HerbalKOxon
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Occasional thoughts on politics, science, food. Things are complicated, which ultimately means I can be quite tedious.
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Welcome to the UK where a right wing academic seeks to defend a man who wrote:
'Head for the hotels housing them and burn them to the ground.'
By describing that incitement as "anti immigration"
'Head for the hotels housing them and burn them to the ground.'
By describing that incitement as "anti immigration"
December 17, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Welcome to the UK where a right wing academic seeks to defend a man who wrote:
'Head for the hotels housing them and burn them to the ground.'
By describing that incitement as "anti immigration"
'Head for the hotels housing them and burn them to the ground.'
By describing that incitement as "anti immigration"
What does a malignant sociopath reaching the highest office in the land, leading to the greatest policy error in British history, then allowing his fecklessness to cause tens of thousands of unnecessary deaths during a pandemic tell us about the elite private education system’s place in England?
A constant blazing terror that somewhere, somebody might be getting a free cheese sandwich. Or indeed brief use of a wheelchair.
December 8, 2025 at 12:55 PM
What does a malignant sociopath reaching the highest office in the land, leading to the greatest policy error in British history, then allowing his fecklessness to cause tens of thousands of unnecessary deaths during a pandemic tell us about the elite private education system’s place in England?
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Yinke Bankola says he was 9 when the sixth form Dulwich school prefect Nigel Farage, aged 17, asked him where he was from, then told him "that's the way back to Africa".
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Former Dulwich pupil says Farage told him: ‘That’s the way back to Africa’
Exclusive: Yinka Bankole says he felt compelled to speak out after Reform leader’s attempts to ‘dismiss’ hurt of alleged targets
www.theguardian.com
December 5, 2025 at 7:50 PM
Yinke Bankola says he was 9 when the sixth form Dulwich school prefect Nigel Farage, aged 17, asked him where he was from, then told him "that's the way back to Africa".
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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“In 2017 there was not a single asylum seeker who arrived on a boat. Today we have 46,000 a year and do you know why? It was because of the botched Brexit deal pushed through by Boris Johnson and championed by Nigel Farage. Nigel Farage should be here apologising”
Daisy Cooper
Daisy Cooper
December 5, 2025 at 8:26 AM
“In 2017 there was not a single asylum seeker who arrived on a boat. Today we have 46,000 a year and do you know why? It was because of the botched Brexit deal pushed through by Boris Johnson and championed by Nigel Farage. Nigel Farage should be here apologising”
Daisy Cooper
Daisy Cooper
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You will be shocked to discover after reading these stories that while Rachel Reeves claimed to have been the "British girls under-14 [chess] champion" she was in reality merely the "Under 14s British Women’s Chess Association (BWCA) Girls" Champion.
This is getting utterly ridiculous now
This is getting utterly ridiculous now
December 3, 2025 at 12:31 PM
You will be shocked to discover after reading these stories that while Rachel Reeves claimed to have been the "British girls under-14 [chess] champion" she was in reality merely the "Under 14s British Women’s Chess Association (BWCA) Girls" Champion.
This is getting utterly ridiculous now
This is getting utterly ridiculous now
Racist slurs aren’t racist, is Farage’s latest defence.
He’s tried:
- I didn’t say it.
- Nobody was offended.
- It was ok back then.
- I was just a kid.
But he’s been doing it for years since, it was offensive, it wasn’t ok, and he definitely did say it.
A vote for Farage is a vote for hate.
He’s tried:
- I didn’t say it.
- Nobody was offended.
- It was ok back then.
- I was just a kid.
But he’s been doing it for years since, it was offensive, it wasn’t ok, and he definitely did say it.
A vote for Farage is a vote for hate.
Nigel Farage asked about Reform MS Laura Anne Jones (who the Senedd Commissioner found had used a racist term in a staff WhatsApp chat in August 2023 while discussing TikTok writing: “No chinky spies for me.”)
"Well, she used a word that colloquially, probably was meant in a nice way 20 years ago."
"Well, she used a word that colloquially, probably was meant in a nice way 20 years ago."
November 26, 2025 at 8:55 PM
Racist slurs aren’t racist, is Farage’s latest defence.
He’s tried:
- I didn’t say it.
- Nobody was offended.
- It was ok back then.
- I was just a kid.
But he’s been doing it for years since, it was offensive, it wasn’t ok, and he definitely did say it.
A vote for Farage is a vote for hate.
He’s tried:
- I didn’t say it.
- Nobody was offended.
- It was ok back then.
- I was just a kid.
But he’s been doing it for years since, it was offensive, it wasn’t ok, and he definitely did say it.
A vote for Farage is a vote for hate.
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Hoo boy, another fictitious "EV market slows" headline from the Times
*EU EV sales are up 25.6% in 2025*
Receipts in thread.
*EU EV sales are up 25.6% in 2025*
Receipts in thread.
November 26, 2025 at 8:15 AM
Hoo boy, another fictitious "EV market slows" headline from the Times
*EU EV sales are up 25.6% in 2025*
Receipts in thread.
*EU EV sales are up 25.6% in 2025*
Receipts in thread.
Farage is such a compulsive liar, one benefitting enormously, for years, from the media’s lack of scrutiny & challenge.
Here at last we see a challenge, highlighting directly conflicting statements made just days apart.
Let us hope this empty, nasty little charlatan is finally going to be exposed.
Here at last we see a challenge, highlighting directly conflicting statements made just days apart.
Let us hope this empty, nasty little charlatan is finally going to be exposed.
‘I can categorically say that stories being told about me from 50 years ago are not true’
- a statement from Nigel Farage tonight on claims he racially abused fellow school pupils
That firm denial tonight is different to what he said in interview with BBC Wales Political Editor Gareth Lewis 👇
- a statement from Nigel Farage tonight on claims he racially abused fellow school pupils
That firm denial tonight is different to what he said in interview with BBC Wales Political Editor Gareth Lewis 👇
November 25, 2025 at 9:33 PM
Farage is such a compulsive liar, one benefitting enormously, for years, from the media’s lack of scrutiny & challenge.
Here at last we see a challenge, highlighting directly conflicting statements made just days apart.
Let us hope this empty, nasty little charlatan is finally going to be exposed.
Here at last we see a challenge, highlighting directly conflicting statements made just days apart.
Let us hope this empty, nasty little charlatan is finally going to be exposed.
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‘I can categorically say that stories being told about me from 50 years ago are not true’
- a statement from Nigel Farage tonight on claims he racially abused fellow school pupils
That firm denial tonight is different to what he said in interview with BBC Wales Political Editor Gareth Lewis 👇
- a statement from Nigel Farage tonight on claims he racially abused fellow school pupils
That firm denial tonight is different to what he said in interview with BBC Wales Political Editor Gareth Lewis 👇
November 25, 2025 at 9:05 PM
‘I can categorically say that stories being told about me from 50 years ago are not true’
- a statement from Nigel Farage tonight on claims he racially abused fellow school pupils
That firm denial tonight is different to what he said in interview with BBC Wales Political Editor Gareth Lewis 👇
- a statement from Nigel Farage tonight on claims he racially abused fellow school pupils
That firm denial tonight is different to what he said in interview with BBC Wales Political Editor Gareth Lewis 👇
This is so extraordinarily bad.
It is impossible to now know how much more self-censorship the BBC is engaged in re Trump.
The internal BBC saboteurs who started all of this need to be removed.
And the BBC needs to stop bending itself out of shape or its reputation will never recover.
It is impossible to now know how much more self-censorship the BBC is engaged in re Trump.
The internal BBC saboteurs who started all of this need to be removed.
And the BBC needs to stop bending itself out of shape or its reputation will never recover.
I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture.
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
November 25, 2025 at 4:02 PM
This is so extraordinarily bad.
It is impossible to now know how much more self-censorship the BBC is engaged in re Trump.
The internal BBC saboteurs who started all of this need to be removed.
And the BBC needs to stop bending itself out of shape or its reputation will never recover.
It is impossible to now know how much more self-censorship the BBC is engaged in re Trump.
The internal BBC saboteurs who started all of this need to be removed.
And the BBC needs to stop bending itself out of shape or its reputation will never recover.
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I ask again why any Government is still on X.
Grok has clearly been shaped in its owner’s image and likeness
I would very much like to know what Governments’ and journalists’ red lines are if this sort of thing is not.
apple.news/At85Jo9xFRzC...
Grok has clearly been shaped in its owner’s image and likeness
I would very much like to know what Governments’ and journalists’ red lines are if this sort of thing is not.
apple.news/At85Jo9xFRzC...
November 23, 2025 at 9:33 PM
I ask again why any Government is still on X.
Grok has clearly been shaped in its owner’s image and likeness
I would very much like to know what Governments’ and journalists’ red lines are if this sort of thing is not.
apple.news/At85Jo9xFRzC...
Grok has clearly been shaped in its owner’s image and likeness
I would very much like to know what Governments’ and journalists’ red lines are if this sort of thing is not.
apple.news/At85Jo9xFRzC...
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Growing backbench pressure about how government uses X
I hope this pressure can link up with pressure to recognise strength of prima facie evidence thst X is in breach of legal duties (in systemic failure of its complaints system to be compliant with UK law)
www.politicshome.com/news/article...
I hope this pressure can link up with pressure to recognise strength of prima facie evidence thst X is in breach of legal duties (in systemic failure of its complaints system to be compliant with UK law)
www.politicshome.com/news/article...
Labour MPs Call For A More Serious Review Of The Government's Use Of X
Labour MPs are calling for ministers to take control of decisions over the government’s continued use of X, as concerns grow about the platform’s s...
www.politicshome.com
November 20, 2025 at 1:13 PM
Growing backbench pressure about how government uses X
I hope this pressure can link up with pressure to recognise strength of prima facie evidence thst X is in breach of legal duties (in systemic failure of its complaints system to be compliant with UK law)
www.politicshome.com/news/article...
I hope this pressure can link up with pressure to recognise strength of prima facie evidence thst X is in breach of legal duties (in systemic failure of its complaints system to be compliant with UK law)
www.politicshome.com/news/article...
A problem in aligning with Reform’s view of the migration situation is that you have to adopt its distortions & lies to justify your actions: being like Reform means Labour have to become liars.
Another problem is that Labour then lose (more) credibility, while reinforcing Reform’s false position.
Another problem is that Labour then lose (more) credibility, while reinforcing Reform’s false position.
The UK isn’t a “soft touch” on asylum.
UK asylum seeker benefits are similar to European neighbours
No right to work before 12 months (it’s 6 months in France, Spain, Belgium, Netherlands)
UK settlement after 5 years (it’s 3 or 4 in Germany)
Let’s cut out the alarmist rhetoric.
UK asylum seeker benefits are similar to European neighbours
No right to work before 12 months (it’s 6 months in France, Spain, Belgium, Netherlands)
UK settlement after 5 years (it’s 3 or 4 in Germany)
Let’s cut out the alarmist rhetoric.
November 20, 2025 at 11:09 AM
A problem in aligning with Reform’s view of the migration situation is that you have to adopt its distortions & lies to justify your actions: being like Reform means Labour have to become liars.
Another problem is that Labour then lose (more) credibility, while reinforcing Reform’s false position.
Another problem is that Labour then lose (more) credibility, while reinforcing Reform’s false position.
I simply do not understand why these figures have not become as famous as the ones on the side of that stupid fucking bus.
Imagine what could have been done with this kind of money.
And why is it not mentioned to Farage every time he opens his lying malodorous face hole.
Imagine what could have been done with this kind of money.
And why is it not mentioned to Farage every time he opens his lying malodorous face hole.
John Major, "Our links to Europe and America may be loser now than once they were and that is a loss"
"The loss of trade with Europe alone costs us £100 billion of lost trade every year"
"That's a tax yield of £40 billion"
"How useful would that have been in recent months to the Chancellor?"
"The loss of trade with Europe alone costs us £100 billion of lost trade every year"
"That's a tax yield of £40 billion"
"How useful would that have been in recent months to the Chancellor?"
November 19, 2025 at 11:31 PM
I simply do not understand why these figures have not become as famous as the ones on the side of that stupid fucking bus.
Imagine what could have been done with this kind of money.
And why is it not mentioned to Farage every time he opens his lying malodorous face hole.
Imagine what could have been done with this kind of money.
And why is it not mentioned to Farage every time he opens his lying malodorous face hole.
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🚨🚨 Huge revelations about Farage from those who knew him in his youth. On the record.
"He would be sort of singing these kind of ‘gas ’em all’ sort of songs”
“I have a very strong memory of him using the W-word...and the P-word for those of south Asian origin"
www.theguardian.com/politics/ng-...
"He would be sort of singing these kind of ‘gas ’em all’ sort of songs”
“I have a very strong memory of him using the W-word...and the P-word for those of south Asian origin"
www.theguardian.com/politics/ng-...
‘Deeply shocking’: Nigel Farage faces fresh claims of racism and antisemitism at school
Bafta-winning director among contemporaries urging contrition and apology from Reform UK leader, who denies the allegations
www.theguardian.com
November 18, 2025 at 3:10 PM
🚨🚨 Huge revelations about Farage from those who knew him in his youth. On the record.
"He would be sort of singing these kind of ‘gas ’em all’ sort of songs”
“I have a very strong memory of him using the W-word...and the P-word for those of south Asian origin"
www.theguardian.com/politics/ng-...
"He would be sort of singing these kind of ‘gas ’em all’ sort of songs”
“I have a very strong memory of him using the W-word...and the P-word for those of south Asian origin"
www.theguardian.com/politics/ng-...
This is what has to happen once the elected government adopts policies to ape Reform. Just like them, like Farage over Brexit and every other issue he raises:
- they have to start lying in order to justify it.
This is the hidden cost of being Reform-Lite. They have to become liars.
- they have to start lying in order to justify it.
This is the hidden cost of being Reform-Lite. They have to become liars.
The Home Secretary says "we have become the destination of choice in Europe, clearly visible to every people smuggler and would-be illegal migrant across the world"
That is a factually untrue claim: the Home Office shows that the UK is fifth, getting 1/10 claims, while Germany gets 1/5 claims
That is a factually untrue claim: the Home Office shows that the UK is fifth, getting 1/10 claims, while Germany gets 1/5 claims
November 17, 2025 at 7:22 PM
This is what has to happen once the elected government adopts policies to ape Reform. Just like them, like Farage over Brexit and every other issue he raises:
- they have to start lying in order to justify it.
This is the hidden cost of being Reform-Lite. They have to become liars.
- they have to start lying in order to justify it.
This is the hidden cost of being Reform-Lite. They have to become liars.
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The Home Secretary says "we have become the destination of choice in Europe, clearly visible to every people smuggler and would-be illegal migrant across the world"
That is a factually untrue claim: the Home Office shows that the UK is fifth, getting 1/10 claims, while Germany gets 1/5 claims
That is a factually untrue claim: the Home Office shows that the UK is fifth, getting 1/10 claims, while Germany gets 1/5 claims
November 17, 2025 at 3:51 PM
The Home Secretary says "we have become the destination of choice in Europe, clearly visible to every people smuggler and would-be illegal migrant across the world"
That is a factually untrue claim: the Home Office shows that the UK is fifth, getting 1/10 claims, while Germany gets 1/5 claims
That is a factually untrue claim: the Home Office shows that the UK is fifth, getting 1/10 claims, while Germany gets 1/5 claims
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Published today in Earth System Science Data: The Global Carbon Budget 2025
essd.copernicus.org/preprints/es...
essd.copernicus.org/preprints/es...
Global Carbon Budget 2025
Abstract. Accurate assessment of anthropogenic carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions and their redistribution among the atmosphere, ocean, and terrestrial biosphere in a changing climate is critical to bette...
essd.copernicus.org
November 13, 2025 at 3:07 PM
Published today in Earth System Science Data: The Global Carbon Budget 2025
essd.copernicus.org/preprints/es...
essd.copernicus.org/preprints/es...
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This a big deal: "China’s carbon dioxide emissions have been flat or falling for 18 months"
China's economy has grown by ~5% in the last year, so this comprehensively debunks the idea (again) that emissions are tied to growth. So yes, faster progress needed, but this is how you turn the corner.
China's economy has grown by ~5% in the last year, so this comprehensively debunks the idea (again) that emissions are tied to growth. So yes, faster progress needed, but this is how you turn the corner.
China’s CO2 emissions have been flat or falling for past 18 months, analysis finds
World’s biggest polluter on track to hit peak emissions target early but miss goal for cutting carbon intensity
www.theguardian.com
November 11, 2025 at 9:20 AM
This a big deal: "China’s carbon dioxide emissions have been flat or falling for 18 months"
China's economy has grown by ~5% in the last year, so this comprehensively debunks the idea (again) that emissions are tied to growth. So yes, faster progress needed, but this is how you turn the corner.
China's economy has grown by ~5% in the last year, so this comprehensively debunks the idea (again) that emissions are tied to growth. So yes, faster progress needed, but this is how you turn the corner.
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Is there a journalist out there who still understands what a story is? Woodward and Bernstein, if they were trying to make a living now in British journalism, would be long-term unemployed.
I called this out on #BBCQT last night and I'm calling it out again now.
He is gaslighting a nation.
He is gaslighting a nation.
Farage insists ex-Reform UK Wales leader convicted of bribery is ‘bad apple’
October 10, 2025 at 10:00 PM
Is there a journalist out there who still understands what a story is? Woodward and Bernstein, if they were trying to make a living now in British journalism, would be long-term unemployed.
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I called this out on #BBCQT last night and I'm calling it out again now.
He is gaslighting a nation.
He is gaslighting a nation.
Farage insists ex-Reform UK Wales leader convicted of bribery is ‘bad apple’
Farage insists ex-Reform UK Wales leader convicted of bribery is ‘bad apple’
Farage said he was shocked by Nathan Gill’s admissions relating to pro-Russia statements
Nigel Farage has insisted his party’s former leader in Wales who was convicted of taking pro-Russian bribes was a “bad apple” who betrayed him.
The Reform UK leader was in Caerphilly campaigning for his candidate in a forthcoming Senedd byelection when he was asked about his links to Nathan Gill. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
October 10, 2025 at 4:11 PM
I called this out on #BBCQT last night and I'm calling it out again now.
He is gaslighting a nation.
He is gaslighting a nation.
Good grief, why has it taken so long to make this statement?!
Anyway, finally, glad it’s here, and it’s good to finally get it out there.
Farage is an arsonist, one who seems to have done rather well out of his political profile.
Posh boy flag waving simplistic conman.
Anyway, finally, glad it’s here, and it’s good to finally get it out there.
Farage is an arsonist, one who seems to have done rather well out of his political profile.
Posh boy flag waving simplistic conman.
October 10, 2025 at 9:53 PM
Good grief, why has it taken so long to make this statement?!
Anyway, finally, glad it’s here, and it’s good to finally get it out there.
Farage is an arsonist, one who seems to have done rather well out of his political profile.
Posh boy flag waving simplistic conman.
Anyway, finally, glad it’s here, and it’s good to finally get it out there.
Farage is an arsonist, one who seems to have done rather well out of his political profile.
Posh boy flag waving simplistic conman.
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For 56 minutes Sky News and BBC News interrupted everything else and carried a Reform UK feed live, uninterrupted, unchallenged. The stream spluttered, froze, pixelated - dozens of times - still they stuck with it. FOR ONE HOUR.
This is an editorial choice. No other party gets this coverage. ~AA
This is an editorial choice. No other party gets this coverage. ~AA
September 22, 2025 at 11:01 AM
For 56 minutes Sky News and BBC News interrupted everything else and carried a Reform UK feed live, uninterrupted, unchallenged. The stream spluttered, froze, pixelated - dozens of times - still they stuck with it. FOR ONE HOUR.
This is an editorial choice. No other party gets this coverage. ~AA
This is an editorial choice. No other party gets this coverage. ~AA
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There should be a high bar for politicians attacking the media, but maybe Ed Davey has half a point here?
For example, the first three paragraphs of this BBC story repeat Reform's £243bn figure without saying that the thinktank behind the estimate now disowns it. (This is mentioned in paragraph 35)
For example, the first three paragraphs of this BBC story repeat Reform's £243bn figure without saying that the thinktank behind the estimate now disowns it. (This is mentioned in paragraph 35)
September 22, 2025 at 4:46 PM
There should be a high bar for politicians attacking the media, but maybe Ed Davey has half a point here?
For example, the first three paragraphs of this BBC story repeat Reform's £243bn figure without saying that the thinktank behind the estimate now disowns it. (This is mentioned in paragraph 35)
For example, the first three paragraphs of this BBC story repeat Reform's £243bn figure without saying that the thinktank behind the estimate now disowns it. (This is mentioned in paragraph 35)