Saturday 30th & Sunday 31st May 2026

[refitman]

Morning all.

[refitman]

Quick update on Reform's local election success

[Frog222]

22° delightful !

Migrants outperforming natives ?

Here's one for Rupert Nigel Rob Kier, and Andy and his mate Shabana --

[Frog222]

So much fucking corruption !

Interesting that Harborne's 'fortune' must be quite recent, stablecoins have been around how long ?

[Frog222]

Hey, which country are we buying today ?

This is all to say that when you step back and look at Nigel Farage’s £5 million gift from Christopher Harborne, even when you compare it to illegal donations, you can see clearly how unusual it is. There has never been anything like it in British politics, and people are right therefore to be more than usually concerned about where it came from, why it was given, and how it was spent.

But step back further still, and Farage’s gift looks as quaint as a 1960s Bond villain. All the parties’ spending in the last British general election added together came to barely one-hundred-thousandth of the total for America’s presidential and congressional races that year. Fairshake, which is just one lobbyist for crypto in the US, has $165 million to spend on this year’s midterms, enough on its own to more than double the cost of a UK-wide contest.

You don’t have to be a conspiracy theorist to think that some US billionaires might be looking across the Atlantic right now and wondering why they should bother chucking so much money at SuperPACs when they could, for the cost of a single senate seat in Texas, buy a whole G7 country. And, let’s face it, that money wouldn’t be going to the Greens, to Labour, or even to the Lib Dems.

Oliver Bullough , free read mail from Byline Times .