Although it’s obviously the weather, the Mail etc never mention this in the summer. So why should we?

What is it about corporates describing themselves as ‘proud’ to sponsor something? They’ve just paid to advertise themselves! Why is that a matter of pride? Or am I missing something?

Sam Altman: hey I made a machine that stole literally all your stuff in order to make CSAM of your child actors, sometimes it encourages people to kill themselves Disney: Holy shit here's a billion dollars Altman: the machine loses more than that each week but thank you. Soon it will become god.

At the helm stand Silicon Valley’s most rightwing figures–Peter Thiel, Elon Musk, Marc Andreessen, David Sacks, Palmer Luckey & Alexander Karp–whose investments align with a political project: the remaking of sovereignty as a private asset class. Essential reading. share.google/OVboovBC0KaF...

False and stupid to claim that people cannot be fluent in more than one language, @bbcnewsnight.bsky.social. This says nothing good or decent about BBC. English being someone's second language does NOT mean they are not fluent in it.

I see #bbcqt is platforming Reform Ltd again. With a Tory defector. And a Tory MP. No Lib Dem, despite them having more MPs in Scotland than the Tories. Reform have precisely none. #bbcbias

Colombia now. FIFA’s peace prize was sooo timely.

Err, what’s the price if we don’t reach it?! We won’t be here to find out.

The fascists are organising a carol concert in London to "draw attention to unchecked immigration and the fading of our cultural heritage". What would Woody do? Write an anti-fascist Xmas carol and sing it at the counter demo. www.youtube.com/watch?v=liRd...

Reform Ltd looking more and more like the Zombie Tories with every defection.

Number crunching: Individuals arrested within five days for suspected manslaughter after fire apparently related to building materials ripped through seven Hong Kong apartment blocks v individuals arrested over Grenfell From the new Private Eye, out now.

Who has the capacity or know-how to compile 5y of posts, reactions, blogs, blog comments, instagram photos,…? And who will put it in a (presumably machine readable) format for the Trump Federal agents - much reduced in size post-DOGE - to analyse? Or is it down to visitors to declare any woke posts?

New post: Labour, a supply side explanation for the rise of populism, and the growing acceptability of xenophobic discourse in the UK mainlymacro.blogspot.com/2025/12/labo... Labour's 'tougher' stance on immigration/asylum and right wing populists' response has shifted the Overton window.

Justin now celebrating Trump’s security strategy - yes, the one that says European democracy is dead and needs to be put out of its misery. #r4today

Whaat? Donald Trump *Absent* from the #spoty shortlist announced on #r4today?!! Outrageous! #bbcbias

You could hear Justin welling-up in his empathy and compassion for the homeless in that #r4today interview.

The fact that Labour is still running scared of a Right Wing Press which dumps on them on a daily basis anyway, is baffling. #r4today https://hackinginquiry.org/campaigns/leveson-part-2/

oh no no no

The list of new (New?) Labour peers shows just how far unions have been pushed outside the party’s circle of influence.

I’m asking to speak to the BBC. Looking forward to my audience with Nick on #r4today tomorrow.

Interesting that the BBC will call National Rally "Far Right" (in an article about Bardella meeting Farage) - when they would never use that term for Reform. Their policies are very similar. If anything Reform's are more authoritarian.

Europe is weak in the face of ‘illegal’ migration, says the flump who is soo strong in the face of Russian aggression.

I found this today (from Peter Kellner/YouGov) which answers part of your query.

The ET has ‘muddied the waters”, has it, Justin? Perhaps #r4today and most of the media (wilfully?) misread the Supreme Court judgment in the first place.

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I saw Martin Parr’s exhibition Small World at the Photographers’ Gallery in 1995(?) Framed limited edition prints were available for £250. It would have been a stretch at the time, and I prevaricated before deciding I’d better not. I’ve always regretted that decision. He leaves a massive legacy.

No Reform representative on the Laura Kuenssberg show for two weeks running - that's a record! It's almost as though we didn't want to talk about the 28 witnesses to my teenage racism and antisemic abuse.

Why are people reacting to the first teams in the Group draws? Does it really matter which letter you get?

Zack says how about a cost of living special #bbcqt. Fiona says we have a cost of living question every week. Err, you have an immigration question every week. But you still decided to go to Dover for an immigration special. Didn’t work out very well for you though, did it?

Pleasantly surprised by #bbcqt so far. Applause has all been for voices of sanity - whether panel or members of the audience. Fiona still avoids asking the panel to address the best contributions from the audience, though.

I must have nodded off. Missed #bbcnews covering the ‘leader’ of a political party using a press conference to slag off the BBC and one of its presenters (who happens to be Jewish, BTW). Oh! I didn’t nod off. They didn’t bother. Weird.

Tuned into #bbcnews at 10 waiting to see Farage’s comedy press conference today. It’ll be interesting to see which bits they use.

A sad example of the endemic problem with MOD procurement. Constant changes to the spec (usually coinciding with new military project leads on 2-3 y rotations), plus allowing ‘customer’ units to request their own tweaks to the design. Manufacturing costs escalate. And the end product doesn’t work.

I do wish TV listings and streaming services would list stuff with critical information like series x, episode y of z. And the date first broadcast. It’s not difficult. Impossible to remember where you’re up to. Anyone else feeling the need to buy a whiteboard to go next to the telly?

Much of the reporting and commentary on this seems to conflate mental health and neurodiversity. Surely ADHD, Autism, etc are not ‘illnesses’; they’re not ‘curable’. Neurodiverse people need support, not ‘treatment’. Diagnosis might be the only way they can get support.

So tell me again how Nigel Farage, who just took the largest ever political donation, from a Tory mega-donor, and another donation from the Viscountess wife of the non-dom owner of the Daily Mail, is planning to "take on the establishment"

"Why is anti-semitism tolerated in the UK?" asks Suella Braverman, shortly before defending man accused of saying "Hitler was right" and telling Jewish people they should be sent to the gas chamber

Can you stop playing that Pets in a Pickle ad, please, @mrjamesob.bsky.social? It drives our cat mad.

I don’t think Nick Watt will agree to @lewisgoodall.com being invited onto @bbcnewsnight.bsky.social again. “Here’s what you could have won…” #bbcnews

Chris Mason seems to be very quiet this week. #bbcnews

Maybe we should just ban lobbyists/‘PR’ consultancies?

Trump - the anti-worker President.

In a surprise to absolutely no one, the mum she’s describing is not claiming benefits as a “lifestyle choice”. This paywalled article is full of “in my grandparents day, blah blah blah” and nasty sneery comments about latest iPhones for spoilt children🙄 🧵 1/9

At #PMQs Badenoch said that 100s of thousands of people had drawn down their pensions on the basis of pre-budget HMRC kite/flying. If this is true then (a) more fool them and (b) they should sue the IFA who didn’t tell them not to be so stupid.

This is how Chris Mason, like a child filled with wonder, described "the choreography and theatre that surrounds a Budget" in Feb 2024, when a male Tory Chancellor was in post. "Plans, or even just options, can be floated... Reaction to them can be tested. Opponents can be teased or wrongfooted." 👀

I’ll volunteer to do it for them: No. we can talk about my fee later.

What was the question on the BMA strike ballot paper? That is what the issue(s) behind the trade dispute are, @mrjamesob.bsky.social

Petrol prices seem to be creeping up again. By 5ppl here over the last month or so. What happened to that pump price comparison site the last Tory government repeatedly promised “by September”. Were they misleading the public?

'The doctor shouldn't be acting for the BMA as he's influenced by his previous association with Labour' Says Nick Robinson. Blimey, so when will he be offering his resignation from the BBC with his fervent past associations with the Tory Party; chair/leader of this & that #r4today

It feels a bit rich for one of the BBC’s highest-paid journalists to criticise doctors for seeking a pay rise. What was the rationale behind Nick Robinson receiving a 19% annual pay increase while the Today prog shed nearly a million listeners over the same period? #r4today