BBC's second top story at 6 o'clock was the Chancellor getting heckled by some shouty twat. Not even news. Let alone top news. Into the actual item, mentioned almost in passing, the fact gov't has frozen fuel duty. It is impossible to deny the bias. You have to REALLY not want to see it.

A prominent Reform UK councillor who faces allegations of bullying and who was arrested in Basildon Council offices last year – with no further action taken – following a string of complaints, has been appointed cabinet member for Special Educational Needs on England’s second largest local authority

Israeli attacks on Lebanon continue despite the 'ceasefire' that was recently extended until the beginning of July.

🔴 Reform UK’s ‘Meta Glasses’ Councillor Who Was Accused of Shaming Disabled Man and Dyslexic Colleague Is Put in Charge of Special Educational Needs Cllr Sam Journet has been accused of bullying, intimidation and filming residents and staff with Meta-style camera glasses

Shadow energy secretary Claire Coutinho keeps saying the "UK is the only country in the world banning new oil and gas licenses". It's completely untrue. Denmark, France, Spain & Ireland have all done the same. She went completely unchallenged on Talk this AM when she repeated it.

Then he changed his mind, turned his back on Wales and took whatever 'INEOS stands for' abroad. Now he wants to sell our MOD his foreign made cars, while he sits in his tax haven to avoid a fair contribution to the economy he made his billions from - he’s a leech.   Let’s have none of it.

170 people took their own lives in reception prisons in the last five years, nearly half of them within the first month. cdn.websitebuilder.service.justice.gov.uk/uploads/site...

Reform UK Councillor Shares Racist and Islamophobic Content and Backs Tommy Robinson The newly-elected Wakefield councillor repeatedly shared extreme and racist content, and backed multiple far-right figures

An overwhelming amount of evidence shows the multi-decade decline of Christianity. Yet, we remain frozen in time, with Christian institutions given preferential treatment in our politics, our children’s education, and our nation's ceremonies.

Reform's "line to take" on Farage's Five Million - rolled out again today by Richard Tice on @channel4news.bsky.social - seems to be that Farage was not leader of a political party at the time. But he did own a political party, as the majority shareholder in Reform UK. So hardly a private citizen.

There’s been a fuss about people being released from prison earlier than they should, but people are detained for longer too, where is the fuss about that? insidetime.org/newsround/se...

Reform's dodgy Makerfield candidate. searchlightmagazine.com/2026/05/refo...

So Lee Anderson, who said Islamists have "got control" of Sadiq Khan, wants to close every food bank in the country, and is committed to bringing back the death penalty, has now been made Chairman of Reform UK

Andy Burnham and me in conversation about constitutional reform m.youtube.com/watch?v=bq1m...

Anyone want to help search through the Reform candidate in Makerfield's recently deleted twitter account? web.archive.org/web/*/twitte...

Minority government does give smaller party disproportionate influence on their more eccentric policies

At the end of the ITV drama about Worboys’ victims the screen showed that still only 3% rapes result in convictions

It was kind of Robert Jenrick to set me up for an obvious joke at his expense.

Well done to Sky news for covering the killing of hundreds of children in Minab in Iran by US bombs, never forget this war crime news.sky.com/video/on-the...

"Liars often set their own traps" - Aesop www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

The sister of the Irish President has been detained by israel. Catherine Connolly is among at least six Irish citizens on an aid flotilla to Gaza who have been detained by Israel off the coast of Cyprus. news.sky.com/story/irish-...

My great grandmother was a Labour councillor and Mayor of Ince-in Makerfield in the 1930s

BT/EE is a disaster francescrook.substack.com/p/bt-is-a-di...

Well done to Sky news for covering the killing of hundreds of children in Minab in Iran by US bombs, never forget this war crime news.sky.com/video/on-the...

Shah said Reform’s claim that the house was purchased using money from the reality TV appearance fee “needs to be clarified because the company’s accounts are not consistent with their statement”.

The Reform leader told the FT last year that his earnings from the reality show were paid to his media company Thorn in the Side Ltd. Accounts for the company show its cash position increased from £300,000 on May 31 2023 to £1.7mn on May 31 2024 and suggest that no dividend was paid in the period.

Nigel Farage’s claim that he paid for a £1.4mn house with his fee from a reality TV show has been challenged by corporate accounts that appear to show that the income remained on his company’s balance sheet after the property purchase. www.ft.com/content/88ce...

This is a terrible interview with Lammy on BBC Today, Justin Webb focussed on gossip and going round in the same circles. Repetitive and annoying

When will politicians learn that you can’t punish people into being better parents

Former Labour Members Are Returning To The Party To Back Andy Burnham www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/exclus...

The bird shooting industry do not want you to see this so share it widely! endbirdshooting.substack.com/p/caged-bore...

Immigration make Britain brilliant

On the question of "how could the UK's first soft left Government for half a century govern effectively?" there is a working model. That is the Sanchez administration in Spain- an open economy, infrastructure investment, energy transition. There are some symbolic wealth taxes. It works.

I hope this isn’t true. There are times when it’s more important to put country before party. This is one of them. Burnham’s longstanding commitment to a fairer voting system could transform our democracy & counter the dire threat of a Reform UK government elected on a minority of the vote

Can you imagine what Reform would say if Starmer had secretly trousered £5 million as "a reward for campaigning against Brexit"? The key issue here is not whether Farage should have recorded the gift (though that matters too). It's that he was taking multi-million-pound presents in the first place

3GW is absolutely massive. 🥳

Democracy in Kent is under attack from a Reform administration that is clearly terrified of scrutiny. They are moving to quiet the opposition while prioritising songs and prayers over policy discussion. It is a bizarre and anti-democratic shift for our county. 🧵 1/6

The backlash to revelations of sexual torture of Palestinian prisoners aims to raise the cost of speaking out | Yuli Novak

New for @financialtimes.com: Jenrick’s wife was the lawyer for a donor involved in an illicit funding row - and was told in February 2025 about £37,500 in alleged impermissible donations to her husband With @annasophiegross.bsky.social, edits from @kadhim.bsky.social as.ft.com/r/f86b774e-c...

Jenrick listed the money as coming from 'Spott Fitness' - a company which had no employees, had never made a profit and carried debts of over £300,000. In reality it came from Gary Klopfenstein, a Chicago-based investor who pled guilty to wire fraud and misappropriating funds

Robert Jenrick's wife was warned that his campaign had accepted an unlawful donation of almost £40,000 from a convicted American fraudster, according to the Times. Police are investigating allegations that Jenrick's campaign illegally funneled the money to his campaign via a UK-based company

Don't forget what Reform promised the crypto industry after Farage took the cash: Farage....took an undisclosed £5mn personal gift from a crypto billionaire in 2024, months before pledging to slash tax and regulation on the digital assets industry if he becomes PM www.ft.com/content/6a56...

Another newly elected Reform UK councillor has been suspended. This is what Reform UK looks like in local government - disgraceful. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cd0pd27kzgzo

Nigel Farage bought £1.4m property shortly after receiving £5m gift

Sorry if I'm confused? Is there another million plus house Farage bought? And it's still moot how Farage's partner had nearly a million in cash for the Clacton property

Today’s Education Select Committee report on higher education is the best report on HE to come from Govt/Parliament in ages. It takes a rounded view of the whole system, moving away from the more atomistic or narrow accounts we’ve seen 🧵 committees.parliament.uk/committee/20...

crucial context: Peter Mandelson was sacked from the first New Labour government for having a £373,000 *loan* (not a gift) from a Labour colleague (Geoffrey Robinson) to buy a house