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The important bit about this story - in reality the only important bit because nothing here is new - is that it delivers to an audience previously unaware of it a truth about the BBC's relationship to power: craven. www.theguardian.com/media/2025/n...

Reform's policy is mass deportations - but they're moaning about a larger number of people leaving the country? Are they sad that they won't get to lock them up and thump them first? It's much cheaper if they leave voluntarily! (also the main factor here is the *bigger* drop in numbers *arriving*)

Absolutely withering by Rafael Behr, describing Starmer and Reeves as splashing futilely in the shallows, unable to take the plunge, and speak honestly about Britain’s travails. Good policy cannot be built on such obfuscation. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

*GARGANTUAN* 💥 Economist for Brexit admits 🟥 Brexit made Britain poorer 🟥 Biz investment collapsed 🟥 Productivity weakened 🟥 EU-facing firms cut jobs & spending 🟥 Trade barriers drag economy down 🟥 Brexit deepened fiscal crisis 🟥 No meaningful upsides 🟥 The damage undeniable in data 🧵

If Farage had just admitted, apologised and repented his teenage racism - water under the bridge. But the fact that he has denied the truth and maligned those saying it NEARLY FIFTY YEARS ON, indicates to me not only his untrustworthiness, but that these antisemitic beliefs are not so historic

Earlier this week I had this debate about wealth taxes, austerity and spending. The Labour MP attacks me repeatedly - Labour Government have taken to doing the same thing. Interesting people can absolutely see through it & aren't going to be distracted. youtu.be/1onr7pAEFRE?...

Pretty obviously. youtube.com/watch?v=iyWp...

Budget 2025. UK income tax thresholds stay frozen until 2031. Personal allowance to stay frozen at £12,570. Real-term hike in income tax. Likely to add 780,000 more basic-rate, 920,000 higher rate, and 4,000 more additional-rate taxpayers by 2029-30. More pensioners to pay income tax.

Juries are not perfect. Many of the worst miscarriages of justice have followed jury trials. But the merit of juries is not so much the power they have, but the power they prevent others from having. They mean a judge cannot just nod-along with prosecution evidence and give a guilty verdict.

In all the years I've been campaigning, this is the first where I've feared retaliation - but even X is not above the law. That's why we've referred X to Ofcom for horrific posts that, having taken legal advice, we believe are illegal under the Online Safety Act. goodlaw.social/wk2q

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£26 billion tax rise announced today in Labour's budget £90 billon, how much tax revenue is lost because of Brexit EVERY Year The reason taxes are going up and spending is being cut is because we can't afford stuff because of Brexit!

The Prime Minister just told me any party leader should want to get to the bottom of this Russian bribery scandal with Reform. He is the Prime Minister and a party leader. Why isn't he launching a national investigation himself?

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"We are freezing known Russian assets" says Rachel Reeves "But let me be clear, I don't actually mean the member for Clacton"

Reeves says the government is “freezing Russian assets”. But she does not mean Nigel Farage, she says.

Cue rich people moaning about how they can no longer afford to live in their castles.... God it's all so horribly predictable

Alongside many campaigners, the Green Party have absolutely dragged the Labour Government to finally end the child cap. Labour politicians disgracefully defended it for far too long. This shows why the Green Party membership rising and rising matters. Join.greenparty.org.uk

Good to hear Rachel Reeves finally attack the 2 child benefit cap - but if Labour were so much against it, why’s it taken them so long to scrap it? And why were Labour MPs suspended for saying *exactly* the same last year? There’s no moral high ground here #budget2025

UK govt wants jury trials scrapped except for rape, murder, manslaughter or cases passing a public interest test. What would toff judges do to protesters against bad laws, environmental and other issues. Bad choice by a govt led by a human rights lawyer.

Best understood, Labour's attack on juries, as a further lurch towards authoritarianism. Who, now, will stand in the way of a State that wants to imprison its opponents?

FCA makes inquiries into WH Smith accounting error that wiped £600m off value. Company accounts are opaque and unfit for purpose, audited by firms hired/paid by companies. Financial Reporting Council, funded and dominated by big business makes the rules.

🇷🇺 From 2019 - isn't that odd?!? https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/oct/10/brexit-party-meps-vote-against-measure-to-combat-russian-propaganda

Possibly the stupidest idea I've heard in the last few months, which is saying something. Shows utter ignorance around practicalities regardless of the ethics/desirability.

Just a jaw-dropping paragraph in Trevor Phillips's column for The Times. This is a policy that, by his own account, has left parents of a particular race too frightened to walk their children to school. And that's the example he chooses of the "vigour" we "need". www.thetimes.com/comment/colu...

The Petition calling for a public inquiry into Russian influence on UK politics and democracy has reached 30k. There are signs that the wall of silence protecting Farage is beginning to crumble. Let's keep sharing the petition. petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...

Reminder that In the 1990s Farage sought the backing of the disgraced former Conservative MP and notorious racist Enoch Powell and twice asked him to stand as a candidate for UKIP. www.theguardian.com/politics/201...

The Labour Government: there to serve the

Ahead of tomorrow's budget, readers have written to their local newspapers to say that Brexit has failed. Their letters reminded the public and policymakers of the economic damage done by Brexit.

"Farage repeatedly... said Hitler was right and 'gas 'em', and that was frequently followed by a 'sssss'... the sound of escaping gas. "He said Farage's words had "hit hard" because his grandparents had escaped Nazi Germany and much of their family had perished in the Holocaust"

I was once sceptical about the value of juries but I've learned through the trans work how shabbily our institutions treat those without privilege and fear their passing. Like the Supreme Court's judicial roll back of human rights, this change to our justice system will hit the weakest hardest.

Having spent the last few days back in Ukraine — reminded how this amazing resilient culture just grows stronger with every atrocity committed against it—it’s so obvious JD Vance’s peace plan ventures are all about saving Putin’s face

When I hear Farage talking about rounding up and deporting hundreds of thousands of human beings, and threatening those with leave to remain or settled status, I cannot help but think of the schoolboy sidling up to me and telling me that “Hitler was right” www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Given that the BBC endlessly gives platforms to lobbyists from the dark money junktanks without revealing their interests, shouldn't we be seeing such apologies every day? Better still, how about not doing it? If they want to appear, we should know on whose behalf they are speaking.

I’m beyond proud of Peter Ettedgui speaking out about Farage and the vile antisemitic abuse he endured. I first heard Peter’s story nearly 20 years ago when Farage was a virtual nobody. It’s not a hit job. Just the truth

UK gambling industry made £15.6bn in 2024 (£16.8bn in 2025) Most companies holed up in Gibraltar & Malta, dodge UK taxes. Some pay corporation tax at the rate of 3%-4%. No VAT on gambling. Public bears the cost of gambling addiction. Firms resent paying extra tax to clear their mess. Tax them.

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I’m a past winner of the Orwell Prize & won partly because I exposed Vote Leave’s unlawful activities. Michael Gove was its co-convener & refused to answer a single q. He’s now a judge of the prize & our world is truly one that Orwell would recognise bylinetimes.com/2025/11/25/m...

I guess, in true Tory style, we lacked friends in high places. Britain is such a shitshow - and the liar Michael Gove is the very worst of it.

Everyone is doing this ironically, but someone has to state it plainly. Chris Mason is exactly what is wrong with BBC politics coverage. Infantile coverage via soap opera and constant fawning over Reform and the archetypal Reform voter's supposed views.

This is exactly what the recent Trump-BBC 'scandal' was designed to achieve. The BBC is now self-censoring criticisms of Trump in the name of "impartiality"

I guess the brave BBC will be sandblasting Orwell's "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear" off the front of Broadcasting House?

New analysis by the House of Commons library estimates that Brexit is costing the Treasury up to £90bn a year in lost tax revenue. To fix our nations finances we must get closer to Europe and fix the problems caused by Brexit... https://bit.ly/4pobLzs

Still can't quite believe that "I only said 'gas the Jews' in a non-hurtful way" was the strategy Nigel Farage opted to go for

Was trying to work out in which way Shabana Mahmood, an otherwise pretty unremarkable politician, could possibly be described as a "luminous golden star" who "dazzles like a blue-white supernova" and then I realised, its simply a willingness to be a bit more cruel to immigrants

Speaking at PLP tonight, Rachel Reeves urged Labour MPs to get behind her Budget saying “politics is a team sport” and promising them there would be a package of appealing measures in the Budget that they could promise their constituents.

BBC board member Robbie Gibb, whose previous jobs have included being Conservative communications director to Theresa May, and helping to set up GB News, tells MPs that he is "hugely impartial"

Doesn't change my view that Streeting is a dishonest, shapeshifting toe rag who is tacking left in a cynical attempt to succeed the hapless Starmer, but I don't think, fairly read, he is saying he is searching for evidence to justify his policy choices.

BBC Chair Samir Shah and Robbie Gibb asked to explain why they drew up a plan, as revealed by Byline Times, to win back the "trust" of Reform voters, but haven't made similar plans for voters of any other party. Gibb says Reform voters least likely to trust the BBC bylinetimes.com/2025/06/09/b...