Reform UK’s Nigel Farage with the Russian Ambassador (that he denied meeting), and with Oleg Voloshyn's wife Nadia Borodi, Voloshyn bribed Nathan Gill. Farage is still silent. It’s deafening. #ReformRussianBribes

Just heard Chris Philp on BBC’s Today programme explaining why the Tories want to leave the ECHR. He claimed ECHR isn’t mentioned in Belfast Agreement - which is simply untrue. The UK govt agreed to incorporate it into NI law & give direct access to the courts (Strand 3). Why no BBC fact-check?

Email just sent to today @ bbc . co . uk #r4today

Things important to #r4today editors and presenters-Books, film promotions, stage musicals and Taylor Swift albums. Things unimportant-Food banks, poverty and the long-term effects of austerity on those who aren't invited to The Spectator summer party.

I'm all for books and want children to be able to read as many of them as possible but people in the future won't be able to read (or do anything else for that matter) if we don't mitigate the effects of climate change. Do editors and presenters of #r4today really understand what we face?

Today is Sputnik Day-68 years ago both the first artificial satellite and I were launched. Unfortunately (or perhaps fortunately for me) I didn't reach the same heights as that little globe and while it crashed back to Earth the following year I'm still going reasonably well! #birthday

In the past (there was no golden past I do realise though) #r4today used to speak truth to power at times. Now the show exists more as a gravy-train for presenters who appear more concerned about what their mates in the right-wing press think than anything else.

When poor people are told to pay up they have to-When rich people are instructed to do the same they have rich lawyers and spokespeople who make excuses for them. The UK in a nutshell. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... #r4today

This is fascism.

"You should never overestimate the extent to which the BBC changed this country by giving endless airtime to Nigel Farage, other far right extremists and the Tufton Street junktanks, while shutting out progressive voices." – George Monbiot

Naked children torn from their mothers and tossed into vans. U.S. citizens detained for hours in zip ties. Doors kicked in and belongings stolen or destroyed. This is the reality of Trump’s deportation agenda. It was always about cruelty.

If a nuclear bomb went off somewhere in the world on the same day that Taylor Swift released a new album I imagine that the editors and presenters of #r4today would be torn regarding which event they regarded as the more important-The 'flagship news programme of the BBC' is a wreck on the sea floor.

This story is now big news all over the world... except in the UK.

A hideous, and for traumatised British Jews profoundly unhelpful, expression of allyship & agreement with a violent, racist, serial criminal & former member of an avowedly anti-Semitic organisation from the *Israeli Minister of Diaspora Affairs* and so, as Sunder says, the Israeli government. 1/3

The government is in full shutdown and the Republicans are refusing to call the House back into session. Want to know why? Because we have secured the final vote on releasing the Epstein Files and they don’t want it out. Call GOP and tell them to swear in @adelitaforcongress.bsky.social.

I suppose Justin Webb will 'Both Sides!' separating children from their parents and then zip-tying them in a back of a van in the middle of the night with a talking point that one of his many right-wing US mates feed to him crooksandliars.com/2025/10/trum... #Americast #r4today

This article manages to name her husband before it names… her.

If you want to know what's going on in the US don't bother with the increasingly 'Both Sides!' stuff from #Americast but instead try professionalleft.blogspot.com with @bluegal.bsky.social and @driftglass.bsky.social Their depth of history and knowledge is mightily impressive.

Minutes 37-41 of episode 938 of professionalleft.blogspot.com Does Justin Webb think separating naked children from their mothers outside a Chicago apartment block is part of Trump 'making America normal again'? #Americast #r4today

In trying to elicit sympathy, The Teleform may have landed Farage in trouble instead. I don't see this declared as a donation anywhere in his register of interests...

Justin Webb knows that no matter how bad his predictions are-No matter how ill-informed he is about the climate emergency-No matter how little he seems to care about the need for food banks his job will be safe as long as he keeps framing issues around right-wing talking points. #r4today

Good that Justin Webb and #r4today aren't concentrating on trivia such as the climate emergency but instead devoting lots of time regarding reaction to Taylor Swift's latest album.

Call me old-fashioned (because I am) but I'm against violence in any political context. However we can't ignore history and to pretend that problems arise out of nowhere (or to feign ignorance about their origins) means we will never deal with the roots of violent behaviour. #r4today

I'm against violence but notice that most #r4today presenters seem to excuse or explain the 'worries' of those engaging in violence outside places housing asylum seekers. They look for explanations for their behaviour but when it comes to violence they don't agree with the reaction is different.

Horrendous interview with @zackpolanski.bsky.social. Justin Webb — and his condescending tone — should be ashamed. No time left for any substantive discussion of Green economic policies with the majority spent with Justin trying to gotcha Zack over antisemitism. #r4today

Mr Webb is very keen on 'guilt by association'. When he writes his well-paid columns for The Times is he happy that the same people who fund him are also paying for this call to murder homeless people. www.youtube.com/watch?v=paU3... #r4today

Good that #r4today hasn't time to discuss the obvious mental collapse of the president of the United States but can devote oodles of space to the reaction to Taylor Swift's new album. I mean we can't expect the 'flagship news programme of the BBC' to mention that Trump is unfit for office.

If the government of any country orders the bombing and killing of innocent civilians then not to call that out is wrong. It doesn't matter if it is Russia, the USA or Israel doing that-It isn't 'demonising' to say that murdering non-combatants is morally wrong. #r4today

Carl Sagan said it www.youtube.com/watch?v=wupT... You can bomb, stab, shoot as many as you want and in the vastness of space it will make no difference. In that case isn't it preferable to make what we have for an instant in time just that little bit better? Corny I know but it's how I live.

In the same way #r4today presenters have normalised poverty and food banks for those in the UK who live outside their social circle they now do the same for the behaviour of Trump, the GOP and their masked thugs in the US since those affected by the violence aren't guests on #Americast

Justin Webb normalises the corruption, violence and ignorance of Trump but 'rightly' castigates imaginary Democrats to 'Both Sides!' the problems for the Republican Party away. Bravo Mr Webb-You are the UK version of David Brooks driftglass.blogspot.com/2025/09/davi... #Americast #r4today

I suppose Justin Webb will be spending the weekend writing another article for the Murdoch clan about how zip-tying children together, separating from their parents and leaving them on the streets of Chicago is part of Trump 'making America normal again'. #Americast #r4today

If you stab people in a synagogue it is wrong-If you shoot people in a church the same-If you drop bombs on a mosque or run over people in the street it is to be condemned. #r4today

Could Justin Webb let us know if masked thugs dragging children out of bed and zip-tying them together on the street is part of Trump 'making America normal again'? www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch... #Americast #r4today

If this country was truly “pro-life,” we would have Medicare for All, a Green New Deal, gun reform, universal child care, and a living wage. The right-wing agenda isn’t about “life.” It’s about control.

I as an atheist take the view that violence directed towards anybody in any house of worship is to be condemned. No excuses. #bbcpm

Left wing firebrand Theresa May has described Kemi Badenoch's decision to repeal the Climate Change Act as a "catastrophic mistake" May is correct.

Remembering how the media reported that the Trump campaign not only denied intent to follow Project 2025, but insisted that anyone associated would be barred from the administration. @politico.com had a big piece about it.

Living. Working. Paying taxes. Contributing. This is a desperately poor editorial.

When this is all over and if we still have a country, everyone in the GOP is going to say "I didn't see it" in the same way that people in post-war Germany denied knowing about deportations, concentration camps, and the Holocaust.

I used to avidly listen to #r4today but now that much of the output is essentially about what editors and presenters think important to them and their friends should make up the bulk of the show I don't bother. It isn't worth sitting through 3 hours for the odd snippet of actual journalism.

The fact that we need nearly 3,000 food banks to feed the working poor in this country is of little or no interest to #r4today editors and presenters but apparently news of a new 'The Simpsons' movie is tells us much about the social circles they live in.

Alan Dershowitz has been interviewed on #r4today and other BBC shows-Will they now cover this story? www.msnbc.com/the-last-wor... But I suppose promotion of 'The Simpsons Movie' takes precedence over this for them.

MADELEINE DEAN: The president is unhinged. He's unwell JOHNSON: A lot of folks on your side are too D: Oh my god, please. That performance in front of the generals? J: I didn't see it D: It's so dangerous! Our allies are looking elsewhere. Our enemies are laughing. You have a POTUS who's unwell.

In honour of my father who spent his formative years flying bombers during WWII and who came out damaged but like most of his generation just got on with it I celebrate 'What the bloody hell!' day on the 2nd of October-When he died in 1989. He used that phrase in every damn situation! Thanks dad.

One might have thought with 'American expert' Justin Webb on #r4today we might have had an in-depth examination of the obvious mental decline of Trump-But obviously promotional stuff about 'The Simpsons Movie' was deemed to be more important and more worthy of time.

The promotional item on #r4today is 'The Simpsons' movie. This show is now little more than an excuse for the BBC to pay Mr Webb over £365,000 and Ms Barnett over £285,000 each year to promote things they like and read out dross from the overwhelmingly right-wing UK press. It's not journalism.

Seems important that the Speaker of the House does not even try to dispute that the president is unwell.

Some schools will be starved of resources. Other schools will be offered bribes. The end goal is the same. To make the universities an extension of the Trump administration. Shame on any of these institutions willing to take the bribes.

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