Just like the Tories, Labour's centrist hacks think themselves omniscient and infallible - they cannot fail, they can only be failed. So when they do fail, they blame everyone else. We saw it with the Tories, and it's already started from the Starmerites with this idiotic dreck: archive.ph/rHoXA

Welcome to the UK where a right wing academic seeks to defend a man who wrote: 'Head for the hotels housing them and burn them to the ground.' By describing that incitement as "anti immigration"

What does a malignant sociopath reaching the highest office in the land, leading to the greatest policy error in British history, then allowing his fecklessness to cause tens of thousands of unnecessary deaths during a pandemic tell us about the elite private education system’s place in England?

Yinke Bankola says he was 9 when the sixth form Dulwich school prefect Nigel Farage, aged 17, asked him where he was from, then told him "that's the way back to Africa". www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

“In 2017 there was not a single asylum seeker who arrived on a boat. Today we have 46,000 a year and do you know why? It was because of the botched Brexit deal pushed through by Boris Johnson and championed by Nigel Farage. Nigel Farage should be here apologising” Daisy Cooper

You will be shocked to discover after reading these stories that while Rachel Reeves claimed to have been the "British girls under-14 [chess] champion" she was in reality merely the "Under 14s British Women’s Chess Association (BWCA) Girls" Champion. This is getting utterly ridiculous now

Racist slurs aren’t racist, is Farage’s latest defence. He’s tried: - I didn’t say it. - Nobody was offended. - It was ok back then. - I was just a kid. But he’s been doing it for years since, it was offensive, it wasn’t ok, and he definitely did say it. A vote for Farage is a vote for hate.

Hoo boy, another fictitious "EV market slows" headline from the Times *EU EV sales are up 25.6% in 2025* Receipts in thread.

Farage is such a compulsive liar, one benefitting enormously, for years, from the media’s lack of scrutiny & challenge. Here at last we see a challenge, highlighting directly conflicting statements made just days apart. Let us hope this empty, nasty little charlatan is finally going to be exposed.

‘I can categorically say that stories being told about me from 50 years ago are not true’ - a statement from Nigel Farage tonight on claims he racially abused fellow school pupils That firm denial tonight is different to what he said in interview with BBC Wales Political Editor Gareth Lewis 👇

This is so extraordinarily bad. It is impossible to now know how much more self-censorship the BBC is engaged in re Trump. The internal BBC saboteurs who started all of this need to be removed. And the BBC needs to stop bending itself out of shape or its reputation will never recover.

I ask again why any Government is still on X. Grok has clearly been shaped in its owner’s image and likeness I would very much like to know what Governments’ and journalists’ red lines are if this sort of thing is not. apple.news/At85Jo9xFRzC...

Growing backbench pressure about how government uses X I hope this pressure can link up with pressure to recognise strength of prima facie evidence thst X is in breach of legal duties (in systemic failure of its complaints system to be compliant with UK law) www.politicshome.com/news/article...

A problem in aligning with Reform’s view of the migration situation is that you have to adopt its distortions & lies to justify your actions: being like Reform means Labour have to become liars. Another problem is that Labour then lose (more) credibility, while reinforcing Reform’s false position.

I simply do not understand why these figures have not become as famous as the ones on the side of that stupid fucking bus. Imagine what could have been done with this kind of money. And why is it not mentioned to Farage every time he opens his lying malodorous face hole.

🚨🚨 Huge revelations about Farage from those who knew him in his youth. On the record. "He would be sort of singing these kind of ‘gas ’em all’ sort of songs” “I have a very strong memory of him using the W-word...and the P-word for those of south Asian origin" www.theguardian.com/politics/ng-...

This is what has to happen once the elected government adopts policies to ape Reform. Just like them, like Farage over Brexit and every other issue he raises: - they have to start lying in order to justify it. This is the hidden cost of being Reform-Lite. They have to become liars.

The Home Secretary says "we have become the destination of choice in Europe, clearly visible to every people smuggler and would-be illegal migrant across the world" That is a factually untrue claim: the Home Office shows that the UK is fifth, getting 1/10 claims, while Germany gets 1/5 claims

Published today in Earth System Science Data: The Global Carbon Budget 2025 essd.copernicus.org/preprints/es...

This a big deal: "China’s carbon dioxide emissions have been flat or falling for 18 months" China's economy has grown by ~5% in the last year, so this comprehensively debunks the idea (again) that emissions are tied to growth. So yes, faster progress needed, but this is how you turn the corner.

Is there a journalist out there who still understands what a story is? Woodward and Bernstein, if they were trying to make a living now in British journalism, would be long-term unemployed.

I called this out on #BBCQT last night and I'm calling it out again now. He is gaslighting a nation.

Good grief, why has it taken so long to make this statement?! Anyway, finally, glad it’s here, and it’s good to finally get it out there. Farage is an arsonist, one who seems to have done rather well out of his political profile. Posh boy flag waving simplistic conman.

For 56 minutes Sky News and BBC News interrupted everything else and carried a Reform UK feed live, uninterrupted, unchallenged. The stream spluttered, froze, pixelated - dozens of times - still they stuck with it. FOR ONE HOUR. This is an editorial choice. No other party gets this coverage. ~AA

There should be a high bar for politicians attacking the media, but maybe Ed Davey has half a point here? For example, the first three paragraphs of this BBC story repeat Reform's £243bn figure without saying that the thinktank behind the estimate now disowns it. (This is mentioned in paragraph 35)

The government’s own response on this - that it’s basically a form of national security threat under discussion - is actually pretty credible. Would you want Farage, Putin and Musk, and whoever else, looking at all of the discussions in this group? The answer is, no, you wouldn’t.

A good point and a solid list. More generally, we continue to see infuriating/laughable polling that shows the public: - strongly supports tax increases to improve public services, - strongly opposes any tax on themselves.

There is a serious failure in UK govt, politics & media to take sufficiently seriously what Musk said & meant with "fight back or die" = Violence (interethnic civil war) is inevitable so pre-emptive violence - vs migrants, minorities & political opponents - is necessary to avoid existential erasure

Nauseating video

I need you to understand what this country feels like right now for those of us who look different. I'm sitting here, trying to plan for Saturday, make sure I don't even need to go to the corner shop for milk, like it's Christmas Day or lockdown. Why? Because I live near where Yaxley-Lennon will 1/

"Five tactics used by industry to undermine science. The disinformation playbook tactics are employed by industry during the scientific process and the science-based decision-making process" link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Impressively articulate and accurate demolition of Farage. Why is this not happening in the UK, coming from UK politicians, on a daily basis? The endless easy ride and undeserved politeness for this liar is why he has survived politically.

Yesterday: Nigel Farage says Reform UK "will detain and deport absolutely anyone that comes via that route.. Yes, women and children" Today: Nigel Farage, "Deportation of illegal immigrants, we were not even discussing women and children at this stage. The news reports who said that were wrong"

This is the strangest communication I’ve seen from a Labour MP for ages. It’s highly reminiscent of some of the barrel-scrape Tory MPs at the end of their last government: just causing agro to divert or polarise a complex issue. It should be alarming that some Labour MPs have got here so quickly.

Motherfucking wind farms…

Watch @EdDavey.LibDems.org.uk call out the BBC for their failure to hold Nigel Farage to account.

BBC streamed this set on the iPlayer, did not cut the chant during the live-stream + have withdrawn it since The clip mostly seen via social media. Almost nobody commenting saw it live. So Sean points out many in media mistakenly think it was broadcast on TV too (inc Today presenter + guests)

The full piece is here—it's long, but I hope will be a useful document for understanding what's actually happening to workers on the ground, when it comes to AI.

The BBC plans to alter news “story selection” and “other types of output, such as drama” in order to win the trust of Reform voters, Byline Times reports. The plan was drawn up by senior executives including Director General Tim Davie and former GB News executive Robbie Gibb.

What do we think?🤔 Hmm…. A Daily Mail headline so clearly designed to make you furious. Being shared by salivating Tory MPs who love a good rage farming story! So, what’s going on here? Let’s take a look!👀 🧵 1/13

This is the headline: Nearly half of Israelis support army killing all Palestinians in Gaza, poll finds Christian Fraser reported the poll on BBC News as extraordinary and not good. www.middleeasteye.net/news/majorit... #r4today

Study on London 20 mph limits shows: - collisions ⬇️ 35% - casualties ⬇️ 36% - fatal/serious injuries ⬇️ 34% - child casualties ⬇️ 46% - child deaths ⬇️ 75% - walkers, cyclists, motorcyclists killed/seriously injured ⬇️ 28% etsc.eu/20mph-limits...

"Let me just deal with this 'credentials' game I know John & his friend Douglas Murray love to play these days... let's not play this credentials game because John will lose, just like Douglas did on the Rogan show." Me versus Netanyahu ally John Spencer. Full debate: www.youtube.com/watch?v=eUjT...

The hysterical reaction of certain commentators to today’s UK-EU agreement is something to behold. The “surrender” of using e-gates when you go on holiday. The contempt for the “will of the people” of making education abroad more accessible. Rigorous debate is good. This nonsense is a waste of time.

TANK vs TESLA "We've crushed fascism before and we'll crush it again" - ⁠WW2 veteran Ken, 98, in the tank

Wow, read the detail in this, shit is getting very real for US and world science. Science provides answers to questions based on evidence. For Trump-MAGA, this might mean answers that conflict with their ideology. For them, science itself - perhaps humanity’s greatest innovation - is the enemy.

Never forget that the richest man in the world chose to take food from the mouths of the world’s poorest children. Burn in hell.

The White House has turned COVID.gov from a public health resource into a politically charged platform promoting the lab-leak theory and attacking specific scientists and the pandemic response in general. Let’s fact check its 5 headline claims… 🧵