@lewisgoodall.com on LBC today “Is Trump madder than ever?” Yes

Sky News interviewing Sun deputy editor about the made up nonsense about 1000 pubs banning Labour MPs It’s PR (just like the flag-wanking). Hospitality saying if people who have no intention of using their services, used their services, they’d be refused service. Does that pass for news these days?

Global Pharma bend the knee

I’d love to see the British news media devote 15% of the resources they use attacking Starmer, Reeves, Lammy & Rayner on reviewing policies & performance of Farage, Tice & the Reform councils They’re so busy enabling a Reform challenge they are not scrutinising them at all Why?

Tommy got God & you have to wonder whether Christianity has taken this “forgiveness” thing a little too far?

Great the way that Sky News & other UK news media are today covering the latest inflation figures with the same prominence they covered the unemployment figures earlier in the week. Wait, oh no they’re not at all Can’t imagine why

Phew That was much harder work than it needed to be AVFC

This Labour government never learns. Changes to ECHR & the Right won’t be placated Move to the right on immigration & on benefits & still the Right won’t be placated Eat shit to cosy up to Trump & Trump’s back for more Now Lisa Nandy assures Press they will do nothing & imagines they’ll be tamed?

Sweet Mother of Jesus AVFC

Village People lined up to open up the new huge WH ballroom?

Yusuf would refuse his own parents leave to enter the UK if they were to arrive with his party in Government. What is it about him & other children of immigrants from the past few Tory cabinets that once they’ve made it, they pull up the ladder to prevent anyone else making the same life journey?

@rachelsylvester.bsky.social just now on @news.sky.com rightly calling Farage out for attacking journalists as a form of defence But she then said he’s worked hard to shed Reform of a racist image. Genuinely, that’s passed me by. I’ve not noticed Farage trying to cleanse Reform of racism at all

Well done Emma Barnett for winding up Richard Tice on BBC R4 Today Programme Let’s hope someone who was listening has a decent lawyer

Jenrick on BBC R4 PM today lamenting that Criminal Bar struggling to recruit, as pay levels unattractive. I wonder if he can recall which government reduced criminal legal aid bill by nearly £1bn?

If the Times really believe that Reeves & Starmer “misled” Parliament & the public about the financial situation then shouldn’t they drop the quotation marks? And if there’s no evidence to support the really damaging story, drop it. Only fair - unless they’re working for a Reform Government?

Reform Ltd have decided that for the local elections & devolved elections that only Farage is visible He’s bad enough so just imagine how bad the actual candidates are

The British media all reporting how angry people are with the Government The media is not reporting just how viciously one-sided their reporting is, how anti-Labour they are & how they are platforming hate mongers - all of which is predictably making people angry about Labour

Question Zia Yousef about Russian bribes, Nathan Gill & Farage & you are “besmirching anyone who wants to vote Reform” He really doesn’t like it does he? Keep it up please

@bethrigby.bsky.social on @news.sky.com today interrupting & hectoring the Prime Minister Can anyone show me where she treated Cameron, May, Johnson, Truss or Sunak in a similar way? I can’t recall it Points to the now very obvious move by @news.sky.com to the right in their editorial strategy

If Lisa Nandy allows DMGT an easy run in to purchase the Telegraph she is foolish & naive Neither organisation deserves anything but antipathy from the Labour Government

Inside Politics on CNN - Wesley Hunt very much giving off a Danny Chung vibe

So that’s where the Press & the failed politicians are going then now is it? They’re trashing the Hallett Report Well, if we let them, more fool us!

Love callers to Nick Ferrari unironically explaining that Brits are emigrating for a better life partly due all those immigrants coming to UK for better life 🤷‍♂️

Most UK news saying 0.2% reduction in inflation rate is broadly good news for consumers & Government Even @news.sky.com does so Not BBC R4 Today Programme who seem to be running the same story whatever the monthly move. Presumably if it had gone up 0.2% that would be significant Editorial values!

MTG wants to get rid of the toxicity in US politics Now that’s rich

Saw the Woodstock 99 documentary & now I really know how the world got Trump Rich frat boys’ festival where they abuse alcohol, drugs & women. Bribe security, get off to Kid Rock & Limp Bizkit. And riot Because despite having every privilege imaginable, they’re angry And now they’re in their 40s

Oh well CheckaTrade if Byrne is getting into bed with the far right we’re finished

If Tim Davie is to quit his post at BBC, and chance he can take Robbie Gibb with him?

You could almost admire President Samia with her 98% election win Even Putin only claimed 88%

Why did @jaketapper.bsky.social allow Bessent to repeat the lie that Obama played a record number of rounds of golf of any president during his terms of office? Doesn’t @cnn.com fact check or challenge anymore?

Why is Alex Burghart lying to the British people on Sky News just now? He’s misleading people - asylum seekers do not need to claim asylum in the first safe country they reach. The UN Refugee Convention has no such restriction. And why is Matt Barbet letting him? Journalists must challenge untruths

Working with tv news on as background - Trump on one side & Farage on the other FFS! Incidentally, why do UK news programmes keep taking Farage press conferences? They have only 5 MPs, 1 MSP, 1 MS & nobody in the NI Assembly. They run a few councils (badly) - Not the big ticket we’re being sold

Sunday Times Politics Newsletter today. Is @dominichauschild.bsky.social confused between by-elections for the Senedd and for Parliament? He may wish to know that Caerphilly does indeed have a Labour MP. He is Chris Evans

This is the most typical Villa-watching experience I could ever describe

Trevor Phillips today on @news.sky.com allows Claire Countinho to repeat the lie that the proposed ban on away Tel Aviv Maccabi to be a ban on Jews attending the game without any challenge at all Poor journalism again @news.sky.com

Prince William: “Pa, can you do something please to get Aston Villa off the front page headlines ?” King Charles III: “I’ll have a think about it, son. Can someone get Andrew on the phone?”

BJ has never been to Villa Park - I can’t be 100% sure but I’m very confident “Largely good natured” doesn’t describe a Div 1 or Div 2 club (we were both) in the 1980s It was no place for wankers like him

When is a 10% reduction in viewing figures not a reduction in viewers? When the BBC seeks to explain Match of the Day’s latest viewing figures since Gary Lineker’s departure. Apparently they are “adapting to changing audience behaviours” Yeah right

The Telegraph today: “England fans in foul-mouthed chants at Gary Neville” Should read “England fans prove Gary Neville’s point 100%”

Didn’t know of him - bit of a policy wonk apparently with a track record of being wrong on most things - but just saw him on @news.sky.com Neil O’Brien @neildotobrien.bsky.social is a complete arse isn’t he

I’m now able to switch the @mrjamesob.bsky.social programme back on. Some sections on the programme can just be too difficult to listen to

Palantir - who are getting richer still cosying up to Trump say that UK digital ID is “anti-democratic” & won’t work on it Aside from the brass neck this statement involves, they’re free to do as they will of course But maybe Labour should divest them of all of their other interests in UK data?

Daily Mail in 1997. Does anyone imagine there would be anything quite like this these days?

Once upon a time, being called out as racist was something to be ashamed about Even now, while loudly celebrating clearly racist policies, folk balk at being called out as racist. That’s step 1 Step 2 is when they celebrate racism & own it and that is coming. That is Reform’s mission accomplished

How have millionaires Farage, Yusef & Tice persuaded working people that improving rights for working people, investment in their health & wellbeing & building houses to home their children is a bad thing? How did they persuade people that freedom of movement is a bad thing?

I cannot, for the life of me, understand why CNN ever gives that grade A arsehole Scott Jennings airtime

Another car crash interview with Helen Whately on BBC R4 Today this morning Well done Nick Robinson, although he didn’t need to break sweat, in pointing out the utter inconsistencies in Conservative thinking around digital ID She’s useless & I do wonder why she keeps turning up on the front bench

Daily Fail getting the vapours about digital ID & privacy Yes that is the Daily Fail whose record in the area of phone hacking, long lens photography, paparazzi & privacy is beyond question

Ok @news.sky.com Trump & Khan quite clearly don’t like each other. Why are you insisting that senior Labour figures have to pick a side? Why? Why can’t they just get on with governing without distractions?

Just on Nick Ferrari a Pro-Farage Brexit & Reform voter demands to know why long-time NHS workers haven’t already applied for UK citizenship. Turns out he’s a regular visitor to Thailand Of course he fucking is!!