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!!

Gerard Baker on Trevor Phillips today complaining that “conservatives like me are being cancelled” Gerard Baker was Editor at Large at the Wall Street Journal & Dow Jones Managing Editor. He was speaking on Sky News flagship Sunday morning politics programme Some cancellation that!

If you have a Reform council I’m sorry. If you voted for them, have a look. They can’t spend less - they’re all asking for more money. The idea that there was low hanging fruit waiting to be picked is a lie. They can’t provide the same services for less money. It’s impossible. You fell for a lie

www.bbc.com/news/article... Not an immigrant

Congratulations BBC R4 Today Programme for running an interview with Scott Jennings & allowing him to say that the left were responsible for the acts of extremist murder in USA. No challenge or mention of the Hortmans or the Hoffmans or Paul Pelosi Or the Feb 25 Report by ADL

Jacob Frey, Mayor of Minneapolis: “Don’t say this is about thoughts & prayers - these kids were literally praying” He’s angry & he’s right to be

Dear Nige, If you were very very clear yesterday you really wouldn’t need to clarify today. Dear journalists, Please do your job & press these fuckers - challenge their assertions & fact check Otherwise we will all be paying for your timidity

Villa TV as shitty & amateurish as usual Sound down Picture down Combination of both Mind you it has to overcome the technical issues of streaming all the way from Walsall

@astonvillaofficial.bsky.social What is the point of creating a 48 hours’ window to move season ticket seats when the ticket office has a message saying we can’t take calls because we’re too busy 🤷‍♂️ and refers your £900 customers online which also can’t help? As usual, appalling customer service

Sarah Vine asks whether there is anyone less deserving of an honour than Sur Sadiq Khan. This is the Sarah Vine who until recently was married to and remains close friends with Michael (now Baron) Gove

Second time I’ve heard Zia Yusuf reference the US Constitution when discussing the distraction issue of a burqa ban in the UK. Second time I’ve not heard the UK interviewer ask what the fuck the US Constitution has got to do with an (albeit) diversionary issue in UK Politics

My mum who was forced out of her Galway school before her teens, lived into her mid-eighties before passing after a stroke. Each day she went out and bought what she needed including the Daily Mirror and always completed the crossword. I was wondering whether Donald Trump could complete a crossword?

74 minutes in Thomas Bramall makes a season-defining terrible decision. Ball goes up the other end & Villa concede (not before time tbf) Man U v Villa

Aston Villa GTFI 👊👊

Reform is a Limited Company Farage owns 53% It was formed in 2019 to push for a “no-deal Brexit” It wants to reintroduce the Liz Truss budget It wants to privatise the NHS & invest in fossil fuels Close the BBC & break International law It’s a scam Please retweet widely

Another patsy interview with Tice. Trevor Phillips really knows better, so why the gentle ride?

Trump sets fire to an entire street and then helps put out some of the flames - but by no means all of them - one one house. He expects & gets genuine gratitude for keeping part of a house upright, charred & barely habitable

Farage says Reform won’t accept dispersed migrants into councils they run. They can’t stop it and do not control it. He’s lying and nobody is challenging him (yet again) I hope their voters remember his inevitably broken promise but I doubt they will

Karoline Leavitt (Comical Ali) daily achieves the almost impossible. She is even more dislikeable than her boss

Very strange what’s happening in England at the moment. All of the main news outlets - newspapers, TV & radio are positive on Reform. I haven’t heard anyone aside from a couple of honourable exceptions at LBC actually critically evaluate what passes for Reform policies

Jesus Villa. That was piss poor

Aston Villa: YESS!!!

Marco Rubio really has no shame. I simply cannot believe that he fully supports this bullshit

So close Villa. So very close

If Starmer nationalises or otherwise protects the British Steel plant in Scunthorpe he protects a key industrial asset, protects the employees and the wider community that is a good thing. And that is why I voted Labour

Why is Sky News taking Vance’s speech live? When was the last time a major UK news broadcaster took the US Veep’s speech to a military outpost live? Both-siding writ very large here when there’s plenty of real home & international news to cover

Cabinet meetings are not fucking reality tv shows

We live in a world where Xi Jinping, Putin, Trump, Vance, Musk, Netanyahu, Lukashenko and Orban can do whatever they want with apparent impunity. In the UK, Badenoch & Farage are vying to be the leader of His Majesty’s Loyal Opposition. Do we ever ask why? Why have we let this happen?

I love being British. #BoycottTesla #Swasticars #FuckMusk

So the BBC Question Time panel this evening believes that a former Prime Minister of this country who was born and raised in Southampton cannot be English because he is a brown skinned Hindu. Why give him a platform?

The bile and bad grace from Chris Philp on @skynewsrss.bsky.social this morning was almost tangible

The last King of America. That ended well

Well, Bove found his coward or fool. Now all the world knows that in the US, just as in Iran, China, Russia and Belarus the State can hold criminal charges over an elected public office holder (the Mayor of NYC, no less) to ensure he does their bidding. Who’d have thought?

Come on @cnn.com “that’s why he (Trump) is such a good negotiator ….” Really? Who says he is? His business record suggests he is a far from successful nepo baby narcissist, who lies and cheats his way through life. Please be objective and don’t make these lazy assertions

Sky News offering Kate Andrews a platform yet again!

Kuenssberg struggles to disguise her dislike for Labour. If she can’t argue with a policy, it’s “why haven’t you moved sooner?” Softball to Badenoch is a clear contrast

BBC QT threw out crappy stat again that golf games have increased during working week hours - we’re supposed to believe it’s home workers knocking off for games of golf. Also 20% of working-age adults not looking for work - essentially retired. Maybe it’s these & not the home workers playing golf?

I don’t have a voice and certainly don’t have loads of followers on here but even as a quiet, lone voice based in the UK, I would like @cnn.com to know that I hate their current editorial position and each time I see Scott Jennings on screen I switch off. I’m sure there are others who do similarly

I mean seriously? Are we supposed to believe that Trump has moved the inauguration indoors out of respect for people who wanted to watch and for the Police having to stand in freezing temperatures - in case anyone is injured?

@news.sky.com I see @sophyridge.bsky.social is interviewing Richard Tice again. This time about Labour. Of course she is. Was he just passing by any chance?