Peter Archibald

Pro-Europeans really need to get their act together if they're going to sieze the opportunity which is being presented here. Press and broadcasters reverting right back to their previous position from 2016, with zero update.

All those scandals are starting to stick.

When you try and make a major policy announcement and LITERALLY ALL anyone can talk about is how empty the room is... you're done! #StopReform #GetFarageOut

Big day today for ending centuries of secrecy about who owns our land! A new government consultation will propose revealing who owns the vast majority of England and Wales. To get this over the line, I’ll need your help to send in supportive evidence! www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

This is when you know an organisation is screwed. The company is collapsing and the boss blames the staff.

What is the BBC's justification for maintaining this level of coverage of Reform now it has slipped into third place?

As Nick Robinson interviews Farage on #r4today for the umpteenth time, may I remind you that BBC News has instituted a policy of trying to make itself more attractive to Reform voters. True story (see further down this thread for deets).

European lawmakers have held four times as many meetings with tobacco and nicotine lobbyists in the past two years compared with the entire previous parliamentary term, according to data analyzed by us.

'Cringingly Embarrassing': Farage And Jenrick Mocked For Sea Of Empty Seats At Reform Event www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/farage...

Ok, so Audi invests billions for a plant that will not produce technologies adapted to the future. Ok, so they on Trump‘s bandwagon at precisely the moment it’s losing momentum. What makes me angry is this:

Yeah, this is getting absurd. Zero scrutiny. BBC News broadcasts Reform UK speeches in full without interruptions www.thenational.scot/news/2667178...

The BBC needs to provide an explanation for this.

Prime Minister @andyburnham.bsky.social is right. By almost every economic and financial measure Brexit has been disastrous for the UK and Nigel Farage knows it

Our report with @unearthednews.bsky.social on TFA - a forever chemical recommended for classification as toxic to reproductive health + child development by the European Chemicals Agency - in English rivers + groundwater featured on ITV News' Calendar 👇

This is just the maddest argument. These people would trap us in poverty to keep a decade old commitment, which no one ever actually made, to an electorate which no longer exists.

Brazil and Serbia, defying rise the tide of autocracy. This is how we do it, everywhere. 🌈

Trump and Netanyahu are rotten, evil, unreliable 'friends'. Flavio Bolsonaro should have fled while he could.

Flávio has just been forced to surrender his passport so he doesn't flee before his corruption trial. It's coming, two Bolsonaro's rotting in jail.

BBC News just interrupted its coverage to go, live, to Nigel Farage - a man with no contitutional standing in our setup - responding to the budget - a document which nobody has seen yet. WHY

It is guaranteed that this virus will jump to human to human transition at some point. How we organise society and healthcare will determine the effects of this. Currently we aren't optimising for best outcomes.

Reform UK's Suella Braverman claims massive taxpayer-funded water bill at home equal to 18 baths a day Claim to have used 1,504 litres of water daily at her £1.2million four-bedroom pad in a five-month period. Reform have promised benefit cuts for the disabled, old, sick, poor, unfortunate.

First Orban, now Vučić. Both fundamentally undone by rank corruption of their regimes. Which is so often the reality of the authoritarian right in power. Really worth paying heed to in Western Europe right now

Sunny but very windy for today’s three-mile walk. I looked at winners of the SW Coast Path photo competition and bought a salt beef and sauerkraut bagel with mustard so fierce I literally had to hold on to the top of my head. 88.6 miles out of 100 done so far.

Climate scientist Dr @charliejgardner.bsky.social discusses with @carolinelucas.bsky.social & @rupertread.bsky.social the kind of movement-building empowerment for societies worried that the cavalry isn't coming - #climatepopularism. Best yet, proactive governments out there can join in and help.

How odd that so many Reform UK policies are just like those of the Nazis in the 1930s as they vied for popularity, before revealing their true vicious, brutal, genocidal selves ... meme via Lily Rose

Real post from the mountain rescue Facebook page

No nation or company or anyone should ever trust Starlink again.

I warned 3 years ago that mink farms are a likely route to a new and horrific human pandemic, and once more I'm fervently praying it doesn't map out that way. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

This pleases me www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...

Happy Days. 😀 The Reform decline continues. 📉 Up to the end of June, according to polls, Reform were predicted to become the largest party in parliament at the next GE. Currently the prediction is they could end up in fourth place behind Labour, Conservatives and Lib Dems.

Nigel Farage’s attack on the RNLI and co is a new low even for this bottom-feeder. He wants to prosecute anyone who saves lives of people that he doesn't like. Desperate Farage diverts attention from investigations by pledging laws that can't work. archive.ph/5UYnG/

...environmental protections, improved transport logistics, lower trade frictions... A lofty political principle that doesn't earn its keep is like fine oratory delivered on the scaffold.

Knock-on benefits embrace core economics, defence, resilience, crime, energy security, immigration co-operation, youth education, regional inequality....

Though I don't claim that politics is all pragmatism, I believe there is a strong pragmatic national interest in re-establishing EU freedom of movement to benefit other urgent policy concerns. The job of politics is not to suggest that important conversations should happen - it is to have them.

Any vote for a republican, is for this guy and the orange felon, who aligns with Putin. Any questions??? #bluewavein10days #VoteEarly #SheShed

Add in Fiona Bruce/Question Time and Justin Welby on R4. I love the BBC but I don’t watch or listen to most of their current affairs output at all now.

Yea. Good for you Peter, we have not received one yet, but when we do it goes straight back in the post, post paid the other end. It's a Civic duty, it will keep the posties in a job.

NEW headline voting intention from Ipsos 📊Labour on 32% with a lead of +8 – the largest Labour lead Ipsos have recorded this parliament 📊Conservatives take second place the first time since June 2025 📊Reform UK down 3 points and Greens down 5

Same for UK. British school history books don't really teach that without the French heroics at Bir Hakeim, British forces in Africa would have been wiped out and Rommel's defeat at El Alamein - turning point of the war - wouldn't have been possible!

I’m convinced. You have won me over Valentenya.

Ten years since David Mitchell wrote this piece in The Guardian - just as accurate today www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

I literally spent a year investigating how the government props up Shell, and then they do this!