President Donald Trump and Reform UK leader Nigel Farage at CPAC in 2018. Credit: Shealah Craighead / White House (Public domain) Reform UK leader Nigel Farage has accepted more than half a million pounds from foreign companies, governments, and donors while serving as an MP, DeSmog can reveal.

Reform UK's former leader in Wales, Nathan Gill, jailed over pro-Russia bribes The former MEP had pleaded guilty to eight counts of bribery Dan Haygarth • Friday 21 November 2025 15:42 GMT TREASON. Involving Russia - our greatest threat and enem...

The total tax Tice's companies are known to have avoided through onshore and offshore entities, or failed to pay, in relation to Quidnet now amounts to almost £800,000.

Reform hopeful said Nazis were 'real visionaries' Fintan Hogan, Constance Kampfner - Northern Correspondent Nathaniel Menday has described himself as an ethno-nationalist Reform UK has been accused of "systemic failure" in its vetting after candidates were found to have described the Nazis as "real visionaries", complained immigrants bred "like rats" and encouraged Southport rioters to burn down a mosque.

Incredible really that our media and political landscape is dominated by crisis about Starmer’s fitness for office, while it simultaneously paves the way for corrupt, racist Reform to take power.
Do we actually care about integrity at all? Because if we did… this shitshow wouldn’t stand a chance…

And yet not, it's been pretty clear for months that Polanski is a telegenic but unserious politician.

Better or worse than Melania? I managed 6.4 minutes of that before deep diving the drinks cabinet. Razzies are going to be wild this year.

No, I have lived in inner cities where it's been an enlivening advantage. Want to talk about that?

His family left him behind but he never stopped waiting for them to come back.

But that was his past. Look at him now. Perfection

Oi! Half my job is trying to persuade sellers that their ludicrous over-estimates are going to be sat on the market for months. Also, fair.

Publically announcing his appt before the vetting even starts is a pretty big "I want this guy" nudge.

An Invention of Collective Nouns   A reckoning of spreadsheets. A distraction of smartphones. A prattle of podcasts. A mispronunciation of scones.   A clique of photographers. A heard of precedents. An enjambment of poets. A grope of presidents.   A pile of haemorrhoids. A bunion of personal trainers. A bout of estimations. A condescension of mansplainers.   A stroke of geniuses. A spot of adolescents. An embarrassment of Richards. A collection correction of pedants. Brian Bilston

Today’s poem is called ‘An Invention of Collective Nouns’.

Don't ban them, debate the everliving shit out of them and show why their slogans are empty. That's kind of the point of a uni education.

So late?

So if Trump was awarded the Nobel Prize a Democratic congress could veto...

Video of Muslim women calling for Brighton beach to be dog-free is AI – Full Fact A fake video that appears to show two women wearing niqabs saying “the UK has too many dogs” has been viewed over 1.7 million times, with many people seemingly thinking it is genuine.

A video viewed over 1.7 million times appears to show an interview with two Muslim women saying people shouldn’t bring dogs to the beach.

It’s generated a huge amount of negative engagement and comments, but it’s fake. It’s been created with AI.

Political appts as HMAs are always going to have this problem. Ordinarily, one imagines, vetting would have happened much earlier in an FCDO career and failures just wouldn't make it to the ambassadorial shortlist. That the PM thought Mandy would pass one is the bigger question.

Do NOT speed read that sentence.

Although OT God would probably add "Fries with that?"

They moan that Western women take them for a financial ride then go somewhere the only thing they can offer women is a financial benefit - or do they really think their sluggy bodies and ill-educated thoughts are appealing to women 1000x out of their league if you remove the $$?

This is not a difficult situation. I'm an extremely lapsed Catholic at best and I have no problem at all choosing the Pope above Trump. One of them is a good and holy man, and the other is a grifting narcissistic vengeful selfish lying rapist. If this is a tough choice for you, look inward.

Not even the finest mustard in all the land can save that .

An alien from Planet Oblivious could tell PM was not HMA material. I would it were not so but the gross lapse of judgement was wholly Starmer's.

THIS is the technology the people want. stop trying to summarize my emails for me and give me an in-home pasta printer

Thank you for answering. I know understand better.

Struggling to see how what she was wearing /how much to drink is relevant to whether the man raped her. Does being blind drunk and in a itsy bitsy teeny weeny bikini count as consent?

I don't know why this is so hard for some people to grasp. If we extend our use of fossil gas, rather than going all-out for grid batteries, heat pumps and induction hobs, we extend our dependence on *foreign* sources of gas, regardless of whether we also use the UK's last remaining reserves. 🧵

It’s been an eventful day. Steve has seized Rome. He’s not sure how, or what to do next.

Donald can end the war any time he wants. Same option that is available to Putin

Am occassionally in London, south zone1/2. On last visit over just one week-end I saw it happen twice.

At least you got to vote for/against him. 0.9% of the world inflicted him on the other 99.1% and we all get to suffer.

There should absolutely not be any <18 carers but it is also not unreasonable to expect adult family members to do the bulk of caring for other close family members - in France it is a legal obligation, although backed up with fairly strong community support.

Quote from Ed Davey which reads: “This is a grave and era-defining moment for the world. Donald Trump is making wilder and increasingly concerning threats by the hour. “If Trump follows through with this, Keir Starmer must immediately recall Parliament. The Prime Minister must also withdraw US access to UK bases now. “MPs must be given a chance to hold the Government to account and prevent the UK from being complicit in war crimes and breaches of international law.”

If Trump follows through with his wilder and increasingly concerning threats, Keir Starmer must immediately recall Parliament.

The Prime Minister must also withdraw US access to UK bases now.

This is a grave and era-defining moment for the world.

A lovely man and true sprotsman. RIP