I am asking colleagues not to walk into a trap. A leadership contest now would be a gift to our opponents and do long-term damage to the Labour Party and more importantly, the country. The PM has my support and I've penned the below after watching his speech 👇 substack.com/profile/3292...

Not to excuse this, & it’s a while since I presented anything on the BBC, but I do recall noting an almost subconscious desire to disprove bogus allegations of bias by being particularly tough on Labour & Lib Dems (Ed Davey once complained!) This is another victory for right wing media gaslighting.

"Are there other multi million pound gifts that we don't know about?' SIX times Matt Chorley @mattchorley.bsky.social asks Zia Yusuf on #Newsnight - without an answer. Lewis Goodall @lewisgoodall.com comments on Harborne 🇹🇭🎁 & Ruth Davidson: "[Reform] didn't think that it was going to be found out"

Exactly.

Former US Secretary of State John Kerry on Colbert: “Netanyahu presented the Iran War case to us too. The response was no. The prediction was regime change, that people would rise up. None of that happened. “Obama said no. Bush said no. Biden said no. We were lied to about what that war was about.”

Nothing says “I cannot cope with lying politicians” like backing, er, Nigel Farage and, um… ‘In 2022, Delo pleaded guilty to a United States Bank Secrecy Act violation and received a 30-month probation sentence. In 2025, Delo was pardoned by President Donald Trump.’

Putin and Orban coordinating on a desperate false flag operation that everyone knew was coming.

Trouble is that 70% of the population don’t know that, because they only see right wing headlines and don’t read any further, that’s why Brexit happened😩

The Conservative and Unionist Party is little more than paid lobbyists for the fossil fuel industry.

The real story… under any other president this would be jail time…

If you think Benjamin Netanyahu wouldn’t prioritise naked self-interest over the security of the entire world, you really haven’t been paying attention.

They said it would take 193 years to clean London’s air. We did it in nine. 💨 London has now met legal limits for nitrogen dioxide air pollution.

TAPPER: You know that if you vote against an additional $50 billion of funding for operations in Iran, that vote will be cast as you voting against the troops. CHRIS MURPHY: Come on. The American people do not want this war. If you support the troops, you should be voting against this war.

A little bit obsessed with all the nut clusters currently ‘ashamed to be British’ because Starmer didn’t sign us up to this shit show.

Am sticking with my bet that the right is reading this wrong and that the majority of voters are not at all unhappy Starmer has upset Trump by holding back from a war whose purpose and end game no-one seems able to define.

How can he be so good at this stuff & so bad at so much else? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

The Mail living up to its reputation again. Vile, racist and deliberately divisive.

Sorry Rafael. Any conversation with any MP who was at the meeting on Monday night would suggest that this is confected rubbish. Starmer has not "failed" to do anything other than not wave a magic wand. Some errors of judgement- @theguardian.com is full of them these days.

It doesn't help that over 80% of the English media has been calling for him to go since the day he took office.

Perhaps Trump wanted to remind people that he’s a racist so they’d stop talking about him being a rapist.

There's an irony in the Tories - who fought tooth and nail not to disclose their WhatsApp messages and private emails handing out enormous public contracts to their buddies - now asking Labour to hand over their comms with Mandelson (which don't appear to involve any public money).

The world’s wrongest man, Daniel Hannan, contending that Trump’s utter unfitness for office only emerged *yesterday*… Because it’s the only way the irredeemable idiot can cling on to the delusion that he’s not an irredeemable idiot.

This is both disgusting and expected. The Scumbag-in-Chief

WHY ARE YOU ANNOYED THIS IS WHAT YOU WANTED TO HAPPEN

Murder rates in comparable US cities. Look at London? Anyone who spouts Trumps lies is a traitor.

🇬🇧 🇺🇸 WATCH — @mrjamesob.bsky.social: “I’m going to say this slowly… The President of The United States of America has sided with Putin against the United Kingdom. He has put the whole of Europe in the crosshairs.”

To some columnists, they must just assume all journalism is these kind of half-formed thoughts dashed out after lunch to be provocative, rather than months of painstaking work.

The radio silence about Farage from people who are usually supremely vocal about antisemitism is so so telling.

Daisy Cooper, "In 2017 there was not a single asylum seeker that arrived on a boat" "Today we have 46,000 a year" "And do you know why?" "Brexit" "Pushed through by Boris Johnson and championed by Nigel Farage" *audience erupts in applause" #BBCQT

Swiss politicians filed a criminal complaint with the country’s top prosecutor over a Rolex table clock and an engraved gold bar presented to US President Donald Trump by business executives shortly before he agreed to cut tariffs on the country’s exports. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

BBC internal coup…? The plot thickens 👇

A further complication is there are people that hate the BBC working in senior positions at the BBC (Robbie Gibb seemingly being an obvious example).

The fact that the BBC has made serious culpable errors does not negate the point that there is a real and concerted right-wing media campaign to destroy it. Both points can be true at the same time and the campaign would not end even if the errors did.

A magnificent piece of work. Comprehesive, revelatory & shocking. Journalism this good is always rare & precious but never moreso than at times like this. Latter day Lord Haw Haws being plumped, preened & delivered to your doorstep in plain sight by a Nazi-saluting goon news.sky.com/story/the-x-...

The climate challenge we face today is stark. It’s an existential fight between the climate wreckers and the climate defenders. At the C40 World Mayors Summit, we’re taking it on, countering denial and misinformation with hope and real progress.

Beth Rigby: "Keir Starmer has changed his top team more than I've had hot dinners." In two years before Starmer we had 3 PMs, 4 Chancellors, 3 Foreign Secretaries, 5 Home Secretaries, 5 Education Secretaries, 5 Cabinet Secretaries, etc. - total 221 ministerial departures. Maybe Beth is on a diet.

Someone went there: "It Kind of Seems Like Peter Thiel is Losing It" via @futurism.com futurism.com/future-socie...

🔥 Britain is about to launch a new GCSE in natural history – a vital step toward restoring our knowledge of and respect for the natural world.

Great to see that government WILL ban moorland burning on peat deeper than 30cm, and over a much greater area than previously Big win for communities who've suffered the smoke + floods stemming from this Victorian practice Only losers are ~150 wealthy grouse moor owners www.gov.uk/government/n...

Almost four years out from an election & paying *the actual fucking Taliban* to torture & murder people who risked their lives to escape them is getting the full ‘both sides’ treatment in Brexit Britain.

The family of Bebe King, one of the girls killed in the Southport attack, have urged ministers to reconsider disclosing ethnicity of suspects. They say family were failed by “despicable” actions of far right, who “tried to make political gain from our tragedy” www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

In case anyone is still wondering why Bolton was raided

The first time Charlie Chaplin used his voice in a film, he wielded it to forcefully condemn the rising forces of fascism around the globe. Will we listen to his words today?

Not just an ideological crusade: 'Trump’s meddling in other democracies in the name of “free speech” serves powerful interests in the United States: tech companies that do not want to be regulated by foreign governments.'

Extraordinary how much of the media is essentially trying to incite rioting now. Not just legitimise or normalise but actively encourage. It is, of course, unlikely to kick off anywhere near them.

Since at least the time of Greek philosophers, many writers have discovered a deep, intuitive connection between walking, thinking, and writing.

It has been a long, slow decline. But this is the moment the BBC died as a public service broadcaster. www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...