Radio 4’s PM similarly gave way too much airtime to the story, interviewing a Reform spokesman (but no one else). Compare with #C4News, which set this unworkable nonsense firmly within the wider context of scrutiny of Farage’s and Tice’s financial affairs. It really is far superior to BBC News.

This is why people such as Farage and Braverman must be kept out of power. They are vicious, dishonest sociopaths with no regard for facts, truth or the basics of political decorum.

"Dear Diary, had an enjoyable day stirring up my ignorant base by pretending that migrants on a Spanish territory in North Africa will somehow be arriving in Dover any time now"

Probably too soon to tell if the party is over for Reform but if it is, few will resist a smirk at the fate of those ex-Tories - Jenrick, Braverman, and Lincolnshire Mayor Andrea Jenkyns - who fled their own failings in govt by rushing to Farage’s unctuous embrace. uk.news.yahoo.com/collapse-far...

Collapse in Farage’s approval rating could spell the end for the Reform revolution

ANALYSIS: Nigel Farage has weathered various political storms, but political editor David Maddox explains why this crisis might be different

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Probably too soon to tell if the party is over for Reform but if it is, few will resist a smirk at the fate of those ex-Tories - Jenrick, Braverman, and Lincolnshire Mayor Andrea Jenkyns - who fled their own failings in govt by rushing to Farage’s unctuous embrace. uk.news.yahoo.com/collapse-far...

Collapse in Farage’s approval rating could spell the end for the Reform revolution

ANALYSIS: Nigel Farage has weathered various political storms, but political editor David Maddox explains why this crisis might be different

uk.news.yahoo.com

The way some of our media have handled the defining crises of our age - Brexit, Covid, global heating - and the air time they gave to bilious, stupid rabble-rousers should remain a source of grim shame.

Nothing new about celebrities, cushioned by wealth and ego, turning sour or nasty with age but the writing with Cleese was on the wall a decade ago when he came out for Brexit.

Nothing new about celebrities, cushioned by wealth and ego, turning sour or nasty with age but the writing with Cleese was on the wall a decade ago when he came out for Brexit.

Out of Frost, Liz Truss and Daniel Hannan, I’m never quite sure which has the least self-awareness.

We all remember the owner of Wetherspoon’s, Tim Martin, putting pro-Brexit propaganda in his pubs a decade ago. Astonishing that he would campaign to harm his own business model in this way but here we are. www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Wetherspoon’s issues fourth profit warning in seven months

Pub chain blames worse-than-expected sales on rising costs for workers, food, energy and property taxes

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We all remember the owner of Wetherspoon’s, Tim Martin, putting pro-Brexit propaganda in his pubs a decade ago. Astonishing that he would campaign to harm his own business model in this way but here we are. www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Wetherspoon’s issues fourth profit warning in seven months

Pub chain blames worse-than-expected sales on rising costs for workers, food, energy and property taxes

theguardian.com

Not sure we need the Daily Mail to put us on our guard against Burnham given its obsequious fêting of Liz Truss but thank you anyway…

Not sure we need the Daily Mail to put us on our guard against Burnham given its obsequious fêting of Liz Truss but thank you anyway…

Burnham’s right: the cost‑of‑living crisis is hitting people & families hard. There’s a simple way to start fixing it - repair our broken relationship with Europe. Burnham should scrap Labour’s Brexit red lines, urgently negotiate a new customs union & re-join the single market.

I wouldn’t normally but Argentina were so graceless on the field and in defeat…

I wouldn’t normally but Argentina were so graceless on the field and in defeat…

The same folk who claimed foreigners had undue influence over us so we had to vote for Brexit. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Trump administration to grant $12m to groups founded by UK conservatives Jacob Rees-Mogg and Toby Young

Exclusive: Controversial grants are part of package criticised as misuse of public money to influence European politics

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The same folk who claimed foreigners had undue influence over us so we had to vote for Brexit. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Trump administration to grant $12m to groups founded by UK conservatives Jacob Rees-Mogg and Toby Young

Exclusive: Controversial grants are part of package criticised as misuse of public money to influence European politics

theguardian.com

Andy Burnham once described Proportional Representation as "an idea whose time has come". He has called for a "new kind of politics" based on "problem-solving" not "point-scoring". Now is his time to show he means it and introduce a fair voting system.

This graphic showing the extraordinary increase in the UK average temperature over the last 65 years tells its own story

Demonstrating once again that Reform isn’t truly about reform at all but about stasis, denial, vested interests and nostalgia. It’s a refuge for people who cannot face the real world. www.standard.co.uk/news/london/...

Reform UK-run London council reverses climate emergency declaration to save money

Nigel Farage’s party running Havering Council declares it will ‘not pursue environmental or net zero-related policies in a way that places unnecessary cost, restriction, or pressure on residents’

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Nigel Farage has sent an email to Reform UK supporters tonight saying “we don’t know whether there were any political motives” behind Ann Widdecombe’s murder. But police have already ruled that out, saying there was “no information” to suggest the murder was “politically motivated”.

Farage called an unnecessary fight. All the opponents have shrugged and walked off, except Count BinFace. Farage is therefore forced, under the rules of the fight he called, to spend six weeks arguing with a bin. Serves him right...

FIFA to expel Belgium before kick-off as Trump wants early night.

FIFA to expel Belgium before kick-off as Trump wants early night.

Here I am in happier times with best buds Nathan Gill, now in jail for taking Russian bribes and George Cottrell, who went to prison for fraud then paid for my staff, security and social media and let me stay in his house near Buckingham Palace.

Telegraph : "Godfather of people smugglers living in Leicestershire after being jailed in France" Brexit : "The UK will forfeit access to EU shared security systems"

Russell England @russellengland.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Yep, Brexit made us less safe "Today's deal confirms the UK will automatically forfeit its membership of Europol, Eurojust, the European Arrest Warrant and real-time sensitive data-sharing agreements such as Schengen Information System when the UK exits the transition period on 1 Jan" 24 Dec 2020

The capacity of this stupid party to deny reality at every level is astonishing. It’s a repository for fantasists.