"Nigel meets tens of thousands of people on an annual basis ultimately, he can't be held accountable for the actions of every single person who he comes in contact with."

-Zia Yusuf, head of Reform UK Department of Government Efficiency.

It may well be. It is nonetheless wrong and the Tories found out what happens when voters have had enough and flee to anywhere but there. So far, Labour has compressed into one year annoyance that it took the Tories 14 years to build.

The newly released Official Statistics for Hate Crime in 2024-2025 do not accurately reflect the true prevalence of anti-LGBT+ hate in England and Wales. This misrepresentation matters.

Read our full statement ⬇️
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The irony of this reported by CBS News, which has just has inflicted upon it as editor in chief the wretched Bari Weiss, for whom blurring the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false is a life mission.

Back from visiting civilisation in Canada and I didn't miss Scottish transphobia. It is so glaring when you see inclusive signs on shops, rainbow crosswalks, or news that quotes trans people not solely those looking to exclude them. (More important, spoke to parents of 2 thriving trans young adults)

“I’m old enough to remember when mainstream British politicians, who should know better, stirred up racial hatred as a path to power. You’re old enough to remember too because it was last Tuesday. And it was Robert Jenrick”

Cathartic anger at flag-flying racism.

www.thenerve.news/p/stewart-le...

NEW ANALYSIS: More than 80% of UK social housing still relies on gas boilers keeping bills exposed to international gas markets and climate targets out of reach.

I’ve explored how other European countries are tackling this at scale, and what the UK can learn.

www.sureserve.co.uk/news-and-pro...

It's sunk cost fallacy in action.
And you don't need to be a professor of politics to see it.
Labour isn't going to stop, reassess, take a new direction and try to win back support because a key part of the cost was purging anyone not on board the McSweeney project who might do that.

NEW: The British politician, his Russian intelligence handler & a Kremlin plot against the US & Ukraine.

My new piece about Nathan Gill and Nigel Farage for @thenerve_news in which we ask:

Why, even now, is no-one asking questions?

t.co/BUTtpK9C4S

MacSweeney is wrong.
The rapid and snowballing mass migration of voter support to Greens and Your Party and the Lib Dems is not a blip. The McSweeney strategy is causing Labour to shed support that won't come back and that they cannot afford to lose.
It's bungling nonsense.
What are they fixated?

Oh Tinky-Winky, you absolute mensch!

Again and again, Zack Polanski is cutting through by challenging purposefully misleading and derogatory framing.
Morgan's default when challenged has always been to splutter, mock and deny.
He has no defence against those who won't be intimidated or deflected.

‘I fell in love with a Glasgow charmer … but he was secretly in the IRA’

Mary Attenborough and Michael Gallagher have written an extraordinary memoir of their life: a tale of terror, love, lies and redemption

They talk to me in @heraldscotland.bsky.social

www.heraldscotland.com/news/2553611...

Richard Tice and Nigel Farage’s Reform UK is the political wing of the fossil fuel industry.

Nadia Sass/Borodi is to married to Oleh Voloshyn, sidekick to Viktor Medvedchuk a close associate of Putin.
Do you believe Farage didn't know who these people were and why they might be interested in him and his party? I don't.

A UK presenter shouldn’t crow about an audience’s ignorance of Nathan Gill who took bribes from Kremlin agents & was a close ally of Farage . It shows they have failed to do their job . What next , telling us that Watergate was one of the lowest points in investigative journalism 🥺 ?

Everything he's reported to have said in this BBC piece sounds like he's desperately trying to distance himself, knowing that the connection is real and toxic. If the press were investigating Farage with the same enthusiasm they went for Rayner, he'd be done for.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

YES!!!

CW
Wolff says Epstein on two occasions showed him a set of photos of Trump at Epstein's Palm Beach home with topless young women or girls sitting on Trump's lap and then another picture of Trump with a stain on his trousers and the girls pointing and laughing.
Draw your own conclusions.

What Thiel is saying about tax havens = what Altman is saying about copyright:

"I can't be rich unless you let me steal from you."

This is how Broligarchs differ from oligarchs of yore: the latter tried to hide their thievery; the Broligarchs trumpet their entitlement to steal as a natural right.

It not the King, is it? I thought he was keen on that stuff?

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Quelle surprise!

As ever, just follow the money.
Getting to hate on trans people is a pleasing corollary for the reactionary right-wingers who run the fossil fuel empires. The aim is to divert attention from their ongoing role in climate change.

I thought it was fine and anyway in that heat who says you have to wear clothes?

This is good.