I’ve been doing some digging on London Reform UK candidate Laila Cunningham and her much used claim of being a former Senior Crown Prosecutor in the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS). Interestingly she went to university at Cal State Long Beach, which is not a law school and does not award qualifying UK law degrees. So lets have a quick look at some of the databases. All solicitors in England & Wales must appear on the SRA’s Solicitors Register. The SRA provides a public search tool to check any solicitor’s status, history, or disciplinary record. A search for Laila Cunningham returns no solicitor with that name. This means she has never been a solicitor regulated by the SRA. All practising barristers must appear on the BSB’s Barristers’ Register. The BSB provides a public search tool to confirm whether someone is authorised to practise as a barrister. A search for Laila Cunningham returns no barrister with that name. This means she has never been a barrister regulated by the BSB. I have also run these checks on her previous names of Laila El-Meleigy and Dupuy, with a negative result. In summary she does not appear on: - the Solicitors Register - the Barristers’ Register I can find no evidence that she has ever been legally qualified as a lawyer to fully practice in England & Wales. This leaves another possibility, that she was a CPS Associate Prosecutor (AP) and not a Senior Crown Prosecutor as she describes. A CPS Associate Prosecutor is a non‑lawyer role with limited rights of audience. If there’s evidence that contradicts this, I’d genuinely like to see it. I’m only going off what’s publicly available and at the moment, it doesn’t add up. I'm sure the press would have looked under this stone before? 🙄 #ReformUK

REVEALED: Jewish activists @JAZA_UK have shown us material from inside an Israeli property event in London yesterday, which shows that illegal settlements on Palestinian land were on sale in the UK. Activists gained access to the event, spoke to numerous developers about the properties for sale in Israeli settlements - which are illegal under British and international law - before they were ejected for disrupting the speeches. The Board of Deputies, which calls itself a representational body for British Jews, claimed that all properties being sold were inside Israel, however these pamphlets clearly show the opposite is true.

Amir Ghalenoei, técnico da Seleção do Irã, após o empate contra a Nova Zelândia: ''Somos a seleção mais oprimida da história da Copa'. "Nem nós sabemos [porque vamos ter que sair] e é realmente engraçado. O planejamento da nossa equipe é feito em um lugar, mas a decisão final é tomada em outro. Deveríamos ter vindo para Los Angeles duas noites antes do jogo, mas não permitiram. Nosso plano era ficar aqui esta noite, descansar e voltar amanhã à tarde, mas mesmo assim não permitiram, e eu não sei por quê. É por isso que digo que a seleção iraniana é talvez a mais oprimida da história da Copa do Mundo. O presidente da federação não está aqui, o gerente da equipe não está aqui, o gerente interno da equipe não está aqui, o departamento de mídia não está aqui. Parte das responsabilidades pré-jogo que deveriam ser da diretoria ficaram a cargo da comissão técnica, enquanto o foco da comissão técnica deveria ser em questões técnicas. É por isso que digo que somos a seleção mais oprimida da história da Copa do Mundo." Via: @UOLEsporte 📷Getty Images

EEUU sigue humillando a las selecciones de fútbol que juegan en el Mundial. Ahora le tocó a Uruguay. Los jugadores fueron tratados como narcos, con inspección de perros antidrogas y uniformados con detectores de metales. La FIFA perpetró una vergüenza histórica este año. 📹 @FutboliPolitica

He is a Russian Asset

This is a brilliant investigation. It shows what many of us knew. Hostile states are supporting both Islamist & far right causes in order to divide us. If you are echoing those narratives you are aiding & abeting a hostile state. bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c8r2…

A REMINDER: Pre-Brexit, UK net migration was 100-200k a year, mostly from the EU. Nigel Farage pushed hard for Brexit to “take back control”. It happened under the Tories. Then numbers exploded to 900k. Suella Braverman and Robert Jenrick ran the Home Office and ramped up migrant hotels. Now in Reform UK they blast the very immigration crisis they helped create. They blame the migrants, pose as the only saviours, and dodge all responsibility. This is classic Reform gimmick: Create the problem, jump ship, then sell the outrage. Only a fool falls for it. It is a CON job. Don’t fall for it. #ReformUK

Out in Makerfield. Seeing @reformparty_uk activists shouting Sieg Heil is not what I was expecting. Vote Reform. Vote Nazi.

Homes in illegal Israeli settlements promoted at London property show trib.al/7zZD1uK

Gov. @GavinNewsom: To Donald Trump, who I know is watching because he watches everything, I have a message for you. You can subpoena my records, you can investigate me, you can harass me. Put my name on every and any enemies list you have, but leave my wife and family out of your personal vendetta.

SEN. KELLY: Trump kissed Putin’s ass over the years in a way that I just find... like, why? Why do you have to suck up to this guy? Putin played Trump in a way that benefited Putin and Russia, and put Ukrainians at further risk. Ukraine is our ally under attack by our adversary.

Chris, what is most striking about your piece is not the reporting of events, but the relentless effort to frame every development through the prism of impending collapse. Throughout the article, readers are presented not with objective analysis, but with a succession of loaded phrases and assumptions designed to reinforce a predetermined narrative. A premiership is described as "flailing", potential rivals are elevated into waiting successors, and routine political disagreement is transformed into evidence of a government supposedly on the verge of disintegration. What is conspicuously absent is any serious examination of the reality facing any government today. Defence spending does not emerge from thin air. Every additional pound committed to the armed forces must either be raised through taxation, borrowed, or diverted from another area of public expenditure. That is not a political slogan. It is a fiscal fact. You devote considerable attention to those criticising the Defence Investment Plan, yet remarkably little attention to what their alternative would be. If the spending settlement is inadequate, what precisely should replace it? Where would the money come from? Which taxes should rise, or which public services should face reductions? These are the questions that matter. The article also appears determined to portray every resignation as a judgement on Sir Keir Starmer's leadership while giving scant consideration to the possibility that ministers can disagree on policy without it amounting to an existential crisis for the government. Westminster may enjoy perpetual leadership speculation, but governing a country requires rather more than gossip, intrigue and anonymous briefings. Perhaps the greatest weakness in your analysis is the assumption that political commentary can substitute for political reality. The government remains in office with a substantial parliamentary majority, inflation has fallen significantly from its peak, economic growth has returned, and major policy decisions continue to be implemented. Whether one supports the government or not, those are facts rather than interpretations. In the end, your article says far more about the current appetite among sections of the media for leadership drama than it does about the actual condition of the government. The country deserves analysis grounded in evidence, not a running commentary built upon Westminster's favourite pastime: predicting the imminent downfall of every Prime Minister. bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cx26…

RT @peterjukes: British commentators dismissing @carolecadwalla’s investigation into Cambridge Analytica have not only failed to read the e…

Politics is a funny old business. Here’s the Daily Mail condemning a party for being racist in support of its preferred racist party.

You are wrong @matthewsyed @TimesRadio - the Sudanese man whose hideous attack sparked this weeks racist riots in N Ireland was in the UK legally; we cannot “secure” the border between NI & Ireland for a multitude of v good reasons (common travel area/ Good Friday agreement etc etc) Genuinely surprised at your unchallenged false assertions. There was NO justification for the appalling racist attacks this week - including setting fire to people’s homes with children sleeping in their beds for no other reason than the colour of their skin.

🚨 BOMBSHELL! Expert Ellen Kountz exposes Trump's massive UFC scam. She confirms he became a shareholder right before signing the White House event deal! The administration is using federal property and taxpayer dollars to completely privatize profits. Total corruption!

The plane carrying the #Uruguay national team is unable to enter the United States for the #2026WorldCup due to missing permits. Uruguay's trip to Miami, where they are set to play Saudi Arabia in their opening match tomorrow, has been delayed. This World Cup is an absolute disgrace. You are responsible for this, @FIFAWorldCup.

¡Ivanka Trump ha cometido el mayor error de su vida con esa entrevista! Incluso después de la paralización de las obras en el proyecto de la isla de Kushner, los albaneses se niegan a volver a sus hogares y abandonar las calles y plazas, salvo después de que se revele a los implicados en esa traición y se entreguen sus tierras a los intereses de Israel. ¡La infección de la revolución albanesa se extenderá al resto de los países de Europa!

Well, well, well. Farage now plans to "cap the recruitment of foreign doctors to ensure that British patients are not being put at risk". So foreign doctors are a danger to patients? Stupid fucking racist twat! Foreign doctors save lives every day in the NHS. @Nigel_Farage

HOW BRITAIN REWARDS PEOPLE WHO TRY TO SAVE TAXPAYER MONEY: FIRE THEM Mike Kiely spent 22 years inside BT (@BTGroup). He knew how the telecoms industry operated. So when the government hired him as a consultant to oversee the £2.5 billion rural broadband rollout, he knew exactly what he was looking at. BT had won all 26 government contracts. All of them. Kiely did the maths. Installing a street cabinet in Northern Ireland cost around £13,000. On the mainland, BT was charging the government between £61,000 and £80,000 per cabinet. Public money covered roughly 77% of every single one. He suspected BT was simply inventing tasks and inflating charges to absorb as much public funding as possible without doing more work. So he shared his analysis with local councils. The people whose job it was to negotiate these contracts and spend public money responsibly. Then his document leaked to a broadband blog. The Department for Culture, Media and Sport trawled his internal emails, found what they needed, and sacked him. The man who tried to protect public money. Margaret Hodge (@margarethodge), chair of the Public Accounts Committee, told the Guardian (@guardian) she was getting increasingly concerned at the way whistleblowers were being bullied. She pointed out that hiding behind commercial confidentiality was denying the public the right to know how their money was being spent. Her committee later confirmed what Kiely had warned all along. Taxpayers had been ripped off. £1.2 billion had gone to BT shareholders. Kiely was eventually vindicated when a community in Oxfordshire paid £28,000 per cabinet. Exactly in line with what his numbers predicted was fair. He lost his job for telling the truth. BT kept every contract. This is what accountability looks like in Britain. The consultant who raises the alarm gets sacked. The company he raised the alarm about gets the cheque. Support whistleblowers. They are the only audit most public spending ever gets. SOURCES @BBCNews @TheRegister @guardian @margarethodge