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Oh dear God

Wrote yesterday about the weirdo suing me in Wyoming for $795m. Lots of you offered to help crowdfund my defence. That's very kind, but the lawsuit isn't very serious, it won't cost very much, and I can afford it. Not everyone is in that position...

"Suicidal provocation of Russia while our armed forces are at their most woeful state since WW2". Mate, the Russian army is currently pulling T-55's out of storage and losing ~1,800 men a day in foot and motorcycle assaults that achieve nothing. This is "poke the bear" nonsense.

If you haven’t yet had a chance to see or read Barack Obama’s speech in Cleveland Saturday night, please do both. And then share it as widely as you can. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/wise-and-important-words

I'm being sued for $795m. By a fugitive fraudster. In Wyoming. Using an anti-Mafia law. 🧵

Brexit voter in Makerfield tells Beth Rigby, "Everything seemed better when we were in the European Union. Boris Johnson just convinced everyone that we would be so much better off, didn't he" Another says he didn't make the right choice to vote for Brexit because Brexit ended FOM

All the people in these video clips passed vetting for Reform, Nadine! So much for outsourcing. Might as well do none, couldn’t get worse. www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...

The Indian Army's artillery displays are something else...

Tumble weed across legacy media about ITV's exposé of Reform. Can you imagine the hysteria if an SNP councillor advocated for concentration camps or a Muslim Labour candidate said he wants to shoot MPs he considers traitors? The Mail front pages, Telegraph thinkpieces, and somber Today interviews?

Wait. Isn't that Allison Pearson who got two-year's worth of columns from the OUTRAGE of being merely questioned by police as a journalist? They seem to think that the UK is the USA, Farage is already President, so he can follow the example of their icon Trump and "prosecute" all their enemies.

Hiding in plain sight.

Stephen Kinnock MP: "Nigel Farage said he was going to get some of the rotten apples out from the bottom of the barrel. "But just look at what's at the top of the barrel."

Sarah Pochin on the Reform Party leadership: "They are so chauvinistic... they just exclude you if you are a woman."

A Reform UK official tells ITV News undercover report how to beat vetting, "What Farage has learnt over 30 years in politics, you've got to play the game"

I had a lot of dealings with him when he was at City Hall. Truly an awful man www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-engl...

Extraordinary undercover reporting in Reform by ITV, uncovering what many of its councillors and activists are really like, when they think the cameras are off. A racist party which attracts racist people. www.itv.com/news/2026-10...

A Reform councillor has been recorded calling for King Charles to be decapitated because he “is a Muslim”, while another one said of Asian people: “drag out of their homes, stick them on planes and **** them off to Pakistan.” It’s part of an undercover investigation by ITV Exposure

Businessman in the Eye: Tax exile Ineos boss Sir Jim Ratcliffe loves complaining about anything – from high energy prices to taxes – that doesn’t suit him. But he’s more forgetful about the British economic policies and fortuitous conditions that have bestowed vast riches on him.

I was on the telly.

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People voted to leave the EU because they were fed up, often for reasons that had nothing to do with the EU. And there was no agreement on what Brexit would look like. The country has moved on since 2016. Politicians need to catch up. @pimlicat.bsky.social on LBC

Pollsters Redfield and Wilton, which have consistently produced some of the highest figures for Reform of any firm, employed a senior aide to Farage to oversee their political polling, without disclosing his role. A second Farage aide was also used to place exclusive polling by R+W in the press

Andy Burnham confirms what previous PM's - May, Johnson, Truss, Sunak and Starmer - failed to, that Russia interfered in the Brexit referendum.

That 'Keminaissance' in full

"People are looking through the shop window and they like what they see..." says Kemi Badenoch, of the Conservative party, which is currently polling at its lowest level in its entire history

The door has - finally - been opened. The taboo has been smashed. EU membership is back on the table. It’s time to make it the closing paragraph of this new chapter in UK-EU relations. encompass-europe.com/comment/a-pi...

Andrew Griffith delivers one of the all time rhetorical stinkers. My Tory conference SKETCH. thecritic.co.uk/an-h...

Welcome to Toryland, where victory is inevitable. My SKETCH. thecritic.co.uk/welc...

Cutting jobs at the Environment Agency after a summer of wildfires. Which would never raise the £700m Kemi claims. How much do the Tories think EA staff get paid? All to subsidise childcare for six figure earners. Utterly delusional

Reform UK’s ‘Small Boat Watch’ app is in flagrant violation of both Google Play and the Apple Store’s rules. Send an email to the Apple’s Head of the UK App Store and the General Manager of Games on Google Play to demand that this app is removed immediately.

Truly vile. At a public event, Mike Graham mocked Andy Burnham’s father for having Alzheimer’s, less than three weeks after Roy Burnham died and apparently on the day of his funeral. Just the lowest of the low.

The Conservative party Shadow Culture Secretary to speak at conference tomorrow about how to "defend press freedom", whilst her own party bans journalists whose coverage they don't like

On LBC talking about Kemi Badenoch's banning of @bylinetimes.bsky.social from Conservative conference after calling such bans of journalists by Reform UK "authoritarian" and an assault on free speech www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ps4T...

Was just on LBC with @mrjamesob.bsky.social to discuss Kemi Badenoch's banning of @bylinetimes.bsky.social from attending Conservative conference after calling such bans by Reform "authoritarian" and an assault on free speech bylinetimes.com/2026/09/30/k...

"It is hard enough to be a carer for your own loved ones. The tenderness I dispensed to my mother, came from a battery she had charged with five decades of love. Being able to muster the energy and patience it takes to care for a complete stranger... Well, it's magical. It's a sort of superpower."

🚨 NEW POLL 🚨 🇪🇺 Committing to EU membership could be the difference between a Labour-led and Reform-led government at the next election. A commitment to EU membership could bring the Labour Party to 321 seats, just five short of a majority in the House of Commons, the study found.

I had a massive bust-up over North Sea gas and oil with Lord Jackson on Politics Live today. "It shocks me to the core that sopmeone so ignorant, so ill-informed, sits in the House of Lords." I just wish I could figure out how to clip it. From 20'47" www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

YouGov’s latest poll shows that 628 constituencies want to rejoin the EU. Only 4 don't. It’s time to talk about EU membership. https://bestforbritain.org/uk-membership-most-popular-eu-policy-in-all-uk-seats-bar-four-megapoll-finds/

I wonder what the local vicar and Piddington church goers make of all this, what with being the guardians of morality, compassion and all the other goodness in the human condition...

A reminder that the "generosity" he refers to here follows Nigel Farage announcing Crypto tax policies that would net them both hundreds of millions of pounds in additional profits

🚨 The headline numbers are large: a 53.8% decline in export product varieties to the EU and a 16.5% fall in export values (meaning that fewer types of products are now being sold by UK firms to the EU). Creating trade barriers with your largest trading partner is economically illiterate.

Crypto billionaire Christopher Harborne has now matched Ben Delo's record-breaking £36m donation to Reform, months after Nigel Farage's party promised to slash crypto sales taxes in half Reform UK is now a wholly owned subsidiary of the crypto industry www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/reform-uk-...

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”.

Young women were beaten on the floor of the Reform UK conference and senior politicians responded with 'boo hoo'. Let's be clear: you cannot condemn violence women and girls in one breath, then condone it in another.

The ‘British values’ brigade in action.