Politics in a nutshell! - Well done - Thank you! - Let's talk - I've been fired.

Liverpool can't sign players because of... 🥁... Brexit. www.3addedminutes.com/sport/footba...

🆕 Sunday School: No jobs for the boys (or girls) 📑 Milburn report on youth exclusion 🇵🇱 UK’s historic defence pact with Poland 🏜️ Tips for surviving hot weather 💅🏽 Drag names @sturdyalex.bsky.social & @pimlicat.bsky.social 🎧 open.spotify.com/episode/43vd... 🍏 podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/q...

🚨 BREAKING 🚨 Carol Vorderman brands Reform candidate 'little coward' in a letter delivered by HOPE not hate, to 6,000 women in Makerfield. www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater...

It is a banger - and I hope you’re proud of the army of nerds you’ve created. We wait for podcast drops like sneakerheads wait for new releases.

Really good episode. One of the best parts about Quiet Riot is it gives proper space to the other nations in episodes like this where other podcasts don't.

Working through Tony Blair’s essay (on the TBI website) on the challenges facing UK/Labour, and the responses from Wes Streeting (Guardian) Keir Starmer (Substack) and Andy Burnham (Times), to produce a TLDR. Only one of these four mentions climate crisis and only in passing.

💽 QUIET RIOT B-SIDE With @willhaycardiff.bsky.social: 🦄 Can the Rhunicorn deliver quickly enough? 🥀What next for Welsh Labour? 🫠 Reform MSPs - functioning opposition or dangerous blockers? 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿- Cymru’s top places to live 🎧 open.spotify.com/episode/5Or8... 🍏 podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/q...

Banger of a new show from us. This time with the superb @willhaycardiff.bsky.social back again for another 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 special. Enjoy! 🎧👇

Mini-scoop: Reform hasn't reported its alleged Russian hack to the Information Commissioner's Office. Any significant breach of personal data must be disclosed. Reform hasn't done so, nor have they explained why they don't think it needed doing. www.thenewworld.co.uk/james-ball-e...

🚨 @pimlicat.bsky.social: "Our country cannot afford to continue missing out on the vital economic opportunities and growth that only full EU membership can provide, and our negotiators must assess the real-world benefits of joining the world’s largest trading bloc, sooner rather than later.”

🎙️NEW EPISODE! Alex, Naomi & Kenny discuss: 📖 - Blair’s latest tome 🥊 - Jenrick v Yusuf 💰- Sunak’s math ✋🏽- DUP woes And *much* more: 🎧 open.spotify.com/episode/314a... 🍏 podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/q...

NEW: UK membership of the EU ticks over the 100K mark meaning it will now be considered for a parliamentary debate petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...

I go to Cyprus most years. I adore it. So much so that I got married there. So I was very sad to see how well the ultra far right did in their elections at the weekend. Handy write up here by our very own Josh Edwicker www.bestforbritain.org/cyprus_the_r...

2026 Me: Hey 1996 me, in 30 years time you'll be furious at everything Tony Blair says and think John Major makes some pretty sensible points 1996 Me: Fuck, so I'm doomed to become more conservative as I get older 2026 Me: Well not exactly

It's interesting that getting rid of the triple lock has become the defining example of a sensible grown-up policy while at the same time it's widely accepted that trying to means-test the winter fuel allowance was a disaster for Labour.

"If a football club can stay united in hope through 22 years of frustration, then perhaps a country can do the same." open.substack.com/pub/bestforb...

With more and more odd bits of Europe now territories of indeterminate status, often as a result of Russia’s political and territorial disputes, I spoke to the brilliant @hannahluci.bsky.social about her book Hinterlands and Europe’s unfinished frontiers. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/b...

🔴 Reform-Run Council Cuts Opposition Time to ‘Make Way’ for Lord’s Prayer and National Anthem Christian Nationalism in action: “Prayers and songs prioritised over a water catastrophe” claim opposition councillors bylinetimes.com/2026/05/26/r...

We built these water refill points for days like today... London now has over 4,000 free water refill points across the capital. Find your closest here: www.london.gov.uk/programmes-s...

🔒🌭Release the sausages!🌭🔒 Charles Baughan, managing director of Westaway Sausages in Newton Abbot, said Brexit has cost his business £250,000 so far. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Perfect timing for my bedtime story 🎧👇

History rarely repeats but often rhymes. What could we *possibly* learn about a womanising Prince who brought shame on his elder brother the King? 👑 Find out in this incredible episode by the brilliant @snellarthur.bsky.social

“You can't have a proper discussion about immigration without the trade-offs being understood; when the only side being presented is that immigration is bad and if we cut it, everything will be great. Because then, when you cut it and everything is not great, people just turn on the next group.”

🆕 Sunday School: Immigration home truths 😳 Immigration down, concern up. What's going on? 🙉 Rachel Reeves vs Nigel's Trolls 🔥 Burnout; it's not just 'feeling a bit tired' @sturdyalex.bsky.social & @mrkennycampbell.bsky.social 🎧 open.spotify.com/episode/7rUW... 🍎 podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/q...

Makerfield By-Election Voting Intention: LAB: 43% (-2) RFM: 40% (+8) RES: 7% (New) LDM: 4% (-3) GRN: 3% (-1) CON: 2% (-9) Via @survation.bsky.social, 18-22 May. Changes w/ GE2024.

How did J.K. Rowling go from the world's most beloved author to its most divisive? In this week's episode @iandunt.bsky.social and @dorianlynskey.bsky.social ask what Rowling’s early life can tell us about the path she has taken over the last decade. Listen / watch ➡️ linktr.ee/originstoryp...

We don't do nuance very well in modern politics. Everyone is angry about something, Too much black and white where there is a spectrum of grey. @laylamoran.bsky.social shows us that the solutions are in the nitty gritty. The give and take and compromise.

I get a strong sense of emotional integrity off of her. Given the subject of your programme and its meaning for her, this quality really shone through.

Ahoy, @quietriotpod.bsky.social fans (and potential fans) With our new B-SIDE edition, that's 3 shows a week we're putting out regularly, without damaging quality. Phew etc. If you'd prefer less, even more or the same with a twist, we're all ears. nb status quo is also an option! Oh, enjoy :-)

So proud of what we do - giving space for this kind of discussion without pretending we have all the answers. Just people having a real conversation. It shouldn't be so rare. If you dislike the state of our media, why not vote with your fingers and give this a listen? Reward what you want more of.

Fantastic episode, thank you for this.

NEW: Today we roll out Quiet Riot: B-SIDE! @laylamoran.bsky.social - the only Palestinian MP in Westminster, speaks with authority, sense and of course immense passion in today’s interview about settlements in the West Bank, the Balfour declaration & why Britain should be doing more. 🎧👇

NEW: Today we roll out Quiet Riot: B-SIDE! @laylamoran.bsky.social - the only Palestinian MP in Westminster, speaks with authority, sense and of course immense passion in today’s interview about settlements in the West Bank, the Balfour declaration & why Britain should be doing more. 🎧👇

My show’s 10th anniversary is tomorrow! I’m now only 77 YouTube subscribers away from 7,000. If by any miraculous chance you’re compelled to help achieve this celebratory milestone, I’ll love you forever. YouTube.com/SarahOConnellShow 🙏🏻💕

🔴 Reform Council Sacks Long-Serving Vicar as Standards Chief, in Wave of Cuts to Scrutiny Exclusive: Reverend Canon Hilary Barber says he was given no warning or thanks by Nigel Farage’s party for his years of service bylinetimes.com/2026/05/21/r...

I don’t think anything sums up how ridiculous the new EHRC guidance is than the fact it describes those protected by the characteristic of gender reassignment to be those undergoing a process to “reassign their sex”, a thing the exact same part of the document says isn’t legally possible. Nonsense.

Trans men can be excluded from both men’s facilities and women’s facilities.

Please take care of yourselves and each other. LGBT+ Helpline Scotland (0800 464 7000 [email protected]) is open until 9pm tonight (Thursday). The UK national LGBTQIA+ support line (0800 011 9100 switchboard.lgbt) is open until 10pm every day. You matter, you are needed, you are loved.

Just to be clear how little I’m exaggerating, in 2016, the UK Government actually advised trans people against travelling to certain US states due to the implementation of bathroom bans. @bphillipsonmp.bsky.social is now implementing those same bans across the UK. www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-u...

I am again thinking of the Labour/LD Scottish Government of 2000, the vicious public attacks on Wendy Alexander and Sam Galbraith as they led the effort to repeal Section 28, the overwhelming public opposition to repeal, and the fact that they did it anyway because it was the right thing to do.

It's insane they've just introduced to Equality Law that people can judged entirely on how masculine or feminine they look too.

If excluding trans men and women from both men's and women's spaces on the basis that cis people might feel uncomfortable represents a proportionate means of achieving a legitimate aim, then the law which says so needs to be fixed, and Labour MPs need to stand up and say that *right now*.

I am not sure what this skills-based system that the Home Secretary says she will be "introducing" refers to? The rules were tightened by the last government in Dec 2023, and her predecessor abolished the social care visa, and there are some tighter rules and thresholds in the detail.

It is hard to overstate the egregiousness of this failure. The body whose statutory duty is to protect the human rights of, and prevent discrimination against, trans people has published exclusionary rules for trans people under the aegis of a government run by the party which created those duties.

This government’s defining quality is cowardice and now it has wobbled its way to a policy that 10 years ago was confined to the most extreme Republicans. Shameful

And in wholly unsurprising news… hopenothate.org.uk/2026/05/21/r...

"Everyone has felt the reality of Brexit," @pimlicat.bsky.social, Best for Britain's CEO, told the Business Post, with a political conversation about a closer relationship "always going to be the direction of travel". Read here: www.businesspost.ie/politics/rea...

I have put together a little video guide to Nigel Farage's umm... evolving views on hecklers. They seem to be quite dependent on whether the heckler disagrees with him (bad, boring, frightening, dangerous), or shouts abuse at a woman in the street (buy him a pint/give him a peerage).