Andy Burnham is right to say that Farage has given Britain a decade of division and drift with Brexit - the Tories should take full responsibility for that too. Neither should be allowed anywhere near Government. www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...

Nigel Farage 'very significantly responsible' for UK's miserable decade says PM

Andy Burnham launched a rare personal attack on Nigel Farage as he tore into Brexit 'lies' over migration and accused the Reform UK chief of giving Britain a 'decade of division and drift'

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Trump’s obeisance to Putin has been established beyond even the vaguest scintilla of doubt; the possibility of another January 6-style assault on US democracy after/during the mid-terms is clearly acute and ‘we’ are still wary of calling fascism fascism. These are the moments…

Frances Haugen: "The problem we're experiencing today is that we are missing an infrastructure of accountability."

Carole Cadwalladr@carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 4d ago

You can read more of my interview with Frances Haugen here. It's taken Hollywood a full DECADE to even try to tackle Silicon Valley. The Social Reckoning is long long overdue & a chilling reminder of why we HAVE to regulate these bros. 6/ www.thenerve.news/p/frances-ha...

Imagine deciding to go out and pitch that the Pope is the Woke Antichrist because he has concerns about AI, when you look like the lovechild of Satan and the guy whose face melts in Robocop. If a homeless guy gave this 'lecture' in Hyde Park, he would be sectioned. www.politico.com/news/2026/10...

Peter Thiel slams Obama, Pope Leo in new ‘Antichrist’ lectures

The tech billionaire accused them of using AI concerns to “boost their own popularity,” according to recordings obtained by POLITICO.

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Two most important facts: 1) since Trump became President, attacks on Ukraine have grown substantially in volume and scale. 2) Since Trump became President the US has committed zero (yes, zero) new dollars to support Ukraine.

there is minimal evidence that inheritors in their 50s and 60s are desperate to move into their parents' former home. My @instituteforgovernment.org.uk on why Kemi Badenoch's policies are for the world of Downton Abbey - not the one we live in now www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk/comment/kemi...

Kemi Badenoch’s inheritance tax proposals are myth-based policy making at its worst | Institute for Government

The leader of the opposition’s conference announcement was not well thought through.

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Best line, imo: "Donald Trump has been serially disloyal and unfaithful to every person in his life, except for Vladimir Putin."

Phillips OBrien@phillipspobrien.bsky.social · yesterday

Free weekend out. The big story is that Donald Trump is now free to be what he always was--strong supporter of Vladimir Putin and an agent pushing for Russian victory. He no longer has to pretend he cares at all about Ukrainian dead or Russian War crimes. phillipspobrien.substack.com/p/weekend-up...

“Tariffs are a favoured diplomatic tool of President Trump and Reform could face significant legal challenges if it follows suit” (page2) Farage is a desperate, vindictive bullshitter who only appeals to racists with no idea how the world and trade and law actually work. Cos that’s a bit hard.

Russia has been at war with Britain for years and the EU referendum was an open goal which they exploited. That doesn't mean that "Putin made Brexit happen" but his troll farms and media operations certainly played a part Brexiters may hate to hear it but to deny it is to deny a dangerous reality.

Peter Stefanovic@peterstefanovic.bsky.social · yesterday

Andy Burnham first PM to confirm Kremlin role in Brexit vote The prime minister has revealed UK authorities told him there was ‘clear evidence’ that Moscow meddled in the referendum observer.co.uk/news/nationa...

Brexit is forever tainted with disinformation, foreign interference, murky vested interests, ugly prejudice, unforgivable costs and now deep unpopularity. If you really cared about our country and wanted to fix its problems, you’d admit this… Good that Burnham is finally doing so…

Farrukh@implausibleblog.bsky.social · 23h ago

Andy Burnham confirms what previous PM's - May, Johnson, Truss, Sunak and Starmer - failed to, that Russia interfered in the Brexit referendum.

The Times from ten years ago this week. They were wrong. In fact Brexit is costing the UK economy roughly £100 billion a year. #ProjectFear

To deny the link between religion and nationalism is to wilfully ignore history. I applaud moderate Christians who speak out against dangerous Christian nationalism today. But Christianity was the state religion of the Roman Empire… 1/3 www.theguardian.com/world/2026/o...

Christian nationalism in Britain driven by people who seldom go to church, says report

Research challenges the notion that the growing visibility of crosses and other symbols reflects a revival of Christianity

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Lest we forget... Kemi Badenoch and Nigel Farage both supported Donald Trump's war of choice against Iran. A war that is not only illegal but which has resulted in needless suffering and instability, as well as undermining the UK's economic recovery. #bbclaurak www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/202...

23 days until we vote to end this nightmare.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2d ago

Wow — listen to these new comments from Trump. Thanking Putin, trashing Zelenskyy, characterizing Russia as eager for peace and Ukraine as intransigent. The mask is totally off.

This is a really serious piece of investigative work. Thank god someone is doing it.

Peter Geoghegan@petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 3d ago

🔴NEW: Ben Delo has given Reform £44MILLION Delo’s money comes from his now-closed crypto exchange BitMEX In 2019, a BitMEX investor asked about the status of his investment Delo responded by sending this meme, according to court documents. There’s more, a lot more (new investigation🧵)

"Has anyone told Zia Yusuf that Robert Jenrick & Suella Braverman were Ministers in the very Tory governments he's accusing of betraying Britain? 50% of Reform's MPs defected from the Tories, perhaps Zia ought query with Nigel Farage who's been let through the door" via Truth Against Hate

Credit to the US for making the point the conference was trying to make about US foreign interference in European democracies for them, and bringing more attention to the conference and its themes than they could have possibly hoped for. www.politico.com/news/2026/10...

EU, Canada and Lithuania pull out of disinformation conference after US pressure

The Trump administration was bothered by panels that referred to the U.S. as a disinformation threat.

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As Nick later says he "WAS" the Tory Mayoral candidate and indeed it was as a result of running for the gig that he was ultimately brought to justice. This wasn't "a thing that happened"

Nicholas Pegg@nicholaspegg.bsky.social · 6d ago

Kemi Badenoch continues: ‘I can see why so many people were very fond of Jeffrey Archer. You know, we wanted him to be our mayoral candidate, and then yet another thing happened.’ Happened? He didn’t sit on a box of chocolates. He was sent to prison for perjury and perverting the course of justice.

Yes indeed I'm rather tiring of the coverage... a convicted perjuror who brazenly lied his way through life and continued to attend the House of Lords even as this poor woman's life fell apart.

Ian Martin@ianmartin.bsky.social · 6d ago

As ever, and for the last time in connection with lying shit Jeffrey Archer, we remember Monica Coghlan, whose life he destroyed.

The Daily Mail poll on Instagram. A strong pro-EU preference in their (presumably younger) audience.

Yep, this is bad. And aso looks like incompetence when the Tories have condemned Reform for doing the exact same thing.

Adam Bienkov@adambienkov.bsky.social · 2w ago

I've been a member of the lobby for well over a decade. Not a single one of my lobby colleagues has said a word about the Conservatives banning me from their conferences, without any explanation. Contrast with the US where even Fox News stood in solidarity when Trump banned news outlets he disliked

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“President Xi landed in Washington this week for a state visit that would prove, once and for all, total American dominance. He was greeted at the airport by an old man afraid of Big-Boom-Boom-in-The-Sky, before being taken past a green reflecting swamp, to a half-demolished White House.”

Quiet Riot@quietriotpod.bsky.social · 2w ago

Sunday School: Never Mind The Ballots 🗳️ No election til 2029. Courage or folly? 🇺🇸 Trump’s midterm Red Wedding 🌴 Potholes to plant-pots: in praise of petty defiance With @sturdyalex.bsky.social & @mrkennycampbell.bsky.social 🎧 open.spotify.com/s/03hCgc1 🍏 podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/q...

Absolutely fascinating to see Laura Kuenssberg interviewing Burnham, flailing to adjust her stance to a politician with a moral argument and a positive message, who stands up for his policies and answers her questions clearly. She is getting so agitated at him not playing the game by the 'rules'.

A characteristically coruscating thread from Mr Snow.

Dan Snow@thehistoryguy.bsky.social · 3w ago

England is a made up thing. It has no basis in the ineluctable laws of nature. Its extent is defined by Edward II getting his arse handed to him. Athelstan conquering York. The Welsh of Cumbria were incorporated, the Welsh of Gwynedd were not. It is a political idea, an aspiration - not taxonomy.

Yesterday, Lennon said he was detained under counter-terrorism powers and questioned about his views on Russia. Given his record, you can see why Russia might have come up.

One of the closest aides to Jordan Bardella - the man that might become France’s next Prime Minister - met with prominent US anti-abortion rights campaigners in 2025 and took part in an anti-abortion march in April 2026. Read our joint investigation with @lesjours.fr: lesjours.fr/obsessions/r...

Les convictions anti-avortement du collaborateur parlementaire de Jordan Bardella

Info « Les Jours » x Hope not hate (1/2). Manifestation anti-IVG, réseau « pro-vie » aux États-Unis : voici Étienne Duhazé, assistant du président du RN au Parlement européen.

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Thank you for this, @privateeyenews.bsky.social Farage needs ridiculing far more. It’s a form of scrutiny he can’t cope with and one he so richly - yes pun intended - deserves.

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The first and last time Nigel Farage dared to face James O’Brien has gone viral again, and it’s still a glorious own

It’s easy to forget that Nigel Farage was once (technically) a colleague of James O’Brien at LBC, before he left the station in 2020 having made inflammatory remarks about Black Lives Matter protester...

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Hannan, like Rees Mogg, is a stupid person's idea of what an intellectual is.