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“While each of us (voted Brexit) for different reasons, we all believed that the UK could do a better job of running its own affairs than *unelected officials* in Brussels could." Ben Houchen... November 2020 Six years later 👇👇👇

Europe is the future now www.arguably.uk/p/europe-is-...

This is *the* piece to read on how Brexit became “mouldy bread from the back of the cupboard” and how Rejoin can win hearts as well as heads. Free to read with email sign-up. www.arguably.uk/p/europe-is-...

Strewth

The achievement of Serbian students overthrowing Aleksandar Vučić can't be overstated. In 2024, they began protesting. In 2025, they transformed a protest movement into civil dissidence. In 2026, they became a political party — and two months later, crushed a corrupt state-entrenched authoritarian.

Fact #9. It’s a cascade, like dominoes. Climate risk wipes out insurance markets, which wipes out mortgages, which wipes out property values (unless you’ve got a zillionaire paying cash), which wipes out the economy — a “systemic risk.” Look it up. It’s not pretty.

Just a reminder for Elon et al

“A gaping wound of earth” 🌎 😕 Google illegally knocked down 250,000 trees in Finland to build a data center. @nonewdatacenters (From the Guardian)

“With Trump, always assume the pettiest, most vain, pathetic, wriggling urges and you're probably close to what he's thinking." Why Donald is too ignorant and uneducated to ever get it right when it comes to Russia and Ukraine www.thenewsagents.co.uk/article/why-...

Shocking undercover footage of Reform!

Leaving X has, I'm pretty sure, hit my bookings and career. But it comes at the massive bonus of a) my own mental wellbeing and b) not providing free content for the owner of Starlink:

This is quite extraordinary. I don't think I have heard a more coherent, articulate and accurate deconstruction & demolition of Nigel Farage's ReformUK, Tory & Restore policy than this. In under 85 seconds! @rafaelbehr.bsky.social is on here folks and worth a follow.

Jenrick’s been on quite the journey from a one nation, Remain-voting Tory, through to frothing Brexiter and on to demanding that Royal Marines murder people at sea for daring to seek refuge here. All to impress the country’s racist losers and maybe get a few more votes. Christ he’s repulsive.

Amen.

America right now is the maddest place on earth. Like watching a David Lynch film.

Fuck me

Mark Francois' Conservative Conference Diary mrhenrymorris.substack.com/p/mark-franc...

Losing a parent to Alzheimer's is a double loss and it's bleak as hell. Good people don't joke about things like that. But Archibald Graham long ago gave up on being a decent human being. metro.co.uk/2026/10/04/m...

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I mean, I've heard some decent podcast names in my time but jesus christ.

Currently undertaking a fingertip search looking for the tiniest admirable quality in Jim Ratcliffe. Nothing so far sadly.

This is so true.

This from a party with liberal in the title. Zero moral leadership from either Labour or the Lib Dems on this issue

'Facism thrives when you let it.' Portsmouth RNLI temporarily suspended services after volunteers received abuse following an anti-migration protest. @mrjamesob.bsky.social says it's one of the most 'disgusting' stories he's heard throughout his career.

Isn’t Sir Jim Ratcliffe an immigrant to Monaco? Happy to be corrected on this of course …. And do British people abroad only consider themselves “expats?” And never “immigrants?”

Really is amazing how many Reform and UKIP elected officials have been arrested over years. So unlucky.

At this rate, the first pledge in Reform's manifesto is going to be a Trump-style power of prime ministerial pardons.

📌 ICYMI — Why Reform UK Could Be Forced to Hand Back Their £72m Donations From Crypto Billionaires — @josiahmortimer.bsky.social Christopher Harborne and Ben Delo gave a record £36 million each over the weekend to Nigel Farage's party, but a new law means they may have to take it all back

Needed saying.

Reform Member: The nearest I can think to it is entrapment. It's entrapment. I've heard that word a lot today - entrapment. Undercover Reporter: It's like they are entrapping them with facts...? Reform Member: Yes! 😂😂😂😂😂

You couldn’t make it up -

James Orr and Dan Jukes, two of Reform’s biggest names, have stepped down after Channel 4 and Verbatim’s bombshell investigation last night. We’re looking forward to finding out some of the bleeped names from 18:33 in the video onwards 👀 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aXut3s90rUI

Really striking how overwhelmingly Brexit is rejected by those who never got a vote on it

Net migration is at its lowest level, outside of the pandemic, for fourteen years, small boat numbers are collapsing and yet you still can't move for 'migrant crisis' stories in the British media

"I actually think this is a very instructive thing that Trump is doing by trying to rename Lake Ontario into Lake America, because everybody can see—left, right, and center—that this is not important, that this is just one more vanity project that Trump is engaging in.” @aliciamenendez.bsky.social

🔴Isabel Oakeshott has fiercely defended Nigel Farage's £5m 'gift' from Christopher Harborne. But privately, weeks before the 2024 election, she called Harborne "untrustworthy" - and said she didn't believe he was funding Reform at all. 🧵 democracyforsale.substack.com/p/untrustwor...

Yes, Iceland are an independent sovereign state. Who also happen to be in the Single Market, the EEA and the Schengen zone, with freedom of movement for people, goods and services. But if the UK did that I'd be screaming about Brexit betrayal and being an EU puppet.

Struggling to work out why Jenrick would single out these three Commonwealth countries rather than, say, Canada, Australia and New Zealand, whose citizens have exactly the same rights. It’s a head-scratcher.

Full video: youtu.be/e08AHXGTlWg

Whatever happens in Clacton tomorrow Farage is going to end up looking absolutely ridiculous He wanted to prove himself to be the hero of the hour, taking on and taking down the mythical "establishment". Instead he's going to look like an absolute clown - surrounded by clowns at a clown convention

Trump just released a statement warning that if Abdul El-Sayed wins the Michigan Senate race, “I will be, sadly, the last Republican President!

Breaking: GOP Congressman Andy Ogles, who has said gay people have “no place in America” and “Muslims don't belong in American society,” just lost his primary in Tennessee. He will no longer serve in Congress.

Joshua Bonehill-Paine Self-styled "nationalist, fascist, theorist and supporter of white rights” who was jailed in 2015 for antisemitic online posts.... Selected as a Tory candidate.

It’s a sad day for the Senate Judiciary Committee.

“You can be in Trump’s tent, as long as you accept his version of events.” Is Jeanine Pirro out of Trump's favour after going against the president's claims that the reflecting pool was 'vandalised'?

Somewhat incredibly Badenoch has just been defending this man on the Today programme