Brava! I came here to say that. It does “speak for itself”, Nigel, just not in the way you think. Clear evidence of charlatans, racists, dodgy dealers and so-called ‘Councillors’ who couldn’t run a bath. We need the media to remind him of this daily, not roll out the red carpet for him to No10.
“Farage rarely turns up to do his actual job. Yet he finds time to jet off around the world on his donor’s private plane and trouser half a million quid while families struggle. Reform are not on your side. They’re just in it for themselves”
It’s so obvious, it hurts.
www.desmog.com/2026/04/18/n...
This is superb reporting by BBC News’ Nick Marsh on spikes in insider trading ahead of Trump’s Truth Social pronouncements and weirdly accurate predictions on the betting market Polymarket. Well worth a read.
“The insider trading suspicions looming over Trump's presidency”
🚨🚨Fascinating @politico.eu report on how Donald #Trump has become so politically toxic in Europe that even his closest ideological #far-right allies increasingly view him as a liability. 🧵
www.politico.eu/article/trum...
🚨🚨Welcome news: European governments are getting #WhatsApp and #Signal out of their system in a move which is part of Europe's search for alternatives to American technology, sparked by fears of being strategically dependent on Washington. 🧵
www.politico.eu/article/euro...
The fact RW parties are desperate to distance themselves from Trump now his brand is ultra toxic is all the more reason their recent proximity to him should be highlighted at every turn. How many benefitted financially from this association? Plus DT chose his Euro ambassadors to spread his agenda.
So much for the self-made tech genius, eh? Nepo baby has a tantrum because he can’t own space 100% so runs off bleating to the tangerine tyrant to take out the competition for him. So far, so on-brand for Musk.
All media should be over this like a bad rash. Sadly though, I suspect it will be like the Trump effect: shrugged shoulders when he makes a dodgy billion on meme coin, but baying for blood if an opponent takes so much as a box of paperclips home or fails to declare a corporate lunch.
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.
It’s the cover up wot does them.
Changing “explanations” and none of the accurate
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I honestly don’t know why every journalist isn’t challenging Tice et al on this stuff. Happy to let the wealthy cheats get away with it whilst encouraging people to punch down on benefits claimants and migrants. A grim compact between an incurious media and dodgy charlatans, what could go wrong?🤦🏼♀️
I find this attitude exhausting & depressing in equal measure. The fact they’ll vote for a party full of incompetent, mendacious, money-grabbing charlatans because closed shops, foreigners etc, is mind blowing. We will all suffer if they roll the Reform dice, but they’re too ignorant to see it.
Photo of researcher in hat talking to pensioner with baseball cap on… Dave Taylor (left) debates the local elections with John Doult, who says he will vote Reform at the upcoming local elections in Swindon (The Independent)
But on a visit to the former railway town last month, the outlook for Sir Keir and his party was bleak. "I'll be voting for Reform - it can't get any worse," said pensioner John Doult, until now a lifelong Labour voter who was among the thousands employed in the town's once-famous car industry. The 86-year-old bemoaned the "terrible" state of the town centre,
“I’ll be voting for Reform - it can’t get any worse”
Oh it really can.
You put a bunch of corrupt, racist, incompetent, lying Trumpists in charge and things will get very much worse.
Potholes and empty shops will feel unimportant compared to the loss of the NHS, social care and a torched economy.
🏫 Sunday School: 🇪🇺 JOIN VENTURE 🇪🇺
🇬🇧 Putting the UK on track to full EU membership.
📺 Why is the BBC pouring fuel on the asylum fire?
🎥 Has Hollywood run out of stories?
With @pimlicat.bsky.social & @sturdyalex.bsky.social.
🎧 open.spotify.com/episode/62Vg...
🍏 podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/q...
Great episode and my wholehearted agreement about the BBC immigration investigation. It was ugly, ill-timed catnip for the RW anti-migrant lobby to falsely malign all asylum-seekers as “cheating the system”. Shame on them. Yet more punching down in the service of Reform.
President of Finland Alexander Stubb,
"At the end of the day, the United States will find itself in quite a lonely place"
My "American Week" for @tomswarbrick.bsky.social's Friday programme on the UK's @lbc.co.uk.
This week: Trump closes in on a peace deal with Iran, but only after his own erratic behaviour raises huge questions about his mental stability.
🎧: audioboom.com/posts/889145...
Mandelson as UK Ambassador to the USA always felt like an, “It takes a thief to catch a thief” appointment. With such a toxic and risky character, it is no great surprise that it has now blown up in everyone’s face.
My live update on Trump's antics so far today, for LBC's "Tonight with Andrew Marr"
🎧: audioboom.com/posts/888773...
Ah, another day the regime demands we doubt the evidence of our eyes and ears: it’s embarrassing and exhausting.
Don't underestimate what a huge defeat this is for the Trumpist project of destroying the EU and establishing ethnonationalism all over Europe.
www.nytimes.com/2026/04/12/w...
He just needs to look in a mirror to find the most volatile, unpredictable person ever. Projecting again?
Blocking the Strait of Hormuz to unblock the Strait of Hormuz is peak Trump foreign policy.
Secondary blocking of the strait that is only blocked now because Iran blocked the previously un-blocked Strait of Hormuz as a result of an unprovoked attack to destroy the uranium enrichment facilities that were reportedly “obliterated” 10 months ago? Genius…🙄
Ah. The cards. David Davis appears to have lent his magic Brexit pack to Donald Trump.
As Hungary votes, would recommend this piece about how Viktor Orban has used public money to bankroll an international ultraconservative network - including Roger Scruton cafes and €10k a month for failed Reform candidate Matt Goodwin
democracyforsale.substack.com/p/orbans-brits
The deputy leader of Reform UK, Richard Tice, owns a property company - Quidnet REIT.
From 2020 to 2022 it paid Tice and his trust £600k in dividends. Quidnet should have paid £120k of tax on those dividends. It didn't.
A 🧵 with evidence from the company's own filings:
With Hungarian elections on the horizon, EU leaders are finally recognizing that this is not simple veto politics, but a sustained strategy of undermining—and instrumentalizing—European integration in ways that benefit both Putin and Trump. Long overdue.
Another one who never knows when to stop talking. We're surrounded by them.
