Glutton for punishment COYS 🤍

Well this is just utterly embarassing. GB Media (GB News parent), the group owned by Sir Paul Marshall and his Dubai based investment company, which mainly made its money investing in post-Soviet Russian oil assets, are launching GB Radio. The Dubai/Russian oil funded station will only play music from British and Northern Irish artists. You could not make this stuff up.

If people want to understand the objections to Elon Musk, look at what he chooses to do with his enormous resources. Today, he has reportedly spent another £200,000 on the legal costs of Tommy Robinson, a far-right, drug-addicted thug with a long criminal record. Robinson was convicted in 2005 of assault occasioning actual bodily harm and assaulting an off-duty police officer, receiving a 12-month sentence. In 2011, he was convicted of assault after headbutting a man and received a 12-week suspended sentence. That same year, he was convicted of threatening, abusive or insulting behaviour after a football-related brawl and received a community rehabilitation order. In 2013, he was jailed for 10 months after using somebody else’s passport to enter the United States. In 2014, he received 18 months for mortgage fraud. In 2019, he was jailed for contempt of court after interfering with proceedings in a grooming-gang trial. And in 2024, he received another 18 months for deliberately breaching a court injunction by repeating false allegations about a Syrian schoolboy. Now, in 2026, he is back in court facing two charges of harassment causing fear of violence against journalists. He denies the charges. Rather than using that money to help the hungry, the homeless, the sick, Elon Musk is choosing to spend hundreds of thousands of pounds helping fund his legal battles. Can someone who supports Musk genuinely explain the moral justification for this?

Sharron thinks UK policy should simply grind to a halt, and government should sit back with a bag of popcorn and watch Paris, rather than focus on improving conditions for our own people.

If you mean, are you the only racist, misogynistic asshole relieved to see their own abhorrent personality traits exposed in others, then I suspect not.

Reform: “it’s just a few bad apples”

Reform aren’t the only political party who felt the need to publish their own paper…

What will get released first? The Tesla Roadster 2.0 The Epstein Files Andrew Tate

How Reform thinks the parliamentary standards and criminal justice system works.

Yann LeCun, one of the world’s foremost AI, machine-learning and robotics researchers, an engineer, NYU professor and ACM Turing Award laureate, has been torn to pieces today by Elon Musk fans for daring to inject some reality into the Tesla Roadster debate. The objection isn’t that the technology isn’t impressive. It is how these capabilities are being marketed, with deposits being taken on the basis of what we’ve been shown. The physics remain the problem. A production car carrying enough compressed air to deliver those levels of thrust would face enormous compromises in weight, storage capacity and recharge requirements. At best, you’re looking at seconds of extreme thrust, followed by specialist recharging that can absolutely not be integrated into the car - literally impossible because of the weighty equipment needed & the energy required for that equipment to compress 600L of air for a few seconds of thrust. And let’s not forget that the Roadster 2.0 was announced in 2017. Nine years later, instead of finally putting that car on the road, we’re watching a new version of the same old story. This isn’t hate. It’s realism based on experience, engineering and physics. And when someone like @ylecun makes essentially the same observations, the response shouldn’t be “What have you ever achieved?” or "what do you know?" - sure, use that one on me, but not on Yann.

I suspect what we will see in the upcoming midterms is a big drop in the number of Republicans actually voting. Most Republicans have accepted by now that Trump and his administration are utterly corrupt, but I suspect they won’t be able to bring themselves to vote for a Democratic candidate so will abstain altogether. No doubt Trump will exploit this fact and call foul play, saying those missing votes are a result of election fraud, rather than admitting the obvious.

I’ve been aware for years of the extraordinary alignment between much of ZeroHedge’s geopolitical output and Russian propaganda narratives. But this latest piece takes it to another level. The accompanying image depicting the United States and Russia standing together against Britain and Europe is an utter disgrace. And the article reads less like serious geopolitical analysis and more like a propaganda narrative designed to invert reality and manipulate its readers. Russia is portrayed as a “normal nation”. Europe has supposedly become America’s adversary. NATO is supposedly the aggressor. The 2014 Maidan revolution is presented as a Western intelligence operation. Ukraine is portrayed as a Western puppet, while Russia’s invasion is reduced to an inevitable response to Western provocation. These aren’t neutral observations. They are highly consequential claims, many of which are either misleading, unsupported assertions about motives, or deeply contested interpretations presented as established fact. And this matters because documented Russian influence operations have repeatedly sought to promote precisely these narratives: portray Ukraine as the aggressor, blame NATO and the West for Russia’s actions, undermine confidence in Western institutions, and create divisions between America and its European allies. The West needs to stand together against deliberate efforts to corrupt and divide us, and stop giving oxygen or credibility to outlets that seek to undermine the security and unity of the United States, the UK and Europe. Our alliances are far stronger than this temporary political turbulence, and we should not allow anyone to convince us otherwise.

By the end of this year, the lefty-woke-libtards (who civilised people simply refer to as "normal") will have made the most spectacular comeback.

I can’t help but notice some Americans are using Tesla demoing a shell concept car hopping for two seconds as some kind of global claim of technical superiority. Well… Thrust-based vertical manoeuvring? Developed in Britain in 1957, culminating in the Harrier Jump Jet, with the P.1127 making its first hover in 1960. And the upside-down car stuff? That’s fan-generated downforce, already demonstrated by British car company McMurtry with its electric Spéirling, which has been destroying track records around the world for the last few years using that exact technology. So let’s not confuse demonstrating an existing engineering principle for the first time in a Tesla prototype to inventing the underlying technology. And the difference is, both the Harrier and McMurtry are real world products, not vastly adapted prototypes designed for a single demonstration. Rule Britannia, spiffing stuff boys and all that. 🇬🇧

In 2025 Elon, via DOGE, cut $4 billion of funding for the National Institutes of Health, a significant amount of which impacted the National Cancer Institute (NCI) and cancer research related grants.

I’m honestly starting to wonder if Reform itself is just the greatest satirical prank ever played on the UK.

All this talk of car designs. Give me a British built Aston Martin over anything else.

I'm not really sure I consider this progress. Which Tesla Roadster 2.0 do you prefer?