Harry Cain

[Batfox Pictures @Batfox_Pictures]

By the 1990s, New Order had already secured their place as one of Britain's most influential bands, yet they continued to evolve. "Regret," released in 1993 from Republic, paired Bernard Sumner's reflective songwriting with the band's unmistakable blend of rock and electronic music, becoming one of their biggest later-era hits. This TFI Friday performance from 1998 shows New Order returning to one of their defining songs with the confidence of a band whose influence only continued to grow.

[Sam @SamCKx]

A full timeline of Nigel Farage’s grift and corruption

1. 2001–2014: Rent-free office scandal
Farage used office space rent-free, failed to declare the benefit properly, and was fined by the Electoral Commission.

2. 2015–2016:
Whilst serving as an MEP, Farage’s EFDD group spent around €1.8 million of EU taxpayer funds improperly on his “Say No to EU” Brexit campaign activity, including paying for rallies in the UK, venue hire, banners etc

3. 2016–2019: Farage’s Brexit movement was heavily funded by Arron Banks. Questions over the source of funding were referred by the Electoral Commission to the National Crime Agency.

4. 2017–2018:
The European Parliament docked Farage’s MEP salary to recover around €40,000 after concluding parliamentary funds had been improperly claimed for staff costs.

5. 2018:
A European political party closely linked to UKIP and Farage’s parliamentary group was ordered to repay €1.1 million after investigators found EU grants had been improperly used for national political campaigning, including campaigns in the UK directly supporting UKIP.

6. 2019:
Channel 4 News and The Guardian reported that Banks gave Farage benefits worth around £450,000, including accommodation, transport and overseas travel.

7. 2019:
The Electoral Commission warned the Brexit Party’s online donation system was at “high and ongoing risk” of accepting impermissible donations and required stronger controls.

8. 2019:
Crypto billionaire Christopher Harborne donated around £6.4 million to the Brexit Party, beginning a financial relationship that continues today.

9. 2021 onwards:
Farage earns £400,000 a year from GB News whilst serving as the leader of a UK political party.

10. 2023:
Farage received around £1.5 million for appearing on I’m A Celebrity… Get Me Out Of Here.

11. 2023:
Reform UK received £200,000 from First Corporate Consultants Ltd, linked to businessman Terence Mordaunt who lobbies against Climate Change policy and campaigned for Brexit.

12. 2024:
The Good Law Project alleged Farage failed to declare assistance from a US public relations firm during a US trip funded by Christopher Harborne.

13. 2024–2026:
Farage received a £5 million gift from Christopher Harborne around 1 month before entering Parliament. In 2026, Parliament’s standards watchdog opened an investigation into whether it should have been declared.

14. 2024–2026:
Since becoming MP for Clacton, Farage has declared more than £2 million in outside earnings from media, speaking engagements, commercial partnerships, including activity closely linked to lobbying for policies that benefit his private funders.

15. 2025:
A complaint alleged undeclared election spending during Farage’s 2024 campaign. Essex Police took no action because the statutory time limit had expired.

16. 2025–2026:
Farage failed to declare 17 separate payments, worth around £380,000, within the required parliamentary deadlines. The Standards Commissioner found the breaches were inadvertent.

17. 2026:
Farage declared £270,000 from Direct Bullion for promotional work while sitting in Parliament, equivalent to around £22,500 per hour.

18. 2026:
The Sunday Times alleged convicted former aide George Cottrell provided undeclared support including security, accommodation, staffing and media assistance.

A true public servant and man of the people.

[Jamie Bonkiewicz @JamieBonkiewicz]

Please don't forget the Trump family is barred from ever running another charity in NY because they stole from a Children's Cancer Charity. A Children's Cancer Charity. A FUCKING CHILDREN'S CANCER CHARITY!

[Alex Taylor @AlexTaylorNews]

Oh look ! Farage's dodgy finances just got a whole lot murkier

Tomorrow's @thetimes dives deep into Farage's dealings with a certain George Swinfen Cottrell aka "posh George" who, we read, refers to Farage as "Daddy" 🤡

Posh George is "a babyfaced British aristocrat and former US federal inmate, a key player in a crypto gambling platform implicated in potential illegal betting, owned via a complex offshore structure whose ownership is invisible to the public" 𝑌𝑜𝑢 𝑏𝑒𝑡 𝑖𝑡 𝑖𝑠 !

"A web of undisclosed gifts and payments from Cottrell have helped pave Farage’s path to Westminster. Farage appears to have broken MPs’ rules by failing to declare that Cottrell provided funding for his operation in the year before his election"

[Simon Harris @SimonHarrisMBD]

It’s important to remember that the ‘walk 30 minutes per day’ scheme on the NHS is for England only. In Scotland, it’s 500 miles and then 500 more.

[Lauren Rinaldi 🧚‍♀️ @LRinaldiArt]

Made Jell-O shots to bring to the 4th of July bbq 🤗

[Gabriel Morency @sportsrage]

Best story ever .He left England for USA to see #WorldCup but was a stop over in Spain . He LOST his phone in airport that had his plane and world cup tickets and just left airport . family thought he was missing in USA . Worried to death . he was found in a pub in Barcalona and said he been partying in spain for last 10 days LOL

[Monster Mentality @mnstr_mntlt]

What an experience for U13 striker Ade Adediran to train with Jeremie Frimpong last night, in an offseason session.

[Reform Party UK Exposed 🇬🇧 @reformexposed]

You’re in the middle of a scandal because you failed to declare a £5m bung, as well as multiple houses, crypto questions and you’re being doubted on your commitment to being MP for Clacton.

What do you do?

If you’re @Nigel_Farage you head to Washington.

#AnywhereButClacton

[Richard Burgon MP @RichardBurgon]

When an MP can pocket more in a couple of hours of “work” than a nurse earns in an entire year - as Nigel Farage has done - something is deeply broken in our politics.

This has to stop. It’s time to ban ALL MPs’ second jobs.

From my speech in Parliament today.

[Mark Cockerton @CockertonMark]

*Breaking*
Farage has released this photo of him watching the England v DR Congo game next Wednesday evening.

[Parody Nigel Farage @Parody_PM]

This will surely spark protests and riots from the 'Save R Wimmin' lot. Tommy Robinson and co are going to be all over this.
Just you wait...
any time now...
...

[Chris Smith @renewablesmiffy]

This is a fine example of how lies are generated and perpetuated.

No one, not a single person or home has been ordered to remove their air conditioning

[Proper Football @ProperFootball8]

Do you need a tray mate?

Nah, I'll be OK.

A Dutch supporter ordered 26 pints of Tennants 🍻 in a bar in Scotland on Saturday whilst watching the Netherlands 🇳🇱 take on Sweden 🇸🇪

Unbelievable effort carrying them all back to his mates!

👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

😂😂😂

#Netherlands #Dutch #FIFAWorldCup2026

[Mike H @mikoh123]

Nigel Forage has an absolute car crash on #bbcbreakfast in an interview which he says nobody cares about his £5 million pound gift, tries to deflect by comparing what Sally Nugent spends her wag s on, how she earns and accuses the BBC of putting him in danger.

[The Receipts UK ♿ @david_hollas]

Sally Nugent just did something almost nobody in British broadcast media has managed. She actually pressed Farage on the £5m from Christopher Harborne, and didn't let him wriggle off it.

His answers shifted as they went. It was for security. Then it was for cars. Then it was nobody's business. Then he questioned why it mattered at all. When Nugent kept pushing on how much he'd actually spent, he accused the BBC of putting him in danger by asking.

At one point he tried turning it back on her, asking what she does with her own salary. She didn't blink. "My salary is on the public record." His isn't, not the £5m anyway.

Then the line that mattered. He let slip that the Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards "may disagree" with him on the donation rules. That's not a denial. That's a man who knows which way this is going.

Farage has prior form here. The Commissioner already found he breached the rules once, failing to register 17 payments worth around £384,000 within the required 28 days. No action was taken that time, it was called an error. A second breach, on a £5m personal gift, is a different category of problem.

Three minutes and forty five seconds of someone actually doing the job. Worth the watch.

[Mike H @mikoh123]

Man who recently ran a local election campaign centred around getting rid of Keir Starmer is now complaining about the destabilising impact to the country that the change of Prime Minister has.
Typical of Nigel Farage who always distances himself from the damage he causes.

[Bill Madden @maddenifico]

Best portrait of Trump I've seen yet.

[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.