Have Reform UK Ltd’s county councils delivered on their promises? A six-month review of Reform-led county councils explores how effectively they have delivered what they promised to their electors

This reads like an absolute horror show by @centralbylines.co.uk
Reform couldn't even be trusted to run a bath. Anyone who thinks they could run a country - well just read this!

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Kristi Noem-Tied Firm Secretly Got Piece of $220 Million DHS Campaign The company is run by the husband of Noem’s chief DHS spokesperson and has personal and business ties to Noem and her aides. DHS invoked the “emergency” at the border to skirt competitive bidding rules for the taxpayer-funded campaign.

NEW: DHS invoked the “national emergency” at the border to skirt competitive bidding rules for a $220 million taxpayer-funded ad campaign.

We found that a firm with deep ties to Kristi Noem secretly benefited from the deal.

I’ve been covering the DHS story as much as I can… ProPublica found the most corrupt new development possible www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

US media from all political corners are frantically trying to avoid this particular Epstein email.

Uhmm 🤔🤔🤔

Byline Podcast: Trump And The Battle For The Beeb Adrian Goldberg explores what some observers are describing as an 'existential crisis' for the BBC, following its apology for editing a speech by Donald Trump on Jan 6, 2021. Trump is threatening t...

"These are competitors of the BBC, as well as ideological opponents..."

@goldbergradio.bsky.social analyses attacks on the BBC with @baghdaddi.bsky.social & @adambienkov.bsky.social @bylinetimes.bsky.social

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A Convenient Loophole Durham County Council’s Reform UK Deputy Leader Darren Grimes’ register of interests is remarkably sparse. So when he complained recently of having been “demonetised” by Facebook owner Meta for his rage-bait video content on the platform (Meta apparently stopped the payments after realising he is an elected official and ineligible), it got me thinking: why has he never declared that income? Under ‘employment’ on his council records, Grimes lists only his D-Dog Media Ltd firm, of which he is the director. I asked him and the council why he has not previously declared income from Facebook/Meta. Or, for that matter, his (presumably significant) income from Elon Musk’s X ‘creator revenue sharing’ programme, which bungs thousands of pounds a month to the likes of Reform Leader Nigel Farage, far-right convicted criminal Stephen Yaxley-Lennon (‘Tommy Robinson’), and likely Grimes, too. Helen Bradley, the council’s director of legal and democratic services, said: “We understand income from Cllr Grimes’ social media has been paid to a company, of which he is a director. This company is declared on his register of interests.” So if he has a company, he doesn’t have to declare any of his clients or who is paying him? A council spokesperson responded: “There is no requirement for them to declare clients or payees of any business listed on this register.” It is, to my eyes, an outrageous loophole that means any local politician trying to hide their income streams can simply run it through a company. And voters are none the wiser. ■

It's not the first time Reform UK councillors have been caught failing to properly declare their financial interests, as I covered in my On the Ground column for @bylinetimes.bsky.social this month in print...
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This! This is the kind of journalism that keeps me subscribing to @bylinetimes.bsky.social

Just waiting for mainstream media to run this wee story 😳🙄

The Pro-Trump Bias of the 'Neutral' Sources in the Leaked BBC 'Prescott Dossier' Byline Times’ analysis of key sources in the memo about the BBC’s alleged ‘progressive bias’ shows it relied on highly partisan right-wing, Trump-aligned organisations

In part 2 of my @bylinetimes.bsky.social investigation, I reveal how the 'BBC bias' memo - written by a Trump-aligned lobbyist whose firm was paid up to a million by pro-Trump donor tech giants - was politically biased and reliant on pro-Trump partisan sources bylinetimes.com/2025/11/11/p...

Proper journalism and facts (remember them?) about the far-right infiltration of the BBC.

Byline Times is the only news source I "trust".

The trouble with dribbles – a revealing prostate cancer journey Prostate cancer can develop silently. Some have no classic prostate cancer symptoms. Early checks are vital – sometimes, the signs are hidden

Back in the 1970s, prostate cancer treatment could mean surgical castration.
Today, treatment is very different – without the trauma.
This is Ben’s story.
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There is currently nothing to discuss or negotiate with Russia, since it clearly only seeks to buy time and continue its war.

When talks eventually happen, Trump should not be the negotiator, because he is being blackmailed by Russia

nick_the_greek58 14h Farage and Reform UK: 2016: Brexit will make us better off 2017: Brexit won't make us worse off 2018: Brexit will make us worse off, but only for the first 50 years 2019: Nobody claimed it would make us better off 2020: I don't care if we starve 2021: It's all the Remainers fault 2025: Brexit has made us poorer and damaged the economy, but it's all the Labour Party's fault

Yup.

Ah the 1970s.

Stagflation, three day weeks, collapsing infrastructure. Civil War in Northern Ireland. In yer face racism and bigotry everywhere. Bin strikes. Strikes in general. Blackouts. Industrial decline. Wage inequality. Dog crap everywhere. And households spent 25% of their income on food.

Zarah Sultana, "Wages are stagnating, bills are rising, companies are posting record profits, the rich are laughing all the way to the bank. Everyone can see it."

Yes they can.

#bbcqt

ECHR stopped me from going mad in Putin’s gulag A British-Russian dissident sentenced to 25 years of solitary confinement by Vladimir Putin has said his sanity was saved by the European Convention on Human Rights.

READ THIS: A British-Russian dissident sentenced to 25 years of solitary confinement by Vladimir Putin has said his sanity was saved by the European Convention on Human Rights👇

🔗 www.yahoo.com/news/article... via @telegraphnews.bsky.social

#ECHR #OurRightsAndFreedoms

Help who you can, when you can

His supporters starting to realize he only cares about making his and his family and fellow oligarchs bank accounts great again

The Labour government is asked yet again when it plans to respond to the ICJ's demand, issued 16 months ago, that states stop aiding Israel's illegal occupation.

Ministers appear to have no intention of responding, because it would incriminate their ally Israel.

#DCUKparliament

Land is power – Scotland’s people have none Land isn't just about wealth and justice, it's about power. Scotland is cut off from its own land resources and hence is poorer as a nation

"The Scottish Government devised a scheme to help the very rich cream off public subsidies for tree planting. Buy land and then the Scottish Government will help you make a fortune from it by planting trees – any trees, anywhere. That is government for the rich, not for the public good."

🇺🇸 Jeffrey Epstein said to Larry Summers that he met very bad people, none as bad as Trump:

"Recall I've told you, I have met some very bad people, none as bad as Trump, not one decent cell in his body. So yes, dangerous"

YouTube video by Peter Stefanovic 🚨People in agony are pulling out their own teeth - it’s not Victorian, it’s medieval!

🚨 For millions across England NHS dentistry has effectively ceased to exist. People in agony are pulling out their own teeth - it’s not Victorian, it’s medieval! We cannot allow this to be normalized

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Johnson, more than Farage and any other single person, destroyed the UK. Mostly through his appallingly and lastingly damaging Brexit, but also, like Trump, through inflicting his dishonesty and ignorance on us and encouraging rampant corruption at the highest levels of govt.

Why a group of wealthy Brits have urged Reeves to introduce a wealth tax This appeal comes ahead of Reeves’s upcoming Budget announcement in Westminster later this month

Millionaires group urge Reeves to introduce wealth tax to ‘lift kids of out poverty’.

But Govts listen to the City type.

1% have more wealth than 70% of the population.
Poorest 20% pay higher proportion of income in taxes than the richest 20%.

Can't grow economic by squeezing the bottom 50%.

Emissions scandal: factory farms fail to declare climate impacts Applications for giant UK livestock factory farms are ignoring climate emissions, despite a landmark Supreme Court ruling

“Vital information is being kept from councils and the public.”
Livestock giants are hiding their climate impact – and local authorities are looking the other way. Clare Carlile of DeSmog reports ⤵️

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‘That Sucks’: Trump and the GOP Thought They Survived the Epstein Scandal. It’s Back Trumpland is annoyed that GOP lawmakers aren’t running effective interference for the president and are getting ‘played by Democrats.’

“‘This Sucks’: Trump and the GOP Thought They Survived the Epstein Scandal. It’s Back”

⁦‪Asawin Suebsaeng‬⁩ reports for Zeteo on how Trumpland is annoyed that GOP lawmakers aren’t running effective interference for the president and are getting ‘played by Democrats.’

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The Supreme Court Won’t Save Us. Public Opinion Might ‘John Roberts is presiding over the end of the rule of law in America,’ his former colleague tells me. Only democracy can constrain Trump now.

The Supreme Court Won’t Save Us. Public Opinion Might

"The Supreme Court can’t, and won’t, save the American experiment from Trump’s wrecking ball," writes @johnjharwood.bsky.social.

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Memo to Democrats: This Is a War and Not a Moment for Peacetime Generals. The absurd culture of the Senate has produced a Democratic caucus of wimpy pushovers.

"Memo to Democrats: This Is a War and Not a Moment for Peacetime Generals."

The absurd culture of the Senate has produced a Democratic caucus of wimpy pushovers, writes @ryanlcooper.com:
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5/5 At bare minimum, Trump is a traitor, sexual offender, and pedophile/sex-trafficker protector who was and is willing to betray his country to protect himself.

What does that say about those still defending him today or tomorrow?

4/5 If Russia knew the full extent of Trump’s ties to Epstein, blackmail becomes the obvious explanation for why Trump has been pushing Russian interests over American ones, betraying his country.

We now know why Russia really wanted Trump back in the White House