“Money laundering” — so Epstein money laundered for his clients?

It's disgraceful that Nigel Farage is egging Donald Trump on as he attacks the BBC and tries to pick pockets of millions of licence fee payers.

🚨 BREAKING Great news for the weekend - hero rail worker Samir Zitouni seriously injured saving passengers from a British Knifeman has been released from hospital He’s a Muslim Algerian Migrant.. Reforms Alexander Jones posted on FB "reports suggest that the individuals involved are not English"😬

If people no longer want to come here, it’ll be because the country is fucked. Not because we’re a success story but have closed our borders to immigrants. Ps. We will not be a success story without immigration.

Reform UK councillor and alleged perv McIvor appeared on the Ben Kentish show to criticise the concept of “un-vetting perverts near schools”, yet his argument quickly revealed several significant flaws - not least the fact that he appears to be one of them. #ukpolitics

Important time. This was a few weeks after the Skripal attack when May called out Putin, and Johnson went scuttling off without his security detail to meet Putin confidante* Alexander Lebedev in Umbria and plotted with Temerko to topple May * by then he was aiding Putin’s puppet regime in Crimea

Reform UK Ltd gets 92% of its funding from climate change deniers and fossil fuel corporate interests | Mark Cunliffe @markcunliffe76.bsky.social @centralbylines.co.uk

These unconscionable cuts to a vital lifeline fund for some of the most vulnerable children & young adults in England are staggering - a 60% reduction from £7.5K to just £3K per child & even worse - these changes were introduced by the government without consultation, warning and no evidence base

Excellent piece by @snellarthur.bsky.social: Nathan Gill’s motivation for taking money from Russia is likely to be complex. “One significant issue is the fact that he was moving in ideological circles that found themselves in frequent alignment with Moscow.” app.thenewworld.co.uk/story/145338...

The Prime Minister must pick up the phone now to Donald Trump. We have 24 hours to stop Trump’s billion-dollar raid on British licence fee payers. We’ve written to the PM, calling on him to demand that Trump drop his ludicrous $1 billion lawsuit against the BBC.

This is Keir Starmer’s moment to stand up for Britain and call on Trump to drop his ludicrous lawsuit against the BBC. The Prime Minister has spent months cosying up to Trump. If he can’t stop him from attacking one of our most precious institutions, what was it all for?

Labour would have broken a manifesto pledge by raising a tax they promised to freeze (they’re not doing this after all so that’s something)! Meanwhile Reform are busy raising taxes they promised to cut! Funny the BBC aren’t reporting on that! #wato

Without asylum: Marks and Spencer wouldn't exist Queen would have been without a front man The other queen wouldn't have had a husband Judith Kerr would never have written The Tiger Who Came to Tea And thousands of less famous people wouldn't have been teachers, politicians, neighbours, etc

NEW: The biggest union in the BBC, Bectu, has written to culture secretary Lisa Nandy and BBC chair Samir Shah, demanding the removal of Robbie Gibb from the BBC Board. They say Gibb, a political appointee, is a “direct block to the BBC maintaining its chartered objective of independence”.

For the fascists it was far from a mistake. Do you think Farage would be at 30% in the opinion polls if we had voted to stay in?

The latest buzz is that Rachel Reeves may lower income tax thresholds rather than raise income tax rates. Labour will be taking the population for absolute mugs if they try to claim that's equivalent to no income tax rises. Probably won't stop them. Their messaging is diabolical.

Johnson, more than Farage and any other single person, destroyed the UK. Mostly through his appallingly and lastingly damaging Brexit, but also, like Trump, through inflicting his dishonesty and ignorance on us and encouraging rampant corruption at the highest levels of govt.

The über-cynical contortions Farage/Reform/Tories have to perform to simultaneously: - slag off the BBC in favour of propaganda outlets - shout about protecting women and girls - condemn Andrew and - champion Trump… Well, I’ve never wanted the whole deck to come tumbling down more than I do now.

🙄look upon this as the 21stC equivalent of that Margaret Thatcher/Jimmy Savile photo … #trump #nigelfarage

Love being reminded to do this every year. It's a win/win all round

Excellent piece on the Bylines network by @garygilligan.bsky.social - there is a real chance that Reform might win the next general election, and it is critical that people know what it is they are voting for. Judging by their councils so far, that seems to be broken promises and rising bills.

"Robbie Gibb should have no role in appointing the next Director General, and given the Royal Charter gives the government the power to remove him will the Prime Minister sack him now?" asks Ed Davey. Starmer says he won't interfere in running the BBC

Daisy Cooper, "If we're going to have an honest conversation about tax, let's also have an honest conversation about growth" "Brexit has been a disaster for this country" "Brexit has wrapped up small businesses in red tape" "For growth.. A UK-EU Customs Union"

Even sherry fans might question whether an amontillado would go with duck. Turns out it's a doozy #matchoftheweek www.matchingfoodandwine.com/news/match_o...

Farage is a GB news shareholder and is paid through a private company for his appearances on the channel. So, here he is shit-stirring with Trump over the BBC and grifting his nasty little arse off… There is really nothing of ours he won’t ruin to grab for power and wealth for himself. (iPaper+LFF)

Quislings Farage and Rees-Mogg, who are GB News presenters, are cheerleading for Trump against the BBC. Trump’s legal action has no merit: he’d have to sue in the US, where Panorama cannot be viewed. Starmer could put a stop to Trump’s bullying by politely pointing out this obvious fact.

I've always felt that Johnson and Farage put self-interest over the national interest - hence their dallying with Putin and his oligarchs. But directly colluding with a foreign government to take down the BBC feels like an act of supreme treachery

If we're talking about bias, why do BBC politics programmes, from Politics Live to the Laura Kuennsberg Show, still always begin with a look at the newspaper front pages, which are overwhelmingly biased in one direction. Helps frame the entire news agenda and debate in their favour

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.

As Ed Davey says, it's worth remembering this: 'Johnson’s pick for BBC chair, Richard Sharp resigned two years ago over his links to a secret loan of up to £800,000 to… Boris Johnson.' www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

You can be assured that tendentious memo by Michael Prescott, and the co-ordinated combination of the Telegraph, Mail, Boris Johnson, Nigel Farage and the White House means that the BBC hit job has been long in the planning, and has some insider help

Trump wants to destroy the BBC and take our money. And Nigel Farage is egging him on. All true patriots should tell them both: hands off our BBC.

I do not understand the Labour government's reticence over defending the BBC and social media regulation. Their long-term survival basically depends on it. Their cowardice in the face of it may be the single thing they are most remembered for. on.ft.com/3JVxC1Z via @FT

Another case of Reform saying one thing then doing the other: A Reform-led council is planning to double council tax on second homes six months after party leader Nigel Farage denounced such policies as “madness” and “extortion” By me, for Politics Home www.politicshome.com/news/article...

Trump and his cronies have the BBC in their sights. Leaders can’t stay silent while one of our great institutions is attacked. We must defend its independence, end political appointments, and remove Robbie Gibb from the Board.

It’s not at all clear to me how the BBC can do any kind of serious journalism if its top two bosses can be forced to quit over such an obviously confected scandal. There is no substantive error here. How can the BBC report on Trump, or Farage, or anyone else, in these circumstances?

While going through the proofs for "The British General Election of 2024" (out very soon!) I came across this - Paul Johnson of the IFS's verdict on Labour's manifesto last year. Labour's current attempts to claim the need to break their tax pledges was impossible to forsee don't stack up

If you want to sustain your carefully-cultivated fury at the stupid Panorama edit then don’t, whatever you do, read or listen to Trump’s speech in its entirety…

On Remembrance Sunday, we come together to honour all who served our country and gave their lives for our freedoms. Their sacrifice will never be forgotten. We remember those who fell, and those who came home forever changed by their service.

I had my disagreements with the BBC under Tim Davie but he was a decent man doing a difficult job. To see Trump's White House claiming credit for his downfall and attacking the BBC should worry us all.

It’s easy to see why Trump wants to destroy the world’s number one news source. We can’t let him. The BBC belongs to all of us here in the UK. The Prime Minister and leaders from across the political spectrum should be united in telling Trump to keep his hands off it.

We are so far through the looking glass that the man who tried to overthrow an election becomes president, the people who attacked the Capitol are turned into martyrs, & it's the BBC that gets punished - cheered on by the worst news outlets in the UK & the two most dishonest politicians of our age.

This is in such incredibly bad taste.

Honourable politicians must not remain silent. “Increasingly, it is unmistakably cowardice – Britain’s minorities are being left to live in fear so that politicians can avoid a little discomfort. Those who oppose the UK’s emboldened far right need to speak out, and risk their own necks.”

app.thenewworld.co.uk/story/144614... “Britain won its wars, the second world war especially, thanks to troops from across its empire. And yet people who dismiss this fact as somehow ‘woke’, or to be airily dismissed, feel comfortable embracing the poppy as somehow close to their cause.”

A disturbing thread 🧵 about the racism of the US far right. A body that calls itself the Heritage Foundation is determined to erase history. Remember who they are: the obscenely rich, corrupt, climate-change denying fossil fuel lobby that funds Trump and pushes the junk science of herd immunity.

Labour’s reset with the EU may solve this boring, costly nightmare for British businesses. But EU-phobic Farage and Tories say they would rip that agreement up again. What an utterly childish response to the damage they’ve done. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

If any Labour MPs are reading (go on, you know you want to), as someone trying to hire six new Oxford professors in AI / experiments / big data / all the stuff you say you want, I would really appreciate knowing if new hires can, you know, stay in the country they move to... current policy is chaos

“You left Europe because you wanted less boats, and you have more boats. You left Europe because you wanted more investment. You have less investment. You left Europe because you wanted more happiness. Now you are depressed." Albanian PM www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...

Such a key point about cutting back on language provision - it’s not good for science and it’s not good for growth www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...