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Starmers weakness #bbclaurak #budget #trevorphillips #lbc “So here we have a government on which many people placed hopes, floundering embarrassingly in public, with economic growth and investment severely damaged by the Brexit which it did not have the courage to attempt to reverse.”

Maybe if every country bought Trump a plane, he might take an interest in climate change. 🤷 #COP30 #r4today

An alternative view to that of the flagship. #r4today

The decision to downplay the importance of the public sector and give private companies free rein was the fundamental cause of a fragmented response to the pandemic. The Tories were and are useless at running a mixed economy. #CovidInquiry #r4today

Why does #r4today book these outliers to come and skew the conversation? Why is it always Justin Webb who joins in? Carl Heneghan was railing against the ideas of face masks and lockdown throughout the epidemic. #CovidInquiry

The US president muses aloud about sedition and execution. The press secretary says he doesn't mean Democrats. Perhaps Sarah Smith can explain it away. #r4today

The #CovidInquiry condemns "the loudest voices being listened to" and straight away we hear from the vacuous Lord Frost. It was the media, including #r4today, which increased the volume.

Have you had your breakfast yet? asks Emma Barnett. If Lord Rose and Amol Rajan had not been able to afford their breakfast today, then that conversation might have been different. #r4today

Some of the people in this article have shared their recollections with me before - but on condition of anonymity. Coming forward now is an act of patriotism. Farage’s claim that it never happened is the opposite. (Note also the line about pronouncing his name.) www.theguardian.com/politics/ng-...

"It's not the message we are expressing" says Minister Alex Norris. Sorry Alex, that's the message I am receiving. Everybody is diminished by this ICE mentality. #r4today

What the government is saying is that they want to check brown and black people constantly to see if they can be removed. #StopAndExpel #r4today

Is the government line now Stop the World, I want to get off? Are we really going to ignore our role in creating the need for asylum, the need for immigration owing to a lack of local trained workers and basic common decency? #r4today

Are we going to hear about every dispute between parents and their local school or just noisy journalists? #r4today www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

I seem to remember that the UK had a falling birthrate and needed an influx of workers. The NHS and care services are particularly dependent on foreigners to fill vacancies. At the same time the government is trying to vilify and diminish them. #r4today www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

An occasional migrant joins the conversation... #r4today

It doesn't seem to have registered with Emma and Katie that the BBC licence fee brings in about £3.8 billion a year. Any cash paid to the Orange One could have some effect on the 1% crew on #r4today.

Nick Robinson is earning his top 1% BBC salary today. I wish his interest in current affairs extended to wondering how we became a nation of foodbanks, waiting lists and potholes. #r4today

"I want to ask you about coups, but first..." says Anna Foster and then Lord Moore wasn't asked about coups. #r4today

Having a BBC news headline referring to Michael Prescott as an independent adviser to the BBC Board without the additional information that the controversial Robbie Gibb wanted him appointed to the position doesn't help. #r4today

Just follow the Math... #SNAP #bbclaurak #TrevorPhillips

This has a Marie Antoinette moment feel to it... #bbclaurak #TrevorPhillips

Hugo and Ross there. #r4today share.google/RaswCyXeVj8W...

Is Gove going to remember that he helped cause the division - the Blob, in education; the Enemies of the People, in the courts, and, our old friend, #Brexit. #r4today

I hear that Tesla are going to diversify into selling a new range of Emperor's New Clothes. Everybody wants them. #r4today

Jo White MP is married to the excitable Baron John Mann which might explain, but not excuse, her thoughts on the UK asylum system. #r4today

Even the CEO of Maccabi Tel Aviv FC was more even handed than the "impartial" Justin Webb. Ridiculous man, full of self-importance. #r4today

To listen to Harry Farley and Amol Rajan chatting about the vast sums "the government" paid for asylum hotel contracts, you would be forgiven for not realising that there was a change of government last year. Of course, for #r4today, Labour have always been responsible for govt waste.

Justin Webb has never worked outside the BBC. He joined as a graduate trainee in 1984 (the year, not the book). He has no idea how employees are treated in the business world, but that doesn't stop him pontificating. #r4today

Mamdani's victory radiating joy and principle, whilst hopefully making the Democrats wake up, is also a lesson to @uklabour.bsky.social that chasing populism leads nowhere. #r4today www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

This is your regular reminder that most of the commentators and presenters across the media are paid salaries in the top 1% in the UK. #bbcpm #wato and #r4today

In the HoC Graham Stuart, Conservative MP, says Labour doesn't understand businesses and doesn't support them. If the Tories hadn't stopped funding local government and supported Councils ability to support local businesses, and manage high streets then they would be viable. #HighStreets

"We won't do it every day" says Chris Mason. No, on alternate days he will revisit the Reeves house rental episode. The relentless drip of performative acid is juvenile. He even asked about the house at the finance speech q and a this morning. #wato #bbcwato

Frank Meadow Sutcliffe image of Bay Bank, Robin Hood's Bay. Not the idyllic tourist village we know today but the working fishing village it had been for hundreds of years. It was just as steep though both then and now!

Indonesia’s coal consumption has more than doubled over the past 10 years It now ranks 8th in the world for planet-heating emissions

I’m sure Matt Goodwin will be along shortly to tell us all whether LNER Customer Service Host Samir Zitouni counts as British or not. news.sky.com/story/train-...

Rather than stop listening to the Chancellor, I stopped listening to Nick Robinson instead. The speech was just an intro to the q and a with the journalists. Serious sensible exchanges apart from, you guessed it, Chris Mason, who asked about Reeves' house. Pathetic. #r4today

Thank you James for this thread and John Harris @johnharris1969.bsky.social for visiting Caerphilly for longer than a #r4today voxpop.

Are we out of line with other countries on welfare because the others didn't deliberately cut public services and infrastructure repeatedly over 14 years, thus causing social collapse? #wato #bbcwato

Absolute perfection. #Reform

Very soon there will be no "flyover states". What a deliberately disfunctional country the US is becoming. #r4today

A highlight of a recent fieldwork trip to AWC's Pungalina-Seven Emu Sanctuary was seeing my first Gouldian Finches. We only got a brief look at a group of 6 on sanctuary (thrilling nonetheless) but then on the way back to Darwin we had ~130 of them visit our campsite in Limmen National Park. #WildOz

"Is this Rachel Reeves thing going to go away?" says Emma Barnett. We had a BBC political character standing outside 11 Downing Street before 7 o'clock and it has been repeated every few minutes since. So you tell me, Emma. #r4today

The most important thing to ask Baron Jim O'Neill of Gatley is whether he rented out his house, and if not, why not, and would he need a licence to do so. Not much balance, #r4today.

The problem with these investigations into historical government environmental policies, and their remedies, is that the BBC seem unable to differentiate between the Conservative govt allowing the cowboy builders to ruin homes, and the current Labour govt having to put it right. #r4today

And the holed BBC flagship heads the armada. #r4today

"The Home Office is not fit for purpose" says the latest Home Secretary. The Home Office has been an oppressive agency of the State, used to control serial groups of the population, and is also a political football. There needs to be a consensus on what the purpose of it is. #r4today

It seems that Chris Mason and #r4today presenters have discovered that there are a lot of people from abroad in hotels up and down the country, who must have been placed there by the Labour opposition, many years ago, right under the noses of the Tories who were in power for 14 years.

One of the bits of newspapers for Justin Americast Webb and pals to read out has been deleted by @thetimes.com. #r4today