To the people voting for Nigel Farage: is this really the finger you want on the red button?: ‘Anyone who judges that this intemperate psychological liability should have access to the nuclear codes and other top-level information must have a subconscious wish for their answer to the question āwhere do you see yourself in five yearsā time?ā to be āliving in Britainās catacombs and distilling drinking water from my own urineā.’
Politics
2026-10-08: The secretive, cruel and often illegally enacted deportation deals between the US and third party countries revealed
2026-10-04: 'Empire of AI' - artificial intelligence as an imperialist project
2026-10-04: 'Conflicts between states highest level since World War II'
2026-09-29
2026-09-23
2026-09-22
How remigration became a buzzword for global far right: ‘The move to the mainstream of terms such as remigration would probably not be possible were it not for centrists and mainstream politicians willing to legitimise this discourse’
2026-09-19
UK politics increasingly funded by billionaires as mega-donations surge: Bad for democracy, terrible for those of us who are not billionaires.
2026-09-19: An investigative journalist describes how one of the most consequential acts of sabotage in recent history (probably) took place, and what came next
2026-09-18
Resist the anti-disability propaganda: The cruel and harmful rhetoric from supposed Christian Nationalists is in fact very unchristian.
2026-09-15: Reform UK are wasting time and money launching a dumb mobile game to let you pretend you are the navy stopping small boats
2026-09-14: Two non-resident crypto billionaires are attempting to wreck British politics even further by funnelling astonishing amounts of cash towards Nigel Farage
2026-09-14: Political high-ups accusing everyday people or fraud are simply telling you what they themselves would do
2026-09-14
The perilous economic conditions facing the UK can be traced back to Trump: Primarily 1) war in Iran, 2) tariffs. Anyone who loves Britain should loathe Trump.
2026-09-13
Warning: our democracy wonāt survive the death of reading. Read on if you still can: Not the first time I’ve seen this sort of claim.
2026-09-11: At least some members of Patriot Platform clearly had something beyond the extremely misnamed and ā¦
2026-09-11: As predicted, whilst Nigel Farage can be rightfully credited with coming out against the tactics - ā¦
2026-09-10: This week in British far-right idiocy
2026-09-09
Councils pay more than Ā£125m a year placing vulnerable children in illegal care homes in England: Private companies inevitably getting in on this lucrative ‘business’.
2026-09-08
What is Patriot Platform, the far-right group that descended on Dover and Portsmouth?: Another England-hating group of cowards led by another convicted criminal.
Majority of Tory and Reform voters do not back cuts to disability benefits, survey finds: It’s a shame then that Reform have so little respect for their membership.
āArmy of patriotsā: how a black-clad Christian vigilante group swarmed Portsmouth: Important story, bad headline - these people are not patriots or Christians as far as I can tell.
2026-09-01
Number of young people with no close friends has soared since 2014 in England: ‘The number of young people with no close friends has risen fivefold since 2014 as a result of growing up in a “bleak world” dominated by austerity, the pandemic and social media.’
2026-08-31: This is a shame (in my view): Iceland rejects EU accession talks after divisive referendum campaign. ā¦
2026-08-30
Arms and the Ā£5m man: Farage megadonor Christopher Harborneās military empire: Cryptocurrency isn’t the only enterprise making Reform’s number one donor very rich.