Alastair Campbell

Hard to believe that none of the Reform MPs turned up for the debate on Russian interference in our politics. Maybe they were visiting their former Kremlin talking points Welsh leader Nathan Gill in prison? Or en route to their next BBC interview to act as commentators on why Starmer should go?

If ever you needed a front page to capture the crass yet also dangerous silliness of so much of our media, and the impact of right wing nationalism which has done so much harm through a history from which some seem so unable to learn

German media seems to be taking more seriously than ours the fact a leading light in the party UK press keeps saying will be next government took bribes from Russia to spout their lies. Maybe it’s because they put NEWS ahead of propaganda

Can’t even make their own MAGAhats

Imagine if this was a Labour or Tory MP. These Reform grifters still get treated like exotic celebs rather than politicians

Torsten Bell @torstenbell.bsky.social

Richard Tice: - engaged in highly aggressive tax avoidance to avoid nearly £600,000 of tax - did so at a time when the taxpayer was already paying his salary as an MEP Nothing patriotic about this party of grifters www.thetimes.com/article/6f55...

Reform’s Richard Tice avoided nearly £600,000 in tax

The deputy leader’s property company paid nothing in corporation tax on multimillion-pound profits for most of 2018-21

Tree of the day … even better upside down

Memo from Private Eye to our broadcasters

I’m sure the Sunday papers will be doing massive write throughs on the amazing story of how a Royal and a minister forced Murdoch empire to admit widespread Sun criminal activity. I mean look how the dailies covered it next day!! All in this together! So they bury it. Mail still in firing line 2026

Tick

A conservative French news magazine brightening up the Paris news stands … hard to overstate the damage Trump is doing to his and USA’s reputation among allies (sic)

Closest anyone will ever get to an apology from The Orange ManBoy - now he should say something similar to the other 31 countries whose military he insulted

Indeed … good question …

John Prescott used to say “when I die all they’ll go on about is that bloody punch!” Well no, they went on about a whole lot more. I did a dozen or so interviews paying tribute today and it was so nice to hear so many recalling him so fondly and recognising his enormous achievers and character

It used to be a newspaper

The morning after it feels even worsen. Here is the @therestpolitics.bsky.social LIVESTREAM we did last night on the Trump-Vance ambush of Zelensky … America had elected a disaster alastaircampbell.org/2025/02/378-...

378. TRUMP VS. ZELENSKY: OVAL OFFICE SHOWDOWN

What does Trump’s dramatic outburst at Zelensky mean for Ukraine and the world? Was this an orchestrated ambush by JD Vance and Trump? Should King Charles withdraw his Trump state visit invitation? Jo...

One year since Alexei Navalny was murdered by the Putin regime. Tomorrow his wife Yulia Navalnaya is our guest on @therestpolitics.bsky.social LEADING. At a time Trump can barely bring himself to say Putin caused the war in Ukraine her voice is more important than ever

This might be a better pic to illustrate today’s @therestpolitics.bsky.social new Ep on power plays between USA CHINA RUSSIA …. Wherever you get your podcasts

So I am currently still using Twitter on the grounds that where the far right operate you have to take them on on their own turf. But at @leightonandrews.bsky.social suggestion am also part migrating here. I may need help! I’m not as tech savvy as my Twitter following might suggest!!

They got so so much wrong. And we are all paying the price.

David Warnes @davidjwarnes.bsky.social

Not a prophetic insight as it turns out.

Very pleased that the @therestpolitics.bsky.social interview with Georgian President Salome Zourabichvilli has gone straight to the top of the podcast charts. Shows people care and want to know more. She deserves support in the fight between democracy and Putinism … wherever you get your podcasts

As followers on Xitter and Insta may know I have for some years posted a Tree of the Day. These are usually photos taken by myself. But occasionally someone else sends me one. This is from Matt Kelly founder of The New European. He went to the Amazon in Brazil all to win TotD!!!

Who would have think it? That Farage and Matt Badloss talked a lot of nonsense about being cheated when they just, er, lost? Wasting police time anyone ?

Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social

Police have found no evidence of criminality in Gorton & Denton byelection after claims by Nigel Farage it was “a victory for cheating”. Reform UK had asked Greater Manchester police to investigate allegations of corrupt voting after Green Party won www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Police find no evidence of criminality in Gorton and Denton byelection

Reform UK had asked officers to investigate claims of ‘family voting’ after losing contest in Greater Manchester

And the Brexit lies and the catastrophic consequences for UK

Liam Thorp @liamthorp.bsky.social

This story is all Nigel Farage should be asked about by journalists for months

Ex-leader of Reform UK in Wales sentenced to 10-and-a-half years for taking pro-Russian bribes

The judge tells Nathan Gill his actions were a

www.theneweuropean.co.uk/alastair-cam...

We need a Labour revolution on Brexit

Closer EU alignment would boost growth, strengthen our hand against an unpredictable US and set a trap for Farage and Badenoch