Absolutely nobody deserves to be murdered. #bbcpm

Every authoritarian action Trump is taking must be understood against the backdrop of his declining popularity. He feigns strength, but he's operating from a place of weakness. This is yet another desperate attempt to undermine the midterms.

The world faces hundreds of years of dealing with the climate emergency but the BBC continues to employ presenters who don't seem to have the vaguest clue about the time-frame involved and the severity of what we face. Every major news show should have at least one science expert. #bbcpm

Let’s keep burning those fossil fuels like there’s no tomorrow…

The BBC continues to ignore the need for scientifically literate staff on their major news shows even though the climate emergency requires those presenting to have a working knowledge of what they are talking about. Most obviously don't. #r4today #wato #bbcpm #Newsnight

If people traffickers advertise that asylum seekers will be "put up in a hotel with bed and breakfast", Jo White, it's your job as an MP to tell them that's a lie. #WATO

Governments have control over the immigration system, Jo White, and Jonny Dymond. The great majority of immigrants to this country come on a visa issued by the government. If you're talking about asylum, that's different, and you have no excuse not to know that. #WATO

Since I presume Mr Farage will be available for interviews during his vanity by-election is there any vague chance that Chris Mason will ask him about climate change rather than the number of football shirts with 'Farage' on the back. www.essexdesignguide.co.uk/suds/surface... #r4today

Children born now will be about my age by 2100-Just looking at flood maps alone (and ignoring all other effects of the climate emergency) they will be in very different world from now coastal.climatecentral.org/map/8/-0.917... #r4today

Quite rightly Democratic Party people forced out Mr Platner when credible accusations of sexual assault were made against him. When similar accusations were made against Mr Trump the response of the Republican Party was to ignore them and vote for him over and over again. #Americast #r4today

Perhaps Justin Webb could tell us if Trump firing independent election workers is part of him 'making America normal again'. www.youtube.com/watch?v=X2tM... #Americast

Note to #r4today editors and presenters-Outside your comfortable air-conditioned studio the conditions for others who keep this country going continue to worsen. The current 'heatwave' will be regarded as the norm for summer in a few years time. Ponder on that.

Mr Farage should not be required to follow any of the rules we mere mortals are required to stick to. I mean someone as wonderful as Chris Mason portrays him here www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... should be allowed to do what he wants without any scrutiny. #r4today

Isn't it interesting how the same news outlets that call lefties 'joyless', BoJo 'a character', Brexit 'rebellious', Farage 'a laugh', calling for arson 'free speech', and their right to offend inalienable, suddenly experience a humour failure *when they're not in control of the joke*. #GetInTheBin

Farage got used to fawning gibberish like this from Chris Mason www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... So when actual journalists start asking real questions of him for the first time in years he regards it as some kind of inquisition. It isn't. #bbcpm #Newsnight #r4today

I imagine that Mr Farage is annoyed by reporters actually asking questions of him as he is more used to people like Chris Mason writing fawning rubbish like this www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... #bbcpm #r4today

The Democratic Party dumps candidates who have credible accusations of sexual assault against women levelled at them. The Republican Party nominated and voted multiple times for a man who boasted about sexually assaulting women. #Americast

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... the despicable Rupert Lowe knowingly lying to make a political point about gun ownership. #wato

Whether it’s politics or sides of the Mersey, I’m uniting red and blue.

“If I drive drunk down the road, I can't then say: Tell you what, instead of appearing before a magistrate, I'll stand for councillor instead and let the people of Bermondsey decide if I am innocent. That's not how any of this f*****g works. You don't get to use popularity as a form of acquittal.”

It's July. Clacton will happen in August. The investigation is now expected to conclude in September. Reform's party line that the by-election was called because the investigation will drag on, speeds it up by a matter of weeks. It seems quite thin.

Nigel Farage should be allowed to travel in his car at any speed he wants-Why should the police subject him to the onerous burden of obeying traffic laws and rules that we all have to follow? #r4today

If Nigel Farage was accused of a crime would he demand that the voters of Clacton should be allowed to determine his guilt or innocence before the prosecution was allowed to collect or present evidence? #r4today

If #r4today presenters had a scientific background they would be able to frame the debate around the climate emergency in a reasonably knowledgable way. However they don't seem to grasp that this 'problem' is going to be with us for hundreds of years.

If we are lucky the seas will continue to rise for hundreds of years but if CO2 emissions don't fall that time frame might be reduced to decades (not a good thing by the way). Would you have any idea about this if you listened to #r4today ? You would have a grasp though about film promotions.

These token items about putting sheets over windows and blowing air across ice are all very well but they do nothing to deal with the issue of the climate emergency which needs to be tackled at a governmental level. #r4today

Virtually all of our buildings and transport systems were designed and constructed for a climate that is rapidly disappearing. This needs to be urgently addressed but #r4today editors and presenters seem to care more about promoting films or apps than dealing with the issue of the age.

Nothing about the climate emergency in the headlines on #r4today but the very important issue of a celebrity ode app gets some time. How can you tell that the show is being presented from an air-conditioned studio?

If you are only against sexual assault on women if the person carrying it out is a a member of your political opposition then you are not really bothered about such matters. #r4today #Americast

Credible accusations of sexual assault rightly result in Democratic Party candidates being forced out. However credible accusations of sexual assault by Trump on multiple women resulted in Republican Party members voting for him over and over again. #r4today #Americast

We have to ask ourselves how we made British (and American!) politics the go-to career for spivs, chancers, hedge fund speculators, money launderers, crypto criminals, anti-vaxx scammers, Nazis, sex trafficking manosphere influencers and of course the whole Johnson coterie of gropers and stalkers

Donald Trump is suffering from dementia. Someone needs to step in before it's too late.

I suppose though for Chris Mason the most important thing is how many football shirts with 'Farage' printed on them are sold at a party conference and not solid journalism like this www.theguardian.com/politics/202... #r4today #Newsnight #bbcpolitics

Outgoing South West Water boss Susan Davy (pictured) received a £270,000 bonus for 2024-25. She presided over a cryptosporidiosis outbreak affecting 17,000 households in south Devon that made 140 people ill, hospitalising four of them. ‘Turd of the Week’ in the new Private Eye, out now.

Jesus wept

Mr Peston's argument that the voters of Clacton should be the judges of Mr Farage's actions when they don't know as yet the full truth about his financial and other dealings is nonsense. www.youtube.com/watch?v=oua9...

When Biden did literally this exact thing the media organized Biden Is Unfit parades in every major city until he dropped out

I don't know, man, I think if Joe Biden had kept confusing Zelenskyy with Putin and Iran with Japan, the media might have made a pretty big deal about it?

I mean credit where credit is due: "If he wants to spend the summer arguing with a bin, I won't stop him" is top tier posting

Once again, if Biden had said this….Oh, what’s the use?

If Nigel Farage was stopped by the police for a traffic offence I imagine Zia Yusuf would pop up on #r4today to demand all investigations stop and only by-election voters in Clacton should be allowed to determine the fate of Mr Farage!

If Mr Farage loses in Clacton I imagine his next move would be to label Count Binface as a representative of 'The Westminster Elite'. #wato

What is the world coming to when a man has to explain a £5,000,000 'gift' from a crypto-billionaire justify relying on the services of a convicted felon who sought to launder money for drug-dealers? #PoliticsLive

Perhaps some enterprising friends of #r4today presenters could make a dramatic film about the climate emergency which features a few Hollywood superstars. Maybe only then this show would start to give the issue of the age the attention it deserves.

Yet another film promotion in the headlines of #r4today I predict that in the future historians will look back and ask 'Why did major news shows elevate trivia above coverage of the climate emergency?'. That of course if we are lucky enough to survive to have historians.

If all opposition forces combine and vote Count Binface in that would be 'interesting'! #Newsnight

The Reform spokesperson on #Newsnight seems to believe that to challenge the word of Nigel Farage is to commit some kind of deadly sin!

On #Newsnight we see what Reform is-Just a project to enrich Nigel Farage and his cronies. No politics, no actual reform-Just a group of crypto-billionaires investing in 'their man' to get what they want.

People on the streets in Clacton in the middle of the day willing to be interviewed are very likely to be Reform voters. Might as well ask fans coming out of Ibrox what they think of Celtic. Vox Pops are drivel.

I suppose it is only a matter of time until Chris Mason is back on board the Farage Train-Putting gossip, publicity and celebrity ahead of policy mainlymacro.blogspot.com/2025/09/fara... It is what he does. #PoliticsLive