Jon Chalk

What is the BBC's justification for maintaining this level of coverage of Reform now it has slipped into third place?

JUST POSTED: A Russian energy giant has secretly moved to acquire a position in a massive Alaska gas project. Its part of talks between Witkoff/Kushner & Putin. But CEO of US company resigns after learning of Russian money in the project. A wowzer of a story. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/23/u...

Hmmm… who to believe… Andy Burnham or the compulsive liar who got sacked twice for lying, lied to Parliament, lied to The Queen, cheated on two wives and ignored the Ministerial Code. Tricky one.

Tesla is waging a pressure campaign casting European safety regulators reviewing its ‘Full Self-Driving’ technology as feckless bureaucrats. Reuters found the automaker’s own safety research can't support its crash-reduction claims reut.rs/4AT9ItC

The Major Social Media Platforms Are All Rejecting Paid Ads for Alex Gibney’s ‘Musk’ (Exclusive)

Madring = stupid, Mickey Mouse kart track totally unsuitable for F1. Assuming the kart track was a badly-designed, non-stop wall of adverts, rather than a racing circuit. #F1 #SpanishGP #RaceFans

Reform UK and Christopher Harborne say the mega-donor crypto billionaire is living in the UK (so the overseas donor cap supposedly won't affect him). Since when? A claim form filed by Harborne in the High Court only this June lists his address as (still) in Bangkok...

Ben Delo isn't just a "billionaire expat" with a soft spot for Farage. In 2022 he was found guilty of serious criminal charges in the United States. American prosecutors said he deliberately built a dodgy crypto platform designed to help people hide dirty money. He admitted as much in court.

Party financing in this country is out of control The government needs to act via the Representation of the People Bill to restrict spending limits and donations👇🏻 Reform receives second £36m donation in two days as crypto investor matches record www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Reform UK's record-breaking donor was accused of running “in effect a money laundering platform”. Prosecutors accused Delo of being the “leader of a criminal enterprise” who knew that his Bitmex platform had become a “magnet for money laundering and criminal activity”.

Madring looks like something Formula E gave up using 2 years ago 🙄 #F1 #SpanishGP #RaceFans

Over six months, we tracked the appearance of child sexual abuse material on X. We found images from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children's database, which is considered one of the most highly vetted and which many tech companies block on upload. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/11/t...

Left: Nigel Farage, "It was great (you picked up the tab for the poll), it worked, boom.. For a modest investment.. Amazing" Right: Nigel Farage to Laura Kuenssberg, "I frankly wasn't listening.. I was just there to say hello"

I for one have had enough of people who can barely speak English, living on benefits, ignoring our laws and wearing weird clothes that cover up their faces. So it was disappointing to see a few hundred of them gathered in Dover today.

With all respect to the BBC, the reason this story "matters" is not about whether it distracts from Reform's conference. It "matters" because it is important our leaders are not conspiring to break the law.

Undercover filming shows Nigel Farage celebrating illegal foreign donations Footage shows a plan to break electoral law by funnelling money from a US ‘businessman’ through a UK donor The donations funded a series of widely reported polls secretly commissioned by Reform

Just a reminder, Professor James Orr, Reform UK head of policy, teaches 'ethics' to undergraduates at Cambridge University youtu.be/aXut3s90rUI

Oops, I seem to have been caught red handed taking illegal foreign donations and being a corrupt sack of shit.

I forgot to mention at the time that this poll was commissioned by Reform and paid for illegally with foreign money. Silly me.

Undercover footage verified by Channel 4 News reveals a secret plot by senior Reform UK figures to break the law on party donations. A leading legal expert is now calling for a criminal investigation. 🔗 Read the exclusive story on Substack:

Chris Mason (BBC) reports on his “interview” with Nigel Farage. It’s not an interview. It’s an idiotic, moany rant from Farage about how he’s being picked on cos he reckons he’s a threat to the establishment. And Mason just folds like a wet cardboard box in the face of this delusional bollox.

WhingeUK …. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

The BBC is promoting RefUK as a govt in waiting, when RefUK have 8 MPs, only 3 elected, the other 5 defected from the Tories. Lib Dems have 71 MPs but are ignored. Ofcom is supposed to ensure impartiality of the BBC - the national broadcaster - so clearly Ofcom is complicit in this political bias.

Professional wordsmiths at the BBC are mixing up their modal auxiliary verbs, accidentally positioning Reform as a government in waiting. The use of 'will' signals the future tense carrying implied certainty, rather than the hypothetical scenario suggested by 'would.' www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Newspapers have devolved into social media accounts. Journalists & critics, fresh from Reddit’s troll school, no longer inform—they personalize and chase attention.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​ Discuss.

Spoken like someone who has never taken a biology class in their life

SCOOP: 404 Media placed a tracking device in a shipment of rare books to see which AI company was buying it. What did we find? It ended up at an Amazon facility where Amazon scans and destroys books. Yes. This is literally the logo outside the Amazon warehouse door. Read now:

A brief note for Nadhim Zahawi.

my latest on the miracle of the MMR vaccine. christinapagel.substack.com/p/trump-and-...

This is exactly how you know the right thing to do IS to remove Infantino….

Italian researchers found that semi-transparent solar panels over olive groves increased olive yields by 12%, reduced water evaporation by 19%, generated clean electricity, and even improved olive oil quality. 🌿⚡🫒 #Agrivoltaics #RenewableEnergy #Sustainability #ClimateSolutions

🔴 Reform UK converted a £630,000 loan from deputy leader Richard Tice into a donation to the party, raising further questions about the origins of the party’s funds. @ollyhaynes.bsky.social bylinetimes.com/2026/08/07/r...

but basically, Tesla had more Clean Air Act violations in May than any other auto assembly plant in the country has had in five years I've been reporting on this since 2019 www.thedrive.com/tech/28338/d... www.thedrive.com/tech/28339/t...

Another glorious vindication of Kemi Badenoch’s impeccable political judgment. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Can electoral lightning strike twice? #VoteBinface #Clacton

This is surely curtains for Farage's political career. I don't think there's any coming back from it. I hope not, at any rate. Looks like there could be a strong basis for a criminal case as well. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

There is simply no ambiguity in what Elon Musk is arguing and endorsing here.

🔴 New from Byline Times How George Cottrell’s Reform UK Network in Montenegro Is Tied to Sanctioned Russian Oligarchs By @nafeez.bsky.social https://bylinetimes.com/2026/07/27/how-george-cottrells-reform-uk-network-in-montenegro-is-tied-to-sanctioned-russian-oligarchs/

@andyburnham.bsky.social

This is grim.

This gives a flavour of the reach, determined and well funded backing the fossil lobbyists have. They send out an average of 2 to 3,000 ‘reports’ every month, these are then cut and pasted into the papers and hey presto. Another avalanche of bullshit for the extreme right to smash in our faces.

Netherlands, today .. That 'dent' in the Tesla windscreen is from .. a cyclist There are now 107 cyclists and pedestrians killed by a Tesla (Cyclist was gravely injured but still alive. Because of the low speed at this roundabout) NOT because of any Tesla braking for people .. )

It's obvious to point out attacks against Muslims get ignored - but still needs repeatedly calling out. An Antisemitic attack should be reported and action taken. But where is the same media outrage, cobra meetings and calling of national emergency when 5 Muslims are attacked?