“Quiet piggy” “You’re ugly inside and out” “Are you stupid? Are you a stupid person?” This is how the President speaks to female journalists. The men in the room need to stand up for their colleagues. Demand better. Don’t let him demean women this way.

This is how the Mail has covered a 70% fall in net migration. The Government should stop kidding itself it will ever get credit for being anti-migration. They could cut numbers to zero and there would still be front pages blasting them for making the UK a socialist wasteland no one wants to come to

“Speaking outside his chateau in France…” I kid you not. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

I don't think it's all of it by any measure but I do absolutely believe that the political media's raging anti-intellectual streak has got worse with time and has ended up influencing the way MPs talk, and what they choose to talk/think about

Breaking News: The chief of staff for President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine resigned amid a widening corruption scandal.

You do wonder in which sphere of influence UKIP/Reform see themselves.

Here's UKIP's former Scottish leader David Coburn, who has denied taking Russian bribes after being named in Whatsapp messages between Nathan Gill and a pawn of the Putin administration, being applauded by Gill for arguing against Ukraine's entry to the EU

"Ministers never say anything good about universities anymore, because it's against the populist code." Ian Dunt

"Our UK tax system looks like it was designed by a clown on meth." Ian Dunt

"The UK and EU need to start that strategic planning now if they want the 2026 summit to deliver substance rather than symbolism" 🗞️ @jannikewachowiak.bsky.social argues that the UK-EU reset needs strategic planning to achieve tangible results for Social Europe 🔗 www.socialeurope.eu/the-uk-eu-re...

Fewer workers. Fewer international students. More people leaving. A "step in the right direction" according to the PM. Impossible to take PM/govt seriously on growth if they are deliberately reducing it (and making the fiscal position worse) *as a matter of policy*. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

#Brexit resembles a criminal act committed on UK businesses.

Brexit really hurt UK seafood sector ‘The customers are still there’: Welsh mussel farmers hope post-Brexit reset can revive business Since Brexit, mussel production in has collapsed from about 10,000 tonnes annually to just five tonnes in 2022, representing just 0.05% of the previous total

Is there a snappy medical term for Media-Induced Budget Boredom? Maybe just MIBB.

More powerful evidence of the disaster of #Brexit from @jonathanfreedland.bsky.social. If we’re to avoid yet more austerity, we need to start by rejoining the customs union & single market. Brexit was a reckless waste of money we simply can’t afford @europeanmovement.co.uk

The "don't have an extra kid if you can't afford it" brigade get awfully upset when you suggest they don't stay in their £2m house if they can't afford it, don't they?

Helena Horton's article about the results: www.theguardian.com/environment/...

The important bit about this story - in reality the only important bit because nothing here is new - is that it delivers to an audience previously unaware of it a truth about the BBC's relationship to power: craven. www.theguardian.com/media/2025/n...

Headline on The World at One just now: "Sir Keir Starmer has denied putting the Labour Party before the country by ending the two-child benefit cap". Can we please go back to reporting the actual news, not someone's partisan take on it?

The route to UK recovery is through unpicking #Brexit, big time.

The threat to UK growth from falling net migration. How could the government have missed this?

Brexit the Elephant decided to stand on the despatch box to see if Rachel Reeves would notice him as she read out her budget. “I reckon she knows I’m here”. “But they’re still pretending I’m not, though”, he lamented. #BrexitTheElephant #Budget2026 #Budget #ExitBrexit

Riddle me this, how in the fuck is this making our communities any safer? This ICE agent sprays this disabled woman directly in the face in St Paul, Minnesota with pepper spray and then throws her to the ground. I hope she sues the hell out of ICE for this‼️#Abolish 🧊🧊🧊

Von der Leyen warns against ‘carving up’ of Ukraine amid crunch US-led talks

When I worked for Obama, I advised him on how to talk to Russian leaders. I never gave the Kremlin advice on how to talk to Obama (and I talked to Ushakov many times!).

This a Reform turquoise streak in the budget that is intended to make xenophobes happy while penalizing one of the UK's great export success stories and diminishing the nation's soft power. Truly inept. #Budget

On Truss & Kwarteng in ‘22. Allister Heath, Telegraph: “the best budget I have ever heard a British chancellor deliver". Alex Brummer, Mail: “a genuine Tory package elbowing to one side the Treasury's fiscal conservatism". These men will now be paid actual money for their analysis of today’s budget.

Not well understood that 6 in 10 families impacted by the two-child limit are in work, and that the vast majority have 3 or 4 children.

The Office for Budget *Responsibilty*. You couldn't make it up.

The government will charge universities £925 per international student for each year of study from August 2028, in a blow to cash-strapped higher education institutions. Helen Packer reports #Budget2026 https://www.timeshighereducation.com/news/international-student-levy-set-ps925-student-2028

Am still in the Commons chamber. Very striking that 90% of the lobby left the Commons as soon as Kemi Badenoch stood up. You could say it's bad form. It's certainly proof that no serious political journalist or commentator believes she has any chance of ever being PM.

A new federal directive by Mehmet Oz allows the sharing of Medicaid applicant data with DHS effective immediately, rescinding previous “interagency integrity” firewalls. This forces mixed-status families into an impossible calculus: access life-saving medical care or remain invisible to enforcement.

Whatever else this government do (and there's plenty of issues with this budget) ministers will always be able to point to this as an incredible important contribution to the country's future. Almost half a million kids taken out of poverty.

Why is @LBC interviewing an unelected representative if 5 MP Reform UK about the budget as a matter of priority?

Badenoch is so incredibly unpleasant. Her response is nothing but personal attacks and describing support for kids in poverty as "hand outs". Grim.

The abolition of the two-child benefit cap, which punishes children for their parents' circumstances, is the best part of the budget, potentially lifting almost half a million children out of poverty. It may also be the part that comes under fiercest attack. So it needs celebrating and defending.

And the two child benefit limit is abolished. An enormous victory for those who have campaigned tirelessly for eight long years through successive governments. This will lift at least 450,000 children out of poverty. Fewer kids will be hungry. No more women forced to disclose their rape.

She's right. This encapsulates the appalling arrogance of Trumpism.

When I asked Nigel Farage's spokesman last week, he flatly denied that his boss had ever racially abused anyone. Now Farage is only saying he never did so in a "hurtful way". Does he think there's a non-hurtful way to racially abuse someone?

Asked again and again whether he ever racially abused his fellow pupils, as 20 people at his old school have now said he did, Nigel Farage will only say that he never did so in a "hurtful way" or "with intent"

Vladimir Putin is popping champagne corks. His hand puppet in Washington has left the United States alone, weakened and hated on the world stage. Canada and the rest of the world have moved on. financialpost.com/pmn/business...

So the line is that he wasn't getting paid for any of this

Children. Teens. Pregnant women. Victims of domestic violence. Anyone from an ethic minority. Care home residents. People with disabilities. The list of overlooked vulnerable groups goes on & on. The lesson is to build processes that include them next time. Not to airbrush away 250,000 Covid dead.

But the obvious lesson to learn is this. When weighing how to act - & even if your group of Downing Street decision-makers is predominantly middle class white men - consider EVERYONE. Including the vulnerable. The voiceless. The overlooked. The people who don't look or sound like you.

Well it can only start with honesty. And accountability. The public know Brexit’s a shitshow. Time to build on that awareness and pair it with the chronic damage Brexit has done. And the lies that Brexiters told us to get their dismal ideology over the line. Join the dots loudly and relentlessly.

Sehr klare Ansage des Kanzlers an Trump: "Kriege können nicht beendet werden durch Großmächte über die Köpfe der betroffenen Länder im Krieg. Es ist ein Krieg, der beendet werden kann mit der Zustimmung der Ukraine und mit auch unserer Zustimmung, der europäischen Zustimmung. " #G20 #Ukraine

They should start with "Trump" and "Farage".

The channel reported on the 'non-British' names of many of those accused of sex offences, but conceded its analysis was 'not scientific' ✏️ Rats in a Sack 🐀

This story is all Nigel Farage should be asked about by journalists for months

One might say Farage is not a good judge of character? Or even worse, maybe he is?