Dismantling the myth that we live in a meritocracy is one of the most urgent changes needed". Poverty inflicted on the masses whilst wealth and power is concentrated in few hands. 50 families have more wealth than half of the UK population. Political system bought by the rich. Tax the rich.

Zack echoing the fury of every decent British person today. Thank you Zack 👏👏👏

Standing up to a tyrant - who is willing to impose pain as leverage to compel loyalty or acquiescence - is hard. You can convince yourself that yielding stops the pain and brings you back to "normal". But there is no "normal". Submission emboldens the tyrant. The threat grows.

It looks like some journalists at BBC are beginning to exit their slumbers... ...perhaps a little late. Can check on their progress by clocking Reform/Fartage airtime vs that of others others...

Devastating— “I’m afraid for my parents to leave the house. They treat us like dogs because of the color of our skin. I shouldn’t be scared, I should be focusing on school.” A 16yo American living in fear of the Trump regime’s ICE goons terrorizing brown people pleads for help.

I have to say I'm listening less & less to #r4today. They've gone to tabloid, they could've done a bit of a deep dive on prisons & problems. But we've a presenter who knows nothing berating a junior minister who knows nothing. I can get all the ill informed BS I need on SM I expect more from #BBC.

Why is #r4today using Trump's language of "radical left wing" democrat to describe Mamdani. He calls himself a "democratic socialist", why is that not the description used on the BBC?

I'm just asking questions.

🤦🏼 ICYMI — turns out Rupert Murdoch’s @thetimes was so eager to put out a hit piece on @ZohranKMamdani that they talked to the wrong Bill DeBlasio 🤡 “I never once said I was the mayor.” www.semafor.com/article/10/2...

The 22nd Amendment states that no American president can serve more than two terms. Period.

The supposed 'newspaper of record' without an appropriate verification process it seems.

The NUJ is concerned about plans by Ofcom to approve changes to the BBC’s operating licence covering BBC local radio commitments. The regulator is consulting on changes to the corporation's operating licence, with responses due by 5pm, 12 November www.nuj.org.uk/resource/nuj...

Good point from @adambienkov.bsky.social - if the massed ranks of the right wing press with BBC boosting, plus the vast amount of money (and foreign social media bots) couldn’t get Reform over the line, what will?

"The UK government has said it is “deeply saddened” by Maccabi Tel Aviv’s decision to decline any tickets offered to their fans for the Europa League match at Villa Park." How are they this bad at politics? www.theguardian.com/football/202...

Am a fan of #R4PM but this conversation on 'anger' is annoying! Not difficult to derive the sources of anger in the UK (mostly austerity and news/social media 'othering'), but instead of investigating the political & economic backdrop the show considers 'anger' as if it emerges from a vacuum.

Several hundred volunteers are patrolling the streets of Chicago and its suburbs warning migrants of ICE's presence. This is part of a growing resistance to ICE's operations in Illinois. n.pr/3JiNNpR

Your browser sends a lot of information with each website you visit. That can be used to track you across the internet.

Everyone now agrees we are heading for a global financial crash. It's only a matter of when, and not if. And the sad thing is, if only we'd reformed our tax reliefs on pensions and ISAs we might have avoided this disaster that's now in the making. www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/10...

Completely forgot that I wrote to the FT a couple of weeks back, and just found this purely by chance while googling for something else that I've think I've written but currently can't find.

‘Compassion is stronger than division’: Glasgow’s battle over the saltire

"On the consumer side, monopoly control over platforms and interfaces allows a single firm to decide what products appear first, which content is amplified, or which services are accessible at all." jacobin.com/2025/10/algo...

Again, I really do have concerns about exactly how Justin Webb is acquiring his knowledge of US politics or what prompted him to make this exact point.

A year after people of colour, Muslims and migrants were terrorised on our streets by the far-right, there is now yet another surge of racist violence. We need to see our Prime Minister condemn the hate and proudly lead an anti-racist government, not pave the way for Reform.

No, Lord Falconer. Labour should stop pandering to this nonsense. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

The media every time Wrexham play

@kevinhowells.bsky.social enjoying commentary from the dream team of you and Churchy. These stories deserve their own show 😂.

Every word here, troubling times but so much indifference.

My goodness what has happened to #R4today

Why running a country isn’t like running a household youtu.be/sAKr55O7qaU?... Politicians love to say the government must “live within its means” – just like a household. But this analogy is completely wrong. In this video, I explain why.

Ministers line up administrators for Thames Water Since 1989 £10.4bn paid in dividends, £13.68bn in interest payments. No new reservoirs. Dumps sewage in rivers. Hardly any new shareholder money. Shares worthless, Lenders ready to take a haircut. Need permanent nationalisation, not temporary.

BBC Radio 4's hourly news headlines today have been an unrelenting Two Minutes' Hate against immigrants. The UK's national broadcaster is deliberately fomenting hatred against some of the world's most vulnerable people, while license fee payers pick up the tab.

Why Dubai is finished by Our London Correspondent Isabel Cheapshott From the new Private Eye, out now.

Four per cent. Four. And yet the country is once again being pulled apart by intimidating demonstrations, stirred up by disingenuous and dangerous politicians and commentators. They are getting exactly what they want.

Just peachy to have Justin Webb on #r4today insinuating that asylum seekers arriving by small boats are largely criminals and sex offenders. Such an irresponsible, Daily Mail-style prejudice in his questions and assertions. This isn’t journalism. It’s scaremongering for the far right. Shameful.

sometimes the depth of Justin Webb's right wing lean just baffles me. In a segment just now on the #r4today program he just casually referred to NPR as the 'US left wing broadcaster'! mate. NPR is not democracy now. feel like he must consume a bunch of right wing drivel to think NPR is left wing.

And now on #r4today, let’s celebrate conspiracy theorists. And label fellow broadcaster NPR as ‘left wing’ and say they’re talking nonsense.

Holy shit, STOP PEDDLING BOOKS AND FIGHT FOR OUR COUNTRY! Its insane that Dems aren’t doing tours shining the light on the fascist direction this country is going in like AOC and Bernie Sanders were doing. But instead, think its time instead to make some money about the past. FOCUS ON THE PRESENT!

"Is Britain about to blow?" asks Matt Goodwin promoted a two hour special event on the subject. Their greasy desperation for violence and carnage, so they can profit off it, is so disgusting.

Unpacking the nonsense being said about interest rates and Reeves www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/07...

Protest is how change happens – and that's why the powerful fear it youtu.be/BUB0TLaos3k?...

This was posted this morning by Humans of New York and I think this captures exactly what we are all experiencing right now

The BBC, the Gaza film they refused to show, Sir Robbie Gibb and “perceptions of partiality”. It’s complicated. www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/media/...

It'd be wonderful if the British government now cracked down on those recalcitrant overseas territories which are defying Parliament and are enabling tax cheats and criminals to hide hundreds of billions away. Would it not?

The idea that we can "easily" overthrow the regime in Iran is a fantasy of people that have never served. Afghanistan is back in the hands of the Taliban after 20 years of slaughter. Iraq still isn't peaceful. Libya is a war zone that's been in civil war since we dropped bombs. History is screaming!

It really is time to nationalise water www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/06...