Simon Povey

Ukulele bass player, floorball lover (yes that is FLOORBALL!), cat lover, car lover, sourdough maker and also help to manufacture books. Bit of a socialist too!

[Andrea Junker @Strandjunker]

Silly me for thinking nobody could out-corrupt FIFA’s Sepp Blatter, but Gianni Infantino really said, “Hold my beer.”

Peak corruption.

[Rep. Melanie Stansbury @Rep_Stansbury]

This is Trump’s Watergate.

Today, the @nytimes released a truly stunning report on the Epstein cover-up by the White House. 

Collusion, breaking the law, evading subpoenas—it’s all in there:
- Trump quashing the files
- The VP, COS, DOJ, FBI, and others colluding in the Situation Room to stop their release and compliance
- Officials lying to the public 
- Admin in-fighting and exits
- Officials who appeared in front of Congress during this time

Read the report here: https://t.co/prgyF2Isfg

[Trades Union Congress @The_TUC]

You voted against scrapping zero hour contracts.

You voted against banning fire and rehire.

You voted against day one sick pay for workers.

You said the minimum wage was too high for young people.

Reform politicians openly say they don't like trade unions.

You will always put the interests of your offshore crypto billionaire donors ahead of workers.

[Very Brexit Problems @VeryBrexitProbs]

The Nigel Farage Guide to Being a Working-Class Hero

Step 1: Be born to a City stockbroker.

Step 2: Attend Dulwich College, fees currently £53,000 a year.

Step 3: Skip university. Become a City commodities trader instead.

Step 4: Run one of your metal broking firms into insolvency.

Step 5: Get elected to the European Parliament. Spend the next 21 years drawing a salary from the institution you're paid to dismantle.

Step 6: Claim £15,500 a year in expenses for an office your party was given rent-free.

Step 7: Put your wife on the EU parliamentary payroll. Take her off only when the rules force you to.

Step 8: Get investigated by the EU's anti-fraud office. Eventually have half your MEP salary docked to repay misused public funds.

Step 9: Throw a Brexit victory party at the Ritz. Decry the "professional political class" to a room of millionaires.

Step 10: Take £450,000 in personal gifts from Arron Banks. House. Car. Lifestyle.

Step 11: Take £5 million, undisclosed, from a Bangkok-based crypto billionaire. Days later, announce you're standing for parliament after all.

Step 12: Win Clacton. Take the £93,904 MP salary. Add £1.2 million a year from GB News at £2,300 an hour. Become the highest-earning MP in the House of Commons.

Step 13: Speak in parliament fewer times than any other party leader. Fly to America at least nine times in your first year. Refuse to hold in-person constituency surgeries. Holiday in France while parliament is sitting.

Step 14: Tell the working class you're one of them. Tell them to vote against their own interests, over and over again.

Pint, mate?

[Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla]

My colleagues & I have taken a huge gamble to set up @thenerve_news. We’re trying to build a new independent publication from the ground up. Social media is our only distribution for now.

Sharing this article in your networks would make a huge difference. Thank you! 🙏🙏🙏

[Simon Povey @Splimcity88]

End Publicly Funded Privileges For Boris Johnson Following Covid Inquiry - Sign the Petition! https://t.co/4xpqTVW7aV via @UKChange

[Michael Rosen 💙💙🎓🎓 NICE 爷爷 @MichaelRosenYes]

Anyone in mainstream media covering this one?

[Politic@l Spinner. @lesstenny]

So well written.. Oliver you rock

[Rameses Niblick III @TheLittleWaster]

Yes!

[Farrukh @implausibleblog]

If there was any justice in the UK, those identified in ITV's "The Covid Contracts: Follow The Money" would be in jail right now

Including Boris Johnson and Rishi Sunak who created the scheme, doing away with regular checks and balances for government procurement creating the mechanism allowing for this fraud

The unusable PPE that was burnt was enough to hire 200,000 nurses

Why aren't taxpayers more angry at being robbed by all of the above?

Here are some highlights form the production. If you have the time, watch the full feature over on ITV

[Brian Allen @allenanalysis]

.@JamesTalarico is right; our division isn’t organic, it’s engineered.

Algorithms profit off outrage. Networks fuel tribalism. Billionaires bankroll chaos.

This isn’t just a democracy experiment, it’s a controlled demolition unless we wake up.

[Angry Staffer @Angry_Staffer]

The real issue isn’t left vs right.

It’s not white vs black.

It’s not citizen vs immigrant.

It’s not gay vs straight.

The real issue is that a lot of powerful people have a vested interest — and a lot of money invested — in dividing us, and it’s working.

[Bill Bramhall @BillBramhall]

Cartoon

[BrooklynDad_Defiant!☮️ @mmpadellan]

So far, it looks like Ghislaine Maxwell got sent to a minimum security prison in exchange for saying "I don't remember" a lot of times about rich & powerful people.

What a fucking farce.

[EuropeanPowell @EuropeanPowell]

After being denied a vote on Brexit, I was angry, so I started digging and asking questions. I stumbled across the resurrection and rapid implementation of deregulated freeports and SEZs by Sunak and Truss immediately after Brexit. I hadn’t heard of them before and didn’t know what they were, so I read up on them via authors like Raymond Craib, Matt Kennard, Claire Provost, Naomi Klein and Quinn Slobodian, and more recently Gil Duran.

It shocked me that the MSM were refusing to properly investigate free zones, while Labour centrists and commentators alike were also claiming there was nothing to worry about. I started challenging MPs, councillors and reps from freeport entities on social media, something I continue to do on a daily basis.
I have amassed a sizable following across X, Bluesky, and Substack, I have spoken at numerous anti-free zone events across the UK, written articles for Bylines Cymru, and The Canary, and been interviewed by journalists from the FT, and Independent media outlets, I take part in ZOOMs and Youtube talks, speaking with concerned citizens many of whom are affiliated with grass roots campaign groups across the UK.
This year, I submitted several FOIs to the UK Govt, including numerous city councils. Every reply I’ve received so far are blanket refusals to disclose information on the free zones policy framework.
My petition calling for transparency on the UK Govt’s free zones has been published, the deadline to sign falls on the 30th December 2025, that’s about 6 months.
Please sign and share this petition widely. Thank you.
https://t.co/aH1mgtUni6

[Neil Oliver @thecoastguy]

When will enough people see that we are at war with an anti human agenda pushed by a relative handful of narcissistic psychopaths who hate us?

[Barack Obama @BarackObama]

Thirteen years ago, my administration acted to protect young people who were American in every single way but one: on paper. 

DACA was an example of how we can be a nation of immigrants and a nation of laws. And it’s an example worth remembering today, when families with similar backgrounds who just want to live, work, and support their communities, are being demonized and treated as enemies. 

We can fix our broken immigration system while still recognizing our common humanity and treating each other with dignity and respect. In fact, it’s the only way we ever will.

[Ash Sarkar @AyoCaesar]

I mean, one being placed on top of the other really does say it all doesn't it?