What this map shows is, as with UKIP and BXP, Reform is strongest in areas with few graduates and a lot of old people.

There are enough Commons seat that look like that for them to win 100-200 seats but not win a majority.

So why are we in the UK allowing Palantir - closely allied with Musk’s DOGE - access to our NHS data?

I'd suggest that "US regime-adjacent oligarch" is a rather gentle way to describe Peter "I no longer believe that freedom and democracy are compatible" Thiel.

A point not made enough: the UK runs a trade goods deficit with the US so shouldn’t be paying any tariffs at all based on the White House formula (10% is not a “win”).

Lithuanians in Vilnius paid more respects to the 4 American troops who died in Lithuania than Donald Trump…who ran off to go golfing.

Objectively amazing.

I mean, I know Frank Mançois thinks he personally won WWII by tearing documents live on telly in 2019, but there is no way EVEN HE did not know this about his actual opposite number. So, what did he think the response would be?

I'd have decked him, tbh.

me: that's it. there's no more shock. i am unshockable. i have entered a state of zen.

also me two minutes later: ZOMG WTAF GMAFB

Memories of "Spycatcher".

Abolish the Home Office

I notice @hopenothate.org.uk have recorded Pete North as spurning Homeland (as too extreme) in 2024. And yet he's now working with them.

Billionaires at Trump’s Swearing-In Have Since Lost $210 Billion As Donald Trump took the oath of office on Jan. 20, he was flanked by some of the world’s wealthiest people. The billionaires present that day — including Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos and Mark Zuckerberg — h...

NEW: Five of the billionaires who attended Donald Trump's inauguration have lost a combined $210 billion in wealth since then, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index

Since taking over DOGE, Elon Musk has lost more of his own wealth than DOGE has managed to save from the budget.

I haven't seen any coverage on TV news. Has there been any?

I have all series on DVD 👍

Super!

A good summary, well worth your time to listen.

Needs added "farting" chairs. 😇

Fewer than half of British people can name the 2022 British PM with a 5-letter surname starting with T. Politics can be more brutal than showbusiness sometimes.

Michelle Mone branded liar in explosive TV documentary over £200m PPE scandal Mone and her billionaire husband Doug Barrowman are being probed by the National Crime Agency over a £203million deal to supply NHS equipment during the pandemic.

Channel 5 documentary on Michelle Mone tomorrow at 9 - "ex-colleagues and government officials accuse her of lying throughout her career" www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/scottis...

The 'majority' of Edinburgh's 15 private schools have lost pupils after VAT changed, reports The Times. It also gives the aggregate totals - 33 secondary school pupils and 18 primary school pupils. The average is 3 pupils from each private school to date.

E AF Post @AFpost. 14h Meta's Zuckerberg says most companies need more "masculine energy" and have been neutered by "feminine energy. Follow: @AFpost

Even if i didn't think it was BS, I'm not being lectured on 'masculinity' by a sentient toilet brush that got rich by inventing online stalking

Is it just me, or does the gold paint on the spikes of these railings by the Necropolis in Glasgow make them look remarkably like half-peeled bananas?

#glasgow #ironwork #necropolis #bananas #railings #keepglasgowweird

"refreshing" 🤔

I bet it's a segue into "We needed a plan just like Reform".

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