So Badenoch would recruit a neo-Nazi but *not* someone who didn’t want to leave the ECHR or someone who supported our NetZero commitments. Second chances for this guy but not Dominic Grieve. The Tory party is truly wretched. It’s screwed the country, betrayed its own and lost its tiny mind.

EXCELLENT question!

YeOldeHippie54 @yeoldehippie.bsky.social · yesterday

🔴 NEW 🔴 Campaigners are now demanding a parliamentary investigation into Reform MP Sarah Pochin following a donation to her office by food industry millionaires. 📝 @desmog.com & @goodlawproject.org report 👇🏻

Investigate Reform MP Over Donation, Campaigners Demand

Sarah Pochin, Reform UK MP for Runcorn and Helsby, is facing pressure over a £5,000 donation from food industry millionaires that stand to benefit from her campaigning.  According to an investigation ...

desmog.com

EU wants to wean itself off the teat of Thiel. So should the UK. www.politico.eu/article/euro...

Europe wants to kick its Palantir habit

The U.S.-based data crunching firm is deeply embedded in the most sensitive European workflows, from policing to intelligence to health care. Finding alternatives won’t be easy.

politico.eu

And 25% of voters would put these ridiculous moneyed fools in charge of the govt and treasury, would they? How many investigations into Reform’s dodgy finances are there now? I’ve lost count. And no, it’s not an ‘establishment’ plot. It’s just what happens when corruption/incompetence meets scrutiny

Paul Brand@paulbrand.bsky.social · 3d ago

BREAKING: Parliamentary standards commissioner is now investigating Reform UK’s Deputy Leader Richard Tice (as well as its paused investigation into Nigel Farage). Tice is being investigated for allegedly failing to declare a financial interest.

It’s long been clear that Reform is beatable – Farage’s terrible personal ratings, toxic brand, mass tactical voting against them. The narrative that victory for them is inevitable was based on superficial analysis + wishful thinking on the right.

And that’s despite him painting over Disney murals at a migration centre for unaccompanied children. I mean what more could he have done…

Reform Party UK Exposed@reformexposed.bsky.social · 3d ago

Let’s be clear: Robert Jenrick’s record as Immigration Minister: - Record net migration was recorded while he served as Immigration Minister. - Small boat crossings continued despite repeated government pledges to stop them.

🔴 MAGA’s harassment of Fauci is a medieval witch hunt driven by scientifically illiterate bullies desperate to feed the mob. Any country that believes in modern medicine, vaccines, and reason should stand with Fauci against this tirade of ignorance

The UK should offer political asylum to Fauci

Notes on a nauseating show trial...

open.substack.com

Turn failing water firms into not-for-profit cooperatives, MPs and mayors tell PM

Turn failing water firms into not-for-profit cooperatives, MPs and mayors tell PM

Labour politicians say mutualised model puts public in control without adding debt to government’s balance sheet MPs and mayors close to Andy Burnham have told the prime minister there is a “third way” tlauo gain more control of failing companies, as the row over whether or not to nationalise Thames Water rumbles on. Burnham is said to be concerned about the increase in government debt that Treasury projections show could be a result of nationalising water companies. Continue reading...

theguardian.com

Thames Water’s service has been shoddy, expensive and wasteful. They need to stop moaning and get a grip. Not a penny of taxpayers' money should be used to bail out their shareholders.

Sadiq Khan tells Thames Water to stop ‘moaning’ and ‘get a grip’ | LBC

Lord Sadiq Khan said Thames Water’s bosses and the regulator Ofwat needed to “get a grip” after years of “shoddy service”

lbc.co.uk

It just keeps on coming… Farage struck deal to return as leader long before Sunak called surprise 2024 vote, so his claim that he wasn’t involved in politics when he got his £5million “gift” is, of course, another grubby lie. The man is garbage. Grifting, lying, cheating garbage. (Sunday Times)

A rainbow T-shirt has just defeated the confidence of the Russian state! A court jailed a politician for 10 days over a T-shirt Imagine being so afraid of a few colours that you need the full force of the legal system to fight them

Russian political candidate allegedly 'beaten' and imprisoned for rainbow T-shirt post

Daniil Neonov, a self-nominated candidate for the council of Moscow’s Shchukino municipal district, was arrested on 28 July.

attitude.co.uk

I am so FUCKING OUTRAGED by this I’m going to write to them tomorrow. And I am going to keep going and they are going to hate me. Absolute bastards.

Rob 🏳️‍🌈@rotster.net · 4d ago

Outrageous. It’s definitely not just the National Gallery, though. The employment practices of some of our national museums/galleries are revolting, especially as regards outsourced staff. National Gallery security staff segregated like ‘second-class citizens’ www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...

The press, the Government, BBC, never tell the facts.

Well, they're on their way back to Morocco actually, as they never had any way to reach mainland Spain, let alone the UK, but who needs facts when you're Bobby J the King of Bullshit.

There are no words for the level of shame I feel towards this country.

Defend Our Juries@defendourjuries.bsky.social · 7d ago

Britain today: An elderly woman in a wheelchair is escorted away by the police and risks up to 14 years in prison for supporting terrorism since the Home Secretary proscribed a protest group in 2025. Her crime? She said: "I support Palestine Action and I encourage you to join".

These Reform/Discarded Tory types are some of the most pathetic, puffed up, self important nonentities we have had in public life for quite a while. www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...

Jenrick ducks question on why George Cottrell gave $2m to his mother days before her big donations to Reform UK – politics live

Jenrick questioned about latest Guardian revelations

theguardian.com

Reminder: there's NO legitimate use for crypto. Its only practical uses are tax evasion, money laundering, fraud, specualtion, and crime.

Josiah Mortimer@josiahmortimer.bsky.social · last wk.

Deep in a crypto labyrinth today. One thing I learned is that claims from crypto bros that Reform's crypto donations were 'more transparent' than cash were bogus Reform's crypto donations didn't go directly to them, but Poland-based Radom's wallet It was impossible to see what was going to Reform.

When a politician is either dangerous or ridiculous, they need to go. Neither is compatible with public office. Off you pop, Farage.

And guess what Fartage refused to apologise in parliament -despite evening challenges to by Starmer - and did fuck all

So, Farage has another hissy fit about ‘the establishment’ not including him in social care talks even though he excluded himself by sticking his snout so deep in the trough he triggered several investigations into his insatiable greed. Pipe down you utter clown. www.lbc.co.uk/article/refo...

Reform MPs complain that Farage was not invited to social care reform talks - but his resignation means he is unable to | LBC

The Reform UK leader hit out at Mr Burnham for ignoring his party which 'led over 300 national opinion polls and represents thousands of councillors and millions of Britons across the country'

lbc.co.uk

Earlier this year UKRI launched a funding call to invest £40M in ONE AI lab. www.ukri.org/opportunity/... For some unknown reason they decided to fund TWO AI labs at the cost of £60M. An extra £20M. Just found. That's the equivalent of 7 more years of Jodrell Bank. www.ukri.org/news/ukri-la...

UKRI launches two AI research labs to stay ahead in global race

Two new labs will back British researchers to develop next generation artificial intelligence (AI) systems, helping secure the UK’s position as a global leader.

ukri.org

Astronomer Royal for Scotland | Catherine Heymans@astroroyalscot.bsky.social · last wk.

I'm absolutely devastated for colleagues at Jodrell Bank who found out this morning that funding for the UK's e-MERLIN radio telescope array will be terminated. This is a short-sighted move, to save a tiny fraction of the overall UK science budget. #SaveJodrellBank 🔭🧪 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

The wider issue is the peanuts UKRI is operating with. Under £10bn for the engine of the UK's research in ALL subjects should be a national disgrace. Jodrell Bank is a helpful example but we are losing so much across *every* research field. This underfunding will damage the UK for decades to come.

Robert Falla-Louvét 🔭🪐🚀@lanerobertlane.space · last wk.

This is so stupid and short-sighted. I wonder if Burnham knows they're stripping funding from an iconic science institution in Manchester?! 🔭🧪 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Musk's daughter Viv has something to say to her father.

Farage has said he thinks it’s “absolutely nuts” for CO2 to be considered a pollutant, while Badenoch says candidates aren’t welcome in the Conservative Party that support net zero. Leaders of the civilisational collapse cult.

Farage, tetchy and dismissive… “If that’s the worst thing I’ve done in life - not filling in a form - I’d say that’s not too bad.” Oh but it’s v much not the worst thing, is it? You’re a racist crook. You’ve done such damage to our country to please your billionaire funders, you should be in prison.

Phil Brickell MP@philbrickellmp.bsky.social · 2w ago

Farage struts around lecturing us all about supposed establishment stitch-ups and dodgy elites. But look at what's actually behind him: a cabal of convicted fraudsters, mystery millionaires and offshore fixers - while Farage asks for your vote and hides who's pulling the strings.

150,000 marched yesterday in London for trans rights. Opened the Sky News app. Scrolled and scrolled. Nothing. BBC News app. Nothing. Guardian app. Nothing. This is what actual silencing looks like.

I’m not old enough to remember Wildfires causing such carnage in Europe, I’m over 60.. Right wing climate change deniers like Farage, Tice/Reform, Lowe, Truss, Badenoch etc taking grubby money from fossil fuel Companies need a metaphoric slap❗️ More than 250,000 flee wildfires in France & Spain

More than 250,000 evacuated as wildfires rage in France and Spain

Spain's PM warns of "complex hours" ahead as authorities in France say they are far from bringing blazes burning near Bordeaux under control.

bbc.co.uk

Bozos Is Thee, Welfare Queen.....

There are people who will tell you with a perfectly straight face that climate change impacts are not that bad, nothing to panic and rapidly phase out fossil fuels about. And anyway this destruction is about failure to adapt so it's sort of their fault.

Dr. Prakash Kashwan@pkashwan.bsky.social · 2w ago

"The number of people evacuated in France and Spain has now passed 250,000...Both countries are facing unprecedented blazes that are spreading unchecked despite the efforts of many hundreds of firefighters backed by water-dropping aircraft." www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...