As I was saying...
06.03.2026 21:48
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As I was saying...
In the second half of 2025, one man accounted for almost 40% of all money donated to political parties in the UK: a crypto-billionaire who lives in Thailand.
Britain desperately needs to rewrite its party funding rules.
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Are they doing this to distract from the war with Iran?
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I remember first seeing that shop as a teenager and staring at it in amazement.
Apart from staggering imbecility this exhibits, I'm going to guess that none of the content has been cleared for use with its original creators.
This is a chilling crime. A shame on our country. The Iranian ship was unarmed. The US knew this. The sailors were murdered by our navy, and the survivors were left to die at sea.
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Are they doing this to distract from the war with Iran?
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Quietly, calmly and forensically, BBC just dismantled the Trump communications shitshow on Iran.
No hyperbole, just laying out an unprecedented military, diplomatic and reputational shambles.
Worth a watch.
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In the interests of balance, it should be noted that Roosevelt was not a convicted felon or ever accused of raping children.
🚨 It looks like the UK government is gearing up to upend copyright law in favour of AI companies, legalising the theft of their work.
This is despite creatives' huge protests, and despite previous proposals being roundly rejected by the public.
Please spread the word.
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Nigel Farage lied multiple times at his press conference today - including saying no-one who voted Green in Gorton and Denton has a job and he's "certain" Reform won most British born voters in the by-election, based on zero evidence, and yet not a single journalist there pushed back on them
Christopher who? In May, a party founded eight years ago, with no record in national government and only eight MPs, will fight elections in Wales and Scotland, and for control of councils across England, with every chance of winning many of them. British politics is being reshaped by Reform UK. This is a result of Nigel Farage's personality and of Christopher Harborne's money - £9m, from a fortune amassed largely through cryptocurrency investments. The party would not be able to field candidates, run social media operations or door-to-door campaigns if it weren't for the Harborne war chest. There is a template for crypto-funded campaigning - in the US, where it is viewed as having led to securing crypto-friendly legislation and sweetheart deals to enrich crypto charlatans and undermine transparency and accountability in politics. Reform threatens to destroy the Conservatives as a party of government and divide communities, increasingly along ethnic lines and with overtly racist arguments. It also poses the most serious threat to Keir Starmer's government, Harborne lives in Thailand and owns a 12% stake in the Tether stablecoin. Little else is known about this intensely private man. Yet he can influence the course of politics, seemingly without either much of a business or life in the UK. It's a lot like overseas interference in British democracy. Didn't someone once say: "Take back control"?
From yesterday's Observer.
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At the risk of mansplaining, she's gripping that all wrong.
The gulf countries were supposed to be America's allies. They were supposed to be BFF with Trump after they lavished him with gifts including a Qatari jet.
They begged Trump not to launch this war on Iran. He ignored them.
Let this be a lesson to America's other "allies" in Europe.
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Harold Goodwinson: a statement.
‘We are losing our country. A coalition of feudalists and woke Frenchmen came together to dominate the battlefield. I don’t think they beat us, I think the archers were told to shoot arrows in my face.’
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I think by this point we have to take seriously the idea that Badenoch has made some Brewster's Millions type bet, and that she has to lose every single Tory vote to collect on some future billion-dollar payout.
‘Given the reports we are reading in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle about people using cavalry and crossbows, not to mention the bloody great arrow stuck in my eye, we are concerned about the extent to which the Battle of Hastings was a free and fair engagement.’
Harold Goodwinson: a statement.
‘We are losing our country. A coalition of feudalists and woke Frenchmen came together to dominate the battlefield. I don’t think they beat us, I think the archers were told to shoot arrows in my face.’
Today's by-election is another illustration of the problems with FPTP.
The result may tell us less about what voters want to happen than whether they can game the system effectively to stop a result most *don't* want.
The electoral system should not be an obstacle that voters have to work around.
