FT graph showing massive UK public support for the opinion that it was wrong to vote to leave the EU.

Ah! Good morning, reality. And welcome. We’ve been expecting you…

Why indeed?

Angela Rayner accidentally pays less tax than she should have, resigns, and the media gives her hell.

Nigel Farage deliberately pays less tax than he should have, and the media gives him a free pass.

That, right there, is the problem.

A man who thinks he deserves the Nobel Peace Prize has just created the Department of War.

Two things can be true at once. Rayner was foolish in her conduct and right to resign. It’s also true she was always despised by much of the right wing press because she was a working class powerful woman.

Reform and X are not Britain, as John Curtice shows, though this loud minority voice thinks it is

Migration bad for economy?
32% of public - but 73% of Reform

Bad for our culture?
31% of public - 81% of Reform

Rights for ethnic minorities have gone too far?
18% of public - but 49% of Reform

I've read Sir Laurie Magnus's conclusion and Rayner's resignation letter.

Rayner did breach the ministerial code, but in a very minor way. Under previous governments, we saw more serious breaches on a daily basis without consequence.

I hope her absence from government is short.

Rayner is absolute class. She's been a bit silly in organising her taxes, but that's not why they hate her. They hate her because she did not know her place.

I turn on my TV and a TV presenter is asking a Govt minister why they are talking about rolling out free childcare when the big issue is asylum hotels. This is objectively insane.

Love listening to @lbc.co.uk, @mrjamesob.bsky.social has been my morning companion for years. Try to listen when he's away, loved @lewisgoodall.com
But can't listen to Cleverly, had to turn Mordaunt off too. Partly the politics, but they're just not good presenters. It's a skill not everyone has!

Almost four years out from an election & paying *the actual fucking Taliban* to torture & murder people who risked their lives to escape them is getting the full ‘both sides’ treatment in Brexit Britain.

BBC apologises after Robert Jenrick accused of xenophobia A contributor to Radio 4's Thought for the Day slot made the remark about the shadow justice secretary.

'Honest Bob' Jenrick, a politician obviously & deliberately embracing xenophobia, does some weapons grade xenophobia & the BBC *apologises* for a Thought For The Day contributor calling it xenophobic. Licence fee payers need to know who makes these decisions & why. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Farewell Ozzy. A huge loss to Metal and to music. ❤️

Yes, old Twitter had better vibes and lots more fun sh*tposting about food, TV, and sports. Also, Barack Obama was president and we didn’t have fascists setting up concentration camps. This literally has nothing to do with Bluesky as a social media platform.

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"What Britain looks like after Brexit" A piece by Daniel Hannan which is the least accurate thing anyone has ever written about Brexit. (This was the title graphic to it.)

It's here! It's finally here! It's Daniel Hannan Day!

The future he promised everyone a mere 2 days before the Brexit referendum is so exciting, I think my heart may burst with joy when I step outside and experience it for myself.

(Read it. You deserve a laugh.)

www.reaction.life/p/britain-lo...

So, to be clear, Musk has now admitted he funded a man he believes to be a pedophile to be president.

And Trump has now admitted that he gave access to high level government secrets to a man he believes to be a big time drug addict.

This should be *the* story on the Sunday shows tomorrow.

Within the space of an evening Musk has gone from (just about) an ally of Trump’s to alleging that he’s in the Epstein files and should be impeached. Meanwhile, Steve Bannon suggests Musk should be deported. Just another normal night in Trump’s America.

Appreciate everyone is focused on the memes but Yusuf quitting Reform & the Musk-Trump spat on same day is a good illustration of how fragile the Populist Right - Libertarian tech bro coalition is. When it works it works for them, but ends up as fundamental interest misalignment

I’m not sure if you can overdose on schadenfreude but we’re about to find out

Remarkable that less than a week ago Zia Yusuf was out on the airwaves, including my Sunday show, batting for Reform. Now he’s resigned as Chairman saying:

“I no longer believe working to get a Reform government elected is a good use of my time.”

There's no placating the Brexiters, no reasoning with them, no basic comprehension or adulthood. You can't debate papers behaving like the Sun or the Mail this morning. There's nothing to debate with. They view all trading relations with Europe as humiliation.

A light blue diagram depicting the sea, with the water's surface at the top, and just below it is an outline of the Mary Rose, with the depth (12m, 40ft or 6.7 fathoms). There is a line showing the seabed, which takes a rapid dive into the vertical...

On the anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic, we thought we'd answer a question that's often asked,

"If they raised the Mary Rose, why not raise the Titanic?"

Allow our scaled diagram to explain...

President Donald Trump speaks at a podium with the presidential seal, holding a large chart titled "Reciprocal Tariffs" listing different countries and their tariff rates. The CNN news banner at the bottom reads, "TRUMP: WILL IMPLEMENT RECIPROCAL TARIFFS ON OTHER NATIONS." The event is taking place at the White House at 4:27 PM ET, with a large American flag in the background.

The insane ramblings of a mad man who just initiated a $6 trillion tax increase starting tonight.

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