When the DG says that "We must appeal to Reform supporters", you know that the end of the BBC is nigh.
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When the DG says that "We must appeal to Reform supporters", you know that the end of the BBC is nigh.
Let this sink in: we’re arguing whether or not Trump signed Epstein’s birthday book and whether or not Trump raped children. That these things are plausible for the President of the United States says the country is in a crisis.
The hypocrisy is strong with this one.
No, but this seems to be the evidence behind his millions.
Is anyone surprised? Self enrichment was the only reason he wanted the office. The worst of the worst.
And Ann Widdecombe is a massive hypocrite
Marina Purkiss, "Ann Widdecombe has a crucifix around her neck and yet wants to deport asylum seekers" "If you know about the Bible, just see how you square that" @marina-purkiss.bsky.social 👏🔥
Police saved the UK from 890 retired and disabled terrorists and a mannequin this weekend
I was just about to post that Shell should be boycotted for their support for these barbarians.
This is an absurd misuse of laws designed to tackle terrorism and an insane waste of a resource-starved criminal justice system. There were obviously not 900 terrorists wandering through central London on Saturday and it's utterly ridiculous to act as if there were
Free speech, though. The world’s thinnest-skinned leader can’t hear criticism. Weak.
Likewise.
I was thinking about this last week. I think it would make a lot of sense, but in a couple of years you'd have an iPhone 26 running iOS28
A bit odd that today's Guardian hasn't followed up their (very good) story on Farage using his company to avoid income tax - nor the reports of him dodging stamp duty Instead it's 10 pages on Rayner and co. Reform conference is surely an open goal...
Whispers *that's the French flag mate*
Well, lots of people do say that he is the world's best tennis batter, with the greatest scores ever.
To help the thugs? How long have you got?
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I walked past newspaper stand this morning and actually felt the venom, the misogyny was almost palpable. It feels like anyone from a minority, or a woman, is back to being a target again. "Don't get above yourself". I thought we had matured as a nation recently, but how easily we fall back.
They might start paying attention when their kids die of whooping cough or get crippled by polio.
This man is a British MP, calling for a foreign government to interfere in the laws of the UK. Please don't come into my mentions with "hurr hurr hurr Farage" bollocks, I know he's a lazy fucker who's not interested in being an MP. He is one, and he's badmouthing the UK to a hostile foreign power.
Of course it was. The increased capacity on the West Coast mainline was supposed to be part of the reason why spending £100,000,000,000 was a good idea.
HS2 always was a colossal waste of money for an ego project proposed by a narcissist.
It's a bit bloody late to shout about the capacity argument even if it has been raised 20 years ago, but drowned out.
Not a single Reform UK MP attended today's Commons statement on child rape gangs.
Like we would import water to turn into ice cubes 😊
Blocked.
You still prove that you know nothing about British politics, how it works, or me.
Everything is to do with politics. The King (or Queen) has NEVER owned the Royal Mail.
Happy Birthday and Christmas to you!
You clearly don't understand anything about British politics.
"We" are not proposing such a thing. "They" are.
Looking on my phone here, I thought that the left hand shop was called "The Body Shame Studio". Which would put a different slant on the business. 😊
Learn to decipher the codespeak.
Farage owns four homes: Family home (£1M, retained after his divorce) Two beachside homes in Kent (via his comp. Thorn In The Side Ltd) One investment property in Surrey (rented out) Radio silence from media about this but uproar about Angela Rayner’s two homes & ministerial home #NigelFarage
Enough is enough. The health of the country is in danger. Read our resignation letters: insidemedicine.substack.com/p/breaking-n...
The trouble is, these initiatives always involve growing tomatoes. We can't live on tomatoes alone.
Amazing people using their earned experience for good. 💪🏼❤️✌🏼
Nostalgic for the days when silly season meant stories like "wow doesn't this slice of ham look like Janet Street Porter?" and not "should we normalise discussing the brutalisation of tens of thousands of people?"
What could possibly go wrong? 🙄
I feel like every news interviewer needs to do a Paxman on Reform reps right now and just ask again and again and again: What will you do when the Taliban tortures and kills the people you deport?
Yes, but they've burned the text books.
The lifelong criminal in the Oval Office bragging about receiving a photo from the war criminal in Russia who bombs hospitals and schools, and kidnaps kids.
🔴Glasman says Attlee and Bevan would “never have given the ECHR status in British law.” 🔴But Attlee signed and ratified the ECHR. 🔴Bevan fought for legal dignity, not executive impunity. 🔴Glasman is laundering authoritarianism with fake history. Thread 👇 #TheGreatUntruth #BlueLabour #ECHR
............what have they changed the headline to when did the BBC become a red top
This is what Keir Starmer and his parade of nodding dog ministers have enabled. Last summer my partner was forced to work at home because a hit list of immigration law offices had been circulated online. A senior lawyer was physically attacked in their place of work. This has got to stop.
newly elected Reform UK councillor David Maclean has resigned his seat after coming under pressure over non-attendance. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Get used to it. Until. April.
They are also ignoring all of the many advantages of using a VPN that have been there for years.
Ofcom is letting GB News get away with calls to shoot disabled people and anti trans slurs because it's "in line with audience expectations for this channel". If the regulator won't regulate, then why do they exist? bylinetimes.com/2025/08/21/o...
Ofcom refuses to investigate GB News over a call to shoot and starve disabled benefits claimants. The watchdog says the channel has a right to "freedom of expression" even if it means calling on air for disabled people to be killed bylinetimes.com/2025/08/21/o...
Farage and Jenrick will be all over this. They'll demand churches are closed across the country to protect women and girls. BBC News - Ex-priest found guilty of 17 indecent assaults www.bbc.com/news/article...
I don't know about you but I've had about enough of mainstream media & politicians legitimising racist anti-asylum protests that terrorise refugees & communities. I had to push back hard, TWICE on BBC yesterday about supposed "legitimate concerns" www.youtube.com/watch?v=XtkA...
It’s not news that America’s leadership enthusiastically parrots Kremlin propaganda, but it’s still shocking every time you see it.
Actually, the Ukrainians want Russia to get the hell out of their country, return their stolen children and pay reparations for Russia’s vicious war of aggression. But knowing that would require listening to Ukrainians instead of getting US troops to kneel for a murderer like Putin.
Or that Nick DIDN'T throw himself under the bus
I like presidents who know Slavery is bad, not "WOKE."
Seems legit .... @mrjamesob.bsky.social @iandunt.bsky.social @lewisgoodall.com @maitlis.bsky.social @vicderbyshire.bsky.social
“Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered. ... History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right.” ―Orwell, 1984
Is it too late to give Sacha Baron Cohen an Oscar for this? Not a damn lie told. 🇺🇸
Life is sweet, indeed 😊
Well said Duncan. Brexit has been disastrous for both the UK and to a lesser extent the EU, but these last 12 months have proved that we (the UK) have finally realised that we need to be good Europeans for our own good.
If they've started to record the "offence" on their machine, and have the carver number, then highly likely. Your friend can appeal & I'm pretty sure most authorities would drop the fine. Some common sense would go a long way here! The warden could have used their radio to call for an ambulance
Wait and see. It would be entirely "normal" in his world.
And now says he won't see them.
WTAF?
Thanks, but the malignancy runs deep with the brand...
His son is Chef Exec of Fox, and they own 39% of Sky.
The likes of Jenrick are not conservatives, but radical nationalists. They have ceased to pay even lip service to the rule of law or institutions. They have given up on economic arguments. They have turned to sowing division and advocating destruction for destruction’s sake.
The source is "The Daily Mail" That's all we need to know.
What percentage of the shares does he still own?
Sky News? Still owned by Murdoch, is it?
They committed an act of war when they did the Salisbury poisonings, so we had every right to declare war on them at that time.
Putin has arrived in Alaska, and there he is 100% being welcomed as an important guest. A dictator who started the biggest war since the end of World War II, who killed and tortured hundreds of thousands of people, who abducted tens of thousands of children, is still being received as a guest.
John Bolton said re Ukraine/Trump, “a land swap is also a people swap, you are condemning people to live under an authoritarian regime.” It’s so important people understand this. Land is where people live. Ukrainians living under occupation suffer violence & oppression & war crimes. They matter.
"Somebody" will sack everyone involved in this data by the end of the week.
... and a baby alligator. Of course.
It could have been between 52/53 or 56/57 for our fictional chap. It's fictional. It. Doesn't. Matter. It's. Fictional.
He was a year older than my father, so would have probably been called up for NS in 55/56. This really doesn't matter. At all. He never existed.
He would have been 7 years older than Tom Good.
Wonder who broke it? The nerve of these people. Totally without any shame.
My Dad was born in 36 and did his NS in Cyprus in 57/58.
The best time to have been born, in the history of humanity, in the UK, was 1946-1950. No world war NHS Growing economy Teenager in 60s Housing affordable but huge growth over your life High chance of final salary pension Travel opportunities from mid-60s on
A DOGE kid gets beat up in DC and it’s DefCon1; hundreds of bullets into federal buildings with officer killed in Atlanta and it’s crickets; violent mob attacks Capitol wounding dozens of officers and it’s pardons for all.
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Why must the entire world suffer the egos of megalomaniac morons?
Orwell knew what was coming 80 years ago. It's all there.
If you are over 60 you get a free eye test. You could combine that with the DL test. Congratulations on being less than 75 👍
You object to having your eyes tested to make sure you're safe to drive? Seriously? You are still entitled to a flu jab and probably a Covid one.
And what are the *good* people of America going to do about this?
🚨BREAKING: Trump is federalizing the DC police and deploying the National Guard to the capital. He says it is “a historic action to rescue the nation’s capital from crime, bloodshed, bedlam and squalor - and worse”. DC crime is down 26%. This. Is. Insane.
Deeply shocked by Israel’s deliberate killing of the Al Jazeera correspondent Anas al-Sharif, his colleague Mohammed Qreiqeh and cameramen Ibrahim Zaher, Mohammed Noufal and Moamen Aliwa. Israel has now killed at least 186 journalists in this war.
In my recent novel Family Politics, I had a right wing politician calling for ordinary citizens organising as vigilante coast watchers and they keep misidentifying ordinary boaters as illegal migrants. You write it as satire,and before long it is current affairs. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Well, if anyone is an expert on Insider Trading... 🙄
This is sick. We’ve literally killed the solution to create a market for “treatments.”
If they want to criticise governments maybe they should criticise that in the country in which they reside.
Charlie Stayt, "A charity rowing crew was approached by the coastguard after Reform UK MP Rupert Lowe mistook them for a boat full of asylum seekers" "After the coast guard confirmed it wasn't a boat full of asylum seekers, Mr Lowe said it was a false alarm"
You're confusing the BBC with the Daily Mail, silly man.