What you’re witnessing is a populist assault on the BBC. This is not an institutional scandal in any meaningful sense of the word. It is an attack on public service broadcasting. iandunt.substack.com/p/extra-edit...

The BBC isn't perfect, but it belongs to Britain not Trump. Political leaders across the UK must unite in defending its independence from the White House.

Then fix it.

Does Robert Jenrick even realise English clubs were banned from playing in any European football competitions after May 1985 for the rest of the decade, returning only in 1990/91, after Heysel disaster, as UEFA + our government felt fans couldn't be policed safely travelling away?

This is why the Greens are rising in the polls, and why Labour have fallen so far. Labour’s ’natural supporters’ aren’t anti-immigrant. They’re not xenophobic. Labour’s leadership are alienating them, and now they have somewhere to go. Well said.

I do wonder if Labour might look at the sorts of people dominating the discourse and dominating the content wars and maybe, just maybe, rethink the sorts of grey figures they routinely put up for interviews, instructed at that to be as cautious as possible. Things have changed. Their comms hasn’t.

Thoughts with our Jewish brothers and sisters, following the awful stabbing incident in Manchester. Sending love, strength and solidarity to the entire community at this time ❤️

The Times finds it "unacceptable" that people who came here legally in 2021 and have been living and working here since should allowed to stay. The sad decline of a once great newspaper into ignorant xenophobia and casual racism archive.ph/TFZY9

Spokesperson for Mayor of #London (@london.gov.uk) says: "We are not going to dignify his [Trump's] appalling comments with a response." Sent a picture, though. #trump @schiff.senate.gov @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social @adamjschwarz.bsky.social @sundersays.bsky.social

Those demanding their right to free speech in the UK have got their own tv news channel, a billionaire donor that owns X and the right (like everyone else) to protest in their tens of thousands in the middle of our capital city. How much more free speech do they want?

Free speech in action.

Labour and Lib Dems need to park their egos and start talking, to Corbyn and the Greens too. It’s time to think National Interest.

Isn’t it screamingly obvious that socially conservative ex-Labour and the right are rapidly uniting under the Reform banner, so those that oppose them need to work together to avoid a rout? If they don’t, they’ll just be handing the next election to Farage. Well done FPTP.

It's not Bake Off. It's a global far-right insurgency. To normalise Nigel Farage, is to normalise Donald Trump. We, the media, have to wise up fast. broligarchy.substack.com/p/springtime...

This is Winston Churchill visiting the White House during World War II. Funny how he isn’t wearing a suit either. Almost like he was a wartime leader defending his country from being slaughtered and wiped out by an authoritarian aggressor.

“You’ve done a lot of talking….” He hadn’t.

They were always going to do this to Zelenskyy. It was a stitch up. What was it he said that was so inflammatory and ‘disrespectful’? Hard to say. Orchestrated.

Journalists and commentators: What happened in the White House was not a “shouting match”. Only the American side was shouting.

Trump and Vance’s shameful behavior has embarrassed their country. President Zelenskyy is a hero. He should have been treated as such

Twisted beyond belief. All this guy has done is try to protect his people from an unprovoked. invasion. Nothing else. Disgusting. www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c6...

Exactly.

I’d really like to hear the reason for remaining on X, from people and organisations who say they support impartiality, democracy, truth, equality and fairness. I’m just an ordinary guy asking a simple question - no agenda. I really would like to know if I’m not understanding something here.

A year ago the BBC seemed to have handed the death sentence to Newsnight…yet the dire prophesies have been defied’ @iburrell for the i paper writes that the average audience is up 30% since NN’s relaunch & the digital views for its interviews are in the tens of millions