Brilliant to see @natashadevon.bsky.social on Bold Politics! Natasha is a skilled and accomplished broadcaster who always speaks real sense about mental distress. @boldpolitics.bsky.social is really getting into its stride! Listen! Subscribe! Comment!

Oh good, the ‘your (sic) not even British!’ comments are out in force today over on my Instagram. If I’m not British, how come I’m shit at small talk, say sorry when someone steps on my foot and have a deep and enduring love for sarcasm? Hmmmm?

I agree that the BBC should apologise to Trump for being misleading. Right after Trump apologises for the 30,573 false or misleading claims he made during his first presidency, or for each of his current daily average of 21 new lies per. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_o...

‘There’s a reason Russia has troll farms. There’s a reason people hire bots.’ Natasha Devon worries that people are getting ‘a completely false idea’ of Britain from Twitter.

When your nan can't watch Cash in the Attic. When Traitors has gone. When GB News replaces Newsnight. When Antiques Roadshow and Strictly Come Dancing disappear from the box - all so that Donald Trump can sit on some fuck off gold throne and mock Britain - d'ya think people will be happier?

Politico: "Veteran BBC presenter David Dimbleby told Channel 4 last night that it is “one of the most violent assaults on the BBC’s independence that I’ve seen in my lifetime,” while Playbook is told staff have been voicing “a lot of anger towards [right wing BBC board member] Robbie Gibb.”

Some of the people on my road have their Christmas decorations up already and I think GOOD FOR THEM trying to create some kind of superficial, sparkly joy to counteract the hideousness of the stupid, cruel world we’re currently living in.

My rather brilliant friend Professor Keon West* has done a TEDx talk about the evidence showing people who say they’re ’colourblind’ are actually more likely to be racist. You can watch it here - youtu.be/o6wx_UwB4AA * I know check me out, having mates who are professors and everything.

Thinking about what those who sacrificed their lives during ww2 would make of how many people in the UK, Europe and US have been seduced by fascism again.

Trump-appointed judge blocks Trump from deploying National Guard to Portland, as ICE excesses multiply across the country. My natter earlier today with the excellent @natashadevon.bsky.social on @lbc.co.uk 🎧: audioboom.com/posts/880392...

Listening to @natashadevon.bsky.social on LBC Saturday evenings has become such a ritual that I now get restless around 5pm checking her feed for what the show’s about.

Coming up from 6pm on LBC (Sat 8 November) - Should we dispense with the tradition of an annual budget? - Should X be banned in the uk? - Has this year’s COP got it right by getting rid of the cover decision? Plus US round-up with @simonmarksfsn.bsky.social and Sudan explainer/latest.

Farage, who was paid £189,000 in January to promote gold bullion in his spare time, is currently wanging on about how out of touch the Labour frontbench is. Ok

A caller to LBC has just told Vanessa the BBC is ‘left wing biased’ because, apparently, it’s ’anti Trump’, ‘anti Israel’ and ‘is always talking about man man climate change’. On the second charge - www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/11...

youtu.be/DAmF-n31N2I?... - This is all very funny but ‘Dick, WHAT YOU SAAAAAYIN?’ made me actually do a massive blasting lol. I might start throwing to reporters like this on lbc 😂😂😂😂 @larryandpaul.bsky.social

That’s the original Superman film, btw, starring Christopher Reeve and Margot Kidder. So it was always ‘woke’.

Superman - ‘I’m here to fight for truth and justice and the American way’ Lois Lane - ‘ha! You’ll end up fighting every elected official in this country!’.

Wrote a thing about why it’s probably time to ban X in the UK - substack.com/inbox/post/1...

The guy who championed and enabled Boris Johnson is complaining that others have been promoted beyond their abilities? It's not his eyes that need testing.

It takes a special sort of hubris to claim other people are promoted beyond their abilities when the best lie you could come up with is that you drove to Barnard Castle during a national lockdown to ‘test your eyesight’ and you don’t know how to use quotation marks.

You know what podcast I’d listen to? A really qualified psychotherapist (not a tv ‘psychologist’ - someone with quals out the wazoo) interviews far right grifters who are promoting interests and agendas which hurt ordinary people to find out what TF is wrong with them.

Elon Musk - the most prominent advocate + outrider for civil war and political violence in Britain - is in regular contact with Vladimir Putin www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

A magnificent piece of work. Comprehesive, revelatory & shocking. Journalism this good is always rare & precious but never moreso than at times like this. Latter day Lord Haw Haws being plumped, preened & delivered to your doorstep in plain sight by a Nazi-saluting goon news.sky.com/story/the-x-...

'If politicians hate what X has become, why are they still there?' ✍️ @natashadevon.bsky.social for LBC Opinion

Kids two doors down have SPARKLERS. I forgot about sparklers! So much less noisy and wildlife killing/pet and baby upsetting/generally effing annoying than fireworks. Plus you can write your name in the sky! I kind of want one! But not so much I’m gonna deprive an actual child of one. Probably.

If you passed me in the street just now and wondered why I said ‘woo’ out loud it’s because I approved of Daisy Cooper’s question. #PMQs

Zohran Mamdani!!! 🎉🎉🎉🎉💃🏻💃🏻💃🏻💃🏻👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽 First time in ages it feels like everything might be okay, perhaps.

Can anyone work out why the lad has got the hump at the beginning of the new John Lewis ad? I don’t think it’s clear but perhaps I’m missing something….

This response to a video on my Instagram imploring people to have more empathy with asylum seekers really makes me wish Karoline Leavitt hadn’t ruined the classic ‘Your Mum’ response….

Wonder if the twitter racists will acknowledge the heritage of the hero rail worker who saved lives last weekend….? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... (This is rhetorical, I don’t actually wonder).

Heartily recommend walking through Soho on the Saturday after Halloween and seeing people having incredibly intense drunken conversations/arguments whilst dressed as children’s tv characters/Regina George-esque slutty woodland creatures/unconvincing vampires.

Coming up from 6pm on LBC (Sat 1 November) - is this a line drawn under Andrew/Epstein or is this just the beginning of the consequences? - Why is it still so hard to get justice for assault & harassment? - How hard is it to job seek in 2025?

The comment Sara left was under a video of @zoejardiniere.bsky.social talking about how hard it is for Sudanese people fleeing genocide to seek asylum in the U.K…. Happy person with a big heart tho…

£450 a flag spent by Reform councils! No wonder they’ve had to put up council tax. Just one of the facts I learned in this week’s @thetrawl.bsky.social (also - I’m backing @jemmaforte.bsky.social and @marina-purkiss.bsky.social for the new presenters of Strictly). open.spotify.com/episode/7whc...

The genius of my Halloween costume this year is that it will only scare you if you’re a total bellend…

“I’ve known Jeff for fifteen years. Terrific guy. He’s a lot of fun to be with. It is said that he likes beautiful women as much as I do, and many of them are on the younger side. No doubt about it — Jeffrey enjoys his social life.” Donald Trump New Yorker this week 2002 nymag.com/nymetro/news...

Lady with necklace, "If we're so concerned about the welfare of women why aren't we investigating the increase in femicide, the increase in domestic violence, increase in assault and sexual harassment" "And why misogyny is still not a hate crime" #BBCQT

Schrödinger’s Britain.. Both bursting at the seams with brown people, yet somehow “overrepresented” in ads Make your minds up, Reform! We dissect this, the Caerphilly wake-up call, Starmer’s dodgy response & why we’re no longer P..P..picking up Penguins. 🎧 New ep below!

In the all-conquering media/politics ecosystem that brought you Brexit, Boris Johnson, austerity, Liz Truss & the recent revival of weapons grade racism, she really is the Newcomer of the Year. Hands down. And the Spectator is now owned by a man who basked in the ugliest depths of far right Twitter.

3 things Starmer could do instead of camps in old barracks that would actually WORK👇 1. Create safe, regulated routes to apply for asylum in the UK 2. Let asylum seekers WORK & support themselves 3. Fast track status for people from obviously unsafe countries metro.co.uk/2025/10/29/k...

I keep being told spending cuts are easy. Honest proposals such as those recently outlined by Policy Exchange show they are not My column www.ft.com/content/f086...

The dog is like ‘I want no part of this’.

I tried to make sense of the government strategy on unemployment, particularly as it relates to disability and long-term sickness, and I gave myself a headache. Hopefully this offers some insight nonetheless - substack.com/inbox/post/1...

If you’re living through a cost of corporate greed crisis which is leading to record child poverty, watching the US be dragged towards dictatorship, genocide in Gaza and war crimes in Ukraine and the thing that ‘drives you mad’ is seeing melanated people in adverts then …. You’re Sarah Pochin.

I made a handy flow chart for confused men…

A rude man I was having a minor disagreement with over him queue jumping in Tesco just called me ‘love’ in a dismissive tone: knew exactly what he was doing and made me even angrier. Reminded me of Farage - when someone is a) not northern b) not being friendly it’s def not a ‘term of endearment’.

‘We need a party where we can say what we think and have arguments without having our whip suspended.’ Labour MP Dr Simon Opher says the Caerphilly loss proves Labour must change direction. @natashadevon.bsky.social

Coming up from 6pm on LBC (Sat 25th October) - Caerphilly by-election/Powell deputy leadership - the end for Starmerism? - If you have experience of the asylum/prison system can you see how Kebatu was released ‘by mistake’? - OCD - what do you wish people better understood about the condition?

lol.