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.

GB News Hosts Reform UK and Conservative Politicians and Activists Posing as Ordinary Voters The individuals were presented as ordinary members of the public, without informing viewers of their political affiliations, a new Byline Times investigation reveals

GB News repeatedly presented Reform UK and Conservative politicians and activists as being ordinary members of the public, without declaring their political affiliations.

Byline Times investigation reveals pattern of behaviour by the Channel, but Ofcom still refuses to act

NOT MY WORDS DAWN, THE WORDS OF TOP GEAR MAGAZINE

[Scene is a MOON BASE on the moon. The Moonbase has an AMAZON logo on the top of its domed glass roof. From inside it, we hear a voice.]: WHEEEE Cut to interior scene. We see it is the voice of a man in a space suit, bouncing around in the low gravity, having a great time. We gradually realise that this man is Jeff Bezos. Boing haha. Wheeee! [close in on Jeff's face] JEFF BEZOS: Alexa! Set gravity to ‘Earth’. ALEXA HOME SPEAKER: Sure! Ending poverty on Earth now… JEFF BEZOS: No! Alexa, *stop*… Set gravity levels to 'Earth'. ALEXA: Sure Jeff. Whum. [Jeff gently sticks to the ground] [Pause.] ALEXA: Jeff - would you like to continue with: 'End poverty on Earth'? [Jeff thinks about this for a very long time, his face in a rictus of awkwardness. His eyes dart left and right in his head, while he is frozen in thought. This goes on for many panels.] [in the final panel it just cuts to Jeff bouncing again, saying "Wheee"] [Ends]

from 2019

Funding for populist-right ‘media-political complex’ exceeded £170m in five years, research finds Handful of billionaires gave huge sums in particular to media organisations that boosted rightwing politicians, says Liam Byrne MP

Governments sit and watch while oligarchs purchase our politics, as if it were just another asset to be monopolised. For the sake of democracy and our own survival, we need to get the money out. Our political systems must belong to us and us alone.
www.theguardian.com/media/2026/m...

On Kemi and the war, and what we can learn from a testy consensus. www.thetimes.com/article/e00b...

Shame can be a destructive emotion, but this is what a culture without shame looks like.

And it's consistently rewarded and indulged.

Putin’s megaphone: Orbán’s far-right push into UK universities is fuelled by Russian oil | Good Law Project Good Law Project has uncovered a network funded by Hungary’s authoritarian leader Viktor Orbán, that uses profits from refining Russian oil to platform far right and anti-trans campaigners in the UK

Our investigation has uncovered a network funded by Hungary’s authoritarian leader Viktor Orbán, that uses profits from refining Russian oil to platform far right and anti-trans campaigners in the UK

https://goodlaw.social/2l1y

Reform have announced their latest defections, Jack the Ripper, Covid 19, & Rail Replacement Bus Services

Jeff Passan it on, more like…

2016 Daily Mail: We want foreigners out! We don’t care if it makes us poorer. Brexit means Brexit!

2025 Daily Mail: Foreigners are leaving Starmer’s Britain because this country is poor and shit!

This country would be so much better off without this hypocritical, incendiary, irresponsible rag.

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

Three more British MEPs in Nigel Farage’s bloc now alleged to have “followed the script” given to Nathan Gill by an alleged Russian asset, according to prosecutors.

At least eight UKIP and Brexit Party MPs were focus of efforts by Nathan Gill

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Nigel Farage has got the Reich hump

Daily Mail owner's wife donates £50,000 to Reform UK The wife of the owner of the Daily Mail made a £50,000 donation to Reform UK earlier this year.

Daily Mail owner’s wife donates £50,000 to Reform UK

Nothing to see here...

www.thelondoneconomic.com/politics/dai...

And yet its biggest cheerleader, Nigel Farage, continues the face zero accountability for this mess. In fact quite the opposite.

Boris Johnson's lack of leadership blamed for 23,000 Covid deaths A scathing report by inquiry chair Baroness Hallett also criticises the Department of Health, led by the current Cabinet Secretary Sir Chris Wormald and the then minister Matt Hancock

Boris Johnson’s lack of leadership over the seriousness of Covid led to the first lockdown being introduced too late, which contributed to the loss of 23,000 lives, the official inquiry into his handling of the pandemic has concluded

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Ex-leader of Reform UK in Wales sentenced to 10-and-a-half years for taking pro-Russian bribes The judge tells Nathan Gill his actions were a

This story is all Nigel Farage should be asked about by journalists for months

Farage: epic grifter

I'd sooner trust a stoned monkey with a bag of hand grenades than this lot with the economy.

I may have said it before, but my God, I hate that man.

Unable to visit my Alzheimer's ridden mother - telling my young children that we needed to abide by all the rules not just for ourselves but for our neighbours and friends too.

Meanwhile that arrogant tosser did what the fuck he wanted.

What should Musk call this new energy supplier, assuming he gets a licence? I reckon the White Power company is on brand..:)

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EXCLUSIVE TO ALL NEWSPAPERS POWDER KEG UK ABOUT TO BLOW UP AS BRITAIN STANDS ON THE BRINK OF THE WHOLE NATION DESCENDING INTO CIVIL WAR by Our Apocalypse Staff HELENA HANDCART THE entire country has turned into a tinderbox, one spark and the whole thing could turn into a raging inferno of hatred and violence. All it needs is one little push - preferably from us - and this once peaceful island will explode. It may not take much, maybe an article with some badly researched facts, maybe some exaggerated and provocative hyperbole, and before we know it there'll be blood on the streets, and flames too, as millions of furious citizens attack each other, the police, and the emergency services, not to mention the armed forces should they tragically be called in to deal with the hate-filled mob rampaging through our cities, towns and villages, armed with burning torches and pitchforks, calling for justice, free speech and the immediate death of everyone they don't like. (Top journalism, Ed). Make no mistake, if Britain even exists by next week, we will run this piece again until someone sparks the tinderbox on the brink of the powderkeg that... (cont. for entire summer).

No one sums up the utter shamelessness of the British press and the ugly politics of Farage quite like Private Eye.

Journalists at the Farage press conference repeating Reform's framing of this policy as "robin hood" because the non-dom fee will be redistributed to poorer workers, whilst missing the fact that it hands tens of billions of pounds in tax cuts to the wealthiest people already living in the UK

OBR finds that its projection that Brexit would cost the country £40 billion have 'broadly materialised'.

Project Here.

This is how "This side says X, but the other side says Y" balance ends up distorting journalism. Instead of being based on the journalist's own independent, impartial analysis this question really just ventriloquises a partisan opposition stance and gives the impression the BBC fully agrees with it.

​​Matt Hancock Used His Personal Email Account to Help ‘VIP’ Supplier Win £25 Million COVID PPE Contract Excalibur Healthcare, which supplied the UK Government with tens of millions of pounds worth of unusable PPE, ultimately folded owing taxpayers £22 million

Matt Hancock used his personal email account to help a 'VIP' supplier win a £25 million PPE Covid contract

The company, which supplied the NHS with tens of millions of pounds worth of completely unusable PPE, later went bust, owing taxpayers millions

bylinetimes.com/2025/04/03/m...

Here Are the Attack Plans That Trump’s Advisers Shared on Signal The administration has downplayed the importance of the text messages inadvertently sent to The Atlantic’s editor in chief.

OK.
www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

Kemi Badenoch accepted a £14,000 week-long "residential" for her family and shadow cabinet, courtesy of the chair of climate change denying lobbying group Net Zero Watch.

Weeks later she announced that she has ditched her party's commitment to reaching Net Zero bylinetimes.com/2025/03/18/k...

IEA?

BBC Editorial Guidelines 4.3.12

We should not automatically assume that contributors from... think-tanks are unbiased. Appropriate information about their affiliations, funding... should be made available to the audience

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The apparent security breach published by the Atlantic magazine has triggered a firestorm in Washington, with both Democratic and Republican politicians lambasting Donald Trump's administration. www.ft.com/content/ddb1...