(Unfortunately of course the term ‘hate march’ had been devalued since some of our own politicians insisted on using it to describe people protesting a genocide).

Perhaps naively, I am STUNNED by the lack of media coverage given to the anti-Muslim hate speech platformed on the central stage of Stephen YL’s event on Saturday. If it were literally any other minority (apart from trans people) we’d be calling this what it was - a genuine hate march.

One of the interesting tangential aspects of Trump's visit to China is that he can't control the media output. Some of the photos are UNREAL. Had to check this carefully suspecting it was altered or AI gen, but I have found it on three known press outlets with credit to a global photo agency. 😱

My @lbc.co.uk show this week (16.05.26) will be in the capable hands of @henryriley1.bsky.social - I am back on 23rd May for usual shenanigans.

The Overton window just imploded….

Why exactly would a Thailand-based economic migrant secretly give Nigel Farage £5 million as a 'reward' for delivering Brexit? I won't get to ask either of them this question but every single journalist & broadcaster granted access could...

My nerves are SHOT TO RIBBONS already.

This is what Reform and their friends in media want. Ideally for you not to hear about it, but if you do to think it’s on the same level as Polanski’s house boat or Rayner’s second home. To think ‘they’re all the same so I might as well vote for the one that’s promising to cut my taxes’.

Conversation I genuinely had with a reasonably political engaged, nice man who is not to the best of my knowledge racist etc- Me - did you hear about the Farage 5 million? Him - no? Me *explains background, implications etc* Him - well you could make the same argument about rayner’s stamp duty.

I wish Marty would hurry up and burn that almanac. I’m not enjoying this Biff wins timeline at all.

An unconditional reward doesn’t exist. To be rewarded something you must have done something to get the reward. Those are the conditions. I’m losing my mind

The standards committee must decide if this gift could be related to political/public role. A defence could that a £5m gift was "purely private" + "wasn't political in any sense at all" (May 5th) www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... To say "reward for campaigning for Brexit for 27 years" disrupts that

I'm sure it came with top alarm system, round the clock security and a panic room, right??

This has also been woefully underreported.

Rajars are in and mine have gone up by 4,000 listeners in the last quarter. Continue to be touched by the number of people who choose to spend their Saturday evenings in my company on @lbc.co.uk - thank you all xxx

Everyone sensible is deeply concerned about the rise of antisemitism AND Islamophobia in the U.K. By only reporting on one, the media foster resentment. There is a good argument to say the British media are making antisemitism worse - doing a disservice to both communities.

Yo, British media - Prince Harry said he is worried about the rise of antisemitism AND anti-Muslim hate in the U.K…..

Latest speculation is that is was Downing Street who told the media Wes Streeting was going to resign yesterday in an attempt to make him look like the kind of unpatriotic snollygoster who’d announce something like that during the King’s Speech. It’s all gone well Machiavellian.

Angela Rayner was dragged through every front page for weeks... HMRC's verdict: NOT deliberate. NOT even careless. Farage pockets £5 million and chooses not to declare it So where's the wall-to-wall coverage? Tell me this isn't a rigged game.

Today, Daily Mirror is the only newspaper that is facing up what has actually happened in this country and what we now have to reckon with, rather than speculating about the future.

While all eyes are on Farage, we're overlooking something even worse: the building of the very tight and truly vile operation that is Restore Britain. This excellent essay/report by Simon Pearson should wake us up to the threat - and to what exactly it is. simonpearson1.substack.com/p/tory-30

It’s worth catching up on this. What’s happening to Misan is a microcosm of our times more generally….

BBC News at 6 cover Nigel Farage's £5,000,000 gift from a foreign based crypto billionaire They don't mention the latest revelations from Ben Habib alleging that Farage and Johnson both previously received £1,000,000 from the foreign based billionaire

In other news, Farage claiming ‘he’ has just ‘won a national election’ when in fact counsellors from his party just did quite well is some local elections might be in the top ten Trumpiest things he’s ever done at time of writing.

I can’t wrap my head around how many people seem to believe that if you go to someone’s house for dinner you can demand what you’d usually eat at home. Or that vegans should be forced to cook meat because ppl have to make allowances for them when they visit. Which is delulu, right?!!

So… I wrote what I thought was a fairly innocuous comment that if you’re an omnivore and you go to a vegetarian/vegan’s house you should expect to be served veggie/vegan food & not be a whiny bee-atch about it because it’s one meal & everyone eats veg & 48 hours later ppl are STILL arguing about it.

Reform is currently trying to do to British Jews the technique used to hookwink a lot of white working class people -pretending to care about them whilst actually fostering views/policies that hold them in contempt. I’m glad so many Jewish people see through it www.haaretz.com/world-news/e...

You know that scene in Friends - Monica - ‘maybe the postman liked the cookies, I just didn’t make him enough? Joey - ‘Monica, pigeons learn faster than you’. ? ….. I thought about that a lot during Starmer’s speech this morning.

‘If you’re a nativist, you believe in mono-ethnicity, you believe in mono-religion, then London is the antidote and the antithesis, because we are diverse, we are pluralistic, we are liberal and we are incredibly successful on any objective criteria.’

I’m not sure this is entirely about antisemitism guys

I just posted this to Instagram and I’m leaving it here too in case you need to see it….

Laura K this morning pushed Richard Tice on the Reform councillor who reportedly made racist comments about Nigerians but didn’t mention the other one who reportedly said the Holocaust was a ‘hoax’ when Tice countered that antisemitism was their priority.

Jenny rang in to tell me she was sick of Reform supporters being called racist. She isn’t racist at all, she said. She’s just concerned about ‘sharia law’ and ‘grooming gangs’…. This is how the conversation ended.

Wondering what the Catherine West leadership ultimatum story is all about? We broke it yesterday - watch back here www.youtube.com/watch?v=MI_b...

Also - if you can do listen back at 7.30 tonight when I talked to the nature film maker from Bangor University so we could stan David Attenborough together. It was such a joyful conversation and like his hero he was a very engaging speaker.

Calling a Jewish person antisemitic for not supporting the actions of the Israeli government is in of itself antisemitic because it assumes Jewish people have a hive mind that is operated by Netanyahu. I know you know this but a lot of ppl talking about Zack Polanski right now apparently don’t.

If you missed it - a caller rang in furious that she as a reform voter would be unfairly characterised as racist then ended up admitting that she thinks that crimes are worse when they’re perpetrated by Muslims. You can listen on global player. It happened at about 8.45.

I don’t know why I wrote ‘Ed’ at the end of the second sentence. At all. Disregard.

Further evidence for this piece - a newly elected Reform councillor called the Holocaust a hoax - silence from all the voices who have said the Green Party has an issue with antisemitism.

Join me from 6pm on LBC (Sat 9th May): - Breaking - Catherine West MP tells Labour - someone contest Starmer’s leadership or I will. - Does this week officially mark the end of 2 party politics? Ed - Is here a MAGA-like cult at the heart of Reform UK?

Do you think somewhere there is a spider version of david Attenborough saying ‘and here we see the humans arguing about penises whilst the world burns?’

Morgan has been shouting about penises for at least 5 years now.

I’ve just realised something. The aim might not actually be to shut down prominent voices on so-called ‘controversial’ issues like what is happening to Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank or to trans ppl here and in the us. It’s more to create such fierce debates that your average person…

Various LBC voices (including mine) give their take on the local election result today - www.lbc.co.uk/article/labo...

Gwan Wales 🎉🎉🎉🎉 *sings* gwlad GWLAAAAAAAAAD!

*moves to Scotland*

So tragic… That the people who have been lied to and left behind by politicians for decades …are now falling for the most transparent con of all.

Pffft.

Far-right populist party says what?

I can’t stop thinking about the woman on Instagram who read her Reform supporting mother the actual Reform manifesto only for her mum to tell her it was ‘anti reform propaganda’. That is both terrifying and a bit funny.