Here it is. My manifesto for the 2026 Clacton By-Election. It's a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. Join me, clean up Clacton and let's make 13th August Bin Day! #VoteBinface #VoteyMcVoteface #YesWeTinCan
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Taught HE for over 25 years, Art School Dep Head/Film/Media scholar/programmer/cinemas/cult/horror/ gothic/folk horror/music/clubs/neighbourhoods/audiences/gentrification/Scala Cinema UCL+KCL Lived opposite Grenfell Tower over 20 years ๐ W10 to WKen London
I have a feeling Reformโs new campaign line may not land. Pretty desperate stuff.
BREAKING: The New Mexico Department of Justice has sued Acting AG Todd Blanche and the DOJ, requesting the court for access to unredacted Epstein-related investigative files that the DOJ has been withholding.
Albert Speer would be so proud! The Times takes us on an exclusive video tour of Washington remade in the image of Donald Trump. It furnishes a perfect demonstration of the psychopathology of fascist architectural design. www.thetimes.com/us/american-...
Inside Trumpโs multimillion-dollar DC makeover โ a visual guide
The president has grand designs for Washington, including a White House ballroom, independence arch and Dulles airport redesign. How much does it cost?
thetimes.com
Russia steps up disinformation before German elections, security sources say Moscow has consistently denied involvement in disinformation campaigns against the West www.lbc.co.uk/article/russ...
Russia steps up disinformation before German elections, security sources say | LBC
Moscow has consistently denied involvement in disinformation campaigns against the West
lbc.co.uk
Using single flawed counter consensus study โTories saw..a chance to implement their most cherished ideological fantasy. They would tell everybody Gordon Brown had crashed the banks, sweep to electoral victory in 2010, & then slash the state to the bone & blame all the subsequent pain on Labourโ
Russ Jones@russincheshire.bsky.social ยท 19h agoMy latest on Substack (free). How one incredibly stupid Excel error broke Britain. russincheshire.substack.com/p/the-spread...
๐ถ Bin Busters! Whatcha gonna vote? Binface! Whatcha gonna vote? Binface I ain't afraid of no Faragistas Bin Busters ! Bin Busters ! ๐ถ
Half of the country is in "exceptionally serious drought" - putting us at more risk of wildfires and threatening our food security. Meanwhile water companies are wasting a staggering 2.87 billion litres of water every day through leaky pipes. Time to end water privatisation.
So Badenoch would recruit a neo-Nazi but *not* someone who didnโt 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. Itโs screwed the country, betrayed its own and lost its tiny mind.
![Badenoch defends former neo-Nazi pick as council candidate
By Will Meakin-Durrant
Kemi Badenoch has said her party
"believes in second chances".
, after
the Conservatives selected a former neo-Nazi once jailed for harassing a Jewish former MP as a local election candidate.
Joshua Bonehill-Paine
posted on social media that he was "tremendously proud" that he has been chosen to stand for election to Somerset Coun-cil, in the Crewkerne South ward.
Bonehill-Paine (inset) was jailed in 2016 after he was convicted of racially aggravated harassment.
He wrote several blog posts about the former Labour MP for Liverpool Wavertree, Baroness Luciana Berger, labelling her "an evil money-grabber" with a "deep-rooted hatred of men".
He was previously jailed for producing an ad illustrated with a picture of the Nazi concentration camp Auschwitz, which promised "an absolute gas" at a rally in Golders Green, north London.
Badenoch said: "I want to be very clear - and I think people can look at me and know that I'm not a person who would be recruiting neo-Nazis.
"Josh is someone who actually has been certified by the Home Office to train police officers on antisemitism and on countering extremism.
"Yes, he [has] previously convicted but he has shown contrition for his crimes, has been rehabilitated and is spending every day working to solve the very problem which he knew that he had caused previously.
"And the Conservative Party believes in second chances."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:c4xtyto7nrklhfkroyrsce2w/bafkreicb7ehutwjwq4iundbhvecrngv57va75dd54vru2qurb7gq2ve3xa)
Somehow Kemi on R4 has just backed herself into the utterly farcical line "come on now it's not a *national* platform - he's only gonna be a Tory councillor, not a Tory MP!"
Liam Hoare ๐บ๐ฆ@liamhoare.com ยท 11h agoIt doesn't say much for the Conservative Party that this is the quality of candidate who wants to stand for them nowโand that they're willing to defend his selection.
Reform UKs plan to use the Royal Navy to intercept migrant boats in the Channel brilliantly taken apart by ... er ... Nigel Farage
This guy is hiding a lot. It would be best if he just say he is a fucked up individual and he is seeking help. Instead, he is tap dancing around it which means he is still terrible. He blames everyone but himself
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com ยท 21h agoTAPPER: The story says when you were picked up for drunk driving, you have ecstasy in your system. When is last time you used illegal drugs? MILLER: I mean, the last time -- I don't know, several years ago? TAPPER: Two? 20? MILLER: This is testosterone replacement theory. Secretary Hegseth ...
This is who the Repub led Senate wants to confirm as the US AG in the next couple days. Itโs not about following lawsโitโs about controlling women and girls with no regard to health outcomes. WE ARE NOT OUTRAGED ENOUGH! We need to flip 4 Senate seats. Please help get out the VOTE in NOV!
RFK Jr's CDC reportedly scaled back foodborne disease tracking last year, removing cyclospora from mandatory reporting. The CDC also lost roughly 3,000 employees since 2025. Now a cyclosporiasis outbreak has killed 2 and sickened thousands across 45 states. "Make America Healthy Again."
๐๐ฅ๐๐๐๐๐ก๐๐จ 51st(actually the 52nd+) person dies because of #ICELawlessness, torture & neglect this year. On 8/1, Edwin Lopez-Cornejo, just 41, died in ICE detention after being brutalized & denied medication by Trump's immigration thugs. It's being done in our name with our taxpayer dollars.
the way he just says it out loud is as confusing as it is terrifying
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com ยท 21h agoRep. Max Miller: "When I was reported for child abuse of my daughter for a broken collarbone, my daughter was in my ex-wife's care 9 out of the last 11 days and she took her to the emergency room, which is a contempt violation from our shared parenting plan."
So Burgum sold this vandalism story to Trump to cover his mismanaged ass and Trump bought it. And Judge Jeanine bought it because that is what the Dept of Interior told the DOJ. Only an idiot would buy this story at face value. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/04/u...
Inside the Oval Office Showdown Between Trump and Jeanine Pirro (Gift Article)
Jeanine Pirro, the U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia, told President Trump that his interior secretary, Doug Burgum, had misled him with a self-serving cover story for his own mistakes.
nytimes.com
A 60 Minutes probe into Epstein's banking, with Wyden already interviewed, vanished right after Sharyn Alfonsi got pushed out under Bari Weiss. Same editor who stalled the CECOT migrant story until Stephen Miller got a say. CBS keeps calling it timing. Sure looks like a pattern.
60 Minutes Epstein Banking Story Vanished After CBS Ousted Sharyn Alfonsi, Dem Senator Reveals
Wyden revealed he was interviewed for the show in a Senate report alleging the country's largest banks turned โa blind eyeโ to Epstein's financial activity
mediaite.com
They refused him medication, brushed off his complaints, and let him die while detained at Delaney Hall. On that day, a young girl lost her dadโand a piece of herself. Heartless monsters tried to cover up his death, but her voice WILL be heard. Justice for Edwin Jovanny Lopez Cornejo! ๐ฅStatusacoup
BREAKING: A reporter asked Mike Johnson at a press conference today, โShould we bother asking you any questions about Max Miller, Trumpโs latest Iran deal, or his Capital One scandal, or have you not heard about any of them yet?"
A second man, Edwin Lopez-Cornejo, has died at Delaney Hall, the inhumane ICE detention center run by private prison contractor GEO Group. GEO Groupโs profits have soared by over 700% since Trump has been back in office. Imagine profiting from death and suffering. Deplorable.
Incredible thread that exposes the people working in banking that enabled Jeffrey Epstein.
Senator Ron Wyden@wyden.senate.gov ยท yesterdayBombshell new report out from my investigators this morning spanning our four year investigation into Jeffrey Epsteinโs financial records. This report shows exactly how Wall Street protected Epstein and enabled his sex trafficking for decades. Mega thread following with some key points:
So tidy that B of A and Chase are also two of the biggest US banks for fossil fuel, along with Citi and Wells Fargo. Investing in harm since....
Senator Ron Wyden@wyden.senate.gov ยท yesterdayBombshell new report out from my investigators this morning spanning our four year investigation into Jeffrey Epsteinโs financial records. This report shows exactly how Wall Street protected Epstein and enabled his sex trafficking for decades. Mega thread following with some key points:
On the same day that David Ellison claims he's not putting his finger on the scale, there's this: "CBSโs 60 Minutes had the scoop on Jeffrey Epsteinโs sketchy financialsโbefore the Bari Weissโrun network fired the reporter fronting the investigation."
The New Republic@newrepublic.com ยท yesterdayBanks permitted millions in suspicious transactions tied to Epsteinโand former 60 Minutes correspondent Sharyn Alfonsi had the story months ago. But the report would never air. trib.al/ZShZlIS
Don't look now, but the world has now installed 3TW of solar. Took 10 years to get from 100GW to 1TW. Less than 3 years to get to 2TW. Less than 2 years to get to 3TW. Analysts expect *9TW* by 2036.
The World Crossed a Major Solar Milestone. No One Noticed
The next phase of the boom may reveal a shift in who is gaining access to the technology.
bloomberg.com
Trumpโs meme coin soared, then crashed 94%โฆerasing billions. Now Senators Warren and Blumenthal want an SEC probe into this blatant scam! The grift never stops. #USDemocracy #RisingBlue apple.news/A7pGbdTcdRdS...
Trumpโs Memecoin Grift Hit With Calls for โScamโ Probe โ The Daily Beast
Two Democratic senators want answers about the presidentโs doomed crypto venture.
apple.news