Journalist. Former Deputy Editor, The Guardian
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‘It is sickening the USA is lifting sanctions on Russian oil. Putin is murdering innocent Ukrainian civilians every day. And yet the White House is apparently determined to force American drivers to bankroll Putin’s slaughter’
-Boris Johnson
Remember this from 2024?
‘The global wokerati are trembling so violently you can hear the ice tinkling in their negronis... but a Trump presidency could be just what the world needs’
-Boris Johnson
Adjust the triple lock
Create National Care Service
Take control of water
End leasehold scandal
Build council houses
Call out Brexit for what it is
No attack on Tories
No mention of Reform
-Creative politics
@andyburnham
Angela Rayner on Nigel Farage:
‘If he’ll sing you a happy birthday song for 70 quid, just think what he’ll do for 70 million’
Two donations to Reform for £36m each inside 24 hours
-Both from crypto billionaires
-Both say they don’t want anything in return
But there is a clue: This via @thetimes :
‘Nigel Farage has been a strong proponent of cryptocurrency and has criticised regulations on the sector’
WTF…
Farage receives second £36m donation in two days telegraph.co.uk/politics/202…
Reform gets £36m from a crypto billionaire.
His name is Ben Delo
‘In 2022, he pleaded guilty in the US to failing to implement an anti-money laundering programme, but was pardoned by Donald Trump, the US president, last year’
So that’s ok then
‘Patriots’
‘A group of masked agitators gathered outside a four-star hotel in Portsmouth after reports a group of asylum seekers had been taken there, when it was in fact Pakistan’s under-19 cricket team on a tour’
Via @guardian
The Met is carrying out a criminal investigation into allegations Reform UK broke law in relation to foreign finding
@BBCNews
A test of Farage’s defence:
-It’s a hoax
-It’s entrapment
-It’s foreign interference
-It’s contractors mouthing off
-No one cares
-Nothing to do with me. I wasn’t listening
Paul Johnson retweeted
The fact this is the first visit to Kyiv by the son in law and the property spiv, after getting their selfies and bootlicking soundbites with Putin in Moscow (almost double figures for their Russia with Love trips) says all you need to know about the extent to which Trump is on Putin’s side and probably only they (and the Russian spooks) really know why … decent people the world over stand with Zelensky not Putin and Trump
First it was a hoax
Then entrapment
Then just ‘contractors’ mouthing off
Now: ‘I wasn’t listening’
He was there. He was on camera. He was part of the conversation. He knew
We’re back! #bbclaurak Farage tells me he ‘frankly wasn’t listening’ when his former chief of staff and undercover reporters were discussing donations of thousands of pounds
On camera. Soliciting money from abroad. Knowing it’s a criminal offence. In the presence of Nigel Farage
Two aides to Farage suspended
And from Richard Tice: ‘It’s Ch4 who have broken the law’
Staggering
@BBCr4today
What he says:
Ed Miliband is ‘an appalling choice for foreign secretary. The Kremlin will be delighted’
-Boris Johnson
What he’s done
Donald Trump handed the FIFA World Cup to Spain
-A nation he called ‘hopeless, bad people and losers’
So, after playing sly, cheating, shithouse football for 124 minutes, it was good to see Argentina gracious and sporting at the end
Harry Kane:
‘Once we went 1-0 up we seemed to just try and hold on. It’s not enough for this level’
Another way of putting it:
The manager’s timidity and lack of trust cost us the game
