pierce is not aging well. It looks like all the pent up rage and hatred of foreigners and woke is devouring him alive
There’s an obvious way to challenge Nigel Farage. But Keir Starmer won’t do it. Labour’s reluctance to name Brexit as the cause of so many problems hasn’t stopped Reform’s rise. It’s time to try the truth Rafael Behr www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
The “island of strangers” speech legitimizes Farage. Don’t be surprised about what happens next - full blown anti-foreigner Trumpism
You heard correctly but just much too late
It’s Hard to Imagine a Book More Damning About the British Royal Family Than This. It seemed as if it couldn’t get worse for Prince Andrew. The new book “Entitled” roiling the U.K. proves otherwise. slate.com/culture/2025...
Could be. We‘ve certainly seen signs of difficulty walking, or changes in gait, and slurred speech…..
I‘m not a medical professional but I agree. Trump looks unwell to boot
The BBC's Plan to Appease Nigel Farage. News that BBC executives plan to alter their programming in order to win over Reform voters is the latest sign of a corporation that has become dangerously cowed by the right www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/the-bbcs-p...
Trump has CVI. Blood thinners, or anticoagulants, are sometimes used to treat chronic venous insufficiency (CVI) to prevent blood clots from forming or to treat existing clots, especially if CVI was caused by a Deep Vein Thrombosis (DVT). Common blood thinners include warfarin and rivaroxaban.
A lot of people voted Lab to #GTTO hoping Starmer would bin Brexit. Elsewhere they voted Lab for a Brexit boom. That coalition has now collapsed. Farage is steering frustration about illegal immigration with far right talking points blaming Starmer. Paradox: Brexit caused the small boat crisis
Hitler invented the big lie technique perfected later by Goebbels. Mein Kampf: “…in der Größe der Lüge liegt immer ein gewisser Faktor des Glaubhaften, da die breite Masse des Volkes einer großen Lüge öfter zum Opfer fällt als einer kleinen….”
There’s no verified or confirmed evidence that Farage personally applied for German citizenship although there has been much speculation. The embassy visit was never tied to a confirmed application. However, two of his children do have German citizenship, acquired through their German mother.
Farage is using the Connolly affair to fan the flames of racism in the UK and to fund-raise while fawning to the US billionaire class. They believe in absolute free speech unless they are on the receiving end. Then Trump sends in the FBI. That is what Farage will do if he becomes PM
Flags as symbols of prejudice, not pride – a distinct air of menace. Welcome to England 2025. The Labour party, needless to say, either meekly echoes Farage’s talking points or makes the laughable claim that people shouldn’t support him because of his NHS stance www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
If he's proposing we begin negotiating peace with Russia once Ukrainian troops have seized Moscow and Putin has shot himself in a bunker, I guess I'd be ok with that. Feels a bit extreme though.
Starmer has to find a workable plan to ‘stop the boats’ or Farage will become prime minister. The only thing that will defeat Reform’s unworkable asylum policy is a workable one www.independent.co.uk/voices/asylu...
Nationalism is also about being superior to others. Note the obsession in the UK media about being “the best in the world”, “world-beating” etc. Mostly it is just hyperbole (see Johnson) and appears to serve as a distraction from the UK’s poor performance in a considerable number of fields
While relatively small gatherings of far-right protesters are reported as the start of some kind of national civil revolt, much larger protests on other issues are routinely ignored at best, and openly demonised at worst www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/anywhere-b...
Women’s groups hail Noel Clarke libel defeat as victory for victims and press freedom. Campaigners say judgment shows powerful men cannot hide behind money and libel laws to silence accusers www.theguardian.com/culture/2025...
If the Nazification of the US continues at the same pace, political opponents of Trump will be imprisoned and portrayed as “enemies of the people”. That process is underway. This article shows how Hitler turned Germany into a dictatorial state. This resembles what is happening in the US today.
Excellent
I was thinking of the latter. It seems to me that by continuing to stir things up she is jeopardizing her licence. But a lawyer in my family agrees with you that that is a long shot. That‘s a pity
Yes, that one
The media is controlled by the billionaire class and their private school educated servants. The agenda we get is what they want so as to serve their goal of creating a small state with low taxes and few services. To achieve this they need scapegoats as a distraction. That’s the role of immigrants.
If Labour cannot break the pro-Farage trend shaping up in the polls the next locals will be disastrous and possibly spell the end of Starmer. Then a new Labour PM will have little time and no money to stop the rot. Unless something unexpected happens Farage will use social media to shape the agenda
No, they don’t remember. They read the Telegraph and the Times and haven’t really noticed how those papers have been transformed from reliable conservative papers to raging mouthpieces of the right wing fringes of UK politics. Most of them still think the UK should never have given up the Empire!
You mean the Brexit that failed because it wasn’t done properly? That will be the line he campaigns on. Farage will never admit Brexit failed because of its inner contradictions!
Yes, I have the same sinking feeling I had before the Brexit referendum…..
I’m glad you are having some success! My experience with old friends has been less positive. Relatively benign “Heath conservatives” are becoming Faragists using illegal immigration as their main talking points: “What about the boats? We’re an island of strangers. We should give Farage a chance!” 😡
In a word or two: Most people don’t follow politics attentively or properly and are easily hoodwinked. See Brexit
I have a creeping sense of unease in my gut. Farage may well be swept to power at the next GE on a wave of Trump/Vance inspired xenophobia financed by the billionaire tech-bro class. As Labour demonstrated with the FPTP voting system Farage can win a landslide with a little more that 30% of the vote
Blue Labour has nothing to offer. The Red Wall voters are joining Farage and the Left are joining magic grandad and his populist “Your Party” or whatever it is actually called. The UK is going to implode in a fit of post-imperial, racist pique and Farage will be king of the garbage dump that remains
Yes, and a poor copy at that
Call Connolly back to jail to finish her sentence. She is clearly violating the terms of her early release by fanning the flames of racism in the UK
And the sad thing about this poor man’s Trump cover band is that English conservatives are lapping it up
Betting markets show that Reform UK is leading the field ahead of Labour and the Tories. That makes it increasingly plausible that Farage can become the next UK PM. There is still time for voters to step back from the precipice. If not, the UK will be not be broken but well and truly shattered
“White van Farage man” keeping himself busy
“martyrdom“
How much shit is Connolly going to be allowed to stir before the authorities put her back in jail? “In a separate interview, Connolly said she would be meeting members of Donald Trump's administration on Saturday.” Trump lawyers want to learn about Connolly’s martyrdom in the UK, it seems
This felt inevitable: an interview with Allison Pearson given top billing in the Telegraph. Connolly suggests Starmer should relearn what freedom of speech means and "what the laws are in this country". I think he knows but Connolly/Pearson clearly don't. No lessons have been learned in prison.
"If the people who ran Facebook were monsters, I wouldn’t have worked there," says man who worked with the Conservatives as their ideology killed 330,000 people. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Morning Bluesky. UK politics has gone mad. A fringe Far Right campaign to fly flags, a woman who went to jail for urging people to set fire to refugees saying she’s a “political prisoner” and a plan to commandeer jets to deport asylum seekers. All elevated to national discourse by the media.
"There is a moral implosion at the top of the Tory Party as people who failed spectacularly on immigration now hawk dangerous extremism to claw back relevance. And it risks civil unrest on a scale we haven't seen since the early 1980s” www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...
Yes, if it helps to demonstrate how stupid and misguided Brexit is. But there is a danger that that will not be the outcome…..
Thanks!
It is an excellent piece! Credit Adam Bienkov please!
Where Is the Political Leadership Against This Violent Far-Right Movement Terrorising Britain? The silence of senior mainstream politicians and media organisations against the rise of a new well-organised far-right movement on Britain’s streets is a disgrace bylinetimes.com/2025/08/20/w...
Tice is pushing for a Brexit scrutiny committee to gaslight everyone into believing that Brexit is great but has been poorly implemented by the Tories and Labour. It‘s bollocks of course but that‘s the Reform UK agenda
Russia has just sanctioned multiple Byline Times contributors and journalists for our work exposing Putin's war crimes in Ukraine. It follows our award-winning documentaries exposing Russia's crimes on the frontline and our investigations into the Kremlin's interference in British politics
Pig shit springs to mind
Russia is making demands it knows Ukraine cannot accept so that Trump will blame Zelenskyy for killing off his Nobel Peace Prize. Putin hopes the coalition of the willing will then collapse in the face of pro-Putin r/w sentiment at home
Lavrov:Putin is willing to meet with Zelenskyy only if all issues requiring discussion at the highest level are thoroughly prepared Lavrov said that "question of the legitimacy of the signatories on the Ukrainian side will arise" Russia is playing for time&has no real intention of ending the war
A future President. Probably the only one left who can read
Carswell displaying low IQ behaviors again
Definitely triggered 😂
Irony has been laid to rest in Benidorm
Trump claims to have ended six wars – is that true? No. It’s not. Basically Trump makes things up on the way to fit the desired narrative as he relentlessly pursues his goal: the Nobel Peace Prize. That should go to the U.S. Committee for Refugees and Immigrants www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
A Ukrainian citizen suspected of participating in the undersea explosions in 2022 that damaged the Nord Stream gas pipelines between Russia and Germany has been arrested, German prosecutors said. There is no suggestion that the Ukrainian govt was involved breaking.iavian.net/article/4046...
Where Is the Political Leadership Against This Violent Far-Right Movement Terrorising Britain? The silence of senior mainstream politicians and media organisations against the rise of a new well-organised far-right movement on Britain’s streets is a disgrace bylinetimes.com/2025/08/20/w...
There should be no doubt at all about where Trump‘s true sympathy lies on Ukraine. This happened on his instructions
America has already entered Phase One of an authoritarian state. The question is how to fight autocracy in a democracy. Michelle Obama’s once said: “When they go low, we go high.” But it is now too late to go high. It’s time to take the gloves off. yorkshirebylines.co.uk/news/world/p...
Trump claims to have ended six wars – is that true? No. It’s not. Basically Trump makes things up on the way to fit the desired narrative as he relentlessly pursues his goal: the Nobel Peace Prize. That should go to the U.S. Committee for Refugees and Immigrants www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
The myth of “End of Russia’s war on Ukraine” continues to keep the Epstein files out of the headlines. Nobody is asking if Putin wants peace. He has agreed to nothing so far. Putin is supremely confident his asset will do as he’s told when push comes to shove and hand him Ukraine on a plate. Beware
Discrediting democratic parties as the enemies of the state and eventually banning them
The myth of “End of Russia’s war on Ukraine” continues to keep the Epstein files out of the headlines. Nobody is asking if Putin wants peace. He has agreed to nothing so far. Putin is supremely confident his asset will do as he’s told when push comes to shove and hand him Ukraine on a plate. Beware
“Only 14% of England’s rivers and lakes meet good ecological standards.” Think about it. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Once the US elected Trump and embraced MAGA unilateralism it was obvious that the EU would have to step up and take responsibility for its security. That realisation is dawning but the EU must be more than an observer if it wants to prevent its destiny being shaped by felons and war criminals.
So let me get this straight. Trump arranged a summit with Putin to distract from the Epstein Files. And now he needs something to distract from the Epstein Files and his embarrassing failure with Putin. Good strategy. No notes. Let’s just turn it up to eleven.
FOX REPORTER: “The way it felt in the room was not good. It did not seem like things went well. It seemed like Putin came in and steamrolled, got right into what he wanted to say, got his photo next to the president, then left.”
That wasn’t a summit. That was a debacle.
Trump leaves Alaska summit with Putin empty-handed after failing to reach a deal to end Ukraine war apnews.com/article/trum...
Farage wants his people to profit from the infamous UK gravy train, the HoL
I‘m shocked that the UK media are not fact-checking Farage daily and exposing the lies. Instead turn on the TV and there he is being given a free ride
Farage assumes he can con the average Joe. And he‘s probably right
Nigel Farage’s warning that holidaymakers going to Europe must ‘prove medical insurance’ is false www.independent.co.uk/travel/news-...
Trump swallowing Putin’s lies is a bigger threat to Ukraine than bombs. In Alaska the Russian leader will claim to want peace, but only on his terms – and play on the president’s desperation to ‘make a deal’ quickly www.guardian.com/commentisfre...
Not only is the UK economy growing nowhere, but the government is said to face a £41bn fiscal ‘black hole’. A ‘Remain economy’ would be at least £100bn bigger. But the State has carried on with its pre-Brexit spending, while the economy to pay for it has leaked too much revenue. monevator.com
Trump And Putin Are Meeting To Discuss Giving Away Ukraine's Land. How On Earth Did We Get Here? Somehow, Ukraine's sovereign territory is up for debate between Russian and the US. www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/trump-...
Post-Brexit chaos as EU citizens living in Britain wrongly barred from UK. Body which protectes EU citizens’ rights warns Home Office they should not be removed if they make a short trip overseas for business or a holiday www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...
How long will it take for Farage to demand the privatization of C4?
She is very ill
Sheer entitlement from Farage
Trump And Putin Are Meeting To Discuss Giving Away Ukraine's Land. How On Earth Did We Get Here? Somehow, Ukraine's sovereign territory is up for debate between Russian and the US. www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/trump-...
Trump‘s attempt to secure the Nobel Peace Prize has priority over everything else including the independence of Ukraine and European security. Moreover, he is still hoping that by giving Putin Ukraine he can turn Russia against China. Trump is delusional and interested only in himself
Trump‘s attempt to secure the Nobel Peace Prize has priority over everything else including the independence of Ukraine and European security. Moreover, he is still hoping that by giving Putin Ukraine he can turn Russia against China. Trump is delusional and interested only in himself
Yes, in theory, but they won‘t imho. There‘s trouble ahead
And in the middle of all this unnecessary Brexsh*t we welcome the Your Party to the UK which is also pro-Brexit. The EU will be delighted if the new measures deter the Brexiters from visiting Europe
I don‘t think the military will defend the constitution. They‘ll just obey the CinC. Massive civil disobedience may be on its way but that might just provoke a total clampdown on civil society. The outlook is very bleak indeed
Lifting sanctions on Putin for Trump meeting is a massive victory for Moscow news.sky.com/story/an-inv...
Pecksniff: The ‘Up Yours, Starmer’ party: three weeks old and already needs a relaunch In which Mr Pecksniff lays before his readers for their approval certain observations and speculations reflecting on the political life eastangliabylines.co.uk/pecksniff/pe...
That‘s what makes it so depressing!