Brexit Britain’s farmers eye EU-Australia trade deal with envy The U.K. beef industry is still furious that London didn’t take a harder line in its talks with Canberra.

As British farmers look with envy at the terms of the EU's deal unveiled on Tuesday, a former minister admits that Britain’s flagship post-Brexit trade deal with Australia was a failure. www.politico.eu/article/ange...

Political donations in cryptocurrency could be blocked in blow to Reform UK Government review also recommends political funding from Britons living abroad be capped at about £300,000 a year

In a blow to Farage’s Reform UK, a government review recommends political donations in cryptocurrency could be blocked and also recommends political funding from Britons living abroad be capped at about £300,000 a year… www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

11,000 Japanese citizens stormed their parliament demanding their PM stop following Trump into war. 82% of Japan opposes this. Protesters surrounded Japan's National Diet building today chanting: "Japan's FUTURE is not in Washington. Stop bootlicking Trump." This is epic really

Reform accused of using third party to turn crypto into c... Digital currency donations have been turned into sterling to make them much less easy to track, sources say

Same old same old, Reform using third party to turn opaque crypto transactions into cash and hide donors, Electoral Commission confirm that they are limited in the information they can obtain from crypto providers that are based overseas. observer.co.uk/news/nationa...

Trump's Iran gamble has failed - and America's allies will pay for it — The i Paper Trump has no strategy, no plan, no understanding of the complexities of the conflict he has ignited

Trump has no strategy, no plan, no understanding of the complexities of the conflict he has ignited, his gamble has failed and America's allies will pay for it. apple.news/AhXhSCfIrQRa...

Telegraph Journalist, “Mr President, are you disappointed with Keir Starmer?”

President, who has no legal justification or legal authority to wage what he has described as a war, “Yeah”

Telegraph “Exclusive: Trump – I’m ‘very disappointed’ in Starmer over Iran”

See how it works?

Reform UK is too weird to win From Matthew Goodwin to Restore Britain, the online right isn’t radical – it’s cringe

Weird Reform’s post-match analysis of Gorton & Denton was that they lost due to an “Islamo-communist alliance in which hardline Muslim patriarchs supposedly forced wives to back a female atheist and a gay Jew.”
That works on Twitter, not in the real world. www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-...

US and Israel attacked Iran when peace was within reach What might have remained a contained nuclear dispute now risks expanding into a wider geopolitical confrontation, Bamo Nouri writes

Iran’s peace was within reach, but, rather than allowing diplomacy to conclude, the US and Israel attacked Iran when, as revealed by Oman’s foreign minister, a principles agreement could have been signed within days. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

Earth's heat to produce electricity for homes in UK clean energy first Water super-heated by rocks will also provide the UK's first domestic supply of the critical mineral lithium.

After 15 years hard work, and initial funding from the European Development Fund - when the UK had access to when it was part of the EU - the UK's first geothermal power plant has been turned on to meet the electricity needs of up to 10,000 homes. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

The AfD is flirting with Nazi history – but moral outrage alone won’t stop the far right | Katja Hoyer Coincidence or not, the party has timed its congress for the centenary of an infamous Nazi rally. But condemnation didn’t stop Hitler, and it’s not enough now, says historian and journalist Katja Hoye...

Farage’s stupid stunts fit a familiar pattern. His allies in Germany’s AfD — courting disaffected working-class voters — are rallying at a notorious Nazi site and their leader fined for using the banned Nazi slogan “Everything for Germany.” Ring any bells? www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

On this sixth anniversary of Brexit, take a moment to reflect on how much better off Britain is — as explained here by Baron Hannan of Kingsclere, ennobled for his role in delivering what has been described as “the single stupidest thing any country has ever done”

Trump ally worried about ‘psychological state’ of ‘dangerous’ president Robert Fico, Slovakia’s prime minister, said to have expressed fears US president ‘out of his mind’ after Mar-a-Lago visit

Slovakia’s prime minister and Trump ally, Robert Fico, is worried about ‘psychological state’ of ‘dangerous’ president and has privately told European leaders that he fears the US president is ‘out of his mind’ after Mar-a-Lago visit. www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2...

Listening to head of MI6 Blaise Metreweli’s words makes you realise just how asleep at the wheel British politicians have been over Brexit, exploitable right-wing populists and all their ‘friends of’ groups…

Donald Trump launches attack on film director Rob Reiner, found stabbed to death alongside his wife Donald Trump has launched an extraordinary attack on film director Rob Reiner, who was found stabbed to death with his wife on Sunday.

Classy as ever, Trump launches attack on film director, Rob Reiner, who was found stabbed to death alongside his wife… news.sky.com/story/donald...

‘The frontline is everywhere’: new MI6 head to warn of growing Russian threat Blaise Metreweli expected to say UK faces new ‘age of uncertainty’ in speech identifying Kremlin as key threat

Russia - along with other states - are ‘exporting chaos’. Assassination plots, sabotage, cyber-attacks and the manipulation of information mean that “the frontline is everywhere” in this “age of uncertainty” the new head of MI6 will warn on Monday. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

U.S.-U.K. Trade Deal Hits Stumbling Block

Critics warned the UK–US trade deal was built on loose terms and vague commitments. Now the cost of that ambiguity is emerging, with Washington telling London it is pausing a $40bn technology-related agreement in Trump’s latest shake down.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/13/b...

Brexit made us poorer and it’s getting worse Economists disagree on the detail but it’s clear that barrier-free trade would be a big boost

The Times - There are no serious economic papers arguing Brexit has benefited Britain. The ongoing cost for each of us is £3,000. But, as ministers hunt for growth, the evidence suggests restoring frictionless trade with the EU would deliver major gains. www.thetimes.com/comment/colu...

Nigel Farage's former school responds to claims he made racist comments as student Dulwich College says the allegations are "profoundly distressing". Reform UK say the claims are a "witch hunt".

Dulwich College has said allegations that Nigel Farage made racist and antisemitic comments to fellow pupils at the school are "profoundly distressing" and "entirely at odds with the Dulwich College of today". news.sky.com/story/politi...

Come with me to Jacob Rees-Mogg’s house. The Brexiters are rattled – and it shows | Polly Toynbee Labour and the country have reached a historic inflection point. For all the talk of Brexit ‘benefits’, the anti-EU ideologues know the tide has turned, says Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee

All the bastards were there at Jacob Rees-Mogg’s mad hatter’s tea party, IDS, Bill Cash, John Redwood and the Bruges lunatics celebrating 75 Brexit benefits including more expensive food and borrowing costs, lower GDP and a £90bn annual loss to the Treasury. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Why the world should worry about stablecoins Dollar-based digital currencies offer benefits for the US, but Britain and the EU are better off resisting them

Should stablecoins be welcomed by people other than the issuers, criminals of various kinds and the US Treasury? NO.
Last month, S&P downgraded Tether’s USDT to “weak”. This is not a trustworthy stablecoin, but it is the one Nigel Farage is promoting. www.ft.com/content/a5f4...

Kemi Badenoch cites Brexit as ‘shock’ to UK Tory leader’s comments come amid debate on whether Britain should rejoin EU customs union

Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch, who supported Brexit in 2016, now admits Brexit was a “shock” that has damaged the UK, as 100 MPs voted for Britain to rejoin a customs union with the EU. www.ft.com/content/d358...

The Farage Tax: What The UK Pays For One Man's Ego GDP down, investment down, wages down - but Farage’s influence? Higher than ever

This country is in this economic mess because one man with a pint and half a fag sold the UK a myth that ‘sovereignty’ would make us richer. Instead we’ve ended up with lower growth, lower wages, weaker services and higher borrowing costs — the Farage tax. www.bearlypolitics.co.uk/p/the-farage...

Reform campaign for Farage’s Clacton seat was a ‘juggernaut’, say candidates Defeated Tory and Labour rivals describe force of Reform ‘machine’ as police assess claims of overspending

Essex police assessing “alleged misreported expenditure by a political party” following a referral from the Met acting on documents submitted by a member of Farage’s campaign team.Tory & Labour candidates in Clacton say Reform’s campaign was a “juggernaut”. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

UK is under attack from Putin’s cyber army, warns Yvette Cooper UK is under attack from Putin’s cyber army, warns Yvette Cooper

UK is under attack from Putin’s cyber army, warns Yvette Cooper

Reform UK councillor’s company fined £40,000 for hiring illegal worker Michael Andrew Harrison, who represents Seaham in Durham, is appealing against the penalty

The clown show continues…“Reform UK councillor’s business has been handed a £40,000 fine after the company was found to have hired someone without the legal right to work in the UK.”
www.ft.com/content/de36...

Tice accused of 'retraumatising victim' with dismissal of Farage racism claim Reform's Deputy Leader Richard Tice drew a furious backlash after he appeared to dismiss allegations against Nigel Farage from a schoolmate whose family fled the Nazis

Richard Tice has been accused of discouraging racism victims from speaking out after he claimed allegations against Nigel Farage from his school days were “made-up twaddle”. www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...

BREAKING: Nigel Farage has been reported to police by a former member of his campaign team over claims of falsified election expenses. Given the serious nature of the allegations the Met’s specialist crime group will assess the documents that have been submitted.

Nigel Farage under pressure over crypto links as MPs call for investigation The Electoral Commission has been asked to investigate the situation after Reform declared a £9million donation from crypto investor Christopher Harborne in August

More Reform sleaze… Farage under more pressure after Electoral Commission asked to investigate his links and promotion of cryptocurrency Tether after Reform declared a £9million donation from Thai based Tether investor, Cryptopher Harborne. www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...

Makes you wonder how he continually escapes the full force of the law…

Three more Farage bloc MEPs alleged to have followed Russian asset’s script At least eight MEPs elected for Ukip or Brexit party now known to have been focus of efforts by jailed Nathan Gill

CPS says Farage MEP’s Jonathan Bullock, Julia Reid and Steven Woolfe followed a script given to Russian asset Nathan Gill by handler Oleg Voloshyn. At least eight UKIP/Brexit Party MEPs now linked to Kremlin-tasked efforts coordinated through Reform’s Gill. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...