A reminder to UK broadcasters, just because Reform UK are holding a press conference, it does not mean you need to dedicate so much of your day’s news to it

Spot on. It is the bedrock of inequality

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big week in holidays with chinese/lunar new year, carnival/start of lent, and the first day of ramadan all happening this week, involving roughly half the people on earth. imo we should all just take the week off.

We should start by making flying pay its way, like all other forms of transport. Add VAT, add fuel duty, take away duty free shopping - none of those things exists if you travel by car, bus or train - which are all far more sustainable.

shocked, just shocked, that Nigel Farage, a favourite on Russia Today who has spoken of his admiration for Putin & has repeated Kremlin talking points, who was a close associate of Russian asset & Reform politician Nathan Gill, blames *Ukraine*

Are you sure #Radio3 announcer? It was Ariodante last week, not Rodelinda #operaon3

It’s so funny to think about the fact that there’s people out there deferring every life decision to this

#bbcaq And just look at what the British media does to that female Chancellor of the Exchequer. Male misogynist journalists, and some female journalists, calling her 'Rachel from accounts.' When are we going to start looking at misogyny in our media?

Nothing sums up the gruesome tackiness of Fulham Pier better than the plastic plants in their planters. Why are developers allowed to get away with it?

🇺🇦President Zelenskyy: “We have already made many compromises, and the biggest of them is that Putin and his entourage are still not in prison”

A man just got on the tube next to me with white dahlias. Oh I don’t think that’s going to go down well.

You know what helps make the streets safer? Paying your taxes

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Farage's claims here are straightforward lies (and it's about time the media/press said so) The correct figures are 160K (0.3%) and 900K (1.5%) www.gbnews.com/news/video-n...

Evan Davis trying over and over again to get the civil servant to gossip but the latter is a professional and does not. Poor Evan. #bbcpm

If milk has to come from an animal, what about coconut milk? Eh? Come on!

Nigel Farage has just moved his company address to...Mayfair. As Private Eye notes, nothing says 'man of the people' like it. (The office appears to belong, through a complex web, to Reform treasurer Nick Candy's firm)

@mrjamesob.bsky.social children copy parents. It’s modelling - reading yourself. And @doorsteplibrary.bsky.social of course!

I don’t know why people have a downer on VAR. The social function of football is to provide talking points. VAR does that in spades. It’s opened up a whole new dimension of partisan moaning and futile argument.

Good. Can we talk about something else now?

While there is justified outrage about Mandelson, Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor &others, the relentless media focus on Keir Starmer (who was NOT mentioned in any Epstein file) is overdone. By contrast, no focus on Farage who WAS mentioned (and who, BTW, applauded the appointment of Mandelson)…

Yet, they sat on their hands over Johnson.

Maybe sit this one out, Nige

Again Justin Webb repeating “widely reported claims” Mandelson stayed at Epstein’s NY house while he was in prison But just not reported by the BBC If this is a Starmer fail, why isn’t it therefore also a BBC fail? #r4today

Kier Starmer offered a dignified and full apology yesterday. Subject to transparency, that is sufficient in my view. McSweeney must go. Brexit should be ended, praying to the far right should stop and more should be made of the good works that Labour are doing.

An immediate, full & transparent public enquiry is essential to uncover the full extent of contacts between Bannon, Farage, Tory grandees like Johnson & Rees-Mogg, and Epstein Mandelson, and Labour bigwigs & Epstein and the extent of the links to Israeli Mossad & Putin's Russia

exactly. this is not difficult. as.ft.com/r/58ed1b23-d...

@mrjamesob.bsky.social “people in London don’t …” Nope. I’m entirely aware of seasons and nature from my local park. London W14.

Read this to learn the truth about the cruel and botched immigration system. You'll be glad you did.

Please reject people who insist that everyone is crooked, or that everything is hopeless. Most people are decent and nothing is hopeless. Someone wants you disengaged or apathetic, or angry at whatever. The thing to do is engage, care, and move with kind purpose. That’s the point

If people want to continue queuing in pubs that’s fine, and I appreciate there are occasions when it makes sense, but I’m just waiting for the angry reaction from someone in a queue when I walk up to bar in the correct fashion…

Never thought I’d be one of those who refuses to pay their licence fee, but Kuenssberg is one step away from Leni Riefenstahl now and I’m paying for it, so there we go.

Humane and sensible step move by Spain in facilitating irregular migrants and asylum seekers to move to work with decent pay, social security and tax payments. Predictably the right is grumbling - unlike the UK, the govt isn’t allowing this to set their policies www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...

Choam Noncesky, amirite?

Where's the £350 million a year Brexiters claimed we'd gain...?

Over 40,000 protestors killed in Iran reports suggest. Why is there no the same level of outrage about this as there is (and should be) over similar fatalities in Gaza? Is it just lack of access to media?

Can anyone suggest good books for a 15 year-old boy who hasn't read for fun for years, but is determined to get back to reading (because one of his basketball heroes says it's good)?

See that’s the difference between us. I gave my road bike away after I broke my wrist. Well, not the only difference.

"Politically homeless" is a moronic statement. You're effectively saying one of two things: 1) There's no party that gives me EXACTLY what I want (an immature position) 2) I'm a bigoted moron and I want to publicly pretend I'm NOT, so I can vote for another bigoted moron. @lbc.co.uk

Deux ressortissants britanniques soupçonnés d’être venus en France à l’appel de l’extrême droite pour participer à une mobilisation interdite contre les migrants ont été interpellés près de Calais et placés en garde à vue. Lire ⤵️

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7/7 Maybe instead of welcoming far right, neo-Nazi activists from outside the town to join you in your cause, you could welcome these ordinary men who are mainly just trying to look after themselves and families who couldn’t make it out?

It’s not just that these politicians and their advisors all privately know that there is no conceivable way to concoct a viable business case for this magnitude of spending for so little material gain. It’s that they *should not even be asking for this* with a straight face Gah, I’m so annoyed 😫

I’m down at Hammersmith Bridge to hear SW London politicians wang on about how hundreds of millions should be spent to bring cars back over here. They’ve gathered down by the river for their “reopen the bridge” rally to avoid embarrassing context of huge numbers of pedestrians & cyclists crossing it

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