Boris Johnson on his way back from a party

Kemi Badenoch can't believe Keir Starmer would allow anyone with links to the Kremlin anywhere near government

'Double Standards' Farage

And she often sent me to the corner shop to get 10 Park Drive for her - and a tube of Smarties for me.
For younger readers, Park Drive was a cigarette brand.
I would only be about seven!

Absolutely, Des.

I spent my early years in our pub surrounded by smoky pottery factories so a visit to nan’s in the suburbs was a treat as she had a small garden. There was a
rose bush by the back door which was full of flowers in the summer - I can see it now. And a rusty Anderson shelter too!

My nan(d 1980) had the same cooker and bloomers. I think her wallpaper was from the 40s/50s though, thankfully.

The oldest known image of Keith Richards, published around 1140 AD ...

OMFG I had to go and check that this ACTUALLY happened.

Since when does the BBC ever do chyrons with a political party's branding, rather than their own? Not to mention this is during a pre-election campaign purdah.

(h/t @iainsol.bsky.social)

This dog rescue had a slumber party night where volunteers got to sleep with a dog up for adoption!

This is the kind of place I’d donate my time and money to.

Slumber Pawty! 🐾

I have always felt total disgust for Farage when he and his supporters turned their backs on the European anthem ‘Ode to joy’.

Crikey! (Strong language, I know, but justified...)

The BBC are back to running a live feed on the old Starmer / Mandelson story.

Where's their live feed on whether Refukker Tice can survive his latest tax 'issue'?

🤔

In a nutshell. 😊

Good move!

It’s not that these people still exist. That’s just biology. It’s that they are still being paid to shit in their own hands & start clapping.

Robbie Gibb & his Reform Cabal.

The enemies within the BBC

The Press knew. They laughed.

The Tories knew. They didn’t care.

All I see now is hypocrisy.

Front cover of L’Etranger by Albert Camus

Yesterday we had a journalist post on Threads to say the press doesn't like Labour and holds Labour to higher standards than other parties.

It confirms what we all knew and see every day.

But shocking that someone in the media bubble actually said it out loud!

When Angela Rayner underpaid £40,000 in stamp duty, Richard Tice said it was "morally completely indefensible” and she should resign if she had “any moral decency”.

Now we learn he set up four shell companies that let him avoid paying £100,000 he owed in tax and to then transfer the cash to Reform

My favorite scene from the Bible

“All we have to fear, is fear itself”

“Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall”

“What the hell is a corner store?”

Great Presidential quotes of our time

Nigel Farage: People tell me they've always voted Labour, but not any more The Reform UK leader is expecting a political earthquake' in the local elections next month — but insists the era of Tory defections is over Nigel Farage refused to rule out a confidence and supply deal with the Conservative Party if Reform fails to secure a majority at the next general election Steven Swinford, Political Editor Friday April 17 2026, 10.15pm, The Times

The Times seems to be backing their man in the run up to the local elections. Chummy, unchallenging ‘interview’ that reads much more like a Farage advert.
Free passes handed out on his racism, misogyny, corruption, Trumpism, Orbanism, useless councils, dire candidates, failed Brexit…
Really shabby.

Bereaved family members of Covid victims write to Nigel Farage urging him to sack his Croydon candidate who said COVID was a "staged event" by the US military, with vaccines used to control the population.

Reform has not responded to our story revealing his views

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More than half of Britons support rejoining EU 10 years on from Brexit vote Experts say Labour’s ‘halfway house’ approach risks losing support from progressives and ‘red wall’ voters

Support for rejoining the EU rather than simply rejoining the single market is growing among British voters, with more than 80% of Labour, Liberal Democrat and Green party supporters favouring this option, according to research mapping voter attitudes 10 years after the Brexit referendum.

"The masters of war pretend not to know that it takes only a moment to destroy, yet a lifetime is often not enough to rebuild. They turn a blind eye to the fact that billions of dollars are spent on killing and devastation, yet the resources needed for healing, education and restoration are nowhere to be found." -Pope Leo XIV

THIS IS SO IMPORTANT.

Farage says a woman who has been here for years, is married to a British person and has indefinite leave to remain, will need to apply for a work visa after they abolish indefinite leave to remain.

@chadbourn.bsky.social @sturdyalex.bsky.social @bestforbritain.org

The Brexit delusion is dead – so now Keir Starmer doesn’t need to pretend any more | Rafael Behr To rebuild relations with Europe in a dangerous world, the prime minister needs to win big arguments, not hide behind outdated red lines, says Guardian columnist Rafael Behr

Brexit is an unpopular shitshow, global politics and priorities have changed and there’s now a majority of voters who’ve been resolutely scorned since the Brexit vote.
I dunno. Maybe tap into that demographic and see how you go. Or keep losing to Reform.
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It’s the behaviour of a mobster