A Reform voter tells me: "[Farage] cares about working people. He will make this country great again.” Such devotion, such faith in one so unworthy. It does my head in.” You and so many of us @yasminalibhaibrown.bsky.social Disgusted by the man and the abject failure to hold him to account iPaper

As well as talking about the Reform Makerfield candidate's vanishing social media, Katia and Chris could have speculated about the vanishing Farridge. Where is he? #r4today www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

If you are looking for the antidote to the factuous nonsense dribbled out on #r4today, I can recommend following @handhyorkshire.bsky.social. An example thread below...

Sounds plausible. #wato #bbcwato

I would suggest that Tom Bateman has a word with the dogs in the street if he wants to know what Trump is seeking in China. A tacky gold coloured present, fawning praise, and billions of dollars for his own family. #r4today

It would save a lot of time and collective sanity if Chris Mason could just appoint someone as Prime Minister and the country can move on. #r4today

I started this thread on twitter back in 2017. I add to it occasionally whenever the opportunity offers itself, but want to start it again so I can add to it on here. So… Amazing how grater technology has developed. My current grater (left) and an original 80s grater, the size of a brick!

Trump: Drugs coming by sea meaning coming by water. A lot of people don’t know what I mean by sea. They think I mean vision. I’m talking about sea like the sea. You might lose brain cells if you read this.

When Boris Johnson was partying, lying and causing hundreds of thousands of people to die through his neglect or Truss was tanking the economy #r4today didn't have dozens of Tory MPs herded through the studio. Why the change of editorial direction? 🤔 #r4today

If Chris Mason is heading off to Downing Street in "about an hour" i.e. 08.15, why is Henry Zeffman there now in an empty street? What about the £5M bung to Farridge, Henry? #r4today

It's amazing how many ministers on Starmer's payroll want him to stay on. #r4today

On #r4today nobody hears a shrug. Too busy speculating about the actual Prime Minister.

"Week after week of speculation" says Nick Robinson, as if that is something that Nick Robinson hasn't been doing for the entirety of this Labour administration. #r4today

'Hare and Bluebells' linocut by printmaker Mariann Johansen-Ellis #womensart #Spring

“I will reduce the price of bird feed by 50%, unlike ‘Sleepy Sparrow.’

Sorry to be a pedant, but Starmer saying "We have made unnecessary mistakes" implies that there is a category of necessary mistakes, which were made. If Starmer is going to make a speech, I would suggest that he doesn't write it himself. He may think he is Clement Attlee, but he isn't. #r4today

The BBC has a challenge ahead. Does it start to treat Reform UK as a political party, subject to challenge, investigation and impartial scrutiny of its policies and proposals, or continue with incuriosity, thus effectively taking a side. #r4today

Sir David Attenborough is one of the major reasons we are allowed Nice Things. He is the perfect balance to his late brother who kept opening deeply flawed dinosaur-based leisure attractions. #NiceThings

The wheels on the bus go round and round.... #r4today

The marches in support of Palestinians tend to go through central London and are generally peaceful with limited arrests. The far right marches tend to be in areas where minority communities live and are generally disruptive and result in many arrests. Which shd be banned? #r4today

We have all done it... #r4today

With all that’s going on in the world right now, I feel it’s really important to draw a distinction between ‘religion’ and ‘faith’. I’m not religious, but I have a humanist worldview which prioritises rational thought, empathy and kindness. I know many people of faith who hold similar values. 1/5

Have Sarah Montague and Jonny Dymond had special training to ask daft compromising questions to representatives of warring countries? Appeasement and capitulation or strategic war aims are fair game. #wato #bbcwato

David Satterfield's description of a murderous kleptocracy made me wonder which one he was talking about. #IranWar #r4today

I regularly despair at the boneheaded thinking of the #DWP, but.. they want 16 year olds to take up apprenticeships, and outdated current rules take away child support at 16, if the child becomes an apprentice. #r4today www.theguardian.com/education/20...

He did it at DCMS. #NoddingDog #bbcpm

Nick and Chris, our favourite fish wives, speak to the nation... #r4today

What sort of gilded cage does Sarah Montague inhabit that makes her unaware that public toilets have been closed, sold and become wine bars for the last 14 years? Ridiculous blinkered existence. #wato #bbcwato

All of this "He probably said...", "She might have said.." from Nick Robinson should wait until Tuesday when he will know what he and she said. #r4today

Darkest truth about me: I would let the duck in

Today is the 251st anniversary of Paul Revere's midnight ride to warn the Minutemen of approaching British troops. I want to take a moment to share an excerpt from the Declaration of Independence's grievances against King George III. Remind you of anyone?

New euphemism for "pure, unadulterated horseshit" just dropped

Are we hearing a lost episode of "Yes Prime Minister"? #r4today

Does BBC News understand that when they say "The BBC understands..." that they really are saying "What we are telling you might be true or might not." Which, to be fair, is, sadly, frequently the case, as the BBC rushes to judgement. #r4today

As people get postal votes for the Scot Parl election please be careful of the spoiler operation which is 'Independent Green Voice'. They are listed second on the regional ballot paper in South of Scotland with the real Green Party further down. IGV is a right-wing spoiler operation.

#bbcpm Surely, the BBC wouldn't mispresent how tiny, I mean how widespread, this abuse of the asylum system is? 🤔

I was writing this - Kemi Badenoch frequently denies saying what she has just said, accusing her interlocutor of putting words into her mouth - as she then did it again on #r4today.

If only Starmer had treated his job as PM the same as Johnson did, when he got rid of his ethics advisers, watered down the Ministerial Code, and illegally prorogued Parliament. Chris Mason and his chums were insufficiently curious then. #r4today

Another perspective on the BBC asylum investigation, introducing context and dignity. #r4today

Of course there's another area (other than migration) where dodgy advisers coach people on what to say to obtain a benefit: tax. But BBC doesn't run this kind of exposé on them and nor is there the unspoken inference that all taxpayers are dodgy and all those who provide tax advice are criminals

The BBC seems to be on a roll with these false asylum claims investigations. It is probably time for to revisit Theresa May's claim that claimants can't be removed if they are separated from their pets. #r4today

Well that interview with the Immigration Services Commissioner didn't go the way Amol wanted. He won't be invited back. #r4today

I think #r4today could save some money and assist the understanding of the listeners by replacing Justin Webb and Amol Rajan with a couple of sperm whales. You are welcome.

When Nick Robinson and Justin Webb get together they turn into a right pair of martinets, making the #r4today World into a safe place for reactionary thoughts. It costs the listeners over £750k a year to provide this sanctuary, whether we like it or not.

No mention whatsoever from #r4today just how dangerous it is to be gay in many parts of the world. Just another report demonising asylum seekers. www.fairplanet.org/story/death-...