I am one of those Londoners who has enjoyed free travel since i was 60. I'm almost gleeful that I upset that miserable 45 year old so much. #bbcpm

Kemi Badenoch must believe in fairies and Father Christmas. Everything she says indicates that she does. #r4today

The Hamnet film. Couldn't anyone be bothered to do a Warwickshire accent? #r4today

Can we have the guy moaning about Canterbury lampposts back to cheer us up please? Preferably with an interviewer pointing out the 50% cut in local council funding, but just an easy local moan will do compared with the international news. #r4today

It would be handy for Trump to get involved in a war so he's got an excuse not to hold elections wouldn't it? #wato

This Ovenden guy assumes civil servants aren't ordinary people. Given what most of them earn and where they live, they're much more ordinary than the likes of Ovenden. They should be listened to by governments. #r4today

Other than an attempt to get younger listeners, I don't see the point of this babies project on #r4today. It would be better as a standalone programme.

What a shame Farage doesn't have dual citizenship (as far as we know). Yaxley Lennon on the other hand... #wato

Farage is lucky there wasn't social media when he was at Dulwich College isn't he? Currently it's his word against 20 odd fellow pupils and a teacher I think. #r4today BBC News - Egyptian dissident sorry for tweets as Tories push for deportation from UK www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Ah, that's why we have our first outdoor sauna in Walthamstow. First dates for all the young folk. Good on them! #r4today

Lovely to have a mini 'In Our Time' with Melvyn. Hope we continue to hear him on the radio. #r4today

No push back at all from Justin Webb to this Trump supporter's anti "woke" nonsense. Meanwhile people can't visit the US if their social media doesn't suck up to the great leader. #r4today

Farmers need to get with the programme on animal welfare so the government is doing them a favour with these changes. Otherwise there'll be more young people like my son who become vegan having looked at how animals are treated in food production. #r4today

Maybe we need to introduce some age discrimination legislation if we want people to work into older age. Where I worked age discrimination was rife. It was a London local authority run by Labour. #r4today

What thoughtful articulate young people. #r4today

Can someone tell me what the pay offer to resident doctors is? I'm not finding it on the BBC or BMA websites. Would like to know if it is below inflation/by how much. #r4today

Hooray for the return of Erasmus. Any chance the students who missed out on the opportunity could get a slight decrease in the interest rate on their student loans as a tiny bit of compensation? #r4today

Wonder if this will be covered on #r4today www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

The BBC should not settle out of court. And if Trump wins, licence fee payers should have the choice of whether to pay towards any settlement. Can't imagine many - apart from Reform voters - would be willing. #r4today

If Lucy Powell wants to improve unity in the Labour Party maybe don't start with "Great to be here in the North". Presumably they do want to keep voters in the Midlands and the South. #r4today

If only everyone could get the kind of cancer care that the King gets. #r4today

Clearly these Lords talking about the medical team around the dying person haven't seen 3 different GPs in the past few months giving sometimes contradictory advice. I have. #r4today

Americans work longer and live shorter lives than Europeans and yet Evan Davis thinks we should aspire to their economic model. I suggest he goes there if he likes it so much. #wato

Just back from a blood test at UCLH. No-one at the entrance giving out masks. Very few staff wearing them. Next problem will be a huge rise in staff sickness to add to the surge in patients with flu. No lessons learned from the pandemic. I wore my FFP2, should be fine. #wato

Responding to calls to wear masks in the flu outbreak Badenoch says she's "still slightly traumatised" by mask wearing. Pathetic - and irresponsible from a public figure. This is the same Badenoch whose response to the Budget was a personal attack on Rachel Reeves for flakiness. 🤷 #r4today

Just tell Gorka to f* off and do us all a huge favour. #politicslive

I'm not at all surprised that Covid support schemes were open to abuse. A colleague in the local authority I worked in was moved to the business grants team. Spent a lot of time checking for dubious claims. #r4today

We don't need more cars in urban areas. We need more public transport and bike lanes. #r4today

We paid for Netflix for a year, ran out of stuff we wanted to watch and now find plenty on terrestrial TV including lately Wild Cherry on the BBC and the Channel 5 Play for Today. #r4today

Interesting chat about absolute and relative poverty on #wato. Made me think of all those people who relied on public libraries for internet access and then couldn't when austerity closed them.

Vicky Young's first question to the Labour MP re the investment in energy infrastructure is: "Is this another broken promise?". Surely Labour wouldn't have included in their manifesto: "We won't ensure energy companies invest in infrastructure." So tiresome from #politicslive.

Surprising that Cleverly is annoyed about the delay in local elections in what will be 'Greater Essex'. Would have thought he'd want to hang on to political allies in his area for as long as possible - unless he's going to defect to Reform UK too. #r4today

Emma Barnett turns from vicious attack dog to cloying kitten owner with human interest interviews. It was a relief she was stopped in her tracks by yet another line failure. #r4today

Looking forward to hearing about the political backgrounds of all the other interviewees on #r4today, not just union leaders, just for balance.

Financial guy on #r4today re regulation: "if you hammer the banks too much it will make it difficult for them to lend". Is he old enough to remember what caused the 2008 crash?

The more we hear the media pulling apart the budget I wonder is the OBR the neutral player it's supposed to be? #r4today

Ah, now we know what the BBC is up to with it's headlines - ragebait. Grow up lads. #r4today

I think we can safely say #bbclaurak doesn't give a flying hoot for poorer people. The money is hers, all hers!

We probably need more financial "headroom" to deal with Trump's tariffs and defending Ukraine. Imagine the ire of the right wing media if we didn't do the latter. #bbclaurak

Barnett re the Budget: "Is anyone happy?" I'd guess people on the living wage are. #r4today

Maybe Rishi Sunak could pay for some prostate testing given he's got some cash to spare. #r4today

Nick Robinson doesn't seem to understand that we pay taxes in order to redistribute within our society. His Tory Party prefers to give taxes to mates for corrupt contracts. Labour prefer to at least try to give to people who actually need help. #r4today

Badenoch's speech wasn't "powerful" as Nick Robinson calls it. It was bullying condescension which was completely unjustified given she was part of the last government's disasterous mismanagement of the economy. #r4today

How can the Tory claim the bad Brexit deal was the fault of other parties when they had a 60 seat majority at the time? #c4news

How I hate Badenoch. Incompetence personified. #budget2025

We're still using railway tracks because we feel safe enough to do so with regulation. Will no-one consider the importance of regulation of AI? #r4today

Finally we get someone on #r4today saying lower paid and younger people have benefitted from Labour economic policy. But now we're back to Mason talking about "the final act" for Reeves and Starmer. 😡

I've done jury service twice twenty years apart. Looked to me as though there was a marked decline in the ability of the CPS to prepare adequately for a case so there's a reasonable chance of conviction. #r4today

How can the Tory leader of Epping Forest council claim that council tax payers won't be paying for their appeal against the Bell Hotel being used as an asylum seekers hostel when they're going to use council reserves? What happens when they lose and the reserves are empty? #r4today