To be clear, I wrote this could exacerbate UK-US tensions ONLY if US pettily chose to react. This can’t be ruled out, given other tensions such as BBC row, fallout from Andrew/Epstein, perceptions Starmer becoming politically weak. On substance, far more significant US rupture is with Colombia.

NEW via CNN: “The United Kingdom is no longer sharing intelligence with the US about suspected drug trafficking vessels in the Caribbean because it does not want to be complicit in US military strikes and believes the attacks are illegal”

Thx to Julie Ivory on Facebook for a great meme

Time for the BBC to up the ante www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

An ex-Facebook lobbyist has been put in charge of Ireland’s data watchdog. This risks making Europe’s privacy laws meaningless. Sign today to tell the EU to reverse this decision: action.wemove.eu/sign/2025-11...

PM joins Health Secretary in recognising return of racism ("that frankly I thought we had dealt with decades ago" - a slightly detached tone) My column this week is about why government needs to go beyond calling out language/rhetoric about racism + act on it www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Good morning to all those people who wasted the last decade saying, "there's no point tackling climate change in the UK, because China." www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...

🔴US-Style Culture Wars Have Come to Britain but Who Is Starting Them? A new study raises stark questions about links between extreme rhetoric in the media and the surge in voters saying the country is being torn apart by culture wars, argues @bobbyduffy.bsky.social bylinetimes.com/2025/11/11/u...

I'm not sure if others have noticed this, but interesting that one of the Prescott criticisms of the BBC is based on those of the 'History Reclaimed' group, which is also associated with the 'Restore Trust' group's attacks on & so far unsuccessful attempts to take control of the National Trust. 1/3

"The hard truth about underfunding palliative care is that people who are at their most vulnerable – the dying – suffer more pain, more indignity, less choice & less autonomy than they might have." Incredibly, only 30% of hospice care is NHS funded. Pls read my piece in today’s @theguardian.com.

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The reaction to the Panorama edit has been nothing short of hysterical. Yes the BBC has some impartiality problems. But its biggest isn't the one you think. New piece from me. open.substack.com/pub/goodalla...

The more I think about, the more I realise that the attack on the BBC really is terribly thinly veiled - and listening to @newsagents.bsky.social’s episode today, you can see just how dangerous things are right now. A very good episode from the people who know the BBC best.

Anybody who had a vision to bring American levels of political, cultural and social polarisation to Britain - whether their motive was clicks or cash, ideology, boredom or anything else - would make it their top strategic priority to abolish the BBC, or to damage and diminish it at the very least

Very interesting piece, including the extract below which has the ring of truth

"We would never tolerate a government that chose to defund 70% of neonatal services, gambling that charities would fill the gap. Yet this is exactly the situation for end-of-life care." Please read my piece on the travesty of NHS palliative care underfunding 🙏 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Excellent analysis of this unfolding horror show

Please repost if you agree that the BBC is institutionally biased in favour of Nigel Farage.

Wealth inequality harms our economy in five ways - reducing demand, wasting talent, extracting wealth, skewing investment and undermining competition. Read more about the evidence base - and how to fill the gaps in it - in our joint briefing with @acadsocsciences.bsky.social, written up here 👇

So long as Labour hold firm on Brexit, all their bleating about having been dealt an atrocious hand by the Tories is so much hot air. Support for "Make Brexit Works" holes that argument below the waterline. It is ludicrous to be contemplating tax rises, but not trying to undo Brexit.

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The BBC's senior leadership resigning en masse over one dodgy edit in one programme, simply because the right wing press demands it, tells you everything you need to know about where the power really lies in that relationship

“In the last year of the Conservative Government alone, 115 prisoners were released in error, including a series of serious offenders. “At no point did this fact ever make the front pages of British newspapers, or lead news bulletins on the BBC.”

This is what is happening. It is cynical. It is strategic. It is organised. It is well funded. And we need to pay attention. The far right - and their cheerleaders, mimics, tribute acts, and handmaidens have identified two presentational frameworks that give them cut-through and traction. 1/7

I’m fed up with Labour politicians feeling they have to cosplay the far right. By all means, let’s have a serious debate about migration, but without dehumanizing migrants, or uttering facile soundbites. 😡

Emma Monk being brilliant again. The best debunkling around. Make sure you are following her.

It blows my mind that there are real people who see a post like this and actually believe the whole “Christmas is being cancelled by Muslims” BS 🙄 Let’s have a quick look at what’s happening to Sheffield so you can put your Express reading uncle’s mind at ease!😆 1/15 🧵

Bad news for the right wing extremist 'London has fallen' crowd... London just named Best City in the World for 2026 - making it 11 consecutive years it has had that accolade, including every year that Sadiq Khan has been Mayor. Will that cheer up the saddos?

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-...

🔴Bassim Haidar: The ‘Globalist’ Billionaire Bankrolling Britain’s Anti-Globalist Party Why is Nigel Farage’s supposedly ‘anti-globalist’ Reform UK being bankrolled by a globe-trotting billionaire who once advised Amnesty International and the World Economic Forum? bylinetimes.com/2025/11/07/b...

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Tory policy: Let's spend 14 years asset stripping the country for our own ends & when we're finally voted out & things begin crumbling around us, we can blame the current government. Slow hand clap Chris Philp, you hypocritical prick.

“I don’t think anyone doubts that Keir Starmer cares, but if you asked what he felt, or what drives him - it’s hard to know.” Love him or loathe him, Mamdani is unapologetic in his values. Can the same be said for Labour? www.thenewsagents.co.uk/article/labo...

After the Leveson Inquiry, is the press now beyond control? The Leveson Inquiry was meant to usher in a new era of press regulation, but have we gone from one ineffective regulator to another?

This will impact EVERYONE. Combined with other anti-protest measures proposed like bans on face coverings, the Crime & Policing Bill will see the right to protest in the UK stripped to the bone. Protest is fundamental to democracy. We must protect it. www.libertyhumanrights.org.uk/issue/govern...

An “ugly” racism reminiscent of the 1970s and 1980s has become worryingly commonplace again in modern Britain and NHS staff are bearing the brunt of it, Wes Streeting has warned www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

The UK Must Urgently Distance Itself From Elon Musk and Space X, Warns Parliamentary Report The UK’s infrastructure has become far too reliant on the far-right billionaire, who could ‘politicise’ our reliance upon his companies, the report warns bylinetimes.com/2025/11/04/t...

Congratulations to all the Democratic candidates who won tonight. It’s a reminder that when we come together around strong, forward-looking leaders who care about the issues that matter, we can win. We’ve still got plenty of work to do, but the future looks a little bit brighter.

The 5 brutal stats that blow Reform’s austerity plans out the water We already know austerity doesn't work - Reform can't be allowed to put the country through it again www.thelondoneconomic.com/politics/the...

It’s the Nigel Farage chameleon show – flashy, ever-changing pledges, but only one real policy: xenophobia

Nigel Farage Says Minimum Wage Should Be Cut for Young People The Reform leader said cutting the minimum wage for young people would boost business, as he attacked plans to raise taxes on the wealthy Who would have guessed bylinetimes.com/2025/11/03/n...

Nigel Farage, who has so far registered a total of £280,500 for four hours a month as a "brand ambassador" for a company selling gold bars, thinks a £10 an hour minimum wage for young people is too high bylinetimes.com/2025/11/03/n...

Always be wary of politicians insisting that the only way to truly “take back control” is to remove our rights and freedoms. We lose our protection from abuses of power while our country loses trust and influence on the world stage. That’s not control. It’s weakness. www.bbc.com/news/article...

The party who claim to be patriots literally had a Reform leadership member caught red handed taking bribes from Russia. This article details the speeches Nathan Gill gave that he was paid to give. How are Reform getting away with this? www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...

Farage says leaving the ECHR is the “unfinished business" of Brexit and that the UK is "not sovereign” while we are in it. But Farage lies. And Brexit is a shitshow. So, “finishing” it should fill us all with dread. Sovereignty without rights is dictatorship. www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...

Socialism with a human face: 'Alongside the issue of inequality, @zackpolanski.bsky.social has sought to challenge the heavy demonisation of immigration, calling the phenomenon of the “boats” an obsession, arguing instead that immigration is essential to enhancing the UK’s labour force' ~ theboar

Nigel Farage, whose party recently put a teenager with zero work experience of any kind, in charge of running an entire county, is currently giving a speech railing against "unqualified" politicians being put in charge of Government departments

“The whole world isn’t going down the right-wing plug hole and Starmer, if he opened his eyes, would find ­inspiration to confront and beat Farage’s divisive, fear-based politics with fairness and decency in Britain" www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...

I wonder how many other IDs like 'skinheadlad1488' conceal such outwardly respectable figures? And vice versa, no doubt.