The rapist formerly known as Prince

the government is investing £560m to reform children's social care and expand and refurbish children's homes. it is unacceptable for providers to profit excessively from vulnerable children. 20k per week per child being a common rate charged by private providers. Better with Labour. 👍

I have never heard a more perfect and beautiful Arabesque than this live one from 1968, even from other #Horowitz recordings. Absolute command of dynamics, rhythm, phrase, all in the service of poetry. #Schumann youtu.be/toc-u5ZMYGw?...

Good piece by David Aaronovitch on the Prescott dossier: observer.co.uk/news/nationa...

Oh my! 😎

Trump's White House & fawning hacks here don't really care about the 0.001% that the BBC gets wrong. They care about all the stuff it gets right.

‘I once planned to sue the bbc for suggesting I encouraged an insurrection the time I encouraged an insurrection on live tv’

Lots of independent studies, not penned by the BBC’s Tory coterie, that challenge today’s narrative: cfmm.org.uk/bbc-on-gaza-...

Charlie Kirk = good BBC = bad Have I got that right?

Maybe Keir should demand the heads of major US news networks any time they imply Britain is on the brink of civil war or that we live under sharia law. Or does it not work both ways?

Excellent analysis from @iandunt.bsky.social as ever. open.substack.com/pub/iandunt/...

This was a diagram illustrating a piece I wrote in @prospectmagazine.co.uk in January 2024. Some faces have since changed but you get the general gist …

Michael Prescott and Sir Robbie Gibb both bailed out of journalism years ago, and enjoy lucrative careers in corporate PR. And now they are the arbiters of BBC editorial standards. Go figure www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/media/...

The resignations of Tim Davie and Deborah Turness must be an opportunity for the BBC to turn a new leaf, rebuild trust and resist those like Nigel Farage who want to destroy it We must stand up for a strong, independent BBC, to stop Trump’s America becoming Farage's Britain.

www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a... Someone at the BBC should resign for this too.

We are so far through the looking glass that the man who tried to overthrow an election becomes president, the people who attacked the Capitol are turned into martyrs, & it's the BBC that gets punished - cheered on by the worst news outlets in the UK & the two most dishonest politicians of our age.

Glad that someone has finally taken responsibility for the appalling assault on democracy that was the Jan. 6 insurrection. Slightly confused that it's the Director-General of the BBC, but what do I know?

Are we really meant to accept the allegations of left wing bias at #BBCNews? There have been numerous independent academic studies that show the opposite. I truly hope Lisa Nandy doesn’t fall for this attack. Sad to say I have little confidence in @uklabour.bsky.social bravery.

@uklabour.bsky.social losing its marbles over banning of Maccabi fans. When UK football supporters were banned for their riotous behaviour in 1985 was that prejudice? Nandy says it was wrong to exclude Maccabi Tel Aviv fans– UK politics live www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...

6 things this Labour Government delivered last week

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Excoriating stuff from Stewart Lee: Homosexuals and feminists face execution in Saudi. Now they’ve got the standups on to them as well www.thenerve.news/p/stewart-le...

Brilliant and depressing piece on how hard it is to transact property on.ft.com/4nHDf2m I know some people think housing policy is simple - just build more! And to do that just have less planning! - but most appreciate the more complex tangles in life.

Quakers in Britain have warned that new government plans to tighten protest laws even further are "not only unnecessary but dangerous".

James Cleverly: "I cannot understand the motivation for protests of this type so regularly"

Why are you doing this? Lumping every single person born after the war into one convenient bag to kick. You have just plummeted in my esteem. What a childish, mindless post.

You don’t know her, she goes to a different school.

Excited to see # UncannyLive and @dannyrobins.bsky.social 👻👻👻👻

They call it “repeated protests.” As if persistence were a crime. Every movement that’s ever changed this country: civil rights, suffrage, peace, equality, was repeated until someone listened. Restricting protest because it happens too often is to say “You may speak truth to power, but only once.”

And he’s back!! Sunday isn’t Sunday without Stewart Lee. We were so thrilled at @thenerve.news that Stewart came with us. His satirical columns for the Observer were some of our most-read content: funny, surreal, angry true. Essential weekend reading. www.thenerve.news/p/stewart-le...

For anyone who thinks that Labour haven't done anything yet, here's the real-time #FullFact Government tracker showing they have delivered, or are on target to deliver, 56 of 82 Election mifesto pledges already. The Media just don't want us to know that! fullfact.org/government-t...

🔴NEW🔴 Thread 🧵 @bylinetimes.bsky.social can now reveal that, during the crucial period when convicted Reform leader Nathan Gill was most active, working directly with Russian President Vladimir Putin’s most senior ally in Ukraine, he was also one of Nigel Farage’s closest confidantes 1/12

From American Dream to Dystopian Nightmare

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Thanks @pressgazette for this report on @thenerve.news first week. We’ve blasted past through our targets. New newsletter out today so please do sign up www.thenerve.news & a huge thank you to everyone who’s supported us so far! 🙏🙏 🙏

Make this make sense!

Energy Secretary Ed Milliband brands Nigel Farage and his allies as: 'Investment-crushing, job-destroying, bill-raising, poverty-driving, science-denying, Putin-appeasing, young people betraying, bunch of ideological extrmeists'

What madness is this?? The issue here is that too many institutions and individuals don’t believe in the legitimacy of a Labour government. The debasement of the @theguardian.com and the BBC is revolting www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

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NEW TONIGHT: Not content with bringing you new polling, I am also delighted that the CX is pushing forward Government plans for a UK EU Youth Mobility Scheme. 🇪🇺🇬🇧✈️

These rooms should be filled with newborn cries, the beeping of monitors, pregnant women being cared for, patients finding relief amid a genocide. Instead, these rooms now stand empty because MSF was forced to evacuate our last functioning health facility in Gaza.

‘Destroying the Labour party’ also known as delivering the largest Labour majority in generations. Also

67 year old with a long standing vascular condition and ineligible for a Covid vaccine. Why Wes Streeting? Even the batshit crazies in the US are more liberal than you!

They’re eating the dogs, they’re eating the swans… Royal Parks say no evidence to back Nigel Farage’s claim that migrants are eating their swans – UK politics live www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...