Farage talks of "banter" when asked about him expressing racism. He questions their memories of being subjected to it. Of course they remember. It will have been scarring. On the other side, although I wasn't ever a bully I remember vividly things I said when young that I'm ashamed of. So should he.

I was nearly knocked down by a car turning right and not seeing me. He slowed looked for cars then accelerated hard. My shouts stopped him a handful of feet away. My concern is if he had been in an electric he'd have killed me. Should we be questioning the acceleration capacity of electric cars?

Listening to all the talk about Rachel Reeves. I don't want a chancellor for business. I don't want a chancellor for the low-wage economy. I want a chancellor for the country for the people; equitableness and for taking the country forward in a positive way

What happened to Claire Fox? Was it the Catholic upbringing. Was she bullied at school or dropped on her head. Either way she is not a suitable person to be in the house of lords (courtesy of Boris Johnson) or on Newsnight adding to their "balance".

It's an unusual situation where the man I least have economic, political orthodox sympathy with in the cabinet. Wes Streeting is probably the man that I'd like to be in charge. Of course we need to increase tax but at least streeting can communicate some ideas.

Another reason not to buy a Tesla this morning. Musk's pay deal

@mrjamesob.bsky.social do you think that James Cartlidge lost count of his questions. He intended saying aha at the end but missed it

@samfr.bsky.social Weirder and Weirder. Now we have a political reporter telling us about "facts" around the economy. 1: It's not a science it's an art 2: Where the hell were all these "facts" through the Tory Brexit Farage Years. Good lord.

@samcoatessky.bsky.social So weird to describe a tax rise as "The Labour Party coming for more" Weird but unsurprising.

Somebody didn't love Sarah Pochin properly. Was it the being packed off to boarding school at 11. We've seen all those old Etonians badly damaged and damaging the country. I confess it is sad for her but it is even sadder for us who have to suffer the brunt of it

Honestly, I understand it on an emotional level, but I don't understand it on any sort of intellectual level about Prince Andrew. You have a royal family. It's like roulette, good ones and bad ones. If you can't bang him up for breaking the law. Then where do you go from here?.

Good to hear Chris Mason on radio 4's feedback explaining that it's not for him to decide on the policies being good or bad of that. Nice Mr. Hitler all he can do is report them and test them out and it's for the public to decide whether they want to be voting Nazi or not.

The very best part of GB news is the adverts. It tells you what companies never to use. Truth is most of them I would never have used anyway but it's nice to be reassured

I don't mean to take my posts down market but I'm wondering what finally did it for the Duke of York. Was it the feet thing?. Did all those around him say? Oh yes we know about that. And is it connected in any way with when his wife left and the first photos were of someone else fondling her feet.

On a slightly lighter note, I realised today that the names of these new 4x4s that are made in China make me feel as if I'm in a disconcerting dream where all the letters make words. I feel I should be able to understand. But can't. Did the Chinese just say to AI what sounds like a car brand?

I'm not sure whether I'm just old and senile or whether the whole world has gone mad. Is this how it feels for old people?. Or is it mad? Trump and Putin?. A prime minister who was the DPP intervening in police operational matters. Genocide In a developed Nation? I wish I was asking for a friend

Is there a conflict with TV presenters (this morning Sally Nugent but it could be anyone) earning £200k per year and not asking the Chief Secretary when discussing how difficult things are. Neither of them say. "Well we could both pay a little more tax". Because they could.

And they have to give him a crayon even to sign the guest book at the Israeli parliament. It is like dealing with a giant child. I didn't even need to say Donald Trump. You all know what I'm saying

The naivity of the commentators around Gaza and Israel is too depressing. I wish the very best for this peace deal. I wish that never another weapon be picked up in the middle East. But let's not get unrealistic about the lasting effects of today

Gosh the Gaza announcement by Trump with his little bit of paper tells us. He can only cope with very simple sentences. No detail on what is happening. Just about the comms on social media. How did we get here?

Is Robert Jenrick basically against Chinatown In SoHo then? I presume he must have some real problems with Stamford Hill. Don't tell him about that cuz he'll find himself unsure what to say

I have never met anyone who blames British Jews for the actions of Israel.

I honestly don't understand. As is quite right, the Jewish population of Britain are not responsible for the actions of the Israeli state.Therefore, how are demonstrations in support of Palestine Action an attack on British Jews? I do understand not wanting to spread the police tooth in this weekend

So let's get this clear. It's perfectly acceptable to call judges enemies of the people and MPs traitors @dailymail.co.uk it's fine to stand in front of posters suggesting that the country will be flooded with Turkish people. But suggest a racist is a racist. Apparently that's out of bounds

I don't mean to be insensitive but why do we cover public mass shootings in the States? They are literally a quarterly event. A year without one would be a story. How many have died violently in the world while we look at Utah?

More dishonesty and not corrected. Chris Phelps. He says that solar energy only works when the sun shines. Not true. Of course it works better in bright sunshine. It generates from daylight. Does he not know or is he a liar and why doesn't the interviewer question that?

I end up feeling like a madman. Watching Chris Phelps say that drilling in the North sea is going to make us energy independent when we know the North sea was sold off by the Tories and it is just sold into international markets. And then no one questions him

staggering to watch the Sunday politics show. Nothing is garnered from the questions put to either Starmer or Cleverly. Efforts to make them look dishonest may end up being successful but don't actually inform us what either of them would actually do or question the effectiveness of their policies

@nickferrarilbc.bsky.social tickling the tummy of Farage on radio. It is interesting how little he really puts him under scrutiny. You might want to ask yourself what's going on there. Interesting, isn't it?

Farage on the ending of indefinite leave to remain cannot describe any rules that would be applied. This is how you end up with an army of Kafkaesque party member inspectors judging who is "selected" to stay/go or starve. Shameless. Disgusting.

Genuinely, one of the funniest things on the radio is to turn on LBC and hear a woman saying something very, very stupid. And you know In an instant that woman is going to be Rachel Johnson because the entire Johnson family has been educated way beyond their intelligence.

@sangitamyska.bsky.social @mrjamesob.bsky.social it's lovely to see Sangita back In the public eye. But James and sangeeta feel like Mum and dad arguing. Can't you do a chat it out podcast and let us understand how you can have such different views around Sangita's departure? Please Mum and dad

@teamlabouruk.bsky.social I'm tired of our flag being commercialised and dishonestly used by foreign corporates. If it's not made in Britain it can't display the UK national flags. True patriots will agree 🙂👍Do it Labour

The BBC Today program is just so woke. With only four MPS they had reform on again. It's nice to see them giving minority representation

@adobe.com Just another casual email for an awful corporation mentioning they are changing the subscription cost. When they say change they mean hike by 50%. Outrageous.

Days we might prefer to celebrate in the UK rather than these saints days. How about today emancipation day?. The day that Britain abolished slavery in the empire? Just a thought

Dear BBC news.Stop working for Farage. Greece population 10m. UK 67m. I understand why there appears to be an interest in looking at small boat crossings into Greece.By population size we would need to see almost half a million people in the channel before we were reaching the situation in Greece.

My parents got the first Tom Lehrer LP. I learnt all the dongs and when I had to do a turn as a boy I put on my most angelic face and sang the Irish Ballad. m.youtube.com/watch?v=47bK...

Why are we having sympathy for a couple of city traders who were manipulating the interest rate. They are out on a technical issue about how the judge directed the jury. This has never been tried in effect.

4 years for chopping down a tree. We really have got to get our heads straight. It would have been much more productive to have them spend the next 4 years spending every weekend planting trees. Potentially at their own cost. Instead, we're putting them in jail at huge cost where there's no space

"the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed" why do all those Americans with guns to protect them from the government never think it's time to use them. LA today?

I don't understand why companies are allowed to donate to political parties and why any individual from another country is allowed to donate. Nor why we would allow a donation over. Say £5,000. They don't have votes. They shouldn't be able to buy influence. They already own the newspapers

Ending a new segment with a pun when the story is about about singing. Nuns is fine. Almost every other instance is not fine. Give it a rest. We aren't children And sometimes it's really unfunny when the subject is grim

3 historic, tragic stories came together on a street in Washington last night.The persecution of the Jewish people. The dispossession of the Palestinian people & the USA gun culture. But nothing will be learnt. Guns are good. Israel is a victim. Palestinians are bad. We appear helpless to change

Nice to have a new product to boycot Deliveroo sold to Americans. Course didn't actually use it any way so easy boycott

I assume that voting for fascists is being used in some sort of symbolic celebration of our overcoming of fascists 80 years ago. It's a sort of meta celebration or conceptual art?

@bbcnews-world-rss.bsky.social trying to work out what order this ticker is in. It's not alphabetical. It's not in number of gains and losses cuz the liberals have gained two. Oh yes, it's in BBC promote reform mode

When are we going to look at our resilience?As Spain & Portugal are immobilised by a power outage, Heathrow out when a sub-station down. In the latest, internet down, everyone disconnected from each other. If you were a foreign power what would you think about doing before you rolled the tanks in?

BBC Breakfast wasting our time discussing political process and polls with candidates in the forthcoming local elections. Asking Liberals about Reform polling does nothing to advance the process. Not good for our democracy. Can we talk about what people believe?

"Pope still dead" say BBC in shock news from their reporter in Saints Peter's Square