Patrick Andrews

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.

Says so much about the state of politics when so much of the centrist response to the PM raising EU relations is to say this is all terribly hasty and wouldn't another 10 years burying our heads in the sand be better while the populist right propose smashing it up further.

Thought I'd noticed some recent price rises in the shops. Whether or not it helps, at least we know on this occasion the specific identity of the US President to blame. www.theguardian.com/business/202...

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.

Why are the people who accuse those talking about reversing Brexit of "living in the past" never asked about their own plans to rip up an international agreement that was first signed by the UK some 75 years ago?

Oh dear God

Dentistry is so expensive in the UK that many people cannot afford the treatment they need

Glad to see that, like me, like Nigel Farage wants to abolish the House of Lords! @pickardje.bsky.social

Obviously this is outrageous in terms of partiality. But it's also yet another argument against rolling news. Rolling news has *so much* time to fill. Things like this must be a godsend for producers but it's really unhealthy for our discourse. If the BBC has to make cuts, it should bin News 24.

Freedom of movement = no more queuing at the airport. 'Nuff said.

Ten years on, the Brexiters plan to leave the EU and cosy up with the US looks even more disastrous. That their Brexit was boosted by Putin makes it even more historically catastrophic. We mustn’t forget the people who did this or let them near power again bylinetimes.com/2026/06/23/w...

Not sure what world Hunt and his ilk are living in. We haven’t stopped talking about Brexit for 11+ years. Europe is all we have talked about since 1973. It’s a national conversation piece just like the weather and the decline of Man Utd.

Just heard Hunt on the radio saying Labour needs to "put the economics before the politics" in the Budget. The bloke who created an unaffordable cut in National Insurance prior to the election, which he knew the Tories would lose. Utter charlatan.

It's really important to pay attention to the fact that Lula beat the fascist candidate not by compromising and trying to meet fascist voters in the middle, but by sticking to his guns, promising prosecutions for election interference, and mobilising his own voters to turn out in greater numbers.

'I backed Remain, but for purely tribal reasons I will forever back Brexit, and try to boost my credentials as a Brexit supporter by reminding people of my Remain vote.'

This is great and overdue. Now what Oxford Street needs is fewer weird American candy and vape shops. This will make it nicer to visit - next step is actually giving people a reason to go there.

Nearly half of people who apply for PIP are in work and use the funds to enable themselves to stay in work. Cutting PIP will add to the welfare budget as those people will no longer be able to stay in the work force.

Bolsonaro has refused to concede defeat because of course he has. Always the same with these fashy dickheads. They accuse their opponents of cheating because their cheating didn't work this time. Every accusation is a confession. Always.

Personally absolutely in favour of a pedestrianised Oxford Street and it is likely to mean I go there more often. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

It’s wrong to let liars and charlatans get away with their lies and charlatanry. It’s wrong to build a house on sand.

It’s not ‘wrong’ to ‘reopen’ Brexit debates. It’s wrong to treat terrible decisions as irreversible.

More to come on this, but those Labour MPs opposing talking about freedom of movement need to be aware that they are also condemning UK manufacturing to more barriers and probably further decline. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

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

Richard Tice of Reform describes Burnham as "totally out of touch with British voters". Our data suggests Labour voters v strongly prefer Burnham's view to Tice's (as do the public more narrowly). Reform voters are more with Tice - with a surprisingly large minority supporting the single market

Think Simms is treated unfairly #pusb

That was a worse mistake by Donnarumma than any Rushworth has made #pusb

Donnarumma is overrated.

Who could have ever guessed that an organisation led by Toby Young would be absolutely riddled with misogyny and bigotry www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

There have been several poor refereeing decisions in this match as well as yesterday’s

This as ridiculous as the censoring of the Strictly contestants t-shirt. Funny that they can mandate the wearing of poppies and couldn’t manage to edit out the Shell logo when Energy Secretary Miatta Fahnbulleh as interviewed www.leicester.news/bbc-edits-ou...

A shout out to Citizens Advice. They send workers at our foodbank every week, where they offer far more than sticking plaster solutions. Clients leave looking years younger than when they arrive.

"Political correctness gone mad", but political correctness now is that trans people don't exist.

Selling out Britain’s future goes back to Thatcher. Had we invested oil/gas revenues we’d have a fund worth £1 trillion now. Selling off assets at less than they were worth (think council houses/utilities) + spending not investing the proceeds trashed the UK’s balance sheet

Issuing oil drilling licences + blaming wildfires on disposable barbecues = not really taking this seriously.

Oxford University has a duty of care to its students. Can it really host this event and meet its legal duties?

Will Oxford University state clearly that racism and racial harassment will not be tolerated? How will it deal with at an event where the speaker is a self-professed "race realist" who advocates for scientific racism?

Will it ensure Professor Arday and the allegations made against him are not discussed while the inquest is ongoing? Will the event be open to all members of the University, not just Society members, with a real chance to challenge the speaker?

So I wonder: Does Oxford University consider pseudo-scientific ideas about race and IQ worthy of debate at its institution? Will Oxford University be publishing its risk assessment and equality analysis, including the impact on Black students and staff?

Barely two months ago, we lost Professor Jason Arday. Thousands grieved. Institutions across higher education spoke about inclusion and belonging. Now Nathan Cofnas is being given a room at Oriel College, Oxford, to ask whether DEI is undermining higher education. 🧵

How was that not a red?

The abysmal handling of negotiations has genuinely been the part of Brexit that has surprised other countries the most. The secrecy and haggling over legal minutiae hasn't been the standard approach for years, but somehow is the UK one.

What frankly is the point of government publishing this sort of statement on trade negotiations with absolutely no useful content? Compulsive secrecy to the point of parody. For no good reason whatsoever. www.gov.uk/government/n...

“The OBR’s estimate of the impact of migration on the fiscal forecast makes for sobering reading. It estimates that if net migration is 200,000 a year lower than its central forecast - almost certainly the case - then borrowing will be £19.9 billion higher in 2028-29.

The lack of scrutiny of the economic costs of reducing immigration is striking given their conspicuous absence from the intense focus on the Chancellor’s fiscal headroom. As Ian Dunt observes here:

The warzone that is King's Cross Station at 10pm. Oh the humanity. I expect 15 Tweets before bedtime saying how you can't venture out on London's streets in safety after sunset.

This is silly but also: go ahead. Showing either of them on Gogglebox would damage them horribly.

The fall in immigration is mutilating Healey’s Budget iandunt.substack.com/p/the-fall-i...