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Since becoming an MP, Nigel Farage has managed to fit in nine trips to the US, has held down twelve jobs, which earned him nearly £1million, but has been too busy to hold any surgeries for people in Clacton who actually voted for him.

"Well done Krishnan Guru-Murthy"

Well that didn't last long. Far-right politician #GeertWilders brings down Dutch Government over refusals to implement plans considered illegal and unworkable. More chaos caused by populists making promises they can't keep & needing someone else to blame.

www.aol.com/news/palanti... Beware of Palantir

does this mean #AaronBanks will start paying some tax?

Brave girl

I make people fat 🤝 I make people thin From the latest Private Eye, out now.

Public figures, including Steve Coogan and Nadia Sawalha, joined an 18-hour-long vigil in London to read aloud the names of thousands of Palestinian children killed in Israel’s war on Gaza.

AJ EXCLUSIVE: Al Jazeera’s Sanad fact-checking unit has obtained exclusive images of the remains of the weaponry used by Israel in the bombing of the Fahmi al-Jarjawi School in the Daraj neighbourhood of Gaza City on Sunday. Read more: aje.io/u3a5qt

Is Trump senile or simply stupid?

Thames Water have been fined £123 million due to their 'unacceptable' impact on the environment. But as long as the profit motive remains, water companies will keep ripping off customers and polluting our water. Time for water companies to be run for people, not profit.

Rachel Reeves must break free of Treasury orthodoxy and fear of what happend to Truss and reform her fiscal rules. More borrowing, wealth tax, not more austerity.

Press: Is it appropriate to depict female cabinet ministers as cows about to be slaughtered? Farage: They did it to us first, anyway it's just bantz, anyway I never said we were perfect. 👀 ~AA

Bankrupt the thieving asset strippers and renationalise without compensation. Let the thieving shareholders take the pain for a change.

Interesting framing by Sky News' Jon Craig, considering that Farage was in the South of France *while* the Commons were sitting, to set him up as hard working while "other parties are on the ski slopes or whatever". ~AA

If Reform are so outraged over the fishing deal, can they answer these three questions. Why did Farage only attend 1 out of 42 EU fisheries meetings as MEP? Why did no Reform MPs go to the 2024 UK fisheries debate? Why did they back Brexit’s 2020 deal with EU access to 2026?

Farage says Starmer's EU deal is a betrayal of British jobs and undermines our fishing sector Farage attended 1 out of 42 fishery committee meetings in the EU parliament,never speaking up for UK fisheries ..potentially why the common fisheries policy was not to our benefit. youtu.be/21WmR8p3rtk?...

Former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert on Gaza.

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Breaking News: George Wendt, a six-time Emmy nominee for his role as the beer-chugging everyman Norm Peterson on “Cheers,” is dead at 76. nyti.ms/3ZuGwrN

No! She doesn't! 💖

It's not really deportation if people are sent to countries where they never lived. It's a human trafficking ring. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

So sad. He gave me so many hours of joy.

ZELDIN: I understand you're an aspiring fiction writer. I see why. SCHIFF: I understand your view that you can cut half of the agency and it won't affect people's health or their water or their air. That to me is a big fiction ... you could give a rat's ass about how much cancer your agency causes

“Habeas corpus is the legal principle that requires the government to provide a public reason for detaining and imprisoning people. If not for that protection, the government could simply arrest people, including American citizens, and hold them indefinitely for no reason.”