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There's a one hour special on Nigel Farage and Reform UK, and whether they are ready to lead, on BBC2
Presumably, there will be a similar one hour special on Zack Polanski, and whether The Greens are ready to lead, as well?
Presumably, there will be a similar one hour special on Zack Polanski, and whether The Greens are ready to lead, as well?
February 4, 2026 at 9:38 PM
There's a one hour special on Nigel Farage and Reform UK, and whether they are ready to lead, on BBC2
Presumably, there will be a similar one hour special on Zack Polanski, and whether The Greens are ready to lead, as well?
Presumably, there will be a similar one hour special on Zack Polanski, and whether The Greens are ready to lead, as well?
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Most of our media is studiously ignoring the Epstein links to Brexit, Farage and far right populism. Farage is being touted for No.10. He wants an even more extreme Brexit. A race to the bottom to sell us out to this global network of oligarch crooks.
Why TF isn’t he being investigated and stopped?
Why TF isn’t he being investigated and stopped?
Post-Brexit, Epstein told Thiel: "Brexit is just the beginning" – eyeing crypto deregulation via right-populism. 7/12
February 4, 2026 at 10:28 PM
Most of our media is studiously ignoring the Epstein links to Brexit, Farage and far right populism. Farage is being touted for No.10. He wants an even more extreme Brexit. A race to the bottom to sell us out to this global network of oligarch crooks.
Why TF isn’t he being investigated and stopped?
Why TF isn’t he being investigated and stopped?
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On BBC2 tonight there’s a programme with guess who, Laura Kuenssberg called “Reform: Ready to Rule?”
Once again the BBC platforming Farage & his party!!😤🤬
Will it ask searching questions? Hold them to account? Unlikely!!
I assume an hour programme profiling the Green Party or Lib Dems will follow?🤔
Once again the BBC platforming Farage & his party!!😤🤬
Will it ask searching questions? Hold them to account? Unlikely!!
I assume an hour programme profiling the Green Party or Lib Dems will follow?🤔
February 4, 2026 at 7:04 PM
On BBC2 tonight there’s a programme with guess who, Laura Kuenssberg called “Reform: Ready to Rule?”
Once again the BBC platforming Farage & his party!!😤🤬
Will it ask searching questions? Hold them to account? Unlikely!!
I assume an hour programme profiling the Green Party or Lib Dems will follow?🤔
Once again the BBC platforming Farage & his party!!😤🤬
Will it ask searching questions? Hold them to account? Unlikely!!
I assume an hour programme profiling the Green Party or Lib Dems will follow?🤔
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Farage on Mandelson:
“There were the
allegations of leaking sensitive govt information to a foreign national, possible insider trading. He wondered aloud over whether the Official Secrets Act had been broken…”
Only someone so cocksure about not being held to account himself would do this.
(Times)
“There were the
allegations of leaking sensitive govt information to a foreign national, possible insider trading. He wondered aloud over whether the Official Secrets Act had been broken…”
Only someone so cocksure about not being held to account himself would do this.
(Times)
February 4, 2026 at 9:12 AM
Farage on Mandelson:
“There were the
allegations of leaking sensitive govt information to a foreign national, possible insider trading. He wondered aloud over whether the Official Secrets Act had been broken…”
Only someone so cocksure about not being held to account himself would do this.
(Times)
“There were the
allegations of leaking sensitive govt information to a foreign national, possible insider trading. He wondered aloud over whether the Official Secrets Act had been broken…”
Only someone so cocksure about not being held to account himself would do this.
(Times)
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My advisor, friend and right hand man, George Cottrell, has written a book called 'How To Launder Money', no doubt using his experience of being charged with offering money laundering services to criminals on the dark web.
Of no interest to me, obvs.
Of no interest to me, obvs.
February 3, 2026 at 8:14 PM
My advisor, friend and right hand man, George Cottrell, has written a book called 'How To Launder Money', no doubt using his experience of being charged with offering money laundering services to criminals on the dark web.
Of no interest to me, obvs.
Of no interest to me, obvs.
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Farage Fatigue continues as everyone’s second least popular antisemite launches his “Save Our Pubs!” campaign to near silence.
No one is talking about Farage’s presser.
All pundits & press focused on Epstein, Mandelson & the Gorton By-election.
No one is talking about Farage’s presser.
All pundits & press focused on Epstein, Mandelson & the Gorton By-election.
February 3, 2026 at 9:02 PM
Farage Fatigue continues as everyone’s second least popular antisemite launches his “Save Our Pubs!” campaign to near silence.
No one is talking about Farage’s presser.
All pundits & press focused on Epstein, Mandelson & the Gorton By-election.
No one is talking about Farage’s presser.
All pundits & press focused on Epstein, Mandelson & the Gorton By-election.
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“The Blob is infiltrating Reform”
Liz Truss has a good new nickname for Jenrick…
God these people are all dismal. Disloyal, nasty, whining, idiotic, self-serving, undignified, corrupt, MAGA-funded menaces.
They need to be booted out of our political and public life forever.
(iPaper)
Liz Truss has a good new nickname for Jenrick…
God these people are all dismal. Disloyal, nasty, whining, idiotic, self-serving, undignified, corrupt, MAGA-funded menaces.
They need to be booted out of our political and public life forever.
(iPaper)
February 4, 2026 at 7:48 AM
“The Blob is infiltrating Reform”
Liz Truss has a good new nickname for Jenrick…
God these people are all dismal. Disloyal, nasty, whining, idiotic, self-serving, undignified, corrupt, MAGA-funded menaces.
They need to be booted out of our political and public life forever.
(iPaper)
Liz Truss has a good new nickname for Jenrick…
God these people are all dismal. Disloyal, nasty, whining, idiotic, self-serving, undignified, corrupt, MAGA-funded menaces.
They need to be booted out of our political and public life forever.
(iPaper)
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Half a million children will be pushed back into poverty.
For maybe 5p off a pint.
What a shitty thing to do…
www.bigissue.com/news/politic...
For maybe 5p off a pint.
What a shitty thing to do…
www.bigissue.com/news/politic...
Nigel Farage wants to cut price of beer by reinstating two-child benefit cap
Reform UK leader Nigel Farage has pledged to reinstate the two-child limit on benefits to pay for a 5p cut off pints of beer to boost pubs.
www.bigissue.com
February 3, 2026 at 8:06 PM
Half a million children will be pushed back into poverty.
For maybe 5p off a pint.
What a shitty thing to do…
www.bigissue.com/news/politic...
For maybe 5p off a pint.
What a shitty thing to do…
www.bigissue.com/news/politic...
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“They were careless people… - they smashed up things… then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness, or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made…”
Yes Mandelson. But don’t ignore what Farage et al did (and still do) to help them.
Yes Mandelson. But don’t ignore what Farage et al did (and still do) to help them.
Epstein believed that he was ushering in some kind of political revolution in the late 2010s, supporting far-right candidates across Europe. But it's clear from reading his emails that he was learning how to fit into that world as it was being created.
www.garbageday.email/p/here-s-how...
www.garbageday.email/p/here-s-how...
February 3, 2026 at 8:10 AM
“They were careless people… - they smashed up things… then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness, or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made…”
Yes Mandelson. But don’t ignore what Farage et al did (and still do) to help them.
Yes Mandelson. But don’t ignore what Farage et al did (and still do) to help them.
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London continues to lead. Last week we were ⤵️
Recognised as one of the greenest global cities with spectacular green spaces and cleaner air.
Named the ‘new Hollywood’ - attracting record investment.
Ignore the haters: London is the greatest city.
Recognised as one of the greenest global cities with spectacular green spaces and cleaner air.
Named the ‘new Hollywood’ - attracting record investment.
Ignore the haters: London is the greatest city.
February 2, 2026 at 8:00 AM
London continues to lead. Last week we were ⤵️
Recognised as one of the greenest global cities with spectacular green spaces and cleaner air.
Named the ‘new Hollywood’ - attracting record investment.
Ignore the haters: London is the greatest city.
Recognised as one of the greenest global cities with spectacular green spaces and cleaner air.
Named the ‘new Hollywood’ - attracting record investment.
Ignore the haters: London is the greatest city.
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Not sure ‘botched’ Brexit is the way to go. Particularly as Farage agrees, blames the Tories and threatens to make it even worse.
At some point you need to tell the truth. It’s not botched. It’s exactly what you get when you prioritise prejudice over pragmatism.
app.independent.co.uk/2026/02/01/2...
At some point you need to tell the truth. It’s not botched. It’s exactly what you get when you prioritise prejudice over pragmatism.
app.independent.co.uk/2026/02/01/2...
February 2, 2026 at 7:43 AM
Not sure ‘botched’ Brexit is the way to go. Particularly as Farage agrees, blames the Tories and threatens to make it even worse.
At some point you need to tell the truth. It’s not botched. It’s exactly what you get when you prioritise prejudice over pragmatism.
app.independent.co.uk/2026/02/01/2...
At some point you need to tell the truth. It’s not botched. It’s exactly what you get when you prioritise prejudice over pragmatism.
app.independent.co.uk/2026/02/01/2...
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So essentially they’re creating fake companies as a vehicle to launder money into The Reform campaign, whilst keeping the identify of the source of the money a secret. How is this legal? It’s fraud surely?
February 1, 2026 at 9:35 AM
So essentially they’re creating fake companies as a vehicle to launder money into The Reform campaign, whilst keeping the identify of the source of the money a secret. How is this legal? It’s fraud surely?
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Here’s the full story.. and it stinks.
How anyone can think Farage will do anything good for our country when we’re already trapped in the tedious, ruinous Brexit mess he’s made, god only knows. This nasty little gobshite will never fix any problems. He IS the problem.
How anyone can think Farage will do anything good for our country when we’re already trapped in the tedious, ruinous Brexit mess he’s made, god only knows. This nasty little gobshite will never fix any problems. He IS the problem.
![Reform's churchwarden riddle
Extract
A churchwarden from Potters Bar who works for the family of a highly secretive, Kazakhstan-born billionaire can be revealed as the man behind £200,000 of donations to Reform UK.
John Richard Simpson is a 59-year-old conveyancer whose parish website describes him as an "experienced" and
"dedicated" Anglican lay leader.
He is the owner of Interior
Architecture Landscape Limited, which made seven payments to Nigel Farage's party last summer. The firm, which was originally owned via a trust in the British Virgin Islands, is so small it does not have to file professionally audited accounts. It did not display any contact details until recently and was almost wound up by HMRC after a tax dispute last year.
Simpson, known locally as Bill, "does conveyancing, but is not a fully qualified solicitor", according to a Facebook post by a neighbour in the Hertfordshire town. There is no evidence he has any background in interior design. He has no known political affiliation or background in activism.
He would not discuss the source of the funds donated to Reform last week.
Simpson has long worked for Sasan and Yasmin Ghandehari, a married couple who a spokesman for the interior design company acknowledged were "clients".
Last month, the Ghandehari family office sponsored Farage's pass to Davos and a hotel in the Swiss resort for the World Economic Forum's annual gathering. They claimed to have retained the Reform leader as "an honorary and unpaid adviser" in an arrangement first reported by the Financial Times.
In response to inquiries, Farage's spokesman said: "[Sasan] Ghandehari has attended a Reform UK fundraising event and they are friends of the party." It is understood the event in question took place at Oswald's, a private members' club in Mavfair.
It is illegal for a foreign national or entity to donate directly to a party. Yet a trading British company is automatically eligible to donate.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:c4xtyto7nrklhfkroyrsce2w/bafkreidrxmr4miirybjl5wb5p7wwb5fuznljlajjckoz5bamxiqfhr4txa@jpeg)
![Churchwarden with connection to Kazakh-born tycoon is behind £200k of donations to Reform
Extract:
They claimed to have retained the Reform leader as "an honorary and unpaid adviser", an arrangement first reported by the Financial Times.
In response to inquiries,
Farage's spokesman said: "[Sasan]
Ghandehari has attended a Reform UK fundraising event and they are friends of the party." It is understood the event took place at Oswald's, a private members' club in Mayfair.
It is illegal for a foreign national or entity to donate directly to a party. Yet a trading British company is automatically eligible to donate. There is nothing to
stop a foreign investor or owner depositing funds in a UK company which in turn donates to a political party.
Sasan and Yasmin Ghandehari have been described as "Iranian-born" and
"British" in media reports but it is unclear whether they hold British citizenship.
Sasan gave his nationality as Iranian and his profession as "businessman" in a
Companies
House document dated
2002.
The Ghandeharis are prolific art collectors and sit on a fundraising committee for the Tate. They derive their wealth from Sasan's mother, Hourieh Peramaa, who was born in Kazakhstan and fled to Iran as a child before investing in property and becoming a billionaire.
Named by Chatham House as a "politi-
cally exposed" or
"high-risk"
person
from a post-Soviet state, she is so secretive that there is almost no verifiable information about her and it is not
known if she is still alive. She would be 97 if so.
The family faced controversy in 2008, when the former head of Kazakhstan's intelligence services claimed they had bought Royal Mansion, a £50 million home in The Bishops Avenue, London — known as "billionaires' row"
- for Nursultan Nazarbayev, then the dictator of the oil and gas-rich state.
Sasan Ghandehari denied this was the case. However, he acknowledged having a personal relationship with the ruler.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:c4xtyto7nrklhfkroyrsce2w/bafkreigm4z3bim57cdqewaytq4af62njzxffjb7ay7joxtueuzgmp7xjou@jpeg)
February 1, 2026 at 9:32 AM
Here’s the full story.. and it stinks.
How anyone can think Farage will do anything good for our country when we’re already trapped in the tedious, ruinous Brexit mess he’s made, god only knows. This nasty little gobshite will never fix any problems. He IS the problem.
How anyone can think Farage will do anything good for our country when we’re already trapped in the tedious, ruinous Brexit mess he’s made, god only knows. This nasty little gobshite will never fix any problems. He IS the problem.
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This is what’s known as dodgy as fuck…
Farage is in hock to murky foreign billionaires, taking their money to prioritise their interests if they buy him power. He’s exploiting people’s racism and anger to pretend he’s on their side. But he’s already sold them out.
www.thetimes.com/article/660a...
Farage is in hock to murky foreign billionaires, taking their money to prioritise their interests if they buy him power. He’s exploiting people’s racism and anger to pretend he’s on their side. But he’s already sold them out.
www.thetimes.com/article/660a...
Churchwarden linked to foreign-born billionaire is behind £200k Reform gift
The man whose firm made the donations will not discuss where the money came from, nor his ties to wealthy Farage allies who may not hold citizenship
www.thetimes.com
February 1, 2026 at 9:20 AM
This is what’s known as dodgy as fuck…
Farage is in hock to murky foreign billionaires, taking their money to prioritise their interests if they buy him power. He’s exploiting people’s racism and anger to pretend he’s on their side. But he’s already sold them out.
www.thetimes.com/article/660a...
Farage is in hock to murky foreign billionaires, taking their money to prioritise their interests if they buy him power. He’s exploiting people’s racism and anger to pretend he’s on their side. But he’s already sold them out.
www.thetimes.com/article/660a...
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The Express… and Farage… want Brexit to be even worse than this…
Even more cost. More losses. More red tape. More queues. More businesses failing. Less tax revenue. Less investment. Less protection. Fewer rights. Less security.
But more white.
Their racism ruins us.
bsky.app/profile/euro...
Even more cost. More losses. More red tape. More queues. More businesses failing. Less tax revenue. Less investment. Less protection. Fewer rights. Less security.
But more white.
Their racism ruins us.
bsky.app/profile/euro...
Where's the £350 million a year Brexiters claimed we'd gain...?
January 31, 2026 at 9:12 AM
The Express… and Farage… want Brexit to be even worse than this…
Even more cost. More losses. More red tape. More queues. More businesses failing. Less tax revenue. Less investment. Less protection. Fewer rights. Less security.
But more white.
Their racism ruins us.
bsky.app/profile/euro...
Even more cost. More losses. More red tape. More queues. More businesses failing. Less tax revenue. Less investment. Less protection. Fewer rights. Less security.
But more white.
Their racism ruins us.
bsky.app/profile/euro...
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Can’t believe they released the Epstein files to cover up for the Melania movie.
January 30, 2026 at 7:47 PM
Can’t believe they released the Epstein files to cover up for the Melania movie.
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Really?!?!
Shocked?!?! Where has he been all this time?
Shocked?!?! Where has he been all this time?
January 30, 2026 at 3:35 AM
Really?!?!
Shocked?!?! Where has he been all this time?
Shocked?!?! Where has he been all this time?
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In Manchester working.
In London outside his mansion with his sports car that is worth more than your house.
It is obvious which you should vote for.
In London outside his mansion with his sports car that is worth more than your house.
It is obvious which you should vote for.
January 30, 2026 at 9:43 PM
In Manchester working.
In London outside his mansion with his sports car that is worth more than your house.
It is obvious which you should vote for.
In London outside his mansion with his sports car that is worth more than your house.
It is obvious which you should vote for.
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Fantastic - we can update Matt Goodwin's election publicity to say "As endorsed by a far right criminal thug"
January 30, 2026 at 10:14 PM
Fantastic - we can update Matt Goodwin's election publicity to say "As endorsed by a far right criminal thug"
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Tragic really. 10 years on. Rocking back and forth in its pungent prejudice-and-nostalgia-soaked corner, begging the architects of their precious Brexit to make - whatever their impossible fantasy was - come true.
It’s truly pathetic.
It’s truly pathetic.
Daily Express: NOW YOU MUST GIVE BRITAIN A PROPER BREXIT #TomorrowsPapersToday
January 30, 2026 at 10:35 PM
Tragic really. 10 years on. Rocking back and forth in its pungent prejudice-and-nostalgia-soaked corner, begging the architects of their precious Brexit to make - whatever their impossible fantasy was - come true.
It’s truly pathetic.
It’s truly pathetic.
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Very much enjoyed meeting Matt Goodwin and his surprisingly honest supporters.
January 30, 2026 at 5:58 PM
Very much enjoyed meeting Matt Goodwin and his surprisingly honest supporters.
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Given his appalling remarks about Sunak its absolutely shocking that Konstantin Kisin is anywhere near the mainstream let alone on #bbcqt
Konstantin Kisin straight up lying on #bbcqt
Douglas Alexander: “When Fraser Nelson put it to you that Rishi Sunak is absolutely english… you said “he’s a brown Hindu, how is he english?”
Kisin: “No, that’s not what I said...”
Douglas Alexander: “When Fraser Nelson put it to you that Rishi Sunak is absolutely english… you said “he’s a brown Hindu, how is he english?”
Kisin: “No, that’s not what I said...”
January 30, 2026 at 7:27 AM
Given his appalling remarks about Sunak its absolutely shocking that Konstantin Kisin is anywhere near the mainstream let alone on #bbcqt
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“Zia Yusuf, the party's head of policy, told the Times last year that his party would adopt a 'Trump 2.0' approach to immigration, saying: "We are going to move at great speed. It'll be much more like Trump mark two than Trump mark one"
When they tell you who they are, you better listen”
When they tell you who they are, you better listen”
The Reform rising star who stands with ICE
Joseph Boam, a councillor and Farage favourite, has given his support to the trigger-happy MAGA militia in the wake of the latest shooting
www.thenewworld.co.uk/rats-in-a-sa...
Joseph Boam, a councillor and Farage favourite, has given his support to the trigger-happy MAGA militia in the wake of the latest shooting
www.thenewworld.co.uk/rats-in-a-sa...
The Reform rising star who stands with ICE
Jospeh Boam, a councillor and Farage favourite, has given his support to the trigger-happy MAGA militia in the wake of the latest shooting
www.thenewworld.co.uk
January 30, 2026 at 7:29 AM
“Zia Yusuf, the party's head of policy, told the Times last year that his party would adopt a 'Trump 2.0' approach to immigration, saying: "We are going to move at great speed. It'll be much more like Trump mark two than Trump mark one"
When they tell you who they are, you better listen”
When they tell you who they are, you better listen”
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The USA, where the summary execution of an unarmed man can now be justified by the actual president, because on a separate occasion he kicked the tail light of a "very expensive government vehicle."
January 30, 2026 at 7:24 AM
The USA, where the summary execution of an unarmed man can now be justified by the actual president, because on a separate occasion he kicked the tail light of a "very expensive government vehicle."
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This is very good on just how trapped we are by the geopolitical weakness, anti-immigrant rhetoric and trade dysfunction of Brexit.
By not changing the Tory record, for fear of alienating Reform voters, Labour - and so the country - is hamstrung by strategic idiocy and populist cruelty.
By not changing the Tory record, for fear of alienating Reform voters, Labour - and so the country - is hamstrung by strategic idiocy and populist cruelty.
My Trade Secrets today, in which it's fair to say I go off on one.
The Labour party is famously "a moral crusade or it is nothing". On aid, immigration and trade they're going for the latter option, with betrayals of principle both repugnant and pointless. 1/n
The Labour party is famously "a moral crusade or it is nothing". On aid, immigration and trade they're going for the latter option, with betrayals of principle both repugnant and pointless. 1/n
The abandonment of Labour’s moral crusade
[FREE TO READ] The UK is taking a cynical but fruitless turn to the reactionary and insular on aid, immigration and trade
as.ft.com
January 29, 2026 at 1:06 PM
This is very good on just how trapped we are by the geopolitical weakness, anti-immigrant rhetoric and trade dysfunction of Brexit.
By not changing the Tory record, for fear of alienating Reform voters, Labour - and so the country - is hamstrung by strategic idiocy and populist cruelty.
By not changing the Tory record, for fear of alienating Reform voters, Labour - and so the country - is hamstrung by strategic idiocy and populist cruelty.