Paul Nowak, head of the TUC since 2022, represents 5.5m people. He was BBC Question Time for the 1st time last night. Tim Stanley works for a hard-right newspaper owned by a billionaire tax-dodger. It is read by 200k people. He's been on QT 6 times since 2022. There's your "BBC balance", right there

Ben Nunn was until a few years ago the Associate Director of Incisive Health, a major driver of NHS privatisation. It was founded by Bill Morgan, Special Adviser to former Tory Health Secretary Andrew Lansley. Odd that the Grauniad doesn't mention this. I wonder why not?

All sorts of dickheads who've clearly never been to a football match in their lives popping up on SM this morning, screaming that the fact they were treated in the same way that everyone else is at every ground is anti-Semitic.

"BBC editor with framed letters from and photos of him shaking hands with Israeli war criminals on his wall to sue someone for accusing him of being pro-Israeli"

The BBC is rushing this hit job out the door. Remember, the licence fee means we are obliged, under threat of criminal sanction, to pay for its racism. Screw the BBC.

Because the lads choose amongst themselves what is news and what is a snooze, and the choice is heavily directed by the Sun, the Mail, the Times and the Telegraph. So that means that it’s usually wall to wall screeching and bullshit, every day of the year.

Look at us being #slightlytopical

Court convicts two donors for illegally diverting £100k to Eurosceptic think tank run by Nigel Farage's girlfriend. She definitely doesn't sound like the sort of person who would get involved with tax fraud on a house purchase.

If you’re going to allow military personnel to lie this obviously and brazenly without challenge, then you would be better to stay in London and invite them to email you YouTube clips. It would be more clear to the public what has been happening than pretending it’s something else.

Its funny how Muslims, leftists and trans people were being blamed for Harris losing the election in 2024. Then, a year later, the most popular politician in the country is Muslim democratic socialist who expresses full throated support for trans people. Almost like it was never our fault🤔

No idea if this is true or not, but if it is , WTF is WRONG with these people??? (Let me guess, a big fat "donation" from oil companies)

You don’t raze entire towns and cities street by street with controlled demolitions and bulldozers for any military objective. You do it because the aim is to wipe those places out of existence forever, and it’s not like they’ve been hiding this.

If I were running in next year's midterms, I'd be saying: Aussies are getting free electricity, and we're getting huge price spikes. Because they built solar, and Trump is blocking it. open.substack.com/pub/billmcki...

We can now add "rainforests" to snails, swifts, bats, and newts on the list "things Starmer hates"

Yeah, no, it's actually because he's a fascist

Seeing British centrists celebrate what happened in the USA last night and pretending they wouldn't have all been cheering for Cuomo is pretty funny stuff.

Financial calamity ✅ Disastrous austerity ✅ Wrecking our own trade arrangements ✅ Catastrophic wars ✅ Visibly collapsing public realm ✅ Plummeting living standards ✅ International humiliation ✅ Overt racism ✅ Crimes against humanity ✅ Rolling back any part of the Thatcherite consensus ❌ ❌❌

Because the left are viewed by the press and by our abysmal political class as hated enemies and as automatically and fundamentally illegitimate, in a way that even the nastiest and craziest right wingers are not. Because Thatcherism itself is their only non-negotiable red line.

Very excited to read The Fraud when it comes out later this month. The right and the centre will always conspire to defeat the left and now that socialism has stopped being a dirty word it's interesting to watch people who despised progressives in the past pretend to be one now.

The BBC used this obvious fascist crackpot and extreme violence enthusiast for years as an authority on left wing racism and have pandered to the guy as hard as they could through the last two years, so it is IMO very amusing that he’s still calling them Hamas and demanding that they be destroyed.

This is a major reason why I don’t see any point in sticking up for the BBC as a news outlet any more. You can’t help people who won’t even stand up for themselves, and in fact repeatedly present their own balls for a harder kicking.

Southern Gaza witnesses raids, intensive artillery shelling as Israel continues its attacks, violating the ceasefire.

Hilary Clinton there, saying young Democrats in the US have turned against the genocidal state of Israel because the Chinese Communist Party is manipulating them using Tiktok. Yeah, Hils, that doesn't sound remotely mental or patronizing

It is a low bar possibly, but seeing a politician win, especially a significant win, by galvanising disenfranchised voters on a platform of unity, compassion and hope, a platform which supported marginalised groups such as migrants and trans/non-binary individuals, feels pretty important right now.

Protesting outside refugees' homes: ordinary people with genuine concerns Protesting ouside politicians' homes: terrorism

Interesting that the judge notes that it is a "political belief" Robinson holds and then proceeds to call it a "protected characteristic". Even though political beliefs are not in fact protected characteristics under the Equality Act – only philosophical ones are. Somewhat gives the game away.

Vote Labour, get a burning planet.

¡NO PASARAN!

Dear advertisers: It's Bonfire Night. Shove your Christmas up your hole, as they say in the old country

In other caveat emptor news a spurious guff piece from a auctioneer press release that screams that this story has more flaws in it than a very gullible American could believe Gunpowder Plot 'leader's ring' found in Lapworth to go to auction - BBC News share.google/WE3SJiETTXCh...

Andrew Cuomo gave more money in taxpayer subsidies to Elon Musk than the entire cost of Zohran Mamdani’s free bus plan. It’s not unreasonable or radical to want our tax dollars to go to programs that help us, instead of as giveaways to billionaires.

Dick Cheney died far too old and far too free. The fact that such monsters get to pass away in their eighties surrounded by loved ones instead of alone in a cage is an indictment of our entire civilization.

So Yaxley-Lennon is not guilty of terrorism offences but grannies holding Palestine Action placards are. Go figure.

Hey, remember when Starmer told us that if we didn't like where the Labour Party was heading then the door was open and we could leave? Well look who's come crawling back.

Well this is a bit awkward for all the racist shitstains who've been blaming immigration for the railway knife attack. The railway worker who saved people from a British attacker is an immigrant from Tunisia. Looking forward to the apologies from Andrew Neill + the rest of the fascist media scum

It's finally happened. Christmas cancelled in Kent because Operation Raise the Colours tatty lamp post flags prevent the Christmas lights going up. www.harrietshamparishcouncil.gov.uk/community/ha...

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Total wealth of billionaires in 1990 = £59 BILLION Total wealth of billionaires in 2025 = £795 BILLION Number of food banks in 1990 = 0 Number of food banks in 2025 = 2400 Tax the rich.

The president of the United States thinks asylum-seekers come from mental asylums. He says it in almost every interview where the topic of migration comes up. How is this not 25th Amendment territory? How is he not an embarrassment to this entire country?

I believe that Donald Trump and MAGA is in fact a key result of what happens when anyone left of Adolf Hitler falls for the admonishment to Respectfully Listen to the Differing Opinions of Others. (Curious how one-sided this always is).

This is not a debate club. This is not an official government forum. This is not the United Nations. This is not even a college class. This is a social media website that I use to amuse myself and to talk to interesting people. And I find it much more amusing when I can block whoever I want.

Is this same Labour Government expanding airports, refuses to rule out extracting more fossil fuels from the Rosebank Oil Field Intent on destroying bats, newts and doesn't care about nature? Not sure going to Brazil alone is going to do much good. Join.greenparty.org.uk

AI. It's the future you know. I can see why Starmer wants to invest billions of our money in it. This shows just how brilliant it is.

Have people started calling this heap of shite "Grotipedia" yet, and if not, why not?

Now can we call them Nazis or is it still not allowed because of their feelings?

Just done a small pottery report from a site called "Willow Farm" and so that's today's earworm sorted out (Altogether now: "A flower?")

I was due to take part in an event at @britishlibrary.bsky.social tonight but now I’m choosing not to go because I won’t cross a picket line. Solidarity to @pcsunion.bsky.social and the British Library workers.

Musk launches "Nazipedia". It appears to be a complete rip-off of Wiki, with added errors and far-right bollocks. eg. Phil Harding's page is basically a cut and paste of his Wiki page. Aren't there laws against this sort of thing? grokipedia.com/page/Phil_Ha... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phil_Ha...