Nigel Farage is saying the by-election - which Reform was defeated 41% to 29% by Green Party (14,980 to 10,578) was "stolen". Not "fraud" but on Reform calculating the % of eligible voters born abroad: Farage says it is "shattering news" that naturalised citizens + Commonwealth nationals can vote
Over 1000 civilians dead, and we're letting Trump use UK bases to further his war.
Britain should stand firm against Trump's illegal warmongering, and stop these bombers landing on UK soil.
To my surprise, the campaign also offered lessons in love. I gave a quote to a newspaper about my blossoming relationship with Eilidh Hargreaves, features director at Tatler, and how (unfortunately for her) we spent our first Valentine’s Day canvassing. The quote led to us trending on X thanks to some incel lefties who run an account called ‘Reform UK Exposed’. ‘The “Family, Community, Country” campaigner divorced only last month,’ it raged. Really? Eilidh and I met more than three years after my separation – at The Spectator Parliamentarian of the Year Awards no less. In any case, the attempted hit-job backfired as politicians and journalists rushed to our defence. ‘Ha ha!’ remarked one shrewd commentator. ‘Having an attractive and successful girlfriend will increase Goodwin’s popularity, you complete spanners.’ Indeed. I’ve tried and failed to forget another comment: ‘Goodwin is clearly punching
After reading Matt Goodwin’s diary in The Spectator, I am more convinced than ever that he has a humiliation fetish.
The idea the North Sea is some great goldmine waiting to be tapped is entirely at odds with reality.
a black and white British Rail poster titled "The argument for electrifying our railways, will become clearer in time." with four panels showing scenes from 1978, 1987, 1995 and 2005 with oil running out over that period
"The argument for electrifying our railways will become clearer in time."
British Rail, 1979.
FUCK this shit
A song dedicated to Darren Johnson.
It’s like that by design, Chris.
He sexually harassed her until she killed herself by setting herself on fire
Shaming to the Met and all involved.
Definitely one for @dimorphodons.bsky.social @bsrg1.bsky.social @phonicunderground.bsky.social
If someone photoshopped me holding Nigel’s hand and put it on the news I would hire every lawyer in the country
Because Farage's antisemitism is the 'good' kind, that doesn't threaten UK foreign policy objectives. As for Polanski, he's not the 'right' kind of Jewish person and his foreign policy objectives are the 'real' antisemitism we should worry about.
Backdrop in Reform colours. No visuals are ever left to chance.
When Nadia Almada was on Big Brother in 2004, I don't remember any hate about her being a trans woman. She was just accepted for who she is. I can't imagine the shit she would be getting now from the tabloids and various corners of the internet.
Asperger's was considered as a diagnosis on the autism spectrum between 1992 and 2013. Simon Baron-Cohen and Digby Tantum were involved during my original diagnostic process when I was a child. I'm sure you knew that and you know who they are, being a teacher and the parent of an autistic person.
This sums up the new ‘imposed’ GP contract
@drkatie.bsky.social clearly tells @gponline.bsky.social
what the problems are
I will add it’s less than £1.50 per patient per year extra funding
GP practice need £40-£50 to return to 2016 funding
whee
Oh that tangoed psychopath would absolutely start WW3 to try and make people forget about the credible pedophilia allegations in the files.
Dear Shabana, I notice today that you referred to me in your speech on immigration at the IPPR think tank. You said: “A party leader should not be on the beaches of France encouraging people to make a perilous crossing on small boats.” I suppose I shouldn’t be surprised especially after the hateful Labour campaign in Gorton and Denton, but this is just the latest in a string of lies peddled by a discredited Government who intentionally fan the flames of racism and division. When I went to Calais, I was not there to encourage people to travel to the UK. I was there to see at first hand the suffering your Government and successive Governments have done in demonising migrants in a pathetic bid to pander to the base instincts of Reform and the flawed strategy of Morgan McSweeney. As you will know, if you even bothered to research my visit instead of taking Reform talking points, I was there to witness the brutality of families living in tents in freezing temperatures. I filled water tanks and picked up litter. What that visit did do is confirm my belief that if we are to smash the boat gangs and stop the boats, we need to offer safer and managed routes for migrants to come to this country. Showing compassion as a politician is not a crime. In fact, we need to see much more of it. It reminded me of a young MP who in October 2015 spent three days in Lesbos helping migrants fleeing war-torn Syria. She posted videos on X, talked about handing out water and croissants to refugees and food parcels. When she returned to the UK, she wrote a very moving piece in the New Statesman. She said “we have to work with our European partners and create new, safe, and legal routes for refugees to get to Europe. We cannot abandon them to their fate, left as prey for smugglers whilst risking death on the seas.” She said “maybe we can make ourselves feel better by saying no-one is making them get on the boats. And again, the Home Secretary is not entirely wrong when …
Dear Shabana,
Let's clear some things up around migration and remember we're talking about people's lives.
South West Water admits criminal offence over Devon parasite outbreak.
Water unfit for human consumption, 150 people fell ill.
SWW already has nearly 200 criminal convictions. Licence not cancelled, no exec prosecuted, record high customer bills, sewage dumped in rivers.
Privatisation is a scam.
Ugh. The longer you read this article, the worse it gets.
A lost generation of women finally being diagnosed as autistic = "things have gone too far"
More headlines like this please
This may be controversial but some of the greatest TV travelogues of recently are Portillo’s Railway Journeys. They always deal sensitively with a broad range of issues specific to the country he’s in and they show you lots of interesting and different things that aren’t typical travel show fodder.
Dan, as always, meticulously takes apart the Home Secretary's quite frankly racist liefest in The Guardian
"Would start lashing out in this direction seemed completely absurd"
THE UAE IS LITERALLY HOME TO MAJOR US STRATEGIC AIR AND NAVY HUBS YOU ABSURD PERSON.
The horror of this attack is unbearable. They are killing children as they learn and imagine their futures. Those futures wiped out in an act of despicable violence.
