I think a lot of people have missed this. Until the police investigation in February last year, Reform UK’s financial structures were all tied up with Cottrell and his Montenegro base bylinetimes.com/2026/07/23/p...

‘Posh George’, Two Passports, and a Fraudulent Identity: Convicted Fraudster and Nigel Farage Funder's Connections to Reform UK’s Murky Financial Structures

Why did Reform UK change from being a privately-owned company to a non-profit company limited by guarantee in 2025? Nafeez Ahmed investigates a fraudulent identity used by George Cottrell – and how hi...

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Yes. If you don't want people speaking badly of you after you die, then don't do the things that make people think badly of you when you're alive.

I made this because as far as I can see nobody else has?

It has been criminally underreported but Kelsey Pfendler has just rowed solo across the Pacific Ocean from the US coast to Hawaii in record time. A 2,400-mile unsupported journey in 43 days, 17 hours, and 55 minutes. Notably beating the Men’s record by 9 whole days.

@ledbydonkeys.org The People of the United Kingdom call upon your service and unleash your creativity exposing Farage’s grifting and dodgy dealings, and assign his false victimhood narrative to the bin, where utter trash belongs..

Just a reminder that from tomorrow EU #petpassports for #dogs and #cats resident in the UK won't be valid. You'll need a UK animal health certificate costing typically between £100 and £350. The rules are complicated and time sensitive so familiarise yourself soon! #Brexit www.gov.uk/taking-your-...

Taking your pet dog, cat or ferret abroad

Take your pet dog, cat or ferret abroad: getting a pet passport or export health certificate, microchip, vaccinations and tapeworm treatments.

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Guardian’s John Crace saves us from having to suffer Makersfield QT: “I can’t be a sexist” Kenyon pleaded. He knew this because his mother and sister were women. In RobWorld, to be a sexist you can’t know any women. It’s just that he wouldn’t want to get in a car that either of them were driving.”

It’s a washout: fighters pull their punches in Question Time’s Makerfield match-off

Andy Burnham takes round one of the big byelection bout while Reform’s Rob Kenyon takes aim at himself

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But who should I believe, Sam quoting DfE data or someone from Spiked on Twitter

Sam Freedman@samfr.bsky.social · 2mo ago

DfE pupil data is out today and shows that the number of private school pupils has dropped 5.6% since VAT was introduced. Not 25% like the independent schools council predicted. Or the 50% we saw in some right-wing papers. 5.6%.

I'm not alone in rejecting divisive + abnormal permaflag symptoms of the Nationalist measles being spread by far-right grifters Raise the Colours If you feel the same + your local council has been weak in responding: a guide to simple removal from deflag group Lower the Flags Birmingham Go fishing🎣

Pssst: We bumped the video upload limit from 100MB to 300MB to make posting bigger videos easier.

We have #hedgehogs 🦔 in our garden: last year a mum with 5 hoglets… Two weeks ago I was surprised to spot one eating and drinking in broad daylight; normally they feed under the cover of darkness. The day after I found him in the garden looking unwell. The vet collected him - and today

@joycomes.bsky.social Nature is beautiful. There are some nice Jacobi pigeons out there that are real. Shame you post AI slop without saying so.

Reform thugs are just UK J6ers - easily deceived, angry, exploited by populist politicians. Just remove those with past convictions from our communities … May I suggest Rwanda? Chagos? How about exchanging one immigrant for one rioter with previous? Give each 1 an ankle tag for 120 months per riot

Peter Walker@peterwalker99.bsky.social · 2mo ago

In a detail which will surprise no one, the first of the "patriots" to plead guilty to offences connected to the rioting in Southampton on Tuesday night has a criminal record as long as your arm, including.... possessing a knife.

the England flags going up for the football don't feel special anymore. It used to look like good craic was afoot when the world cup decorations came out. Now it looks like fascism. you get the flags out when you have a reason. you wouldn't have the christmas tree up all year round!

Awesome. 15MW per wind turbine… London Array (2013) has 3.6MW turbines.. That’s an amazing increase in a relatively short period. Hopefully the technology holds up and the market conditions improve. Would be interesting to see one of these on a Principle Power Windfloat 😍

Mike Meadway 🇪🇺 🇩🇰 🇬🇧 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿@mmeadway.bsky.social · 2mo ago

From Vestas: "The first V236-15.0 MW™ turbine has now been installed at Ecowende's offshore wind farm in the Netherlands."

Turn your rage into kindness 💆🏽‍♀️🫶🏻👏 and show Britain is better than knuckle-dragging thugs. 🌹

Otto English@ottoenglish.bsky.social · 2mo ago

There's a fundraiser to support the charity that helped Henry Nowak's bereaved family. Let's all do something good and chip in to help them. 2wish.enthuse.com/pf/henry-nowak

This Farage?

POV 1: 59.86687, 30.16962 POV 2: 59.865972, 30.178306 (both looking N) Preliminary 4-5 hits. St. Petersburg oil terminal.

Tim White@twmcltd.bsky.social · 2mo ago

5/ It's truly staggering to see how many hits Ukraine has made in St Petersburg - one wonders how Russia's air defence performed so badly. The poor foreign dignitaries can't escape either - Pulkovo airport's been closed for 3 hours now. Here the port is hit - again!

@iaindale.bsky.social Great CQ episode. Please make @iandunt.bsky.social a regular panellist - especially if he’s in a bad mood 🙏

Wednesday's front page: Family's plea for calm ignored Read the full story: trib.al/dNPllzg

Now this is how to write a letter to your local paper.

Have Your Say - Return to sender: Shiplake’s fallen postbox - Henley Herald

Dear Editor, At the tender age of 75 I’m a fan of taking things slowly. Brewing tea, growing roses and taking legal action against my ex-husband are all...

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Vermeer’s Girl With The Pearl Earring will be shown in Osaka, later this year, and the press conference was as Japanese as you’d expect #Vermeer

thumbs up to the japanese for combining two charming icons of dutchness!

Worth appreciating that British unexceptionalism (on every possible side including non British) is itself a species of exceptionalism.

New figures: 2025 was a record year for solar deployment in the UK, as households & businesses respond to the energy crisis by generating their own power. 269,000 solar installations were completed across the UK in 2025, 37% more than the year before, & the highest ever recorded in a calendar year.

Seems like the media has missed the fact the man accused of murder is a founding member of ‘Raise The Colours’. Yet another key member arrested for violent criminality in less than 2 weeks after another member ran somebody over with their van hours before attending the ‘Unite The Kingdom’ march…

It is extremely clear that Reform capped out a year ago at 30% have fumbled their way back down to the low 20s because they cannot be normal and are eminently beatable by whichever of Labour or the Conservatives remembers that the average voter does not have a Klan hood first.

John Oxley@joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 2mo ago

It's absolutely defeatist and wrong to think these are the views of all but a fringe of people, and this stuff presents a great way to drive a wedge between the Ref base and wider voters.

@josiahmortimer.bsky.social did you see this wonderful Welsh lass Impressive Reform qualifications on her wikipedia: Racial slurs, drink driving, demanding office staff sign NDA, involvement in multi-level marketing scheme, allegations of expenses fiddling. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laura_A...

Laura Anne Jones - Wikipedia

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There’s something rotten in the state of the BBC’s political reporting. And unless it’s fixed soon, they will bring the catastrophe of Trump to the UK.