Andrew Atkinson

Anyone going on BBC this month should order one of these beforehand and let them sweat www.poppyshop.org.uk/products/pri...

As my comrades @scotlandsfuture.bsky.social said, We are always happy to be lectured by @andyburnham.bsky.social on devolved powers in Scotland.

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

As ever, and for the last time in connection with lying shit Jeffrey Archer, we remember Monica Coghlan, whose life he destroyed.

#VanityFair

Archer’s resignation from the London mayoral race after it was revealed he lied in court was the thing that got Paul Foot up from his sickbed and contributing again, having first started chronicling Archer’s lies and misdemeanours in 1969. From the Private Eye archive. Issue 992, December 1999.

🤔 Nigel Farage leads a political party. He’s a sitting MP. And he now hosts his own weekly primetime show on GB News. 🚨Broadcasters are required to present news in an impartial manner, without political bias. 👇 Add your name to demand that Ofcom takes immediate action.

If you add in £130m losses on “Reform TV” (aka GB News) the effective subsidy of Farage’s party from just four men tops £200m. You just have to join the dots app.prospectmagazine.co.uk/story/75017/...

As former Labour minister Tom Watson joins Palantir, please read this devastating exposé by @petergeoghegan.bsky.social & @lucasamin.bsky.social of how the company, with Peter Mandelson's help, wormed its way into the UK government to sell its dire & dangerous products. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

With all respect to the BBC, the reason this story "matters" is not about whether it distracts from Reform's conference. It "matters" because it is important our leaders are not conspiring to break the law.

I love the dedication in My Life on the Road by Gloria Steinhem

Any, even remote, excuse to repost my fav...

Callers into @lbc.co.uk going full on "what's happened to the young of today... I remember when kids had respect for the police." Meanwhile here's your grandad in 1958.

Nigel Farage wants to end "Something for Nothing Britain". Ironic that he is absolutely adamant that the £5m from Harborne was something for nothing.

You can't claim long-term benefits if you're able to work. And you HAVE to be looking for work. You can't look for work if you're cleaning high streets all day. And making people clean for benefits undercuts wages of people who currently get paid do it. Idiocy www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...

REMEMBER: They all knew.

Farage is right — Clacton should vote for @countbinface.bsky.social 🗳️

The thin line between US President policy making satire and reality ... via Arthur Barnes

Farewell Bill, most radical of the Goodies. Present at Grosvenor Square with Tariq & Vanessa. Turned his harassment by the Met into slapstick TV comedy for kids. Angry, hairy, furiously talented.

1989: Margaret Thatcher, "Water privatisation I believe will go very successfully indeed. It will go very successfully indeed" 2026: BBC News, "Both terminals at the UK's second busiest airport, Gatwick, are without running water.. Toilets can't be flushed"

Cadet Bone Spurs Family Has Never Served In The Military 🪖, Going Back At Least 5 Generations.......(capecodtimes)

The right only care when something affects them. Sadiq Khan needs a 24 hour detail, fuck all to say. Diane Abbot gets more abuse than all other MPs combined, fuck all to say. I wish they'd stop pretending he's not using the issue to legitimise his bungs. It's tedious

I respect France's commitment to not working on a holiday.

Absolutely right, Andrew — the reason Farage thinks a gift of £5 million is nothing to get excited about is that, in terms of the overall amount of cash he’s personally made out of Brexit since 2016, it isn’t.

The sums involved in the MPs expenses scandal were chicken feed compared to the Farage £5m. HIs reaction - mind your own business - suggests he may not be cut out for this democracy thing app.prospectmagazine.co.uk/story/73952/...

The story of social media’s problem with news, in two posts (these are from X)

🚨 Lee Anderson has deleted his post. He clearly knows that the image posted by Reform UK Councillor Gemma Painter with the sign saying “I’d rather vote for Jimmy Savile” is real. #Makerfield

Don’t ban kids using YouTube. Make YouTube behave like a broadcaster. Pay creators. Reinvest in the creative industries. Pay fair tax back into creators’ economies. Follow guidelines on fair usage and copyright. Play fair. It’s bigger than TV now. Make it behave like TV.

Farage made his cold rage speech from the garden of an airbnb(Times June 5th). Why? He used to do press conferences & has a Millbank HQ. Perhaps needless to say the question does not occur to the Murdoch journalist

I feel like I'm going mad: Henry Nowak's killer has been sentenced to life in prison with a 21-year minimum. The whole process took less than six months. There were grave errors on the night. But how does this possibly evidence two-tier justice? www.thenewworld.co.uk/james-ball-o...

🇬🇧😡🇬🇧😡🇬🇧😡🇬🇧😡🇬🇧 I have emailed my MP/ Attorney General. Can someone report him to Met Police?

When the father of a murdered son makes a public statement saying "we do not want his death to be used to create further division, hatred or tension", then I believe it's incumbent on any news outlet reporting on Farage's comments to ensure people know he has chosen to disregard the family's wishes.

“If it’s a judge that changes everything. Judges are not reflective of the population. 90% of them are white, 65% are men, by definition they’ve had a university education – that would be justice decided by a certain sector of society”

NEW: Tiny footprints. A blue blanket. The autopsy reports of babies who died after not receiving a vitamin K shot at birth included heartbreaking details about how small the babies were — and what items they had with them when they died.

More money for the Russians, so they can go on killing Ukrainian civilians.

It was kind of Robert Jenrick to set me up for an obvious joke at his expense.

I couldn't give a flying fuck about golf most of the time, but seeing a Wolverhampton lad of Indian heritage become the first Englishman to win the PGA since 1919 is filling me with joy.

This always amazes me. In a very reprehensible way...how these men went from making these statements to complicit enablers. They could have and should have been better.

NEW: ChatGPT advised the FSU shooter that a mass shooting would get more attention from media if it involved several children, according to a new lawsuit against OpenAI www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

Thanks printer, that cheered me up

Iran’s Parliament Speaker Mohammad Ghalibaf has used X to repeatedly target the Trump administration and accuse them of manipulating the markets when touting peace deals.

horrible. this country’s turn away from science based medicine in the name of “wellness” is killing children and will kill a lot more. www.propublica.org/article/more...