As Ben Delo's record £36m Reform donation is headline news, I can't emphasise enough that the media ought to be reporting on Delo's heinous funding of antisemitic conspiracy theorists in the High Court – anonymous contributors to the horrifying neo-Nazi account shown below. bsky.app/profile/luke...

Luke Turner@luketurner.com · 5mo ago

I can now reveal that crypto billionaire Ben Delo—pardoned by Trump after a conviction for anti-money-laundering violations—privately funded the failed libel action brought against me by neo-Nazi conspiracy theorists Nina Power and Daniel Miller to the tune of at least £300,000.

that’s it, we’ve peaked. Call it a day, go start your weekends.

Fixed that for you, BBC.

hey, maybe you silicon valley freaks shouldn't have fully aligned with Trump and the other fascists. if anything, the Democrats were way too nice to you.

CalMatters@calmatters.org · 2d ago

Opinion | Democrats have lost Silicon Valley. Here's what it will take to win it back If Democrats want to become the party of the future again, they need to stop treating the people building the future like political enemies.

And that’s not a threat, that’s a promise.

I was interested to see: this is some of what they were up to then (that I saved at the time). At this point, they were well into their race terror campaign about ethnic students blackifying Oxbridge, removing statues and texts, and they’d been on Muslim satyrs lusting for white flesh for five years

“Genuine people”. The dehumanisation of black and brown people has to stop. And BBC News needs to return to being a proper news channel and not just stenographers for fascists. I’m so fucking tired, guys.

Kirsty Grainger @kirstygrainger.bsky.social · 2d ago

BBC News continues to use VoxPops to spread misinformation. "there are genuine people who are at peril at sea and the RNLI are probably not going to get to them". No challenge. No clarification when the clip returns to the news reader. [1.2% of callouts are to those in distress in the Channel]

The cops were telling us three days ago that this was spontaneous.

The Guardian@theguardian.com · 4d ago

Police were told night before Dover unrest that far-right agitators had converged on village

A detail missing from The Times story… the woman who took the photo shared it to a Facebook group called ‘South east patriots’.

Mic Wright@brokenbottleboy.bsky.social · 4d ago

The Times has run a story this morning about how ‘polite’ the masked men in Dover were to three white ladies on a train. Propaganda in its clumsiest form.

What the fuck do they mean 'spontaneous protest'? 1000 people spontaneously taking a walk around Dover with Balaclavas? Look at the social media of every Far-Right organiser in the UK... This was so clearly planned. This tells every Far-Right thug in the country that they have utter impunity.

Ah, 'the British people', normal British Volk, sorry, folks, led under the banner of yet another fascist splinter group, coordinating in secret chats to arrive in all-black clothes and balaclavas, 'the British people', shutting down ports and breaking through cop cordons to get at terrified refugees

flyingrodent@flyingrodent.bsky.social · 5d ago

Same response as we’ve had from everyone who matters for two decades now: no resistance at all, just tying a brick to the accelerator and sitting back in the driver’s seat, reading about how awesome and correct you are in the newspaper.

Story (a)British army cut training exercises to save cash. Story (b) Tony Blair's son leads £2bn deal to outsource British Army training, replacing physical exercises with "Virtual Reality" morningstaronline.co.uk/article/blai...

Blair’s fortunate son may profit from the fortunes of war

NICK BLAIR, Tony Blair’s son, is a key part of a consortium which just won a £2 billion contract from the Westminster government to outsource a big slice of British army training, substituting “virtua...

morningstaronline.co.uk

The Guardian@theguardian.com · last wk.

British army told to halt non-essential training exercises to save money

The Times’ splash today is about a ‘Home Office whistleblower’ claiming only “one in 100 asylum claims are real”. In it, Danny Tommo’s crowd of thugs are described as protestors and it’s illustrated with pictures from ‘protests’. They know exactly what they’re doing.

Just went to buy @gilduran.com's "The Nerd Reich" on Google Books, and discovered that the enshittification is so thorough that it's not safe to do so - I was very close to buying one that's actually AI slop with an identical title and author name. This is utterly insane.

So you're telling me the centrists tried to appease the fash by giving them what they wanted & instead the fash said fuck you & doubled down on voting for the fascists? Damn. Wonder if there are any lessons in this

The Guardian@theguardian.com · 6d ago

Far-right AfD wins key German state election but may fail to secure majority

Sure, and I can tell you that the police know who all of these guys are, not least because they’ve had to fight them on the street multiple times. The cops in Scotland know exactly who all our fascist protestors are, where they live and what their seat number at Ibrox is.

Isn't it strange how the same kind of people keep being lucky with their press coverage and the timing of scandals, and then they get unlucky and have to resign, and the next guy gets real lucky when he needs to be. And how left wingers are just perpetually unlucky?

flyingrodent@flyingrodent.bsky.social · last wk.

LOL yes, Burnham is “lucky” in the same way that Starmer was “lucky”: they are both the beneficiaries of the British press realising they have catastrophically fucked it, and they need a tame, biddable dork to run things while they try to clean up the horrendous mess they created.

Absolutely fucking pathetic

Search for “asylum seekers” and I’m still in 2026

Lee Anderson: I can't answer questions on the allegations because Reform has started a full internal investigation Ranvir Singh: Who is leading the investigation? Lee Anderson: I don't know because it hasn't started yet

Wait I thought cambridge was full of DEI and woke not professors supporting nazi sympathisers

Luke Turner@luketurner.com · last wk.

Worth noting too how Reform's James Orr—disgraced by Verbatim's Channel 4 exposé—leapt to Nina Power's defence (alongside Kathleen Stock) following the damning judgment and her unmasking as antisemitic conspiracy theorist and anonymous contributor to a notorious neo-Nazi account.

A real test now of the media's appetite for Cambridge professors and their ethics.

Pollution levels in London after 10 years of advancing sustainable transport.

Truly one of the best at capturing the haplessness of the British political establishment. Primarily because he indulged in the same crimes as a lot of them.

SMD@anothersmd.bsky.social · last wk.

that's certainly one way to put it

Oh no. Exactly what everyone who knows anything about it said would happen, happened. Oh gosh. Maybe another moral panic will do it? Or maybe we should give "pretending to care but not actually asking the tech companies who are responsible to do anything" another go?

The Journal@thejournal.ie · last wk.

There has been no reduction in underage children’s access to social media platforms, despite legal obligations which came into effect in July 2025 designed to prevent this, according to a new report. jrnl.ie/7149603

This, after the press did some very sharp Noticing of Bad Things about both Reform and Restore, and largely let it slide when the Tories hired a for-real Neo-Nazi - a guy who was jailed for harassing an MP with quite horrific abuse - as an advisor on racism and extremism.

For good or ill, the lads have decided we’re going back to Labour vs Tories, so everything for the rest of the year is going to fit that frame, no matter how hard it needs to be wedged in.

And the biggest howler: Reform’s geniuses in Kent were apparently able to repaint a fence, trim the verge, plant grass seed (and get it to grow instantly), redo the pavement and repave the road all so quickly that the car in the top-right corner didn’t move an inch! Amazing!

It's Official. 2026 is provisionallyTHE hottest UK summer on record. An indisputable fact made x 130 times MORE LIKELY due to human induced climate change. www.metoffice.gov.uk/about-us/new...

Summer 2026 provisionally hottest on record for the UK

The season’s mean temperature was made around 130 times more likely due to human-induced climate change.

metoffice.gov.uk

Amazing. It seems that plagiarism is only a problem for The Times when black people do it

Rachel Rees@rachel-rees.bsky.social · 2w ago

As honoured as I am to see that The Times has picked up my Chagos article practically *word for word*, including my hard-gotten quotes, I’d prefer some credit — or for everyone to read my original FT piece! free link to read the evidently enviable article below (cheaper than a Times sub!) 🌴