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Why is the non-commercial BBC News running a plug for ridiculously expensive kids' football stickers for the World Cup? It's a tournament based on greed, run by a historically corrupt organisation which sucked up to Trump with an absurd peace prize?


It was never clear how Nigel Farage had a spare £215,000 (!) to invest in Kwasi Kwarteng’s crypto company. But if he had been personally given £5m by a Thai crypto king, then it’s clearer. My story from March: thetimes.com/article/605d83…


#UPDATE: Following the revelation that Thailand-based investor Christopher Harborne provided Nigel Farage with an undisclosed £5 million personal gift in early 2024 (for security, not registered at the time), Harborne’s cumulative donations to Farage, the Brexit Party, and Reform UK now total around £27–29 million. This makes him the largest single individual donor to a UK political party or politician in recorded modern history (Electoral Commission era, from 2001 onwards), surpassing lifetime totals by figures such as Lord David Sainsbury (around £25–27 million across Labour and Lib Dems) and Frank Hester (over £20 million to the Conservatives). While pre-2001 opacity makes absolute certainty impossible, dramatic larger examples don’t appear in historical accounts, which means Harborne is now almost certainly the biggest individual donor to UK politics in the post-war period. And he doesn’t even fucking live here! And yes, I do know what I’m talking about. I took a close look at Reform UK donors, including Harborne, back in January 2024: bylinetimes.com/2024/01/18/ref…











