Chris Browning

Yet another financial story that is buried by the media If this was Angela Rayner the story would run for months on various front pages......

The corruption is hiding in plain sight. As we discuss on this week’s @RestIsPolitics …. I don’t think there is any doubt Trump is the most corrupt YS president. He may well be going for the world title too. Suharto and Marcos and Putin watch out!!

The facts on Immigration stand in stark contrast to the picture Reform paints. It was out of control, peaking at nearly one million in 2023 under the Tories, many of whom are now in Reform - but since Labour won the election it is very much under control - dropping nearly 80% last year to under 200k, the lowest rate since the world shut down in 2020….And the number of asylum seekers in hotels is down 30%. But most people still believe the claim that immigration is out of control. The truth is in the numbers - not in what Reform says. And not just on immigration. bbc.co.uk/news/live/cvgz…

#GMB presenter declares: "The welfare bill is so huge" Except as Kevin Maguire pointed out on the same program earlier this month, it's about 10.6% of GDP & as a proportion that's lower than most other European countries.

Holy shit, trump and Republicans have been lying to our faces about gas prices coming down quickly... They're going to take SIX YEARS just to get back to where it was when Joe Biden left office, $3.10. How is this not a bigger story?

Gillian Keegan, "Everything Labour have done has been instinctively wrong" Victoria Derbyshire, "You didn't have growth for 14 years" Gillian Keegan whines, "Pandemic, Brexit" Victoria Derbyshire, "Way before Brexit and the Pandemic, the Conservatives had paltry growth" Gillian Keegan, "Liz Truss was a disaster, for the Conservative party's reputation, and the country will pay a price for that"

People are saying that Nigel Farage has asked Elon Musk to ban people from X for sharing this clip of him attacking his crony Robert Jenrick. Surely free speech champion Nigel Farage isn't that petty? But just in case, THIS is the video that you mustn't download or share

Fiona Bruce says people don't want to talk about the traitor Nathan Gill and Russia bribing Reform politicians. Retweet to tell #bbcqt @BBCPolitics and @Nigel_Farage that we really do want to talk about it. #Farage #Putin

This is Tyre in South Lebanon today. Israel is leveling entire civilian neighborhoods in one of the most intense bombardments yet. One of humanity’s oldest cities. Is being systematically wiped out. And not a peep from the complicit international community, of course.

🚩🚩🚩 Nigel Farage admits it: he does not want the NHS funded through general taxation. That means insurance. Bills. Credit cards at the hospital door. This is American 🇺🇸 healthcare by the back door and it’s why Trump, private insurers and US pharma love him. Farage isn’t anti-establishment, he’s here to finish off the NHS. Voters deserve honesty about what Farage’s Britain 🇬🇧 really looks like.

Absolute humiliation for the White House. 60 Minutes confirms Iran is brilliantly bypassing the US blockade, exporting 100,000 MORE barrels of oil daily than before the war. While Trump crashes the Western economy, Tehran freely sells to China. Total strategic collapse!

HOLY CRAP Trump actually accomplished a miracle. Here is what he got out of Iran: - Reduce its stockpile of enriched uranium by about 98% - Limit uranium enrichment to 3.67% purity (far below weapons-grade) - Cut the number of installed centrifuges by roughly two-thirds - Only enrich uranium at one declared site (Natanz) - Stop enrichment activities at Fordow and convert it into a research facility - Redesign the Arak heavy-water reactor so it could not easily produce weapons-grade plutonium - Ship out or dilute excess enriched uranium Allow extensive inspections by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Permit continuous monitoring of nuclear facilities and supply chains - Accept “snap” inspections under expanded monitoring rules - Avoid building new heavy-water reactors for years - Stay within strict limits on uranium stockpile size and centrifuge development for set periods ranging from 10–25 years Ooops, sorry! That was the JCPOA that Obama signed with Iran, only to have him tear it up, kill 140 kids, get hundreds of Americans injured, 13 killed, and gas prices to surge 50%.

Inflation “unexpectedly” fell by 0.5% to 2.8% Growth was an “unexpected” 0.7% - the highest in the G7 Net immigration “unexpectedly” fell by 82% NHS “unexpectedly” met it’s interim 18 week target Our media have so deceived the public that all positive news is now “unexpected”

I am a blue...but I love Kenny Daglish...and what a player Andy Robertson has been for Liverpool...

You'll want to be sitting down for this bit. Water companies are currently £82.7 billion in debt, have paid themselves £85 billion in dividends, leak over a trillion of litres of water per year, dump sewage for almost 4 million hours per year, have been convicted of over 1,200 criminal acts since 1989 and an average of 35% of your bill goes on nothing but paying more interest and yet more dividends. And not a single company has ever lost their operating licence. 👇

"Message in a Bottle" was written by Sting, inspired by the image of a lone castaway throwing bottles into the sea in the hope that someone would find them. The main guitar riff was Sting's idea that Andy Summers rearranged and transformed into what we know today (and which Rolling Stone named one of the 100 greatest riffs in history). It was The Police's first #1 on the UK Singles Chart (3 weeks at the top in 1979), also #1 in Ireland, #5 in Australia, #2 in Canada... but in the US it reached only #74 on the Billboard Hot 100.

My daughter was elected as a city councillor when she was 18, the youngest in the country at the time. (11 years ago) She worked her butt off beforehand (and afterwards) to ensure she knew all there is to know about how local government works. She was brilliant and did some important work. She knew all this backwards before she got in the chamber. This is outrageous incompetence. I wouldn’t dream of voting Reform, but this should give pause to anyone remotely considering it.

It's 1970. Elton John pulls out a crumpled sheet of paper and plays "Tiny Dancer" (my all-time favourite song) for the first time in front of his lyricist, Bernie Taupin, and Taupin’s wife, Maxine, who inspired the song.

Here's how the corruption works: Thursday: RJ Reynolds donates $5M to Trump Saturday: Trump invites RJR execs to Mar a Lago; execs ask to loosen regs on flavored vapes; Trump calls up RFK Jr. and tells him to change it Friday: FDA changes the policy #donation-big-tobacco-vaping" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">nytimes.com/live/2026/05/2…