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The BBC needs to provide an explanation for this.

#bbcbreakfast Brexit has not been “reopened because of Andy Burnham”, but because: - it’s turned out to be a costly mistake - geopolitics shows we can’t rely on the US, but need to work with our neighbours with whom we share common interests - the public has turned against it

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“The auction winners were not Trump Jr’s only companions in the Mongolian wilderness this summer. He also spent two days with Umar Kremlev, a businessman with a criminal record who has close ties to Russian President Vladimir Putin’s personal security service…” www.ft.com/content/f41f...

Europe is the future now www.arguably.uk/p/europe-is-...

If the BBC folk had half a brain, they'd look at the empty seats and work out that they've put their money on a broken nag. How tragic is the fall of the once mighty BBC?

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Bolsonaro's loss is not just a loss for Bolsonaro. It's a loss for Trump. For Musk. For Milei. For Netanyahu. For Farage. For Meta and Zuckerberg. For the meat barons, the fossil fuel corporations, and the rest of the neocolonial looters. And it is a massive win for humanity and the living planet.

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.

The lessons from Brazil and Serbia? Don't concede one inch of ground to the far right. Don't appease. Don't triangulate. Don't grovel. Don't say they have "legitimate concerns". Mobilise your base, and fight them with all the democratic means at your disposal.

NEW | Have I Got Barely Any Views For You… THE AMOL RAJAN DISCONNECTION The former BBC big name’s big mistake is thinking that being well-known equates to be being well-liked. brokenbottleboy.substack.com/p/the-amol-r...

What work is this? £371 per day for this👇

North East @bylinesnetwork.co.uk have done quite a bit of reporting on the Tees Valley dodgy dealings eg northeastbylines.co.uk/business/all...

Full story online and in the latest issue: www.private-eye.co.uk/hp-sauce For the rest, including cartoons, Pseuds, Dumb Britain and all the other regulars, you’ll have to buy the magazine.

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.

“While each of us (voted Brexit) for different reasons, we all believed that the UK could do a better job of running its own affairs than *unelected officials* in Brussels could." Ben Houchen... November 2020 Six years later 👇👇👇

They've only got a handful of MPs, they're in third place and still heading south, they are led by the most unpopular party leader in the country, yet they're still being treated as if they're somehow knocking on the gates of Downing Street

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

Nigel Farage, Daniel Hannan, Aaron Banks: the remaining Brexiters look so stale and dated and old. Listening to them is like eating mouldy bread from the back of the cupboard open.substack.com/pub/arguably...

🧵 Wow - this article is bordering on unhinged! Apparently the BBC is akin to a “North Korean re-education camp” for teaching children about net-zero and covering both the pros AND cons of immigration Join me for a masterclass in cherry-picking and context stripping to brainwash your own readers👍🏻

Meanwhile, pro-democracy, pro-Europe protesters in Tbilisi, Georgia, are tonight nearing their 700th consecutive day of protest against the pro-Russian government. They haven't missed a single day in the last 23 months.

Fascinating Jeremy, now tell us about the time you cut national insurance twice as an electoral game despite knowing we couldn't afford it.

Hungarian PM Péter Magyar: "I have just spoken by phone with the leaders of the Students List, who won the elections in Serbia, to congratulate them... I assured them of Hungary’s support. I was delighted to hear how much strength our victory in April had given them during this difficult struggle."

Help! Does anyone know how to remove the shade?

Netanyahu denies that this Washington Post reporter, Heidi Levine, was attacked by Israeli settlers. She sustained: Four broken vertebrae Two broken ribs Four puncture wounds She was knocked to the ground and repeatedly beaten! She said that Palestinian youth saved her during the settler attack.

The BBC’s constant tendency to play down or ignore the true nature of the far right is a major contributor to its growth

Pathe news report on the arrival of almost 4000 refugee children to Southampton on 23 May 1937 fleeing from the fascist bombing of the Basque Country.

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None of these was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society. Elon Musk was. Odd, that.

“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

“Trump’s got the White House looking like Saddam Hussein opened up a Cheesecake Factory.” - Barack Obama in Ohio.

Well this is foul: www.theguardian.com/world/2026/o...

Great to see on the front of the Mail, Telegraph, Express, Sun.* 'The no. of young people admitted to London hospitals after knife attacks is down 55% since Sadiq Khan launched a Violence Reduction Unit, with London falling faster than the rest of England.' *Joke www.standard.co.uk/news/crime/y...

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🔴 REVEALED: Palantir led closed-door review of how MoD buys software The review was presented to defence minister Luke Pollard by Palantir UK boss Louis Mosley in Feb and has mostly been implemented None of this was made public New investigation🧵 democracyforsale.substack.com/p/revealed-p...

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

Again, it’s important to understand that the transgender terror did not arise organically from the public. It was imposed from above, by the world’s most hateful and poisonous media class.

And that's before the NYT's story about the Alaska deal with a sanctioned Russian oil firm, where the US side thought that it was Kushner's Middle East contacts investing not the Kremlin. Just draw dropping corruption.

Pecksniff ponders whether Brexit’s service to Russia was treason or stupidity. * Matt Hancock’s care-home record returns to haunt him. * Reform’s Operation Vanguard manages to handcuff the public it is meant to protect.... This week's reflections on political life.

Most academics will read this story in a very different way to how it is being reported. "So, I get caught up in a political scandal and I have my admin load reduced? Where do I sign up?"

In his Daily Mail column today, describing Trump as "toast," Richard Littlejohn mocks the President's attempted annexation of Greenland as being mad, using the phrase "nurse!" Here's what Littlejohn wrote about it when Trump first suggested it

According to international law people living under occupation have the right to resist their occupiers (& that includes armed resistance). If Britain was under brutal occupation would we be condemning attacks on occupying soldiers or supporting those fighting back?

This is both stupid and obscene. Grotesquely evil little boys who, sadly, seem to capture enough sick imaginations to fund inexcusable experiments. AI, attack drones, this - just utter contempt for life:

Still ageing like milk