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Nobody will ever view Farage with the same regard with which he views himself. A braying, pompous relic of the upper classes, masquerading as a man of the people

Meanwhile an MP sitting in our Parliament cavorts across the world in this manner in an attempt to bring down his nation’s democratically elected government. Very dangerous times.

Farage misses out on Trump meeting as their relationship cools British populist politician aimed to reinforce his view about the UK’s Chagos Islands deal in conversation with US president

Nigel Farage made a huge thing about going to the US, about his relationship with Trump. About Chagos.

But he didn’t meet Trump. He was shut out.

Meanwhile he’s furiously backpedaling on his Iran position because of the polls.

The weasel has no power.

But, rather than receiving a formal invite to meet Trump, Farage was in fact invited to Mar-a-Lago by a member of the club, according to multiple people briefed on the matter They said Farage had hoped he would be able to catch Trump for a conversation as the US president was scheduled to travel to Mar-a-Lago that evening. However, Trump had a change in his itinerary and decided to stay instead in Doral, about an hour`s drive away The Reform leader's failure to secure an audience with the US president underscores a weakening of ties between the two populist leaders who famously formed a close friendship in the vears before and after the 2016

Massive humiliation for Farage, who tipped off the UK press that he was flying to Florida to have dinner with Trump... only for Trump to decide he had more interesting things to do when Nigel arrived.

And you know what? Whenever an attack on Iran has been mooted over the years - and years - all of this has been completely predicted. All of it.

America is ruled by dumb, bloodthirsty people. We gain nothing by slavishly following them.

Just fascinating to see Blair, a man whose reputation was ruined by the Iraq war, advocate joining a war that is exponentially stupider and more chaotic. How is it possible to learn nothing from the worst mistake of your life?

It's simple really, it's because he faced no real accountability for his actions.

In other words Trump-Netanyahu have effectively carried out massive uncontained poison gas attacks on Tehran and its people.

Ben Stiller is calling out the White House after it used a clip from Tropic Thunder in a video promoting the Iran war.

“We never gave you permission and have no interest in being part of your propaganda machine. War is not a movie,” Stiller wrote.

YouTube video by Rich Johnston Nigel Farage dancing with Chagos women on a boat moored to the Thames outside Parliament

In the last three days, the Brexiters have been losing their shit because "MPs were dancing while the war in Iran was going on."

Here's Farage yesterday.

And nothing...
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Influencers sold the world a fantasy Dubai – and now it’s gone in a puff of missile smoke | Gaby Hinsliff The city was portrayed as an aspirational place to live, but now those who moved there are realising the precarity that comes with being an economic migrant, says Guardian columnist Gaby Hinsliff

"If you want to get rich in Dubai or die trying, I’m prepared to accept that that’s your business. But only if you feel the same about every other economic migrant: for, like it or not, you’re one of them".

Quite.

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ICO writes to Meta over 'concerning' AI smart glasses report Videos, including of glasses-wearers using the toilet or having sex, are sometimes reviewed by a Kenya-based subcontractor.

Last year when I was checking into a hotel, the desk person was wearing Meta glasses. I kindly asked them to take them off. They were annoyed. I said, “I do not consent to you looking at my credit card and ID with Meta glasses on.” My instincts were correct: www.bbc.com/news/article...

Nissan warns of Sunderland closure if UK excluded from ‘Made in Europe’ rules EU proposals presented on Wednesday require vehicles for corporate fleets and small EVs to be assembled within the bloc

If I remember correctly, Sunderland voted for Brexit. What did these voters think was going to happen? They voted to cut their own throats. www.ft.com/content/ac75...

yet again proving he knows nothing about Wales and cares nothing about Wales.

This election is about WALES, our future as Wales, as determined by us here in Wales.

I’ve spent years, decades, obsessing over the Bush Administration’s Iraq WMD lies, writing about them, debunking them.

I can think of no lie about Iraq WMDs told by Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld et al that comes even close to the enormity and absurdity of this lie from Donald Trump.

Quietly, calmly and forensically, BBC just dismantled the Trump communications shitshow on Iran.

No hyperbole, just laying out an unprecedented military, diplomatic and reputational shambles.

Worth a watch.

(🎥 BBC News/BBC Verify)

Well, that was silly, wasn't it.

Half-truths and no truths: Trump’s latest claims on the UK factchecked From the Chagos Islands to ‘windmills’ and sharia law, the US president’s comments do not bear much scrutiny

Breaking news - the POTUS tells lies 🥹🤔

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

What they’re basically saying is that Starmer and the UK isn’t allowed to operate an even moderately independent foreign policy outside of the United States. That is both ahistoric, wrong and weird for people who constantly tell us how sovereignty is what matters most.

a bunch of windmills are sitting on top of a hill ALT: a bunch of windmills are sitting on top of a hill

Trump is banging on about windmills again!

And apparently Starmer isn’t Churchill.

Well, Fatty McFatfuck, you’re not Thomas Jefferson so let’s call it even.

Israel launches new attacks on Tehran and Beirut, as US embassy in Riyadh hit by two drones Israel says it is hitting

Israel has used the cover of the Iran War to launch a ground invasion of “strategic parts of Lebanon”.

All part of the plan.

Deportations for clicks? The Home Office TikTok account The Home Office TikTok deportation videos spark alarm over performative cruelty and rising anti-migrant rhetoric in Scotland and the UK

"The Scottish Refugee Council has strongly criticised the Home Office’s TikTok account. In a statement provided to us, it described the videos as “an act of performative cruelty” that turn “people in desperate situations” into social media content."

Labours attitudes towards water companies is one of the starkest examples of how they'll do anything to protect the status quo.

The case for water nationalisation is so bloody obvious to everyone - yet they'll do anything they can to keep the failed privatisation experiment.

Great to see this piece on fracking in Yorkshire being shared more widely.

Fracking is not needed and it's not wanted

They’ve hit 9 hospitals in Iran so far, including a maternity ward. Remember that the next time they try to sell you some bullshit about “the most moral army”

'Thanks for not u-turning on this one at least, Keir' The UK Government says it will not hold talks with the SNP on the issue of what triggers another referendum. Our Writer at Large believes that plays…

Keir Starmer refuses to even negotiate with the Scottish government on what triggers an independence referendum - despite the fact that the SNP are set for an outright majority in May.

Good. The more he denies democracy the higher support for Yes will rise

My @heraldscotland.bsky.social column

Pretty obvious that over all the years none of these smug gits ever once looked at a map and thought: golly, Iran is pretty close to my luxury penthouse in the gilded-autocracy that rests upon a foundation of washing dodgy money and exploiting slave labour.

Hope won 💚

Blimey. Sky News reporting YouGov / Sky News / Times voting intention

*Greens leapfrog Labour into second place*

RefUK 23% (-1)
GRN 21% (+4)
LAB 16%(-2)
CON 16%(-2)
LDEM 14%(nc),

Pollster note: This is the highest we've had the Greens, the first time we've had them in second