So good to see this recognition of what’s happening in GM.👇🏻 It’s based on 🐝 setting high, long-term ambitions & sticking to them 🐝 strong partnership between public, private and other sectors 🐝 collaborative ‘place-first’ politics And we’re only getting started! 💪🏻

Dear Matt. Feel free to breathe it in place of oxygen. Your readership will be able to point your next of kin in the direction of discount industrial cremation services.

Jonathan Dimbleby making special pleading for sweaty Andy on Newsnight. "He's broken. Can't put him out on the street. Skint." Hmm. If he were working class he'd be thrown to the wolves.

Watching the Super Bowl build up and it's a mawkish display of faux patriotism. Hope the game is more genuine than the crocodile tears on show in the pregame nonsense.

McSweeney is gone. Time for Starmer to try to salvage his government by launching long overdue proper action to address all the flaws in our political system - peerages, patronage, cronyism, party finances, MPs revolving door, appointments, ministerial code, business interests, Leveson, etc etc.

Marvellous news. Let's hope his failed strategies go with him.

BBC2 tonight have Laura Kuensberg presenting "Reform: Ready to Rule?". No other party gets this exposure. It's an hour long party political broadcast. Tell me now that the BBC isn't biased and that Reform isn't firmly of the establishment.

Just so I get this right. It's ok to be involved in an armed insurrection in support of a convicted felon which led to the deaths of law enforcement agents but it's not ok for journalists to cover protests when 'law enforcement agents' acting on behalf of said felon murder people on the streets?

I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good. Stay free

Given the resurgence of racism in the UK I find myself thinking WWJSD? And he'd sing this... open.spotify.com/track/6vcKP1...

@jamesnaish.bsky.social Starmer has shown himself to be weak and petty and the justification given by the NEC is frankly nonsense. Nobody else has the name recognition of Andy Burnham and if Labour loses the by-election then he should go.

If somebody is killed by law enforcement in the uk there's an inquiry. In the US it seems to get shrugged off. And that's why I don't want anything like the American system over here

Under what circumstances, if not those created by the last few days, would a Royal visit to the USA be cancelled? A visit will gratify a President who has delivered a gross insult to this country, and who presides over the murder of his own citizens. I mean, come on.

I couldn't be happier that Andy Burnham wants to stand for Gorton and Denton and if he wins to be an MP. He doesn't even need to challenge Starmer directly. If it reminds Starmer that he can be bold with his majority, we win.

Farage avoids mentioning the many families bereaved by their loss in Afghanistan and elsewhere. Just that they fought alongside... and that too late. His first interest is not the uk but his paymasters in the US and Russia.

@itvnews.bsky.social justice described asylum speakers twice as illegal migrants. I expect better from them. Accuracy matters. And language like that feeds the racist rhetoric of the far right.

As great powers abandon rules and values for their own interests, middle powers like Canada have a choice: compete with each other for favour or act together with impact.

The quickest route to ending Trump's distractions is to leak the unredacted Epstein files.

In all the talk about Greenland we've focused on the European NATO members that would be forced to respond under article 5. I may have missed it but I can't imagine Canada shirking that responsibility and they are on the doorstep of both Greenland and the US.

80s night on the headphones tonight. Pixies, Kate Bush, The Fall, Talking Heads and Cocteau Twins. Keeps the horrors of 2026 at bay.

Violet Elizabeth Bott was more mature, more reasonable and less tiresome than Trump.

She asked nicely. Please get on with it.

www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j... I could, given sufficient resources, turn up at one of the major auction houses from time to time and buy myself a Victoria Cross. Wouldn't make me a military hero though.

Jenrick is a talentless opportunistic 💩 with a nasty streak a mile wide so will fit just as well in Reform as he did in the Tories.

Somebody needs to start a cable channel called "La La La, not listening". A refuge from the relentless shit from Trump and his ilk

A daily fear of nuclear Armageddon. Oh...wait...

So creating CSAM on X is a premium feature now?

How are we supposed to respond when they quite literally ask us to reject the evidence of our eyes?

I call on my party and my government to remove themselves entirely from X and communicate with the public where they actually participate online and can be protected from such illegality.

My expectations weren't confounded

After Trump's vile post about the Reiners went sour on him, is anyone surprised we're talking about a vexatious legal claim instead of the criticisms of him by his followers?

Innocent people end up in our criminal courts. Completely, terrifyingly innocent. And all that stands between them and losing everything is a fair trial. Politicians would do well to remember this when they tell us that justice is all about processing “criminals” swiftly.

Hey Americans. If you don't want my tourist money because you chose to elect a megalomaniac psycho with an incredibly fragile ego then that's fine. Canada, New Zealand and Australia will I'm sure be happy to have my money. And any number of other countries that we'd love to visit.

If he were to do that he'd be setting a very dangerous precedent for himself now, wouldn't he?

County council approved flag shaggers have been out in my neighbourhood hanging their banners. £75000 of public money from a cash strapped council to proclaim the profound sexual insecurities of Reform Council leaders.

Because at this time the political reality and economic reality aren't aligned and it would just cause another decade of paralysed government as they pingponged between the extremes. Make the case by all means but until the issue is essentially settled action is useless.

Instead of appealing to our finer community feelings between programmes perhaps BBC News could consider stop being a safe haven for extremists and employ journalists willing to do their jobs in holding everybody to account rather than just the people Robbie Gibb disapproves of.

Migration isn't tearing Britain apart. The reform company and their billionaire backers are. And I hope they burn in hell for it.

I see the paedophile is still screaming squirrel.

It's beyond funny that he thinks he has a reputation that could be damaged. Just release the damned Epstein files and stop screaming squirrel every ten minutes you tangerine freak.

A trillion is unimaginable so let's put some scale to it. There's a nice illustration of the scale difference between a million and a billion. A million seconds is about 11 days whilst a billion is 31.7 years. A holiday versus a third of a long life. A trillion is 31700 years. Back to the ice age.

If you're a member of the National Trust remember to vote for council members by midnight tonight. Use the Quick Vote option. Entryist pressure group Reform Trust is trying to seize control. Stop them Voting is quick and easy if your membership card is at hand secure.cesvotes.com/V3-3-0/nt25/...

www.gov.uk/government/n... That's immigration from the USA dropping off a cliff then.

Ever since I finished Question Time, Reform have massively been on the attack. Including a rant from Richard Tice entirely designed to distract from Reform and Russia. Everyone should know about Nathan Gill, the bribes from Russia and the link to Reform.

Have had a spam culling session. Why would buying underpants lead someone to believe I wanted to hear from them every damn day. It's a once in a decade purchase.

No matter what he does to distract us, he still hung out with a convicted paedophile and likely participated in his parties. If only there was a set of documents that might shed light on the matter. #EpsteinFiles

Getting a bit het up about what is and isn't creative, what with Badenoch's nonsense. So I just want to get it off my chest. There is beauty and creativity in music, painting, literature, quantum mechanics, synthetic chemistry, evolutionary biology, history, physics... you get the picture.

Are you trying to suggest that the shutdown is a distractionary tactic to avoid releasing the Epstein Files? Hmmm. Interesting. You might be on to something. #ReleaseTheEpsteinFiles.

Bloody rapture was a let down.

I no longer wish to visit the US. Too many absolute c....s who are happy to elect a brain dead paedophile as president then sit and cheer as he proves himself to be an absolute <> himself, again, at the UN. I fear as a Brit we'll be here soon but Christ it's embarrassing to be American right now.