Martin Bain

🚩🚩🚩 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.

Thread! 🧵 Please read, like, share & send the article to your friends. #TheHarbourneReceipts from @thenerve_news. Important accountability journalism into Nigel Farage & his crypto pals. Follow the money 💰 💰 💰

The Nerve’s Farage/Harbourne/Johnson timeline is incredibly revealing. I’d urge you to read it & ask yourself as @margarethodge does in our story: what is Christopher Harbourne getting for his cash?? 5/

Exclusive: Reform UK leader Nigel Farage owes almost £10,000 after he ended up with a county court judgment, Channel 4 News can reveal. A Reform UK spokesperson said he was unaware of the judgment until we brought it to his attention.

Channel 4 News's Clare Fallon tracks down Nigel Farage who was absent from Parliament today avoiding questions about the £5m donation She asks him about it He jumps into his car and drives off

Illuminating piece on how Nige really has got himself into a spot of bother…that he might not be able to wriggle out of

Elon Musk is a loser.

FT Exclusive: Nigel Farage’s claim that he paid for a £1.4mn house with his fee from a reality TV show has been challenged by corporate accounts that appear to show that the income remained on his company’s balance sheet after the property purchase. ft.trib.al/YIuowMb

Many of them didn't. Your great-great-grandmother was probably drinking opium for her nerves, sold at the corner shop as cheap as a pint of beer. It was called laudanum, a mix of opium and alcohol that doctors handed out for anxiety, sleeplessness, and "women's troubles." Mothers fed it to crying babies. The babies often stopped crying because they stopped breathing. The men drank. By 1830 the average American was putting away almost two bottles of liquor a week. Whiskey cost less than coffee or milk. People started their day with a shot and ended it with another. Toddlers drank from their parents' rum mugs. ADHD has a long paper trail. A Scottish doctor described kids who couldn't focus in 1798. By 1846 there was a popular German children's book about a boy called Fidgety Philipp who couldn't sit still. In 1902, a London children's doctor named George Still wrote a famous paper on the same kids and called it a "defect of moral control." Same kid, three different centuries. Depression and anxiety had old names too. Melancholia, hysteria, the vapors. Treatments included bloodletting, ice baths, and chaining people to a wall. By 1937, American mental hospitals held 451,672 patients and took up more than half of every hospital bed in the country. Inside the walls, about 1 in 10 patients died each year. Then came the lobotomy. Between 1949 and 1952, around 50,000 Americans were strapped to a chair while a doctor hammered an ice pick through the thin bone above their eye and wiggled it around inside their brain. It took about ten minutes. Sixty percent of the patients were women. About 1 in 20 died from the procedure. Many of the ones who lived came out with no personality left. The man who invented the procedure won a Nobel Prize. Britain's male suicide rate hit 30.3 per 100,000 in 1905. The lowest rates ever recorded in British history are happening right now. Plenty of our ancestors didn't make it. They drank themselves dead. They overdosed on shop-bought opium. They got locked in asylums and never came out. They had picks driven through their eye sockets. They killed themselves in numbers we don't see today. The conditions were always there. The treatments just used to be worse than the disease.

We’ve been doggedly reporting on Palantir’s contracts with UK state…& this latest one with Met police is both creepy & opaque. Met has used Palantir to spy on its own officers. If it can do this to its own employees…what about the rest of us? By Max Colbert & @LuciaOC_

The great Paul Whitehouse is 68 years old today, which means I am obliged to post this (again!) - arguably the most majestically random but brilliant comedy sketch committed to celluloid for at least the last, what, forty, forty five years? Yes, forty, forty five years. Happy birthday Paul 🤘

If you’re going to the Tommy Robinson march today then you’re a cunt 😘

Need a great night out? 😃 Join us for live stand-up comedy at Thread in Stockport Market Place, Thursday 28th May. ⭐️ Steve Harris ⭐️ Paul Savage ⭐️ Rose Gray as Brenda ⭐️ Danny Sutcliffe (MC) #stockport #comedy #comedyclub #standup #standupcomedy

NEW: Palantir’s revolving door. A new investigation by @thenerve_news has found Palantir has recruited more than 30 senior officials from UK govt, a strategy transparency experts say poses an ‘acute risk’ of corruption. 1/ Link ⬇️

Since Thursday’s loca election, five Reform councillors have been forced to resign, four have been suspended, and one wants the Doncaster Council to monitor UFO activities.

If he was willing to say “Up the RA” for £87, what do you think he’d be willing to do for £5 million?

Parliamentary standards watchdog to begin inquiry into whether Reform UK leader Nigel Farage breached rules over £5m gift bbc.in/3OYSh87

Isabel Oakeshott is claiming that Richard Tice condemned Glenn Gibbins, who said Nigerians should be melted down to fill potholes. She must think we're stupid because we all watched him repeatedly refuse to condemn it.

More great stand-up comedy coming your way, Stockport! 🙂 MC Danny Sutcliffe welcomes Steve Harris, Paul Savage, & Rose Gray as Brenda. Thursday 28th May at Thread. Book tickets: wegottickets.com/f/17139 #stockport #comedy #standupcomedy #standup

Tomorrow! Last few tickets: wegottickets.com/f/17164 #stockport #comedy #improv #murdermystery