The European Union is financially on Russia's side. "The amount the EU pays for this oil and gas exceeds all the support it provides to Ukraine. This means that Europe is not even neutral and, in essence, financially more on Russia's side than Ukraine's." - emphasized Lithuanian President Nausėda.

@leader-music.bsky.social Three fabulous gigs last week - Peter Bruntnell, Hannah White and Whitney K. Can't keep that pace up for long though! 😄

Imagine you're in a weird romcom where Paul Hollywood is your rival. Do you go "let's have a bread baking competition" or do you emphasise your own relative strengths? Because that in short has been the central problem with the traditional two's approach to anti-immigration voters and Reform UK.

Oh my god, they weren't kidding, I've just seen the warnings leaflet that comes with a box of Tylenol. How were they keeping this quiet?!

Ok. So SOMEONE is still doing late night comedy. Very well indeed. 👏👏👏

Good morning from Market Harborough.

The fact that Trump had absolutely no tribute for Robert Redford, on being told of his passing, is a massive tribute in itself.

@leader-music.bsky.social Whitney K in Bedford on Wednesday, Hannah White in London on Friday, and Peter Bruntnell & Susannah Clegg in Great Easton on Saturday 😎

Summer just absolutely fucked off didn't it. Gave us a really good few months, hit September, pulled down the shutters and said: That's your lot mate. Clockwatching bastard.

Well, that's cheered me up. 🧐

Wow. (You can watch this whether you have TikTok or not—just use a desktop or laptop computer rather than your phone.)

Top two stories on the BBC website this morning are about Kirk. The organisation has lost its mind.

Left: Elon Musk, "You see how much violence there is on the left..The left is the party of murder" Right: Man on the far right march, "Keir Starmer needs to be assassinated. Someone needs to shoot, someone needs to shoot Keir Starmer" Anyone know if he has been arrested by the police yet?

Sky News says police are "overwhelmed by the numbers". Met coped perfectly well with 2x as many at the pro-Gaza rally, 5x as many at the anti-Brexit march, and 15x as many at London Pride. They're not overwhelmed by the numbers. They're overwhelmed by the ratio of violent thugs in those numbers.

Instead, his family will receive a massive hospital bill. This is the society that Farage and Reform wish to emulate.

BBC News Channel now seems to be The Charlie Kirk Channel.

It's all bit grim out there, generally, but the world is a slightly better place today, as @emmaswiftsings.bsky.social's gorgeous new album, The Resurrection Game, is out 😎 youtu.be/Bq3qYqpjjx4?...

Always slightly sceptical of serving MPs appearing on podcasts, as so often they are bland, only toeing the party line. Which is understandable but unhelpful. This is different & much better. Genuinely interesting. Hope Liam Byrne is being listened to within Govt!

"If you die in the game, you die in real life" is actually true for an awful lot of things, like snooker and backgammon

Ho ho ho! Merry Christmas! #andsoitbegins

This isn't the fault of asylum seekers, BBC, it's the fault of your long-running series, Homes Under The Hammer. That's why people can no longer afford houses - because you've been encouraging people to buy up all the cheap housing stock for profit for decades now.

@leader-music.bsky.social Not crimewatch - doing a review of The Long Road for a friend's show. It's quite disconcerting discovering what I actually sound like to other people! 😬😄

I’ve been frustrated to see so much of the ongoing story about asylum seekers and the protests against them covered without hearing from those seeking asylum and now being met with hostility and hatred I set out to speak to those directly affected to find out about the impact this is having 👇

Important to remember that everyone involved in renaming the DoD to the Department of War is afraid to take the subway.

"In his opening remarks, Democrat Jamie Raskin dismissed Farage as a “far-right, pro-Putin politician”, who “calls England an authoritarian regime while saying that Vladimir Putin is the world leader he admires the most”."

This. All of this. If you listen to one thing today 👏👏👏 @adambienkov.bsky.social @anandmenon.bsky.social @lbc.co.uk @theguardian.com @mehdirhasan.bsky.social

A great and (for once) optimistic conversation about all the crap that we’re enduring and how we MIGHT fix it. 🤞

sumer is ifuccen off

I'll say this for Reform: they give you plenty to blog about.

Idle thought - what if the politicians paid some heed to those of us who aren't ignorant racists?

Fernando (33), who was 12 when he came to the UK, was detained by the Home Office as part of their upgraded immigration raids. Held for 29 days. We are supporting him with an application for settled status. No way to know, but this is unlikely to be isolated. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

@leader-music.bsky.social I approve of the new Meridian FM music jingle - much less jarring than the old one 😉

I Want My Country Back And so say all of us www.facebook.com/reel/2453162...

Ppl, they promised you Brexit would solve everything, and it was a piece of shit. They’re telling you leaving the ECHR will solve everything. It will also be a piece of shit. Stop believing them. They talk self-serving bollocks.

Film critics - whatever would we do without them?

Blimey! Just had a look at the front page of the BBC website and there's no mention of Farage or immigration. What the hell has gone wrong?

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Never understood it really. Your nationality is surely just an accident of birth....you may as well be proud of having a predisposition to fungal nail infections

Think I'll read this once a week forever. Patricia Routledge, I love you.

Bin the Blue Labour defensive identity bullshit, bin the "these people have a point actually" which just encourages the worst racists and narcissists, you were elected because you were supposed to be offering something more positive. Do it.

With no hope or expectation, until this government tells a positive story about this country including immigrants then Reform will keep on winning. Sure, delivery. But that has to be in the service of a better vision.

This needs to be shared more

Fab live music and a bit of spoken word this autumn and winter here at the Tree House! Do come. www.treehousebookshop.co.uk/events

This is one of the most beautiful things I have witnessed, the craft here is impeccable.

Really looking forward to performing at the Bellingham All Acoustic Music Festival in Northumberland on Saturday 6th September at 9pm - hope to see you there 🪕🎶 #music

Something every Democrat can and should do is calmly announce that when next in power they will fully fund, staff, and empower investigations into any and all abuses of power in these four years - and will not let the "look to the future" fetishists in the NYT Editorial Board talk them out of it.

Still 5 sets left!

If he's not involved, he acts up like a petulant child. He really is the personification of a debilitating disease.

Has everyone’s season ticket come with this note or just mine?