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[Liz Webster @LizWebsterSBF]

“I am damned if I am going to stand on a stage… and be demeaned and humiliated by nobodies.”

Nigel Farage tonight, refusing to attend his own Clacton election declaration.

“Nobodies.”

Just ordinary British citizens who exercised exactly the same democratic right to stand for Parliament that Nigel Farage did.

For years he’s told us he’s the anti-establishment champion of ordinary people.

And then, when ordinary people have the temerity to appear on the same ballot paper as him, they’re beneath him.

I think that tells us rather more about Nigel Farage than tonight’s result ever could.

[max seddon @maxseddon]

In August last year, a group of Iranian nuclear scientists flew to Moscow, ostensibly as consultants.

It was a cover story. The Iranians were traveling on diplomatic service passports, some sequentially numbered and issued on the same day just weeks before the trip took place.

[Keir Starmer @Keir_Starmer]

Action, not just words.

Britain stands with Ukraine, today and always 🇬🇧🇺🇦

[Bruno Maçães @MacaesBruno]

Zelensky asks Vance if he has been to Ukraine. Vance answers I have been to… then realises it is dumb to say he has been to Germany so says he has seen stories on twitter. Feeling humiliated - by his own ignorance - he lashes out at Zelensky

[Alex Cole @acnewsitics]

Zelensky: "Have you ever been to Ukraine?"
Vance: "No, but I've seen some videos."

This is what we're dealing with, folks.

[Canada Hates Trump @AntiTrumpCanada]

After bullying & expelling international war hero Volodymyr Zelenskyy from the White House, Trump returns to Mar-a-Lago, where he’ll play some golf & wine/dine with fellow rapist and child sex trafficker, Andrew Tate.
Motherfucker can rot in hell.

[Bruno Maçães @MacaesBruno]

Look forward to seeing Vance shout at Netanyahu that he has to be grateful and stop begging for money

[Vincent Artman @geogvma]

Like, can you imagine being the vice president of the United States, sitting in the Oval Office haranguing the president of another country about things you plainly don’t understand, and when he asks you if you’ve ever even been to his country, you say “I’ve watched stories.”

[Timothy Snyder @TimothyDSnyder]

Given that the Trump people did nothing to induce Russia to end the war, it’s fair to conclude that the whole idea of pursuing peace was just a pretext to renew relations with Russia.

[Isaac Saul @Ike_Saul]

To be clear: this entire thing went off the rails because Zelensky made the catastrophically offensive move of pointing out the reality that Putin broke a ceasefire in 2015 and that when Vance talks about diplomacy, he can’t explain how Putin is a trustworthy partner.

Zelensky simply spoke the truth, which Vance deemed totally unacceptable and offensive because he was trying to “litigate” the issue in front of the press.

And then it unraveled from there. Just wild.

[Christopher Miller @ChristopherJM]

Three days into Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, as Putin’s soldiers were razing cities, raping and executing Ukrainians, Gabbard — who was just tapped by Trump to be director of national intelligence — called on Zelensky to “embrace the spirit of aloha.”

[Dildo Gaggins @DildoGaggins89]

Legitimately one of the funniest memes that's come out of this election

[Big Cat @BarstoolBigCat]

Thinking about Moo Deng

[Sir William Browder KCMG @Billbrowder]

This is the most outrageous story about repression in Putin’s Russia. Everyone needs to know the story of Pavel Kushner. RIP

[John Healey @JohnHealey_MP]

Anyone who has any information about the disorder today at the Holiday Inn, Manvers and in the wider area, please report it by contacting SYP on 101, quoting ‘incident number 239’ of 4 August 2024. Those responsible will be identified and pursued by the force of the law

[Ruth @Regraham1]

RT @maxseddon: The children of Anna and Artem Dultsev, the Russian deep cover spies returned home as part of the prisoner exchange, didn’t…

[Andy Murray @andy_murray]

Never even liked tennis anyway.

[Mark Elliott @markmobility]

Imagine the media treatment of Kamala if she had five children by three different men. Then add in having sex with a porn star.

[Jonathan Lis @jonlis1]

This is one of the worst Commons performances I have ever seen: Badenoch dripping with condescension towards a working-class woman who dared to have ambition.

Badenoch has neither warmth nor charisma. If this is the best her party can do, their oblivion will be richly deserved

[Keir Starmer @Keir_Starmer]

The sentencing of @WSJ reporter Evan Gershkovich is despicable and only serves to underscore Russia’s utter contempt for media freedom.

Journalism should not be a crime.

Gershkovich must be released immediately.