Astonishing that the UK has built no defence to a MAGA style campaign from Reform in 2025. The American Right and the Russians have taken over western civilisation by owning the social media companies and the information environment. There needs to be regulation now. This was evident a decade ago.

Journalists who have been on full scale attack of the Labour government every day now concerned that they’re losing their access. Political journalists in this country have let us all down. It couldn’t continue. It’s all gossip. They all act like it’s the transfer window.

Nigel Farage said that the 'Raise the Colours' campaign was a "grassroots movement driven by ordinary people”. Kemi Badenoch said they should be "welcomed" as a symbol of "unity" Now the campaign has pivoted to racially abusing migrants and intimidating charity workers on the beaches of France

This is obscene. Why can't other politicians say that? The 25 richest families are collectively $358.7 billion richer than a year ago, with a combined fortune totaling $2.9 trillion.

YouGov snap poll found rejoining Erasmus UK-EU study exchange scheme is 65-12 Labour 81-4 (+77) LibDem 85-4 (+81) Cons 57-21 (+36) Reform 40-33 (+7) By 2026, specific "closer cooperation" proposals generate a positive "wedge" effect for Labour: unite centre-left, split elites from voters on right

It’s exactly this kind of dismal, prejudiced bollox from the Daily Mail that’s got us into the ruinous Brexit mess we’re in. What a moronic response to us rejoining Erasmus and all the benefits that brings. If they’re really worried about cost, they should push to cancel Brexit altogether.

The Government launches an urgent review into 'foreign financial interference' in UK politics following Nathan Gill's conviction. I hear the Gill case and Reform's £9 million donation from a Thailand-based crypto investor have woken ministers up to the potential threat

BREAKING: Keir Starmer has launched a formal investigation into foreign election interference after a former senior Reform UK politician accepted bribes to promote Russian interests in the European Parliament www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...

Interesting background on Paul Doyle, who drove his car into the Liverpool parade www.thetimes.com/uk/crime/art...

Anybody cheering on Trump suing the BBC is an unpatriotic simpleton. Or they have a vested interest. Having a BBC is the only thing standing in the way of total information control by billionaires and the profit motive. Every country needs a BBC. It’s time for some actual patriotism.

Massively overdue. Very glad to see this happening Comes a week after a Labour MP in Commons cited Democracy for Sale’s cash for access investigation as evidence of how weak Britain’s are

If we allow all these dreadful Tories to put on a turquoise rosette and elect them led by the biggest Brexit conman, then we deserve everything we get. The grift is so obvious, I bet Farage can’t believe it’s happening.

We need to stop allowing the stupidest people to have such a significant say in our political life. It’s all news as entertainment. Without the actual news.

Can we please just ask follow up questions. Don’t move on to the next topic. Follow up.

Fantastic Christmas night out in the greatest city in the world… followed by an inexpensive train to my house. Don’t believe the Brexit liars, the fantasists and the grifters.

So we've gone from "he never said anything Nazi" to "well he might have said something Nazi but not in a hurtful way" to "well okay he probably did say something Nazi in a hurtful way, but didn't we all?"

So today I found out that my TED talk ‘This is What a Digital Coup Looks Like’ was TED’s most watched talk of the year. It’s sort of amazing & terrifying. Because this *is* what a digital coup looks like. www.youtube.com/watch?v=TZOo...

It’s been a decade and journalists still don’t quite understand the appeal of MAGA, Brexit, Reform, etc. It’s not right wing, as that’s an ideology. It’s being a ****. The whole thing is about giving yourself a licence to be a ****. Doesn’t matter the consequences. Reality is unimportant.

Salah Lashes Out & Miami Conquers MLS. Watch weeks show here: youtu.be/xsNODn2mNVc?...

Mo Salah lashes out… what next? Inter Miami win @MLS Cup… what next? Two big topics on @WeekInTheTackle this week for Tom & Dunny. open.spotify.com/episode/71TA...

Mo Salah lashes out… what next? Inter Miami win ⁦‪@MLS‬⁩ Cup… what next? Two big topics on ⁦‪@WeekInTheTackle‬⁩ this week for Tom & Dunny. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/w...

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Muller v Messi in #MLSCup and the latest in a long line of disappointments from Lucas Paqueta. Plus: Dunny gets attack by a stingray! youtu.be/XmU4HaY3V3A?...

Muller v Messi in #MLSCup and the latest in a long line of disappointments from Lucas Paqueta. Plus: Dunny gets attack by a stingray! open.spotify.com/episode/1ACw...

Muller v Messi in #MLSCup and the latest in a long line of disappointments from Lucas Paqueta. Plus: Dunny gets attack by a stingray! podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/w...

How the right-wing newspapers still manage to dictate BBC coverage. Almost all of the Beeb's big post-Budget interview with the Chancellor devoted to asking whether she is a liar. Next to nothing on any of the big measures announced this week www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/the-real-b...

The economic damage Brexit has caused is undeniable - even Brexiteers are now admitting it. https://www.thetimes.com/business/economics/article/we-brexiteers-must-acknowledge-the-costs-of-leaving-europe-p3mhqd66f

All political news is covered like the transfer window. Breathless gossip. Half truths. Scoops. They’ve all got addicted to the hysteria. There’s no depth.

I’m quite enjoying the 180 turn on a six pence from “you’ve wrecked the economy and created a black hole” to “there was no black hole and this is even worse”.

The coordinated hysteria of the right wing media is making the Sunday politics shows and basically every Sunday paper impossible to digest. It’s always been right wing coded, but this is something else. They’re all in a wild frenzy, every day. They’re all GB ‘News’ now.

It's definitely reasonable to criticise the pre-budget comms, which were fairly shambolic (which, as ever, comes from strategic confusion). But this is all a massive overreaction.

It's completely ridiculous. Pre-budget everyone thought the headroom gap was £20-30bn including policy changes (e.g. on welfare). It was in fact £16bn. It's hardly a massive difference.

Perhaps a good time to launch an investigation...

I’m being stupid. This is why the target has moved back to welfare, because migration has provably gone down. All pushing the Reform agenda of austerity and welfare cuts which worked so well for 14 years… when they were all Tories.

The UK, where the day after a decision to take half a million children out of poverty, the media & political world has been full of sneering at those same children & their families, labelling them as ‘Benefits Street’, while the same people are moaning about a tax on £2m mansions. Shameful stuff.

I think it’s a good thing when the state takes care of the welfare of its citizens. This ‘benefits street’ stuff is disgusting.

The predictable crushing uniformity of the coverage of this Budget tells you an awful lot about the priorities of those papers, and also why there's actually quite a lot to praise in it bylinetimes.com/2025/11/26/t...

Net migration has fallen again to 204,000, the lowest level since 2021 and is forecast to continue falling over the coming years. Not that you would know it from the endless coverage of Britain's supposed "immigration crisis"

It's such a bizarre framing. Labour MPs think taking 450k kids out of poverty is putting the country first! That's why they wanted it to happen! It's not because they personally benefit.

The "don't have an extra kid if you can't afford it" brigade get awfully upset when you suggest they don't stay in their £2m house if they can't afford it, don't they?

Just how bad is the pitch in Vancouver? Can you have a good artificial pitch? Should Pep Guardiola be banned for his cameraman confrontation? And is it too early for the Christmas tree? That’s @WeekInTheTackle this week! youtu.be/qEhRBOFPVxU?...

Just how bad is the pitch in Vancouver? Can you have a good artificial pitch? Should Pep Guardiola be banned for his cameraman confrontation? And is it too early for the Christmas tree? That’s @WeekInTheTackle this week! open.spotify.com/episode/1NoZ...

Just how bad is the pitch in Vancouver? Can you have a good artificial pitch? Should Pep Guardiola be banned for his cameraman confrontation? And is it too early for the Christmas tree? That’s @WeekInTheTackle this week! podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/w...

Here was Robbie Gibb's "hugely impartial" take on the BBC, before he joined the board, as written in the Daily Mail

BBC board member Robbie Gibb, whose previous jobs have included being Conservative communications director to Theresa May, and helping to set up GB News, tells MPs that he is "hugely impartial"

"One of the terrible ironies is that Reform’s leader, Nigel Farage, is now capitalising on the unpopularity of a government whose laudable aims have been frustrated by the economic damage caused by a Brexit behind which he was the prime mover." ~AA observer.co.uk/news/busines...

Farage can now be easily boxed in to a corner where his only ‘defence’ becomes: “Yes I spouted Kremlin propaganda & Putin worship but, unlike Nathan Gill, I didn’t need bribes to do it.” It is, once again, a question of whether interviewers have the temerity to shut down his whining obfuscations.

The same people who convinced the British public to back a catastrophic Boris Johnson premiership are now pulling the same trick again with Nigel Farage www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/the-confid...

Farage crony Nathan Gill gets 10.5 year sentence for taking bribes from Russia www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c8...

Nathan Gill has been sentenced to 10.5 years for endangering national security and taking Russian bribes. Nigel Farage and Reform are a danger to national security, the Liberal Democrats will continue to hold them to account and defend our democracy.