Very childish of me BUT sorry, not sorry for sharing this

Even if the Gaza Ceasefire holds – and I'm so sceptical – Trump needs to rein in his expectations of being awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. The one announced tomorrow will be for 2024 – when he was spending more time in court than playing dress-up as peacemaker – and they aren't awarded posthumously.

Accusing Starmer of quoting Enoch Powell is nothing more than a shameless lie. Yet another politician whose lies go unchallenged

I always called this the other people's kids test. "I think more people need to get a trade and stop going to uni" "So your children aren't going to university?" "Erm... no that's different".

@quietriotpod.bsky.social are you aware that Michael Gove is starting a podcast called Quite Right. Do you think he's trying to invade and steal your clientele undercover. I think you should retaliate by starting a regular magazine called The Spectwatter

Theory: She held a speech writing contest. Got 20 different people to submit a draft, a tornado swept through Manchester and she picked up the pieces and got one page from each of them

"if this comes over my fence one more time you won't be getting it back"

Today’s opinion poll write ups would be more useful if they all carried a health warning along the lines of …”in 1982 the SDP-Liberal alliance rose to 50 pct in the polls. At the election only a year later its support was 25 pct and it won 23 seats. The Tories won a landslide majority of 144.”

Does any polling company ask the question: who will you vote for in the 2029 General Election?

This story is now big news all over the world... except in the UK.

“I would gently point out to Nigel Farage that before we left the EU we had a returns agreement with every country in the EU. He told the country it would make no difference if we left. He was wrong about that. These are Farage boats in many senses coming across the channel” 👏 PM Keir Starmer

Once again, ideas which started on the maddest fringes of the far right are being normalised as the stuff of day-to-day political debate. Genuinely horrifying to think what might follow this into the mainstream by 2029

I have watched his bit and the bit after Kuenssberg asks the question about 20 times and my ribs hurt. Janey, Janey, Janey, still making me laugh from beyond.

Labour MAGA

When David Lammy says Nigel Farage flirted with Hitler Youth, he’s referring to the fact that teachers from his school described him as a Fascist and recalled how he marched through a Sussex village singing Hitler Youth songs. Sounds pretty flirty to me.

Nigel Farage doesn’t think the Prime Minister should have free speech in this country. But he’ll tell foreigners that yours is somehow under threat from the Prime Minister. He’s a whiny little liar. Always has been. Always will be.

I often idly reflect on the miserable existence Daily Mail readers must live through.

Not sure the man responsible for this poster is best placed to lecture anyone else on taking politics “into the gutter”.

hardly anyone will watch Starmer's appearance at Labour conference today but it was probably the best speech he's ever given he clearly signposted what he stands for - a diverse, tolerant, decent Britain - and how be believes progressives are in an existential fight with the populist right

Presumably, Chris Mason will report this when he can find a black tie to wear.

Please RT this so Donald Trump sees.

There's no way fartyrage will win 370+ seats and yes, Labour should just crack on with the work that needs doing after a dozen years of Tory fuckery.

@monkemma.bsky.social do you have any plans to do anything about Sharia "courts" or indeed Jewish "courts" which are courts in the same sort of way as asylum hotels are hotels. It would just be very useful to help me put somebody I know onto a more informed footing (to put it politely).

Just one more thing Mr Fartrage. If immigrants are getting iPads, free cars and 5-star room service like you say, why do they need to eat swans?

I see references to the 'cost' of nationalising things again, now Burnham has started talking about it. Need to bear in mind that this is the price of an asset that might have a yield. The 'cost' is the difference between the interest rate on the loan and that yield. Which could be +ive or -ive.

I’ve heard that after his time as an MEP Nigel Farage started speaking Flemish and had to undergo extensive vocal coaching with the cast from Radio 4’s Dead Ringers to regain his distinctive style I’m of course not saying it’s true, we have no evidence. But it might be, we just don’t know

It is possible to cherish the BBC as an institution while also saying that BBC News is failing very badly, day after day, in its duty to inform and that it always fails in a right-wing direction. It desperately needs to recover its integrity

Beth Rigby says everyone is talking about Nigel Farage and his eye catching policies and I truly don't think she realises her and all of the broadcast media are being played by Farage and the right wing print media

I have defended the BBC again and again. No more.

Tommy Robinson is a journalist in much the same way that a hamster is a bicycle.

I didn't say "fuck off" but I like to think I am modelling the behaviour @jamesomalley.co.uk rightly calls for here. www.youtube.com/watch?v=NArb...

Driving home tonight I saw an enormous billboard with an advert from LBC News saying “Third Migrant Returned to France”. This country’s media coverage of immigration has gone completely mad.

Montie thinks this a beautiful sight. It was recorded from very close to St Thomas' Hospital, where a doctor has given us a much less beautiful insight into that day. Montie is such an idiot. bsky.app/profile/ceeb...

Take a breath. Look behind the hostile headlines. What this government is on the verge of doing is to expand this one-in-one-out deal into, essentially, a safe and legal route from France. It is - and has always been - the only solution to dangerous crossings and what has been needed for years.

Just watched a bit of Piers Morgan on Question Time - whenever I see him (which is rare) - I remind myself that in his eulogy to Mohammed Al Fayed he described him as a “bit of a rascal” - another case of everyone gathering together to cover up what was in plain sight

This doesn't look at all like a still from The Handmaid's Tale..

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The UK and US have agreed the Tech Prosperity Deal, focused on developing the fastest growing technologies like AI (including medicine research), quantum, and nuclear. US tech firms like Microsoft, NVIDIA, Google, OpenAI and Salesforce have agreed to invest £31bn in the UK. 1/2

Welcome Trump.

Caption competition : I'll start. "I told you the Obama photo was a good idea darling"

This rally was the biggest rally in British history from right of the elected parties It was not even the biggest event of the 2020s - never mind in history. 2023: Palestine, > 300k 2019: Brexit, 700k 2003: Iraq war > 1 million 2002: Countryside Alliance 400k

Melania's sent 3 small children in a trench coat on the state visit rather than coming herself

While Richard Burgon and Jeremy Corbyn tongue-flick his ballsack. I will never forgive these people for making me appear supportive to that snake Mandelson.

The far-right mob in London paled into insignificance compared to our Remain marches. Especially the one in 2018. Between 700,000 and a million people turned out. The Labour front bench stayed away. They also ignored its message. But the voters who took part in it haven't disappeared. #RejoinEU 🇬🇧🇪🇺

FINALLY BBC News - We will never surrender our flag, Sir Keir Starmer says www.bbc.com/news/article...

Yes thousands turned out - which is far more than I’d like - but that is dwarfed by the millions that understand real patriotism means loving your country as it actually is, not hating its diversity or trying to exploit its challenges. That’s what our flags actually represent

When they never shut the f'k up...

There has been far too much 'understanding' and far too little condemnation on the part of politicians and media of the flag movement. It is a far right campaign of vandalism and criminal damage. It is not a patriotic movement.

Today people went around my neighborhood in north east London spray painting St George’s crosses onto people’s homes. Many of these houses have non British people living in them. This is getting very dark, very quick.

I'm sick to fucking death of hearing people say they can't speak freely.