This is Robert Jenrick August 2025, after the Ozempic but before he joined Reform UK. He posted this on X-Twitter "Raise The Colours! 🇬🇧 While Britain-hating councils take down our own flags, we raise them up. We must be one country, under the Union Flag" But was Newark flaggers. archive.ph/S5XND

Tory frontbencher Robert Jenrick flies Union Jacks from lamp-posts

The Shadow Justice Secretary said local authorities which failed to back displays of the flag were guilty of 'pathetic disdain for Britain and its values'.

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If you’re wondering why UK press has suddenly woken up to Farage, please read this. It’s because: Brexit. The r/w press refused to scrutinise the money behind Farage & the lawsuit against me scared off the rest. But this isn’t a new scandal. It’s the same one I’ve been reporting on for a decade

THE NERVE@thenerve.news · 3w ago

NEW: Who funds Nigel Farage? And why has it taken till now for any journalistic scrutiny? @carolecadwalla.bsky.social who has tracked him for a decade exposes how the UK press & regulators looked the other way 🧵👇

Little considered impact of Factory Farming of animals - it’s a massive drain for water, this factory farm uses the same amount of water per week as 14,000 people (a small town) - and complained during a hosepipe ban, that it couldn’t process chickens - by which it means slaughter them.

Binface is a fraud. Positions himself as a comedy candidate not expecting to be elected, but then comes up with stuff like this. Come on, Clacton, make sure he faces the consequences of his actions: vote Binface and make him be an actual MP! bsky.app/profile/coun... /s (because there's always one)

Count Binface@countbinface.bsky.social · 3y ago

Under a Binface government, anyone who doesn’t accept human-made climate change as fact will be sent back to school, from Year 1 right the way to A Levels, to see if anything goes in the second time round. #VoteBinface

Record heat. Bone-dry landscapes. Strong winds. Then the wildfires arrive. None of this should be surprising anymore. As heatwaves become more intense, the impacts cascade through ecosystems, infrastructure, public health, and emergency services. www.bbc.com/news/article...

Major incident declared in Wales as wildfires burn across UK

Residents near the Conwy fire have been evacuated, with at least 10 other fires across the UK this weekend.

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“But we can just adapt” Oh yeah? Go on then. Meanwhile, three miles from my house…

The Bear@bearlypolitics.co.uk · 3w ago

And yet there are still politicians that will go on about “Net Zero Madness.” This year, from the look of things, will likely be the worst on record for heat related deaths since records began. We are in serious trouble.

How do we get Trump back on board? Got it! Israel recently shared intelligence with the US indicating Iran may be considering a new plan to assassinate President Trump, the WSJ reports.

EXC - The £5m gift to Nigel Farage by a cryptocurrency billionaire was reported to the National Crime Agency by bankers who were concerned it may have been laundered money, the Guardian can reveal. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Revealed: Farage’s £5m gift reported to UK crime agency over money laundering concerns

Exclusive: Latest Guardian revelation about gift from cryptocurrency tycoon comes as Reform UK leader forces byelection

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Apropos of nothing, does anyone else remember when Coutts tried to close Farage’s account?

FACTCHECK: A guide to manufacturing headlines, by the Times 1) highlight upfront costs of an “eco” home (EV, heat pump, solar) 2) pretend that petrol cars and gas boilers are free (yes really) 3) count upfront “eco” costs twice, for good measure 4) that’s it!

For no particular reason, obviously, this weekend I found myself remembering all those allegations about mysterious dark money funding untraceable Facebook ads during the Brexit campaign.

If a State Fair closes at 5pm due to extreme heat and no one is there to see it, does it really happen?

Phil Lewis@phillewis.bsky.social · last mo.

The Great American State Fair has closed until 5 pm due to extreme heat.

hi hello modern slavery expert here 👋👋 requiring asylum and refugee seekers to pay back support is precisely how traffickers keep victims in debt bondage. this exposes people to even greater re-trafficking risks. is the uk government trying to stop trafficking or learn from criminals?

‘They were fanning themselves against a London temperature that remained stubbornly above 35C – using a fan handed out in goodie bags and emblazoned with the slogan, “Free speech never felt so cool”’

Jonathan Freedland@jonathanfreedland.bsky.social · last mo.

On heat, politics and Don't Look Up-ism. Latest column www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Long shot, but if anyone in North #Oxford has lost a tortoise with a surprising turn of speed in the heat, do get in touch..

HEATWAVE HITS GAS POWER? Amid tight GB supplies, looks like gas plants cutting output due to heat? Carrington – unplanned 16% reduction due to "ambient conditions" Keadby 2 – 34% due to "weather" Staythorpe – 18% due to "ambient conditions" Grain – 12% "environmental" cause 1/2

🥵Why are so many Europeans/Britons unnecessarily sweating through a heatwave without cooling? Why are portable AC units so crap? The answers are both interesting and maddening. My latest on air conditioning👇 edconway.substack.com/p/the-missin...

The Missing Pipe

A short history of how Britain chose the wrong heating system a century ago, and why we are unnecessarily sweating our way through a heatwave in 2026

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The absolute dead giveaway that you're dealing with a third rate economic mind is if they elevate policy towards North Sea licences towards the top of their agenda. On either side of the question. It shows they're incapable of doing basic calculations of significance.

The climate scientists are telling us. We need to listen, and join the fight. Or we may literally be cooked. (Alt text is in the replies)

Leo Hickman@leohickman.carbonbrief.org · last mo.

Letter in today's Times by climate scientist Sir Brian Hoskins: "The discourse around net-zero is increasingly decoupled from…science and our changing weather. "Net-zero is not an arbitrary slogan, rather it is dictated by the laws of physics."

Let's be crystal clear here. We are not paying £10m extra due to an unexpected heatwave. We are paying this because successive governments have failed to prepare for the impact of climate breakdown. www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Great Britain’s grid operator pays £10m for extra power to avoid supply crunch tonight

Neso expected to pay millions to secure enough electricity to meet demand as households turn on fans and air conditioning

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It was inevitable, wasn't it🙄 Of course the Telegraph would run with something like this👇 So let's remove some of the rose-tinted spectacles and also look at some of that data comparing 1976 with modern heat waves Because the 1976 nostalgia porn is wearing a bit thin at this stage 🧵1/23

It is inescapable now that many politicians & most of our media judge the severity & seriousness of a crime differently according to the ethnicity of the perpetrator and/or victim. An utterly hideous state of affairs ushered in eagerly by Nigel Farage & Elon Musk. It is very easy to do better.

Dorian Lynskey@dorianlynskey.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Comparing coverage of the Belfast and Edinburgh attacks, it seems that if politicians politicise and racialise a crime, then it will get far more attention than a crime that is in itself political and racist but doesn’t serve a political agenda. That’s not a good message

Comparing coverage of the Belfast and Edinburgh attacks, it seems that if politicians politicise and racialise a crime, then it will get far more attention than a crime that is in itself political and racist but doesn’t serve a political agenda. That’s not a good message

Today is World Refugee Day. Here’s a poem called ‘Refugees’.

The reluctance among media outlets to specify that these pogroms are the work of far-right loyalist thugs is particularly weird, given that they sign their work! The LVF spray tags on the houses of the people they burn out, whether Catholics, migrants or refugees. They've done this for decades!

As I wrote at the time of the Ballymena pogroms, I'm old enough to remember when the LVF attacked the home of disabled child because he was insuficciently Protestant. I'm old enough to remember this because it happened in 2024. www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle-co...

Per most recent figures, net migration to NI *over the past 22 years* has been ~62,000 people. Only 3% of Northern Ireland’s population currently belong to an ethnic minority. Pogroms in Belfast (as with Ballymena last year) are just gutter-level "One Is One Too Many" racism, and nothing else.

Burning resentment against Jewish owned businesses in interwar Germany fuelled by inaction on reversing the Versailles settlement.

Sir Almaviva@ilcontealmaviva.bsky.social · 2mo ago

"The mob violence in Northern Ireland is appalling BUT..." Shocking stuff from the Times.

@clairehanna.bsky.social : "Last week, in a very high profile case, the murder of Natalie McNally, the judge.. talked about a frenzied knife attack, he talked about wounds so bad the cause of death was unable to to be determined. There were no riots over the perpetrator of that brutal crime"

The issue here is that loyalist terror networks have always had tight relationships with the Far Right in England, Scotland and Wales. After the riots in Southport there are risks that these neo-Fascist networks in England in particular view loyalist terror structures as a source of inspiration

@nohostages.bsky.social · 2mo ago

English commentators need to stop analysing Northern Ireland through an English lens! When you see anti-immigrant riots in Belfast, Ballymena or Larne and immediately reach for "Britain's far-right problem", you're missing half the story. This isn't just racism. It's loyalist terrorism. 1/