We should be learning from other countries...

BBCs coverage isn't just misleading, it is inflammatory. It has predictably been latched onto by the far right and others, including this government, to call for even more restrictions on those seeking asylum. Along with others, I explain here how wrong it is 👇 www.thenational.scot/news/2602505...

This BBC immigration and asylum story is a moral panic. Poorly evidenced, generalised panic about a marginalised social group. Next week, the government will respond with a new 'crackdown'. This will then further exacerbate public anxiety. You know who wins from all of this, Nigel Farage.

Am I imagining it or has #BBCnews taken a huge leap to the right this week? Today anti immigrant and anti- renewables dominate but even the in depth feature lacks balance and detail. Whats going on? #BBCbias

@bbc hosting a party political broadcast on breakfast TV for Reform. Not good enough and certainly not what I pay my licence for. It is becoming embarrassing it is so blatant.

Seeing as Richard Tice held the moral high-ground on Angela Rayner's tax affairs, it's only fair he holds himself to the same standards.

This Reform leaflet from three Gateshead candidates looks like a timelapse of the same person

The deputy leader of Reform UK, Richard Tice, owns a property company - Quidnet REIT. From 2020 to 2022 it paid Tice and his trust £600k in dividends. Quidnet should have paid £120k of tax on those dividends. It didn't. A 🧵 with evidence from the company's own filings:

Going to get some great images from NASA in the coming days. Here’s a couple of post-splashdown snaps of actual heroes.

BBC News item on lifting the child poverty cap and they have to both sides it. So, alongside a woman with five kids who desperately needs it they have two men who don't need it/aren't entitled saying they don't agree with it being lifted. Why are they on my TV? They're not relevant.

There is no reason to the virulent transphobia which is being "normalised" in the UK and elsewhere. Hateful, pathetic, individuals who claim their obsessive "gender critical" ideology is "protecting children", by denying children accessibility and causing harm. www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

Via the Guardian: www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...

The Government is considering scrapping the NHS-Palantir deal. Do you want Palantir out of the NHS? RT if you do. #PalantirOUT

🚨 BREAKING: The UK’s biggest ever anti-far right march is happening right now 🪧

Amazing day. Power of Unions and Tye desire for a kinder, better world. #NAHT

Sheesh. Whoever did this is the lowest of the low… Most people won’t know about Hatzolah but it’s the most incredible volunteer run ambulance organisation which takes pressure off 999 by coming to local cases, often more quickly than the NHS can. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Is anyone else as irritated by the americanisation of spellings in communications? If you spell organise with a z it's a clear clue that AI has been used and you're even too lazy to check spellings.

All the class and dignity of a festering pile of excrement.

Join NAHT at the Together Alliance march in London on Saturday 28 March 2026 ✊ The sign‑up form is in this week’s member newsletter alternatively, email [email protected]. 💬 https://www.togetheralliance.org.uk/

To all of those celebrating today

Going shopping in Beaulieu.

Farage said the ban on handguns brought in after Dunblane was “ludicrous” & should be lifted, arguing that they should be legalised & licensed again. He really doesn’t get it, that handguns in the wrong hands can cause loss & devastation. All because he wants to be like Trump. #NeverVoteReform

If I were Starmer I'd be fairly relaxed about Blair having a pop at me on this issue...

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BREAKING: RadioHead has just demanded that ICE stop using their song “Let Down” stating:

Reform UK MP people to have more children - whilst living in unaffordable homes. What if people don't want them? Reverse changes that allowed no-fault divorce - live in misery. Replace individual tax return with family return - no privacy for women. Silence on taxing the rich, who fund Reform.

.'...show them that their escalating behaviour won’t control how you respond. Regulate first, talk about what happened later. ' Free weekly #Behaviour Tips www.whentheadultschange.com/

It's good that Andrew has been arrested, but more than a thousand women and girls were abused by men on Epstein island, and the only person currently incarcerated for it is a woman.

'By using words well, writers strengthen their souls... And their words make the souls of their readers stronger, brighter, deeper.’ — Ursula K. Le Guin youtube.com/shorts/ePEpI...

Just watched the first episode of #SmallProphets and loved it! Macenzie Crook is a genius. Pearce Quigley is great but Michael Palin steals it for me. I adore him.

Has anyone told Matt, and Reform, that The Handmaids Tale wasn't meant to be an instruction manual?

While there is justified outrage about Mandelson, Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor &others, the relentless media focus on Keir Starmer (who was NOT mentioned in any Epstein file) is overdone. By contrast, no focus on Farage who WAS mentioned (and who, BTW, applauded the appointment of Mandelson)…

The Venn Diagram between racists and transphobes is a circle. The actions of the far right against migrants and how likes of many "gender critical activists" act towards trans and non-binary individuals are one and the same. It was inevitable it would escalate. www.thepinknews.com/2026/02/06/t...

No wonder the orange toddler is unhinged once again. The Obamas are competent, classy, loving, Harvard and Princeton graduates, loved by many, not on the Epstein files, got the Nobel Peace Prize, and gave us a steady economy to boot. Repost this if you agree they are AMAZING and an inspiration!

Time to get our voices heard.

If the UK media now do not apply equal harsh measures to Nigel Farage than they did to Angela Raynor, then they are complicit in a) a Mysoginist narrative where men are forgiven and women 'should have known better' and b) are actively saying they are okay with Farage in charge.

Farage failed to declare over £380,000 in outside earnings on top of his MP's salary. He's lining his pockets when he should be standing up for Britain. www.parliament.uk/globalassets...

I'm sorry I accidentally broke the law. Again. And again. And again. And again. And again. And again. And again. And again. And again. And again. And again. And again. And again. And again. And again. It was an accident. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Thank goodness I'm not Angela Raynor, otherwise the press would have hounded me out of office.

Lots of new stuff for 2026 - I am in #belfast on Friday 8pm cqaf.com/robin-ince-t...

I bloody love Chelsea #TheArchers

Not a comment about Bacon, but Linehan is the epitome of so many transphobes. They try and make out they care about women, that they are "protecting children", but at the end of the day it's about control. Control over who people are, how they look, how they act. www.thepinknews.com/2026/01/15/g...

Some Tories, after 14 years in power… …are saying nothing now works in the UK. So they’re joining Reform, so they can complain about the Tory record - and you can vote them right back in, in a few years’ time, under new anti-Tory branding. 🤷🏻‍♂️

Thoughts with those protesting in Iran. More than 500 dead, more than 10,000 arrested and people are still on the streets. There are levels of courage which need to be recognised. I just hope, but lack optimism, if this goes bad, even more so, UK et al will ensure any who need asylum can get it.

New post up, for all the self proclaimed poets & those who proclaim love and beauty - for Renee Good. “If someone smiles or cries, feels less alone or more enthused, when you read your work out aloud you have made something wonderful.” thecosmicshamblesnetwork.substack.com/p/the-world-...

Good. Relying on Ofcom to handle this is a complete waste of time. They're utterly useless. The Government and all MPs should leave X. Commons women and equalities committee to stop using X amid AI-altered images row www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

#TheArchers it was Mick and Joy wiped the tape. My prediction.

If Nigel Farage, GB News and Tommy Robinson really cared about the safety of women then they'd leave twitter. I'll wait.

Venezuela now, because he wants the oil. He wants the oil under Greenland too. And under Canada. He's openly called for them to be part of the USA. How long before he decides to bomb a couple of NATO members to get his own way? The USA is a rogue nation.