NEW - In the latest Trawl, Trump’s waging war on …Portland?! But karma is catching up on Bolsonaro and Sarkozy. A very Friday feeling ep! Link below 👇

Richard Tice during an interview "Keir Starmer literally used the words: take up arms and go for the enemy" What a lemon Firstly (& most importantly) he DID NOT say that. Secondly you can’t wang on about language you don’t like AND parade Lucy Connolly like a mascot. Make your mind up.

Ryder Cup chaos, Labour conference highs and lows and why Starmer is getting hammered for something he didn’t actually say… It’s all in the latest jam-packed Trawl Link below 👇

Wrote a piece inspired by Obama saying that 80% of the world’s problems are caused by old men hanging on. He’s got a point. The world’s rogues gallery is not doing the planet any good. jemmaforte.substack.com/p/bloody-awf...

I don’t remember there ever being as many constant ruddy polls about who would win an election so long before an election is even vaguely due? Who is commissioning all the endless polls?

Why I think Farage would have less chance of getting in if Burnham was PM.

🎙️New Trawl ready for your listening ears… We cover: 🍽️ Royal Banquets 🗣️ Trump’s “Verbal diarrhoea” at the UN 🎯 Sadiq Khan blamed for everything Meanwhile: 🥀 “Your Party” face-plants 📬 Reform to deport your loved ones 🌱 Greens cut through Join us as we unpack the chaos👇🏽

The orange sexual turd really has gone way too far with his comments re: #Autism. Credit @jemmaforte.bsky.social on #Instagram.

@jemmaforte.bsky.social after last week's pod I thought you might like this.......

I agree with Charlie Kirk. We must see all the Epstein files no matter how many elites get exposed

Credit @thetrawl.bsky.social @marina-purkiss.bsky.social @jemmaforte.bsky.social 🤣😅😂🤣😅😂

A few ppl have been asking me and @marina-purkiss.bsky.social if we’ve taken a break because we’re not on Global Player. The Trawl is no longer with Global so last ep posted there was in August. So you have a load of eps to binge on Apple, Spotify or other platforms 🥳 Hope you’ll find us x

Love this episode. Proper Friday feels Plus a bit of dressing gown chat … podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...

Love this episode. Proper Friday feels Plus a bit of dressing gown chat … podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...

Credit @jemmaforte.bsky.social in #Instagram.

So ‘Your Party’ isn’t actually going to be anyone’s party… that all went well then…

Quiet news week 😬 A packed Trawl. Out now! 🎧 podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...

I remember when it was universally acknowledged that Tommy Robinson was a racist thug. Now he’s being encouraged by The Telegraph. Musk is inciting violence and amplifying him. Reform are saying they’d ’take back the judiciary’ and god knows what else. What’s happening to Britain?

There's no excuse of ignorance any more. Every single person on that fascist march knew who Tommy Robinson was and every single one of them knew why they were there. This isn't Brexit. People weren't conned. They willingly went out to join in, led by a five times jailed thug. Stop making excuses.

I think Musk's comments to a rally of 100k people are the highest profile advocacy of political violence in the UK since the end of the Northern Ireland conflict. Does anybody have a counter-example? "Whether you choose violence or not, violence is coming to you. You either fight back or you die."

A free read by me on why the Gary win followed by the brutal murder of Charlie Kirk was a lot to digest in one evening. jemmaforte.substack.com/p/two-screen...

Jemma Forte explains that flags are good but we need to be aware of the rise in flags and a rise in racism; which is not good Well said @jemmaforte.bsky.social

Dame Andrea Jenkyns sashays onto the stage in a sequin catsuit and belts out ‘Insomniac’. Cos nothing says ‘serious politics’ like peacocking through a power ballad. To be fair her sequins are brighter than the policy agenda But Jane Macdonald can rest easy

Farage got called a 'Putin-loving free-speech imposter' in Congress Why can't Labour do this instead of getting all weird about flags while pretending their houses are shrines to the Jubilee? Instead they fan Farage's flames, turn up the dial on racism & embolden his base while repulsing their own.

Ffs. Took a video of tonight's sunset for my mum, but thanks to @thetrawl.bsky.social soundtrack, I've mistakenly made some hellish tourist information film for fecking Reform. I'm blaming @jemmaforte.bsky.social for this

Surely ‘Presenter of the Year’ belongs to @GaryLineker at this year's National Television Awards? He’s hosted his last MOTD Lovely followers, you know what to do: 👉 Vote here: nationaltvawards.com/vote 🗓️ Deadline: 12th September

Imagine being so ‘patriotic’ you spend your Saturday vandalising roundabouts like Temu Banksy. NHS underfunded, schools crumbling, but don’t worry — we’ve got freshly glossed patriotism between Tesco and the A46.

The Gavin Newsom soap opera is fascinating. Fascinating and potentially vital, if his tactics work. Trump’s a narcissistic bully whose worst nightmare is being laughed at. Seeing his rhetoric reduced to the rubbish it is by mimicking it is wonderful. What happens next? Who knows

The Trawl Meets Jeremy Vine. Out now wherever you get your pods. ⚡️ Link below 👇

Anyone else feel conflicted about the Online Safety Act? Protecting kids is vital. IMO kids being able to see stuff their minds aren’t ready for is seriously damaging. But the bill also harvests data. No getting away from it. How do we trust that’s not exploited?

The Emperor’s New Ballroom : why have so many rulers got such bad taste and what does it mean? Trump, Berlusconi, Marie Antoinette…. Gilded nonsense through the Ages. jemmaforte.substack.com/p/tacky-tyra...

If you stop blaming immigrants you will start blaming billionaires. And they can't be having that.

There’s zero silver lining to the atrocities & slaughter currently happening in Palestine. None. It’s heartbreaking. But, it’s caused millions of people to catch up on the complex history of the Middle East and how the horrors of the 7th Oct were not the beginning. I include myself in this.

EXCLUSIVE - Ask Nigel A new advice column from Britain's leading fascist, taking a reactionary approach to life's puzzles and grey areas mrhenrymorris.substack.com/p/ask-nigel

Witnessing Trump tell Starmer he should be aping him in terms of migration and taxes is grotesque. No thanks to masked ICE agents aggressively intimidating people before bundling them away as his bill transfers wealth to the already wealthy. Every day new lows.

The surge of ppl joining Sultana & Corbyn’s party, shows how thirsty the left, or even the centre, are for change. 500,000’ Shows how crazy it is that three parties pander to culture wars & the right This plus Zack Polansky giving forthright interviews, gives me hope

And that's why they got a London Overground line named after them.

YES Lionesses 🦁 Absolute legends 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

🚨 NEW - This one’s personal …

@thetrawl.bsky.social is a must listen for me, the least I could do is vote for them. Keep up the good work @jemmaforte.bsky.social and @marina-purkiss.bsky.social You Trawl so I don't have to (but I still fucking do 🤦🏻‍♂️)

Wrote a piece. Free to read. Link below x

Yay. Thank you so much Ian X

@jemmaforte.bsky.social @marina-purkiss.bsky.social Great Trawl. Thank you. Genuinely big belly laugh at the nachos bit. Obvs tears with @martinkerrmusic.bsky.social

Hang on. News just in. Starmer has called Gaza situation "unspeakable.” Now we’re talking. Literally, just talking

The Trawl Podcast. We doomscroll so you don’t have to. A packed ep….. link below 👇

🧵 It’s worryingly easy to state numbers with no context so ppl can weaponise them to fit their narrative. For example, Reform’s Sarah Pochin confidently claimed (yelled) on the BBC that it’s a ‘fact’ that Afghans and Eritreans are more likely to commit sexual assaults. She was corrected by the

Gaza is officially in IPC Phase 5, the final, stage of hunger. They are literally starving to death. Tonnes of aid sits at the border, deliberately blockaded by Israel If people don’t care now, they never will. In the fullness of time no one will understand how anybody could be OK with this.

No one can ever be accused of ‘wasting police time’ again. I’ve just watched a video of police arresting a 75 year old ex teacher for peacefully protesting against genocide. George Orwell would be proud. Didn’t have Labour being more authoritarian than Braverman on my bingo card.

Me in hour 3 of the show when callers rang to tell me: - why they’re republican (and think everyone else should be too); - how having Tory parents turned them socialist; - why they hate right wingers… 😂😂😂 (The question was actually ‘what knowledge do ppl need before they vote?’)

The thing that really grinds my gears is that everyone had heard the creepy interviews, seen the evidence of felony and known he was accused of all sorts BEFORE voting for him. It’s almost like, putting your morals to one side in order to get a few policies you support is never going to end well.