Everything he's reported to have said in this BBC piece sounds like he's desperately trying to distance himself, knowing that the connection is real and toxic. If the press were investigating Farage with the same enthusiasm they went for Rayner, he'd be done for. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Poor Aura in Any Answers - having to get balance in the question “should Trump get the Nobel Peace Prize?” by reading out a ‘text’ from Anonymous of X saying yes he should. Pathetic.

I see Reform UK are on #BBCQT again tonight, would one of the other panelists kindly ask Is it fiscally responsible for Nathan Gill to make anti EU, pro Russia statements in exchange for bribes But for Nigel Farage to make anti EU, pro Russia statements, without bribes?

Given that many hospitality businesses have restricted their hours to reduce staffing costs (one shift instead of two, reduced transport costs for late finishers, etc) m, not sure how Labour’s new policy is going to help them, or growth. Same amount of revenue, spread more thinly?

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

🚨 A vital new report 🚨 Clear evidence of how the UK Govt has been CAPTURED by O&G interests Time for MPs to challenge this in Parliament @labourlewis.bsky.social @mpwatch.bsky.social @zackpolanski.bsky.social @adrianramsay.bsky.social @dalevince.com @fionaharvey.bsky.social

It pains me to say it, but I’m thinking that the Nobel Committee should announce that it will give the Peace Prize to Trump - next year, if a genuine peace in Palestine holds. This for purely instrumental reasons: it would embed Trump’s investment in enforcing it on Netanyahu.

"15 years ago, Polish workers came here to find opportunity. Now Poland is growing twice as fast as we are," says Kemi Badenoch. Any ideas what may have happened in the interim?

Here we go… there’s no obvious benefit in doing this. Just doing it because we can. Apocalypse looming.

Big presence on the beaches of Normandy in 1944 too.

I went to that Chipping Campden once. Didn’t see a single non-white person. Why do they refuse to integrate?

NEWS! Doing fascist things not fascism, insists fascist newsthump.com/2025/10/07/d...

Me too.

I wonder how often the mothership gets to dock with the fatherland?

Surely Andy Street cannot remain for long in the same party as Honest Bob?

I don't think Robert Jenrick realises that the people clapping along to him when he talks about Handsworth would clap along if he said the same about Stamford Hill. I'd hope that would give him pause for thought.

No sudden rupture is now required for the far right to take power in this country. For what we're seeing is a steady normalisation of extremists by the Conservative and Labour Parties, BBC, Telegraph, Mail and others. A shift once considered unthinkable beings to look acceptable, even inevitable.🧵

Politicians sacking judges and Ministers deciding sentencing policy: there are chilling historical precedents for the attacks on an independent judiciary being proposed by Robert Jenrick. #r4today #BBCNews #CPC25

Thing is, if you’re a lawyer and a Tory - maybe you’re even a Tory peer - and you fail to speak out very clearly and publicly against this stuff, you’re signalling for all to see that you’re at best comfortable with fascism and the destruction of the rule of law

How dare Kemi Badenoch say "given it's the Guardian"? We don't make things up! That's one of the most annoying things about us

Coverage of Jenrick today basically amounts to sane-washing. He didn't criticise judges. He claimed there was a conspiracy by certain judges, who he had discovered and could number, to undermine British law and create open borders.

Badenoch was on Times Radio a short time ago defending and excusing Jenrick. Summary: 'That's not really what he was saying'.

Who are these ‘activist judges’ that Jenrick is going to sack? And is #r4today going to point out that this is what fascists do?

Editorial meeting #r4today - we need a representative vox pop. How about a bunch of retired blokes at the golf club? Great! Book it in.

Honest Bob blames lack of integration in Handsworth on the community in that “slum”. Perhaps he’d like to ponder whether that’s a sign of relative deprivation rather than residents’ choices? Or maybe he’s just a rascist? @bbcnewsnight.bsky.social

We’ve had a power cut for over 24h. It tells me the main vulnerability in a national emergency is communications. As well as no electricity, we had no mobile connection until an hour ago. When FM radio ceases, what then? Most DAB radios need to be plugged in. An eye-opener.

RIP #PatriciaRoutledge. In my teens, I saw her Mrs Malaprop in Manchester’s Royal Exchange Theatre’s first ever production - The Rivals - in 1976. When we took our seats, my mum sat next to an empty aisle seat marked ‘reserved’. No one arrived to take it… 1/2

So, #bbcqt asks a question: “why are concerns about immigration branded ‘far right’?” Which, of course, they’re not. #bbcbias

Bang on. I, too, really liked Starmer’s identification of the financial crisis as the start of the decline. And was also confused be Starmer’s failure to mention anything - not one thing - that he’d done to address it. On the contrary, Reeves’ actions just make it worse.

Good to see the hiding in-plain-site fact that the IT revolution (now nearly 50 years old) hasn’t delivered an uptick in economic growth in this. A fact seemingly ignored in most economic commentary. There’s every reason why so-called AI will be the same.

David Lammy should just say that his evidence for Farage’s flirtation with Nazism was because a taxi driver told him. Eh, @mrjamesob.bsky.social ?

BBC running hard on the Lammy accusation on Farage’s flirtation with Hitler Youth. I thought there was evidence from his public school teachers about this? If so, there’s no controversy. Farage just bleating. He don’t like it up ‘im!

“Don’t call racists racist” says racist.

Meanwhile, here’s what Farage told Congress about incitement to murder: “What Lucy Connolly said..which was only visible for 3.5 hours, may have been expressed inelegantly, but it was a sentiment that was being felt by a lot of people at that moment, and it should not have been criminalised.”

Still waiting for someone to tell me how this version of Digital ID is going to make my life better.

Who thought that “Renew Britain” would be a good conference slogan for Labour? They are the government, FFS. “Renewing Britain” would make more sense (even if a bit generous).

When No10 was wargaming ID cards, it appears not to have asked itself this: what’s in this policy for the vast majority of the population? I’m waiting for someone to tell me how I will benefit from my new digital ID. #BritCard

The messaging about the ID card is so wrong. It could be seen as an enabling, universal access to services, citizenship card. Instead we get a flag and the solution to small boats. Clearly not seen as solving small boats by the #bbcqt audience #BritCard

Given all our signals intelligence and satellite surveillance, how come we can’t tell where all these drones are coming from?

The messaging about the ID card is so wrong. It could be seen as an enabling, universal access to services, citizenship card. Instead we get a flag and the solution to small boats. #BritCard

Now into the first 45 minutes of #TheHack. Why on Earth didn’t Starmer announce Leveson 2 a year ago - part of the ‘change’ and no cost to the public purse? #opengoal

When you sup with the devil, you end up being eaten…

OK, only into the first 10 minutes of The Hack. Why on Earth didn’t Starmer announce Levenson 2 a year ago - part of the ‘change’ and no cost to the public purse? #opengoal

This is because Reform relies on building a coalition of disordered counterpublics reacting against distrusted institutions, and the anti-vax community is part of that, so he knows he needs to keep is vague to avoid upsetting them.

And now @bbcnewsnight.bsky.social Nick thinks Davey is going for one nation Tory votes by taking on Farage. He isn’t. He’s going for Labour. Cos Labour isn’t challenging Farage, it’s echoing him.

And @bbcnewsnight.bsky.social Nick reads out Reform’s pathetic response to Ed Davey’s perfectly reasonable suggestion that relaxing gun laws might result in school massacres. Why? When Farage claims something, the BBC doesn’t challenge.

Presumably all decent Americans are feeling pretty embarrassed right now.

The BBC struggling with ‘balance’ here. “Unproven”??!! Suggests it might be true. What’s wrong with “false”? Or “ignorant”?

FFS, the headline is not "experts are sceptical", it's "Trump makes claim based without any evidence". www.bbc.com/news/article...