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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
Britons should use money we haven't got to buy food the country doesn't grow, store it in homes that don't exist, in spare rooms that got taxed away, so we can survive when reservoirs nobody built run dry because of a climate the govt won't protect.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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GB News is launching GB Music Radio, a 24-hour digital station only playing artists from Great Britain and Northern Ireland, on 2 November. Chief revenue officer Ross Sergeant said this "gives advertisers something genuinely new". radiotoday.co.uk/2026/10/gb-m...
Desperate times. So much focus on defensive problems but we can't create many chances or score. Team are in the dumps but they have to keep going and turn things around #dcfcfans#dcfc
Producer: “Who can we get to represent the views of voters in struggling working class towns?”
Researcher: “How about a London born privately educated banjo player who is the son of the billionaire who owns GB News?”
Producer: “Perfect!”
Ward to blame for the 4th with a lame clearance. The lesser spotted Bilbija coming on in place of Szmodics, who's only contribution to the match is to take too long walking off and we take a 1 minute substitution penalty #dcfcfans#dcfc
Disastrous 1st half. Didn't expect much from this game but another key injury, morale sapping goals conceded and 2nd best all over the pitch. Yes we've been out fought and out played but when you have our ridiculous crisis we are bound to ship goals. How has it come to this? #dcfcfans#dcfc
For all of our defensive woes we're too open in midfield. Out fought and out numbered. QPR are far too good in MF for us to play just Ozoh and Mowatt #dcfcfans#dcfc
Poor from Hedges to concede a pen although it was far from clear cut. He simply needed to jockey the player and not lunge in but don't forget he's not a defender. This could be a cricket score #dcfcfans#dcfc
Langas with an incredible goal line clearance resulting in yet another damned defensive injury. To recap, we have no LBs at all, no first choice CBs, 1 2nd choice CB and, realistically, no utility CBs. In 45 years supporting #dcfc I've never seen anything like it #dcfcfans
This is quite extraordinary.
I don't think I have heard a more coherent, articulate and accurate deconstruction & demolition of Nigel Farage's ReformUK, Tory & Restore policy than this. In under 85 seconds!
@rafaelbehr.bsky.social is on here folks and worth a follow.
Zelensky:
"When our strikes reached Yandex’s data centers, it suddenly became a little easier to breathe on many social media platforms. A lot of people noticed it. There was less hate, less division, and fewer provocations... It’s pretty clear where those bots were coming from."
That's really hard to take. We've been punished all season for multiple mistakes. Barely made a mistake today and we get punished. Thought we did pretty well on the whole. Better defensively. Moments of threat going forward. On another day we score 3 #dcfcfans#dcfc
New working paper: the Norwegian wealth tax was a huge success. The "exodus" of wealthy people never happened (less than 100 individuals left). Tax revenue increased by 71.5%. No changes in business activity or investment.
www.nber.org/papers/w35854
Dear tv and radio producers. Thankyou for the invitation. But, no, I do not want to appear on your show to defend the idea that I am English, after 50 years of living and working here, because the increasingly feral right want to turn this into a "debate" and you cannot see how you're being played
Whenever I write something about a railway under performing, I get people - usually from Great Britain - whingeing at me that their railway is worse. Not only is it not necessarily true, but it is also tiring. So I wrote about it! jonworth.eu/my-train-is-ev…
This is the most remarkable story Ray Bradbury ever shared with me. He told it to me late one night, sitting in his den of antiquities and mementos. Take five minutes to read this. It’s pure magic.
#Writing#Living#Creativity#RayBradbury#BookSky
Just saw someone say their AI runs their fantasy football team and I can’t stop laughing. Like, I’m sure everyone’s doing it or something but it’s very funny to me that pretending to be a team manager was so hard that you needed to pretend to pretend to be a team manager
Did u know?Because an animal is small,doesn't make it insignificant. Even though she's only 2cm long,for a few precious seconds,this Buff-tail bumblebee & I were locked in each other's orbit.Her antennae sniffed the air for my scent & her eyes looked straight into mine. Celebrate the small. 🌱🌿🇬🇧🌱🌍🪲🐝
Good.
Now arrest those who were with him for conspiracy, and then arrest those who tried to set fire to a hotel for arson.
And then proscribe the group as a terrorist organisation. Which is what you are if you use violence for political ends.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
I avoid Kuenssberg like the plague but having stumbled on her by chance today she exudes awfulness in the topics she chooses and the way she poses them
JE really has to take the handbrake off in the 2nd half. The team are licking wounds. Covering up hasn't worked. Might as well come out fighting #dcfc#dcfcfans