I dip in to GB News and Talk because it's important to see what they are saying and getting away with.
My impression is that both are pushing the boundaries of "acceptable discourse" well beyond the limits.
Stuff like this has become normal, and it's frightening.
there's a theory that if only Britain exploited North Sea oil we'd be secure from a global energy price shock
which totally ignores (or doesn't understand) the fact that energy prices are global and a rise in UK production (from a declining basin) would have negligible impact on that global price
Farage's lies about people not speaking English factchecked here.
NB Farage also claimed that "four million speak barely passable English" - this too is a lie.
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UPDATE - I have now received a reply from the Greens apologising for the oversight in using my image and quote without consulting me and giving assurance it won't happen again. That's good enough for me, so I won't be taking any further action beyond writing it all up for my Substack
A reminder that Reform's candidate for Gorton and Denton, Matt Goodwin, has still not explained what he meant by this claim that developments in genetic science will make younger generations more right wing as they understand the "inherent differences" between different groups
Churchwarden linked to foreign-born billionaire is behind £200k Reform gift The man whose firm made the donations will not discuss where the money came from, nor his ties to wealthy Farage allies who may not hold citizenship Gabriel Pogrund, Whitehall Editor Saturday January 31 2026, 8.00pm, The Sunday Times Share A churchwarden from Potters Bar who works for the family of a highly secretive, Kazakhstan-born billionaire can be revealed as the man behind £200,000 of donations to Reform UK., John Richard Simpson is a 59-year-old
Why isn't this a major news story?
"But there is accumulating evidence that a big reason these goons hide their faces is to hide that the white nationalist project Stephen Miller is pursuing — like virtually everything else in America — relies on brown people to do the hard work."
Brian Boyd, literary scholar. 17/
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Academics vying for a spot in Epstein‘s world. There are so many. I feel the need to make a thread, so I don’t keep confusing them. 1/
And 33% of those elected as Reform MPs are no longer Reform MPs
Who looks at Trump’s chaos and dangerous stupidity and goes, "Oh yeah, that's great! I'll absolutely attach myself to that!"
When Nigel Farage is calling in sick and even fantasy hiker Dan Hannan is distancing himself from this absurd madman, you know MAGA and its uk acolytes are in trouble.
All of these people - Mogg, Farage, Carswell, Jenrick, Hannan and the rest need to be forever reminded of what they backed and supported
US politicians just seem to bedrock believe that americans care about absolutely nothing except their own selfish interests, and that appealing to their sense of decency ever in any way is a losing proposition and you should never do it.
some background on Reform UK’s latest Tory defector
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Never forget: never let anyone else forget either.
I feel like America plotting to annex Greenland while masked state goons terrorise their own communities at will should encourage British press and politicians to reflect on what happens when you act like "far right" is an unfair slur rather than a necessary descriptor of a real political position.
Donald Trump is if Brexit became president. That's obvious, right?
every provocateur who wangs on all the time about Britain being “broken” should be sent to an actual failed state or autocracy for a month as a learning experience, there’s no shortage of them
Here's what I expect on PNS next May with changes in brackets:
Ref: 26 (+26)
LD 24 (+5)
Con 17 (-14)
Lab 15 (-20)
Grn 16 (+7)
I expect LDs to do better than polls and Greens worse than polls because LDs are better organised and are in many places the established "not Lab or Con" option.
And the reasons for that are not hard to find - Starmer’s unpopularity among left-liberals is the logical, arguably even intended consequence of 18 months of comms and policy which alienates and angers left-liberals while winning over no one on right. This is the cake his team have baked themselves.
The revocation of citizenship is a fundamental and brutal discretionary power of the state.
One of the more depressing themes in recent judgments is how the courts nod-along and shrug when faced with this brute exercise of fundamental power, rather than subjecting this power to anxious scrutiny.
unstoppable force (US/UK boomer need for care labour) vs immovable object (the global g20 rage against immigrant labour)
Jess is absolutely right.
The Court of Appeal’s decision in the Begum deprivation of citizenship case, and the Supreme Courts reasons for not hearing an appeal, are two of the worst legal judgments of recent years.
There are other bad decision, but these were awful.
Streeting: Starmer must go further to undo Brexit Health Secretary hints at rejoining customs union and praises economic potential of EU Dominic Penna Senior Political Correspondent 21 December 2025 11:07am GMT Related Topics Wes Streeting, Keir Starmer, European Union, Brexit, EU Customs Union 3877 Gift this article free Wes Streeting Wes Streeting spoke of the ‘enormous economic benefits’ of being in the customs union and single market Credit: Lucy North/PA Wes Streeting has suggested that Sir Keir Starmer must go further in undoing Brexit. The Health Secretary has hinted at the prospect of Britain rejoining the EU’s custom union as he spoke of the “massive economic hit” the country had taken from Brexit. He told The Observer: “The reason why leaving the EU hit us so hard as a country is because of the enormous economic benefits that came with being in the single market and the customs union. “This is a country and a government that wants a closer trading relationship with Europe. The challenge is any economic partnership we have can’t lead to a return to freedom of movement.”
That would rule out a return to the single market – a condition of which would be freedom of movement between the UK and the EU – but not a customs union. He added: “We’ve taken a massive economic hit leaving the European Union. I’m really uncomfortable with the level of taxation in this country “We’re asking a lot of individual taxpayers, we’re asking a lot of businesses. We’ve got a level of indebtedness that we need to take very seriously. The best way for us to get more growth into our economy is a deeper trading relationship with the EU.” Sir Keir has already moved closer to the EU, striking a new trade deal with the bloc in May that included major concessions on fishing and red tape.
Title: "Streeting: Starmer must go further to undo Brexit"
First few sentences: Turns out Streeting "suggested" this, by "hinting" at stuff.
The actual quote: Turns out Streeting didn't even do that. In any way. 😂
A perfect summary of 2025 'reporting'. ~AA
mass shooting are dramatic and horrific evidence of our desperate need for gun control. they're really only the tip of the iceberg though.
gun suicides and accidental gun deaths kill more people than mass shootings. and they're both also out of control in the US.
Now with the same productivity as the US, “core EU” also has more leisure time, higher life expectancy, less inequality
No matter how you look at it, it is a clearly superior economic performance
🔴Reform UK Builds Towards £40 Million Election War Chest as ‘Billionaires Wait in the Wings’ to Back Nigel Farage for PM
The self-proclaimed ‘anti-establishment’ party took almost four times more from big money donors last quarter than any of their rivals
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Lee Anderson, who makes nearly £200,000 a year, repeatedly calls for benefit clampdowns, and described Britain as a “food bank for the world”...
...claims more in taxpayer-funded hotel bills than any other MP in England, billing the taxpayer for £22.5k in 2024/25 www.bigissue.com/news/politic...
Laughs forever.
I feel like I could live with the brass neck - it is the seemingly successful way that he and others have brainwashed themselves into thinking “our crumbling justice system” has an explanation beyond “we didn’t spend enough money on it” that I can’t stand.
