Today it was confirmed that the president told the world's most infamous pedophile and child sex trafficker: "We have certain things in common." For any other president, it would be the biggest scandal of their lives, possibly career-ending. For Trump, it's just Monday.
Labour should be aggressively attacking this kind of dangerous anti-science conspiracism
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...
“We here don’t like immigrants.” Those were the words of Reform UK’s council candidate Peter Junor who ran in the May elections in Oswestry South in Shropshire, to a shop keeper recently, in his shop.
The BBC must balance their political news so it doesn’t boost Nigel Farage’s dangerous, divisive politics.
Jeffrey Epstein’s estate has given Congress a copy of the 2003 birthday book, including the letter with Trump’s signature that he has said doesn’t exist. Read more: 🔗 on.wsj.com/4nGGdnJ
1/👍And this quote always sticks in my mind: "The cardinal error of the Germans who opposed Nazism was their failure to unite against it. At the crest of their popular strength, in July 1932, the National Socialists had attained but 37 per cent of the vote. But the 63 per cent of the German people
Meta and Google just don't and won't care. They're too big to fail, and too big to regulate any of this properly now that they've monopolised their online spaces. A thousand people getting data stolen just means more service use and revenue for them. Any one of those people is powerless to rebuke.
NEWS: A federal appeals court has upheld the $83.3M judgment against Trump for defaming E. Jean Carroll, rejecting his immunity claim and noting he acted with “reckless disregard for the truth.”
New Green leader Zack Polanski has accused Reform UK leader Nigel Farage of having a “colonial mindset” towards Wales. Polanski: “Reform are treating Wales as nothing more than stepping stone to Downing Street. They’ve even refused to name a Welsh leader, such is their contempt for this country."
Labour party chair Anna Turley MP over the weekend: “Given Nigel Farage misled the public about owning his home in Clacton, the public can have no confidence he’s been honest about the other details around this housing arrangement." (1/x)
Reform UK Councillor, Sam Journet has been arrested for stalking, harassment and public disorder in the council offices. ‼️
🐓 Nigel Farage tax return refusal dubbed 'another leaf from Trump's playbook'
They are deluded and should not be anywhere near power. This kind of health misinformation is dangerous.
Here’s Nigel Farage repeating over and over that he bought a house in Clacton: x.com/AliFortescue... See for yourself if he ‘mis-spoke’. This was recorded on 8th November. His partner’s deeds show 11th November: x.com/nw_nicholas/... That’s not mis-speaking, that’s lying over and over again.
Highest level of support since Gallup started asking this question a quarter century ago
Who is Farage’s girlfriend in whose name the Clacton house was bought, avoiding him £40,000 tax? She met him when waitressing in Strasbourg. She became his parliamentary assistant, then head of public relations for UKIP MEPs, then ran a think tank accused of illegally diverting public money to UKIP
“They’re taking our jobs” was always a lie. Alabama proved it. Alabama tried a “tough” immigration law, and it backfired hard. Immigrants fled, crops rotted, and farms collapsed. Americans tried to step in but couldn’t last a day. They’re not taking your jobs; they’re doing the jobs you won’t do.
This was truly sickening to listen to to. Free speech is one thing, but fact checked as false, anti science propaganda is another. The latter should have no space in governance.
5 at the election, gained one, lost 2!
Britosh politics is facing a straight choice. The imperfect but decent Labour and Lib Dem’s, or the American path where politics is about showmanship, lies, division and personal gain (Reform). If the latter wins, this country will never ever recover, either socially or economically.
Hopefully the BBC will follow up on this story to cover the fact the venue mentioned in it had all of its windows put out on Friday night by someone with a hammer. Seems somewhat relevant. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Angus Dalgleish was part of a bizarre network of secretive retired right-wing Brexiteers uncovered by a Russian hacking operation. Another member of the group was *former head of MI6* Richard Dearlove!
Reform UK ‘Democracy’ 3 policy motions voted on. A 30 minute slot for the whole thing. That’s their total democracy. What happens next? A 7 person board (3 elected by membership, the rest are Farage and 3 picked by him) discuss the motions and decide whether to adopt them.
Reform UK conference, style over substance. Let’s not forget, they dedicated 30mins to 3 policy motions across the whole conference. Farage Converts Lament Lack of Reform UK Policy Breakthrough www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
NEW: The anti-Trump protest happening right now on the streets of Washington DC is HUGE! It looks like tens of thousands have joined. This is the view from 16th Street - people stretching as far as the eye can see 👏
It's quite hard to see how the Tories recover from being fifth with people under 40.
If I were the BBC political editor, I would, maybe, mention some of the things said at the conference.
The Retorn curtain has been pulled open, leaning into its own MAGA cultist & Q Conspiratorial agenda. Its members clapping in support to the convicted criminal Lucy Connolly. Whilst Tory Sycophants are crossing over & kneeling at the Feet of Fartage, looking for their next purpose & payout.
This is exactly the kind of despicable scaremongering that Aseem Malhotra has made his modus operandi. Insinuations, hearsay, anti-vaxx, non-evidence-based, lurid, self-enriching, anti-scientific claptrap. Of course Reform UK lapped it up. 1/4
The public at large are far more reasonable and sensible than the media and Reform believe.
61% of Britons believe it is more important that people are safe from abuse on social media than are able to speak their minds freely More important people are safe from abuse: 61% (-3 from August 2017) More important people can speak minds freely: 28% (+8)
More news breaking at Bounces about Donald Trump's visit to the US Open men's final. The US Open has sent an email to broadcasters, obtained by Bounces, ordering them to censor any reactions or protests from the crowd to Trump's appearance. Read more here: www.benrothenberg.com/p/us-open-do...
A political party, that's topping the polls, lauding someone who called for human beings to be burned to death should be a moment for national self-reflection. This is not who we are nor who we should become. Reform UK are a plague on our national humanity. We must never permit them to govern.
*sound on* This is Andrea Jenkyns's ACTUAL singing entrance to the Reform UK conference. Utter crackpots. And anyone who thinks this kind of idiotic look-at-me amateurs are how this country will "rediscover its pride" needs to have a lie-down.
On the same day in the Telegraph:
![The Telegraph Rayner tax scandal - £40k tax dodge - Statement Angela Rayner dodges £40,000 stamp duty Deputy Prime Minister reduces tax bill for Hove flat by declaring it as her main residence [Photo: Angela Rayner pictured at the weekend in Hove, where she has just bought a flat Credit: Dan Charity/The Sun on Sunday] Robert Mendick Chief Reporter. Amy Gibbons Political Correspondent 29 August 2025 8:57am BST](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:2kf2qj56o2vq7jfaq4x4ogp6/bafkreihe5mm7nwmwvzhtgadmsafyvsaxhrufuai2d2j2rju5zt6g2lytea@jpeg "Click to view full size")
![The Telegraph Money > Property > Second homes How to avoid tax on your second home From stamp duty to council tax, shield your wealth from Labour's tightening net [Photo of houses around a bay - Areas such as Cornwall have added a premium to council tax bills for second homes Credit: iStockphoto] Fran Ivens Senior Money Writer 29 August 2025 1:21pm BST](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:2kf2qj56o2vq7jfaq4x4ogp6/bafkreieuwgc2vsmyfcctmf4cnpcqckij2pqdk2gmzajpnihrsqyqmzyr5e@jpeg "Click to view full size")
🔴Reform Deputy Leader Owns £4m Mansion and Belgravia Pad While Attacking Angela Rayner’s ‘Property Mountain’ EXCLUSIVE: Richard Tice MP co-owns Buckinghamshire estate with tennis court and lake – despite his attacks on Rayner's £800,000 flat purchase bylinetimes.com/2025/09/05/r...
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.
“If Vladimir Putin overruns Ukraine it’ll only be a matter of time before he crosses a border of a NATO country.” 48th Vice President of the United States Mike Pence calls for US security guarantees in Ukraine to help deliver a “just and lasting peace”. #Newsnight
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/
'Hypocrite' Nigel Farage didn't pay £44k stamp duty then blasted Angela Rayner www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news...
Tax Haven Tice has woken up and smelled the coffee that you can’t just offer anything that pops in to Nigel’s head. Reform may need to rethink £90bn tax cuts pledge, deputy suggests www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Sir John Curtice explains how Labour is mostly haemorrhaging support to the LibDems & Greens, and the Tories losing theirs to Reform. => Labour needs to consolidate the socially liberal, pro-European left and centre, not echo Reform bbc.com/news/article...
Ex-soldier: Paying Taliban to take migrants ‘vile perversion of Britishness’ www.richmondandtwickenhamtimes.co.uk/news/nationa...
The takeaway: 👉 Accommodating the radical right on immigration doesn’t win back voters. 👉 It alienates the progressive base. 👉 And it raises the salience of the very issue the radical right owns. In short: it’s electoral self-harm.
He's working from his Malvern home (yes working from home) to lead campaigns across the country. This is a clear abuse of Parliamentary (tax payers’) money.
Nigel Farage stands up for free speech by having a protestor dragged out of the Reform conference.
Reform UK is such a democratic party, they are voting on THREE motions in a 30 min slot today. That’s the total representation for the whole conference. Sham. #RUK25 #ReformUK25
Tory 2.0 Conference Continues The vast majority of speakers at the conference are ex-Tories: Dr David Bull Andrea Jenkyns Jaymey McIvor Darren Grimes Stephen Atkinson Linden Kemkaran Zia Yusuf
Jobs report disaster — the economy hasn’t been this bad since last time Trump was in office. Trump panic posts about Epstein as MAGA melts down over Trump’s recent guests. And much more. Learn more in today’s bulletin:
Well at least it kicked RefUK down the news bulletins if nothing else. To my surprise, the BBC R4 coverage wasn't entirely negative...
All of America’s foreign broadcasters are in grave danger, @anneapplebaum.bsky.social writes. “Without openly saying so, the United States is reorienting its foreign policy to protect governments that manipulate and censor information.”
Rayner resigned. Your move Farage.
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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 claimed last year to have “bought a house” in his constituency but the property is actually owned in the name of his partner, meaning he legally avoided higher-rate stamp duty on the purchase of an additional home – given he already owns other properties” www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Pay your tax Reform UK
Senior Reform figure accused of ‘authoritarianism’ amid internal row over Welsh branch chairs nation.cymru/news/senior-...
How much tax should Farage and Tice be paying, and how much are they actually paying? Just out of interest...
Israel destroys tower block sheltering displaced families www.channel4.com/news/israel-...
Are you really popular if you're on 30%? More like least unpopular (right now). NF's ratings aren't great either.
Honking endorsement for Farage, Johnson et la, without a moment’s reflection that 10 years of UKIPified Tory govt created the mess they’re railing about — booming benefits bills, bond market routs, immigration surges, trade slump and investment slumps. Bring back Boris and Nadine! That’ll fix it. 🙈
They are eminently beatable. But other parties have to turn up to the fight.
Just 24% believe they’d do a good job of running the country, Nigel Farage’s net popularity is -29. How do Britons see Reform UK, ahead of their 2025 conference?
The “problem” with vaccines? They so effective at preventing deaths that they create generations of people that question whether disease was a problem in the first place because they have never experienced the horrors of a world without vaccines.
there’s a tweet for every occasion
This is vile. Local guy speaks to Sky News about the impact of asylum seekers protests. Watch what happens and share widely
🔴 NEW 🔴 Reform - which claims to represent left-behind Britain - received £100,000 in June from a fox hunt “master”. Johan Christofferson, a hedge fund manager, was the joint-master of a hunt in Scotland that was prosecuted for illegal hunting in 2017. He previously gave money to Boris Johnson.
🔴 NEW 🔴 A leading press freedom watchdog has said it's "shocking" that Reform has banned journalists from its conference and has accused Farage's party of drawing from the "authoritarian playbook". 📝 @desmog.com report 👇
NEW: An Oxford report warns that misleading media coverage is shaping public debate on immigration and human rights. The study finds the ECHR is frequently misreported in deportation cases, fueling misconceptions that erode trust in the legal system. 🧵 [1/8]
Well done Peter Kyle. Let's see Labour fighting back.
There's a That's Life episode where everyone around Sir Nicolas Winton stands up, & it turns out the audience is made up of now-adult former child refugees he helped bring to Britain before the war. I'm just imagining this 52% watching that and thinking "Those kids ought to have been put in prison"
BBC and media at large should be doing far more to challenge Farage. 70% of the electorate aren't thinking about voting Reform - perhaps you could speak to the overwhelming majority for once.
Reform UK Leicestershire County Council is in a state. They are £8.1m over budget after just 4 months in power.
Chicken Farage bans The New World “Reform claims to be the party of free speech, but this last-minute decision to stop me attending its conference tells a very different story”
Four of Britain's six steel companies now need government support to stay in business. That's the 'superior efficiency of the private sector' for you.
Who is bankrolling Reform UK? democracyforsale.substack.com/p/who-is-ban...
Another reminder of the reality of ‘free speech Farage’: if anyone in his party (in whatever manifestation it currently is) even slightly criticises him, they’re out on their ear in no time.
Reform MPs completely absent from Commons statement on ‘grooming gangs’ www.thecanary.co/uk/news/2025...
This is an argument for falling population, falling GDP, and an employment crisis.
I don’t think any piece about Reform’s conference speakers should be published without mentioning that they’ve allowed an anti-vaccine conspiracy group to host a panel. Sadly this story doesn’t flag it
If Nigel Farage is correct that Britain has “become North Korea”, how come he has his own national TV show when he’s leader of an opposition party?
If releasing the Epstein files would end your presidency, then your presidency needs to end.
"To the people of the UK who think this Putin-loving free-speech imposter and Trump sycophant will protect freedom in your country, come on over to America and see what Trump & MAGA are doing to destroy OUR freedom" Farage has his arse handed to him on a plate.
NB: This is literally what is happening to people arriving in Trump's America. And I understand that unlike the UK, you can count the US cases on more than 1 finger.
Hope he and others were watching and learning.
Broken Britain and no go London latest. New figures show the homicide rate in London is at a 10-year low. Killings dropped by 26% over the last year, from 78 to 58. FACTS!
That footage of Farage's reaction to someone standing up to him just underlines my belief that if we could get him into a one to one with an angry and articulate ordinary voter - not a politician or a presenter - with no audience, reporters or supporters to play to, we would not hear from him again.
Farage has gone to the US to tell them Britain is ”awful” - If you don’t like it over here Nigel maybe don’t catch a return flight?
"It's astonishing to see Liz Truss call for a Trump-style revolution." "We've seen what a Liz Truss revolution looks like and people are still seeing it in their bank accounts." @LibDemDaisy.bsky.social
Just read Angela Rayner's statement. The very notion she should resign when Robert Jenrick refused to do so for effectively handing Richard Desmond £45m shows how unmoored from reality any political debate in this country has become, but especially one involving Angela Rayner.
If Nigel Farage really loved Britain he wouldn't talk it down at every opportunity to a bunch of ill informed right wing American fuckwits who know sweet FA about the reality of this country.
He’s always so shit in the face of decent questioning. Absolutely amazing how rarely it happens.
Migration also halved in 2024 compared to 22 and 23, but that doesn’t stop the polemic of “we are being invaded”. It would be nice to see BBC and other MSM give greater prominence rather than echoing whatever Farage has just said…
Amid all the stuff about ‘dangerous London’ and ‘broken Britain’, new figures show the homicide rate in London is at a 10-year low. Killings dropped by 26% over the last year, from 78 to 58. No one under 25 was murdered during the school summer holidays.
1. Terrific that a US politician is holding Farage to account for his free speech hypocrisy 2. Why can’t we do this in the UK?? 3. Farage lies in this clip - claiming he doesn’t ban journalists from Reform conferences. I’ve been banned from the past two.
Why on earth won't our press or politicians do this?
Farage being held to account 🌞I don't have words to describe how happy I am. Shown for the slippery, lying, lazy good for nothing he is. Now BBC or Sky what do you say? It's a good day for the truth. Farage, a pro Putin and Trump admirer. Traitor to Britain.