Man arrested over threat to shoot Farage
Police detain suspect over social media post that said ‘I am going to shoot you in the head if you win’

So two weeks back the press was in full cry hunting him for accepting money to pay for security. Now this.

This is only a comment as with Napoleon’s desire for generals who are lucky. It’s not about what has actually happened at all. Rather, that he just is lucky in that everyone starts shouting about him over x and then y happens that shows that x was, in fact, quite right.

Further, the harder he works at it the more this luck happens.

There’s also the fun that apparently this is a Hindu Lib Dem terrorist. Which is a new one….

George Cottrell and Stephen Cottrell are, respectively, mates with Nige and the Archbishop of York. Names don’t lie, they’re connected!

I shall soon be launching an investigation into how Big Church is controlling Reform. Send money now to fund this!

The 2022 election brought a record-breaking gender gap between men and women, and the latest statistics show that in September the gulf is likely to be even wider: a recent survey by Statistics Sweden found that twice as many men as women support the far-right Sweden Democrats, while female support for the Social Democrats is 10 percentage points higher than its male equivalent.

That entire feminisation of politics raises that interesting question, no?

One is led by Sweden’s first female prime minister, Magdalena Andersson, and has promised smaller school-class sizes, more housing and free dental care for young people. The other, led by Jimmie Åkesson, has neo-Nazi roots and has pledged to lower taxes, improve public safety and treat “anti-Swedishness” as a hate crime.

I do tend to think the world would be further right if only men had the vote. Of course, dependent upon your own stance this might be ewlcome. But it all has made a difference, no? And as with any difference made it’s possible to muse on whether it’s a Good Thing or not.

Reform UK would have held just 15% of the donations it received last year if a proposed £100,000 cap on political donations had been in force, according to analysis shared with the Guardian.

The analysis by Friends of the Earth using Electoral Commission data highlights the party’s reliance on a handful of wealthy backers in advance of a showdown over political funding.

Can’t have outsiders challenging the establishment of the uniparty now, can we?

The issue that should be convulsing France is Le Pen’s legitimacy as a public representative.

If the voters vote for her, knowing what they know, then she’s in. ‘S democratic that way, see?

A militant transgender group has urged supporters to target Wes Streeting’s office as part of a direct action campaign.
In a guide distributed to activists, Bash Back instructs them to cause “direct harm” with “lasting effect”.
Borrowing the methods of direct action campaigns organised by pro-Palestinian and environmental activists, the group is urging supporters to identify “transphobic” targets and then “hit them repeatedly until they desist from their activities”.

Erm, doesn’t trans mean “not”?

But, anyway, if prominent politicians require protection why should this only be for those politicians in office? Why not also for Establishment outsiders?

Or have we already answered that question?

Andy Burnham is to press ahead with the deal that cedes the Chagos Islands to Mauritius, according to a senior Foreign Office official.
Robbie Bulloch, the director of the Foreign Office’s overseas territories and polar directorate, met Gavin Glover, the attorney general of Mauritius, last week and said that plans to give the archipelago to Mauritius were “unlikely to change”.
It is the first official confirmation that Mr Burnham will persevere with Sir Keir Starmer’s plans to hand control to Mauritius, an ally of China and Iran.

It can’t just be that Phillippe Sands is a buddy of Starmer’s.

What’s the real reason here?