Tom Rivers

American Foreign Correspondent based in London for nearly 40 years. From Lockerbie to the Coronation and beyond.

[Polymarket @Polymarket]

BREAKING: National Rally leader Marine Le Pen officially announces she will run for president of France in 2027.

She's now favored to win the election.

[Guido Fawkes @GuidoFawkes]

Marine Le Pen Cleared to Run in 2027 https://t.co/wbDoBhsgMQ

[Tom Rivers @Tomrivers558]

Completely undemocratic...

[QUANTUM GUARD ™️ @QuantumGuard17]

🚨 BREAKING: Elon Musk just shared a bombshell report that Minnesota processed 281,000 "ONLINE" voter registration forms with ZERO proof of citizenship, per @Shilohmarx

It's CONFIRMED that Minnesota only mandates a migrant claim they are citizens - without proving it.

This is fraud in a ginormous scale.

Minnesota also lets one person vouch for 8 migrant voters' eligibility to vote WITHOUT them having to prove it!

Minnesota needs to clean house, NOW.

[Election Time @ElectionTime_]

🚨GOP WINS SENATE: After America's 250th, Republicans are on track to win 52 Senate seats.

2026 Senate
🔴Republicans 52
🔵Democrats 48

The GOP has a 73% chance of retaining their majority, winning Texas, Alaska, Ohio, and Maine.

Forecast via @Pollsmax.

[Bernie @Artemisfornow]

Dear Mr Starmer,

You say you have made Britain a better place. I beg to differ, let’s have a look at how you have made Britain better shall we?

▪️tried to cancel elections
▪️arrested 12,000 ppl a year for posts
▪️300,000 businesses closed
▪️125,000 increase in unemployment
▪️Unemployment up to 4.9%
▪️Vacancies at lowest level since 2021
▪️Borrowing higher than forecast
▪️Inflation rose again after falling
▪️NHS waiting list still over 7 million
▪️Record Channel crossings
▪️Heat pump rollout stalled
▪️AI data centres priority grid connections
▪️Offshored emissions
▪️increased subsidies to wind farms
▪️Lied to Trump about free speech
▪️27 More quangos and regulators
▪️Expanded facial recognition policing
▪️Online Safety Act censorship
▪️operation scatter of illegal migrants
▪️Winter fuel allowance cancelled
▪️highest tax in 70 years
▪️highest electricity in the world
▪️fake £22 billion black hole
▪️ 22.3% pay rise for doctors
▪️15% pay rise for train drivers
▪️attempts to join EU by stealth
▪️ Closed the migrant barge
▪️4 more years of hotels for illegals
▪️NI tax rises for businesses
▪️£500 million to foreign farmers
▪️£3.4 BILLION on consultants
▪️Two tier policing at protests & riots
▪️crackdown on free speech
▪️No deportations for foreign criminals
▪️let prisoners out early
▪️net zero madness spending
▪️Carbon capture experiment
▪️solar factories on green belt
▪️oops had to cancel non Dom policy
▪️VAT on private schools backfired
▪️Softer sentences, prisons are full
▪️Free clothes for MPs
▪️Free tickets for MPs
▪️Rent free house for MPs
▪️free Pass for Ali for Downing Street
▪️introducing pay per mile
▪️Ended steel production
▪️Stopped oil and gas licenses
▪️ refused to use huge new gas field
▪️Spaffed £8.3b on British energy
▪️Energy bills went up TWICE
▪️Palestine marches out of control
▪️Ended free speech in universities
▪️Increases in fuel duty
▪️Said “free the sausages”
▪️Fired his chief of staff
▪️Fired his energy minister
▪️gave Peter Mandelson a job
▪️Chancellor isn’t an economist
▪️Gave £millions more to Ukraine
▪️Gave £50 million to Syrian militants
▪️Richest pop star got free police escort
▪️made up some ‘science’ on fly wheels
▪️stopped Rwanda
▪️largest number of illegal migrants ever
▪️Didn’t change his ‘special’ pension
▪️Gave away the Chagos Islands
▪️lost Rosie Duffield
▪️let Ukraine use Storm shadow
▪️revoked land wind farm ban
▪️announced Pylons near houses
▪️Banned Elon from ‘Investment Summit’
▪️misogyny would be classed as terrorism
▪️ investigated by Electoral Commission
▪️ Lord Ali under investigation
▪️Inheritance tax on farmers
▪️Lied to WASPI women
▪️Attempting to bring in blasphemy laws
▪️Gave £500 million to foreign farmers
▪️Chancellor turned out to be unqualified
▪️highest government borrowing in 34 yrs
▪️MP investigated for corruption
▪️Banning parents from seeing curriculum
▪️ Anti Muslim blasphemy law
▪️stabbing up
▪️Called ordinary people far right racists
▪️Rapists allowed out of prison early

Have I missed anything? Apart from taxpayers now funding free school breakfasts?

[Echelon Insights @EchelonInsights]

AMERICA'S 250TH: 62% of voters plan to celebrate July 4th this year.

But the partisan gap is wide; 78% of Republicans are celebrating, compared to just 46% of Democrats. More than 1 in 3 Democrats say they won't be celebrating the occasion at all.

[Sky News @SkyNews]

Donald Trump has marked America's 250th Independence Day celebrations with a speech at Mount Rushmore, hailing U.S. innovation and declaring the country's "golden age" is only just beginning.

Live updates: https://t.co/FGkqf8GqEp

[Tom Rivers @Tomrivers558]

No!...

[Daily Mail @DailyMail]

After line judges are axed in favour of AI, could Wimbledon eventually replace Rufus the hawk with AI drones? https://t.co/lPMdsy6cqq

[Rapid Response 47 @RapidResponse47]

.@POTUS at Mount Rushmore: "Tonight, we gather on the eve of one of the most extraordinary days in the history of the world. Tomorrow, we mark 250 years of glorious independence and 250 years of majestic American freedom.

In all the chronicles of the ages, never before has any nation celebrated so magnificent a triumph as this one... At 250 Years, America is the oldest Republic on earth. We are the freest people on earth. We have the most righteous and enduring Constitution on earth. We are the strongest and most powerful country on earth. And by the grace of God, the United States of America is the most successful, most accomplished, most exceptional nation ever to exist in human history."

[Global Dissident @GlobalDiss]

🚨🇩🇪 MERZ’S RATING COLLAPSES TO RECORD LOW

Merz is officially Germany's LEAST popular Chancellor in 30 years.

84% of Germans are dissatisfied, including over HALF of CDU voters.

Approval drops to just 13%.

The AfD is now crushing the CDU by 5%.

[Tom Rivers @Tomrivers558]

Great being on today talking about 'life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness' as America prepares to celebrate its 250th 4th of July. https://t.co/q5XoeQS42i

[Politics & Poll Tracker 📡 @PollTracker2024]

Marist/NPR/PBS poll | 6/8-6/11

How proud are you to be an American?

Very proud/proud: 65%
Not too/not proud at all: 35%
——
By party

🟦Democratic
Not too/not proud at all: 55%
Very proud/proud: 45%
—
🟥Republican
Very proud/proud: 93%
Not too/not proud at all: 6%

Link to poll: https://t.co/v30Nz7TFK5

[Eric Daugherty @EricLDaugh]

🚨 JUST IN: President Trump announces he will "TAKE CARE" of birthright citizenship for illegals and foreigners after the Supreme Court ruling

"It was meant for the babies of SLAVES!" 💯

"Not for rich people from CHINA!"

"I KNOW they got it wrong."

"We'll take care of the birthright citizenship. That was NOT meant for rich people from other countries!"

[David J Harris Jr @DavidJHarrisJr]

🚨BREAKING: Justice Brett Kavanaugh just opened a clear path for reforming birthright citizenship.

In yesterday’s Supreme Court ruling on Trump’s executive order, Kavanaugh agreed with the outcome but wrote separately to clarify that the order did not violate the 14th Amendment itself — it only conflicted with current federal statute.

He explicitly stated that Congress has the power to amend the statute or pass new legislation creating exceptions to automatic birthright citizenship for children born to parents who are unlawfully present or only temporarily in the United States.

This is a major signal from the Court that the issue can be fixed through ordinary legislation without needing a constitutional amendment.

[Tom Rivers @Tomrivers558]

A Starner legacy reality check.

[Times Radio @TimesRadio]

Andrew Neil tears into Keir Starmer’s claim that Britain is better off under his premiership, warning his successor will inherit a minefield of political problems.

“A veritable pharmacy of poison pills for Mr Burnham.”

[Polymarket @Polymarket]

BREAKING: Republicans surge to a 4-month high in the odds to keep control of the Senate at midterms.

58% chance.

[Eric Daugherty @EricLDaugh]

🚨 JUST IN: President Trump has just BOARDED the NEW Air Force One, en route to North Dakota for the Teddy Roosevelt Library and a Freedom 250 event

This is the FIRST presidential flight in the new Air Force One 🔥

Keep working hard, POTUS! 👏🏻

[Patricia 🇺🇸 @1109Patricia]

Karoline Leavitt, the White House Press Secretary has been sharing the president’s plans, he’s heading to North Dakota on July 1st for the Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library in Medora, then to Mount Rushmore in South Dakota on July 3rd for the big America 250 fireworks celebration where he’ll speak. July 4th wraps with more events back in D.C. It’s all part of the big 250th anniversary push.

It’s gonna be huge this year for America’s 250th. They’re planning the biggest fireworks display in history, over 850,000 shells launched from 10 different sites, including the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool, eight barges on the Potomac, and West Potomac Park. It should run about 40 minutes, starting around 10:30 or 11 PM, with performances, flyovers, and a big stage show on the National Mall starting earlier in the evening. Expect massive crowds, so get there early or watch from a rooftop or across the river.

[P a u l ◉ @SkylineReport]

America's Bicentennial drew millions over 12 weeks, with the National Mall already bustling before July 4 as festivals and events built toward crowds of roughly 500,000 for the parade and about 1 million for the fireworks.

America250 was supposed to build the same momentum. Instead, Trump's signature Great American State Fair has been widely reported as drawing sparse crowds just days before Independence Day, despite projections that hundreds of thousands will descend on Washington for the holiday itself.

The difference isn't July 4. It's everything leading up to it.

[Toby Young @toadmeister]

Labour has barely registered a polling bounce since Sir Keir Starmer quit and Andy Burnham closes in on becoming his successor as Prime Minister, gaining just two points to sit at 20%. https://t.co/L1qK0QMexH