@mrkevinb.bsky.social
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Another case of Reform saying one thing then doing the other:
A Reform-led council is planning to double council tax on second homes six months after party leader Nigel Farage denounced such policies as “madness” and “extortion”
By me, for Politics Home www.politicshome.com/news/article...
A Reform-led council is planning to double council tax on second homes six months after party leader Nigel Farage denounced such policies as “madness” and “extortion”
By me, for Politics Home www.politicshome.com/news/article...
Reform Council To Double Tax On Second Homes Despite Nigel Farage Calling The Idea 'Madness'
A Reform-led council is planning to double council tax on second homes six months after party leader Nigel Farage denounced such policies as “madne...
www.politicshome.com
November 11, 2025 at 9:32 AM
Another case of Reform saying one thing then doing the other:
A Reform-led council is planning to double council tax on second homes six months after party leader Nigel Farage denounced such policies as “madness” and “extortion”
By me, for Politics Home www.politicshome.com/news/article...
A Reform-led council is planning to double council tax on second homes six months after party leader Nigel Farage denounced such policies as “madness” and “extortion”
By me, for Politics Home www.politicshome.com/news/article...
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I don‘t know much about the US legal system, but I do know that free speech is supposedly protected by the constitution and that if you allege libel you have to prove it. This is as much as anything an issue of judgement and courage, by the BBC - which is leaderless - & the govt. Not optimistic.
November 11, 2025 at 9:25 AM
I don‘t know much about the US legal system, but I do know that free speech is supposedly protected by the constitution and that if you allege libel you have to prove it. This is as much as anything an issue of judgement and courage, by the BBC - which is leaderless - & the govt. Not optimistic.
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So, indeed, Trump can no longer bring a defamation claim in the English High Court. He apparently wants to file one in Florida, but I doubt Panorama was actually broadcast there. Proving damages seems tough in my non-expert view (coupled with higher bar for defamation of public figures in the US).
November 11, 2025 at 9:18 AM
So, indeed, Trump can no longer bring a defamation claim in the English High Court. He apparently wants to file one in Florida, but I doubt Panorama was actually broadcast there. Proving damages seems tough in my non-expert view (coupled with higher bar for defamation of public figures in the US).
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Joe makes a fair point that Trump is all about grinding nuisance claims and wearing down opponents through attritional costs, whatever the merits of the case.
But I feel like the relative flimsiness of his potential claim is not really getting a lot of air time in this furor.
But I feel like the relative flimsiness of his potential claim is not really getting a lot of air time in this furor.
I don’t know if it was broadcast in US. But that, and the actual malice threshold, are beside the point where Trump litigation is concerned. The strategy is to force defendants to fight an increasingly expensive and invasive case in the hope that they cave.
November 11, 2025 at 9:18 AM
Joe makes a fair point that Trump is all about grinding nuisance claims and wearing down opponents through attritional costs, whatever the merits of the case.
But I feel like the relative flimsiness of his potential claim is not really getting a lot of air time in this furor.
But I feel like the relative flimsiness of his potential claim is not really getting a lot of air time in this furor.
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Perhaps the BBC could offer Trump one of his beloved deals: they'll apologise for broadcasting sections of his speech, if he apologises for trying to overthrow an election, lying about the result, pressuring election officials, urging a crowd to "fight like hell" & pardoning those who did just that.
November 11, 2025 at 8:09 AM
Perhaps the BBC could offer Trump one of his beloved deals: they'll apologise for broadcasting sections of his speech, if he apologises for trying to overthrow an election, lying about the result, pressuring election officials, urging a crowd to "fight like hell" & pardoning those who did just that.
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Now THAT’S a Project I can support!! 👊
November 6, 2025 at 12:51 PM
Now THAT’S a Project I can support!! 👊
So David Lamy didn’t wear a Poppy.
I don’t wear One, have I bought and donated to the British Legion YES.
Pure virtue signalling !!!!
I don’t wear One, have I bought and donated to the British Legion YES.
Pure virtue signalling !!!!
November 5, 2025 at 6:15 PM
So David Lamy didn’t wear a Poppy.
I don’t wear One, have I bought and donated to the British Legion YES.
Pure virtue signalling !!!!
I don’t wear One, have I bought and donated to the British Legion YES.
Pure virtue signalling !!!!
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As anti-Labour media will always put words in her mouth, why not beat them to it:
"Yes it's true, Daily Mail readers, we are coming for you and your money because a) everyone else had to pay under the Tories b) Brexit screwed the poor c) you voted for both. Cheers, Rachel."
"Yes it's true, Daily Mail readers, we are coming for you and your money because a) everyone else had to pay under the Tories b) Brexit screwed the poor c) you voted for both. Cheers, Rachel."
November 4, 2025 at 8:57 AM
As anti-Labour media will always put words in her mouth, why not beat them to it:
"Yes it's true, Daily Mail readers, we are coming for you and your money because a) everyone else had to pay under the Tories b) Brexit screwed the poor c) you voted for both. Cheers, Rachel."
"Yes it's true, Daily Mail readers, we are coming for you and your money because a) everyone else had to pay under the Tories b) Brexit screwed the poor c) you voted for both. Cheers, Rachel."
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@mrjamesob.bsky.social @lbc.co.uk asks Why wasn’t the triple horror of Brexit, self inflicted austerity and Covid mismanagement pointed out by Labour before now? Swallow the snake oil once and you’ve been grifted. Swallow it twice and you’re complicit in your own destruction.
November 4, 2025 at 10:21 AM
@mrjamesob.bsky.social @lbc.co.uk asks Why wasn’t the triple horror of Brexit, self inflicted austerity and Covid mismanagement pointed out by Labour before now? Swallow the snake oil once and you’ve been grifted. Swallow it twice and you’re complicit in your own destruction.
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Much talk about how train services can be made safer in the wake of the Huntingdon attack.
Perhaps stop treating mental health services as the poor relation within the NHS?
Perhaps stop treating mental health services as the poor relation within the NHS?
November 3, 2025 at 3:52 PM
Much talk about how train services can be made safer in the wake of the Huntingdon attack.
Perhaps stop treating mental health services as the poor relation within the NHS?
Perhaps stop treating mental health services as the poor relation within the NHS?
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Today, Mike Johnson will keep the House adjourned for the 91st day out of the last 103.
12 days of work in 103 days.
With full pay and benefits.
The senate has been working, so this is not about the shutdown.
It is about avoiding a vote to release the Epstein files.
12 days of work in 103 days.
With full pay and benefits.
The senate has been working, so this is not about the shutdown.
It is about avoiding a vote to release the Epstein files.
November 3, 2025 at 10:50 AM
Today, Mike Johnson will keep the House adjourned for the 91st day out of the last 103.
12 days of work in 103 days.
With full pay and benefits.
The senate has been working, so this is not about the shutdown.
It is about avoiding a vote to release the Epstein files.
12 days of work in 103 days.
With full pay and benefits.
The senate has been working, so this is not about the shutdown.
It is about avoiding a vote to release the Epstein files.
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Absolute classic
Bravo
Bravo
October 27, 2025 at 5:43 PM
Absolute classic
Bravo
Bravo
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ICE in Portland: “Dear God, they’re Jazzercising in formation! Light ‘em up!”
October 23, 2025 at 10:38 AM
ICE in Portland: “Dear God, they’re Jazzercising in formation! Light ‘em up!”
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October 21, 2025 at 7:34 AM
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I'd sooner trust a stoned monkey with a bag of hand grenades than this lot with the economy.
Amazing story in The Times. Reform UK failed to pay VAT to HMRC on its sales (tickets, merchandise). About £400k in all.
Not tax avoidance. Not tax evasion. They just didn't realise when you sell stuff you have to charge VAT.
Not tax avoidance. Not tax evasion. They just didn't realise when you sell stuff you have to charge VAT.
October 20, 2025 at 9:30 AM
I'd sooner trust a stoned monkey with a bag of hand grenades than this lot with the economy.
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No Kings Olympia, WA peaceful, Powerful, Huge
October 19, 2025 at 1:03 PM
No Kings Olympia, WA peaceful, Powerful, Huge
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You gotta give ‘em hop.
October 13, 2025 at 1:32 PM
You gotta give ‘em hop.
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Faragitty, Faragitty, there’s no one like Faragitty,
There never was a prat of such deceitfulness & suavity.
He always has an alibi, & one or two to spare:
At whatever time the deed took place—FARAGITTY WASN’T THERE!
#Farage #NathanGill #Bribery
There never was a prat of such deceitfulness & suavity.
He always has an alibi, & one or two to spare:
At whatever time the deed took place—FARAGITTY WASN’T THERE!
#Farage #NathanGill #Bribery
Farage on Gill and Pro Russian media bribes” I told him not to go. He defied me and went. I was completely unaware of any statements that he made."
Farage with pro Russian media (and wife of briber) on the day Gill made his statements in 2018
Farage with pro Russian media (and wife of briber) on the day Gill made his statements in 2018
October 11, 2025 at 9:49 PM
Faragitty, Faragitty, there’s no one like Faragitty,
There never was a prat of such deceitfulness & suavity.
He always has an alibi, & one or two to spare:
At whatever time the deed took place—FARAGITTY WASN’T THERE!
#Farage #NathanGill #Bribery
There never was a prat of such deceitfulness & suavity.
He always has an alibi, & one or two to spare:
At whatever time the deed took place—FARAGITTY WASN’T THERE!
#Farage #NathanGill #Bribery
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“I’m worried about my community… I’m out here in a frog costume to show how ridiculous the notion that we’re violent terrorists is, and showcase how that narrative is wrong…”
Serious Q: is it too late to give this dude the Nobel Peace Prize? 🐸 🏆
Serious Q: is it too late to give this dude the Nobel Peace Prize? 🐸 🏆
October 10, 2025 at 7:57 PM
“I’m worried about my community… I’m out here in a frog costume to show how ridiculous the notion that we’re violent terrorists is, and showcase how that narrative is wrong…”
Serious Q: is it too late to give this dude the Nobel Peace Prize? 🐸 🏆
Serious Q: is it too late to give this dude the Nobel Peace Prize? 🐸 🏆
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Charlotte Church sang From the River to the Sea at a fundraising event for Palestinians and now all the usual people are screaming antisemitism and trying to cancel her.
RT if you stand with Charlotte Church and Palestine.
RT if you stand with Charlotte Church and Palestine.
October 9, 2025 at 12:52 PM
Charlotte Church sang From the River to the Sea at a fundraising event for Palestinians and now all the usual people are screaming antisemitism and trying to cancel her.
RT if you stand with Charlotte Church and Palestine.
RT if you stand with Charlotte Church and Palestine.
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Trump pressure to hike UK drug prices could cost NHS billions.
Corporate profits will increase. NHS budget will buy less. People to pay higher taxes or face public service cuts.
To avoid bullying UK Govt must produce cheaper generic drugs.
Who governs UK - Govt, Trump, Corporations?
Corporate profits will increase. NHS budget will buy less. People to pay higher taxes or face public service cuts.
To avoid bullying UK Govt must produce cheaper generic drugs.
Who governs UK - Govt, Trump, Corporations?
Trump pressure to hike UK drug prices could cost NHS billions, experts warn
Anew deal will only trigger further increased price demands and make healthcare in the UK more expensive, say experts
www.independent.co.uk
October 9, 2025 at 6:15 AM
Trump pressure to hike UK drug prices could cost NHS billions.
Corporate profits will increase. NHS budget will buy less. People to pay higher taxes or face public service cuts.
To avoid bullying UK Govt must produce cheaper generic drugs.
Who governs UK - Govt, Trump, Corporations?
Corporate profits will increase. NHS budget will buy less. People to pay higher taxes or face public service cuts.
To avoid bullying UK Govt must produce cheaper generic drugs.
Who governs UK - Govt, Trump, Corporations?
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I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.
October 7, 2025 at 11:29 PM
I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.
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This is Adelita Grijalva.
She was elected to Congress two weeks ago, officially making her the final vote needed to force the release of the Epstein files.
She has still not been sworn in because Mike Johnson refuses to do so.
She was elected to Congress two weeks ago, officially making her the final vote needed to force the release of the Epstein files.
She has still not been sworn in because Mike Johnson refuses to do so.
October 7, 2025 at 5:50 PM
This is Adelita Grijalva.
She was elected to Congress two weeks ago, officially making her the final vote needed to force the release of the Epstein files.
She has still not been sworn in because Mike Johnson refuses to do so.
She was elected to Congress two weeks ago, officially making her the final vote needed to force the release of the Epstein files.
She has still not been sworn in because Mike Johnson refuses to do so.