Nick Rochford

He works for the highly partisan BBC news and current affairs. They're all pro-Israel and pro-Reform. They present right-wing thinktanks as if they're neutral. They present the Green Party as loony tree-huggers. And they completely ignore the LibDems, despite the number of MPs and local councillors.

I think it doesn't reflect well on the BBC that one its leading presenters is allowed to write an 'analysis' for a highly partisan newspaper which includes lines like "Racial minorities, worshipped by white Democrats" www.dailymail.com/news/article...

Politico: The BBC reports that "Jack Ross, the former Tory activist who appeared to offer to “broker” the hiring of contract killers, previously worked for CCHQ undertaking social media work until earlier this year. A party spokesperson said his membership has been suspended"

UK Chancellor pledges cheaper marmalade and gherkins in pre-Budget package of 'everyday fixes'. Fiddling at the edges. Need redistribution of income and wealth. End profiteering in housing, energy, water, essentials. Increase tax personal allowance.

If patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel, then "performative pietism" is surely the panic room inside.

Repeat after me: Russia has no legitimate security concerns; only its neighbours do. Russia has been the only one invading others.

“We all bet we’d get to destroy the Amazon and workers‘ rights, our shareholders are furious“

The cuts being made at the BBC are unforgivable. They are putting it into a death spiral. The weaker it gets, the less people will want to support it. And yes, this is an issue for the Government, which likes to pretend it's not their problem. It is.

Today marks the transformation of one of the most iconic streets in the world. Oxford Street is now traffic-free. Here’s why that matters for Londoners.

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.

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

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

I remember railing about it at the time. Private ownership extracts profit. Public ownership serves people. Done badly, private ownership prioritises the short term and so exhausts and starves to death. Done badly, public ownership ignores the short term and so wastes time and resource.

Imperial units? In 2026? Jenrick is several Barleycorns short of a Cubit.

Good grief. If the BBC is cutting You and Yours and Free Thinking it should end #606 phone in. If the show improved it would still be moronic.

This is lovely - London Centric stay up all night as Oxford St is pedestrianised. Love the teenage bus geeks travelling in to ride on the last bus, confused taxi drivers, pedicab riders determined to keep using the street. Then a rainbow as the sun comes up www.londoncentric.media/p/oxford-str...

How ironic that the Brexit campaign for British people to "take back control" was in part funded and orchestrated from Moscow using Russian social media bots which tech billionaires say they are unable to control meme via Steve Benson

Doesn’t matter how you voted if you were front and centre in a Brexit government, actively overseeing the shrinking of our economy, our influence and our opportunities, while you rolled around in the trough. We’ll be disregarding everything you now say, thanks.

Prince William, rightly, praises the wonderful Kevin Sinfield. It would be nice if he and his dad could support the RNLI and visit the volunteers in Portsmouth, too. #BBCBreakfast

More and more businesses are opening up on Oxford Street - a boost in confidence in the nation’s high street. www.ft.com/content/73a2...

In his acceptance speech, Lula says he will work to regulate digital platforms in Brazil. “Digital crimes must be dealt with like real-life crimes.” This comes after Meta directly interfered with the Brazilian elections, favouring Flávio Bolsonaro.

26 October 1929 | Dutch Jewish boy, Leo Stein, was born in Amsterdam. He was deported to #Auschwitz from #Westerbork in August 1943. He did not survive. --- Listen about the development of the mass murder infrastructure at Auschwitz: https://youtu.be/tRwZ49q-9e0

What's remarkable about this article is that there's no mention of the police. No mention of a charge, an investigation, an arrest, even an interview www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

A new era for Oxford Street starts now.

Quite like it. (#OTD in 1944, Boxtel area, Holland. A group of approximately 30 US, British and Polish airborne troops sheltered by the Dutch Underground after being cut off during operation Market Garden. #WW2 #HISTORY)

To have one crank Nazi criminal advisor may be regarded as a misfortune; to have two looks like carelessness www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Finding some of the reaction on here to the 'stockpiling' stuff a bit odd. The Russians successfully firebombed the last prime minister's house! There was a cyberattack on a French supermarket a few weeks ago!

🧵The former headquarters of Tetley brewery, Hunslet Road, Leeds. Designed by Kirk & Tomlinson it was built in 1930-33, as part of a larger Tetley complex on the site. The building has 4 storeys & is built in red brick with Portland stone dressings. The interior show an entrance hall with panelling

"Legal migrant numbers are at a historic low and small boat crossings have halved, yet that didn’t stop anger at asylum seekers spilling on to the streets. "There is no level of migration low enough to satisfy some people. There is, however, a level of migration low enough to make us all poorer."

A prominent Tory party member organising contract killings should be being given wall to wall news coverage. But not with the UK’s corrupt billionaire controlled media. The BBC hasn't even mentioned it on their site.

This new electoral vídeo from Pedro Sánchez is quite something. Standing in front of Guernica defending the anti-war stance of his government, limiting military expenditure, denouncing the atrocity of Gaza. English subtitles.

“Trump's British apologists are finally starting to calculate… their potential reward for supporting this lame duck President in the US is no longer worth the growing cost to their reputations in the UK” Too late, Farage. Too much MAGA money. Too much fawning. www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/trumps-apo...

Muslims and immigrants, despite all the lies we're told about them, have never presented a systemic threat to Western security, let alone to "Western civilisation". Instead, the threats come from our governments, especially in the US, and their grim alliances with capital and overseas dictators.

The immigration doom loop, summed up here by @gabyhinsliff.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

We’re calling on Ofcom to: 🔍Open a formal investigation into Nigel Farage presenting GB News shows 📃Clarify its rules around TV news channels 👀Open an inquiry into whether sitting MPs or political party leaders should be allowed to present news programmes Add your name ⬇️

How’s that criminal investigation into Peter Mandelson sharing secret government information with criminals and foreign intelligence agents going, by the way? It’s been a long time and I realise we jettisoned the Prime Minister with minimal fuss, but are we going to pretend, at least.

I am feeling the Keminaissance. Behold: mainstream British politics.

So the new Reform newspaper - The Reformer - is under the "Editorial Leadership" of Mick Hume - former leading light in the Revolutionary Communist Party, Editor of Living Marxism until it folded after that ITV libel case. As I've said many times ... Farage’s various parties always attract the RCP

The Pentagon has quietly created a secretive agency, the Technology Support Office, to develop cyberattacks, supply-chain sabotage and deception tactics aimed at slowing adversaries’ military technology programs, Politico reports. No doubt to be used against Europe and Canada

To my shame, I only found out about Félix Éboué (the Governor of Chad in 1940) because of this film. The grandson of slaves, the first man of black African descent to be appointed to a governorship, and the guiding intelligence for the 1944 Brazzaville Conference on colonial reform.