Labour has a good story to tell on immigration – even if no one wants to hear it: @Independent Editorial www.independent.co.uk/voices/edito...

Politicians endlessly blame immigration for their own failures. So, when immigration is reduced, their ‘success’ isn’t recognised. No one’s life has particularly improved. Because no one’s life was ever going to improve by reducing immigration. Because our problems were never caused by immigration.

Sneaking a giant screen into the flagshagger march is one of the funniest things @ledbydonkeys.org have ever done. "STAY HYDRATED" 😂🤣😂

It's sort of breathtaking how quickly the BBC agenda for 'both sides-ing' political issues has taken root in an effort to normalise fascism, that we can have a racist far right rally be spoken of in the same terms as a protest against genocide. Staggering abdication of ethical and moral standards.

Something that I think artificially inflates Burnham's popularity is the fact that the press love the idea of him ousting Starmer It's drama, personality politics, parlour games. Manna from heaven for tabloids As soon as he gets into No 10 they'll paint him as a loony lefty, raging Corbynista 2.0.

Extraordinary.

Today, Daily Mirror is the only newspaper that is facing up what has actually happened in this country and what we now have to reckon with, rather than speculating about the future.

The secret £5 million payment to Farage by an overseas billionaire is the most astonishing example of political corruption. Don’t let up.

The Conservative party’s “Alternative King’s Speech” claims unemployment has risen “every month” that Labour have been in government. We’ve fact checked this claim several times over the past year—it isn’t correct.

This speech is a testament to what diversity brings to our public life. It's both just in principle and better for policy that someone with Naz Shah’s background and lived experience is represented in Parliament. That should be celebrated and strengthened, not demonised.

To me, these small moments are more revealing than any long essay on impartiality. Every gov't has released official PM photos for decades. Since 2010 there's been a dedicated 10DS photographer. Several Tory PMs controversially employed personal ones on top. Only a Lab PM would be treated this way.

Without minimising the dire results for Labour, it’s extraordinary how chipper the Tories are. They’ve lost 500 seats from a low watermark, lost historic major councils to Lib Dems and Reform, show no signs of recovery in the esp LD areas they need to win. But MPs seem to think it’s going well.

The media forensically dissects the pasts of people who challenge the status quo, such as Polanski and Corbyn. Fair enough, up to a point: we should know about our representatives. But it's far less inquisitive about those who defend power, however great their misdeeds, such as Nigel Farage.🧵

Just heard self-centred hypocrite Nigel Farage on BBC News say that no British politician has been physically attacked more than him. An insult to the memory of Jo Cox and David Amess, both murdered.

The question almost no-one is asking is what exactly is Harborne and the other crypto billionaires bankrolling Farage getting in return for all this money? www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Almost all of the questions the Today programme put to Nigel Farage this morning were with a right wing framing. Even the question on his plan to import ICE to the UK was about whether it would cost too much

I think Kemi Badenoch standing up in the House of Commons to lecture the Government about the importance of Prime Ministerial "integrity" and "honesty" was the moment my remaining interest in this scandal finally ran out

CBS: The Hilton donated the ~2600 dinners that went unserved at WHCD. They freeze dried the steak and lobster for longer shelf life before giving them to 2 shelters for abused women and children.

2026 crossings - down 35% year on year - currently lowest for 5 years. The peak was August/Sept 2025 [if seasonally adjust, and compare like-for-like] as part of a Europe-wide fall, which began earlier. BBC news reporting omits this. But you can get it if you "tap the questions" below the report

Badenoch has over egged Mandelson. She's scored some hits but the obsession, to the exclusion of other issues, is beyond tiresome and means sod all to the passengers on the Arriva 5 travelling into Middlesbrough. #PMQs

The Speaker has accepted Kemi Badenoch’s application for an emergency debate on Peter Mandelson under Standing Order 24. Badenoch said: “There remain serious inconsistencies in the government's position.” Debate will take place after Olly Robbins has given evidence to the Foreign Affairs Committee

🔴📝 Farage’s foreign web - the full dossier From Moscow to Mar-a-Lago…

In other news today the United Kingdom has regained its position as the fifth largest economy in the world, according to the latest figures www.thelondoneconomic.com/news/uk-econ...

BBC News December 2024: ‘Farage has meanwhile said that he "might disagree with Mandelson on his politics, but he's a very intelligent man" and would be good choice for ambassador.’

When Angela Rayner underpaid £40,000 in stamp duty, Richard Tice said it was "morally completely indefensible” and she should resign if she had “any moral decency”. Now we learn he set up four shell companies that let him avoid paying £100,000 he owed in tax and to then transfer the cash to Reform

Our new report: Richard Tice signed accounts wrongly claiming £98,000 of tax exemptions A 🧵 with the evidence:

BBC today correct Nigel Farage's false claim to Nick Robinson on Political Thinking (13th February 2026) that net migration was only down due to an "exodus" of people leaving the UK since 90% of net migration fall was a fall in immigration. After my 3rd complaint! www.bbc.co.uk/helpandfeedb...

The historic defeat of Orban in Hungary can be the catalyst to unravel the corruption, nepotism and subservience to Putin’s Russia that characterises hard Right political populism in Western democracies. Trump, the AfD, French RN and Reform UK must be exposed likewise and defeated at the ballot box.

I have an allergic reaction to Laila Cunningham......

So as Reform UK announce their plans for the "biggest benefit cuts ever", whilst cutting taxes for the wealthiest, their Treasurer has just sold his Chelsea Mansion for a record £275million www.ft.com/content/8daf...

Without revealing my sources, whatever Scott Mills has done, Kemi Badenoch is calling for Keir Starmer to resign over it.

It’s just so stupid on so many levels. The *fundamental* problem is that the world has less oil. We need to use less to account for that. Making petrol a fraction cheaper doesn’t help with the real issue, costs the government money and does very little for households.

You couldn’t make it up

So it turns out the real scandal of the Gorton and Denton by-election was the willingness of media organisations to collude in Nigel Farage's attempt to undermine the result of a free and fair election www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/how-the-bb...

Important.

A lot done, a lot to do - but (for example) thanks to the FF20 programme, in my area, people waiting over a year for their op is down an incredible 79%

The off ramp?

Striking to hear the Prime Minister strongly attack the Conservative party's descent into anti-Muslim bigotry, at PMQs. This stuff has been allowed to fester for too long in our national politics. Requires political leaders to draw a line in the sand against it

Theres something satisfying about Robert Jenrick being roasted by Gillian Tettt and Thangam Debbonaire on the effects of Brexit on UK economy! #newsnight

LibDems are meeting for their spring conference in York with some major policy announcements on right to jury trials, the independence of the BBC, Trump, Iran etc. now will our 3rd largest party at Westminster see any coverage? Yet the broadcasters now take every weekly reform press conference live.

Oh boy! What a headline... Ask yourself: "What am I being asked to believe?" "Who am I being told to blame?" Take a few seconds to imagine what the Daily Mail (And Telegraph, GB News and Express) WANT you to think is going on. Let's see what's ACTUALLY happening...🧵 1/21

Badenoch said if she was prime minister HMS Dragon would have left a week ago. Presumably with its doors hanging off and with no weapons onboard.

Hereditary peers out of the Lords at long long last - delivering the rather simple principle that you don’t deserve a vote in Parliament by virtue of which family your were born into www.gov.uk/government/n...

The response to this extraordinary piece tells us so much. The British media and establishment remains so obsequious and deferential to royalty that to have the truth spoken so openly and freely feels positively revolutionary.

Blair’s legacy in Iraq means we need to ‘stop and think’ - former ambassador, Lord Ricketts www.channel4.com/news/blairs-...

Alistair Campbell: "Trump’s little ambassadors. All day long. Standing up for the draft dodger who said our forces avoided the front line. Campaigning on grooming gangs while ignoring the rape claims against Trump. Taking top dollar to slag off the UK at every turn."

Pathetic journalism again.Same on Sky News switched off this morning when what's his name starting reading out Trump's posts hitting at Keir & attacking Yvette Coper. Nothing on all Gulf states oppose the war, no plans,global oil/gas prices will hit UK hard as Asia bid up prices. 8% war support!

This is one result of the 7-year-long, £10 million Chilcot Inquiry: a comprehensive, detailed & crucial guide to avoiding another disastrous war like Iraq. You can understand why Tony Blair ignores its lessons, but every other warmonger in the UK? assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/5a81f1...

It really is something to see politicians, commentators and media outlets whose whole identity is based on being so-called ‘patriots’ frothing with excitement as they line up to back a deranged megalomaniac who consistently attempts to belittle and bully the country they claim to love