Reform UK really are so lucky.
For a party of eight MPs they have the UK’s biggest news broadcaster on retainer.
Here we see their political editor doing the job of a local newspaper reporter.
For Farage.
EIGHT MPs.
The Trumpian funded Spiked: the ex-Revolutionary Communist Party with their usual suspects gathering to discuss what they see as the top issues facing the UK:
1. "Britain’s descent into woke censorship";
2. Immigration;
3. "The Islamo-leftist threat to the West."
Great work by NYT showing Trump's war is the most unpopular ever. Supports my argument (see below) that in some ways the public rejection of Trump across the board is a very heartening development:
At some point later this year we should see "The new Farage" profiles proliferating throughout Reform-friendly media, modelled on the "New Nixon" propaganda campaign of the 1960s.
Long-time buddies Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols were out for a pleasant van drive in Oklahoma when, all of a sudden, their lives would change.
It's foolhardy because often teams that go out of the cup this disappointingly then experience a knock-on effect on their league form - and at this stage of the season, that can roll on into the start of the next.
The Five Eyes can't cope with these Wise Guys. #wato
Another excellent demonstration of Hegseth's complete incompetence. bsky.app/profile/axio...
Donald Trump shows his commitment to "populism" by seeking to undermine elections so he doesn't actually have to do anything popular.
I find it odd that that so many take criticism of their choice in politicians so personally.
Politicians by their nature will say anything & everything to gain power - and to think your brand of politician doesn’t do that is naive at best.
We keep getting knocked back for installation because of asbestos in our gas meter - Einstein hasnt worked out how to remove that yet.
Most accurate portrait of modern culture currently available
In omitting this important context Chris Mason facilitates Reform's ludicrous shape shifting between contradictory positions from one day to the next.
How different Mason's reaction is when the Lab govt changes its position on anything.
There is no unity among the Gulf states on how to respond to the Iran war. They are paralysed because they do not trust any of the parties to this conflict—including themselves
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We explain political change using totally different causal models if we approve of outcome of not:
1. Change we like is organic, bottom-up genuine expression of public demand
2. Change we dislike is artificial, top-down result of manipulative elite
I’m calling this Motivated Causal Attribution
Everyone assumes these r-w clowns want to replace the decimal currency with shillings and pence, but it's really crypto (12 Kwasis to a Farage, 20 Farages to the bit-pound, etc).
Tory Ofcom chair, Michael Grade, is supposed to finish his term of office in a matter of weeks. Has anyone heard from Nandy about a replacement?
OFCOM all over this like a sloth on diazepam wielding a feather duster
NBC’s Richard Engel: “The White House meme campaign is outraging many former US military commanders… they say only someone who has never really seen combat would think it’s a joke and put out material like this.”
Imagine uber-professional Nick Robinson turning up at 4.30am to find an #r4today running order and script with the rationality and wording of a Trump speech. He'd want everyone fired, including his co-presenter and the teaboy.
Three brothers, including two of the nation's most successful luxury real estate brokers, were convicted of sex trafficking Monday after a five-week trial. n.pr/4ll3dbB
If this war is over, then who's next for the Trump treatment, #r4today? Greenland? Canada? Cuba? Us?
Or a BBC that backed Austerity to the hilt.
It would be even funnier if Farage is still there, waiting, waiting.
Im not sure a trained actor who was originally a LibDem self-validating their authenticity is sufficiently compelling.
"How do we sort fact from fiction?" When yer going to start, #r4today?
“Saudi Arabia and UAE lobbied Trump to attack Iran. Both countries increased their influence with Trump by investing billions in projects that personally enrich Trump and his son-in-law, Jared Kushner… 80% of the money will flow directly to Trump…” @juddlegum.bsky.social
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That UK government as a whole has not yet recovered from 2016 is simultaneously trite and still the most important explainer of UK politics - a toxic brew of dishonesty, insularity, secrecy, naivety, and boosterism that this government failed to tackle when it could in 2024.
He probably thinks Wibble-Wibble is an island airbase in the Pacific.
