I'm no lawyer, but it feels like Trump has undermined his own suit today. Trump's spox: "holding BBC accountable for ... reckless election interference" The election was over when the show was broadcast. So: false. 1/*

HURRAH! Petitions are crap at making gov'ts do things they don't want to. But they are good for two things: First, making them explain why they won't do something, but second (and more important) nudging/giving them permission to do something they DO want, but that's been crowded out bandwidth-wise.

President Barack Obama and President Donald Trump The contrast in respect and integrity could not be more stark and clear-cut

I think Mercy Muroki should not get paid for her appearances as a right-wing think tank mouthpiece and GB News presenter She should do it for the love of being reactionary and bigoted

Horrific scenes from Sadiq Khan's Sharia law infested London 🎄

1. Fewer than 5% of estates are subject to Inheritance tax. 2. Those estates that are subject to IHT are not those of the super-rich, they are those of people who typically bought a house a long time ago, saw its capital value rise ridiculously but didn't know enough to use loopholes to avoid IHT.

NHS Resident doctors have had enough and I don't blame them. For 15 years successive gov'ts have relied on their good will while eroding their pay to a degree that none of us would accept. They have endured this pay erosion while those gov'ts have run down (in every sense) the service they provide.

Sounds about right.

😂😂 @ottoenglish.bsky.social on good form! mailchi.mp/bylinetimes....

It is eighty years since Clem Attlee became Prime Minister. I am proud that I was lucky enough to have attended the same school as he. At 16, I read about his life as part of research for a modern history project. His life is almost solely responsible for my political views.

The population of a small East Sussex town has gone insane. Local residents have been infected with a virus that causes its victims to suffer severe paranoid delusions. The virus is understood to have been created in the laboratories of UK company Reform2025 Ltd. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

C-level execs of Meta Inc, Snap Inc and their investors continue to enrich themselves by, amongst other things, allowing Child sexual exploitation to grow on their platforms. Meanwhile Lisa Nandy 10 Downing St merely tinker round the edges of the problem. www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

Part 2 is here ... andygjburge.substack.com/p/part-2-of-...

Away from politics, I've written a piece about a time when I temporarily became a capitalist (no, not that sort) .. andygjburge.substack.com/p/dangling-m...

Musk and Trump want a smaller state, for the same reason the Sopranos wanted a smaller police force.

Now we know why Donald Trump wants to block the Netflix - Warner Bros deal To help his son-in-law Jared Kushner is part of Paramount's hostile bid for Warner Bros. Discovery

🇷🇺 Russia has banned X for years, JD Vance says nothing 🇨🇳 China banned X 🇪🇺 The EU fines Elon Musk's X, JD Vance says "attack on free speech!"

Okay, so, what I’m reading here is that racism is completely fine - as long as it’s done in a non-malicious way. Notwithstanding the fact that racism is in and of itself filled with malice. That’s the nature of racism. For fuck’s sake.

Christopher Harborne who lives and pays taxes in Thailand has just given Reform2025 Ltd £9m. Why should very rich, public school and Oxbridge educated people (Westminster and Downing College, Cantab in Harborne's case) who do not even live in the UK donate to Reform? This is why. 1/6

Congratulations to @reecedinsdale.bsky.social and to the cast and crew of "A Christmas Carol" at the Leeds Playhouse. The reviews are all excellent! Of course it's the audience that matters more than the reviewers but nonetheless, it must be most satisfying to see your hard work praised! 👏👏👏

Suspended Reform UK Councillor, Tom Pickup’s WhatsApp group called for "mass Islam genocide" and encouraged others to stockpile weapons to attack "lefties" and "migrants.”

From @ gingerrtom in the hell pit .. Rupert Lowe vs The State, part 1 20 letters to parliament (0 replies) 1 private education £30m net worth (peoples champ) 1 analysis of paul pogbas heritage 2 women bullied 1 antisemitic comment 1 suspension

10 Things I Hate About You. 🇬🇧 A Patriotic Poem 🇬🇧 andygjburge.substack.com/p/10-things-...

Many sites are down in the UK because of an error with the Cloudfare service. What is this, the thirds such outage i the last 6 weeks? Unless there are real and painful financial consequences to providers of such cloud based services for outages, they have no incentive to improve their reliability.

"The UK is rash to imagine it can, in isolation, pick and choose its alliances around the globe. It is geographically part of Europe." "More Europe, not less Europe, is in the best interests of all the peoples of the continent, including of course the UK and Scotland." https://bit.ly/485lgN4

Well I trailed it, many of you were kind enough to say you wanted to read it so here it is. andygjburge.substack.com/p/a-potted-b...

@donmcgowan.bsky.social exposes the fascist thugs behind 'raise the colours' ... they are not patriots believe me donmcgowan333.substack.com/p/raise-the-...

Anything from little Tommeh Ten-names, Reform Ltd or Lowe on this? Thought not. The perpetrator is white ... www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

#ProportionalRepresentation. It is time for Labour to accept this inevitability, even if only for pragmatic rather than principled reasons. Results of the 2024 GE under PR from the Electoral Reform Society. election2024.electoral-reform.org.uk Guardian letters: www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Can we finally call this Gaetz gate? 'Beyond horrific': Observers aghast as teen at center of Gaetz sex scandal comes forward

That's nearly 36 billion dollars $$$$$$$$$$ in tax breaks, and that's just 3 companies Do you think any of that money will trickle down your back? This is why they bunged Donald Trump a few $ million Billionaires don't need tax breaks 😡

An underground shanty from @marshfamilysongs.bsky.social. I hear Nandy & Cooper may classify the family as 5th columnists soon and proscribe them; A t-shirt of Ben or Danielle will get you 6 months in clink and a placard of the doggos will earn a week in solitary! www.youtube.com/watch?v=VeIF...

Astoundingly good from Bear @bearlypolitics.co.uk: He illustrates why transphobia is no different to the homophobia from which he once suffered. Despite progress, LGBTQ friends have experienced more bigotry. Since 2016 in fact. Now what happened that year? www.bearlypolitics.co.uk/p/should-the...

Looks like all the pothole pro promotion paid off, Reform UK? JCB chair Lord Bamford gives £200,000 to Reform UK. The party really does like its tax dodgers.

Leicestershire County Council has announced it is to pay consultants £30m to carry out a cost cutting review. They said it would be £1.4m. They lied. They said Reform DOGE would do all this. They lied. You can’t trust Reform UK.

Reform Council To Double Tax On Second Homes Despite Nigel Farage Calling The Idea "Madness"

Reform UK London Assembly Members criticised for missing Remembrance Service

You'd be surprised how many Reform UK supporters call themselves animal lovers. #FoxHuntingFarage

Warning issued to Reform-led council after suspensions cause ‘disarray’ www.independent.co.uk/bulletin/new... #ReformShitshow

Now Reform’s Kent antics are a fire hazard

Cornwall Reform UK branch mired in infighting over leadership change www.cornwalllive.com/news/cornwal...

Oh look… Derbyshire County Council's Reform UK administration is set to increase its portion of council tax by the maximum amount. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

At least with the nothing burger scandal at the BBC, with every alt-right talking head at Fox and GB News calling for the beeb to be scrapped The pressure is off for Channel 4 to be privatised

Richard Tice launches Students4Reform led by Matt Goodwin, aged 43¾ Here we see Mr Tice, Matt Goodwin, what appear to be 3 student types and a man who has just wandered in from the Boer War

One edit, one fecking edit, from one BBC broadcast among thousands and thousands of TV and radio programmes And from a programme most people in the UK didn't watch and nobody in America saw The Heritage Foundation crowd and the Telegraph have created a big, big something out of nothing

I think we should dunk false christians into a river to see if they drown or float

Essex ICE They haven't got a big 4x4, but Dave has got a Ford Mondeo that they can manhandle them forrins into