#BBCQT from Loughborough. But not a single East Midlands representative on the panel. Shocking. No wonder people feel they are not being heard and vote for Reform. The BBC is complicit in this neglect

Insightful read for anyone with an interesting journalism www.jonathan-cook.net/blog/2025-11...

📢 🆕 NEW article in Local Government Studies Journal: Eun Young Kim finds that decentralization without fiscal independence of local governments weakens the link between local governments and citizens doi.org/10.1080/0300...

Can someone explain to me like in five how Mahmoud’s plans to solve illegal migration by making legal migration harder are going to work?

Appropro nothing Oh the grand old Duke of York He had 10, 000 men He marched them up to the top of the hill And he marched them down again #subtweet @labourpartyuk.bsky.social youtu.be/KGvEQTQaTbQ?...

From Patrick Maguire's sub stack. Says an awful lot, and none of it good.

The pint of Trump’s action against the BBC is to make it seconf guess every critique of the right. It is currently a scared organisation that suspects this government won’t support it. A confident BBC would provide the national pride that Starmer says he wants though… www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cd...

Interesting paper - a reminder that instability of hours worked poses real challenges for low earners. Challenges higher earners would never put up with christinahydepatterson.com/_files/ugd/322…

Loads of police having to put themselves in harm’s way to deal a situation that should never have happened. When is Starmer going to publicly apologise for stoking this mess?

Wow, now this is saying something, coming from the former Tory Prime Minister John Major. Shame that some people just carried on voting for The Tories throughout those 14 terrible and unforgivable years, and also wanted the disaster Brexit to go through.....

And that is entirely the fault of a ruling class that has ruled for London and the SE not the citizens of the country wherever they live.

The 400 richest Americans are now worth a record $6.6 trillion. The entire bottom 50% of America is worth just $4.2 trillion. Read that back. When 400 people control more wealth than half a country’s population, we have a very serious problem.

Wed 5th Nov @cperguom.bsky.social Cities, Politics, & Economies Research Group in the Department of Geography & MUI @uomseed.bsky.social will host a talk by Dr Rakib Akhtar on: Neoliberalism and Hindutva in the making of an Indian smart city, chaired by @mehebubsahana.bsky.social 3pm in HBS G33.

MIT’s NANDA initiative found that 95% of generative AI deployments fail after interviewing 150 execs, surveying 350 workers, and analyzing 300 projects. The real “productivity gains” seem to come from layoffs and squeezing more work from fewer people not AI.

It is way past time for the UK government & the BBC to get off X & for Musk to be treated as a threat to national security. The world's richest man is using his site to promote civil war, ethnic violence & the overthrow of an elected government. You won't win him over with another conference on AI

I've been critical of the Daily Mail in the past, but I think the honesty displayed here is admirable.

Wonderful stuff from @ledbydonkeys.org #Farage #Grifter

Labours has already survived a local election wipe out. 10 local authorities are run by Reform. Presumably because these are largely rural county councils in the Midlands and North they don’t interest the Westminster bubble.

Thinking about last year’s local government elections and the Caerphilly election on top of repeated policy failures. At what point will Starmer finally realise his current advisors are neither electoral nor policy masterminds.

Stephen Kinnock explains the Dublin agreement where the UK could send asylum seekers back to the first country they stepped into the EU, when we were members of the EU With Brexit, when we left the EU, we were no longer able to do that

Rachel Reeves’ nasty prejudice is coming into play www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/10...

'The office of #BenjaminSatanyahu said on Saturday 18 October that HE had DECIDED to keep the #Rafah-Crossing between the #GazaStrip & #Egypt CLOSED until further notice,despite the #Palestinian Embassy's earlier announcement that the crossing would open on Monday.' www.thecanary.co/global/world...?

We're pleased to share that, from spring 2026, we will take on the care and management of the museums, buildings and monuments that represent the birthplace of the industrial revolution within the Ironbridge Gorge World Heritage Site in Shropshire.

Its classic Brit Pol media style that when Priti Patel is invited onto TV to label Palestinian solidarity marches as “hateful” nobody mentions that she was forced to resign from government for holding secret unauthorised meetings with Israel government officials. 🤷🏻 www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-poli...

Rishi Sunak takes advisory roles with Microsoft and AI firm Anthropic. Former UK prime minister told post-ministerial jobs watchdog roles would not involve lobbying or UK policy influence. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

I really don't know what to do about a situation where a plurality of the group that (rightly!) takes up most government spending thinks that it is unrepresented in politics.

Starmerism : Get arrested by a Human Rights Barrister for Protesting this....how ridiculous this bespectacled twit Starmer is ......

This is how serious UK government is about a ceasefire in Gaza. Empty, meaningless words Starmer spouts about peace in Gaza, while supplying the Israeli killers with weapons. He must be aware Israel doesn’t care about the hostages. Netanyahu wants Palestine. www.thenational.scot/news/2552258...

Whaddaya know? It looks like the *real* villains of the asylum hotel saga are ... wait for it... the companies making massive money out of them, not the poor sods inside, and guess what, their contracts were secured under the Tories. #gasps #shockedface www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Should also point out that an Imam was stabbed in Hounslow a few days ago (fortunately not life threatening) The anti immigration rhetoric from the likes of #Farage, #Badenoch, #Jenrick er al is fanning the flames #Islamophobia #HateCrime #ManchesterAttack #Racism www.euronews.com/2025/10/06/p...

UK Jewish groups condemn Israeli minister’s invite to Tommy Robinson

And the Lib Dems have long had this problem....

*gasp*

And this is why we should reinstate the concept of court jester

Next your should read The Joke by Milan Kundera. Same tale, just different system of oppression.

The UK government’s new tech adviser has endorsed changing copyright law to give AI companies free access to copyrighted work, with no opt-out for creators. Labour is the party of big tech.

Nick Robinson: "What are the Lib Dems about? Why do they even exist?" Also Nick Robinson: "Here is an entire article from an single political perspective, founded on a baseless comment from Reform!"

Fucking paracetamol causes autism? Really?

A convicted fraudster who is Nigel Farage’s charge d’affairs has literally just written a book called How to Launder Money So I’m asking again why the BBC and ITV don’t say the thing when they uncritically platform Reform www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Senior Starmer adviser quits over offensive Diane Abbott messages “By their fruits ye shall know them”…

Mandelson was only ‘worth the risk’ if your talent pool is incredibly shallow., or you are appointing him because of his corruption

Where is Keir Starmer? Where is the leadership? Fascists marched on our streets yesterday and he hasn’t said a single word. Instead the Prime Minister spends his time defending the “best pals” of paedophiles. He is a coward. He should resign.

Some people’s free speech is more equal than others it seems

Israel admits killing 200,000 people in Gaza, but says that’s not enough revenge www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

Keir Starmer: heartbroken. Charlie has passed away. RIP u will live on forever. Cant believe it. I wanna run to u. Really cant believe this. 💔

No surprise to anyone with a television. 'The BBC is under pressure over the amount of coverage dedicated to Reform UK after an analysis showed it featured in 49 bulletins between January and July this year, whereas the Lib Dems, with 72 MPs, featured in 35.' www.theguardian.com/media/2025/s...

Have you seen these Guardian reports of Farage's obscene racist language in the late 1990s? Most people are unaware of them, and I've found it very hard to get people to pay attention to them or share them.

@bbcnewsnight.bsky.social @channel4news.bsky.social @skynewsrss.bsky.social @itvnews.bsky.social Shouldn't you be reporting on THIS too? After all, Farage has been doing an "Angela Rayner" also.

This is a huge story. Don't let him get away with it. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...