Trump and his cronies have the BBC in their sights. Leaders can’t stay silent while one of our great institutions is attacked. We must defend its independence, end political appointments, and remove Robbie Gibb from the Board.

If like me you were unaware of these devastating cuts and are as shocked as I am please help spread the word & support ASGSF Protest by signing their open letter calling on the government to reverse them asgsfprotest.com/add-your-sig...

These unconscionable cuts to a vital lifeline fund for some of the most vulnerable children & young adults in England are staggering - a 60% reduction from £7.5K to just £3K per child & even worse - these changes were introduced by the government without consultation, warning and no evidence base

Wow - those are quite phenomenal headlines given the details of the story. Ahh look, he’s just a ‘nerdy’ guy. No harm done. You need to scroll down to paragraph 13 of the Sky piece to find the full story! 🧵 1/9

Can anyone help me understand why the media talks of a problem with public sector productivity? How do you compare a largely service-providing sector with the private sector? Also the public sector is likely to have longer-term outcomes. @bearlypolitics.co.uk @quietriotpod.bsky.social ... anyone?

Musk has transformed one of the world’s largest social media sites and source of news into an attack platform to assist a hostile foreign power during the biggest and bloodiest war in Europe since World War Two. bylinetimes.com/2024/10/25/e...

🚨All children have the right to thrive, no matter their start in life. These cuts are devastating. Please support ASGSF Protest by signing their open letter to the Minister for children & families Josh MacAlister. It only takes a moment🙏 asgsfprotest.com/add-your-sig...

Another solid debunking of right-wing fear mongering. Maybe Ofcom should fine GB News if they don't check the facts before broadcasting.

🚨Christian children were told they'd "be Muslim by year 6"!🚨 😱Sounds outrageous? You know the drill… If it sounds outrageous and designed to trigger you into being angry with “other” people, then you need to do some 🪏 1/25 🧵

Nigel Farage, coming to a city near you.

Why is Keir Starmer obsessed with Nigel Farage?

Now it’s time to kick Russian and American assets out of British politics. Be a patriot. Unlike Nigel. Believe in your country. Not in Trump and Putin

There seems to be some *confusion* among Reform supporters over Nathan Gill being one of them “But, but, Reform didn’t exist when he took his Russian bribes” “But, but he was in UKIP” “But, but it has nothing to do with Farage, he barely knew the guy” So here’s a little history lesson 👍🏼🧵 1/14

The richest 400 Americans gained enough new wealth in the past year to have provided every adult citizen with about $400 a month in universal basic income. That would cut poverty in half. We are making a choice as a society to give a small number of people essentially infinite access to resources.

Elon Musk openly called for violence on our streets yesterday. I hope politicians from all parties come together to condemn his deeply dangerous and irresponsible rhetoric. Britain must stand united against this clear attempt to undermine our democracy.

Sky News says police are "overwhelmed by the numbers". Met coped perfectly well with 2x as many at the pro-Gaza rally, 5x as many at the anti-Brexit march, and 15x as many at London Pride. They're not overwhelmed by the numbers. They're overwhelmed by the ratio of violent thugs in those numbers.

This is the thing when you’re pro-humanity… Every death stings Even those who spent their lives sowing division Because our goal is always a better world For everyone …and every life lost is a sad reminder of how incredibly far we still have to go.

💥 LATEST: US Pro-Gun Lobby Pushes For “Armament From Birth.” 👇🏻 Please watch and share this #BrokenNews youtu.be/WVocHMgKD1I?...

Angela Rayner accidentally pays less tax than she should have, resigns, and the media gives her hell. Nigel Farage deliberately pays less tax than he should have, and the media gives him a free pass. That, right there, is the problem.

There can be absolutely no “shock” about this. The media has been shamelessly platforming Reform all summer. All summer, we’ve had hate-mongering headlines about immigration. It’s a tedious and grim inevitability that you’ve made people angry enough to want to vote for this shit in response.

A video has been claimed to show an “illegal migrant” losing their temper after an Oxford City Council scheme offering free PS5s to migrants ran out. But the clip was filmed in the US in 2018, and Oxford City Council says it runs no such scheme.

Any fool blithely saying they’ve now had a bit of a think about the ECHR and we should leave - is part of why we’re now stuck in the mess of Brexit, being told by the far right to hand our human rights over to them to administer. FFS people. Have you learned nothing from the last decade of failure?

"There are those out there who submit to the false narrative, peddled by politicians and media alike, that the far-right xenophobes that exist on the fringes of English politics somehow represent the entire nation."

Ed Davey, "I'm afraid Nigel Farage helped cause this problem in the first place" "Brexit has meant we're not able to force the French to take illegal immigrants coming over on small boats back"

Reform UK, which has a grand total of four MPs, was just given an uninterrupted platform for an hour and a half on the BBC and Sky News channels, in order to talk about its plans for mass deportations When was the last time the Greens (with four MPs) or the Lib Dems (with 72) were given the same?

🔴‘Let No One Believe the Lie That Zelensky Could Have Avoided War by Spurning NATO’ It’s time to bury this myth for good, argues Derrick Wyatt bylinetimes.com/2025/08/22/r...

Readers of the iPaper expressing the views of the real silent majority: those who aren’t frothing with prejudice, those who think decency and responsibility should win out, those who have genuine legitimate concerns about social division and civil unrest… those who never seem to make the headlines.

So a multiply convicted criminal, arrested recently on suspicion of assault, is using social media to terrorise innocent families in alliance with the racist far right. Another summer when British politicians and our mainstream media capitulate to organised thuggery bylinetimes.com/2025/08/20/w...

Emma exposing the lies again. Nothing on this list is remotely controversial when you know the facts.

Because Portugal is in the EU and the signatory state of the Dublin Agreement, you bloody idiot from Dubai. #ukpolitics

Legitimate Concerns?

To say this is somewhat at odds with the news and social media narrative would be the understatement of the year. Also if Ed Davey is that popular vis Farage why is the mainstream media practically ignoring him?

Read this. Repost it. Ram it down every throat that ever bought Farage’s bullshit. Send it to your mates, your nan, your MP - this could blow the whole rotten Reform racket to hell. Farage isn’t a leader - he’s a conman in a blazer, and his empire’s about to crumble.

Whatever righteous anger the Israeli gov't may have felt almost two years ago, whatever justification, whatever provocation, whatever sophistry - it has fallen away now. What is done is nakedly genocidal and cannot be borne. I am sickened by it and sickened by how "normal" it's presented as. 2/2

Labour's Polly Billington MP responds to Reform's letter: "Reform UK can't just go around writing unhinged letters threatening investors with reprisals for growing our green economy and creating good, well-paid jobs. Here's my response and the questions they need to answer - signed by 58 Lab MPs."

Who would argue with this. The daily toll of Palestinians killed at food aid centres rose by 15 on Thursday (among them 9 children) and the monthly total stands at 800. This is murder, these are war crimes. buff.ly/FQCfvyf

Why don't the Liberal Democrats (72 MPs in the UK Parliament) and/or the Greens (4 MPs) get this level of coverage by our established press? It's a good question. The media fuels the currents of the water we swim in.

What do we think?🤔 Hmm…. A Daily Mail headline so clearly designed to make you furious. Being shared by salivating Tory MPs who love a good rage farming story! So, what’s going on here? Let’s take a look!👀 🧵 1/13

Reform’s chairman mistaking a procurement framework for government waste tells you everything you need to know about how their councils will be run: loud, wrong, and completely out of their depth.

All you need to know about Elon Musk’s stunning success is that he lasted 2.65 Liz Trusses and lost 150 billion dollars.

Her expressionless face.. The tapping of her ear How lost she looks Her little feet on the rubble Is she, as Netanyahu puts it: “A murderous Islamist terrorist organization”? Can we be real about this FFS?

Man with long hair, "When will we admit that social media is the root cause of so many societal, economic, mental, and political issues" "And why are we all letting it continue?" #BBCQT

Why are we closing our eyes to Gaza’s horror? Matthew Paris writes what many are thinking but are refusing to say #Gaza

“The Chancellor sparked anger when she revealed that govt wants to enable young people from Europe and UK to work and travel overseas” FFS. What ‘Brexit freedom’ exactly is being betrayed here? The freedom to NOT be free to work and travel overseas? One of the stupidest front pages I’ve ever seen.

If you let a grifting egotist spout populist bullshit, unchallenged, if you humour him, ape him, impose his ideas without a plan, and *never* hold him to account for the damage he does, it’s no surprise he thinks he’s omniscient and omnipotent. (Some of the comments in response to the ‘interview’)

@mastermartin001.bsky.social - really disgusting account, uploading pornographic pics. I recommend blocking.

Aditya Wahyu Harsono an Indonesian student, husband and father has just been detained by ICE after his visa was cancelled without informing him. A short thread about deportations…🧵

As discussed on @quietriotpod.bsky.social yesterday, nature friendly housing estates full of birdsong and blossom are a lot easier to build than Chancellor Reeves would have you believe. www.theguardian.com/environment/...