🧵1/ I worked in anti-corruption for years before becoming an MP. Nigel Farage has serious questions to answer following the undercover investigation into Reform UK's fundraising practices. This is now for the police and donations watchdog to resolve, but here is what I want to know:

Reform officials ‘plotted to break law on foreign donations’ in undercover film

Investigation broadcast by Channel 4 News shows man posing as ‘impermissible donor’ paying for polling that helped Reform

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If an organisation falls for a sting, agreeing to break the law or act unethically, then "we believe the sting had political/ideological motives" is a weaker mitigation than not falling for it! Some media or external stings may target left or right, other media outlets could try all flanks.

"If there there was a window it was not broken, but it if was broken it was not by Nigel Farage's ball, but if it was his ball he certainly did not kick it, and if he did kick it, it was an accident and he knew nothing about it" said a Reform spokesperson.

Pinocchio remake where he’s created by ChatGepetto and his nose grows after every single sentence

Nigel Farage is very lucky that he didn't know what was being discussed at the lunch where he was discussing it

Adam Bienkov@adambienkov.bsky.social · 23h ago

Nigel Farage filmed celebrating illegal foreign donations Undercover footage reveals plot to break the law by funnelling offshore funds through a UK donor. Donations funded a series of widely reported polls boosting Reform ahead of the local elections channel4news.substack.com/p/exclusive-...

Whenever there is an undercover sting in politics I'm always astonished what people will say to someone they have never met - usually because they think there is money on (or under) the table.

extremely unsafe 5 mile walk while borderline blackout drunk

Whoever decided to promote Coyote vs Acme by letting Wile E do an AMA using only signs deserves all the praise.

Elon Musk claiming to be able to identify "real" Jewish people through DNA sequences is amazingly antisemitic and evil. It is shocking that no one seems to care. not the media. Ds barely talk about him. wtf?

Razzball@razzball.bsky.social · 2d ago

Gonna print this out and put it under wipers on Teslas in Los Angeles

Oh Banksys got me a card.. how lovely.... oh.

More footage from the site. Local media report one HUR officer was killed and two wounded in the Kyiv shooting involving HUR and SBU personnel. SBI representatives and the head of the SBU's Alpha unit arrived at the scene, and the sides agreed to unload their weapons for investigative actions.

NOELREPORTS@noelreports.com · 2d ago

A standoff between Ukraine's SBU and HUR is ongoing on Shumskogo Street in Kyiv, Ukrainska Pravda reports. Three HUR officers were reportedly injured. Police blocked the street, while SBI investigators and the head of the SBU's Alpha special unit arrived at the scene. #Ukraine

Do not speak to the BBC if you are trans. Just don't do it. Tell them to go fuck themselves. Even if you know the reporter and they are not an ass, tell them to go fuck themselves anyway because they work for the BBC and their editors will do this regardless of the journalist's intent.

Cwiar Cymru@cwiar.org · 3d ago

More appalling behaviour from the BBC. ⬇️ A trans person interviewed about their horrific experience having their surgery cancelled whilst in the hospital described as 'biologically female'. And then half the article devoted to praising the work of an unemployed transphobe. 🗣️ DEFUND THE BBC 🗣️

If your grandma does this is it the nanopticon

did anyone write keir starmer yaoi. i know the answer is yes but i dont want to check

I can’t put into words the fury this reporting fills me with. How more indignity must trans people be spoken be subjected to by our national broadcaster?

Cwiar Cymru@cwiar.org · 3d ago

More appalling behaviour from the BBC. ⬇️ A trans person interviewed about their horrific experience having their surgery cancelled whilst in the hospital described as 'biologically female'. And then half the article devoted to praising the work of an unemployed transphobe. 🗣️ DEFUND THE BBC 🗣️

Sadiq Khan fined by fast-track court over untaxed car City Hall says he doesn’t own

Sadiq Khan fined by fast-track court over untaxed car City Hall says he doesn’t own

London mayor convicted under ‘conveyor-belt justice’ system where magistrates can decide outcomes in seconds * UK politics live – latest updates The London mayor, Sadiq Khan, has been convicted and fined for not taxing a 24-year-old car in a controversial fast-track court system. He was found guilty last month under a system that critics have described as “conveyor-belt justice”, with magistrates deciding on hundreds of daily cases and sometimes spending less than a minute on them. Continue reading...

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Saving these Mr Beast book screenshots to a folder. So i can look at them whenever I start feeling author imposter syndrome.

Bob McName@bobmcname.bsky.social · 3d ago

YALL I GOT THE DETAILS AND OH BOY

IMV one manifestation of Starmer's lack of politics, and his general lack of interest in politics, is that he decided to go last week essentially because that's what Cameron did. There's no-one left around him to go 'you will look bad, you can just continue to be a non-presence for four years'.

Ali-John Mirsepassi@ajmirsepassi.bsky.social · 3d ago

While on today's subject: Winston Churchill was am MP until October 1964. Less than the months before his death and NINE YEARS and two General Elections after his Premiership. I'm not sure what he was actually doing in that time.

I wonder what songwriters who raged / laughed / wondered about growing old think about their lyrics now. Pete Townshend did not die before he got old. Paul McCartney is still needed and fed after age 64. Paul Simon knows it is not terribly strange to be 70.

"average ex-prime minister stays on as mp for 5.3 years" factoid actualy just statistical error. average ex-prime minister stays on for 0 years. Edward Richard Georg, who lived in boat & made over 10,000 sulky remarks each day, is an outlier adn should not have been counted

Electing people who are okay woth bringing about the end times as leader of a country with nuclear weapons is a stupid idea. Just saying.

FactPost@factpostnews.bsky.social · 3d ago

Vance: I'm trying to focus on doing as much of God's work as possible. And if that leads to the end times, okay

Dude is totally ambivalent about causing the end of the world. Not a great sign in a leader

FactPost@factpostnews.bsky.social · 3d ago

Vance: I'm trying to focus on doing as much of God's work as possible. And if that leads to the end times, okay

This is the single biggest physics discovery of my entire lifetime. Or something's wrong with one of the cables. One of the two

Michael Greshko@michaelgreshko.bsky.social · 3d ago

BREAKING: The world's most sensitive dark matter detector has announced it has spotted something it can't easily explain: a single event that's tantalizingly consistent with a type of theorized dark matter particle. Very early days yet, but pretty wild. 🧪 www.science.org/content/arti...

Just realised that the longest-serving Prime Minister and shortest-serving Prime Minister both held office under two monarchs.

Today in "altered graffiti is funnier" (From the Pit & Pendulum in Nottingham)

Starmer's gonna be like a retired rugby player and use his earnings to buy a pub

The “Beats off” Chronicles day fourteen: Might as well go for the nuclear option