Claire Brown

[Count Binface @CountBinface]

There now follows a party election broadcast by the Count Binface Party, And if I do say so myself, it's a banger. #VoteBinface #Clacton

[Kevin Schofield @KevinASchofield]

Nick Robinson to Zia Yusuf: "You say this is all about standing up to the establishment.
"You're a multi-millionaire. You made your money selling luxury helicopter charters and rare wines to the super-wealthy.
"Nigel Farage is a public schoolboy, a former commodities trader who gets £5m gifts from his friends and lives in a 5-storey house next to Buckingham Palace courtesy of a man convicted of fraud.
"Do you really think you are in a position at Reform UK to claim not to be part of the super-wealthy, self-serving establishment?"

[mick (daddo) friel @daddofriel]

Number of appearances on BBC Question Time by Nigel Farage =38

Number of appearances on BBC Question Time by Carole Cadwalldr who has spent years trying to expose foreign interference in UK politics =0

But yeah, the ‘establishment’ is against man of the people, Nigel.

#bbcpm

[Pippa Crerar @PippaCrerar]

EXCL: The £5m gift to Nigel Farage by a cryptocurrency billionaire was reported to the National Crime Agency by bankers who were concerned it may have been laundered money - another big scoop by our @Annaisaac

https://t.co/hg41X5dwpr

[Jack Dart @JackWDart]

If people genuinely believe Burnham won’t receive the exact same media onslaught, they’ve not been paying attention.

Starmer is not, objectively, bad. This idea that he is somehow the worst PM in British history is frankly laughable.

Liz truss lasted 49 days, crashed the pound and was laughed out of Downing Street.

Since Labour took office, Keir Starmer’s government has:

• Scrapped the two-child benefit limit, lifting hundreds of thousands of children out of poverty and putting money back into some of the hardest-pressed households in the country.

• Expanded free school meals, cutting costs for families and making sure more children get a proper meal during the school day.

• Expanded funded childcare, reducing one of the biggest monthly costs facing working parents and making it easier for people to stay in work.

• Raised the National Living Wage, increasing pay for millions of low-paid workers.

• Strengthened workers’ rights, giving people greater protection against insecure work and bad employers.

• Introduced statutory sick pay from the first day of illness, so workers are less likely to choose between their health and their wages.

• Ended no-fault evictions, giving renters more security in their homes.

• Brought rail operators back into public ownership, taking key services out of failed private hands and giving the public a stronger stake in how they are run.

• Cut NHS waiting lists from their post-pandemic peak, meaning more patients are being seen sooner.

• Raised the state pension through the triple lock, protecting pensioners’ incomes against rising costs.

• Scrapped the old non-dom tax regime, making some of the wealthiest people in the country pay more fairly.

• Added VAT to private school fees, raising money from those most able to contribute.

• Removed business rates relief from private schools, ending an unjustified tax break.

• Increased neighbourhood policing, putting more officers and PCSOs back into communities.

• Helped bring knife crime down, meaning fewer families face the devastation of serious violence.

• Recorded the lowest homicide rate since the 1970s, a material improvement in public safety.

• Created Great British Energy, giving Britain a publicly owned clean energy company.

• Created the National Wealth Fund, backing investment in industry, infrastructure and clean energy.

• Passed planning reforms aimed at getting homes and major projects built faster.

• Improved relations with the EU, reducing diplomatic hostility and rebuilding practical cooperation.

• Agreed a UK-EU security partnership, strengthening cooperation on defence and European security.

• Signed a long-term partnership with Ukraine, reinforcing Britain’s support against Putin’s invasion.

• Secured new trade agreements, opening up markets for British businesses.

• Helped restore seriousness to government after years of scandal, chaos and decline.

People do not have to like Starmer. They do not have to vote Labour. But pretending this is the record of the worst Prime Minister in British history is absurd.

[Andy Fitchet @AndyFitchet]

So let me get this straight:

- Inflation lower than predicted
- unemployment falling
- small boat crossings falling
- NHS Waiting lists falling
- Interest rates stable
- Asylum hotel use falling
- net migration down 82%
- school attendance up

And Keir’s doing a really bad job?

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

Two glasses of wine. Didn't get drunk. Couldn't function for three days. This is being celebrated as self-awareness.

A healthy 33-year-old body should metabolize two glasses of wine and recover by morning. Billions of people throughout history did exactly that while building civilizations, fighting wars, and running companies. Bartlett has restricted his inputs so aggressively that a single normal human experience sent his entire system into a 72-hour reboot.

Engineers call this brittleness. A system optimized exclusively for peak performance under ideal conditions that shatters the moment conditions change. The opposite of antifragile. Remove every stressor for long enough and your body loses the ability to absorb even minor ones.

The generation that tracks every HRV reading, weighs every macro, and sleeps in temperature-controlled darkness has accidentally built the most fragile humans in history. Previous generations drank, ate badly, slept rough, and still recovered because constant low-level stress kept their systems adaptable.

Two glasses of wine registered as a catastrophic shock because he's spent three years stripping every form of variance from his life. A body that can only perform under perfect conditions is the definition of a fragile system.

[Ell 🌱 @rdg_elliott]

My thoughts are with Farage and the Daily Mail at this difficult time 🫶🏼

[Faisal Islam @faisalislam]

NEW

Inflation eases from 3.3% to 2.8% in year to April, with falls in domestic energy and other bills (water, VED) last month counteracted by a rise in petrol prices…

Core inflation 2.5% vs 3.1%… services 3.2% vs 4.5% …

Lowest services inflation since January 2022 - key indicator for Bank of England…

Lowest core inflation since July 2021

Good set of figures before the inevitable upwards turn from full impact of Iran war, especially on domestic bills.

[Lewis Goodall @lewis_goodall]

NEW: Net migration has fallen to 171,000 in 2025- lowest level since 2021 and covid pandemic.

Down from 944,000 peak in 2022-23.

Use of asylum hotels down by a third since peak.

[LBC @LBC]

‘You have done a better job than any cabinet minister of telling us the story of Keir Starmer’s successes.’

As Wes Streeting resigns, Caller Martin reminds @TomSwarbrick1 of what the PM has delivered.

[Channel 4 News @Channel4News]

NHS sees biggest improvement in waiting times in 16 years

https://t.co/CxLM0P4cHI

[Faisal Islam @faisalislam]

Q1 2026 G7:

🇬🇧 0.6%
🇺🇸 0.5%
🇨🇦 0.4%
🇩🇪 0.3%
🇮🇹 0.2%
🇫🇷 0%

🇯🇵 (not yet reported but estimates are 0.4%)

[Damian Low @DamianLow3]

Labour have halved the asylum backlog, yet the media never mention it.

Why is that?

[Secretbarista @SecretBaris1a]

As of today 154 UK Councils are led by Labour, 12 led by Reform. Can anyone at the BBC or Sky or the UK media generally explain the support, coverage and platforming of this shoddy little Reform. Why do you do it?

[BBC World Service @bbcworldservice]

The BBC has found a pattern of spikes in trades on financial markets ahead of public announcements by President Trump, including during the Iran war. 🎧 #GlobalNewsPod https://t.co/FaEezJpcNL

[World of Statistics @stats_feed]

UK quietly regains position as the world’s 5th largest economy, per IMF.

1. 🇺🇸 United States ~ $32.38 trillion
2. 🇨🇳 China ~ $20.85 trillion
3. 🇩🇪 Germany ~ $5.45 trillion
4. 🇯🇵 Japan ~ $4.38 trillion
5. 🇬🇧 United Kingdom ~ $4.26 trillion ⬆️
6. 🇮🇳 India ~ $4.15 trillion ⬇️
7. 🇫🇷 France ~ $3.6 trillion
8. 🇮🇹 Italy ~ $2.74 trillion
9. 🇷🇺 Russia ~ $2.66 trillion
10. 🇧🇷 Brazil ~ $2.64 trillion

[Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @NYCMayor]

As wealth concentrates, so does power — the power to influence elections, shape policy, tilt markets and define the terms of public debate.

That’s why we’ve been told for far too long that tax reform is politically infeasible, too complex, and too radical.

Taxing billionaires is not radical.

What is radical is allowing a system where extreme wealth exists alongside widespread hardship — and where billionaires can in effect opt out of contributing to the society that made their success possible.

https://t.co/0YCVZJk7ib

[Mr P MBE @ICT_MrP]

A few thoughts after watching the Louis Theroux manosphere documentary

[Bill Madden @maddenifico]

Hey guys, shut the fuck up for a second and listen to this woman. 😳👇