Problem for Farage is that while brownshorts like Middleton, Grimes, Robinson are inevitably attracted to him - they recognize one of their own - despite the BBC’s best efforts, the voting public is not yet attracted to them.

‘Immigration fuels the economy. When immigrants enter the labor force, they increase the productive capacity of the economy and raise GDP. Their incomes rise, but so do those of natives. It’s a phenomenon dubbed the “immigration surplus.”’ From J. Tiedrich. Worth attention in UK.

All Americans are belittled and tarnished by Trump’s birthday military parade. Sorry guys, don’t matter who you voted for, he’s yours now. Own him. Only people to get away with any dignity are the undocumented, disenfranchised immigrants who will sweep up afterwards.

The best type of US president, on caturday or any other day.

How ghastly! How unfair! The Canadian authorities can’t tell the difference between the prime minister of the United Kingdom and… Robert Peston!

If Badenoch had done this trade deal with the USA, BBC News would be swooning. If Farage did it, they’d be proclaiming him king. Starmer does it and we get, “Yes, but…” BBC News is Daily Mail TV and Radio. A corrupted brand.

This is just so good - the Miners’ Gala doing what it’s always done, updated for 2025. Statement - Durham Miners Gala and Reform UK durhamminers.org/statement_durh…

That’s 76 circumnavigations of the sun completed, and life on Earth is as beautiful as it ever was.

BBC News has been contorting itself to ascribe normal, rational motivations to Donald Trump, instead of his actual inanities and toddler tantrums. It didn’t convince. Is the Iranian “nuclear stockpile obliteration” that never happened a turning point?

Euro u-21s about a hundred times better than the CWC. A genuine competition.

What is Trump on? What are they giving him?

WHFP full of good positive Raasay news. Cllr Chrissie Gillies elected. Na balaich-sgoile win the Oban Rose Bowl for Gaelic fluency for umpteenth time - meal do naidheachd air Wilma! Pop. growing and younger. No longer “the island that nearly made it,” Derek. It’s made it.

The only reason now to catch five minutes of Stewart at Glastonbury is to see if the crowd jeers him. Spoiler alert: they won’t. They’re his people: rich and dumb.

Neil Young introducing the kids to feedback. They don’t know what it is. Back in the day we constructed whole tracks from feedback. Nothing but feedback.

If you are British or American, only people in the Trump/Farage axis are taking your country from you.

In 1976, after City beat QPR 3 - 2 at Carrow Road and denied them the league title, the words “Norwich will die” were painted on walls in Shepherd’s Bush. Just saying.

Davie and Gibb have now done what Johnson wanted at BBC News. Time for their P-45s.

Musk launching another far-right party in the USA would be very good news for Democrats.

Spooky. Left, Auschwitz camp guard enjoying her work in the 1940s. Right, Trump’s “secretary of homeland security” Kristi Noem at the opening of his Florida concentration camp yesterday. Credit to the great Jeff Tiedrich.

A man of discernment. Prioritises meeting the Downing Street mouser over the frog-faced fascist grifter.