Marina Hyde gets it as usual #CelebrityTraitors

Hurrah it’s the weekend 📻📰📚☕️🥐🎙️⚽️ and of course @matthew-wright.bsky.social Had my flu jab yesterday and for once had a really sore arm - the good side of which was that I heard all of @nickabbot.bsky.social on @lbc.co.uk

What a fantastic finale for #CelebrityTraitors - was delighted (and surprised!) by the final result!

Up and into another round of podcasts - then for the finale of Celebrity Traitors

Better stay away from social media until I’ve watched #celebritytraitors otherwise I’m sure to see the result! Podcasts until then!

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Another 30 minutes on US politics from #MattChorley

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New - Louise Haigh and Vicky Foxcroft are reviving the Tribune group to do organising in the PLP along the soft left. Key figure in the welfare rebellion are formalising their organising power ahead of the Budget. (yes this is one for the nerds) Story here - www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

So now I find there was no #CelebrityTraitors last night and tonight’s finale has leaked onljne ☹️😡 Not enjoying today!

Sorry #PoliticsLive I can’t cope with Richard Holden again, especially over an issue that #BBCNews has failed to show any interest in until the last week

I love @nickeardleybbc.bsky.social ‘s William Brown tie

This week’s #TheMediaShow has an item on #CelebrityTraitors. Watching last nigh’s episode this after noon

Enjoying the morning podcasts. Also enjoying not hearing a word (yet) about Lammy, Reeves or Starmerr

And yet despite all this, the story as presented in the media (including the BBC) is the Tory one

Something for the rest of the country to look forward to…

Tony: Penny for the guy, penny for the guy! Bill: Tub... Tony: What? Bill: Let's go home Tony: Go home? We've only been out a couple of hours Bill: I know, but I'm getting fed up sitting in this pram! #BonfireNight

More game-playing from the Conservative Party and the RW media. #PMQs #wato

Well, that was a very weird deputy PMQs. James Cartlidge asking the same question five times – could David Lammy guarantee no other jailed asylum seekers have been accidentally released rather than deported – and Lammy each time instead condemning the Tories' record on prisons and justice.

Here’s another one publishing a ‘memoir’ - Patti Smith

I got up at 4:30 this morning as it now takes me such a long time - as a result it’s 6:30 and I’m listening to the @privateeyenews.bsky.social podcast and thinking about breakfast! ☕️🥐🎙️

NBC News projects the Democratic Socialist, Zohran Mamdani, will win the NYC mayor's race.

EXC: Rachel Reeves plans cuts to home energy efficiency schemes to pay for bills to be reduced. Energy industry warns of “disastrous” consequences in the long term. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

If there is a supreme being I hope they look after this fella. I saw comments from listeners on Sunday demanding to know where LNER staff were during attack: they were in the front line fighting to save passengers it transpires. My thoughts with Samir and all his family and friends x

British People's Trust In America Has Plummeted During Trump's First Year Back In Power www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/britis...

Always nice to hear John Sudworth. The one time I was on BBC radio (‘PM’ during the @eddiemair.bsky.social years) he travelled up to Yarm (twice!) to interview me. Really nice bloke

Since when were manifesto points accorded the status of Holy Writ? How long does this status last? #wato

Clear the schedules! A well-known American has died. Apparently his death is of ‘huge significance’ to us in the UK #BBCNews #DickCheney

YouGov has Greens level-pegging with the Conservatives on 16% - and the Tories are, in effect, one percentage point away from *fifth place*.

Still baffled by the absence of discussion on the WTO in the general hoo ha on tariffs.

🚨*Very* interesting - is this behind my general feeling of gloom about the future? (Or just old age?!)

Please … No …. Make it go away

More….via @financialtimes.com

Sorry, what????

Tables, cars, bikes, clutter… pedestrians are running out of room. When did a simple walk become an obstacle course? @eastangliabylines.co.uk @aidanbaker.bsky.social

Not only is Farage on BBC News and Sky, I also discovered he was on @bbc5live.bsky.social He’s still going on TV - coming up to an hour. There doesn’t seem to be an audience. @alastaircampbell2.bsky.social

Farage getting his usual hour of free airtime

Everybody seems to be writing a ‘memoir’ at the moment. I assume this is another thing picked up by our journalists from the US