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[Tymofiy Mylovanov @Mylovanov]

Applebaum: Trump is using a specific language from the 1930s: “enemies within,” “enemies of the people,” migrants and political opponents as “vermin,” migrants “poisoning the blood” of Americans.

That language comes from Hitler, Stalin and the Stasi. 1/

[GET A GRIP @docrussjackson]

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We need to talk about lesser-known liar and Tory MP, Katie Lam, who told the @BBC that welfare has exceeded income tax ‘for the first time ever’ 🤥

She’s just one of the individuals being groomed by #MAGA to help turn Britain into a racist, divided, free-market #dystopia.

You’re unlikely to have heard of Tory MP and Opposition Assistant Whip, Katie Lam, until recently. She and Robert Jenrick are among a group of Tory and Reform UK figures who have been groomed and trained in the same dark arts that got Trump and Farage constantly in the media by the same network that delivered #Project2025 and Trump2.0.

They are being groomed to deliver what would effectively be the UK’s #Project2029.

@FullFact gave a comprehensive critique of her latest shameless lie.

Speaking on the World at One on BBC Radio 4 on Wednesday 3rd June 2026, shameless liar Lam said: “We’re now in a situation for the first time ever where the amount that we are paying in benefits is more than the government is taking in income tax.” 🤥

This is a lie, as both the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) and the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) have confirmed.

While total welfare spending (which includes the state pension as well as universal credit and other benefits) is estimated to be higher than income tax receipts in 2025/26, welfare has been higher for *at least the last 16 years* (remind me - who was in power for 15 of the last 16 years?)

Indeed, far from being “the first time” this has happened, OBR figures suggest that 2025/26 may be the last for the foreseeable future, until the end of the forecast period in 2030/31: according to official forecasts, the amount that we are paying in benefits is about to STOP being more than the government is taking in income tax!

It’s worth remembering that these figures don’t just show the money raised from people who work and the money spent on people who don’t. Many working people receive benefits, and many people who are not working (including pensioners) pay income tax. Working people pay National Insurance too.

Anyway, who is Katie Lam?

While at Cambridge, Lam was elected president of the Cambridge Union and chairman of the Cambridge University Conservative Association. As Union president she was criticised by women’s groups for inviting Dominique Strauss-Kahn (former IMF head) after he had resigned after being accused of sexual assault.

After graduation, Lam worked at Goldman Sachs for six years (2013 to 2019), and became one of its vice-presidents.

(BONUS FUN FACT: evil MAGA nutcase Steve Bannon worked at Goldman Sachs for five years, and Alice Weidel, co-leader of the German far-right AfD, worked at Goldman Sachs Asset Management in Frankfurt for about a year).

Lam was a special adviser to fellow shameless liar Boris Johnson from 2019 to 2021, having been appointed after meeting Andrew Griffith at the Conservative Party conference, and worked as Johnson's deputy Chief of Staff. She faced criticism for the government’s handling of COVID, #Partygate fallout, and high legal migration post-Brexit.

She left the Johnson administration in early 2021 after an incident where Carrie Johnson’s dog, Dilyn was about to piss on Lam’s handbag, and Lam had to intervene.

She joined dodgy PR company (corporate lobby group) Portland Communications as chief policy adviser in September 2021, remaining until 2022, and then worked as chief of staff at #Faculty, the UK-based AI company Faculty (Faculty Science/formerly ASI Data Science).

Faculty has faced several controversies, mainly around conflicts of interest, political connections, government contracts, and its work on sensitive projects, including:

1. Links to Cambridge Analytica and Brexit (2016–2017)

Faculty (then ASI) worked with Vote Leave during the 2016 Brexit referendum and had staff overlaps plus joint events with Cambridge Analytica. Carole Cadwalladr’s Observer investigation highlighted these ties amid the broader Facebook–Cambridge Analytica scandal.

2. Close Ties to Dominic Cummings and Boris Johnson-Era Government

Received £260,000 from Cummings’ private company (Dynamic Maps) in 2018–2019. Founder Marc Warner’s brother (Ben Warner) was a key Cummings ally and SAGE adviser. Warner himself attended SAGE meetings during COVID while Faculty held government contracts.

3. Government Contracts and Procurement Concerns (Especially COVID Era)

Awarded multiple non-competitive contracts (e.g., £400,000+ for COVID data analysis/social media monitoring, NHS predictive work). Critics highlighted “revolving door” issues, direct awards without tender, and potential influence on policy. Lord Agnew (then a minister) held shares in the company while overseeing tech procurement.

4. AI Safety Institute (AISI) Work and Conflicts of Interest (2023–2025)

Faculty won significant non-competitive contracts to test frontier AI models (including “jailbreaking” safeguards). Critics (MPs, academics, Greens) argued it was problematic for a company with broad government and commercial work (including defence) to advise on AI safety regulation.

5. Defence/Military Drone AI Work (2025)

Partnered with Hadean to develop AI for drones (subject identification, tracking, autonomous swarming). Raised ethical concerns about lethal autonomous weapons, especially given Faculty’s simultaneous role testing AI safety for government.

While there has been no major legal rulings of wrongdoing at Faculty, the crystal clear pattern of political connections and direct awards has drawn ongoing scrutiny from media, opposition politicians, and procurement experts. In January 2026, Accenture agreed to acquire Faculty for over £600m.

Lam served as Chief of Staff at Faculty (post-Goldman Sachs, pre-politics) for roughly 1–1.5 years, before moving into more political roles.

After leaving Faculty, from April 2022 Lam served as a Special Adviser (SPAD/Senior Special Adviser) to Suella Braverman from late 2022. She (of course) supported Braverman’s hardline positions (e.g., on Rwanda, ECHR, and policing), and remained in the role until Braverman was sacked/resigned in November/December 2023.

This was her final government role before being selected as a parliamentary candidate in 2023 and entering Parliament in July 2024.

In October 2025, Lam, who is not only supported by #MAGA but is tipped by some to be a future Party Leader (not sure which party - the National Front maybe?), sparked controversy in an interview with Rupert Murdoch’s Sunday Times by claiming that Conservative policy included revoking Indefinite Leave to Remain (ILR) for a large number of legally settled people who “in effect shouldn’t have been able to” come to the UK.

She stated that “they will also need to go home” in order to leave “a mostly but not entirely culturally coherent group of people.” Her remarks triggered significant backlash from many Tories, opposition parties, and the public.

After an initial party spokesperson said the comments were “broadly in line” with policy, Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch publicly rebuked Lam on 30 October.

Badenoch stated that Lam had spoken “imprecisely,” clarified that the Tories had no plans for widespread retrospective revocation of ILR, and confirmed there would be no mass deportation of legally settled families. Any revocation would be limited, mainly to serious criminals.

Lam’s most direct known connection to MAGA is a 2025 meeting in the UK with US VP, JD Vance.

Former Chancellor and the cruel bastard who introduced austerity (which researchers say led to 330,000 additional deaths in the UK), George Osborne, organised drinks and introduced a group of younger Conservatives to Vance during his Cotswolds holiday in summer 2025.

Attendees at the main Osborne-organised 90-minute garden gathering included: George Osborne (host); Robert Jenrick (who also had a separate one-on-one); Chris Philp; Laura Trott; Katie Lam; and Islamophobic evangelical Christian billionaire hedge-funder and GB News and Spectator owner, Paul Marshall.

At Vance’s barbecue/private dinner (at his rented Cotswolds manor) he met with Reform’s privately educated evil Christian James Orr (see below); Reform’s other privately educated evil Christian, Danny Kruger; and sad wanker Tom Skinner.

Vance also had breakfast the next morning with privately educated evil non-Christian, Nigel Farage.

Lam’s strong anti-immigration rhetoric is near indistinguishable from that from the NF/BNP of the 1970s/80s, and critics compare it to 1930s nativism (somewhat ironically, given her own family’s refugee history from Nazi Germany and the Holocaust on her paternal side).

Her divisive rhetoric is seen as compatible with Vance’s elite populist restrictionist views on borders and national identity.

One commentary called them potential “soulmates” on these issues. I call them potential “arseholemates”.

Lam has no formal role in US politics, but her profile fits the “next-generation” of Tory leaders Osborne facilitated for engagement with MAGA-aligned American idiots.

Entirely predictably, Lam supported Robert Jenrick in the 2024 Tory leadership contest, who is now fully converted into a divisive far-right Reform shit-stirrer.

I guess Lam is keeping her powder dry before jumping ship, waiting to see if Reform UK or Restore Britain become the most likely far-right party to secure votes at the next general election...

[Novara Media @novaramedia]

"Extraordinary and deeply authoritarian."

Four Palestine Action activists are applying to remove a judge accused of bias from their case.

Mr Justice Jeremy Johnson is expected to sentence the 'Filton 4' as terrorists – despite not being convicted of terror offences. The possible terror sentencing was kept a secret from the jury.

@harriepw reports: https://t.co/7G44ssGqbe

[Novara Media @novaramedia]

A US government agency worker who exposed alleged misuse of data by Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) crashed his car after the brakes were cut, court documents show.

Daniel Berulis, an IT employee at the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), filed an official whistleblower complaint on 14 April 2025 and went public the next day in an article by NPR.

He alleged that sensitive NLRB data had been compromised due to meddling by DOGE, and said there had been suspicious log-in attempts from an IP address in Russia.

Five days later, he started driving to see his uncle in Maryland, but veered off the road and crashed into a stop sign when he was unable to slow down. He later discovered the brakes had been cut, Wired reported.

A mechanic later found the driver-side airbag sensors had been removed “but noted that the remaining wires had been spliced together” so that the car’s system would not alert the driver, according to a police report filed by Berulis.

Before his whistleblower complaint, he said, a threatening note had been left on his door with pictures of him walking his dog, which appeared to have been taken by a drone.

The night before the crash, Musk shared a post that said DOGE had been “cleared” and that people were calling for the whistleblower to be investigated.

“Filing a deliberately false whistleblower claim is a serious crime,” Musk wrote. Underneath, one user wrote: “Snitches get stitches.”

Berulis is suing Musk for defamation, alleging that the billionaire put him at risk of violence by spreading false claims that he had illegally lied about DOGE.

Berulis’s lawsuit against Musk says that readers of his X post “drew the implication” that Berulis had committed a serious crime. It noted “replies demanding prosecution, jail, harm, or arrest” and said these put Berulis at “increased risk of physical harm”.

After Wired approached him, Musk posted on X that a report showed NLRB’s inspector general’s office “lacked a reasonable belief that [Berulis] was disclosing a violation of law, rule, or regulation” and had closed its investigation.

[The i Paper @theipaper]

Trump was furious with Netanyahu – and they both wanted you to know it https://t.co/AmQWsEHzwQ

[Mukhtar @I_amMukhtar]

Harman Singh Kapoor was just on TalkTV claiming that he has been calling for a ban on the kirpan for the past two or three years. Yet, only a few months ago, he was publicly threatening people with one and saying he was prepared to use it.

[Canary @TheCanaryUK]

Nigel Farage called for "pure, cold rage", and Southampton residents bore the brunt of that with 'carnage' from white rioters

By @willem_moore_uk
https://t.co/ETVY4OJaw5

[CrémantCommunarde #NION💙🤍🩷 @0Calamity]

A man was violently stabbed to death.
The murderer was arrested and convicted.
One of the murderer's family members was also convicted of aiding and abetting him.
No, I am not talking about poor Henry Nowak; I am talking about poor Mohammed Algassim, a Saudi Arabian student, here to learn English, who was murdered in Cambridge by a drunken, coked-up, white Englishman.
If you are astute enough to go to the BBC News website, then click on "England",
then click on "Local News",
then click on "East"
then click on "Cambridge"
you will find a report on it...
#TwoTierOutrage
https://t.co/rrwCqNWJ4a

[CALL TO ACTIVISM @CalltoActivism]

🚨WHERE IS THE MEDIA??

Trump just said the number 25,000 is bigger than a MILLION. The decline of his brain is now catastrophic.

“Where Martin Luther King made his great speech…he had a million people and I had 25,000 people. I had more people.” Wow.

[Karen Piper @PiperK]

It sure sounds like Jared and Ivanka got involved with Albanian organized crime, including a man under investigation for murdering an Italian journalist. https://t.co/DsVPcrGPwd

[Parody Jeff @Parodyjeffx]

JUST IN: Albania is on fire right now.

Over 300,000 people shutting down the capital.

They refuse to hand their land to Jewish billionaires.

[Sam @SamCKx]

Utterly embarassing from Rob Kenyon. What he clearly doesn't know is Labour MP Josh Simons confirmed just over a week ago that this library would be reopened and work is starting soon, following a 6 month campaign by Labour Councillor Christopher Ready. What total numpties Rob and Zia are.

[Socialist Opera Singer @OperaSocialist]

If only someone in the media would expose Farage's incitement yesterday via performative utterance in the same way that Jonathan Miller humiliated Enoch Powell and his grubby little racism.

[Marina Purkiss @MarinaPurkiss]

Just watch this…

And for the love of God, please see Farage for what he is.

His response to Sarah Everard Vs his response to Henry Nowak

Jaw dropping.

[Kate from Kharkiv @BohuslavskaKate]

Rep. Keating to Rubio: "I'm sure you're aware that Ukraine, country that at the time had third-largest nuclear arsenal, peacefully turned over their nuclear weapons in conjunction with Budapest Memorandum.

And in exchange for U.S. commitment to defend Ukraine if it ever came under threat. The U.S. gave its word to Ukraine that it would defend them.

And I find this amazing. In your opening remarks, as you took us all over the world and mentioned 15 different incidents where you have interceded — 15, the top 15 — not once did you mention Ukraine when you were prioritizing achievements that are there."

[alex thomson @alextomo]

Wowza…. Reform clearly have superpowers!!!!!

[Gandalv @Microinteracti1]

People keep asking me what America is actually capable of, now that it has driven away every ally it has. The answer is not hypothetical. It is the Persian Gulf, right now.

Iran is a nation of 90 million people sitting on a mountain range that runs the entire length of its borders. Its military infrastructure is buried inside those mountains. Command centers, missile batteries, fuel depots, weapons production, all of it underground and dispersed across a country roughly the size of Western Europe. Operation Epic Fury struck approximately 6,000 targets.

Iran is still firing.

The Strait of Hormuz has been closed since late February. A quarter of the world’s daily oil supply has nowhere to go. The entrance is mined, patrolled and locked. And the most expensive military in human history is sitting outside it, unable to go in.

This is the moment to be honest about what America is missing.

Europe operates roughly 10,000 military aircraft. Not little propeller trainers. More than ten thousand combat-capable jets that would immediately transform the air campaign over the Gulf, free up American assets for the deep-penetration mountain missions that actually matter, and sustain an operational tempo no single nation can manage alone.

Britain fields two aircraft carriers and seven nuclear-armed hunter-killer submarines. France brings a nuclear carrier, fifteen frigates and its own nuclear submarine fleet. Belgium and the Netherlands operate the finest mine countermeasure vessels on earth, built specifically for strait-clearing operations of exactly this kind. Italy contributes two carriers and eight FREMM frigates. Poland has the largest land army in Europe. Norway has completed its conversion to the F-35 and fields fifty-two of them.

The map below shows some capabilities in Europe, but It represents only a fraction of what Europe actually has. It does not include Finland, Sweden, Spain, Romania, Greece or Portugal, each of which contributes substantial air power, naval tonnage and ground forces of their own. The full picture is considerably larger than what fits on one page.

And then there is Ukraine. Four years of industrial-scale warfare have produced the most battle-tested drone force in existence. Autonomous strike systems, mass swarm tactics and electronic warfare capabilities developed under live fire at a pace no peacetime military can replicate. An allied force with Ukrainian drone expertise integrated into it would look fundamentally different over the mountains of Iran than what America has there now.

European intelligence services have human networks inside Iran and across the Gulf that no satellite can replace. Germany and France maintained functioning diplomatic back-channels into Tehran until late 2025. That kind of quiet credibility is the difference between a negotiated shipping corridor and a permanent blockade. It cannot be improvised. It cannot be bombed into existence.

None of this is available, because Washington spent years treating its allies as freeloaders, adversaries and negotiating targets, and then went to war expecting the same loyalty it had spent years deliberately destroying.

The alliance built after 1945 was never charity. It was a force multiplier that no defense budget, however grotesque in size, can replace on its own. America is learning that now, at roughly a hundred million dollars per day in operational costs, with the strait still closed and the oil still not moving.

Trump was not acting in America’s interest. He was acting in the interest of a man who has never in his life had to live with the consequences of his own decisions. America is living with them now.

Stay connected,
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[Nora @Heal_within96]

This White British man paid more than £200,000 to watch live-streamed child sexual abuse content from the Philippines. When will we see the outrage from Nigel Farage?

[Sky News @SkyNews]

'Nigel Farage's claim, in essence, is that there's actually anti-white prejudice within the police. What's your response to that?' - @cathynewman

'I think he's talking nonsense. The kind of nonsense he's talking is dangerous' - Michael Mansfield KC

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