Anyone on the left who thinks that the BBC falling would help their politics, here and abroad, is an unbelievable fool

“Of Nigel Farage there was no sign at all, except in a question about him appearing on BBC Question Time more often than he’s appeared in his own constituency” I watched Lisa Nandy defend the BBC in Parliament so you didn’t have to www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-...

If you take a moment to read the article, it’s literally based on gossip & hyperbole with the alleged ‘challenger’ Wes Streeting ‘fiercely denying’ he’s wants to replace Starmer. The Guardian has become a glorified gossip magazine, not a serious newspaper www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

I suspect the only people talking about a leadership challenge are the journalists at the Guardian.

EXC: The Conservatives have introduced an optional streamlined selection process for local election candidates, as they struggle to find people to stand for election

Rupert Lowe has invited Wayne O'Rourke to parliament O'Rourke pleaded guilty to stirring up race hatred, after calling for people to go on the streets, burn cars, to attack mosques + the "traitors" defending Muslims Judge "You were not caught up in what others were doing, you were instigating it"

This is the march the Polish president chose to grace with his presence today.

You’re regular reminder that in the financial year April to September 2025 the U.K. borrowed £99.8 billion

One of many costs to US murder (sorry, no better word for it) in Caribbean: "United Kingdom is no longer sharing intelligence with the US about suspected drug trafficking vessels in the Caribbean because it does not want to be complicit in US military strikes and believes the attacks are illegal."

The Tories and Reform lining up with the Russians to attack the BBC.

Would Boris Johnson have done this? edition.cnn.com/2025/11/11/p...

NEWS: The UK is no longer sharing intelligence with the US about suspected drug trafficking vessels in the Caribbean because it does not want to be complicit in US military strikes and believes the attacks are illegal, sources familiar with the matter told CNN. edition.cnn.com/2025/11/11/p...

I was simply pointing out that many people are hypocrites when it comes to racism. If that offends you then tough.

I have never said Starmer is beyond responsibility or accountability. The very basis of a functioning democracy is accountability.

Perhaps one of my ‘aresehole’ opinions is that those who hide behind the anonymity of social media aren’t usually the ones who can claim the higher moral ground when it comes to other people’s opinions

Walk into the butchers. First story that booms out of the radio is all about a migrant hostel. Chris Philp - a man who would be dangerous with crayons - talks utter drivel about it for ages, unchallenged. Then the shop moves on. What the F is going on?

Asylum seekers can stay at Epping Hotel, rules High Court judge in major blow to local campaigners - The Standard Now right wing idiots will stop demanding their local councils close any hotels housing refugees. Epping a specific case but that didn’t stop them. And govt will stop using hotels soon.

Robbie Gibb was appointed to the BBC Board by Boris Johnson, was an editorial advisor for GB News, and worked as Theresa May's Director of Comms. He is not impartial or neutral. The government should remove him from the Board immediately to protect the BBC's independence.

Police have named the couple they’re looking for in connection to a racist incident on the tube and they’re wealthy Trump supporters and founders of an “anti-woke” PR firm.

Noah Smith is paid in the high six-figures to write a blog read by Americans who believe themselves to be intelligent. Yet, he is both unable to read a sign and also for some reason chose to have a 90 minute layover for a flight that takes 90 minutes. onemileatatime.com/news/economi...

Bank of England pushes back on criticism of QE programme losses. It publishes new analysis showing it cut debt issuance costs for government, resulting in fiscal savings of £50-£125 billion that it says are still being felt. www.bankofengland.co.uk/asset-purcha...

Trump, Farage and now Moscow. Almost as if Putin’s puppets are using this episode to undermine the very pillars of our democracy

Russia has joined the attack on the BBC. It's becoming clear that what is happening is not a criticism of a mistake by the BBC, but an international fascist attack on British democracy. You only have to see the extraordinary number of trolls unleashed on X to know that's what is happening.

Labour ought to seize the chance to not only restore the political independence of the BBC but return its to its core values of accurate news coverage & impartial analysis. Ed Davies is right here - Robbie Gibb has to go

The BBC ought to tell Trump & his simpering lapdog, Farage, to fuck otf

Mete. Why block you when you’re an endless source of comedy

Honestly - there’s a remarkable amount of people who can’t see the difference between having an immigration system that works & racism. And these are the people who tend to look the other way when it comes to actual racism

Siri Show me someone who didn’t bother to read Starmers speech on immigration in full

I’ve sat and read many a comment on here about the BBC & I feel that some have lost all reason when it comes to the future of the BBC - the BBC is under attack yes - but we’ve got a Labour gov that’s committed to a strong independent BBC And if you want a defunded BBC you’re advocating for Murdoch.

Cleaning up local politics The government's new standards regime will tackle widespread concerns about standards in local government. Measure include: + Tougher sanctions for councillors & mayors who break rules + Includes option for local authorities to suspend them or withhold allowances 1/2

our BBC analysis: “Insiders admit the BBC has often been at fault. But the scandals have been amplified by a hostile cohort of rightwing politicians and media allies” www.ft.com/content/28b4...

Labour are just like the Tories latest

Mayors to lead the charge for thousands of new social homes Mayors outside of London to be given greater influence over the government's historic £39 billion Social and Affordable Homes Programme. www.gov.uk/government/n...

The Magic Money Tree groupers are out in force tonight.

I keep saying it but I do not think people across the political spectrum - from the left to old school Tories - have even begun to understand what a far-right Reform/Tory government would mean for the UK. It would be a power grab specifically designed to take total and immovable control.

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.

Is he comparing Vladimir Putin to Nelson Mandela? Surely not.

Almost as if the people who vote for the Green party are immune to the economic & social threats of a Reform government

How the far-right wins in the UK, part 18,904: defeating Labour is far, far more important to the Greens than defeating Farage.

A remarkable choice of booking...

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

Labour have been honest from day one on the fact that their reforms will be unpopular but they’re fixing the foundations of a Britain ravaged by 14 years of Conservative mismanagemen.

The resignation of the BBC Director General & head of BBC News is a gift to Labour - it allows them to change the direction of the BBC without the fall out for being seen to interfere in the BBCs independence.

Be clear, the American far right are coming for British democracy.

I honestly had to take a moment & think about the actual ridiculousness of this statement. Arrogance coupled with an over inflated sense of self importance.

"Everything that China does is covered by the national security law in China, and that means every single company has to co-operate with the Chinese authorities in handing over data." Shock, horror, China flexes its muscles and puts backdoors in foreign products.

I am shook

A man rushed to the Broadview ICE facility searching for his wife. They followed every legal step, but ICE took her into another room and she vanished. He tracked her phone there when the signal died. Police told him to “look up her name online.” He sat in the parking lot, weeping, with no answers.

‘Government meets with backbenchers to set out plans for the Autumn Budget’ isn’t the shocking revelation the gossip merchants at the Guardian would like you to think it is.