🚨 Who funds you? Turns out it's Tory donors Britain's incredibly influential right-wing think tanks refuse to declare their donors But we've discovered that seven Conservative donors have pumped £6.85 million into Tufton Street since 2019 Labour’s Liam Byrne MP said “these

& congrats to *you*, Mister Two Hats

Tory MP Philip Davies put a £8k bet on himself to lose. This is what we found when we dug into his and his wife Esther McVey’s finances

Chris Patten, the sort of intelligent, morally-driven Tory that was permanently ostracised under the Johnson clownshow, has committed another murder. He’s so angry he even swears twice. I could watch this all day. Absolutely superb, as always. 👏

Had dinner with two retired historians from East Germany yesterday, both of whom expressed supreme confidence that the United States has entered its “Soviet phase”. Hard to disagree.

This is literally insane. And wrong!

I too thought this amazing young woman was as smart as I thought I was after three pints of Brains SA, but I was at least smart enough to know that, in fact, there definitely would be a market, so I bought UK rights & went to go find it, even if Flamingo was no FSG. #RIPFlamingo

How to view the election in Iran by the great Azadeh Moaveni from the London Review of Books lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v46/…

Led by Donkeys slowly unveiling a sign showing Putin saying “I ♥️ Nigel” during one of Farages Reform hate rallies, is one of the best things that I’ve ever seen. Absolute fucking legends!

Italy’s Cult of Fascist Martyrs historytoday.com/archive/behind… via History Today

This is the *earliest* summer cat 4 hurricane ever in the Atlantic. Hurricane Beryl is getting stronger as it churns through the Caribbean south of Grenada, where it’s forecast to unleash catastrophic winds, life-threatening storm surge and flooding rains bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

Probably the most consequential election of the big three this week, with luck... Reformist Masoud Pezeshkian wins Iran presidential election theguardian.com/world/article/…

Completely revelatory, riveting, riotous essay, just like its older brother the book The Reluctant Carer. bit.ly/3WbJSil theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/a…

Fab appointment, English PEN ! Bravo smallnicky ! translation advisory board appoints Nichola Smalley as co-chair thebookseller.com/news/english-p…

Phil Foden’s game by numbers Vs. The Netherlands: 40/40 passes completed 100% tackles won 100% accurate long balls 3 duels won Hit the woodwork A live wire all game. 👏

Brilliant news about one of the best US editors of them all. Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. nytimes.com/2024/07/11/boo…

And also worth noting that anyone who becomes a member of the Conservative Party by 7pm tomorrow (Wednesday) gets a vote in the leadership election. membership.conservatives.com/membership/Lev…

It's the one you keep asking for (and I am very bored grading exams), the Premier League Net Spend History Table 1992-present featuring the history of player trading.

Goodbye Musk. Not sure I am quite the last to leave, so I won't turn out the lights, but am so hoping the Old Twitter illumination might be found elsewhere. Starting on Threads as @fenlandpip

There he blows. threads.net/@fenlandpip