Billions in foreign real estate deals while serving as head of state.
Billions in crypto deals while gutting regulation of the industry.
Suing his own government and negotiating a settlement funded by the taxpayers.
We're so numb to Trump grifting off the presidency that hardly anyone notices.
NEW | On an odd choice…
WHY DID BBC BREAKFAST GIVE REFORM UK A SPECIAL GRAPHIC?
A small detail in a brief report sparks some big questions about what the national broadcaster is doing during the run up to local and national elections.
brokenbottleboy.substack.com/p/why-did-bb...
Ukrainian hackers disrupted a closed-door meeting at Russia’s Ministry of Industry and Trade and made a recording.
www.kyivpost.com/post/74379
Palantir in the NHS is linked to Mandelson
Mandelson is linked to Wes Streeting
Wes Streeting is defending Palantir’s involvement in the #NHS
Nothing to see or everything to see
Palantir must be removed from the NHS
"Nice book you got here, McQuade . . . be a shame if anything happened to it."
- Robert De Niro, on "The Fix: Saving America from the Corruption of a Mob-Style Government"
Further evidence of a lack of deep thinking in government about the reality of the world. Or even waist-high thinking.
www.politico.eu/article/keir...
Related to the UK's EU debate and in particular the national delusion that is exceptionalism like we're going to have the world's best regulations when we don't understand the world.
Chart showing fall in GDP per person caused by Brexit
The economic damage caused by Brexit may be almost double the 4% impact assumed by the OBR, the Resolution Foundation has revealed.
All the talk is of a blue wave in the 2026 Midterms. But Republicans do not need to get more popular to hold the House - they just need to stop enough Democrats voting in key seats.
I've done a deep dive in my latest post.
christinapagel.substack.com/p/how-republ...
OMFG I had to go and check that this ACTUALLY happened.
Since when does the BBC ever do chyrons with a political party's branding, rather than their own? Not to mention this is during a pre-election campaign purdah.
(h/t @iainsol.bsky.social)
Speaking in the Commons in the debate on Mandelson, @johnmcdonnellmp.bsky.social has just called for an independent inquiry into Labour Together over hiring lobbyists to investigate and smear journalists
Here's the original story we published in Feb democracyforsale.substack.com/p/exclusive-...
This would be an absolutely vile thing to do. We are so much better than this. Please don’t ever vote for Reform!
While Orban has been defeated in Hungary, Bulgaria has stepped up to fill the gap. In yesterday’s election, a big win for the pro-Russia, Eurosceptic party Progressive Bulgaria led by former President Rumen Radev.
It opposes support for Ukraine and wants to reopen ties with Moscow.
Is US foreign policy still meant to benefit Americans? Or peace? Or international prosperity? Those were the questions I asked after reading this article
www.nytimes.com/2026/04/19/u...
It’s worth reading the whole Palantir piece to see that they are leaning in to being the Legion of Doom.
this is super interesting and also encouraging - Ukraine has become the world's leading drone superpower
📢 We've reached *3000* documented authoritarian-like actions of Trump's second term since Jan 2025...
the two most recent are classic suppression of the press & using the justice system to attack political enemies
www.trumpactiontracker.info
NEW: Richard Tice failed to pay almost £100,000 in corporation tax, benefiting his investment company which made large donations to Reform UK.
First time Reform's deputy leader's tax affairs can be directly linked to finances of Nigel Farage's party.
Your next government
New post from @ldfreedman.bsky.social
"Is Ukraine winning the drone war?"
The Russians certainly think so.
What are the implications of Ukraine's innovations for the war and, more broadly, for how other countries should be thinking about drones?
(£/free trial)
open.substack.com/pub/samf/p/i...
"Pancreatic cancer mRNA vaccine shows lasting results in an early trial: Scientists caution that more research is needed, but nearly all of the patients who responded to the personalized vaccine are still alive six years later."
Here's one of Reform UK's candidates for next month's local elections in Westminster seriously telling me on X in 2023 that: “Hate is too weak a word for what I feel towards the NHS. I’d tear it down and salt the earth upon which it stood.”
When Angela Rayner underpaid £40,000 in stamp duty, Richard Tice said it was "morally completely indefensible” and she should resign if she had “any moral decency”.
Now we learn he set up four shell companies that let him avoid paying £100,000 he owed in tax and to then transfer the cash to Reform
What should have happened: the REIT paid no tax but the Tice companies holding shares in the REIT paid £98k tax on the dividends they received. What actually happened: none of the companies paid any tax.
Our new report: Richard Tice signed accounts wrongly claiming £98,000 of tax exemptions
A 🧵 with the evidence:
The unavoidable truth for Labour MPs is that if they don’t act soon then they not only risk losing the next general election, but their century-long position as the dominant party on the left of British politics
www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/the-case-f...
I’ve signed this calling for the full Mandelson files, including vetting documents, to be published. Parliament and the public need the full facts, not partial disclosure.
Sign here:
you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/pu...
Last night the US quietly lifted sanctions on Russian oil for another month - two days after Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said it wouldn’t happen.
"it isn’t just the vessel that is being brought out of retirement, but her crew will also be sourced from a somewhat unusual pool consisting of officers no longer in active service... as well as officers in the reserve and civilians with the appropriate skills..."
#R4Today
Another conspiracy theorist loon standing for Reform. It's rapidly turning into the political equivalent of the Flat Earth Society.
www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news...
New times, same old arguments. New post on my Brexit & Brexitism blog discussing the latest developments in the rapidly changing international order and how post-Brexit Britain is stuck in delusions of greatness and cries of Brexit betrayal: chrisgreybrexitblog.blogspot.com/2026/04/new-...
