Bugger.
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Seems a bold statement to make, considering his own situation.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c4gjnwmm984o
www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c4gjnwmm984o
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I bought a multipack of crisps today and on opening the first packet I found the content so diminished from my expectation that it would be more accurate to call it a packet of a crisp.
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Most Reform members should be encouraged to leave the UK.
Fixed it for you.
www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/mar/03/half-reform-voters-believe-non-white-british-citizens-forced-encouraged-leave
Fixed it for you.
www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/mar/03/half-reform-voters-believe-non-white-british-citizens-forced-encouraged-leave
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friend sent this over from the other place and unfortunately I did laugh
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There are many forms regime change can take once it’s adopted as a preferred method to achieve foreign policy objectives.
E.g., Bombs & war, kidnappings & CIA sponsored coups, natch, but also funding far-right parties opposed to liberal democracy and flooding the media with chaotic misinformation.
E.g., Bombs & war, kidnappings & CIA sponsored coups, natch, but also funding far-right parties opposed to liberal democracy and flooding the media with chaotic misinformation.
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Ellie Chowns, "Reform UK, before it was the Brexit Party, before when it was UKIP, has been busy for many years fermenting this idea that immigration is the problem in this country"
"It's completely untrue"
"Inequality is the problem in this country"
"It's completely untrue"
"Inequality is the problem in this country"
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"I can't be bought"
Says man who sells video birthday greetings for £70 a time.
Says man who sells video birthday greetings for £70 a time.
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Wow!
Palestine Action win judicial review - Guardian report.
This is a *big* legal win.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/feb/13/uk-ban-palestine-action-unlawful-high-court-judges-rule
Palestine Action win judicial review - Guardian report.
This is a *big* legal win.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/feb/13/uk-ban-palestine-action-unlawful-high-court-judges-rule
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Would also likely clean out Reform from having any (or at least most) MPs, particularly Farage who I expect is severely compromised.
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"Arguably, the tragic disasters of the Johnson and Truss governments would never have happened if they had been exposed to some sort of checks" -- I suspect Truss would have passed through vetting so not a panacea, but Johnson definitely would not have.
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i wrote about the pub
www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/feb/11/pubs-reform-political-property-hard-right-farage
www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/feb/11/pubs-reform-political-property-hard-right-farage
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"In an interview with Sky News on Wednesday, Britain’s seventh-richest man, who moved to tax-free Monaco in 2020" - not really one Britain's richest men than, is he? He's one of Monaco's.
Takes more than a piece of paper to be British.
www.theguardian.com/business/2026/feb/12/jim-ratcliffe-accused-hypocrisy-uk-colonised-immigrants
Takes more than a piece of paper to be British.
www.theguardian.com/business/2026/feb/12/jim-ratcliffe-accused-hypocrisy-uk-colonised-immigrants
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Ratcliffe again providing a reminder that the real group that doesn’t integrate and doesn’t live up to ‘British values’ like tolerance and honesty’ are the billionaires.
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On Jim Ratcliffe: being super-rich does not stop you being an idiot and an arsehole. Indeed, it seems to make it much more likely.
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🔴 Exclusive: Corporate donations British parties tripled over last three elections
But here's key thing: almost none is from FTSE500/listed companies
It's almost all companies controlled by super-wealthy individuals, or small, opaque firms
New on D4S: democracyforsale.substack.com/p/revealed-corporate-donations-to-british
But here's key thing: almost none is from FTSE500/listed companies
It's almost all companies controlled by super-wealthy individuals, or small, opaque firms
New on D4S: democracyforsale.substack.com/p/revealed-corporate-donations-to-british
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Happy 13th anniversary to this pair of matching news headlines.
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Matt Goodwin isn’t very British
Britain’s finest hour was a fundamental rejection of petty ethnonationalism. Reform should remember that.
Britain’s finest hour was a fundamental rejection of petty ethnonationalism. Reform should remember that.
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The fact that the consequences likely were not what they wanted and they were rather obviously lied to about the trade offs that would have to be made doesn't alter the fact that there were consequences and trade offs.
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Mike Tapp via Politico morning newsletter: “Around one in every 30 people in this country arrived between 2021 and 2024. Those numbers are staggering. That is not what people voted for”
Yes they fucking did. They voted for Brexit and they voted for Johnson to execute it.
Yes they fucking did. They voted for Brexit and they voted for Johnson to execute it.
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Paul Kagame's Rwanda government got £290 million from the UK government/taxpayer - for very little beyond three press conferences (with a new Home Secretary each time). The attempt to seek another £100 million shows a striking level of chutzpah
www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/czx32yxnvzro
www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/czx32yxnvzro
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Boris Johnson and Suella Braverman are constant reminders of just how deeply unimpressive you can be as a human being and still get incredible power - and how useless and complicit our supposed systems of checking are - I don’t give us long
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