This is no time to attack the BBC. It’s a time to defend it.

The specifics don’t matter here. The point is it should not be a matter for Trump who runs the BBC. If Starmer had anything about him at all, he’d say something.

‘Gove described Agnew as a “hero” for the work he did. Agnew said the government did its best in the circumstances and said it was “bollocks” to suggest the VIP lane was a “heinous plan to enrich a few of our mates…”’ Why is it always Gove? www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

🔴We Need to Talk About Michael Gove and Crony Covid Contracts Gove claims he had no “active role” in the procurement of Covid PPE during the pandemic, yet evidence suggests he was involved in multiple VIP deals worth over £1billion, reports Russell Scott www.bylinesupplement.com/p/we-need-to...

The Sociopath-In-Chief couldn't be bothered to even turn his head in the direction of a man in the midst of a medical emergency who collapsed in his office. Completely incapable of empathy, the EPSTEIN Files can't be released soon enough. 25/47

This is flagrant interference in our domestic affairs by a foreign power. We have the good grace not to talk about Fox News. www.theguardian.com/media/2025/n...

Sometimes reflect on where I’d have got in politics or journalism if only my parents had taught me how to hate.

Amazing how politicians can connect with voters when they talk about what concerns them, not their billionaire donors.

A new dawn. Trump and Starmer look like the past. A sad, pathetic and shameful past. Zohran and Zack look like the future.

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

We need to call a halt to stupid, irresponsible and prejudiced people seeking to whip up hatred in our country.

Who could have guessed that right-wing policies, participating in genocide and warmongering would make a 'Labour' government unpopular? 🤔

This a review of a play, for God’s sake, not adult content. Stop behaving like a prim maiden aunt, @bsky.app.

Extraordinary thing about the Epstein saga is it has resulted in only one person going to jail — a woman. Ghislaine was heavily involved, but not a user of Epstein’s services. No question of jail for Andrew: he needs only drop a prefix before his name. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

This is what freedom of speech looks like in America.

‘Seldom, if ever, do stage productions make me cry these days, but #TheLineofBeauty at the Almeida Theatre in London did. It brought back often painful memories of a decade that is vivid in my memory.’ www.thenewworld.co.uk/tim-walker-t...

Two ways of looking at @ZackPolanski. 1. He offers hope and the only way out of our corrupt politics of vested interests. 2. He’ll divide the progressive vote at the next election and Labour will lose. * Problem with 2: Labour isn’t remotely progressive and it’s going to lose anyway.

Saddam Hussein and even Liberace would have considered Trump’s golden White House ballroom vulgar.

Good grief. A politician with a brain and integrity and concern for what’s in the national interest. Starting to think I’d never see that again in my lifetime.

I’m still awaiting the sector by sector , impact assessment for Brexit we were promised . Are they nearly ready ?

💩 This government’s so full of it.

Curious how this government will claim to have ‘special intelligence’ on issues such as this and Palestine Action to justify what it’s doing, but where was the early intelligence on the appointment of Mandelson, the genocide, the claim they could make a success of Brexit etc?

Malak is an exceptional young journalist.

Who’d have thought it? Reeves accepts the Brexit deal she voted for — and Starmer ordered Labour MPs to vote for — is caused long-term damage to the economy.

What beggars belief is that the perpetrator of this act of national self-harm sees himself as our next prime minister.

Interesting.

If not zackpolanski.bsky.social, then who? We all know the answer to that, which accounts for the extraordinary surge in support for him. open.substack.com/pub/thattimw...

By implication, a great many Americans wouldn’t have cared for the spectacle of our prime minister and King licking the ass of their king.

If not zackpolanski.bsky.social, then who? We all know the answer to that, which accounts for the extraordinary surge in support for him. open.substack.com/pub/thattimw...

People asked after this if I’d join Labour. I replied I’d worked with Starmer and knew him. ‘It’d be like defending a man on an indecent exposure charge when he’s standing behind me with his trousers down.’ I’m a Green because I can make the case for Zack. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Things that are simultaneously true: Antisemitism exists in U.K. & must end Maccabi fanbase incl a hardcore racist hooligan faction U.K. policing has been substantially under-resourced for years PMs & Home Secs should stay out of operational decisions made by police forces

Labour’s deference to the £10m-plus class - it’s not even prepared to talk publicly about the all-party proposal to tax them just a tiny bit more - shows who it’s really in office to serve.

Johnson, the arms manufacturers’ friend, also of course cheering Israel on through its genocide: a more morally repellent individual it is hard to imagine.

Reeves sees that Brexit is the problem but is going to courageously push ahead with still more taxes rather than reverse It. And no question of her imposing additional taxes on the £10m or more bracket — among whose number were the loudest and most powerful champions of Brexit.

So why not even consider reversing Brexit?

Trump’s hair is as rooted in his scalp as much as he is in reality. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Perhaps Gove will make up the difference? www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...

Always a pair of greedy chancers.

It’s @andyburnham.bsky.social or bust for this country. Let’s be clear Starmer is proving a better warm-up act for Farage than Biden ever was for Trump.

Let’s have a serious and long overdue conversation about foreign interference in our country, then. China — and, for that matter, Israel’s — influence over our prime minister, for sure. But also let’s talk about Russia and the part it played in making Brexit happen.

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.

You know why I like this guy? No one owns him. That’s why his words resonate across all demographics. And he can attack rich men.

With Israel’s ownership of the Prime Minister — and now we have to factor in China’s, too — plus those who give him suits etc, I’d say the electorate now has at best a minority stake in him. Times tomorrow.

Take, take, take.

Aren’t we lucky in this country to have the wise counsel of such columnists?

We can all agree that the attack on the Synagogue in Manchester was terrorism So why is setting a Mosque alight just 'arson' and a 'hate crime' and also not terrorism?

We’ve already moved on from Starmer, but we’re not sure where we’re moving on to. thattimwalker.substack.com/p/starmer-do...

Radical thought: do some greedy, grasping members of the indigenous population actually deserve to live here?

REVEALED: Donald Trump has picked Tony Blair for central role in Gaza ‘peace plan’… …but in our inaugural investigation for @thenerve_news, we reveal extensive previously unreported links to Israeli defence, media & tech. 🧵 1/ www.thenerve.news/p/tony-blair...