Reform is holding their first rally of 2026 in London ahead of the local elections in May. Nigel Farage and Richard Tice are both speaking, and the party’s newly-minted candidate for Mayor of London Laila Cunningham. Reform London Assembly members Alex Wilson and Keith Prince will also be speaking. Watch live below…
Some of Zack Polanski’s performances are pinging about in the deep, dark corners of the internet. In 2010 the Green Party leader starred in a self-referential meta-comic avant-garde film called “The Gallon Challenge.” Synopsis:
“A college film major who, after a series of unfortunate events, has no choice but to make a documentary about a milk drinking contest in order to graduate.”
Is this where his specialism with breasts started?
Runtime: 73 minutes and 35 seconds. If co-conspirators are looking for something to do this weekend…
Here’s the trailer for those who just can’t spare the time:
He’s better at acting than he is at economics…
US Forces have taken the Olina, which was under the flag of Timor Leste, near Trinidad. On Wednesday British Armed Forces aided the capture of Bella 1 off Iceland…
The Olina used to be the Minerva – a Russian tanker sanctioned by the US and EU. It left Venezuela last week with a full cargo of oil…
US Vice President JD Vance has weighed in on the row over the UAE cutting funds for students who want to study in the UK amid fears they will be radicalised by Muslim Brotherhood Islamists. Unlike in most Arab states, the UK does not proscribe the group as a terrorist organisation…
Vance said on X:
“Absolutely insane headline…Some of our best Muslim allies in the Gulf think the Islamist indoctrination in certain parts of the west is too dangerous.”
DPM Lammy must have given off a great impression in DC last night…
Westminster’s Labour MPs are redirecting staffing resources away from London and out to their constituencies as support for the government falls to record lows. Good luck banging the drum for Labour on the doorstep…
As the government commits its 12th major U-turn Guido hears swathes of the PLP will bolster their constituency operations – often neglected – to try and improve their local popularity and do more basic groundwork. Filling a popularity vacuum left by Starmer’s government…
A glance at the Westminster jobs site W4MP confirms numerous Labour MPs have already begun the process as of Wednesday. With backbenchers in open and often successful rebellion against government policies their constituency staff can advertise just how much their MP is championing constituency concerns…
This is the same instinct that leads Anas Sarwar to tell ministers and Starmer to stay “behind their doors” during the campaign in Scotland. Constituency staff will also provide local support during the May election period. Starmer only gets less popular…
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Kemi Badenoch defended her decision not to force Tory councils to hold elections in May, telling GB News:
“It is Conservative policy that we should have elections, but I’m not a dictator. You know Nigel Farage, no one else makes any decisions, he’s a one-man band.”
