A few things happening at once that people should connect.
Russia is now linked to the arson attacks on the Prime Minister's house and car last year. Shocker.
And we all saw what happened the moment that story broke. Our feeds flooded with a different story about who the men were and why they did it.
That's the operation. The arson is one half. The disinformation campaign is the other.
Flood the zone, muddy the water, get the country shouting at itself instead of asking who is behind it.
And at the same time, a chunk of the accounts pushing Scottish independence on X went dark the night Israel hit Iran's nuclear sites.
Ask yourself why. Why would hostile states be interested in sowing division across the country?
This is exactly what I mean when I say defence is the thread underneath everything now.
Again, it isn't tanks on a border. It's an arson attack on the PM's front door and state-sponsored disinformation campaigns in the replies. It's the argument about breaking up our country being run out of Tehran.
This is why resilience matters. And it's bigger than just factchecking a tweet. It's energy we can rely on. Industry we actually own. Institutions that are rock solid. Communities that don't split and fracture the moment someone pushes them. A country that is built to take a punch.
That's the job now.
The Starmer haters won't like this, but as coppers, let's deal in facts.
Between 2010 and 2024, the Conservative government (which many of you voted for, you know who you are) amalgamated, disbanded, or placed into suspended animation, roughly 23 British Army regiments.
We owe those who serve the UK the kit to do the job and the loyalty to stand by them when it's done. We are failing on both.
I’ve spent my whole time in government making that case. Number 10 will not listen, so I am resigning as Minister for the Armed Forces.
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Reform UK wants to abolish income tax on overtime.
It sounds like a tax cut for hard work. Actually a tax cut for the word “overtime”.
So little GDP impact & huge cost - we reckon £14bn not Reform's £5bn
If you want to spent £5bn on tax cuts, we have ten better ways:
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So yesterday Donald Trump posted a video of him crashing Stephen Colbert's final show, and literally throwing him in the garbage, and of course, I had to FIX it.
* The machine has been being marketed as a ‘silver bullet’ for potholes for half a decade. It isn’t.
* JCB chairman Lord Bamford donated £200,000 to Reform in late 2025.
* Jenrick was part of Government that oversaw 40% real-terms cuts to councils, causing the pothole epidemic.