Restore Britain has had a turbulent few days despite its hopeful showing in Makerfield polling. Charlie Downes, Restore’s most prominent organiser, as Guido previously reported, applied to work for Robert Jenrick and Reform’s press team. Politics is a long game…
Guido has seen evidence that Downes once worked to help a bodybuilder of Cypriot-descent, Andreas Michli, in his campaign to become Mayor of London. Michli’s platform included pledges for a public health campaign “promoting safety and public health with regard to the 5G rollout in London“. He claimed he had stopped paying council tax in April 2022. He told his followers to “carry a large Shungite crystal in your pocket” while travelling through airports, and modelled a silver hoody that “protects my body from harmful electromagnetic radiation“. Righto…
Michli has also demanded that Britain return the Elgin marbles and posted an AI image of King Charles: “when little man gets knighted by the nonce old Charlie boy“. Ok…
Michli achieved 26,000 votes at the 2024 election. Which in Downes’ defence was a very strong showing for an independent candidate…
View the screenshots below:
From the leftist news website The Canary over the weekend:
“On 8 May, the Canary published an article entitled “Sunderland Reform councillor David Barker allegedly beat up his girlfriend and abused child”.
The piece incorrectly stated that Barker was the same individual who was given a suspended sentence in 2019 at South Tyneside magistrates’ court for assault and causing actual bodily harm to his girlfriend.
The Canary published this based on information it had at that time. Since then, Barker has reached out to us and provided information categorically showing that he is not the same man who was sentenced in 2019.
The Canary would like to unreservedly apologise to Barker, his family, and friends, for the distress and damage that our article caused. We are committed to ensuring that our publication consistently achieves the highest levels of factual accuracy. However, on this occasion, the information we were provided proved to be inaccurate. We took immediate action to remove the article and investigate.
To confirm: Reform councillor David Barker is not the same David Barker who was convicted in 2019. We have permanently removed all content related to this and will ensure that any future information published about him is accurate.”
What’s in a name?
The murderer of 19-year-old Henry Nowak has been sentences. Vikrum Digwa sentenced to life imprisonment with minimum term of 21 years…
The police responsible for arresting Nowak while he was dying from stab wounds are now under investigation. Digwa stabbed Nowak with a Sikh ceremonial knife before calling police officers to claim that Nowak had shouted racist abuse and knocked off his turban. Officers arrested the student, who could not speak properly as his lungs filled with blood – he died around an hour later…
Read the sentencing remarks here:
Peter Mandelson → Pat McFadden (then Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster) WhatsApp, 16–17 August 2025
Mandelson: I am going mad with the things Morgan is sending me. I am trying to be constructive but I just don’t know what to say anymore.
McFadden: He hasn’t sent me anything. Speak tomorrow?
Mandelson: It’s about a whole new (additional) political strategy team in No10 and the equivalent of the Rand corporation outside it to reverse national decline. I am flying back from Chicago to DC in the morning.
Mandelson: Can you connect with Morgan today and see how he is? I am on delayed flight from Chicago. Have the whole team arriving tomorrow including Morgan.
McFadden: Yes of course. I see Keir will now be at WH meeting with Z.
Mandelson: Yes. Morgan is coming with him. The media prep is interesting. Completely reductionist for Keir. Want to avoid any encounter with journos that might involve him answering a question. No sense of opportunity for personal projection. Just avoid all risk. Always the same.
Mandelson: They/he have no confidence
McFadden: I spoke to him. It’s a bit of a whirlwind. This external strategy unit idea has come from a lack of belief that good people will come in to number 10 and it’s hard to get the bad ones to leave.
McFadden: I’m going to see him when he comes back.
Mandelson: I told him he needs an instrument/entity to recruit top people but I fear he is using excuse to keep people because he knows Keir won’t fire them.
Desperate McSweeney tried to hire his own people to externally run No10 because the personnel were bad and Starmer would not fire them…
Former leader of the SNP in Westminster Ian Blackford told Times Radio why he believes Nicola Sturgeon’s claim that she spent no time in the kitchen and therefore didn’t see any of her husband’s purchases:
“She doesn’t have a passion for cooking.”