Sky News just had Kelvin Mackenzie on, former editor of The Sun, one of the people at the centre of probably the most disgraceful front page in newspaper history, complaining about BBC journalists not being objective and 'fake news'. Astonishing. ~AA

ICYMI: Selling off care homes? Is that really putting Britain first? https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/nov/05/lancashires-reform-run-council-plans-to-close-care-homes-to-save-4m-a-year

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There’s a young southern woman on tt doing an experiment: calling churches & asking if they can help her get baby formula, saying she can’t afford it. Of the 30+ she’s called, nearly every church has said no. The ones who said yes were: Black Baptist Churches A Mosque A small Appalachian church

Kent WAS the Showpiece Council for Farage with trumpeted Doge and all the other crappy ideas, they USED to have 57 councillors, now they’ve got 41. Come on Farage, comment ! www.thelondoneconomic.com/politics/ref...

Darren knows that come the next election, Bristol is turning even more Green. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Or can he? @barneyfarmer.bsky.social

So much of Labour’s comms is just weird and confusing at this point. Surely it’s really, really easy to decide to offer congratulations/support to a wildly popular left-wing candidate who has just pulled off a historic electoral victory

School pupils are to be taught how to tackle conspiracy theories, spot 'fake news' & root out misinformation. The Daily Mail, ajudged by Wikipedia to be an unreliable new source, is furious. You don't have to be Sherlock Holmes to work out why.

Absolutely insane. Labour would have purged and smeared someone like Zohran Mamdani. Wes Streeting's politics align far more closely with Andrew Cuomo. The lessons from Mamdani are about how to defeat both the right - and the bankrupt "centre".

The Payback is out today, and you can buy it wherever books are sold. It comes highly recommended by Publishers Weekly, Booklist, The Boston Globe, Vanity Fair, the LA Times, the NYT, and dozens of people who hang out on this very website.

Looking forward to learning all about how the right should move left to win elections tomorrow. They should maybe dye their hair pink, learn to love pronouns.

Once again, this isn’t journalism. It’s stroking the ego of a politician who’s done great national harm. WhyTF should we take Farage seriously? Just because he wants power? Even more reason for ruthless scrutiny. His track record is racist and ruinous. Any serious journalist would say so. (iPaper)

🔴 Challenger to Lead Britain’s Biggest Union Vows to Review Labour Ties and Slash Own Salary in Bid to Unseat Starmer Ally Bolton social worker Andrea Egan is fighting to overhaul Unison’s leadership and promising a shift towards taking more strike action bylinetimes.com/2025/11/04/c...

Alan Bates agrees multi-million-pound payout over Post Office scandal. Great news. All victims deserve a just settlement. No contribution to compensation made by the Post Office, its execs; Fujitsu, lawyers, accountants, advisers. No one prosecuted for hounding innocent people. Will they ever be?

I’m sure Matt Goodwin will be along shortly to tell us all whether LNER Customer Service Host Samir Zitouni counts as British or not. news.sky.com/story/train-...

A total and utter hero

So, Farage, in the same breath, has stated that: Minimum wage should be cut for young people (currently at £10 an hour - oh the largesse!) And Young people earning over £100k a year should get tax cuts. That tells you just about everything you need to know about where his priorities lie.

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At this point we are primed to sneer at Trump’s regime & it’s ‘ what is the most tasteless ,venal thing we can do today ‘ governance . But we held that gruesome Trump banquet last month with the great & the good dressed up in their grossest finery just to impress him , so how are we any better 😟?

YOUNG PEOPLE. LISTEN UP. Today Nigel Farage said the government should cut the minimum wage for young people ...to “raise aspiration” and “boost business" It's £10ph FFS! Lower your pay so you’ll dream bigger DO YOU SEE IT NOW? Spread far & wide. bylinetimes.com/2025/11/03/n...

92%: the percentage of funding for Nigel Farage's far-right political party Reform UK that comes from fossil fuel interests. Across the world, anyone blaming immigrants, etc, it's all just a smokescreen to allow the rich to keep on getting richer by killing our planet. share.google/W2gwfc0XVpUy...

Second class England No free bus passes for under 22s in England Under 21s don't get full minimum wage; pay rent, food, groceries, transport, tax, NIC at full rate. Scotland: 5- 22yr olds and over 60 get free bus travel, England at 66 rising to 67. No uni fees, prescription charges in Scotland.

Let's make this happen. Together. www.thelondoneconomic.com/politics/pol...

● Andrew Windsor remains 8th in the line of succession. ●King Charles III will privately fund his new living arrangements despite Andrew being very rich indeed ● Actually we don't know how wealthy Andrew is because his mother's will is sealed for 90+ years ● Sleep well serfs. ● Know your place.

Compare and contrast. Absentee MP -v- his constituency. Greedy grifting spiv -v- most deprived English neighbourhood. He really couldn’t give a shit. He feeds off the inequality and anger to line his own pockets. He doesn’t want solutions because the problems are his income stream. (iPaper & BBC)

After blocking lots of sex related content on first joining Bluesky I’m now getting loads of it again sent my way (including straight, gay and kink content, all immediately blocked and not provoked by anything I’ve looked at). Can anyone explain why this is happening?

Despite the headline it’s not George RR Martin personally going for them cos he’s rich and famous. It’s all of us. The test case used his work, but it’s about the plain-as-day issue that ANY generative AI ignores and infringes copyright, by passing off. That’s a win for basic law.

After blocking lots of sex related content on first joining Bluesky I’m now getting loads of it again sent my way (including straight, gay and kink content, all immediately blocked and not provoked by anything I’ve looked at). Can anyone explain why this is happening?

In trying to save his own reputation, has the lead expert witness in the trial of Lucy Letby sacrificed the reputation of his fellow experts? 🧵1/4

America’s super-rich destroying the planet’s safe climate spaces. Wealthiest 0.1% of the US burn carbon at 4,000 times the rate of the world’s poorest 10%. Corporations spend $277,000 a year on anti-climate lobbying. Super rich control political system, strangling life. What's to be done

Minority representation on TV causes outrage From the new Private Eye, in shops now.

Probably worth saying that gambling firms prop up The Sun through millions £ in advertising and referral deals. For some reason they don't point that conflict of interest out on their front page story against gambling taxes today (save for a promo note that it "includes Sun Bingo and Sun Vegas")

Boss of the UK’s main betting/gaming lobby group tells MPs there is no “social ill with gambling”, warns govt against higher taxes on the sector. Jeez ... anything these people won't say for money & protect their paymasters. Make them bear the social cost of trade. Tax them. Close exploiters.

This is absolutely right. It’s about creating a permission structure for violence, whether that violence is conducted by the state directly or simply permitted by the state.

when’s Tommy Two-Names organising a protest outside of Prince Andrew’s place, any minute now surely

The Walton family (who own Walmart) are worth over $400 billion, yet many of their employees are on SNAP. Bezos is worth over $400 billion, many Amazon employees require SNAP. The people who need help are not the problem. It’s corporate greed. It’s an unwillingness to pay a living wage.

He thinks we’re stupid. He relies on it. He’s relieved the media nods along. He needs the racist vote. But has to seem ‘respectable’ to persuade others. He’s angry with Pochin because she exposed what Reform really is. A party that doesn’t like seeing black or Asian people. A racist party. (Times)

Everything is a distraction from this.

Andrew, second son of the late Queen and younger brother of the current king makes the best argument yet for the dissolution of the monarchy in Britain. His greedy, rude and entitled arrogance is a nauseating insult to the British people

It's outrageous that our parliament has to go to such extraordinary and unprecedented lengths to even discuss this hugely entitled unelected man - who remains eighth in line to the throne.. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Guillermo del Toro on wealth: "a wealthy man is a man who has enough, not a man that needs more. If you have enough to invite someone for a beer? You're rich. If you have a yacht, planes, islands, and you still need more? You're not rich."

The reform party nativity scene. No unmarried mothers. No Middle Eastern people. No refugees. No people seeking emergency accommodation. And not a wise fvcking man in sight…

"As I drove into Caerphilly for the count there was a giant electronic billboard that read “only Labour can stop Reform”.The last minute attempts to suggest that a vote for anyone other than them was a vote for Reform was divorced from reality" open.substack.com/pub/willhayw...

"Amazing result for Plaid Cymru, so here's a guest from Reform anyway..."

Honestly, the mainstream media reaction to Zack Polanski entering the elites’ own conversation space… …with widely-held public opinions… …tells you everything you need to know about why our mainstream media is a closed shop, broken, and no longer fit for purpose.

It wasn't anti-white to support boycotting South African teams under apartheid. It's not Russophobia to support boycotting Russian teams after the invasion of Ukraine. And it's not antisemitism to support boycotting Israeli teams after a genocide.