The Alma

The Alma is Cambridge's rugby and real ale pub. Six ever changing ales. The Songsmith Sessions every Sunday and the best Quiz in Cambs every Thursday.

[Count Binface @CountBinface]

Game on, Nige.

[BBC Sport @BBCSport]

One of the best post-match interviews you will EVER see! Rest up, Harry :)

[Illia Ponomarenko 🇺🇦 @IAPonomarenko]

Today, Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine has become as long as the entirety of World War I.

And Russia is still no more capable of defeating Ukraine than it was in 2022, 2023, 2024, or 2025,

And it never will be. That question has already been settled.

[CALL TO ACTIVISM @CalltoActivism]

🚨BREAKING: TRUMP JUST HAD HIS WORST MELTDOWN EVER.

Trump completely unravels when Kristen Welker challenged him on his California election claims.

Instead of providing evidence, he called her "crooked" and "stupid," attacked the press, and abruptly WALKS OUT in the middle of the interview.

She did what every journalist should do every time Trump spews his unfounded bullsh*t.

Thank you, Kristen.

[The Alma @TheAlma1]

@Keir_Starmer Can you get them to reduce their subscription fees for pubs while you’re at it! 🙄

[Matthew Stadlen @MatthewStadlen]

An estimated 74% of voters who bothered to turn out in the local elections yesterday did NOT vote for Reform. Let that sink in. And then adjust your hyperbole accordingly.

[Amock_ @Amockx2022]

THIS IS HILARIOUS 😭😭

"Iran 🇮🇷 wanted to make me their Supreme leader but i refused and said no thanks"

- Donald Trump 🤣

He has totally lost it

[Governor Newsom Press Office @GovPressOffice]

NOW THAT I, GAVIN C. NEWSOM, AM OFFICIALLY PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES (THANK YOU DONALD!), I HAVE MANY BIG ANNOUNCEMENTS TO MAKE! FIRST, EVERY TRUMP EXECUTIVE ORDER IS NULL AND VOID, STEPHEN MILLER AND EVERY TRUMP GOON IS FIRED, AND THE TRUMP CORRUPTION PROBE IS OFFICIALLY LAUNCHED! HEALTH CARE IS NOW FREE FOR ALL AMERICANS (NO MEASLES!) AND ALL MOMS GET FREE CHILDCARE SO WE CAN HAVE MORE BABIES!!! ALSO CANNABIS IS NOW LEGAL AND ABORTION IS BACK FOR WOMEN WHO WANT IT. I WILL SOON BE BANNING ALL TICKETMASTER FEES AND THERE WILL BE NO MORE COMMERCIALS ALLOWED DURING NBA AND NFL GAMES, AS WELL AS ALL BRAVO “REAL HOUSEWIVES” SHOWS (LONGER EPISODES!). EVERY AMERICAN FAMILY NOW GETS A “TARIFF AND GAS SPIKE REFUND” TO BUY A CHEAP ELECTRIC CAR! THE COUNTRY IS NOW RUN BY SOMEONE WHO CAN ACTUALLY COMPLETE A SENTENCE. AMERICA IS NOW “HOT” BECAUSE YOU HAVE A DYSLEXIC PRESIDENT INSTEAD OF A BRAIN-DEAD ONE. BIG UPGRADE!!! — GOVERNOR GCN

[Matthew Todd 🌏🔥 @MrMatthewTodd]

I’m not a fan of Starmer, but whatever he does – literally whatever he does - he is ripped apart, ripped to shreds, by the telegraph, Mail, express, Sun, spectator, the very same people who installed Boris Johnson and the appalling Liz Truss.
The same people who installed the governments that caused Brexit and the financial chaos that has ensued, the same people who have driven this country into the ground.
I’m sick to death of them.
They are the biggest threat to this country and all of us across the board, no matter what our politics are. We need to get billionaires out of the Media

[The Alma @TheAlma1]

I piece of bread - 10p !! :-0

[Jay in Kyiv @JayinKyiv]

Russians in St Petersburg lamenting their newly destroyed economy, with empty restaurants and new offers for the extremely impoverished - one single slice of bread on offer for 9.9 rubles ($0.12).

[Tibor M. Kalman @kalmantibs]

At no point during the five-year span that Monty Python's Flying Circus aired on the BBC, from October 1969 to December 1974, could the greatest comedic minds of their time come up with a skit more grotesquely absurd than Trump placing a fake peace-prize medal over his own head.

[The Alma @TheAlma1]

@PeterStefanovi2 And 👍

[Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla]

I was in court for Nathan Gill’s sentencing, I’ve done 2 deep dives on his handler’s network, @thenerve_news has published the only comprehensive timeline & I’m in my 9th year of covering topic.

I haven’t been invited on @BBCNews but I do try & explain it here to @novaramedia

[Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla]

So listen.

@thenerve_news has the receipts.

A comprehensive timeline of Nathan Gill & Nigel Farage’s pro-Kremlin influencing activities & 2 other MEPs, David Cobourn & Jonathan Arnott.

Please read & share.

[Liz Webster @LizWebsterSBF]

🚩🚩🚩Newly released Bannon–Epstein messages (2017–19) show Epstein was giving daily strategic advice to Steve Bannon while Bannon and Farage were building a transatlantic far-right project.

Epstein wasn’t just a social acquaintance. He was in the room, digitally, for the construction of modern populism.

Farage’s partner, Laure Ferrari, literally co-founded the Brussels organisation (“The Movement”) that Bannon used to build a European nationalist network.

Who helped shape the money structure and the logistics? 👉Jeffrey Epstein.

Epstein advised Bannon on:
– how to avoid FARA disclosure
– how to use 501(c)(4) dark-money non-profits
– how to shield political operatives with media shells
– how to keep funding “opaque”
– how to structure a European revolution without legal exposure

This was not small talk.
This was political engineering.

Bannon told Epstein he was working with:
“Nigel, Boris and Rees-Mogg… the guys are trying to move on May today/tomorrow.”

This places Epstein inside the communications chain of the plot to topple Theresa May, while Brexit was at its most volatile.

Epstein also:
– Offered Bannon the use of his island and homes for political strategy
– Arranged accommodation, flights and meetings
– Critiqued Bannon’s media appearances
– Acted as a sounding board on Europe, Salvini, Le Pen’s allies and the gilets jaunes

He was not a spectator.
He was an influencer.

In other words:
🔹 Mandelson: embarrassing proximity.
🔹 Farage: political collaboration through Bannon.

Farage wasn’t merely around the Epstein orbit. He was inside a political machine Epstein helped shape.

And look at the substance:

– Bannon called Farage “the face” of the European far-right project
– Farage’s partner built the Brussels shell
– Farage brokered the meeting that handed it to Bannon
– Epstein provided the dark-money blueprint

This is not gossip.
This is architecture.

Farage sells himself as a man who “took on the elites”. Yet the newly revealed truth is far darker:

His Brexit project was intertwined with 👉Bannon, Epstein, US dark-money networks, Salvini, Le Pen’s bloc, and the hardest edge of the global far right.

Brexit was never anti-establishment.
It was never grassroots. It was never patriotic.

It was a transnational authoritarian project, backed by billionaires, extremists, and a convicted sex offender with global influence.

And Farage was right at the centre of it.

If Mandelson had emails showing Epstein advising him on political strategy, funding routes and foreign influence operations, the country would erupt.

Farage has exactly that except worse.
Because the stakes were Brexit and the reshaping of Europe.

And that truth is finally out 💥

https://t.co/PUZZQlY30S

[Sen. Elissa Slotkin @SenatorSlotkin]

17 General Officers have been removed or have retired in nine months. I'm a former CIA officer – if I saw this in a foreign military, we would call that a purge.

[Andrew Neil @afneil]

The UK’s post-Brexit payments to the EU will top £50billion. We’ve already paid £44billion since leaving in 2020 (ONS). Another £8billion is due.
This is the exit deal the useless Tories negotiated.
At the time they denied it would even be £40billion. Some of us pointed out it would be more.
The EU took hopelessly unprepared Tory governments for a ride, running circles round them and our civil service in negotiations, leaving the rest of us to pick up the enormous tab.

[Senator Adam Schiff @SenAdamSchiff]

I tried to capture what Donald Trump has done to destroy our democracy in the last 9 months … in 9 minutes.

It took me a bit longer.

Here's where we are in this moment, as a nation of laws that has met its most dangerous moment.

[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! 🙏🙏🙏

[Reform UK Exposed 🇬🇧 @reformexposed]

If @Nigel_Farage is shocked to discover his trusted friend and colleague of 20 years Nathan Gill admitted 8, yes 8, charges of Russian Bribery, imagine how shocked the electorate are?

You sat next to him in the European Parliament throughout the time he did it.

He’s going to have spoken to the police about who else knew.

It’s not going away, Nigel.

#ReformRussianBribes