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And yet the BBC love them. How many times has Farage been platformed on Question Time again, compared to other politicians? I think the BBC are partly responsible for this.

She died in breathless agony because our shitty parliament is stuck in the 1850s. #RIP #AssistedDying

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

Paloma Faith speaking with Krishnan Guru-Murthy on #C4News "I did play at a concert with Ed Sheeran to raise money for Ukraine, so he wasn't being apolitical doing that" "My perspective, my motivation, as a mother, I've looked at the pictures and what I've seen is abominable"

At what point does ‘the masked men on the street have legitimate concerns’ and ‘Just Stop Oil/Palestine Action are terrorists’ become two tier policing?

Undercover footage verified by Channel 4 News reveals a secret plot by senior Reform UK figures to break the law on party donations. A leading legal expert is now calling for a criminal investigation. 🔗 Read the exclusive story on Substack:

I think it’s just worth remembering that as the media handwring to justify publicly humiliating and hounding a man to death, just two weeks ago they gave glowing eulogies to another man with a history of domestic violence and brushed off his own statements about having pedophillic impulses

I feel like an issue that would connect well with voters would be doing anything at all to slow the current progression toward "absolutely everything now is a scam"

Who thought that playing a final game for 3rd and 4th spot was a good idea? No one cares about that match. The fans don’t. Nor the players that have just been eliminated in the semi-finals. It’s rubbing their noses in it. Let them go home instead of suffering this indignity. #worldcup

The danger of using voxpops in place of real analysis. Cameras are a magnet for motivated activists. These two made it into four different reels + a dozen print pieces. The illusion is that we're getting an insight into "Clacton voters". In truth, we just know what Farage Megastans Jim & June think.

On my way, Clacton.

Glorious

As bent as a nine bob note.

Excellent thread.

One detail in this fascinating BBC investigation into the Russia-instigated attack on Keir Starmer's home is the way it shows, in passing but very clearly, that Tommy Robinson is to all intents and purposes a Russian asset. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Hours like this last one on @lbc.co.uk hosted by @shelaghfogarty.bsky.social are utterly utterly depressing and make me fearful of what the next election brings. Caller after caller of people utterly deluded into thinking that Nigel Farage is the answer to all our problems, as thick as bricks

A reminder that Brazil banned Twitter for failing to stop the spreading of disinformation. There is nothing stopping the British government from doing the same.

I am not even remotely surprised by this. So much attention has been directed towards Twitter/X, and while it is a huge problem, much larger groups of particular demographic groups are on Facebook - often those with poor digital literacy.

Nigel Farage tells The Sun's Harry Cole that Elon Musk offered to give Reform loads of money "if we said certain things" and he refused. "I can't be bought." Two things: 1. This is an allegation of attempted bribery. Very serious. 2. It shows the obvious: donors expect something for their money.

A please @labouruk.bsky.social, stop saying that it's up to us to stop Reform. YOU could stop a Reform government in 2029, by introducing the proportional representation so many in the country have been clamouring for. The only way Farage can win is through our crazy first-past-the-post system.

Can guarantee the grifting beer-soaked 70s novelty ashtray won’t be hiding from the press today. So while he’s crowing about the elections, can journalists do their job and ask Farage about the £5m donation he tried to hide? And where his girlfriend got the £885k to buy their Clacton house in cash?

From Tim Shipman in The Spectator spectator.com/article/its-...

Mad fact... 42% of Labour Prime Ministers have had to fire Peter Mandelson.

There is absolutely zero chance any civil servant would have taken responsibility for such a decision without cast iron Ministerial cover.

There are still people who publicly pretend this man has a moral compass and is somehow completely different to the moral vacuums that he followed. Will the scales ever fall from their eyes? #r4today #Mandelson #OllyRobbins bsky.app/profile/adam...

Keir Starmer in 2020: "I had 8,000 staff as Director of Public Prosecutions and when they had victories I celebrated on their behalf and when they made mistakes I carried the can. "I never turn on my staff. You should never turn on your staff"

Exactly. Passing (or attempting to pass) the buck, when he *must* have known how sensitive the appointment would be at the time, points to a serious flaw in Starmer's character. Shirking responsibility now is simply cowardice. #r4today #Mandelson #Robbins

Kim Hellberg spoke to Mark Drury following Middlesbrough's 1-0 defeat. https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p0ncx1mp?at_medium=RSS&at_campaign=rss #boro

Well that was a fun 7 months but I think that’s it for us. The loss of momentum since Coventry has been stark, easy to say the further we get from it but our business in January wasn’t what it needed to be and I think we will be lucky to limp in to the playoffs with any type of form/confidence

The Prime Minister’s plan for immigration will keep people working in key industries like care in temporary status for a decade or more, it will keep people in insecure work, make them more easily exploitable, poorer and marginalised - when did that become the policy of a Labour government?

As the police find no evidence whatsoever of illegal family voting or voter coercion in the Gorton and Denton by-election, the BBC should ask themselves why, on the morning of the result, they gave so much airtime to these absurd and obviously racist claims from Nigel Farage

Simple reality is so long as Labour focuses its attention on trying to attract Reform voters who will never support it, and alienating progressives who are leaving for Greens and Lib Dems, via a constant raft of hostile policies and rhetoric against marginalised groups they are toast, and rightly so

When are we gonna admit that billionaire‑ism is an illness? They’re hoarders No control, insatiable greed & their hoarding just drains every one of us They cut wages, buy politicians & bleed the planet just to watch a number tick up that they’ll never spend Sick in the head.

Lord Glassman and his fellow Blue Labour smooth brained megaminds have done more damage to this government than Momentum could have dreamed of.

Well this took a turn www.theguardian.com/uk-news/ng-i...

"Ask not what your country can do for you — what you can spend your whole time avoiding doing for your country." www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

On today's episode of "Instantly Believeable"...

Me too!🥺 I think most🇬🇧 people don’t want us to get involved at all & object to🇺🇸 planes using🇬🇧 airbases. I question why some newspapers & news outlets are allowed to continue? They project a distorted narrative, usually the viewpoint of a narrow group. Perhaps banning overseas ownership would work?🤔

…deserves another share! As Penny Mordaunt goes on TV this morning demanding more warfare, comedian Vittorio Angelone exposes her! #BBCLauraK

SHOULD THE U.S BLOT OUT THE SUN AND USHER IN AN AGE OF ETERNAL DARKNESS? - Gallup 2/20/26-3/5/26 NO - 41% YES - 38% UNSURE - 21%

And it seems that the vessel was unarmed which was a condition of taking part in the naval exercises. And the us knew that.

Dispicable. The US has become a rogue state. End of.

Vox pops are used by lazy journos & broadcasters, esp. at election time & during crises, to pad shows & substitute for investigation Research shows that the unrepresentative VPs used by broadcasters affect audience opinions. Stop it @evanhd.bsky.social #bbcpm journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

Beautiful from Private Eye on the massive toddler-tantrum that Matt Goodwin and Reform are having, because they got whooped in Gorton and Denton.

Trump threatens to halt trade with Spain because its govt refused military base access. The felon demands obedience and has tantrums when sovereign govts refuse to be part of his illegal war. Tariff/Military wars are part of his delusions of world domination. More need to resist.