Neil Price

As a writer for PRAGMATA, these are the things that can't be quanitified and make you feel that all the struggle is worthy: ign.com/articles/pragm…

- Two-thirds of Reform's money is wired from Thailand - Ben Delo, pardoned by Trump for breaking money-laundering rules, has given £4m. - Farage's secret £5m bung A new model of politics is meeting an old model of transparency. With dangerous results: times-comment.com/farage123

It is good that the media is showing concern for Jack Grealish's wellbeing. Players are human & compassion matters. It is also speaks volumes about the difference in treatment compared to Marcus Rashford. Grealish's off-field pattern is objectively worse: At Villa he was pictured inhaling nitrous oxide balloons, pictured lying drunk on the ground in the road in Tenerife, all night hotel party with police called, clubbed hours after heavy defeats (dropped to U/21s). 2020 drunk-drove, crashed his £80k Range Rover into parked cars & a wall, stank of alcohol, slurred speech, fled scene, an £82k fine & 9 month ban. 2025 £20k Christmas party ending in strip club at 4am, then missed Everton game citing illness. Rashford for comparison; overslept/late, dropped. Clubbed after derby loss. Two nights clubbing in Belfast heavy drinking, claimed illness, missed one training (while fit), apologised, dropped for one FA Cup game & heavy fine. Speeding 104 mph, 6 month ban. The same media that called for Rashford to “focus on football” now offers Grealish compassion & understanding. Treat every player to the same standard of care & accountability.

“I took £5 million from a Thai-based billionaire just a few months before I became an MP. I then told my constituents that no-one owned me and my loyalty would be them.”

EXCL: Nigel Farage was given an undisclosed £5m by crypto billionaire Christopher Harborne shortly before announcing he would stand in general election @Annaisaac reveals theguardian.com/politics/2026/…

Starmer gets a free ticket to an Arsenal match and the entire right wing media throws an instant conniption fit Farage gets a £5 million quid undisclosed Crypto donation made directly to his company, Reform U.K. and it’s wall to wall crickets from those very same media outlets

Also: gifts aren’t taxable. So £5m tax-free personal “gift” to Farage will be the the biggest single sum accepted by any UK politician in democratic history. Reform is lobbying for crypto tax cuts, forcing BoE to hold crypto etc. A scandal hiding in plain sight.

Awful

I am doing some part-time media teaching at uni. This Laura Kuenssberg ‘in depth’ piece on the BBC website includes 6 quotes to back up the tone of the headline. All 6 are from anonymous sources. Is this sound journalism?

Ofcom finally find their teeth down the back of the sofa and leap into action. Of course, it's to prevent a video critical of Reform UK being shown. Not any of the countless lies Reform spout, week in, week out on their own dedicated TV channel. Watch this — it's excellent.

✨Jon Hamm's Closet Picks!✨

Watching Krejčí repeatedly punt aimless balls up to Angel Gomes (5ft 6) and Jean-Ricner Bellegarde (5ft 7) whilst they try and hold the ball up for the big man Adam Armstrong (5ft 8) is really fun

Nothing like UK media when it comes to dealing with Labour leaders compared to Tory/ReformUK ones. Remember this - Boris Johnson when PM appointed Evgeny Lebedev for a life peerage, even though was informed of security concerns from intelligence. Not a peep -double standards/bias

Well, I've waited 48 hours & Andrew Neil is uncharacteristically silent on this week's big news event. *Still* no big important or thoughts about Hungary 🧐

Hay que pedirle disculpas a George Lucas; cuando sacó Episodio 1 nos quejabamos de que "bloquear rutas comerciales" era un argumento pobrísimo para un conflicto de Star Wars. Aquí estamos, pleno 2026, discutiendo por bloqueos de rutas comerciales.

The EU right now.

Murdoch, who supports Trump, Rothermere whose grandfather supported Hitler, and Vladimir Putin who is trying to destroy Ukraine all supported #Brexit for their own selfish reasons.

Left: Nigel Farage and Robert Jenrick meet the winners of Reform UK's competition to have your energy paid for the whole year Right: Here are the two winners with Nigel Farage at a Brexit Party rally in Fylde on the 4th May 2019 Credits to @linfitlass @donmcgowan for putting this together

Have I got it right that a man who wants to be the British Prime Minister organised a raffle for a year of free energy and turned up on a doorstep with flowers to hand the prize money to some people who support his party and who have met him several times? Is this all a dream?

Letterboxd has probably been a big factor for getting Gen Z excited about movie theaters, but the biggest influence is probably a need for community in our disconnected times. People want something real. People want to experience art with other people.