Andy Birss

Could Justin Webb let us know if Trump appointing ignorant racists to important roles is part of him 'making America normal again'? www.rawstory.com/rfk-jr-26781... #Americast #r4today

If Justin Webb is going to question somebody regarding reparations for slavery it might be an idea for him to look up something about it rather than using tired old discredited right-wing talking points about the subject. #r4today

Hopefully other media organisations will now report on this finding that there was no plagiarism in Professor Arday's 2020 paper - only a correction issue in 2024 - despite a successful campaign to reopen an investigation this summer

When Justin Webb reviews The Times on #r4today does he have in mind not to be honest about what he thinks of them because if he does they won't pay him to write more 'insightful' garbage like this? www.thetimes.com/us/american-...

Mr Farage and Reform might tickle the covert racism and snobbery of some #r4today presenters but for most ordinary working-class people we see what is going on. There are reasons that Reform are falling in the polls-As they are shown to be all hat and no trousers.

When Justin Webb reviews the newspapers does he have in mind that if he says anything bad about the Daily Mail they might not pay him to write more rubbish like this? www.dailymail.com/news/article... #r4today

Of course Justin Webb ignores the appalling racism on display at this Trump rally www.youtube.com/watch?v=yzBb... Could Mr Webb let us know if this is all part of Trump 'making America normal again'? I personally think a return to such base language is sickening. #r4today #Americast

This show is now little more than a long self-indulgent whine from overpaid right-wing presenters who see their power to influence the news agenda slipping away. Lyse Doucet and Steve Rosenberg provide the odd bit of light in the darkness but much of the rest is promotional rubbish. #r4today

Laughably Justin Webb believes that Barack Obama appealed to 'all of America' www.dailymail.com/news/article... Ignoring of course the huge racist birther movement that much of the GOP fanned and Trump exploited. #Americast #r4today

Justin Webb has normalised this kind of behaviour by Trump crooksandliars.com/2026/10/trum... I suppose if he were honest about the decline of The Toddler it might upset his book launch set for early next year. #Americast #r4today

Is it the view of Justin Webb that crimes by the rich and politically powerful should go unpunished? That such people are above the law of the land? www.dailymail.com/news/article... How far can Mr Trump go before a 'journalist' is willing to speak truth to power and hold him to account? #r4today

If friends of Justin Webb had been murdered by ICE officers, if he knew innocent fishermen who had been blown out of the water or if his relatives had been sent to an El Salvador concentration camp he might want some 'raking over wrongdoing' www.dailymail.com/news/article... #Americast #r4today

So the BBC lets Justin Webb review papers that he is paid to write for when he appears on #r4today www.dailymail.com/news/article... Not only that but this is such utter speculative rubbish that a child would be embarrassed at being associated with it. What says the great @driftglass.bsky.social

Thanks again to all who got the 10k race at Crewe off yesterday under trying conditions. Sometimes the wind was even with us runners! #Crewe10k

Remember when Trump “sent investigators to Hawaii” to “find” Obama’s birth certificate?

Listening to the 'headlines' on #r4today you wonder at the BBC paying the presenters hundreds of thousands of pounds a year while good journalists are being dispensed with. This show seems now to be little more than a vehicle for Justin Webb et al to indulge themselves.

The reinvention of Jeremy Hunt as a sage and elder statesman overlooks his role as a participant in the creation of the current shitshow. #BBCLauraK

This line of attack may actually get on His nerves.

Getting ready for my 26th 10k race this year in Crewe later this morning. Thanks to all making it possible and good luck to all runners. Watch out for 'speedy' old number 641! #Crewe10k

“How much time do you think this defense secretary spends looking in the mirror in the morning? These are not serious people” — Obama’s audience in Ohio is hanging on every word as he skewers Trump and Hegseth

“He’s got the White House looking like Saddam Hussein opened up a Cheesecake Factory” — Obama

Due to run in my 26th race of the year tomorrow morning in Crewe (if storms permit it to go ahead) so good luck to anybody taking part in their first one. Also if it does happen many thanks in advance to all the organisers and volunteers who make such things possible. #Crewe10k

There's a series on Amazon Prime called the Evolution of Evil, which features Stalin, Mao Zedong, Hitler and others and the scale of their deaths. Musk may be several stages away from the killings but he'll be up there with the number of deaths for which he's responsible when he's done.

Perhaps Justin Webb might ask E Jean Carroll (who Trump was found to have sexually abused and defamed) if she thinks Trump has 'humour and drive' www.penguin.co.uk/books/481424... But that might knock sales of his upcoming book so #r4today and #Americast don't go there.

Since Justin Webb's book on Trump is coming out next year could he let us know if Mr Trump engaging in racism and misogyny such as this www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025... are examples of his 'humour and drive'. #r4today #Americast

Nothing on the climate emergency but loads of time for the promotion of a music album and questions about if you would pay to attend a wedding. Dear god the BBC pay Justin Webb over £370,000 a year for this nonsense. #r4today

For Sarah Smith explaining the American Constitution to a racist idiot apparently makes you 'unlikeable' (around the 12 minute mark) www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/... What makes you likeable then-Getting your supporters to beat up those who ask question as happens at Trump rallies? #Americast

Since Barclays is cutting the number of employees due to A.I. I presume that they won't need anywhere near the same number of directors and will be reducing those places too. news.sky.com/story/barcla...

Turning Point UK was supposed to be a youth movement All it's ever done is appeal to middle aged thugs

If you have problems that you want to go away then just become a friend of a #r4today presenter or someone who writes for The Spectator and you can be pretty sure that this show will be silent about your woes. Failing that they will do the 'Both sides!' dance to massage away your worries.

I think by the end of this show there will have been more coverage and promotion of 'Ali G' than there has been all year on #r4today about the need for thousands of food banks in the UK to feed the the working poor.

Never mentioned on #r4today is how good the economy and the status quo is for presenters and their friends. Being paid massive amounts of money and having the ability to control much of the news agenda is pretty great for Justin Webb et al isn't it?

Imagine Eisenhower in June 1944 telling his military leaders 'We have to cancel D-Day because the man who controls our communications doesn't like some of the things being said about him'. That's effectively what we have now with the petulant child Musk and Ukraine. #r4today

I presume that if Justin Webb has to mention the mental collapse of Trump it might scupper his upcoming book www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a... So he doesn't. #r4today #Americast

No unelected tech oligarch should have the power to turn off a country's defence system. Just ponder for a moment the damage that could be done by one of these megalomaniacs during a war we were fighting if our enemies had the ear of Musk et al. Their companies need to be split up. #r4today

An example of how inured we’ve become is that Trump can say this in the Oval Office and it’s not even being reported on #r4today. He’s so clearly a puppet of Putin’s. #Traitor

The presenters of #r4today are very clued-up about TV and film promotions, private schools, inheritance tax and foreign holiday travel but apparently clueless about basic scientific methods and the consequences of what we face due to the climate emergency.

Thank god that the people predicting the weather before D-Day could rely on loyal people who wouldn't turn their systems off on a personal whim. That the individual unelected unstable Musk now effectively has the power to destroy a country's defence is staggering and needs to be addressed. #r4today

No time to discuss the mental collapse of Trump-Instead we have a promotional piece about Ali G. I suppose Justin Webb doesn't want to mess up things for his forthcoming book www.penguin.co.uk/books/481424... #r4today

Of course Trump and Vance side with Ramaswamy www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... The GOP has long been on a path to moral bankruptcy and this is just the latest example. They are now on the side of someone who supported a child rapist. #Americast

They hounded him to death, and now they pursue him beyond the grave Jason Arday Again Cleared of Plagiarism as His Attackers Launch an ‘Independent Inquiry’ bylinetimes.com/2026/10/21/j...

Much of the media in its 'Both sides!' obsession with US politics simply ignores the obvious-That one side (for all the flaws of a normal party) believes in democracy while the other actively embraces racism, authoritarianism, corruption and cruelty. #Americast

Somewhat telling that although the BBC turned a blind eye to the brilliant ITV expose of Reform's rank bigotry and racism, it did see fit to report that Reform had reported ITV to the police for doing so. The BBC's news editorial is back to front at this point.

When Justin Webb et al do their 'extremists on both sides!' in relation to US politics one should be reminded that one side lines up with the partner of a child rapist while on the other side of the stream is the victim of that rape. If you can't see that then you are morally bankrupt. #Americast

The 'both sides!' narrative on #Americast is strained when one side lines up to use a woman who protected a child rapist and they are pitted against the victim of that rape. How about engaging your human decency and condemning this for what it is-A sign of a party without any morals.

Could Justin Webb explain to us mere mortals if this is another example of Trump 'making America normal again'? www.ms.now/all-in/watch... Oh and the fact that not a single Republican has contacted Ilhan Omar about the raid tells us much about the GOP-That they are morally bankrupt. #Americast

Again. This is the second time he's implied she's an alcoholuc. He really is like Dick Nixon, right down to the no holds barred rat-fucking and dirty tricks.

Complete and utter gibberish from Justin Webb towards the end of this edition of #Americast www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

WUT?