Mr Pecksniff's Diary

A Reform promise is just …. a lie that hasn’t happened yet 🤨

It was on dozens of official leaflets too. Across the country, Reform pledged to cut or freeze council tax.

Everywhere they're in control it's rising (as it has to - they knew it was a promise they could never keep).

Defense Dept under Pete Hegseth just spent more than $93 billion. Included: $2 million on Alaskan king crab last September alone, $6.9 million on lobster tail, $1 million on salmon, $140,000 on doughnuts, $124,000 on ice cream machines, $26,000 on sushi, and $15.1 million on ribeye steak.

This is very good…

“Never once did Reform promise to cut council tax” insists an angry Nigel Farage to Sky News.

Here's some of the leaflets Reform have been putting out ahead of the local elections

Andrew O’Hagan · Stay Classy: Mummy’s Favourite The late queen can be held responsible for much, but nobody could accuse her of seeming to enjoy her role. For the...

The finest take down of the institution of monarchy and "class" and the grasping, greedy, venal, entitled, and very stupid people it enables that you will read today or any day.

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Brooke in a black, gothic burlesque costume with mask

Next time you speak to someone behind a shop counter, remember: they’re never just “the woman serving”. They may have extraordinary stories of their own. Celina Błędowska found one

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This is an interesting article from 2008 in the Times.
Let’s not forget the #EpsteinFiles & Russian etc connections.
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Images of Zack Polanski and Nigel Farage

Reform UK and the Greens are often described as insurgent parties.
But their voters look very different.

Data from the 2024 general election shows a strong class divide between Reform UK and the Greens.

Prof Paul Whiteley takes a closer look

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This is reassuring. This is important news that Britain and the EU continue as strong allies to assure field to fork food safety standards.

Pecksniff: ‘The special relationship is not what is was,’ grumbles Trump. Thank god. In which Mr Pecksniff lays before his readers for their approval certain observations and speculations reflecting on the political life

Starmer declines Trump’s invitation to another Middle East adventure, citing international law * Tories yearn for the days when we followed Washington into every catastrophe * Reform fumes about “family voting” but can’t produce a single case.

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(S+) Wahl in Baden-Württemberg: Hagel gratuliert Özdemir – »Regierungsbildung liegt bei den Grünen« Baden-Württemberg hat gewählt, erste Hochrechnungen sehen die Grünen vor der CDU. Deren Spitzenkandidat Manuel Hagel hat bereits seine Niederlage eingeräumt, Cem Özdemir triumphiert. Der Wahlabend in ...

And it's over: CDU's Hagel concedes defeat to Greens' Özdemir and invites him to form the next state government.

Nothing remarkable, but a reminder that in a world of political chaos, German democracy still works quite well.

www.spiegel.de/politik/deut...

Suffolk MP backs radical plan to end sexual harassment in schools Now launched: A new blueprint for schools and colleges to ‘change the system’ to prevent sexism and protect girls from sexual harassment

Last week in Parliament, UK Feminista and MP Jess Asato launched the 'System Change' report for schools: a blueprint to move from reacting to sexual abuse to preventing it. By Jenny Rhodes for International Women's Day

#IWD2026

He looks as though he's sitting on the toilet, apd they are all sympathising over his constipation.

PM Starmer is a serious man, but UK domestic politics is so superficial when it comes to the issues the UK is struggling with that it's basically as thin as a pipette of oil spread over a beaker of water.

(that's science that it)

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What a horrendous age when 'human-rights obsessed' is understood by some as a sort of insult rather than the standard by which we should seek to operate ...

Keir Starmer holds a press conference on the situation in the Middle East.

Starmer sticks with international law while Washington bangs the drums.
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Cleverly launches the Tory insinuation campaign on “family voting”.
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Farage’s dream of No.10 continues to drift earthwards.

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Kemi Badenoch and Nigel Farage want Britain to blindly follow Trump into this illegal war, even though the President has no plan for what comes next.

There is nothing patriotic about outsourcing Britain’s foreign policy to Donald Trump.

Churchill: "Americans can always be trusted to do the right thing, once all other possibilities have been exhausted."

This image is one of a series of Admiralty photographs of 'WRNS at Work' taken in Plymouth in November 1944 by Harold Tomlin. The series can be found here (this search should bring them all up, but with the IWM you never can be sure): www.iwm.org.uk/collections/...

Excellent, as ever.

Street demonstration fronted by banner: "We need to fly less."

Eileen Peck is an activist and blogger in her eighties. Here she tells us why.

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Personally, I'm rather keen on retribution.

UK flag merging into EU stars

“It felt like a bereavement.” The UK rushed out of the EU in January 2020. Ten years on, sluggish growth and shrinking trade have kept the question alive – was Brexit a mistake?
The rejoin movement is stirring again.
Sarah Patey reports

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There is almost no difference between the UK and French positions on Iran. But Macron's approach has been broadly accepted by French media and the opposition - except for the extreme left. The parallel with the UK is interesting.

Keir Starmer holds a press conference on the situation in the Middle East.

Starmer’s voting reforms promise votes at 16 and tighter donation rules.
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Tories hint darkly about polling-station conspiracies they can’t quite describe.
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Even the Telegraph now suggests immigration might need to increase.

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My favourite column making sense of an increasingly mad world.

This reporting keeps being taken down throughout the Internet.

Hit a nerve....

When do they have time to go to the lavatory?