Double James is always a delight. 🎧👇

Reform tried to dismiss questions on Farage’s racism, saying they should be asked about the ‘substance’ of their policies instead. Unsurprisingly, their policies are shit too. “The trouble with power is that it’s exposing, both politically and personally” www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

“There is an obvious reason for a crisis of trust in politics: mainstream politicians lie, all the time. They lie so often they have stopped noticing that they do it. They certainly do it so often that it no longer seems to occur to almost any of them that people might still notice, and object.”

Thirteen Labour MPs have backed a Liberal Democrat bill requiring the government to begin negotiations on joining a bespoke customs union with the EU www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Today on The Two Matts podcast, Matt d’Ancona and I again respond to your queries. "We discuss whether Richard Tice is as nasty as he appears to be, and if there is a world where Labour and the Conservatives form a German-style grand coalition to keep Reform from forming the next government"

“We've spent months pointing out the absence of Brexit from Starmer's rhetoric. If that was important, then the re-emergence of it in his rhetoric must also be important.”

Life with a dog is good. Until you're hungover and it's raining and you're walking around with a bag of wet shit wondering what the fuck you did with your life.

I wish more people were aware of this. Considering the scale of the threat, the media's near-silence is both remarkable and culpable. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

When is a traitor not a traitor? (Just asking questions.) youtu.be/CHRkLeVGmV4?...

‘That’s the beauty of right-wing approaches to tax…’ James O’Brien hears from a listener who opposes the mansion tax, but isn’t actually affected by it.

American Studies to be axed at @uniofnottingham.bsky.social and staff threatened with redundancy. Unconscionable managerial idiocy. It's been key to the field outside the US and must be defended www.change.org/p/save-ameri...

A guest free week! But a great chance to tuck in to the big stories with Alex and Kenny ❤️

"Working at the BBC, I felt that there was a strong awareness to be checking potential liberal left biases – and very few from the other direction," says Lewis Goodall. Memo leaks claim the BBC has been captured by left wing politics. What's going on? www.thenewsagents.co.uk/article/insi...

60% of the British public agree: our voting system is not fit for purpose. The upcoming Elections Bill is a chance to fix it. I just signed a @makevotesmatter.bsky.social petition to the Democracy Minister, calling for Proportional Representation. Add your name: actionnetwork.org/petitions/pe...

What does Europe mean to you? Watch European Movement UK's video featuring Caroline Lucas: bsky.app/profile/euro...

It’s as easy as ABC* but Rachel Reeves took two years to get there… Social media blanket for Aussie teens. Home birth. Austerity; Brexit; Covid. tinyurl.com/4rrn2mkx

“Elon Musk’s post makes it very obvious he has not understood a book and movie franchise that most of his fans love. Worse still for the billionaire, it is not a complicated plot: a moderately bright child could fairly easily understand its message better than Musk manages here.”

🚨ICYMI🚨 We have reached the final part of our thrilling trilogy about Lenin, Trotsky and Stalin. @iandunt.bsky.social and @dorianlynskey.bsky.social dive into some of the darkest experiments in human history in Origin Story: Terror 👉 linktr.ee/originstoryp... #socialism #lenin #trotsky #stalin

🚨ICYMI🚨 Scary migrants, super creeps. Can Britain break out of migration madness? @alanmanning4.bsky.social joins @rostaylor.bsky.social and @nndroid.bsky.social to discuss 👉 linktr.ee/ohgodwhatnow... #podcast #ukpolitics #OGWN

🚨NEW EPISODE🚨 This week on the Origin Story: The Story of Socialism @iandunt.bsky.social and @dorianlynskey.bsky.social resume the story of Lenin, Trotsky and Stalin in Part Two: Power 👉 linktr.ee/originstoryp... #originstory #socialism #podcast

🚨ICYMI🚨 Will Snell of the @fairness.bsky.social joins @nndroid.bsky.social and @hannahfearn.bsky.social to discuss a growing pension crisis 👉 linktr.ee/ohgodwhatnow... #ukpolitics #pension #podcast #OGWN

Why the Andrew Windsor story *really* matters. And meet the most blatantly ‘blood & soil’ Tory MP yet… tinyurl.com/4rrn2mkx

Ah! Good morning, reality. And welcome. We’ve been expecting you…

🚨ICYMI🚨 @iandunt.bsky.social and @dorianlynskey.bsky.social discuss Lenin, Stalin and Trotsky in the first part of our three-part epic story. This week they're doing a deep dive into the Revolution. Listen now 👉 linktr.ee/originstoryp... #lenin #stalin #trotsky #socialism #podcast

"I am talking to Labour MPs about defections, yes." Green leader @zackpolanski.bsky.social says he’s in talks with Labour MPs - but insists the Greens don’t need defections after a membership surge. @lewisgoodall.com

Absolutely epic Origin Story just landed: Lenin, Trotsky, Stalin. The story of the Russian Revolution and the communist experiment.

Yesterday in Jerusalem & Egypt: a guide for the baffled. Deporting your own child. Brexit’s back, baby. tinyurl.com/4rrn2mkx

Youth work changes lives and makes a real difference in communities across the UK. It gives young people a place to belong, build skills, and believe in themselves. But over the last decade, we’ve seen too many youth centres close their doors and youth workers leave.

NEW: Monday News Agents Why is the governemnt so afraid of taking the political fight to Elon Musk and Tommy Robinson? Listen now podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...

James O'Brien, "The scenes on Saturday were striking, the numbers very high, but a fraction of the turnout of the please don't leave the EU marches" "No matter that the problems were literally caused by Brexit"

Oh.

"Farage was wearing a GB News pin. He was there to launch and promote a show in a company he has shares in." Is Farage in the US to represent Britain, as he claims, or to represent a right-wing news channel launching in America that very day? 🤔

Flag, Marry, Avoid… tinyurl.com/4rrn2mkx

"Farage's policies aren't about creating a 'Better Britain', they are about pulling things down: It's easy to be in opposition, you just get to destroy things!" So, why does Keir Starmer keep agreeing with Nigel Farage on illegal immigration?

This is a wonderfully detailed bit of reporting. On the other hand, Kemi Badenoch is adamant that Kemi Badenoch never commits gaffes…

And here are the front pages of papers now canonising Connoly, on the recent one-year anniversary of the Southport massacre. Mail found space for Dorries' hair loss, Telegraph for "Toddler kills cobra". None of them had room for Bebe King, 6, Elsie Dot Stancombe, 7, and Alice da Silva Aguiar, 9.

Britain isn’t being “overrun” by migration — it’s being sustained by it. The Bear argues politicians on all sides owe voters honesty about this simple fact.

Trump's peace efforts aren't going anywhere any time soon. This last week was theatre alone, on every side. For the Europeans and the Russians the real prize of that theatre isn't peace- it's Trump's attention, the realities only in his head. New writing from me. open.substack.com/pub/goodalla...

1/2 Please share & support For Brits migrants abroad "We are not an insignificant percentage of the UK electorate but we are essentially invisible" Summer campaign to engage UK citizens worldwide to send postcards to their MP urging them to back overseas constituencies @northeastbylines.co.uk

NEW: BONUS Sunday @newsagents.bsky.social Zelensky heads to Washington, to the court of Trump and takes Europe with him. Are they panicking? And post-Alaska, do they have good reason? Listen now. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...

"People who are truly patriotic will realise that Farage doesn't really like Britain" - @libdems.org.uk leader @eddavey.libdems.org.uk spells out why he is sure Nigel Farage will never be Prime Minister 👉 linktr.ee/ohgodwhatnow...

Yesterday’s show was as another exercise in clairvoyance. I don’t think we’re ever going to see a plurality of journalism that properly reflects Trumps’s depravity & corruption. Never mind Putin’s. Not sure I’ll ever fully understand why.

NEW: Weekend @TheNewsAgents special report from Nevada. If possible, America’s fentanyl crisis is worsening, with newer, even deadlier synthetic opioids flooding the market. Worse still, these new opioids up are turning up in Britain and Europe. Listen now. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...

One way to understand the awfulness of what Trump is doing is to imagine FDR trying to ‘negotiate a ceasefire’ with Hitler in 1942 but with Churchill completely excluded. tinyurl.com/4rrn2mkx

Palestine Action, the case against proscription & the killing of Anas al-Sharif & his journalist colleagues. tinyurl.com/4rrn2mkx

"This isn't about Hamas, this is the Israeli govt's agenda who want to displace and replace the Palestinian people - they have been trying this for 77 years!" Husam Zomlot says the international community has had their eyes opened to Israel's "endgame".

Did @balconyshirts.co.uk close down the facial recognition technology debate for ever with his ‘sinister future government’ zinger? Weight loss jabs: the ‘deserving & undeserving’ users. tinyurl.com/4rrn2mkx

⏰ Out a little early this week because why the hell not? 🧨 Why are populists so desperate for chaos on the streets? 🎙️ @alisonjourno.bsky.social @rmcunliffe.bsky.social @jacobjarvis.bsky.social + guest @msmirandasawyer.bsky.social on how the ’90s shaped our world 📳 Listen linktr.ee/ohgodwhatnow...

Starmer’s ‘threat’ to recognise the state of Palestine; ‘influencers’ in Downing Street & everywhere else; the value of a degree… tinyurl.com/4rrn2mkx