The refugee / small boats conversation on Politics Live today is one of the most depressing things I've watched on this show in recent times on this topic.

If you upload the Epstein mail dump into Palantir, could you break Palantir? 🤔

What you have to understand is that Labour had to make the tax pledge so they would win a majority of 500 instead of 80, which was essential so they could…????

Oh wow. At this point I genuinely don't know who or what they think they're in government for. Please tax me more. I want nice things that work. I want security for people that aren't doing as well as me. I want investment in a positive future. Please put up my income tax.

They want to take away our BBC. They want to take away our NHS. They want to take away our human rights. They want to take away everything we have that makes life worth living. All for their own greedy enrichment. The f***ing far right, led by Trump and Farage, Badenoch and the rest.

Outrageous that Live Facial Recognition is being used on local people in Crawley today. I have warned ministers that police are acting unlawfully by deploying this intrusive technology with no approval from Parliament.

Facial recognition, DWP-HMRC bank account snooping, restricting right to protest, Palantir, digital ID cards. It's all a bit of a top down one way street. No movement on dodgy donors, dark money, lobbying, the political revolving door, unregulated media, white collar crime...

Swapping out Kier Starmer for Wes Streeting is just more of the same. Not sure why Wes' name is getting thrown around as a prospective replacement to succeed Starmer- tbf it's Chris Mason and his ilk that are doing it.

Interesting, normalising paedophilic behaviour as a thing of its time. As a child of the 90s-00s this was not my lived experience and I don't recognise it- at all. It was pretty clear to me that this type of behaviour was animalistic, depraved and illegal.

It’s monsters all the way down.

Keir Starmer is obviously not a very inspiring political leader but what is really happening here is that our political system no longer generates legitimate governments

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Starmer's government's links to the Epstein ring so far include the three times disgraced Mandelson and the extremely dodgy Peter Thiel (who has been getting more and more NHS contracts). Does Starmer have to go? Burnham is looking like a safer pair of hands in this context.

Peter Thiel's name repeatedly shows up in The Epstein files. Starmer's government keeps giving more and more NHS contracts to Peter Thiel's Palantir. Why?

Important to understand the Epstein stuff and the fascism and the corruption are, in a lot of ways, really all the same story from different angles: powerful men who can and do abuse vulnerable people around them because they can, and because systems of elite accountability catastrophically failed

Ghislaine Maxwell lied about Trump never going to Epstein's house (directly contradicted by her email correspondence with Epstein), and she was rewarded for that lie with a transfer to a cushier prison. The coverup is happening in plain sight.

This is MUCH WORSE than Watergate. The Trump Epstein scandal involves raping children. And we know Trump was fully aware of what Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell were doing. Trump should RESIGN!

Every time Ghislaine Maxwell lies to shield Trump, her prison digs get upgraded. At this rate she’ll be living at the Four Seasons by Christmas. The hotel. Not the landscaping company.

Chris Mason is sOoOo transparent apparently unashamedly so

Gibb should have been sacked on day 1 of Starmer’s government if it had been an actual Labour government in more than name. But we are where we are.

NEWS: The UK 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, sources familiar with the matter told CNN. edition.cnn.com/2025/11/11/p...

"But this isn’t a BBC story or a UK story. It’s part of a concerted effort by the Far Right across the world to cut the legs out from under any media that might be seen as critical."

A radio programme like the Shipping Forecast but it’s called Bin Day and it just reads out every single council in the country’s bin schedule

To so many of us, Europe is more than a place, it’s a part of who we are. Hear what the public had to say when we went out and asked them what Europe means to them.

The government have been rolling the pitch for tax rises for a month, your intervention here is not going to change their plans, and all this is going to do is make things more difficult for the party that you are deputy leader of. It’s an actively, aggressively stupid intervention on every level.

The full transcript of Zohran Mamdani's acceptance speech is very much worth reading in full. Even if you don't agree with your politics, it's very beautifully put together. archive.is/8VqQJ [this is a useable link to the NYT transcript]

🚨 Dominic Cummings Lobbied Officials to Hand ‘Test and Trace’ Contracts to Palantir After Secret Meeting With Peter Thiel + New emails released to Byline reveal Cummings involvement in VIP Lane deals. Read my latest @bylinetimes.bsky.social report here: bylinetimes.com/2025/10/31/d...

Just when honest and truthful reporting on climate change is most urgently needed, Ofcom under its current chair has effectively suspended its accuracy rules on this life-and-death issue. /1 www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Which reminds me, where's the @royalsociety.org at❓ Have they ejected Musk yet❓Or still mulling Musk's racist, anti-immigration speech at a rally organised by racist, anti-immigration right-wingers❓

Lets face it, this is incitement to insurrection. Musk and all of his businesses should be banned from the UK. I believe they're arresting anyone who questions the imperial leader in the US right now.

The UK govt could stop Twitter by calling in Google & Apple & telling them to take it off App Stores for undermining democracy. They would. Sir Keir Stormfront doesn’t seem to have a problem with far right conspiracy, even indulging the great replacement & anti-trans ones. They could block the .com

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

I'm not sure there is one. But that to me increases the moral imperative to speak out against bigotry - if you're stuffed regardless, then it should be easier to do the non evil thing!

… the political pain from 1p vs, say, 3p on income tax isn’t that different. Bigger than ‘necessary’ tax rises now both give more headroom, meaning this is less likely to happen again *and* give more room for spending on areas like local government & justice. 2/3

Newsagent's latest episode: I'm not sure Labour is doing badly because people are tired of mainstream parties, I think the problem is: we voted for a left leaning party; we were tired after the 15 yrs of the Tories. Under Starmer, we seem to have a continuation of Tories.

It’s a signal to the base: It says, “even if they make me apologise, I’m with you - I’m sick seeing non-white people anywhere, even advertising things. Regardless of your failures, your genetics, whiteness & national identity make you superior. Vote Team Farage: one people; one land; one leader.”

I've posted on this topic before. This is the sort of thing my Dad was saying when he was too ill to get off the sofa, combined with a deep bitterness of how his own life turned out. This isn't what an MP in her early middle age should have time to be worried about. It's just sad.

I just want someone to ask them like, if you see a black family on an Iceland advert, why do you now think they are no longer advertising to you? What has now changed?

Is saying that the Jews run the world antisemitic or just vigilant? Tune in for next week's episode of "is it racist to be racist"

It's increasingly obvious that Labour's strategy - call it Starmerism, Blue Labour, whatever - has got it badly wrong. It has alienated the party's core vote while failing to win over those leaning to Reform. There was no shortage of people warning them they were getting it wrong either.

Elon Musk is once again inciting violence on British streets because the government has taught him there are literally no consequences for doing so. They even carry on using his far-right social network to promote government policy as he does it. The absence of backbone is *astounding*.

The right-wing campaign group that helped topple Roe v Wade in the US is now working to roll back abortion laws in the UK, with the help of Nigel Farage. Its first step? Trying to create a debate around "free speech" www.nytimes.com/2025/10/13/w...

In my opinion, good work here, Owen. Thanks for the with you do- it's appreciated.

If you don’t like being called a racist, maybe don’t make a career of saying things that appeal to racists, don’t create a political party that keeps attracting racist candidates, don’t fawn over racist world leaders, and don’t make a convicted racist the guest of honour at your party conference.

That anti-intellectualism thing is very Reform.

Starmer dropping labour's long held target of getting at least 50% of kids into uni is utterly disappointing to hear.