John Milner

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.

JUST POSTED: A Russian energy giant has secretly moved to acquire a position in a massive Alaska gas project. Its part of talks between Witkoff/Kushner & Putin. But CEO of US company resigns after learning of Russian money in the project. A wowzer of a story. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/23/u...

What are the chances of that?

I’ve never trusted this shitweasel.

Trump Says Russia Has Been 'Fine On Ukraine' Hours After Missile Kills Ukrainian Child www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/trump-...

Do you get it now, finally. Trump doesnt give a damn about human life, be it American or Ukrainian. He is fine with Russia slaughtering defenseless civilians. This is your America, MAGA.

Think there is a reasonable chance of this happening under a Democrat president, especially if Musk starts threatening them.

Today's lesson for Europe: if your national security relies on US oligarchs' tech, they'll cut you off when you most need it.

Flynn and his brother were last spotted in the Republic Srbska working with Russian surrogates. He was also spotted seated next to Vladimir Putin at a festive dinner in Moscow, which he attended without clearing security protocols. He's in the tank.

Trump has been hiding his Russian diesel deal for over a month: the deal was announced yesterday, but it was likely agreed when Witkoff and Kushner visited the Kremlin on 5th September. While Trump was signing the Lindsey Graham Sanctioning Russia and Iran Act of 2026 on 18th September,…

Childish, vain, stupid, warmongering, crooks US imposes sanctions on ICC, hours after former judge Pillay wins Nobel peace prize - live www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...

What these guys did was bigger than Brexit. They showed how you could produce work of an academic quality and distribute it through the media, to improve the standard of national debate. I wish more organisations would learn from what was accomplished here.

Tories on Tuesday: "we'll spend £10bn on a missile system we don't understand". Tories on Wednesday "we'll cut taxes!" These are not serious people.

At around 6:00 a.m., Russia launched a missile strike on Pryluky, Chernihiv Oblast. One missile hit a five-story residential building. At this time, the bodies of three children have been recovered from under the rubble, and the death toll has risen to nine people.

The Conservative party Shadow Culture Secretary to speak at conference tomorrow about how to "defend press freedom", whilst her own party bans journalists whose coverage they don't like

It’s a badge of honour for @bylinetimes.bsky.social to be banned from Reform and Conservative conferences - like being banned by Russia or China, it says more about them, than the journalists. Also, so ironic that the parties which waffle on about freedom of speech are the most scared of it.

DoorDash spent $1.4M trying to stop Zohran Mamdani from becoming mayor. This week's historic $131.5M enforcement action against DoorDash for underpaying NYC delivery workers shows why. Yet another reminder that the only thing that can beat organized money is organized people.

I'm not a lawyer, but if you intentionally attempt to sink a boat with humans on board, how is that not attempted murder? www.theguardian.com/world/2026/s...

BBC report fails to mention "Tommo" slashing a dinghy (!) Not beating the Reform Party propaganda allegations www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Endangering another during a journey by sea; criminal damage; carrying an offensive weapon; possession of a bladed article; conduct endangering ships or individuals; unlawfully and intentionally destroying a ship breaching section 11 of the aviation and maritime security act;

Over the last few months these guys made me proud to be British: kind, practical, profoundly moral, a testament to this island. Now they're targeted by the very worst of us. I just gave them a bunch of money. You should too. Show those fascist clowns what's what. rnli.org/support-us/g...

BBC news is like being force fed the Daily Mail at the moment

That’s a hard agree from me. I am genuinely astonished at the number of otherwise sensible commentators who still discuss his latest wild actions as if they’re within the parameters of the normal policy making process.

This should be the moment people finally realise that Farage has turned them into fascists. If you’re choosing this dangerous inhumanity over the rescue work of the RNLI, you’ve lost your minds to racism and hatred.

Obama: “Imagine if I had pulled Fox News’ credentials from the White House press corps. You’re laughing, but this is what’s happening. It’s unimaginable that the same parties that are silent right now would have tolerated behavior like that from me.” Clip courtesy @meidastouch.com

Trump posts about a “new” deal with Greenland and Denmark which appears to be just about exactly the same as our current deal with them, but nobody tell him that.

Spot on. And sadly the FT failed to mention BT' work anywhere in their long,detailed article.

my brilliant colleague @robertshrimsley.bsky.social on the threat from Elon Musk’s X platform www.ft.com/content/f270...

This jaw-dropping story has become ProPublica's most-read article of 2026, with more than 2.2 million views in the first day, a spokesperson tells me

Trump is morally bankrupt, this is essentially trying to shift blame from him and Netanyahu to a man defending his country against another morally bankrupt aggressor

What I love about Western democracy is you can bung a political party £ 36 million earned from criminal activity & most media will continue to point at asylum seekers & migrant care workers with families as the barbarians at the gate we need to defend ourselves from 🙄.

Updating political finance rules for an era where some individuals can mobilise the resources of mid-sized nation states just seems like the most obvious thing in the world to do, am amazed that there has been opposition within the labour movement to this

An RNLI lifeboatman is taking part in the Great North Run tomorrow, wearing his full kit. Please donate here if you can: fundraise.rnli.org/fundraisers/...

Lots on the substack this week... Dame Emily Lawson, who ran the covid vaccine rollout, gave her first interview about how she did it and what the lessons are for government in normal times. samf.substack.com/p/when-gover...

It does give Reform's "enemies" a frame, too: Reform is on the side of the crypto criminals – both Delo and "posh George" – who are paying its bills. Accepting major contributions from one convicted criminal looks unfortunate. Two looks like carelessness.

OMG

Seriously, why are people still calling them "protests" after this sort of thing? In what way are these expressions of "legitimate concerns"?

🇩🇪 The AfD's polices are a poison to the body politic of Europe. ➡️ Parties like Restore Britain and Reform UK use the same playbook - blaming minorities for each and every problem. ♥️ We must offer a different, more hope based, politics.

Those “protesters “ going after the RNLI need to be interned somewhere unpleasant

If every statement about Extinction Rebellion had opened with "Climate change is the single biggest issue facing humanity, and we understand why people have legitimate concerns the world isn't doing enough to tackle it…" this approach might be *faintly* defensible. But they didn't, and it isn't.

Last I heard, this offence should carry a prison sentence of 5 years just for talking about potentially organising the blocking of a road or does that only apply to people who care about saving the planet from climate oblivion?

A dark day for Germany - the AfD, a far-right party, has won more than 43% of the vote in Saxony-Anhalt. A victory cheered on by Donald Trump, Russia and the radical right across Europe. That says it all.

The BBC is now part of the problem

80 year-olds with pro-Palestine signs: arrested as terrorists. Greens planning to block a road, to highlight an existential crisis: sent down for years. Masked far-right thugs blocking roads and ports, using intimidation, obstruction & threatening behaviour: no arrests. The real two-tier policing.

Not before time.

not the biggest point here, but the history is wrong - Labour was not even the *third* biggest party in 1918