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Badenoch's two biggest flaws are that she's nowhere near as smart as she thinks she is and is incapable of admitting error. Both well illustrated by this fiasco.
Alex Partridge@alexpartridge87.bsky.social · 2h agoJoshua Bonehill-Paine steps back from being a Conservative council candidate following backlash
A MUST READ for UK residents in Spain when travelling "Valid TIE holders are fully exempt from EES. Use the EU/EEA/Swiss citizens and residents lane, present both passport and TIE at a manned desk, and NEVER use the e-gates" #Euronews #🇪🇦 euroweeklynews.com/2026/08/03/t...
TIE holders in Spain still confused by EES gates
Valid TIE holders are fully exempt from EES. Use the EU/EEA/Swiss citizens and residents lane, present both passport and TIE at the desk, & never use the e-gates
euroweeklynews.com
EU wants to wean itself off the teat of Thiel. So should the UK. www.politico.eu/article/euro...
Europe wants to kick its Palantir habit
The U.S.-based data crunching firm is deeply embedded in the most sensitive European workflows, from policing to intelligence to health care. Finding alternatives won’t be easy.
politico.eu
🇫🇷 Courage Milan Violon, ne lâche rien ❤️ À seulement 17 ans, notre tricolore a subi de violents messages après être devenu le premier homme à représenter la France dans une finale de grande compétition de natation artistique 👏
There is a danger that by arguing the amount, we end up conceding the framing. Britain's welfare is ungenerous, the spend in total is mid-to-low table, and below past peaks. Benefits need reforming because they're unfit for purpose and trap, instead of enabling people. Not to make fantasy savings.
While wildfires rage, oil bosses are laughing all the way to the bank thanks to Donald Trump’s idiotic Iran war. People across the country are facing sky high energy bills. If Burnham is struggling to find the money to help families with those bills, I’d start here.
Sky News@news.sky.com · yesterdayOil giant BP profits more than double due to Iran war - again
Robert Fox, Royal Navy expert: "Operation Fortress shows that Reform is throwing up a smokescreen about defence and security – not a good look as we enter a new stage of threat from cyber, drone, electronic and biological warfare."
I’m a Navy expert – this is everything wrong with Reform UK’s ‘Operation Fortress’
The ridiculous plan to stop small boats by deploying bigger ones is full of holes and a sideshow from the very real issu
independent.co.uk
Anyone who refuses care from a non-white member of NHS staff should be told to pay to go private.
Charles EP Murphy@cepmurphy.bsky.social · yesterdaynews.sky.com/story/nhs-st... stereotypically this has been seen as Old People, but not only would the old people of now have often been born post-Windrush, lot of this will be younger people who've always lived in a diverse Britain. The guy with a pregnant wife likely millennial at oldest
Desertificación NO es el avance del desierto, sino la degradación del suelo, la pérdida de biodiversidad, la alteración d los ciclos hidrológicos. Los incendios forestales son un acelerador de estos procesos. Urge políticas de prevención y restauración #IIFF www.20minutos.es/nacional/esp...
España, en riesgo de desertificación: es el país de Europa más afectado por el desgaste del suelo, según un nuevo estudio de la UE
Más de la mitad del suelo español presenta síntomas de desgaste, según la nueva metodología del Centro Común de Investigación (JRC) de la Comisión Europea.
20minutos.es
8/13 Imagine a migrant boat capsizes during an interception. At that moment the operation changes character. It is no longer simply an immigration incident. It has become a search and rescue incident involving every suitably placed vessel capable of rendering assistance. #SearchAndRescue
A reminder to all NHS staff: you are loved, wanted and appreciated by millions of Londoners, and we collectively condemn the vile racism you continue to experience.
NHS radiographers report rise in overt racist abuse by patients
Survey reveals medics were called ‘monkeys’ and ‘dirty foreigners’, and patients refused to be seen by black or Asian staff
theguardian.com
The state of this. A lovely day out for Badenoch and Philp, playing dress up and making pronouncements about early release schemes - having left the country with one hundred available men's prison places, after fourteen years in charge. You read that right. One hundred places.
1/3 Strip away the theatre and Reform UK is a billionaire-backed project to dismantle the public realm, shred regulatory protections and hand what remains of state power to capital. It’s plain to see – just follow the money.
2/3 Farage accepted a £5 million “gift” from a Thailand-based crypto billionaire, then went on to champion a light-touch approach to cryptocurrency regulation. It’s clear we need a stronger firewall around our democracy.
For this evening - back to #TheHormuzCrisis Trump seems to be becoming more desperate and frustrated. He finally may have seen the reason everyone has treated Iran as they have for the last 40 years is this situation was inevitable. I do not know where this leads - he is too volatile to analyse.
Joshua Bonehill-Paine Self-styled "nationalist, fascist, theorist and supporter of white rights” who was jailed in 2015 for antisemitic online posts.... Selected as a Tory candidate.
The Guardian@theguardian.com · 2d agoFormer neo-Nazi activist selected as Tory candidate for Somerset council election
🔴 NEW Nigel Farage Funder George Cottrell’s Accountant Co-Invested With Russia-Linked Indicted Cocaine Trafficker By @nafeez.bsky.social Read below. ↓
Nigel Farage Funder George Cottrell's Accountant Co-Invested With Russia-Linked Indicted Cocaine Trafficker
The accountancy firm that administers George Cottrell’s Montenegro company, has invested in a property development with the alleged ringleader of the country’s largest money laundering cartel
bylinetimes.com
These Reform lot seem to be in permanent investigation. The complaint related to a Commons debate about Israeli influence and whether Tice should have referenced his register of interests. He did not mention in 22 June speech he had been on a trip to Israel, funded by a pro-Israel lobbying group.
Richard Tice investigated by parliamentary standards watchdog
Tice says the complaint related to a debate on Israeli influence and whether he should have referenced his register of interests.
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Today I have mostly been telling lies about using Navy warships against dinghies and forgetting to mention that small boat arrivals are down 44% and net migration fell by 80% last year.
How come Farage is allowed to hold a press conference, which was broadcast on the BBC?
BREAKING: Parliamentary standards commissioner is now investigating Reform UK’s Deputy Leader Richard Tice (as well as its paused investigation into Nigel Farage). Tice is being investigated for allegedly failing to declare a financial interest.
It just gets murkier The accountancy firm that administers Reform donor, George Cottrell’s Montenegro company, has invested in a property development with the alleged ringleader of the country’s largest money laundering cartel
Josiah Mortimer@josiahmortimer.bsky.social · 2d ago"[Byline] revealed that Cottrell entered corporate finance under a false Swiss identity, hired by the same City network that produced Reform UK’s own treasurer, Mehrtash A’zami. "Byline Times has since confirmed that this identity was stolen from a real person – Cottrell’s old school friend."
BREAKING Reform UK's Richard Tice is being investigated by the parliamentary standards watchdog over an allegation that he failed to declare an interest.
But that would mean I already knew I was going back into politics when I accepted the £5 million, so I'd have been lying when I said I didn't need to declare it.
