Derek O'Neill

Breaking : Révélations aujourd'hui en GB : scandale autour de £5 MILLIONS en cryptomonnaie, un "don" non déclaré par Nigel Farage Ces populistes et l'argent, hein ?

@RachelSJohnson Reminds me of the time your Brother was in Italy, drunk at a Berlusconi Sex Party with the KGB, instead of dealing with London's issues ...

Trump had absolutely no idea what Charles was talking about.

During the meeting between Spanish PM Pedro Sánchez and London Mayor Sadiq Khan, sources close to the Mayor reported that Spain would strongly welcome the UK’s return to the EU. Love it! Let’s open the doors wide for the UK’s future return home to Europe! 🇪🇺🇬🇧

🚨 A @facebook post with 3,300 likes featuring a video that appears to show a small boat crossing the English Channel, viewed more than 400,000 times and sparking over 1,700 comments, is completely fake. While younger British people have been taught media literacy and critical thinking skills that help them spot divisive, misleading, exaggerated, or false content, millions of older Britons still falsely believe they are somehow immune to manipulation. Are they fuck. If democracies and citizens truly value truth, integrity, and accuracy, we must all act urgently to stem the tsunami of toxic misinformation that is polarising communities and undermining democracy. Right now, bad actors have free rein to spread hate, lies, and division on a massive scale. Anyone who dares to highlight the obvious harm this causes is immediately branded a “woke anti-free speech liberal” and hounded by populist politicians and billionaire-owned media. The Facebook page responsible is called Britain Today and operates under the handle britantodaynews (note the spelling). It pumps out viral, toxic, divisive, hateful, and misleading videos and disinformation day in, day out. Absurdly, it is categorised by Facebook as a “Public figure / News & media website.” Yet there is zero transparent ownership, with no public information on who runs or moderates it. Like many similar pages, this opacity is now the norm. Similar operations are often linked to overseas content farms chasing maximum engagement, or even hostile foreign states seeking to harm Britain. The page shows a clear pattern of pushing highly emotive content on hot-button issues, including unverified and AI-generated material. Facebook pages do not require public disclosure of owners, which is deeply concerning. For all we know, it could be a hostile state, overseas-based actors, or far-right operators deliberately sowing division among British citizens and undermining democracy. This FB page which posted the AI-generated small boat video, has around 193,000 likes: facebook.com/britantodaynew… Meanwhile, @FullFact’s tweet debunking the video currently has only around 1,821 views, 26 likes, 18 reposts, and zero comments. This highlights a stark asymmetry and reflects a well-documented dynamic on social media: emotionally charged, fear- and anger-driven content spreads far faster and wider than fact-checks or corrections. Facebook and @Meta’s own rules do not mandate disclosure of page owners or administrators. There is a “Page Transparency” section that sometimes shows basic details such as country and creation date, but it almost never names the actual individuals or organisations behind high-volume, news-style pages like this one. FUCK THAT SHIT. Critics, including fact-checkers and researchers, have warned for years that this lack of accountability makes it easy for domestic or foreign actors, content farms, and anonymous operators to run large-scale influence operations. We have no verified public evidence about who actually runs @britantodaynews, whether it is a UK-based team, an overseas operator, a content mill, or something else. It operates as an engagement-driven machine that has built a large audience by relentlessly stoking Britain’s most divisive issues, and I for one am fucking sick of shit-stirring opportunist wankers fucking over our country, AND of the spineless politicians who do not appear to give a solitary shit about it.

Look at his face. Imagine being six years old, and this monster is raping and sodomizing you. He's been sentenced to 60 days in jail. He doesn't have to register as a sex offender. When you vote Republican you give power to men who violently terrorize children.

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

In case anyone isn’t aware, Trump is demanding Zambia to hand over its mineral rights by end of day tomorrow or the U.S. gov’t will cut off the country’s access to the AIDS medications that are literally keeping its citizens alive. Just thought y’all should know.

I know conservatives don’t like Reform. I know Labour voters don’t like Reform. I know the Green Party does not like Reform. I know Your Party does not like Reform. I know the Lib Dems don’t like Reform. I know people who support independent politicians don’t like Reform. I know Advance UK doesn’t like Reform. Vote tactically on 7 May. Keep Farage out of your neighbourhood There’s more of us than that are of them Act like it. 🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿☕️🫖

Rupert Lowe keeps getting humiliated. "An investigation by a KC concluded that there was ‘credible evidence’ that he had mistreated 2 female members in a way that ‘seemed to amount to harassment’. I don’t want to hear anything from him about violence against women & girls."

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…

I resigned as U.S. Ambassador Ukraine when Trump kept siding with Putin over our democratic partner. Now, my successor is doing the same. I knew I had to speak out and run for office because siding with dictators is just not who we are.

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.

Meet Paula. She sells the Big Issue in Cardiff and bakes for her two kids every chance she gets. For five years, she couldn't read the recipes on her phone without squinting until her eyes streamed. A free eye test and glasses through our @Specsavers partnership changed that. -Ad

Nigel Farage has been referred to the Standards Commissioner after @Annaisaac revealed that he received a £5million gift from cypto billionaire Christopher Harborne before he was elected in 2024 Farage said that he used the money to fund his private security. But the Commons rules state that new members are required to register any benefits - including gifts - that they received in the 12 months prior to their election The Tories have now referred Farage to the Standards Commissioner, saying that Farage must 'come clean'

The Office That Made The World. And The Man Who Mistook It For A Mirror. Franklin Roosevelt took a phone call on a Sunday afternoon in December 1941 and understood, before he had hung up, that the next four years of his life belonged entirely to something larger than himself. He was partly paralyzed. He got to work. Dwight Eisenhower had commanded the largest military operation in human history, had the ego to match, and spent his presidency warning Americans about the military-industrial complex he could have exploited for personal glory. He left quietly. He left the country better than he found it. John Kennedy stood ninety miles from Soviet nuclear missiles in Cuba and chose, when every military instinct around him screamed otherwise, to find a way out that did not end civilization. He was thirty-nine days from his own assassination. He held his nerve. Lyndon Johnson, a man of considerable personal ugliness, looked at the American South and signed the Civil Rights Act knowing, in his own words, that he had just handed the Democratic Party to its opponents for a generation. He did it anyway. Because the office required it. Ronald Reagan stood at the Brandenburg Gate and demanded that a wall come down. He meant it. The wall came down. Every one of these men, at the moment that mattered, understood something essential: that the presidency of the United States was not given to them. It was lent to them, by 240 years of accumulated sacrifice and institutional construction, on the strict condition that they return it intact. The job has a size. You grow into it or it destroys you. There is no third option. In January 2025, the United States handed that office to a 78-year-old man who responded by posting AI-generated images of himself holding assault rifles in front of burning buildings, renaming geographic features after himself, putting his face on the passport, and selling dinner with the presidency through a cryptocurrency leaderboard. He did not grow into the office. He put his name on it and listed it on the market. The men who built this country would not recognize what he has done to it. More precisely, they would recognize it immediately, because they had seen it before, in the monarchies and despotisms they had sailed across an ocean to escape. They wrote the Constitution in direct response to this specific personality type. They designed every institution, every check, every balance, with one eye on the man who would one day believe himself larger than the republic. America produced Roosevelt and Eisenhower and Marshall and King. It built the institutions that held the line for eighty years. It created the thing that the rest of the world, quietly and sometimes reluctantly, organized itself around. And then it handed all of that to someone whose primary foreign policy communication tool is an action figure fantasy, whose sons are running financial platforms out of the White House. The greatest democracy in human history is being run by a teenager in an old man’s body. And the tragedy is not that it happened. Democracies make mistakes. The tragedy is that it required this, the gold coins, the renamed seas, the gun selfies, the sold dinners, the laughing European presidents, the 57 out of 100 on the democracy index, the allies quietly building escape routes from the American umbrella, all of it, before enough people began to understand what had actually been lost. Roosevelt is not coming back. Neither is the America he built. What comes next depends entirely on whether Americans decide that what they had was worth keeping. The current evidence is not encouraging. If you like what you read, follow Gandalv on X: @Microinteracti1

I grew up with @BBCr4today when it was probing but fair. Listening to @bbcnickrobinson interviewing @bphillipsonMP earlier I was horrified at the level of contemptuous sneering she had to endure. The BBC cannot be trusted with political journalism. Robinson is unfit for post.

So are @ZiaYusufUK and Reform going to "carpet bomb" the constituencies of Farage and Jenrick because they didn't vote at all in yesterday's debate?

Obama: Married to 1 woman. No affairs. 8 years as POTUS. No scandals Never demanded anything named after himself. Never sold pardons. Oversaw the capture and killing of Bin Laden. Worked to bring down our debt. Not DOUBLE it. Won a NOBLE w/out whining and crying publicly for it. Never took an award he didn't earn himself. Demonstrated dignity & respect to all. TRUMP WILL NEVER MEASURE UP. EVER!

Putin is scared. His "fortress" is cracking and half his decrees are now secret — so Russians can't see how badly the regime is failing. Here's what he's hiding 👇 [1/11]