What fresh hell is this? The Spectator goes all in on Palantir, calling its critics victims of "Palantir Derangement Syndrome". What the magazine won't say: 🔺Spectator is owned by Paul Marshall, co-founder of Marshall Wace - which holds some 2.3 million shares worth $380m in... Palantir. 🔺Michael Gibson, who wrote this pro-Palantir screed for The Spectator, co-ran the Thiel Fellowship with Palantir owner Peter Thiel from 2010 to 2015. Thiel then backed Gibson's 1517 fund. 🔺Palantir's primary owner, Peter Thiel, was a happy business partner with convicted serial child rapist Jeffrey Epstein - Epstein's other business partner, former Israeli PM Ehud Barak, described Thiel and Epstein as "co-owners" of their venture fund. Thiel's investment w/Epstein contributed to the single largest asset in Epstein's estate. 🔺We don't need a democracy hating giant surveillance-defence contractor owned by Epstein's business partner and alleged fund "co-owner" to infiltrate the NHS. Estonia, Denmark, and Israel manage complex national electronic health records without reliance on private defence platforms. 🔺There is a war on for your mind being waged by investors and media owners who have benefited directly from Peter Thiel and Palantir. Maybe Britain doesn't need friends and business partners of child rapists, nor people who would profit from them, running our health and security systems? Who is really deranged here? 👀

He's a trillionaire who spends every day on this app trying to start a race war and incite riots. Imagine having all that money and still behaving like an incel living in his mum's basement.

I love it when people say they are going to vote Reform because its "time for a change" or "to let someone else have a go". Which is like saying "I tried putting this fire out with water and it hasn't worked yet, so I'm going to try petrol instead".

Couldn't we do something to at least improve world hunger and extreme poverty on *this* planet before moving to another one? That sounds better for actual living humans, just saying

“His response has been to appeal for rage. That’s his response to a father who has lost his son and asked for that not to happen. Exploiting this tragedy to create grievance and division would be wrong in any circumstances but to do it when the family are expressly saying please don’t is unforgivable. It shows exactly who he is” Keir Starmer responds to Nigel Farage at #PMQs

Angela Rayner - £40k underpaid stamp duty - repaid. Lost jobs in Cabinet and Dep. PM. Peter Murrell - £400k theft from SNP - going to prison Huge coverage of both Nigel Farage - £5m undeclared bung (possibly more) - goes to ground for a month. Media coverage? You judge.

Has @Nigel_Farage personally sued Ben Habib yet? Has @Nigel_Farage reported his "hacked" phone to the proper authorities yet? Has @Nigel_Farage answered how his girlfriend afforded that house in Clacton yet? Has @Nigel_Farage settled on a lie for that £5 million yet?

Michael Grade doing the rounds today pontificating about reality TV. Can someone please ask how and why he allowed GB News to become the personal propaganda machine for Nigel Farage when he was chair of @Ofcom ?

Rubio says that US-led peace negotiations between Russia and Ukraine "were not fruitful." Not fruitful? ​Let’s look at the facts: your negotiators visited Russia seven times, and Ukraine zero times. You demanded concessions from Ukraine before negotiations even began, and throughout the entire process. You pressured Ukraine by cutting off weapons support entirely, constantly badmouthing us, and showing up at our doorstep waving Russian "peace plan" you demanded we sign immediately. ​And now, after Ukraine stands more firmly on its feet without your support, you realize you can't pressure us anymore. So your excuse is that you are tired and leaving? ​How about, for once, you actually support the victim, which is Ukraine instead of terrorist Russian regime? Send your team to Kyiv, support our fight, and apply real pressure on aggressor. Sanction Russia and seize their shadow fleet instead of handing out sanction waivers. Do that, and maybe negotiations will magically become "fruitful."

Isabel Oakeshott on Nigel Farage buying a £1.4m house: “I honestly don’t see why it’s anyone’s business. Why should people know how he paid?” Isabel Oakeshott on Angela Rayner buying a 2nd home: “I smell a massive rat. How on earth has she raised the money to buy a £800k flat?”

A retweet by Zack Polanski is now the main story across every single media outlet. Two days ago, it was revealed that Nigel Farage failed to disclose a £5 million gift from a crypto-billionaire. It gets nowhere near the media attention, for straightforward political reasons.

I know there is a lot of news around but can someone at the Beeb explain to me how a man they keep telling us might be the next PM getting an undisclosed donation of FIVE MILLION POUNDS from a Thai based crypto dealer (with a BS explanation about it being for lifelong security) is not even a news story when the man he wants to replace led the news for days over some glasses and Arsenal tickets?

I'm just relieved nobody is talking about how I said I bought a house in Clacton, then admitted it was in the name of my girlfriend, Laure Ferrari, even though she couldn't afford £885,000, which conveniently meant I avoided £44,000 in tax. Please don't share.

This perfectly encapsulates my musings on this issue over the past week 🎯

Changing your mind implies a willingness to have your mind changed, but, FWIW, I managed to spend thirty years teaching undergraduates without ever once discussing politics with them, let alone trying to indoctrinate them.

More deranged attacks on the domestic renewable energy getting Britain through yet another fossil fuel crisis. Wind turbines manufactured at the @Siemens factory in Hull are keeping the lights on and right-wingers can’t take it because their job is to make you hate Britain.

Your enemy arrives by private jet not a small boat. Farage literally is part of the establishment. Never Vote Reform

I’m not a Catholic, but wouldn’t it be great if we could get #Ilovethepope trending as he’s plainly a good, decent, principled human being, and, on Musk’s platform, this will annoy a lot of powerful, evil people. Do please repost.

Not one of those turbines were made in china. You can still graze sheep and cattle on wind farms and grow crops. Now let’s discuss corruption, toxic and evil!

Utter charlatan. I can see why he appealed to Jenrick, whose convictions last for less time than an episode of newsround.