Reform’s electoral record at parliamentary by-elections: win by five votes when the previous Labour MP had literally decked one of his constituents. Lose. Lose. Lose. Lose. Lose. Beat a novelty candidate with no ground game while doing worse than the Tories in the same seat in 2019.
The rule of criminals for the benefit of criminals. It is truly insane that around a third of the people in the US still support this mafia regime. The right-wing media brainwashing machine is incredibly effective.
YAC News@yacnews.bsky.social · yesterdayTrump delivers victory for transnational organised crime: shuts the shell company registry and deletes ownership records www.yacnews.com/trump-delive...
Not to be some wild-eyed innocent, but I think it should be slightly bigger news that The Lancet have crunched the numbers and found that Musk's USAID cuts will kill 14 million people. And that's just by 2030. That's 9,600 people a day, every day, until the next world cup rolls around.
Jørgen Heszlein@heszlein.bsky.social · 3d agoNew estimate of Elon Musk’s death toll just dropped www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
I came first in the Clacton by-election! Of the candidates who bothered to turn up for the results. Here is my victory speech!
Shit, do you really think the guy who lies about everything would just go and lie about that?
Harry Taylor@harrytaylor.bsky.social · 19h agoAstonishing. The Press Association understands Essex Police did not tell Nigel Farage, or any other Clacton candidate, not to attend the count. This is after after his and Reform UK's claim Essex Police advised him against it due to a "credible threat".
Leaked Reform UK training videos seen by Byline Times reveal that Nigel Farage’s party activists are being told to avoid drinking and tweeting because its own members are “the biggest threat to Reform” My latest for @bylinetimes.bsky.social: bylinetimes.com/2026/08/11/r...
Reform UK Tells Its Activists ‘Don’t Drink and Tweet’' Because 'The Biggest Threat to Reform Is the People in It'
EXCLUSIVE: "If this was sat on the desk of an anti-Reform journalist, what are they going to do with it?” the leaked internal training course warn its members
bylinetimes.com
I think the thing about executive pay is that you do have to baseline it, so for context Thames Water's base pay for the CEO and CFO are about 25% higher than what Games Workshop pays in base pay to its executive team who have successfully tripled the revenue of the company and got it in the FTSE100
Best for Britain@bestforbritain.org · 4d agoThe same company that's struggling with a mountain of debt.
The frightening logic of Blue Labour: Glasman, Rutherford, McSweeney, Mahmood,Cowley, Collier all praise the 'Danish' model and end up in bed with Meloni. European values from the French revolution onwards are liberty,equality and solidarity. 'Faith,flag and family' is a Mussolini slogan.
Jonathan Portes@jdportes.bsky.social · 4d agoThere has been a converted attempt here (including by the current Home Sec) to promote the "Danish model" of anti-immigrant policy as being somehow consistent with social democratic/progressive values. So we should welcome this mask-off moment from the Danish PM.
More than half of accounts posting about violence in Belfast & Southampton on X were based overseas. Only 4 of the 12 most-seen posts were from the UK. X is now "“a weapon of choice” for hostile foreign actors seeking to manipulate shocking & divisive content". www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...
Your regular reminder that there is an elections bill before parliament that is currently pretty thin but which could actually legislate to stop this happening in the U.K…..
Henry Mance@henrymance.ft.com · 5d agoWhat a bonkers statistic as.ft.com/r/3b0a9bd3-a...
Hahahaha. Farage now whining that he was badly advised by his overpaid team into calling his stupid by-election. Confirming then that he’s incapable of working it out for himself. Too busy counting his money. Honest to god, Clacton. Don’t be the constituency dunces he needs you to be. (Times)
Missing jigsaw piece: the (former) Nazi now runs a popular satirical website where Badenoch is treated as some sort of cross between Boudicca & Margaret Thatcher while Labour & even Reform are constantly mocked. So this whole sorry mess is just another symptom of her being terminally online.
James O’Brien@mrjamesob.bsky.social · last wk.Another glorious vindication of Kemi Badenoch’s impeccable political judgment. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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
Former neo-Nazi activist selected as Tory candidate for Somerset council election. Convictions for assaulting police officer, burglary of a police station, malicious communications, anti-semitism, racially aggravated harassment, harrasing MPs. Tories chasing Reform vote.
Former neo-Nazi activist selected as Tory candidate for Somerset council election
Joshua Bonehill-Paine, creator of satirical Crewkerne Gazette, has convictions including for harassing a Jewish MP
theguardian.com
England received only 7% of the long-term average rainfall for July. Southern England, just 1%. Factoid: There has been a weather station in Kew Gardens for 155 years. This July was the first month ever to record 0mm of rain. Tomorrow, London will again hit 30C+ www.theguardian.com/environment/...
July set to be driest on record for England and Wales after relentless heatwaves
Climate scientist urges better planning as southern England had just 1% of long-term average rainfall last month
theguardian.com
@gabrielpogrund.bsky.social: ‘EXCLUSIVE Nigel Farage struck secret deal for return as Reform leader months before election — challenging claim he wasn't involved in politics so didn't need to report gifts. In May 24 he showed deal to treasurer, who tonight acknowledged its existence’
Nigel Farage struck Reform comeback deal long before election
Supervised by the convicted fraudster George Cottrell, the agreement undermines Farage’s claim about when he decided to return to politics
thetimes.com
It’s now official: June–July 2026 was the most anomalously warm two-month period ever recorded in France by a staggering margin. France is now virtually certain to record its warmest summer on record.
Geopolitics and Security Studies Center analyst Dionis Cenusa on the Ceuta crisis: “The timing chosen for this hybrid warfare operation was not accidental… 1/
If your vote is undecided in the Clacton by-election this might be the clincher for you
The BBC treats climate change as a political subject, which it is not. This gives them the excuse of "both sidesing" an overwhelming scientific consensus and outright lying. It is a propaganda machine downplaying a deadly emergency and questions need to be asked at the highest level as to why.
Michael E. Mann@michaelemann.bsky.social · 2w agoI was not informed by the BBC that they would have a right wing political figure or lobbyist on after me to rebut what I said. The individual in question went on to spout lies about China, etc. to distract attention from the Trump administration's assault on climate action. This is unacceptable.
If future historians exist (& that’s a pretty precarious IF) they’ll write endlessly about the psychological conditioning that left BILLIONS of people feeling ‘powerless’ when a handful of elite psychopaths decided to trade a liveable planet for a bit more meaningless wealth.