How America went from this man to the angry orange buffoon is beyond me.

Reform fury as someone else wins by Our By-election Editor Tim Shipsink The losing candidate in the Gorton and Denton by-election, Matt Goodwhinge, has demanded an immediate re-run of the election on the grounds that he lost comprehensively to someone else. "It's totally unfair and rigged," said Goodwhinge. "I shouldn't be required to sit there and suck it up, just because I lost." Mr Goodwhine continued, *I can't believe that all those voters I demonised failed to back me. Especially after I was endorsed by Tommy Robinson and ten million Russian bots on X. "We have clear evidence of family voting, where people voted in order for me to stop deporting their families." Mr Badloser concluded. "I'm the victim of colour prejudice. They didn't vote for me simply because I'm not green." Reform leader Mr Farage, speaking from a sun lounger on a rock near the Chagos Islands said, "It's a tragedy that the people of Manchester won't see Matt in Westminster, but my constituents don't see me in Clacton either." PLUMBER DEFEATS MATT GOODWIN Photo of Hannah Spencer with speech bubble saying… I've stopped the cock

Beautiful from Private Eye on the massive toddler-tantrum that Matt Goodwin and Reform are having, because they got whooped in Gorton and Denton.

Can we extract the Reform nonsense from Labour? These immigration proposals are obscene, but the government can be forced to think again.

The government's immigration proposals are an obscenity: They needlessly punish refugees, make integration basically impossible, and introduce a sliding system of administrative abuse depending on how wealthy you are iandunt.substack.com/p/can-we-ext...

Greens win Gorton & Denton By-election! Change Minds → Change Politics

@pimlicat.bsky.social: “When a party loses the trust of thousands of its own voters in its heartlands, that’s not an aberration but a stark warning."

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Why has he been forced?

So the Epstein scandal is about politics? Silly me for thinking it’s about the mass abuse of women and girls | Marina Hyde Obsessing over individual players and political chaos leaves less time to focus on the misogyny. And that’s for the best, isn’t it guys, says Guardian columnist Marina Hyde

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NEW: NEW: Standards commissioner finds Nigel Farage committed seventeen breaches of MPs code of conduct.

He failed to declare £333,000 in outside interests (more than 3x MPs annual salary)…

This is a truly horrifying account of increasingly likely collapse of essential natural systems which would bring mass food shortages, price rises & global disorder. Commissioned from UK intelligence chiefs but scandalously suppressed by Govt, & sneaked out now while attention is elsewhere 👇

Why you should leave X A rallying cry to progressives everywhere...

Happy New Year you lovely people.

A reminder that 2026 should be the year you leave X (if you haven’t already!)

Yinka Bankole a former Dulwich schoolmate of Nigel Farage says 'an apology would be a starting point' following racism claims | LBC Recounting one incident in which the Reform UK leader told him to

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Farage’s attack on Emma Barnett tells a worrying story about who he really is Farage’s attack on Emma Barnett tells a worrying story about who he really is

Farage’s attack on Emma Barnett tells a worrying story about who he really is

John Major, "Our links to Europe and America may be loser now than once they were and that is a loss"

"The loss of trade with Europe alone costs us £100 billion of lost trade every year"

"That's a tax yield of £40 billion"

"How useful would that have been in recent months to the Chancellor?"

How capitalism drives inequality: and how to stop it Wealth taxes are on Rachel Reeves’ agenda. Thomas Piketty has shown why it matters, and how we could stop the growth of inequality

Wealth taxes are back on the agenda – and Prof Richard Murphy shows why the data demands them.

200 years of evidence: capitalism funnels wealth upward unless govts intervene. So what's stopping them?

His must-read analysis👇

@eastangliabylines.co.uk @richardjmurphy.bsky.social with thanks

Farage: epic grifter

stop thinking right now

The right have spent years complaining about “cancel culture” yet now seem to enjoy using it wherever possible when it suits them. America is in such deep trouble.

Yesterday, the largest far-right protest in UK history marched through London, led by racist Tommy Robinson.

Today, we say: They don’t speak for us — and they won’t have the last word.

This Wednesday we come together against Trump and for a better future. Do everything to be there.

Tommy Robinson’s march was a drunken, coked-up mess He claimed the world was watching, but most of London barely noticed - and much of what was on view was appalling

He claimed the world was watching, but most of London barely noticed - and much of what was on view was appalling

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Meadow enjoyed a walk with her friend Dino in Richmond Park today.

They are wonderful dogs. 15 is a great age, your girl sounds lovely.

Sage and Meadow underneath the wisteria.

Two vizslas sitting, one on a picnic bench and one sat in front.

These girls keep me smiling in this mad world!

The @financialtimes.com is not mincing words

"America’s astonishing act of self-harm"
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The Imperialism Has no Clothes JD Vance in Greenland

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Let's get one thing straight right now.

President Zelensky is a hero.

Donald Trump isn't fit to shine his shoes.

Guns or someone else's butter I am all for an increase in defence spending but do we really have to take the money from the foreign aid budget?

Guns or someone else's butter
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By the company he keeps It was Aesop who said “A man is known by the company he keeps” and by this measure President Trump has just let the whole world see what he is really like.

By the company he keeps
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The US just voted alongside Russia, Belarus and North Korea against a UN resolution to support Ukraine.

This is a wake-up call for all those cheerleading Trump in our country.

I stand with Ukraine.