You could say it is a constant issue...

If handing someone their arse, was a video clip

How the BBC & ITV give disproportionate coverage to Farage & Reform: hard evidence from a serious study. BBC & ITV now give Reform more coverage than the Conservatives, more than the Lib Dems & nine times the Greens. Superb research from Stephen Cushion. www.enhancingimpartiality.com/blog/broadca...

It would appear that Baroness Falkner is somewhat flexible with her opinion of when it is or is not acceptable to question the judiciary. It could almost appear that she chooses depending on whether they align with her own gender critical beliefs.

Another depressingly tone-deaf performance by Badenoch at #PMQs. Our continent is threatened from East and West, and Kemi wants to talk Westminster gossip. Rarely have I seen anyone as witless, be so pleased with themselves. Truss springs to mind. Johnson. Cameron. WAIT - I think I see a pattern.

We've written & published a short summary statement regarding the Sandie Peggie V NHS Fife Health Board employment tribunal case & the judgment given yesterday. Much of the media coverage has missed key information, the most important aspect being that all claims against Dr Beth Upton were dismissed

I have been thinking about this... Is it possible that Nigel Farage doesn't even realise that characters like Alf Garnett were meant to satirize and lampoon bigots? ~AA

I suspect you have to be quite racist to stand out as "the racist guy" at a boys public school of the 1980s.

Nigel Farage was a racist bully at school but Rachel Reeves won the wrong chess championship so who can say who is worse?

This is the point where the anti-Reeves stories tip into madness. Criticise her performance all you like but what the hell is this?

The right-wing British press any time Rachel Reeves does anything:

you know that thing where you have a 1:1 or a performance review and they go through your job description and ask if you have any questions about your role? someone should do one of those with Chris Mason

Badenoch's response was like having the snidest Richard Littlejohn Daily Mail piece, read out by a foghorn.

Having Johnson & Cummings in Downing Street when Covid struck was, just like Brexit, an entirely avoidable disaster caused largely by utterly appalling journalism. And now exactly the same clowns, arses & bigots with bylines are rolling out the red carpet for Farage. www.thetimes.com/article/1b15...

You have to treat the posts of someone as toxic as Yaxley-Lennon with the same cynicism whether they fit into your preferred narrative or not. The reason for his most recent post is plainly not praise. It is to exploit the cracks among progressives and divide us further. Why are you boosting him?

Kemi Badenoch on the latest budget chat: "I have never seen this level of chaos, this level of irresponsibility." That's Kemi Badenoch who was Trade Secretary in the Truss cabinet. I mean, come on.

🚨 I'm hearing that Sir Graham Brady has entered Downing Street

Whole fucking thing makes me sick to my stomach. An abject fucking liar, a man who lies as easily as he fucking breathes, threatening an organisation which strives for truthfulness. And plastic patriots like the Mail and Farage urging him on. Jackels.

What's fascinating here is that as she rhymes off the list of gender critical people at Newsnight pursuing an explicitly gender critical agenda, in the context of a discussion of ideological capture at the BBC, she doesn't recognise that she was part of the ideological capture of the BBC by GCs.

Maybe Keir should demand the heads of major US news networks any time they imply Britain is on the brink of civil war or that we live under sharia law. Or does it not work both ways?

How ever since Labour came to power, the British media has started to notice a whole series of problems they spent the previous 14 years completely ignoring www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/the-great-...

Tories were complaining about "the last Labour Government" the day before dissolution in 2024, 14 years since that government left office. That was apparently fine, but Labour pointing out that prisons were left in a mess is apparently passing the buck and blaming everybody else.

A great day for the golden rule of political analysis: when the right wins it is a resounding ideological victory that humiliates the left and when the left wins it is a precarious fluke that will surely end up humiliating the left. Conservatives are power’s landlords and the left merely tenants

Looking forward to learning all about how the right should move left to win elections tomorrow. They should maybe dye their hair pink, learn to love pronouns.

The right-wing British press any time Rachel Reeves does anything:

Complaining to Labour about problems created by the Tories is at epidemic proportions on here. How the fuck are they meant to have reversed fourteen years of decline in fourteen months?

Faten Hameed has changed a bit since she was my local Labour candidate in 2017 and 2019...

Badenoch is such a dick. Honestly, today was beyond what can be acceptable to anyone. Just utter lies being told, in real time, on the most sensitive issue imaginable.

The next time a woman's assault by a hate-filled man manages to get widespread coverage in the press, and the story sets out all the warning signs that were ignored, the free speech warriors can pat themselves on the back saying "We did that so that Graham Linehan could abuse trans kids on Twitter."

People who pretend their transphobia is rooted in a concern for women's safety can now congratulate themselves that they have taken away a system which helped to identify men likely to commit violent assaults against women and could be used to prevent those assaults. Drink your champagne, ladies.

1993: Stephen Lawrence is murdered by racists. 1999: The MacPherson Inquiry recommends recording of non-crime hate incidents. 2005: After the Discrimination Law Review, non-crime hate incidents begin being recorded by UK police. 2025: Mainstream transphobia ends a harm reduction policy that worked.

Both Reform (printing that blue football shirt) and the furthest right of the Conservative Party (Jenrick‘s comments on Birmingham) are obsessed with trying to gain cultural capital through football. They haven’t managed to own that space yet, but they’re going to try.

NEW What the Chinese spying case witness statements reveal The Crown Prosecution Service appears to have made at least one serious error, while the government's position now makes sense By me emptycity.substack.com/p/what-the-c...

Have I understood this correctly? Having clarified via the courts three years ago that when the Scotland Act reserved powers over the constitution it really did mean it, the SNP has decided to frame next year's devolved election as a means to deliver a second independence referendum? Curious.

I really don't know what to do about a situation where a plurality of the group that (rightly!) takes up most government spending thinks that it is unrepresented in politics.

If I were an investigative journalist in the UK (are there any left?), I would be having a good look at the extent to which NHS leadership seems to have allied itself with a fringe medical movement that more or less condones conversion therapy. qnews.com.au/australian-r...

"I hope Starmer wakes up tomorrow morning and feels ashamed about what he has done," says man who unveiled this poster the day Jo Cox was assassinated by a far-right terrorist.

I am not up for it. I also wouldn't imagine it helps his selection prospects for a potential by-election much when he pre-announces he's thinking about ousting the party leader.

There should be a high bar for politicians attacking the media, but maybe Ed Davey has half a point here? For example, the first three paragraphs of this BBC story repeat Reform's £243bn figure without saying that the thinktank behind the estimate now disowns it. (This is mentioned in paragraph 35)

Poland's statement to Russia at the UN. "If another missile or aircraft enters our space without permission, deliberately or 'by mistake', and gets shot down, please don't come here to whine about it. You have been warned." ~AA

Every time I read something about the inner workings of Your Party:

I disagree with Zarah Sultana on many things but I do kinda feel sorry for her wandering into battle with a bunch of people who've been doing Bennite factionalism for the last 50 years.

youtu.be/arlCJYgmnVs?... This is such a great portrayal of UK politics in 2025. It isn't called Futurama for nothing.

IS TONTY BLAIR BEHIND THIS

does seem tremendously unfair that, when the main centre left party breaks, we get centre right hegemony... but when the main centre right party breaks, we get the far right. the sheer asymmetry of it offends me

Loath though he is to alienate floating racists, perhaps Starmer could rouse himself to condemn a violent fascist rally teeming with people who want him overthrown and/or killed

Labour's strategy since the election seems designed to appeal to right-conservative voters. This strategy hasn't worked on its own terms because they have lost the (very few) right-wing voters that they had, while also losing (much) larger numbers of left-wing voters.

🚨New Research 🚨 Ahead of the release of Wave 30 of the BES Internet Panel, the team has examined Labour's decline since the 2024 GE. Labour's support has splintered into mostly indecision or left-liberal parties, but they've also lost their few right-wing voters. 🧵⬇️ tinyurl.com/3m62exph