EXC: The Government will move to ban trail hunting in the new year. It forms part of its animal welfare strategy, set to be published on Monday www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...

Transparency latest: Downing Street has cancelled Afternoon Lobby, the daily forum for journalists to ask questions. They are instead bringing in occasional press conferences, with morning ones open to the "lobby, sector journalists and content creators"

Happy retirement John Cena

EXC: Richard Tice has been accused of discouraging racism victims from coming forward after dismissing the allegations against Nigel Farage. Lord Mann, the Government’s independent advisor on antisemitism, says Tice may have "retraumatised a victim" www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...

EXC: Covid fraud under the Tories cost the taxpayer a massive £10.9 billion. Government sources say checks were "so lax they may as well have left the door wide open", allowing fraudsters to fleece the public purse with ease www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...

Who among us has not made plans then decided it would be nicer to just cancel. Solidarity with the introverts ✊

EXC: Denmark's hardline asylum policy has led to more racism and a surge in support for the far-right, Danish politicians say. They urged the UK to drop plans to copy it, warning it only encouraged even worse attitudes towards immigrants www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...

Relatable content from The Times

79-year-old Paul Bojerski was born to Polish parents in a WWII German refugee camp. His family legally emigrated to the U.S. when he was 5. He’s been taken by ICE in Florida. www.orlandosentinel.com/2025/11/16/s...

This is a wonderful read on the match between Palestine and the Basque national team www.theguardian.com/football/202...

Went to the women's North London derby and a clear highlight was an Arsenal adult fan behind us chanting "red army", and a small child next to him mishearing so saying "you can't say that, it's offensive to Jewish people"

Went to a care home with Angela Rayner to talk about what's next, Labour infighting, and boosting pay for carers www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...

Sadiq Khan has written for The Mirror about London being the best city in the world, and claimed its critics are talking 'baseless, unpatriotic nonsense' www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...

PSA: Pulp have done the Tiny Desk Concert and it's great with really interesting arrangements www.youtube.com/watch?v=x_Kl...

Rupert Lowe just asked the PM, who fought to end the death penalty in multiple countries, if he’d support a referendum to bring it back #PMQs

The right wing has forced out a right winger from the BBC for not being right wing enough and will now talk more about the BBC not being right wing enough in right wing papers and right wing talk shows that hate the BBC for not being right wing enough

lol she got his ass and he knows it

EXC: JK Rowling and Elon Musk are funding transphobia which is seeing equality in Britain go backwards, a Labour MP has warned. Nadia Whittome said the public had far bigger concerns than trans people, but those concerns were drowned out on social media www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...

A Lily Allen style album on betrayal and heartbreak but it's about Nick Mohammed at the end of Celebrity Traitors

Same vibe

Vince Cable and George Osborne are in Westminster answering questions from MPs about the Budget

While many will be celebrating Zohran Mamdani winning, do also consider how hard today will be for racists and sex pest apologists

This Rachel Reeves speech is basically her saying everyone should be worried then refusing to elaborate

Speeches before the Budget are so funny, just 20 minutes of bad vibes then a Q&A with all questions about specifics dismissed as it’s not the Budget yet. Great use of time

Oh so hate clicks are actually what they’re after

Sir John Curtice: "People are getting to know her more, but for every person who goes ‘oh ok not too bad’, there’s another one who goes ‘oh my God, surely not’" www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...

All estate agents should apologise, not just those working for Rachel Reeves

The quotes in this are so fucking bad I had to check several times it wasn’t a deep fake www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...

David Harbour do not show your face in London again (new Lily Allen album is devastating and brilliant)

Great story from one of the best journalists in the lobby

Robert Jenrick should apologise for his repeated attacks on judges, David Lammy has said. The Justice Secretary was speaking after warnings from the profession that they are facing death and rape threats www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...

At a David Lammy speech and they walked us to our press seats through the kitchen

EXC: Labour plans to ramp up its attacks on Farage, making more of his praise for Putin, and the conviction of Nathan Gill. Internal polling shows 57% of voters believe Farage's "sympathy" for Putin is a risk to national security, and party reckons that can go higher www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...

Posting about student politics as an adult is one of the most embarrassing, vibeless, and small time things you can do. Universities are struggling to stay afloat, and these losers are obsessing over students chatting shit

Exc: The Attorney general has warned Tory attacks on the legal profession could force judges and lawyers out, delaying or denying access to justice www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...

Exc: Ed Miliband has accused net zero critics of being anti-worker and anti-business. The energy sec also claimed Reform and the Tories had imported a culture war from the US www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...

There'll be no Ange celebration at Spurs then. I'll tell the children

Great piece from Man City player Kerstin Casparij on standing up for trans women www.theguardian.com/football/202...

Going onto my doorstep to clap for everyone involved in The Pitt, hoping it will get a UK broadcaster to help the less online watch it. Show of the year, and it's not even close

Please won't someone think of the households with incomes over £100,000

FFS another nepo baby in journalism

EXC: Lawyers warn they're receiving death and rape threats after Reform and Tory 'two-tier' claims. In an unprecedented intervention, six legal bodies representing 250,000 lawyers expressed “grave concern” over political attacks www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...

Interviewed Gordon Brown about child poverty, Reform, and how to stop both www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...

I left my house at 6:15 am to interview Bridget Phillipson in Scotland, please give me traffic www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...

Trying to answer the most important question of Tory conference: How many Margaret Thatchers can you find in 90 seconds? vm.tiktok.com/ZNdnDrYvQ/

Date idea: Doing literally anything else

Asked by a Telegraph journalist to give Keir Starmer and the Labour Government a score out of ten so far, Andy Burnham says he's had a lot of "perfectly innocent questions" like that from the Telegraph lately, declines to give a score, but adds there are "lots of good things going on""

Speaking at a fringe event at Tory conference, Andy Burnham says Manchester was the place for “24 hour party people until Downing Street took that crown off us during the pandemic”

Overheard lots of Tories sad at how dead the conference is this year. “There’s not even protests, that’s how bad it is. I saw one protestor but it’s not the same”