Paul Lewis @realpaullewis.bsky.social · 14hsubstack.comHolborn and St Pancras byelection: Polanski is an utter failureSome disparate thoughts on a terrible week for the Greens. 100
Paul Lewis @realpaullewis.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Not a "gig". A devastatingly beautiful piece of performance art. No one moved, no one dared cough or go to the loo. No chatter in the audience - even in Cardiff. That ranks with Ragnar Kjaransson's "The Visitors". And in Wales! Laurie Anderson. Wales Millennium Centre. Tonight. 160
Paul Lewis @realpaullewis.bsky.social · 06/10/2026thenewworld.co.ukAlastair Campbell's diary: The door that leads back to the EU is finally open. Now let's walk through itHow fitting that new talk of joining again coincided with the 500th issue of The New World, originally founded to oppose Brexit 000
Paul Lewis @realpaullewis.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Can we just be clear that, if you have, or ever have had, TikTok on your 'phone, then you are not a serious person. 020
Paul Lewis @realpaullewis.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Polanski has done to the Green Party exactly what Corbyn did to the Labour Party. Pathetic, unelectable student politics. The grace, dignity and seriousness of the brilliant Caroline Lucas shat upon by culture-war, TikTok generation not-grown-ups. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...theguardian.comGreen party of England and Wales facing international ostracism over ‘Zionism is racism’ voteEuropean Green party says motion goes against its policy, with German Green co-leader calling it ‘intolerable and unacceptable’ 060
Paul Lewis @realpaullewis.bsky.social · 20/09/2026We are, by some margin, the greenest people on our street. No one recycles anywhere near as many wine bottles as we do. 061
Paul Lewis @realpaullewis.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Tom Watson, Palantir. Pretty disgusting. Am I the only person left on earth who doesn't have a price? There are things, most things actually, that no amount of money I could be bought for. 130
Paul Lewis @realpaullewis.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Danny Kruger's mum, Pru Leith, grew up in a house with an army of black servants - slaves - In apartheid South Africa. And we teat these people as mainstream, as it they are not just vile racist scum.theguardian.comSmall boat arrivals are ‘wealthy men’ who do not deserve help, says Reform’s Danny KrugerThe fact that some migrants pay people smugglers thousands of pounds makes them well off, MP claims 1213
Paul Lewis @realpaullewis.bsky.social · 17/09/2026For T-Shirt Day I am wearing a black John Lewis Kin T-Shirt. #6Music 000
Paul Lewis @realpaullewis.bsky.social · 16/09/2026She was one of us who watch and think and understand and could see where all this was leading. R.I.P. Bonnie Greer. www.thenewworld.co.uk/brexit-news-...thenewworld.co.ukBONNIE GREER: How Boris and Farage are the Lords of chaosBONNIE GREER discuses how Boris and Farage have come to stand above their parties and become Lords of chaos. Nigel Farage. Photo by Artur Widak/NurPhoto 040
Paul Lewis @realpaullewis.bsky.social · 16/09/2026I mean, f*ck this 6 Music Indie Forever Killers Brightside on a loop nonsense. We need a 6 Music Duffing Forever “stream". Breakfast. Shaun Keaveny. No cheerful inane breakfast bollocks. 10am. Gideon Coe. With Duffing and Paintbox Jury, 1pm. Marc Riley, 4pm. Deb Grant. 7pm. Tom Robinson. 250
Paul Lewis @realpaullewis.bsky.social · 16/09/2026thenewworld.substack.comBonnie Greer’s driving, passionate, urgent search for our common humanityThe New World founder on the passing of the great journalist, broadcaster and playwright who has died after a short illness 030
Paul Lewis @realpaullewis.bsky.social · 15/09/2026These evil people are fascists. Those who support them are either narcissistic billionaires or thick as shit racists. If you want to know which one you are, just look at your bank balance. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...theguardian.comLeader of Reform UK in Wales stands down after arrest on suspicion of assaultDan Thomas, elected in May, says he does not wish to be a ‘distraction’ on same day Reform MS defects to Plaid Cymru 010
Paul Lewis @realpaullewis.bsky.social · 15/09/2026You'll have already forgotten that a previous Reform UK Ltd. leader in Wales is in jail for treason having worked for the Kremlin, but you'll forget this tomorrow when another bent crypto billionaire chucks more billions at Farridge and you'll forget that the day after with another scandal.theguardian.comLeader of Reform UK in Wales stands down after arrest on suspicion of assaultDan Thomas, elected in May, says he does not wish to be a ‘distraction’ on same day Reform MS defects to Plaid Cymru 021
Paul Lewis @realpaullewis.bsky.social · 15/09/2026@mrjamesob.bsky.social ...and James, before you say Wales voted for Brexit (you haven't yet) - Wales did, but the Welsh didn't. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2019...theguardian.comEnglish people living in Wales tilted it towards Brexit, research findsAreas of Wales with big English communities had larger leave vote in 2016, according to study 111
Paul Lewis @realpaullewis.bsky.social · 14/09/2026The EES nightmare has returned to Schiphol. They've shut the e gates to Brits and have one person on passport control. 30 minute wait so far and probably another 30 to go. This is 100% on Farage. 021
Paul Lewis @realpaullewis.bsky.social · 13/09/2026After the Brexit vote, Mark Carney helped steady Britain and avert financial collapse. Now, as Canada turns from Trump towards the EU, Britain’s 2016 folly looks ever more absurd. Want to bury Reform? Call a referendum on rejoining the EU. Let Britain vote knowing what Brexit actually means.newyorker.comWhat If Canada Joined the E.U.?The idea that Canada could join the E.U. used to be a fringe topic of conversation. Donald Trump’s trade war with the country has pushed it into the mainstream. 072
Paul Lewis @realpaullewis.bsky.social · 12/09/2026Knuckle-dragging Neanderthal scum. Sorry, but we really have to stop tiptoeing around Reform types and pretending that every opinion deserves to be treated with polite deference, will say "good on 'em", seemingly oblivious to the rather important question of what, and whom, all that money is buyingtheguardian.comChristopher Harborne matches £36m Reform donation of Ben DeloParty leader, Nigel Farage, ‘humbled’ by contributions from billionaires as Harborne addresses ‘media speculation’ 030
Paul Lewis @realpaullewis.bsky.social · 12/09/2026Crypto is the currency of global organised crime, exists solely to avoid scrutiny and taxation, and needs to be outlawed by the EU and the UK.theguardian.comReform UK given record £36m donation by British crypto billionaireBen Delo was convicted in US for failing to implement adequate anti-money laundering controls but pardoned by Trump 092
Paul Lewis @realpaullewis.bsky.social · 11/09/2026We don’t need folding phones. And we definitely don’t need those cretins with folding cases on their phones who take ten minutes to take a photo while blocking twice as much space as they would if they just used the bloody phone. 120
Paul Lewis @realpaullewis.bsky.social · 11/09/2026The EU, and the UK, which urgently needs to be back in the EU, top table not rule taker, needs to put the brakes on AI This bastard abomination that no one needed is the product of fucked America and we need it to just fuck America and not the rest of us Thank you for your attention to this matter 010
Paul Lewis @realpaullewis.bsky.social · 11/09/2026Labour people. Stop the f*cking tribal bollocks over Burnham. Do you want to keep the pure fascistic evil that is Farage and Rupert Lowe out, or do you want to continue your petty nitpicking? Starmer was a good man. Farage was burying him so he went. Pick a side, there are just two: Good or evil. 480
Paul Lewis @realpaullewis.bsky.social · 11/09/2026We fly into Nice every month. Been coming here 40 years and never seen this. Sniffer dogs today on every luggage carousel. 9/11 25th precautions? 021
Paul Lewis @realpaullewis.bsky.social · 10/09/2026channel4.comTommy Robinson: Where's the Money Gone?For Dispatches, Matt Shea examines the complex finances of Tommy Robinson 010
Paul Lewis @realpaullewis.bsky.social · 09/09/2026Gilles Peterson's new shed. www.architectsjournal.co.uk/specificatio...architectsjournal.co.ukIn Practice: Paul Archer Design on creating a DJ’s broadcast studioMilton Studio in north London combines a bespoke broadcast studio with storage for a collection of 30,000 records. Practice director and project lead Emil Neumann tells Fran Williams about the project... 031
Paul Lewis @realpaullewis.bsky.social · 09/09/2026This remains a thing of absolute beauty twelve years later. This is how every journalist should have treated Farridge in every interview since. www.youtube.com/watch?v=-pyY...youtube.comNigel Farage v James O'Brien - Interview In Full - LBCYouTube video by LBC 010
Paul Lewis @realpaullewis.bsky.social · 08/09/2026Oh this is a treat. @tomrobinson.com back on #6Music right now. 010
Paul Lewis @realpaullewis.bsky.social · 04/09/2026Man funded by overseas people is today accusing those who delivered the scoop of being funded by overseas people. 030
Paul Lewis @realpaullewis.bsky.social · 04/09/2026thetrueeuropean.substack.comFarage and more dodgy donations. This changes nothing.Farage is not a politician. Farage is a cult. 011
Paul Lewis @realpaullewis.bsky.social · 02/09/2026Religious people are delusional. Delusional people are dangerous. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...theguardian.comJD Vance says he’s doing ‘God’s work – and if that leads to the end times, OK’Vice-president says on evangelical podcast he would feel ‘not shocked if the antichrist was walking among us’ 010
Paul Lewis @realpaullewis.bsky.social · 02/09/2026substack.comThe killing of a black manA French researcher exposes the network of “race realists” who hunted Jason Arday like prey and the media who fell into their trap 010
Paul Lewis @realpaullewis.bsky.social · 02/09/2026Classic Goebbels. Classic Trump. Ban journalists. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...theguardian.comReform UK bans three journalists from its conference after critical reportingGuardian City editor Anna Isaac among those who had credentials to cover event declined 210
Paul Lewis @realpaullewis.bsky.social · 01/09/2026I'm not a Starmer basher. I am very much a McSweeney basher. I despise Gasman, the only Labour figure at the Trump inauguration, which is evil, and who should f*ck off to Reform. But Starmer was too reliant on them. And Burnham's ability to engage with humans is what we need. And is refreshing. 020
Paul Lewis @realpaullewis.bsky.social · 01/09/2026Burnham putting the boot into the disaster of Brexit within minutes of taking to his feet in the commons for the first time as PM. Bravo. 230
Paul Lewis @realpaullewis.bsky.social · 31/08/2026thetrueeuropean.substack.comTrump: The Root of the Global Mental Health Crisis?How one man’s assault on truth, democracy and the post-war order has left a generation anxious, exhausted and ill worrying what the hell happens next. 010
Paul Lewis @realpaullewis.bsky.social · 30/08/2026theguardian.com‘I was miserable for a lot of this century’: Stewart Lee on divorce, his adoption and the twisted children’s poem that explains his lifeAfter a rocky few decades, the standup is nearing 60 – and finding contentment at last. But what does his grotesque retelling of The Owl and the Pussy-cat tell us about his inability to connect with p... 030
Paul Lewis @realpaullewis.bsky.social · 28/08/2026A cretin with a crayon. This obscenity must stop. Burnham must join Carney in ending it. www.theguardian.com/us-news/vide...theguardian.comWatch Trump sign executive order renaming Lake Ontario to Lake America - videoThe US president signed order on Thursday amid growing trade war with Canada after the US enacted tariffs against its northern neighbor 050
Paul Lewis @realpaullewis.bsky.social · 27/08/2026I've never been an Atlanticist. I've always looked at America with bewilderment. Baffled by those dazzled by it. And hence I'm not surprised that it's descended to where it is into the hands of a dribbling illiterate cretin. Europe was always so immensely culturally superior to philistine America. 020
Reposted by Paul LewisHillary Rodham Clinton @hillaryclinton.bsky.social · 27/08/2026It’s Lake Ontario. 1907351455589
Paul Lewis @realpaullewis.bsky.social · 27/08/2026I rate Miatta Fahnbulleh MP. But please stop saying "candidly". I counted it seven times on the R4 Today Programme today. I've just counted it 16 times on The News Agents. 010
Paul Lewis @realpaullewis.bsky.social · 27/08/2026That 6 Music Indie f*cking Bangers Forever trailer… Nothing makes me want to smash things more than The Killers Mr Brightside. I hate it. 000
Paul Lewis @realpaullewis.bsky.social · 26/08/2026Thanks to people like Rajan and Tim Davie... A reminder that Rajan was Lebedev's fixer and there at the palazzo where Johnson was compromised by Russia. www.theguardian.com/media/2026/a...theguardian.comAmol Rajan warns BBC destined to shrink at ‘accelerating rate’Presenter says he is moving to YouTube to avoid being left ‘behind the curve’ as media landscape changes 361
Paul Lewis @realpaullewis.bsky.social · 25/08/2026Her greatest work is Jolene played ay 33. www.youtube.com/watch?v=doz1...youtube.comJolene at 33 rpmYouTube video by Tom Berry 040
Paul Lewis @realpaullewis.bsky.social · 25/08/2026thetrueeuropean.substack.comWhy MAGA Despises EuropeSorry, but no other continent can match Europe for its culture, its art, its food or its breathtaking beauty. Consumed by jealousy, they’re determined to diminish, undermine and ultimately destroy it. 000