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Today’s hot news is that a man who isn’t an MP and another man who isn’t an MP, called a press conference to discuss an unworkable plan that had already been announced over a year ago.

I’ve been hearing so much anger and disappointment from frontline workers about the BBC investigation into fraudulent asylum claims. One of the most damning responses has come from one of the experts they interviewed, solicitor Ana Gonzalez. It’s really worth reading her response in full:

Nathan Gill, Reform's leader in Wales at the last Welsh parliament election, has pled guilty to 8 bribery charges, taking Russian cash while he was one of Nigel Farage’s MEPs to speak in favour of Putin's Russia in that parliament www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Picked up some Lib Dem stats at conference. Some of these surprised me (especially given media coverage): 1. The Liberal Democrats now control more councils than the Conservative Party 2. In May's local elections in England, the LDs elected more councillors than either Labour or the Tories. (1/x)

I am having a hard time reconciling "Charlie Kirk was a fierce advocate of open dialogue and free expression" with "we must identify and persecute everyone who is insufficiently mournful"

This!

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The BBC are constantly fawning over Farage's every move despite Reform only having four MPs. Our national broadcaster should reflect the whole country, not just one man’s ego.

Who could possibly have foreseen?

Saturday's MIRROR: Stamp duty 'hypocrite' #TomorrowsPapersToday

Can we convince you to continue your campaign against those who seek to get out of paying stamp duty, @thesun.co.uk? How about you, @telegraphnews.bsky.social? Surely, you're outraged about this, @dailymail.co.uk? Anyone?

So how many front pages do we think this story will be on tomorrow?

Angela Rayner accidentally pays less tax than she should have, resigns, and the media gives her hell. Nigel Farage deliberately pays less tax than he should have, and the media gives him a free pass. That, right there, is the problem.

I really feel for Rayner. The hypocrisy, misogyny & classism in response to her error - not that I’m condoning the error - compared to the ways in which the posh & wealthy are treated when they do it on purpose, has been stark & depressing. That AI featured on Sun front page especially disturbing.

National Guardsmen now stationed outside our DC building confirmed that the only thing they can do if they witness a crime is call 911. The have no more authority than my office mate to intervene. Despite the handcuffs, they can't make arrests. They are very expensive mall cops.

Nigel Farage just repeatedly denied – under oath! – to @raskin.house.gov ever banning journalists he doesn’t like from his party’s conventions. This happened to me *literally today*.

This is such a cop out. The police don't send five armed officers to arrest everyone where a crime 'may' have been committed. They barely even send anyone out to burglariea. They chose to do so. www.bbc.com/news/article...

Tice taken to task by the editor of the Nottingham Post. 👏 #politicslive

Via Ronald S. on FB.

My mum's friend suggested to her yesterday that she euthanize my brother. She is beyond shocked and offended. We all are. Is this what happens when we normalise 'assisted dieing'? Or is she just a spectacularly insensitive person?

"i've got access to the kids, but they don't wanna see me"

This is what communities are about. It isn't knuckle dragging morons disrespecting the flag to spread hate, it is people like Crystal Clean Windows. We saw it after the riots last year. The far right are not representative of local communities. H/t to @ottoenglish.bsky.social for the original post.

This is where the empty headed Flag shagging leads. Race hate.

I think @news.sky.com need to address this, either by disclaimer or a serious internal editorial discussion....

Reform UK, which has a grand total of four MPs, was just given an uninterrupted platform for an hour and a half on the BBC and Sky News channels, in order to talk about its plans for mass deportations When was the last time the Greens (with four MPs) or the Lib Dems (with 72) were given the same?

'Is it time for the Government to drown innocent human beings for political advantage?' and other questions now apparently deemed acceptable in the British media

“I was r*ped sometimes 3 times a day on that island… and I was not the only girl on that island… Ghislaine must die in prison, because I’ve been in hell and back for the last 17 years.” Listen to the survivors.

If your concern is that a white person who pleaded guilty received a sentence within the guidelines maybe you *want* two tier justice.

This. Absolutely this.

This is so important… Sharon has been tracking license plates on cars driven by ICE agents, and she’s finding they don’t match the vehicles. In other words, ICE is using secret, illegal tactics—just like we suspected. REMINDER: the DMV is not a federal agency. @governor.ca.gov 🧵

Danish activists have been painting their flag on roundabouts. Either that or British 'patriots' are a bunch of thick twats, which I find hard to believe.

International Criminal Court: New US sanctions against court staff are “a flagrant attack against independence of impartial judicial institution. They are an affront against the Court’s States Parties, the rules-based order and millions of innocent victims across world.” news.un.org/en/story/202...

Imagine if it was an ex-imam. The reaction.

This is an urgent and important question from @adambienkov.bsky.social Again this summer, British citizens are being terrorised by the organised far right and the silence of mainstream media and our political leaders is astounding and dangerous bylinetimes.com/2025/08/20/w...

This is all becoming very dangerous and the Government's failure to show any kind of resistance to it is a disgrace www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

Another one. Is anyone keeping track of how many have quit their jobs so far? Reform are a shiftless bunch who are good at rage-shouting and useless at the hard graft of governing.

As a mum, this thumps me in the heart more than anything else I have read. Political outrage is one thing, but the idea of having to plan for the possibility of you getting seized in the street and your child being left motherless is sheer pain.

Juries are randomly selected members of the public. Men and women from all walks of life and all political backgrounds. Only a moron of irredeemable proportions would even think of suggesting that a jury verdict represents some deep state “two-tier justice”.

24 hours in Sadiq Khan’s Lawless London.

I can't see why anybody would visit the USA at the moment, when even people with valid visas are being arrested and imprisoned for weeks - possibly months - on end. The USA is simply not a trustworthy country any more.

This is getting nuts. Politico: "Police are investigating online abuse faced by a group of Scouts after some Welsh villagers mistook their summer camping trip as an influx of illegal immigrants, the Telegraph reports." Right after Rupert Lowe mistook charity rowers for a refugee boat...

What depresses me is when the EDL used to get 3,000 people we'd all agree they're scum of the earth and move on. A decade later they're the same people, pulling maybe 1,500 people nationally, and they're getting fawning press treatment. They're still the same nasty thick people.