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It's a brilliant photo perfectly summing up the misery that is Dubai

Black Mirror script idea: A woman in 2025 becomes trapped in an unaired episode of "To The Manor Born".

Top UK scientist says research visa restrictions endanger economy Prof Sir Paul Nurse says the UK is "shooting itself in the foot" with its visa system for researchers.

Regular reminder that the so-called CPS "policy expert' quoted here was the author of the "£234 billion cost" number quotes by Reform and Jenrick, and CPS which had to withdraw when they finally admitted it was based on two simple and obvious arithmetic errors.

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Beware unclear O2 messaging!

When it notifies you about its hike on its airtime price hike - you've a RIGHT to leave penalty free within 30 days of notification.

CONTD

Train company LNER 'extremely proud' of rail worker in critical condition after mass stabbing as family call him 'hero' The "extraordinary bravery" of the LNER worker who intervened during the train mass stabbing attack on Saturday has been hailed by his company.

I’m sure Matt Goodwin will be along shortly to tell us all whether LNER Customer Service Host Samir Zitouni counts as British or not. news.sky.com/story/train-...

Reform press conferences on what it might do were it to win an election four years from now shouldn't be getting more media coverage than concrete policy announcements from Britain's actual government

Nigel Farage Says Minimum Wage Should Be Cut for Young People The Reform leader said cutting the minimum wage for young people would boost business, as he attacked plans to raise taxes on the wealthy

So Nigel Farage, who spent a huge chunk of his speech today attacking plans to raise even the slightest of taxes on the wealthy, thinks one of the biggest problems facing the UK is that young people on the minimum wage are being paid too much

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Another 55mins of Farage carried live by BBC and Sky, in which he rambled for twice as long as briefed, and yet managed to say little of substance.

Why can broadcasters not simply give us 3mins of the low-lights after the event, as they would do with most other politicians? ~AA

Nigel Farage Says Minimum Wage Should Be Cut for Young People The Reform leader said cutting the minimum wage for young people would boost business, as he attacked plans to raise taxes on the wealthy

Nigel Farage, who has so far registered a total of £280,500 for four hours a month as a "brand ambassador" for a company selling gold bars, thinks a £10 an hour minimum wage for young people is too high bylinetimes.com/2025/11/03/n...

Farage, who was paid £189,000 in January to promote gold bullion in his spare time, is currently wanging on about how out of touch the Labour frontbench is. Ok

Nigel Farage currently railing against Parliament being full of "professional politicians".

He founded UKIP in 1993 and was first elected as an MEP in 1999, twenty-six years ago. Less than 5% of current MPs (31 to be precise) have a longer career in politics than Farage. ~AA

Also, may I point out that, just as BRAVE Times journalists found out the word "enemy" disappeared from the witness statement in the Chinese spying case, *under Sunak*, the story vanished from Times front pages, just before he "joined".

PHEW! Lucky timing, hey? That COULD have been embarrassing! 🤨

So to summarise, this is a white politician blaming a black journalist for the racism he is now actively helping to promote, after receiving the full endorsement of his own party leader

Goody-bag merch from Tory Conference branded "When Labour negotiates Britian loses" and signed "Kemi Badenoch".

It helps to be able to spell the country you say only you are competent enough to run.

See also here regarding BBC's Laura Kuenssberg 😱 @zackpolanski.bsky.social , Jewish leader of a national (growing) party plus during Green Party conference - gets ignored 😱

I know this is obvious when you think about it but we don’t think about it enough: fascists have to cow & persecute decent journalists to prevent them from reporting exactly what they, the fascists, are doing. Fascist-adjacent ‘journalists’ help by insisting that we shouldn’t call fascists facsists.

Nigel Farage, Richard Tice, Dr David Bull, Paul Nuttall, still haven’t said a word about their MEP colleague from UKIP to Reform UK, the Reform UK Leader in Wales Nathan Gill.

8 charges of Russian bribery, all admitted.

Reform UK are on the hook for this.

Any time a politician says we should leave the ECHR, the very next questions any interviewer should ask are
🚨Which human rights are you willing to lose personally
🚨Which methods of torture are you going to allow people to be sent to face
🚨Which family members would you be willing to lose

#r4today

Reform UK don’t like to pay for anything…

Incredible conversation kicking off between former candidates and vendors to the party.

Even this statement by an app developer: www.thecafeapp.com/pressstatement

iweekend Revealed: Tory plot to replace Badenoch with Jenrick » His allies are collecting no-confidence letters from Conservative MPs, The i Paper learns

Tory-yawnathon update:
Jenrick’s lot plots to oust Badenoch. Badenoch plans to scrap Climate Change Act and leave the ECHR. And it feels unbelievably tedious to even comment. This Tory party is over. Their brand is fucked. They reek of too much failure to be taken seriously. Plot away.
No one cares.

Screenshot of a letter to Kemi Badenoch, the full text is linked in the subsequent post

Screenshot of a letter to Kemi Badenoch, the full text is linked in the subsequent post

Today I've joined parliamentarians from across the political spectrum in calling on Kemi Badenoch to rethink her dangerous position on the climate and net zero - a position which puts Britain's economic strength, national security, and environmental leadership at risk.

It’s increasingly clear that convicted Russian influencer Nathan Gill was a senior member of Farage’s entourage. (Banks and Wigmore were also in and out of the Russian embassy sharing FBI files, RT talking points, and discussing gold and diamond privatisation deals)

Zia Yusuf ~ @ZiaYusufUK • Follow Important information: The authorities slashed Nigel's security by 75% two weeks ago. Thankfully donors stepped in to ensure he is protected. The Prime Minister has embarked on a sick campaign of incitement of violence against the man he knows he cannot beat at the ballot box. X

A question on this - who are these mysterious and terribly kind “donors”?

Corby Reform councillor resigns over serious racism allegations Reform councillor Robert Bloom, who has been in his North Northamptonshire Council post for just 117 days, has resigned after a neighbour alleged he used appalling racial slurs toward her family.

Don't forget why there's a by-election next week in #Corby.

It's due to their Councillor Robert Bloom's resignation following the news that he shouted the ‘n’ word repeatedly at a black family who live close by to him.

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"I hope Starmer wakes up tomorrow morning and feels ashamed about what he has done," says man who unveiled this poster the day Jo Cox was assassinated by a far-right terrorist.

Political journos are all noting how surprising it is that it’s now all about Starmer v Farage, not Starmer v Badenoch.

Except it’s not surprising at all, given the very same journos have been platforming this poundshop Alf Garnett for years, when he wasn’t even an elected MP.

It would be terribly unfortunate if this got shared absolutely everywhere.

Nigel Farage doesn’t think the Prime Minister should have free speech in this country. But he’ll tell foreigners that yours is somehow under threat from the Prime Minister. He’s a whiny little liar. Always has been. Always will be.

Really, Reform UK? THIS is what you're going with? That this man, who served as an MEP next to Nigel Farage for years and was made leader of your party in Wales by current deputy, Richard Tice, is just "one of tens of thousands of people Nigel meets on an annual basis"?~AA

Left: Richard Tice says Dr Aseem Malhotra has nothing to do with Reform UK's health policy

Right: Dr Aseem Malhotra being introduced as the person helping advise on Reform UK's health policy at a Reform UK conference