Ricky Martin
@prm1885.bsky.social
Welsh, Scouse, Londoner, Blue, NSNO, Red, COYW, Humanist, Celebrant.
Calling a by-election over the sovereign right of every MP to take secret gifts from a convicted criminal. What a time to be alive.
Matt Goodwin thinks former refugees shouldn’t be running things. Has he told Nadhim Zahawi?
Matt Goodwin thinks former refugees shouldn't be running things. Has he told Nadhim Zahawi?
The Reform rabble-rouser is furious a refugee is Lord Mayor of Bristol. But his story is remarkably similar to that of the former chancellor, now in his party
thenewworld.co.uk
I saw this referred to as the Strait of Warm Ooze. Very good.
The deputy leader of Reform UK, Richard Tice, owns a property company - Quidnet REIT. From 2020 to 2022 it paid Tice and his trust £600k in dividends. Quidnet should have paid £120k of tax on those dividends. It didn't. A 🧵 with evidence from the company's own filings:
@mrjamesob.bsky.social is it possible that Trumps position on Starmer / NATO is driven by his belief that UK must decide to become MAGA2 and become part of his hinterland of subservient states ?
Major development: After months of sustained scrutiny and evidence-based challenge, the Bible Society has today retracted its ‘Quiet Revival’ claims – widely reported in major headlines last year – after the underlying YouGov data was found to be faulty and unreliable 🧵 humanists.uk/2026/03/26/b...
Very snazzy video on what we found when we did a deep dive on Nigel Farage's use of Cameo
Revealed: Nigel Farage Cameo videos show support for neo-Nazi event and far-right slogans
YouTube video by The Guardian
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U.S. seizures of sanctioned oil tankers are costing millions to maintain, undercutting claims they would be profitable. One seized tanker, Skipper, has already cost $47M in repairs and maintenance in just three months, despite being worth only about $10M.
@mrjamesob.bsky.social Interesting performance by the Cons in a Liverpool Council bye election last night 🤣 councillors.liverpool.gov.uk/mgElectionAr...
Election results for Aigburth, 12 March 2026 - Liverpool City Council
councillors.liverpool.gov.uk
I have today been informed that, despite personal assurances to the contrary, the Green party have once again used my image and misrepresented my words on a second leaflet circulated in Gorton and Denton ahead of the by-election. I have now lodged an official complaint with the returning officer.
Chris Mason is what happens when a Hospital Radio DJ, whose sole qualification appears to be a sort of soporific inoffensiveness, is somehow promoted to BBC Politics Editor - a position that demands unflinching insight, objectivity, and sharpness. It's like a puddle trying to be the ocean.
Nick R@nickren.bsky.social · 9mo agoDid you see Chris Mason’s “the buck stops with Lammy” take, as if austerity, prohibition privatisation and early release under the tories just hadn’t happened
Expect to hear little about small boat crossing at the moment. 28-day averages are falling again and are the lowest since early June this year also lower than any other year in the last 5 years other than 2023. 1/3
A clear proof that immigration salience has little direct connection to overall numbers Net migration did not fall when salience fell from 56% to 5% from 2016-19 Net migration tripled between 2019-22: salience stayed low As net migration halved/fell by two-thirds, 2022-25, salience tripled
@charlesdagnall.bsky.social Is that Jaco Pastorius on your wall ?
Former leader of Reform in Wales to stand trial for bribery, charged with taking £ to support Russia over Ukraine, while an MEP 2018-2020. Reform says he is no longer a member but not when his role ceased (he led the 2021 Welsh campaign), nor when he left the party www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Ex-Reform UK Wales leader Nathan Gill to stand trial over Russia-linked bribery
Nathan Gill appears at the Old Bailey charged with nine counts related to alleged bribery.
bbc.co.uk
As Honest Bob Jenrick tours the country repeating far-right conspiracy talking points about “two-tier sentencing”, here is the letter his own government sent to the Sentencing Council last year approving the very Guidelines he now claims are evidence of “two-tier Keir”. The man is a fraud.
