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Farage declined to deliver a victory speech and complained to Reform UK supporters that he would not be “demeaned and humiliated by nobodies.”
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Farage declined to deliver a victory speech and complained to Reform UK supporters that he would not be “demeaned and humiliated by nobodies.”
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Reform UK leader Nigel Farage defeated Count Binface in a special by-election Farage called. Count Binface exceeded polling expectations with 27% amid high turnout, while the UK’s main parties did not participate.
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Off Leash update 14 August 2026 UKRAINE •Russia has escalated its strikes on Ukrainian grain exports - perhaps as in-kind retaliation for Ukraine's strikes on Wildberries commercial warehouses and oil exports. •Ukraine logged at least 50 attacks on its cargo ships in June and July, and said those strikes killed over 30 civilians. •Analysts worry that Russia's strikes on Ukrainian grain cargoes could cause another global food crisis like the one that put an estimated 70 million people at risk of acute food insecurity in 2022. •This time could be worse: Russia has better long-range weapons than it did in 2022, and slow-moving cargo ships make easy targets. UK •Reform UK leader Nigel Farage defeated Count Binface in a special by-election that Farage called for, but Binface - who is not a real nobleman - beat pollsters' expectations to win 27% of the vote. Turnout was high, even though the UK's main parties sat out. •Farage seemed to get the message that 27% of voters sent by voting for a trash can over him. He declined to give a victory speech and huffed to Reform supporters: "I am damned if I am going to stand on a stage, having won a resounding victory, a ringing endorsement of all that I’ve tried to fight for and you’ve tried to fight for, and be demeaned and humiliated by nobodies." WEST BANK •The Israeli military belatedly and halfheartedly evicted around a dozen belligerent settlers who had been antagonizing two Palestinian families in the West Bank for nearly a week. •Hours later, nine of the dispersed settlers returned and resumed their siege on the two homes, whose residents remain fearfully trapped inside. •The UN estimates that extremist settlers carried out over 1,380 attacks on 250 Palestinian communities in the West Bank in the first seven months of 2026. •They've been emboldened by the current Israeli government's rapid expansion of existing and new settlements - all of which the UN deems illegal.
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