Trump is suing the BBC for defamation. Defamation requires a demonstrable harm to one's reputation. What harm could anyone do to Trump's reputation that he hasn't done to himself? Complete non-starter, even before you consider the lack of jurisdiction that Florida has over the UK broadcaster.

So the edited speech from Trump sounds really bad for the BBC at first glance until you realise that the bits edited together were from the same speech and that Trump actually said both parts, just not together. At worst, BBC is guilty of misrepresenting the exact timings of his speech.

Sickening that 96 elected MPs voted yesterday to withdraw from the European Convention on Human Rights. Every single one of them should either resign or be voted out, because people shouldn't forget someone voting to essentially make them non-human.

There's a lot of people referring to the government's announced and proposed tax changes as either communism or socialism, which leads me to conclude that there are a lot of people in the country who don't know what communism or socialism are.

Is this what politics has come to? Seeming Labour supporters criticising Ed Davey not for his policies or his antics but because his name can be said as "Little Davey"? If that's the best you've got, you've got nothing substantial, and shouldn't ever vote on any issues that are actually substantial

Wow, 31 Reform councillors have either resigned or been kicked out since May. Surely this is some sort of record? www.markpack.org.uk/175342/how-m...

If Starmer lets Reform get a majority government with a minority of votes when he had more than enough power to do something about it by introducing fairer elections, history will not remember him kindly. Still a chance, #Labour, you can still introduce #ProportionalRepresentation

So, ID cards. I can understand why some people would be opposed to them on the grounds of data security, but the biggest uproar I've seen seems to suggest that people are worried the government is going to spy on them. What are they doing that's so interesting, and how can I get involved?

Right wingers, can you please clarify what freedom of speech actually means? Because if it doesn't apply to lies and the government can step in over mistruths,I have some really bad news for you regarding some of the claims made by your heroes.

Time for comedians all around the world to really double down on calling out trump for his attacks on free speech and free press. This latest is a further descent into the realm of absolute tyranny, and it absolutely breaks what the US was supposed to stand for.

I have a bald patch. Not a natural one, the doctor just shaved a bit of my head so they could more easily get to my scalp. The joys of neurosurgery!

Signed - can't imagine it will actually change the minds of the Labour leadership, but at least it'll be another bit of evidence that they are ignoring the wishes of their party membership and the country as a whole for their own foolish reasons.

The entire right-wing is going to absolutely lost their minds over the assassination of Charlie Kirk. But just remember how NONE of them gave a DAMN about Melissa Hortman, a Democratic lawmaker in Minnesota, being assassinated just a couple of months ago. Trump basically IGNORED it!

“He has been killed for saying things that used to be simple common sense. He has been killed because he had the courage to stand up publicly for reasonable opinions held by millions and millions of ordinary people both in the US and Britain.” - Boris Johnson

I wrote an article about Ponzi Schemes, what they are, why they fail and how to avoid them. If you're interested, it's here: aegisfinancial.ltd/too-good-to-... #Scam #Investment #Finance

I've seen a few questions about #WealthTax on here, so I've tried to put together my thoughts in an article. Have tried not to be political, but just to talk about the features and consequences of the tax. aegisfinancial.ltd/wealth-tax-a...

I wrote this post on LinkedIn regarding something the Chancellor said in passing during her Mansion House speech earlier today. It might sound like a minor issue, but 6.7% average return and 9% average return are very different, and finance professionals wouldn't be allowed to get away with it

If the original Magna Carta was kept in another country because at some point we got invaded and the original was sold to a collector as a curiosity, I imagine we would be quite keen to get them back. The Parthenon Marbles are more than twice as old. That's why they matter to Greece.

Apparently staying that I think there is wealth inequality and that steps ought to be taken to try to improve that inequality make me a communist, a Marxist and a dickhead. Sadly that's all from LinkedIn, not Twitter.

Just seen someone on LinkedIn lamenting the fact that higher earners have to pay more tax and basically saying that anyone earning less than about £70k should just be grateful to all the wealthy people supporting them. Also implied that criticising them should be allowed.

"PIP should be means tested" Heard this today. Utter nonsense. The whole point of PIP is to provide support to those with disabilities that impact their day to day lives. It helps to cover therapy, carers, rehab, mobility aids, etc.

You got 34% of the vote, Starmer. Given how bad the last Tory government was and the interference offered by Reform, that doesn't make you some sort of political genius. If anything you should have done much better given the circumstances, but you only got 34% of the vote.

New analysis of the 2025 local election results: This year we saw the lowest ever average winner’s share of the vote at 40.7%, including 75 candidates who were elected with less than 30% of the vote. The system isn't working. It's time for Proportional Representation.

Today I took my son swimming, and realised with horror when I was about chest deep that my phone was still in my pocket. Needless to say, the phone was soaked and is now having a few intermittent stability issues (much like me in some ways) Still mostly working though, which is surprising.

www.theguardian.com/politics/202... Sadly McDonnell has been left behind by Labour's shift to the right. I suspect that this veteran Labour MP will witness the complete collapse of his party because of its leadership's unwillingness to actually be as progressive as they have been saying they are

Farage's manifesto would be an economic disaster, but has Badenoch forgotten that Liz Truss was the Conservative PM? It's not like he mini-Budget worked out particularly well or demonstrated any economic competence.

Line up all the good Labour have done, and it doesn't even begin to net off against the bad. Some of the stuff on this list is unforgivable, period.

Really not sure how these signs got approved for use on the road. Fine if you are looking at them and taking time to read the contents, but if you are driving at 20mph and looking around as required to be a safe driver, there's no reasonable way you can absorb this much information.

It's often thought that we live in a 2-party society. that's definitely false, but how false is it? Do you know how many parties stood in 2024 and received more than 500 votes? It may surprise you - it certainly surprised me - that the figure is 72, plus 459 independent candidates.

A reminder of the absurdity of our current system: 2019 Labour votes: 32.1%, 202 MPs 2024 Labour votes: 33.7%, 411 MPs 1.6% difference, but in 2019 it was a crushing defeat and in 2024 it was one of the largest majorities ever seen in Parliament. First Past The Post is utterly broken.

Labour will close Care Worker visas to reduce migration. There are approximately 120,000+ vacancies in that profession. I’m not great at maths but even I see the problem.

Has any party ever before lost 3 councillors less than a week after the local elections?

Definitely doing something right with my chess puzzle solving:

I'm a Lib Dem and I think this is an absurd example of how broken our electoral system is. We won with under 19% of the vote, so more than 81% of voters wanted someone else and probably feel unrepresented right now. We badly need Proportional Representation at all levels of democracy!

This. This is the sort of nonsense that you get when nationalists get into power. Completely unnecessary alienation of allies and vulnerable segments of national and international society. Waste of oxygen, all of them. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

If you are genuinely worried by the rise of Reform in the local election results, at least be comforted by the fact that with only a 30% turnout they still only took 30% of the votes. That means around 9% of the actual electorate voted for them, meaning there's plenty of scope to make a difference.

Quick thought, most of the time harm done by politicians doesn't result in legal action against the party itself. Would this be different if, for example, the party was actually a limited company rather than a genuine membership organisation? Asking for a friend...

Very glad I don't live in Lincolnshire right now. What a shameful result, at least partly because of our utterly broken electoral system. Sadly I don't expect this will be the last region to embrace Reform, but at least for now I don't have to live under their governance.

Some of the charts that I made for my (unsuccessful) general election campaign, but I still think there are some really important messages here. First, it's a myth that Lib Dems were responsible for austerity. The reality is that we negotiated to less than either Tories or Labour wanted.

I wrote an article about AI. Well, truth be told, I asked ChatGPT to write the article, then I edited it. Have a read and see if you can spot the edits! aegisfinancial.ltd/ai-and-autom... #ChatGPT #financialplanning

Hi Bluesky, I've decided to set up a business profile on here. As a starter post for the sort of stuff I have available, I wrote a Beginner's Guide to Pensions which you can take a look at here: aegisfinancial.ltd/beginners-gu... #pensions #wealth #financialplanning

PSA for political commentators. If you want to make sweeping claims and not get called on them with actual facts, maybe posting publicly isn't the best approach for you, because others have the right to converse with you and you look weak if you block because they hold a different position to you.

Oh yeah, it's #FollowBackFriday I haven't said much original in the last week, but if you like any of the following, you might want to be my follower: Wealth tax musings Political snark Unsolicited nature pics Chess I'm sure there must be more to me than that, but I can't think of anything else.

Daisy Cooper just made Rachel Reeves look like a pathetic bully, with Reeves reduced to making statements about her that were patently untrue when she knew there was no right of response. I think Reeves struggles to understand that the Lib Dems and Tories are not, in fact, the same party.

Financial statement was basically pointless posturing and a lot of insulting of every other party. Very disappointing to see the opportunity lost here, but not exactly surprising.

Never thought I'd see the day a Labour government decided to cut disability benefits rather than taxing the rich.

Whenever I see news about mass switches in serving politicians from one party to another I genuinely feel that should be an automatic by-election trigger. After all, party matters when people get elected, especially if you change to a party that seems diametrically opposed to the one you stood for.

Got to love a game that ends like this. As long as you win, of course - the less said about the vast number of times I have been on the receiving end the better!

Genuinely saddened that the debacle in the White House seems to have emboldened a few right wing trolls on Bluesky. No-one here likes you, why not try Twitter instead?

Farage has stuck to his guns today - unapologetically pro-Putin, pro-Musk and pro-Trump. He's certainly not pro-Britain - no matter what Reform says - he's a plastic patriot.