Graham Martin

For those unaware, a quick primer on perhaps the most dangerous of the oligarchs.

Peter Thiel.

When Nigel Farage claimed that 1 million people in the UK didn't speak English properly, perhaps he was referring to the knuckle dragging Reform supporters banging on about "mooselamic rayguns"

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He has, clearly, dishonoured the office so doesn’t deserve the title.

Not sure who needs to hear this but the voter fraud rate is a mere 0.000003%. Anyone telling you otherwise is making shit up so they can take away your right to vote.

Zack Polanski pressures Wes Streeting over Palantir after Mandelson texts released ZACK Polanski has piled fresh pressure on Wes Streeting over Palantir’s NHS contracts after the Health Secretary’s newly-released text messages…

A £240m defence contract without tender.

Their fingerprints all over our health care data.

A meeting in the USA but without any minutes.

Everything around Palantir stinks.

www.thenational.scot/news/2584192...

Necessary but not sufficient.

He knew. And still appointed him.

Starmer needs to go.

Epstein survivor rejects Starmer’s apology.

Pls share.

Oh America, I fear only a military coup can save you now. It will need to be sooner, rather than later, before all the old school generals have been purged.

Today I was Kidnapped By ICE - Dawokefarmer

Cancel the LA Olympics, scrap the World Cup, the United States cannot be a trusted part of the international community so long as the White House operates this violently and with impunity.

Venezuela now, because he wants the oil.

He wants the oil under Greenland too. And under Canada. He's openly called for them to be part of the USA.

How long before he decides to bomb a couple of NATO members to get his own way?

The USA is a rogue nation.

And a lot of the same food, but colder.

FINANCIAL TIMES I was amused - and saddened - to read the latest instalment of the Brexiters' excuses for the poor performance over recent years of the UK economy and the UK's politics. In "Implementation of Brexit became a business fiasco" (Markets Insight, December 19), Paul Marshall acknowledges the cost of the UK's decision to leave the EU. But rather than acknowledge that his analysis was wrong - cutting ties with your biggest trading partner is never a good idea - Marshall blames bad implementation, and the fact that the EU didn't cut the UK some slack.

Implementation of Brexit by the UK has indeed been poor, but that's a direct consequence of the political crisis that everyone should have expected following such a major decision on the back of one simple 52/48 referendum vote at the conclusion of a mind-bogglingly uninformed debate by both sides. That includes the Brexiters' naive insistence that the EU would bend to UK demands and grant it all sorts of privileges not enjoyed by others. So, the roughly 8 per cent of GDP loss in UK output since the Brexit decision in 2016 is easily explained by three perfectly predictable factors: it was a bad economic decision; it has split UK society politically; and the EU27 has moved on.

It's time for those who led the UK down this disastrous path to stand up and acknowledge their wrong analysis and naive understanding of Europe. Until that happens, how can one even hope that the UK will begin to heal? Erik Fossing Nielsen Senior Adviser, Independent Economics (a London-based economics advisory firm); Former Chief Economist, UniCredit, and Former Chief European Economist, Goldman Sachs, Berlin, Germany

Letter to the FT that stingingly sums up Brexit and the shit creek we now find ourselves in.
A terrible idea (naive, prejudiced and uninformed) that has deeply divided us and left us poorer and less secure… but unwilling to face up to the damage we’ve done to ourselves. While the EU moves on.

I wonder if Trump has declared himself a victim.
«Sure, Sir, your name will be redacted too.»

If Labour are willing to bin their manifesto pledges on tax rises, why not on Brexit?

That would win them far, far more votes than raising taxes ever will. Indeed, tax rises are likely to crater their weak support even further.

What's so magical about Brexit that it must remain untouchable?

Johnny Depp in A Nightmare on Elm Street.

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This...they're weeding out the dissenters and those who might question orders...before they point the canon at us.

This is the warmup phase.

Rachel Reeves’ nasty prejudice is coming into play As the Guardian notes this morning: Rachel Reeves has said she “can’t leave welfare untouched” this parliament, with the Treasury understood to be considering axing up to £1bn in tax breaks for a sch...

Rachel Reeves’ nasty prejudice is coming into play www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/10...

On the centenary of Thatcher's birth, there have been predictable calls for a memorial to her memory. But Britain's 2300 food banks serve that purpose already.

This Is Fascism

"How would we manage without Landlords?"

"A lot better."

What happened to going to war against all the people who were just like the assassin?

The proscription of Palestine Action, alongside other petulant oppressive behaviour, has turned our country into an authoritarian tragicomic farce in the eyes of the world.

Melania's Einstein visa was granted because she claimed to be an anthropologist and an expert in dating fossils.

Reminder: At the start of his legal career, RFK Jr. failed the bar, was forced out as a D.A., and got arrested for heroin. Without the Kennedy name, that story ends there.