WHAT ATTRACTED YOUR ATTENTION TODAY?

[Stanley]

See THIS interview by Laura Kuenssberg for some Epstein Free politics.....
"We are halfway towards being ready," Nigel Farage tells me. On occasion, he is quite unlike other politicians, with flashes of honesty you wouldn't hear from others. He says he wants to be prime minister, while admitting his party is not yet ready for power. Yet sometimes, he is entirely like the cliche - the long-serving politician who is intensely reluctant to confront accusations of past mistakes. Following the storm last year over his behaviour as a teenage pupil at Dulwich College, a private school in south-east London, with many people claiming they witnessed racism or antisemitism, Farage tells me forcefully that he hasn't for a single moment worried about whether he upset anyone. "I think there were two people who said they were hurt, all right, and if they genuinely were then that's a pity and I'm sorry, but never, ever did I intend to hurt anybody," he says. "Never have." That's the classic politician's apology - sorry "if" anyone affected felt hurt and upset by what happened all those years ago. We know they did feel that way. I've spoken to some of those affected, and you can still hear the shake in their voices when they talk about the memory. Yet what Farage has achieved in the past year with Reform, the self-styled "people's army" he leads, is off the charts. For decades he's had influence, but it's been exercised from the sidelines. Now, with successive opinion polls putting his party ahead of Labour and the Conservatives, he poses a grave threat to the two political tribes who have passed power back and forth between them as voters saw fit, for 100 years. Frankly, Labour and the Tories are terrified.
There is more of course and I think it's worth reading.