Miles King

Dubai influencers share near-identical videos with footage of Dubai crown prince | LBC Videos featuring the caption ‘I know who protects us’ have been circulating on social media

I had no idea until this all started that the UAE licences and pays many influencers to live there and write positively about the regime.

That puts a whole new spin on things.

Propagandists in pocket of regime.

It's why all the messaging is the same.

www.lbc.co.uk/article/duba...

We paid an ex-Tory MP to lobby for our fake Chinese firm - and authorities did nothing Investigation finds no rules were broken. It just goes to show how few rules there are.

Last week, UK lobbying regulator closed investigation into ex Tory MP Ben Howlett

We offered Howlett money to work for a fake Chinese investor. He introduced us to a dozen Labour MPs

Regulator didn't even speak to us. Our system is broken

New, by me: democracyforsale.substack.com/p/we-paid-an...

We paid an ex-Tory MP to lobby for our fake Chinese firm - and authorities did nothing Investigation finds no rules were broken. It just goes to show how few rules there are.

Latest from @petergeoghegan.bsky.social at Democracy for Sale. And it is literally for sale. open.substack.com/pub/democrac...

If this is a Yellow-Rattle seedling it’s very early

Ukraine has some excellent home-produced cruise missiles, as Russia has found out.

Perhaps the USA would like to purchase some?

profits from the shorts presumably have already been taken, so we can expect the US forces to withdraw, claiming total victory, in the next few days.

Countdown to when the US release playing cards with the names of Iraqi- sorry, Iranian military and political leaders.

seems almost certain

Who holds the short positions?

March is the new April. Astonishing how far spring has advanced in our lifetime #climatechaos

it really is.

Yesterday was the warmest March 3rd on record - 18.2°C at Wigginholt beating a long standing record held since 1938 at Manston in Kent, by a massive 0.4°C.

Dementia may make him less dangerous …

Sharia Courts…. In the North Sea… indigenous people…. Illegal immigration…stupid islands… windmills ruining the fields… Open Up The North Sea

Season 4 of Industry hasn’t pulled any punches.

He is undoubtedly stupid, vindictive and narcissistic. But they won’t have changed over the course of his life. Even since last year his ability to construct sentences seems to be declining. And as for his decision making, impulsivity, emotional regulation. They’re Are all going out of the window.

dementia is setting in

Rue-leaved Saxifrage Saxifraga tridactylites and Common Whitlow-grass Erophila verna. Happy as Larry on this old wall in Winchester, Hampshire. @bsbibotany.bsky.social

Seen 3 Brimstones and a Peacock today. Still mowing brambles. #signsofspring

Today on the site: @matthewmshaw.bsky.social bids farewell to People Need Nature, the charity that has been promoting nature’s emotional, sensory and spiritual value since 2015 www.caughtbytheriver.net/2026/03/a-tr...

This is what climate change looks like for UK winters.

Dull and mild February brings wet winter to a close The Met Office has released its provisional statistics for Winter 2025/26 and February 2026, revealing a season characterised by persistent wet weather and stark regional rainfall contrasts.

Winter second wettest for Dorset since records began in 1836. Only surpassed by Winter 2013/14. I recorded 635.2mm in Dorchester this Winter, and 646.1mm in 2013/14.

I remember 2013/14 as being much stormier (windier) here, than this Winter. www.metoffice.gov.uk/about-us/new...

thanks Gruff.

Thanks Matt x

"British values" are whatever the incumbent Government want them to be, that will help them to persuade the country that what they are doing is for the best.

Fortunate that this senile old man isn't in charge of anything important.

Stewart Lee: Do you want to make a splash? Then use the right’s social media latrine Have you engineered a Gotcha! moment? Have you shorn it of context? Then all you need to do is drop it from a height and make a mess online

Stewart Lee's latest bit for @thenerve.news (belated) www.thenerve.news/p/stewart-le...

In which Lee compares/contrast policing of anti-Gay protestors in Oxford St (they were stopped) with anti-Muslim protestors in Whitechapel (they were not), while musing on the limits of political theatre.

Farage rants about "family voting" & postal votes being "a rich seam for fraudsters to mine" without any evidence whatsoever.

He's silent on the far more dangerous problem of money flowing into UK politics from billionaires abroad. Given how much of Reform's cash comes this way, perhaps that's why.

Another ironymeter explodes