Chris Mason is almost as big a pain in the arse as Peston

Unforgivable

Quelle surprise

Classic bullies who need a good thumping

The NHS is far from perfect but those sentiments are just completely nuts

BBC News leading all its bulletins on demands by former Government advisor Lord Robertson for more defence spending, without at any point mentioning his current paid senior role for US defence lobbyists

Grifters and Philistines what do you expect?

Barking mad

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

Important story by Max Colbert here:

🔴 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

Basically accusing the opposition of copying

Fingers crossed

Anything to cover up car parks would be a win in my book. Maybe the Govt could just nationalise collapsed NCP and do it themselves.

UK Govt promised to respond to a consultation on mandating solar panel canopies on car parks last year, but we still haven't heard anything. More stakeholder engagement needed apparently

DESNZ has just told me a response will be published in "due course". Govt speak for "whenever we fancy"...

Trump’s next move is being tested in Hungary I speak to Kim Lane Scheppele about Orbán, Trump and how MAGA is following the Hungarian playbook

“If irony didn’t die when Henry Kissinger was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, then Donald Trump’s deputy travelling to Hungary to warn about electoral interference may have finished it off.”

New on Democracy for Sale ahead of tomorrow’s Hungarian vote

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I’m mystified as to why anyone would vote Reform

Who is Ben Delo? Meet Reform’s new mega-donor Farage banks another £4 million...

Reform, the party backed by a handful of 'tax haven billionaires.' You only have to look across the pond at the US to see where this is going, and how urgent it is for the UK government to address political party funding properly, not partially. From @writesbright.bsky.social

The Offer Viktor Orbán Couldn't Refuse. (Or Didn't.) Who knew that Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán was on the take from the same Russian mobsters who were laundering millions through Donald Trump's real estate?

“Mogilevich handed over kompromat videos of Orbán to the FSB in exchange for the Kremlin’s agreement to overlook his tax issues… thanks to Mogilevich, Putin had Orbán exactly where he wanted him” @craigunger
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Fascinating, Zelensky coming out publicly more and more and saying that Trump is working with/for Putin. The Ukrainians seem to have determined that telling the truth is preferable to lying to please Trump.

A tweet by Ken Martin claims Trump is using taxpayer money to fund a monument to himself. Below is a post reporting that $15 million from the National Endowment for the Humanities would be used to finance an arch. The image shows Trump at a podium next to a rendering of a large, ornate arch monument.

Talk about an arch villain!

RELEASE THE EPSTEIN FILES... 👇

MelonIi, Le Pen, Wilders, Morawiecki, Ventura — all Europe’s far-right have lined up next to Orban to support him in Sunday’s election.

They should be pressured relentlessly over his Russia ties.

Orban is Russia’s man in Europe. The mouse to Russia’s lion, to use *his own words*

Meanwhile, Russia continues its war

The President of the United States is threatening to commit war crimes and wipe out a "whole civilization" — all because he started a disastrous war of his own making and had no plan and no strategy for how to end it.

This is abhorrent, and the American people do not support this.

Exclusive: New Ofcom chair appointed - but will he fix Musk and GB News? Former Channel 4 boss Sir Ian Cheshire beats Margaret Hodge to role as clamour grows to properly regulate right wing channel

Exclusive in @thenewworldmag.bsky.social: New Ofcom chair appointed – Former Channel 4 boss Sir Ian Cheshire. Nut will he take on Elon Musk and GB News?
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Screenshot of a translated tweet reporting that Hungarian politician Péter Magyar holds a 19% polling lead over Viktor Orbán ahead of elections. The image shows a man walking outdoors holding a Hungarian flag, with people following behind him.

There is hope in Hungary. Let's see what Orbán actually does when he loses though. It's an earth sign of what Trump will do in November after losing the midterms.

“A foundation set up in the name of the late Roger Scruton has received more than £512,500 from the Hungarian government since 2023 – over 90% of its total funding”.
Michael Gove and James Orr are Scruton Trustees.

Planners can’t tell the difference between preservation and conservation

I have no idea how this has *not* (at least publicly) been treated as a foreign influence/interference risk. If the extensive reporting is correct MCC seems to have been engaging in de facto propaganda ops in the UK and elsewhere, pushing Orbán lines/policies & funding UK talking heads alongside it.

When one of your last slivers of hope is the 25th Amendment…

And then you remember Step 1 of it requires JD Vance and Trump’s sycophantic cabinet of compromised dipshits to invoke it.

Two weeks ago, the Hungarian opposition was bracing for a false flag operation, an "emergency" that would allow Viktor Orban to turn the tide or even cancel an election he is losing. Now it appears to have arrived