Farage is currently "boycotting the BBC". Perhaps the BBC and every other reputable broadcaster should instead be boycotting Mr Farage

Zia Yusuf - the unelected multimillionaire policy chief of Reform - makes his fourth Question Time appearance tonight. The party has five MPs

So tell me again how Nigel Farage, who just took the largest ever political donation, from a Tory mega-donor, and another donation from the Viscountess wife of the non-dom owner of the Daily Mail, is planning to "take on the establishment"

This is vile and so so wrong. GB News is the TV version of X. Extreme racism like this should not be platformed as ‘news.’ It is absolutely disgusting and another attempt to drag ‘debate’ to the right and destabilise our democracy.

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Here's this week's column. Please - please - can we stop talking about migration in a way that's completely detached from the facts? www.theguardian.com/business/202...

... “illegal migrants” are not the same as “asylum seekers”

Sorry, but you don’t get to drone strike vessels and double tap the survivors in international waters and then pretend you care about military law.

Guardian also reporting that asylum seekers are being “banned” from doing something they were being forced to do, it apparently being compulsory to help the Home Office blame refugees for its own errors

I mean, yes, the editors know exactly what they are doing. They are creating an ambient narrative that immigration is a crisis facing the country and the only thing that is newsworthy. It's absolutely deliberate. Every hour, on the half hour, I switch off my 6Music stream for 5 mins.

i think we have to get off the defensive on immigration it's not just necessary, it's good! - & the easier it is, the greater its benefits

Standout gig at the always excellent St George's Hall in Bristol last night - June Tabor, Huw Warren, Ian Ballamy together again. What a voice, and a piano/sax sound that is reliably lovely. Thanks, all

Our conversation about immigration is framed entirely on Nigel Farage’s terms. Labour has completely capitulated the ground to the far right, the racism & the hate. We no longer have a conversation AT ALL about how we need immigration & when we cut it, we pay the price. #r4today

This is true. They believe racism is wrong.

‘Well, suddenly after 49 years they seem to have perfect recollection’ Or, you know, maybe it’s stayed with them for their entire lives.

Birthday book stash looking good - should keep me going until the xmas book influx

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"

Shabana Mahmood's Indefinite Leave To Remain Culture War 3 years - if you're earning £125k+ 15 years - if you're e.g. a nurse, or a teacher Labour's two tier system which rewards high earners and insults those who work just as hard but don't earn as much - really sad to see Labour fall

This won’t stop people seeking protection in the UK. It will make it harder for refugees to rebuild their lives, feel secure and contribute to their communities. It will create a load more work for the Home Office, reviewing claims every three years. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

You seem to be treating all refugees as though they're liars and cheats, out to defraud us and take advantage. Treating the innocent as guilty, the vulnerable as though they're war criminals. It's simply not true, no matter what the press tells you. Try spending time with some. Try empathy.

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So not just racist, but a liar too www.theguardian.com/media/2025/n...

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A brilliant example of what Lewis Goodall talks about when he argues why right-wing radicals keep winning. They don't play by the rules and simply don't care. Whereas the institutions they want to destroy do even when said rules are contorted to absurdity and are blatantly being used against them.

Dear GOD if you want to save money in the asylum system 1. LET ASYLUM SEEKERS WORK 2. FAST TRACK STATUS FOR EVERYONE FROM CLEARLY UNDAFE COUNTRIES like Sudan, Syria, etc 3. Run an asylum accommodation system that is NOT FOR PROFIT #r4today

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

If 'prevention' is the answer, what was the question ...? Sounds like a good place to start an interesting conversation

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I am completely on board with the idea that we need to all have more pulses and legumes in our diet (see today’s Guardian) but please, what on earth are “ambient bean products”? I keep looking round to see if I’m being followed by a bean!

75 years of respect for human dignity and autonomy, of restraints on how the state can treat people, of internationalism over authoritarianism and fascism. You can see why the right hate it

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...

DHS says this is "a growing and dangerous trend of illegal aliens violently resisting arrest and agitators and criminals ramming cars into our law enforcement officers.” Only she is a citizen, wasn't an agitator or criminal, didn't ram anyone, and wasn't told she was under arrest.

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And that company was….. Palantir Slow slow handclap to Cummings and his unerring instinct for a bad ‘un

It is way past time for the UK government & the BBC to get off X & for Musk to be treated as a threat to national security. The world's richest man is using his site to promote civil war, ethnic violence & the overthrow of an elected government. You won't win him over with another conference on AI

So much terrible political decision-making in the UK stems from a British political and media class marinated in MAGA Right online myths that still hasn't grasped that Trump won a pretty narrow majority and then quickly went on to become a deeply unpopular President.

I don't know the law, but surely Musk has crossed some line here. He's hugely powerful, has millions of followers, and is not just encouraging violence... but war. Sure, it's not going to happen, but there must be something that can be done.

This is good

We constantly hear from Nigel Farage and his media supporters that Reform isn't a racist party. Meanwhile, seven out of ten ethnic minority voters say that they are. If only the views of actual victims of racism were heard even half as much as the perpetrators

"Hope everyone is now settled for the evening"

It speaks volumes about the dire state of British politics that an MP can say that she gets mad about seeing Black and Asian people in adverts on TV and she hasn't immediately been expelled from her party - a party that hopes to form the next Govt.

Nothing on the BBC Radio news this morning. Nothing I could find on their website. This is an MP from the party whose lead in the opinion polls normally ensures them wall-to-wall coverage. She spouts racist nonsense for which even she feels obliged to apologise. What on earth are they playing at?

I do think this sort of open, gutter racism becoming normal enough that they feel comfortable saying it on TV is probably the most damning indictment of the last 5 years.

I have one slight disagreement with this post. There is at least one story bigger than that of a president instigating a plot to end U.S. democracy. And that is the story that a president is instigating his *second* plot to end U.S. democracy.

Should be a v simple choice for Badenoch’s LOTO - either withdraw this mad “Idi Amin x 20” mass deportation bill or they should be treated by everyone in politics as what they are - more extreme on immigration than the BNP or any democratic govt anywhere

34 people killed in 50 days. Their guilt or innocence unknown, for an alleged crime that doesn't carry a death sentence. That's a lot of death. adamisacson.com/boat-strikes/

The thing they never talk about is how much the UK as an economy & a functioning society is dependent on immigrants. Most of the press don’t care to share such facts either & just parrot anti-migrant rhetoric. It pains my brain to keep seeing such stupidity. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...