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With this there would have been no Mo Farah. No Freddie Mercury. No Lenny Henry. No George Michael. No Meera Syal. No Sadiq Khan. No Sajid Javid. No Salman Rushdie. No Hanif Kureishi.

Nicola Jennings on Putin’s dealings with Trump over Ukraine – cartoon Russia and the US have not made progress toward a peace deal for Ukraine despite their recent talks

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Spot on Sarah🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬

With his party riding high in the polls, toasting a game-changing £9m donation and welcoming its first Tory defector in the Lords, Nigel Farage seems to be sitting pretty. But creeping allegations of racist schoolboy behaviour — and his belligerent response to them — could harm his chances of winning over wavering voters, writes Josh Glancy (Cartoon of shocked? angry? frightened? people under the money bags holding placards saying ‘BIGOT’, ‘RACIST’ and ‘NAZI NIGEL’)

Crick believes that there is a clear line to be drawn between Farage the sixth-former and Farage the politician. "So much of his character is the same as you can see at Dulwich," he says. "The boy who's desperate for attention, who loves debating, who loves division. The English nationalism, the interest - almost obsession - with immigration, the admiration for Enoch Powell, the free-market Thatcherism; all of that began at Dulwich." Much of the public has already made up its mind on Farage. In as much as this story cuts through to the wider elector-ate, some will think it deeply unfair to judge Farage on his adolescence; while others will see it as fair game and reflective of the man he later became. But there will be many who are still undecided on Farage and, for this last camp, his belligerent response to the allegations will be a test. He has the polling support. He has the Tory defections. He has the money now too. But does he have the ability to woo and keep voters who once found him unsavoury? Farage is unlikely to change tack now. "He's got to be true to him-self," says the senior Reform source. "There is precious little point in apologising to people like Ed Davey." Additional Reporting: Harry Yorke

On why Farage doesn’t apologise for his schoolboy racism:
“if he apologised, he would be turning to his own support base and saying, ‘You’re all guilty too.’ ”
Exactly.
He is racist. So are his voters. He can’t be pissing them off by saying sorry.
#NeverPM

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Interesting what Crick notes.

Farage like Mogg and Johnson are really just grown up versions of their teenage selves. Lots of public school boys leave fully formed - and armed with an entitlement and a sense of empowerment that takes them through the rest of their lives.

And I trust Starmer will stop trying to ride two horses… do a Hugh Grant, please .. it might pay off!!

Monday's meeting of Starmer, Macron and Merz could turn out to be even more important because of the US national security strategy. They need to decide whether to say in public what they are thinking in private: that the threat is no longer just Putin, it's also Trump

Exclusive: Farage reported to police over ‘election fraud’ Former campaign team member’s claim of overspending in Clacton is rejected by Reform UK

'A spokesman for the party said: “These inaccurate claims come from a disgruntled former councillor. The party was disgusted by his inappropriate sexual behaviour with women, and he was expelled several months ago."'

Charming people all round, it seems.

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I have planned & hosted these ceremonies at two different jobs, and I can 100% confirm that @kevinmkruse.bsky.social is 100% correct. And I would guess that probably 90% of people born in this country couldn’t pass the citizenship exam that new Americans have to pass to be naturalized.

Given that the Russians quite literally drafted our capitulation plan for Ukraine one has to wonder about whether there wasn’t at least a bit of cutting and pasting here.

The EU’s Fine Against X is Not About Speech or ‘Censorship’ | TechPolicy.Press The €120 million fine under the Digital Services Act is just the EU enforcing some normal, boring requirements of its law, writes Stanford's Daphne Keller.

Don't let anyone—not even the US Secretary of State—tell you that the European Commission's €120 million enforcement against Elon Musk’s X under the Digital Service Act is about censorship, writes Daphne Keller. It’s just the EU enforcing some normal, boring requirements of its law, she says.

“Lammy breaks ranks on Brexit. Rejoining the customs union would boost growth, says Deputy Prime Minister, days after Starmer ruled it out.”

Fortunately David Lammy you have the chance to vote for a customs union by backing our bill next week.

See you in the Aye lobby?

75% of Reform UK’s donations have come from just three rich men Calls grow for donation caps as Democracy for Sale research reveals that three-quarters of Reform’s funding comes from a trio of wealthy donors

🔴 Nigel Farage’s Reform is more reliant on super-rich backers than any major party in modern British political history

75% of *all* Reform donations *ever* have come from just three rich men

Is this what democracy looks like?

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Thank God for Bluesky Yes, it's eager. Yes, it's censorious. But it has the very considerable advantage of not being fascist.

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‘The only idea around’: will Labour return to a customs union with the EU? The desperate search for economic growth is pushing the party to confront the issue that dare not speak its name

“We want growth. We know this is the single best way of getting it…
We could then challenge Farage… to either continue with our economic recovery, or to halt it in its tracks and take us backwards.”

Finally. Weaken Farage by doing something that actually works.
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Liz Truss is back to tell her story on YouTube - but there's a twist After her political career ended in humiliation, Truss's new series is about affirmation 5th December 2025 4:50 pm 'Liz Truss is far from the only politician to try a move to TV', writes Rob Hutton (Image: The Liz Truss Show/YouTube) "They tried to silence her. They failed." The trailer for the newest thriller to hit our screens doesn't disappoint. It's a tagline that conjures images of Sigourney Weaver or Angelina Jolie, locked and loaded and out for justice. So who is 2025's heroine, staring down the camera as she sets out on a quest for revenge? Get ready... for former prime minister Liz Truss. "It's time to fight for the West," Truss, still speaking very much like someone who might be spraying bullets around in the final act, told X (formerly Twitter) as she announced her newest venture, a YouTube show.

But the whole show promises to rest on Truss's galactic levels of un-self-awareness. "The problem we've got in Britain," she told Solomon, is that "we have a ruling elite who just don't like their own country." There's no better way for a former prime minister to make the point than to slag the rest of us off for the benefit of Americans. Truss may need money. Although she can claim back up to £115,000 a year for costs associated with her public duties as a former prime minister, this isn't the same as a salary, and having lost her seat in Parliament, she no longer gets paid as an MP. But what she needs more is affirmation. We are all the heroes of our own narratives. Truss's political career ended in failure and humiliation at a level unmatched in modern British history. For her to still be the hero, this disaster must have been the work of some pretty special villains. "I'm going to expose the truth about what happened to me and who was behind it," Truss promised Solomon. The rest of us know what happened, of course, but one woman can never face it. This will be her story.

Great from @roberthutton.co.uk on the Truss clown-car, as she repeatedly drives it into the wall of shame.
This time with her own YouTube show. Most of us would have tired of the indelible humiliation by now. Not Liz.

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This little boy was 9, Farage was 17. The epitome of a school bully.

I’ll never forget the look of hatred Nigel Farage had for me at school, simply for existing The Reform UK leader doubts people can recall their abuse from years ago. I’ve never forgotten his – it felt malicious

I’ll never forget the look of hatred Nigel Farage had for me at school, simply for existing
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The Wheels Are Falling off the Nigel Farage Project The Reform leader's increasingly rattled public appearances betray a growing sense that the opportunity of a lifetime could be about to slip from his fingers

Farage hopes he can breeze into power without scrutiny. But his racism, corrupt donations, shady links to Russia and MAGA… make it harder for him to hide. And his tantrum reactions to being challenged reveal him for the nasty inadequate he really is.
#NeverPM

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Here is the whole Trump, Brexit, Russia story neatly summed up for you

The battle started about Ukraine, now it’s about big tech monopoly power

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What traitorous dolts the British rightwing were to oblige Russia and the network of oligarchs who hate the power of EU collaboration and prosperity. Now we find ourselves isolated, the EU weakened and Ukraine being betrayed.
Shame on all who paved the way…
Farage, you’re front of the queue.

Not our ally then?

The Brexit article in question....

Do read 👇

So, the future belongs to them??

Kemi just roasted the nasal knight and Rachel from accounts If Reeves was a CEO she'd be down the job centre Starmer should get a backbone and sack her.

The "Rachel from accounts" thing is sexist, classist, misogyny, and anyone who uses it should be utterly ashamed of themselves.

Too many dinosaurs in this country who cannot abide women who succeed.

Conservative Deputy Chairman Matt Vickers MP should do better 👇 #PMQs

OPINION By Peter Ettedgui I was targeted by Farage at school - this is why he should be exposed. More than 20 former classmates of Farage have now come forward to accuse him of schoolboy racism 3rd December 2025 11:37 am 'Farage's denials of racism is as offensive as the original verbal abuse, ,' writes Peter Ettedgui (Photo: James Manning/PA)

By evading the issue of his teenage racism, by denying the memories of so many people, Farage appears to be trying to whitewash his past. I think the British public should know what exactly he is hiding with his denials, and why. That he held racist and fascist beliefs up to the age of 18 can surely no longer be in doubt following the recent reports. Does he still hold the repellent views he expressed during his teenage years in some dark recess of his being? Or did he have a Damascene conversion at some point, after which he stopped uttering the racist slurs and chants that characterised his behaviour at school? I strongly believe these are questions worth asking of Farage, and worth his while answering, preferably with an honesty that has so far been lamentably absent.

I absolutely do not care about Rachel Reeves’s junior chess competition.

I absolutely do care about whether Farage is racist or not.

And, given the deranged but distinct possibility that he may become PM, we all should.

Ps… Narrator: there was no Damascene conversion.

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