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Of all the bbc presenters, Webb’s politics are the easiest to read - because he puts them in newspapers and doesn’t even try to hide them in broadcasts His politics are also mind numbingly predictable

Dear #bbcr4today I must have missed it. You;'ve had an MP and soon also Farage on to diss any talk of moving closer to EU. Given public opinion is currently over 60% in faviour of it, where are the balancing talking heads that back Burnham and the suggestion? Surely you have booked some?

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Solar has overtaken nuclear. A decade ago it supplied 1% of the world's power. In 2025 it met three quarters of global demand growth. Almost nobody saw it coming. I spoke to Jocelyn Timperley at BBC Future about why. www.bbc.co.uk/future/artic...

In case facts still matter

Liz Truss claims Brits would be on Mars by 2040 if she hadn’t been ousted www.politico.eu/article/liz-...

This went on for the rest of the full hour, at which point the BBC apologised for having to go to the weather and urged viewers to follow continuing live coverage on iPlayer. Forty-one minutes of unfiltered, unchallenged propaganda by a far right party with 8 MPs, now third in the polls. Discuss.

Since his ennoblement in Boris Johnson’s 2023 resignation list, Tees Valley regional mayor Lord (Ben) Houchen has claimed more than £25,000 in tax-free daily “attendance” allowances from the House of Lords for 73 days when he hasn’t voted, spoken or performed any recorded parliamentary activity.

Leaky Sue strikes again.

Forget Michael Carrick and all the rest of it. Manchester United, now and for a while, are a consequence of the disgraceful moment in May 2005 that should never have been allowed to occur. Took two decades but the chickens are very much home and roosting

My utilities come to about £3,000 a year. Cruella claims £45,000 from us to pay for hers. And she'll no doubt be cheering on 'Honest' Bob's plans to cut welfare from those most in need.

As a former prime minister, Liz Truss is a significant political figure. But after branding the Financial Times part of the 'deep state' and describing the left as 'Islamo-communist', she has clearly degenerated into a full-on gibbering rightwing whackjob.

Selling out Britain’s future goes back to Thatcher. Had we invested oil/gas revenues we’d have a fund worth £1 trillion now. Selling off assets at less than they were worth (think council houses/utilities) + spending not investing the proceeds trashed the UK’s balance sheet

Conservatism has changed. It used to be a movement about protecting our collective past from the inevitably short-termist present, but has morphed into one that thinks the secret sauce of politics is to offer a sugar rush today at the price of selling out Britain’s tomorrow

Czech President Petr Pavel says a ceasefire between Russia and Ukraine was “quite close” – until Donald Trump lifted sanctions on Russian diesel. 🔗 vist.ly/5pjp8

When I originally posted that Elon Musk slowed StarLink and StarShield service to Ukraine, seriously eroding Ukraine's ability to intercept Russian jet-powered drone and missile attacks on civilians, various responders tried to lecture me that "Musk cannot throttle StarShiled." He did. 1/2

Apparently a paedophile rapist doesn’t care if someone commits paedophiliac rape.

Many called Jared Kushner corrupt Many noted he took bribes from Middle Eastern autocrats, especially Saudi Arabia, skewing US foreign policy And they were right But as this reveals, he's even more corrupt and took even more money from Middle Eastern autocrats that many, even strong critics, knew

Still get a kick out of being in print Great to see our story, on gambling firm closely linked to Reform’s George Cottrell using fake documents to get a licence, in today’s @thetimes.com with @coramazov.bsky.social @georgegreenwood.bsky.social

I mean… How long do we have to put up with this shit? We really do get it. Farage’s greed makes him an insane security threat. And there’s absolutely nothing altruistic or democratic or good for the country that will come from his frenzied corruption. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

A gambling company closely linked to Nigel Farage’s right-hand "Posh George" Cottrell got its licence using a document which appears to have been faked. Major coop w/ @coramazov.bsky.social and @georgegreenwood.bsky.social democracyforsale.substack.com/p/gambling-s...

It's actually sad. I used to genuinely support the BBC news division, and know great reporters who work their, but they aren't the "impartial/balanced" news source they are meant to be. Reporting on migration, trans etc is distinctly skewed towards right wing rhetoric over facts.

Today, a judge in New Mexico ordered Meta to pay $25 billion for misleading users on data privacy and a range of other statements that a jury deemed deceptive (and willfully so). Last month I broke down the jury's determinations on each of the questions posed to it:

After jury rules against Meta for deceptive practices, it has been ordered to pay $25 billion penalty in New Mexico Cambridge Analytica case. Cost of doing business but the ghosts still haunt Zuck. www.cnbc.com/2026/10/21/m...

Reform also providing a new variant of the Streisand Effect…. making sure this story stays in the public eye.

The White House and the Kremlin share an ideological agenda, a worldview and a geopolitical strategy inews.co.uk/opinion/usa-...

In the BBC News room... Boss, this new ONS report has good news - unemployment rate falling and employment going up! - Isn't there some bad news in there too, so we can make Labour look bad?? Well, vacancies are down... - Great! Use that for the headline!

When Matt Hancock said that the government had put a “protective ring around care homes from the very start” we all knew it was not true. The Covid Inquiry has now backed this up criticising his claim as "unfounded".

"Time and again, Reform politicians tell ITV’s undercover reporters that they are convinced Reform would be far more radical in power, and is just playing at being more-or-less acceptable to get into power, in the manner of far-right parties through history."

Signatories to this letter: Oxfam Tax Justice Network Hacked Off Taxpayers Against Poverty JustMoney Movement Church Action for Tax Justice (West Midlands) The Press Justice Project Patriotic Millionaires UK Better! Coalition Tax Justice UK Newscord bylinetimes.com/2026/10/20/t...

🔴 The Media ‘Manufactured’ Millionaire Exodus From UK, Campaigners Tell IPSO in Open Letter Eleven campaign groups write to the official regulator demanding an investigation, saying eight newspapers misrepresented a discredited study in their reporting bylinetimes.com/2026/10/20/t...

In this undercover footage, Nigel Farage's righthand man, Dan Jukes, appears to suggest that corruption, with Farage, is "priced in". Like Trump, he uses politics to enrich himself. Don't let anyone claim they were not warned. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

I've no idea who spotted this, misunderstood it, and created headlines out of it. But whoever it is completely misunderstood what's going on. All a bit crap, really.

"The news that a year-long undercover investigation by ITV News has revealed racism, bigotry and sexism among a number of Reform UK’s candidates and office-holders was not a surprise. This problem has deep roots," writes Eliot Wilson.

The the Institute of Economic Affairs is an anonymously-funded neoliberal think tank whose alumni appear on the BBC virtually every day of the week without viewers having a clue whose interests they represent, in flagrant violation of the BBC's own editorial guidelines. #PoliticsLive

Now, Putin has proposed a summit with Trump and Xi to decide Ukraine’s fate for them, bulldoze a century of international cooperation, and frame Russia as an equal to the U.S. and China. We’ll see if Putin’s puppet continues to dance on his strings.

... hampering the country's defenses during a devastating Russian attack; and Trump waived sanctions on Russia that Congress, led by his late friend Lindsey Graham, had pushed for.

Ten years ago today. In just the last few days: Trump made a deal for the U.S. to buy Russian diesel, an economic lifeline for Putin; he and Elon Musk blamed each other for an order that slowed down Starlink satellite connectivity over Ukraine...

Trump is siding with Russia. Again. He’s attacking Zelenskyy for striking Russian oil refineries, while Russia has been relentlessly bombing Ukraine’s energy grid and civilian targets. 1/

Ukraine actually STOPPED hitting refineries after Trump announced his fake ceasefire, as a show of good faith. Russia kept attacking anyway. And Trump claims Russia is doing “very little” to help Iran, even though multiple officials have testified that Russia is actively helping Iran. 2/2

I mean it’s not a vetting problem, is it? It’s that it’s a racist party, run by racists, with racist policies, for the benefit of racists. The fact that it turns out to be full of racists is not a glitch

Crosetto: “I used the terms good and evil because when a state crosses another state's border with tanks, bombs hospitals, bombs schools, kills civilians, bombs power plants, and has been doing so for four years, I can only call it evil.”

NEW: The leader of the UK Liberal Democrats, Sir Ed Davey:

Trump really is 💯 Russia’s man. Always was www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Banks are a great example of the fallacy of the dogma that private money knows best, serves us best - Banks serve themselves as all private enterprise does, sometimes our interests align and that’s fine - but they do us no favours, profit always comes first. buff.ly/adqhDzt

⚡️ 'Planned operation' — Zelensky confirms Ukraine's Starlink access not fully restored. Zelensky called the restrictions a "planned operation" targeting Ukraine, noting that Starlink speed limits remain in effect in Ukraine but not in EU countries.

This is nothing less than a battlefield intervention by the US in favour of Russia.