I truly hate being this person, but HOW, really how can it be #r4today headline news that Nigel Farage has claimed if he was king we’d all be twice as safe & happy ffs 😫 what are you doing?
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The BBC are a joke. They don’t represent those who are forced to pay for them, and are far from being a public service. They are as corrupt as our government.
jul 21, 2025, 8:55 pm • 0 0 • view
Farridge should never be headline news. He’s a chancer nobody! And I hate how robust light aircraft are!
jul 21, 2025, 6:56 am • 5 0 • view
Christ almighty has he even got an original thought in his head, echoing the Trump wanting to be King!
jul 21, 2025, 12:12 pm • 1 1 • view
We would be even happier if he was a dead King.
jul 21, 2025, 11:30 am • 1 0 • view
I stopped listening to Today ten years ago. It’s not news, it’s entertainment. I don’t approve of what they are doing. News & Current Affairs needs removing from BBC’s brief.
jul 21, 2025, 6:12 am • 56 4 • view
I gave up on BBC completely about 10 yrs ago, cancelled licence. They've lost all credibility as an impartial, factual news reporting service. No longer respected & trusted.
jul 21, 2025, 8:19 am • 2 0 • view
But Today is given a lot of weight by other commentators. I find that worrying.
jul 21, 2025, 9:02 am • 1 0 • view
Yes, it's worrying but all I can do as an individual is boycott it & voice concerns, both of which I've done.
jul 21, 2025, 9:09 am • 1 0 • view
Yes, me too.
jul 21, 2025, 7:48 am • 0 0 • view
Same here. Couldn't bear Humphrys' smug, ignorant chuntering any longer. Mornings became a lot better. But the Today programme uniquely sets the news agenda and the BBC is failing the country badly in its editorial policies.
jul 21, 2025, 6:20 am • 38 1 • view
Agree. Robinson is just as bad as Humphrys IMV.
jul 21, 2025, 6:31 am • 12 0 • view
Two cheeks of the same arse.
jul 21, 2025, 6:42 am • 8 0 • view
jul 23, 2025, 7:00 pm • 0 1 • view
World service for me. Can't stand the smug parochial nonsense of R4 Today
jul 21, 2025, 6:29 am • 6 0 • view
I use WS at night because I am a restless sleeper. I agree it’s good quality. Otherwise I only use BBC in real time for scores and TMS and Five live for sports punditry/commentary as background. I’m retired but too busy to waste time BBC news.
jul 21, 2025, 6:34 am • 4 0 • view
The BBC’s news and current affairs output are grotesque. I gave them up during the Brexit campaign. There is no way back. It is a good idea to cut these from the BBC and give it a pure entertainment + factual documentary mandate with any straying into the political area strictly forbidden
jul 21, 2025, 7:09 am • 5 2 • view
I have been saying this for years. Split BBC News off as a private Company and let it live or die under its own steam.
jul 21, 2025, 7:47 am • 2 0 • view
I give up
jul 21, 2025, 8:38 am • 0 0 • view
Be that person. Let's all be that person.
jul 21, 2025, 11:45 am • 1 0 • view
Hey, if he sounds insane and he acts insane... maybe he is insane.
jul 21, 2025, 9:37 am • 1 0 • view
Totally with you. We're being badly failed by our journalists. Every bit of non-stick Nige's power has been gifted by their free-of-charge + challenge-free airtime. His malevolent manipulations directly led to the UK losing £140 billion so far. He's copying Trump's DEI and Doge policies. Wake up UK!
jul 21, 2025, 8:30 pm • 0 0 • view
I bet thst made HRH choke on his coco pops.
jul 21, 2025, 3:11 pm • 0 0 • view
BBC Current affairs is mortally wounded.
jul 21, 2025, 8:01 pm • 0 0 • view
If I were king there would be no fascists and we'd all* be FOUR times as happy and I'd abolish the monarchy. ANd yet how many mentions fo I get on the #r4today propaganda program!? *subject to official counts.
jul 21, 2025, 7:38 am • 18 1 • view
Same for me. I’m going to reduce crime by 90% when I’m queen but when do I get a mention?
jul 21, 2025, 8:44 am • 3 0 • view
Well I'd make saying "Haitch" a crime with an exponential rate of fines.
jul 21, 2025, 12:02 pm • 1 0 • view
Well, people living in a police state without individual rights are technically "safe" if they have no demands nor questions. So, is this a rare instance when Fartage may not be lying?
jul 21, 2025, 6:27 am • 0 0 • view
No
jul 21, 2025, 7:07 am • 2 0 • view
The lesson of history is that nobody living in a police state is safe. They don't need to have demands or questions, they just need a neighbour who doesn't like them or to have a similar name or face to someone who the government doesn't like
jul 21, 2025, 7:33 am • 2 0 • view
It was sarcasm. I should have made that clearer.
jul 21, 2025, 7:37 am • 1 0 • view
Glad I stopped listening to it ages ago.
jul 21, 2025, 4:20 pm • 2 0 • view
He sees himself as a mini Trump. UK kings are constitutional, he means dictator/authoritarian ruler.
jul 21, 2025, 9:34 am • 2 0 • view
Suffering from Trumpitis
jul 21, 2025, 8:05 am • 0 0 • view
If you believe polls, Farage is hated by a large percentage of the population. So no chance of making people happy.
jul 21, 2025, 6:11 am • 12 0 • view
sorry i meant to write fixed it on my previous reply .
jul 21, 2025, 6:13 am • 0 0 • view
HOW, really how can it be #r4today headline news that Nigel Farage has claimed if he was DEAD we’d all be twice as safe & happy ffs 😫 what are we doing keeping him breathing ?
jul 21, 2025, 6:12 am • 5 0 • view
Totally agree BBC radio 4 today programme is more and more a propaganda outlet for Farage and his nonsense!! No scrutiny No challenge No analysis
jul 21, 2025, 10:47 am • 0 0 • view
I agree with you and many who have commented, but my crunch point is Gaza. Barely mentioned. C4 News is usually excellent. Today, the UK and many other nations called out Israel and especially Netanyahu and the settlers for what is genocide. Long overdue. Many Israelis agree.
jul 21, 2025, 5:02 pm • 3 1 • view
I don’t think @DavidLammy has admitted that it’s genocide. And of course they haven’t said that they’ll #StopArmingIsrael
jul 21, 2025, 6:00 pm • 1 1 • view
Your point about arming Israel is obviously correct. See also LedbyDonkeys latest reveal on an Israeli backing law group.
jul 21, 2025, 6:56 pm • 0 0 • view
Because the media has decided that Nigel Farage being PM is a more exciting story than policy, and how you achieve them. Or than, you know, news. "We are all storytellers" is all very well, but it has its drawbacks - the stories have to be true, for a start.
jul 21, 2025, 7:03 am • 13 1 • view
That bloody programme is out of control now. It was bad enough when their beloved Tories where trashing the country for 14 long years and they never once held them to account but now it is a spent force the BBC seems to want a fascist in power instead. We still fund the BBC. Time to take it back.
jul 21, 2025, 9:37 am • 1 0 • view
Treason?
jul 23, 2025, 1:40 am • 0 0 • view
He’s getting people to talk about him; no publicity is bad publicity etc (unless you’re on the Epstein list of course 👀). If he makes himself seem silly then idiots will vote for him; think Boris with his zip line, ridiculous haircuts etc, then he screwed the entire country and economy over.
jul 22, 2025, 6:29 am • 1 0 • view
Farage will say anything to be high up the news agenda and R4 - and the rest of the BBC play compliantly along.
jul 21, 2025, 10:23 pm • 0 0 • view
Now you see how plain it is that Fartage is the darling of the BBC - top spot on Tory Laura’s show yesterday (more time than Ed Davey despite having far fewer MPs), and ALWAYS mentioned by Justin Webb or Chris Mason or Nick Robinson on #r4today 😒🤮
jul 21, 2025, 6:20 am • 70 12 • view
And he says complete bollocks!
jul 21, 2025, 2:20 pm • 1 0 • view
The only viable protest is to cancel my TV licence I am sick of contributing to the BBC sponsoring this Reform BS.
jul 21, 2025, 10:29 am • 5 1 • view
The trouble is, which news outlet calls out his lies and racism? None…. And therein lies the issue - even if we don’t pay a license fee to watch Sky or Ch4 or ITV or whoever, we all buy products made by companies that advertise on those channels, so it’s Catch 22 as far as I can see… 🤷🏻♂️
jul 21, 2025, 11:27 am • 2 0 • view
I do watch Channel 4 news not perfect but the best of the terresial stations and at least they do cover events in Gaza fairly
jul 21, 2025, 11:44 am • 2 0 • view
They’re a bit better, true, but are they using the terms “genocide” or “ethnic cleansing”? I doubt it…
jul 21, 2025, 12:16 pm • 1 0 • view
All very Trumpian
jul 22, 2025, 7:19 am • 1 0 • view
It's like catnip for the beeb. Had to move the dial pre covid. If I were king farage would be on Rockall with a tent and a book on how he wrecked the UK. But they don't interview me.
jul 21, 2025, 6:15 am • 9 0 • view
They really have their tongue up his....
jul 21, 2025, 4:45 pm • 0 0 • view
jul 21, 2025, 6:52 am • 0 2 • view
R4 news at lunchtime yesterday reported him saying Reform would commit up to £17bn to cut crime. Are the BBC now the PR arm of Reform. Drip drip drip they are giving him more publicity and not challenging anything he says. This is the BBC in 2025.
jul 22, 2025, 3:03 am • 0 0 • view
And if a frog had wings it wouldn't bump it's ass when it hopped.
jul 21, 2025, 7:12 am • 1 0 • view
BBC News, formerly the media arm of the Conservative party, is now the media arm of Reform 2025 ltd (formerly Reform UK Party ltd, formerly The Brexit Party ltd). Today is a BBC News production. BBC News needs separating from the BBC. #r4today
jul 21, 2025, 7:50 am • 44 7 • view
What makes BBC bias particularly destructive? Full article in link westenglandbylines.co.uk/news/media/g...
jul 21, 2025, 9:32 am • 5 0 • view
What did we expect when Johnson put his man in charge of it. A simple, and effective way that Starmer could improve the BBC is to replace Tim Davie with a Director General that has no political bias. Laura K has to go too of course !
jul 21, 2025, 11:38 am • 16 1 • view
Part of a bigger problem. What makes BBC bias particularly destructive? Full article in link westenglandbylines.co.uk/news/media/g...
jul 26, 2025, 8:25 am • 5 2 • view
What makes BBC bias particularly destructive? Full article in link westenglandbylines.co.uk/news/media/g...
jul 24, 2025, 1:12 pm • 0 0 • view
Ragebait, pure and simple. It's the business model of the 21st century media.
jul 21, 2025, 7:59 am • 9 0 • view
Sure, engagement farming. Except the BBC doesn't need to follow this model.
jul 21, 2025, 8:46 am • 3 0 • view
I stopped listening to R4 after the B vote as it was so obvious which way it was going. So, this is unsurprising really.
jul 21, 2025, 7:02 am • 6 1 • view
We could honour him like UK honoured Edward II - I'll do it if you want?
jul 21, 2025, 7:33 am • 4 0 • view
As long as he isn’t interred in Gloucester Cathedral afterwards!
jul 21, 2025, 9:01 am • 1 0 • view
Gloucester is the only cathedral with its own kebab shop.
jul 21, 2025, 9:10 am • 1 0 • view
Really? Must be after my time!
jul 21, 2025, 9:55 am • 0 0 • view
Murdoch's MSM strikes again we should all turn this rubbish OFF
jul 21, 2025, 1:00 pm • 1 0 • view
They do it for clicks, mentions and engagement. BBC News has become the same as any other tabloid. I support the rest of the BBC and the licence fee system, but the news arm needs to be shed from it and become an independent, self-sufficient company.
jul 21, 2025, 8:16 am • 0 0 • view
Yep! The clocks. Maybe we should rethink our interactions with these outlets…
jul 21, 2025, 8:29 am • 0 0 • view
Those damned clocks.
jul 21, 2025, 8:42 am • 0 0 • view
Haha clicks 😅
jul 21, 2025, 8:44 am • 1 0 • view
Clicks* of course
jul 21, 2025, 8:45 am • 0 0 • view
It’s exactly as Ed Davey said. The BBC keeps reporting the tattle around Farage & NONE of Reform policies which do not stand up to scrutiny.
jul 21, 2025, 8:05 am • 20 5 • view
Is any journalist ever going to dig in on his insane statement that 'the first thing I'd do would be to leave the ECHR'?? He literally wants to turn the UK into a corrupt playground for billionaires, completely trash all our protections and social services... and they just tickle his belly.
jul 21, 2025, 9:19 am • 2 0 • view
Stopped listening to 6Music in January because their pro-Farage/pro-Tory 'news' every 30 mins was infuriating. Hate to think what it's doing to the minds of listeners who are not that politically engaged.
jul 21, 2025, 9:14 am • 0 0 • view
He's a nasty piece of work alright but Charles Windsor isn't much better.
jul 21, 2025, 8:05 am • 0 0 • view
If he was a king maybe we could hope that he would pass away from straining his kingly turd into a golden bowl.
jul 21, 2025, 9:27 am • 0 0 • view
christ as if things weren’t bad enough
jul 21, 2025, 10:34 am • 0 0 • view
BBC Radio Farage.
jul 21, 2025, 6:45 am • 1 0 • view
Bring back Brian Redhead.
jul 21, 2025, 9:12 am • 2 0 • view
Oh yes, if only there was a single person of his humanity, honesty & strength.
jul 21, 2025, 12:27 pm • 0 0 • view
Totally agree, quite rightly politicians feared going onto Today when he was there. A true journalist who them to account.
jul 21, 2025, 8:28 pm • 0 0 • view
#r4today to be renamed #rfaragetoday
jul 21, 2025, 5:04 pm • 0 1 • view
Lovely little dogwhistle to the anti-monarchist views that are building among the far right (To be clear, I’m a republican myself, but not for the same reasons! Some on the right call Charles the “Muslim King”, because he encourages tolerance towards other races and learning from other religions.)
jul 21, 2025, 7:49 am • 0 1 • view
Populist claptrap appeals to low information voters. Those voters don't want to have to put effort, and policy details matter not to them ('meh, they'll figure it out'). The greater the distrust of sincere politicians, the greater the willingness of low information voters to accept populist claims.
jul 21, 2025, 7:51 am • 3 2 • view
I'm sure that counts as treason. Lock him up for life, somewhere no one can hear him...
jul 21, 2025, 8:07 am • 1 0 • view
Niggle Farrago wants to be Thinso Trumplet.
jul 21, 2025, 10:21 am • 0 0 • view
I was addicted to the Today programme for decades, but life improved greatly when I switched to R3. Get the news from C4, Sky and other sources. It's just sad and depressing.
jul 21, 2025, 7:23 am • 2 0 • view
Media is complicit in elevating this lying grifter. Why is he never questioned on the unworkable policies he offers? Why do they give him so much airtime? I don’t see or hear the Lib Dems getting the same attention ffs 🤦♀️.
jul 21, 2025, 11:28 am • 24 3 • view
I have had no time for that biased not balanced radio broadcast since Mishal Husain left. Ych y fi
jul 21, 2025, 10:10 pm • 1 0 • view
British Journalism (tm) [derogatory]
jul 21, 2025, 6:14 am • 0 0 • view
Wtf? Farage is a delusional narcissist
jul 21, 2025, 11:04 am • 0 0 • view
How is this even being given credibility …. & I say the same about the MAGA loon in the White House . ‘If I were King…’. Is the sort of thing that 7 yr olds say …the rest of us grow out of it !
jul 21, 2025, 7:51 am • 4 0 • view
I think he meant if he were king Louis XVI of France, everyone would be happier.
jul 21, 2025, 8:50 pm • 0 0 • view
You read about Hitler, Mussolini, & Franco, and when you live the rise of the far right today with Trump, Farage, & Le Pen, you understand that they are created by the rich, they are promoted by the media tools of the rich, and they simply would not exist in a real democracy with an honest media!
jul 21, 2025, 8:41 am • 4 1 • view
Is he claiming divine right? (Yet)
jul 21, 2025, 10:56 am • 0 0 • view
Also not “the Reform Party promises” but Nigel Farage promises…”
jul 21, 2025, 6:45 am • 0 0 • view
This is how - BBC bosses - including the DG and Robbie Gibb (Thatcherite/ Brexiteer/former advisor to GB news) - literally made it policy to alter output to appeal to Farage supporters.
jul 21, 2025, 7:20 am • 5 2 • view
wtf?! And not about race riots that one of his councillors attended?!
jul 21, 2025, 6:21 am • 105 6 • view
source: www.instagram.com/reel/DMOHzdV...
jul 21, 2025, 6:23 am • 12 1 • view
… which might be the reason why he chose to bleat an inane distraction. This leaves Zoe’s rightful question unanswered - why do the media fall for this?
jul 21, 2025, 12:49 pm • 10 1 • view
jul 21, 2025, 2:41 pm • 3 0 • view
Is it possible for a screen grab, for we Insta-less souls?
jul 21, 2025, 7:18 am • 4 0 • view
FFS
jul 21, 2025, 7:47 am • 0 0 • view
It's almost as if they think ethnic minorities are not treated well.
jul 21, 2025, 7:53 am • 3 0 • view
Vile imbeciles.
jul 21, 2025, 8:41 am • 1 0 • view
“They’re trying to dilute the Englishness out of us…” says man with an Irish surname…
jul 21, 2025, 11:28 am • 2 1 • view
If James R is what English is then let it be diluted to fuck Muppet
jul 21, 2025, 9:46 am • 1 0 • view
Motherfuckers. Thank you for sharing.
jul 21, 2025, 7:26 am • 7 0 • view
Pity they couldn’t dilute the stupidity and racism out of this character.
jul 21, 2025, 7:56 am • 29 0 • view
There'd be nothing left...which would be no great loss to the planet.
jul 21, 2025, 8:15 am • 10 0 • view
How ridiculous. I'm English born and bred. No amount of immigration has affected my Englishness in any way. (except my curry intake) 😋
jul 21, 2025, 10:16 am • 3 0 • view
English? He’s wearing a bloody baseball cap!
jul 21, 2025, 8:06 am • 5 1 • view
And part of the much maligned establishment “lanyard class”
jul 21, 2025, 8:08 am • 3 1 • view
Regan is an Irish name, too.
jul 21, 2025, 8:30 am • 3 2 • view
Wait, WUT??
jul 21, 2025, 7:17 am • 0 0 • view
If Reform UK politicians are protesting and spouting anarchist Nazi rhetoric, why are they not being arrested too? “It all needs to come down… There’s only one way when a building’s bad or it’s got disease in it, take it down to the foundation and start anew, and that’s what needs to happen.”
jul 21, 2025, 8:05 am • 4 0 • view
The racists were right about two tier Keir…? Now over 100 people arrested for protesting the proscription of people who threw paint at war planes
jul 21, 2025, 8:07 am • 2 0 • view
Why do you think he makes such comments at times like these? An R4 obediently take his bait.
jul 21, 2025, 8:02 am • 0 0 • view
Dead bulldog is the new dead cat?
jul 21, 2025, 8:03 am • 1 0 • view
LOL!
jul 21, 2025, 8:11 am • 0 0 • view
May be because 3 out of 4 of these right-wingers are still in post?
jul 21, 2025, 10:11 am • 3 0 • view
Because the BBC is run by egos who are also establishment/MAGA/Kremlin aligned. Farage is a far right psy-op made flesh. Transphobia/racism/misogyny/Brexit are all tools to hasten democratic decline and the fall of liberal values. This sickness is embedded in govt/security services/policing.
jul 21, 2025, 8:07 am • 2 0 • view
That's a gross exaggeration. Maybe 50% more happy and safe, at the most.
jul 21, 2025, 7:45 am • 0 0 • view
Shame on the BBC and #r4today Not OK. Not even quarter to OK. 🤬
jul 21, 2025, 9:53 am • 3 0 • view
BBC is still stuffed with Tories: Davie, Gibb, Kuenssberg, Robinson, Fiona Bruce, Mason + others. Farage is the arsonist, not the Fire brigade. BBC does know this & must not take licence fee payers for fools by promoting a r/wing grifter who is paid by corporates to tell lies & deny climate change.
jul 21, 2025, 7:30 am • 38 11 • view
How can we change this and get the beeb back to being an independent and respected organisation.
jul 21, 2025, 8:07 am • 1 0 • view
A good question which Lisa Nandy might like to answer. Without BBC Tories and their r/wing bias, editorial control, the UK might finally be Farage free and actually be able to receive impartial, independent news. Labour government must do better at resolving this and many other serious issues.
jul 21, 2025, 8:40 am • 11 7 • view
But it's not that easy. What makes BBC bias particularly destructive? Full article in link westenglandbylines.co.uk/news/media/g...
jul 24, 2025, 1:14 pm • 3 4 • view
Great article, but what can be done about ?
jul 24, 2025, 2:08 pm • 0 0 • view
Thank you. Please share on to spread the word. Actions we can take: Stop consuming BBC news content. Raise awareness about BBC bias. Start following independent news media instead. Plenty that's high quality. Write to your MP and local paper. Join campaigns to improve press standards.
jul 24, 2025, 6:53 pm • 2 1 • view
The article is good because it cleverly disects and exposes some of the nuanced anti Labour digs from Kuenssberg and Mason, who is, in my opinion, the Uriah Heep of political commentators. It is probably not an easy task to remove and replace the many Tories employed at the BBC but it must happen.
jul 24, 2025, 3:33 pm • 2 1 • view
Urgently, starting at the top.
jul 24, 2025, 3:42 pm • 0 0 • view
Withhold the license fee? I currently watch very little on BBC so not exactly value for money.
jul 21, 2025, 9:15 am • 1 0 • view
The solution to state propaganda? Switch off the BBC and all other right wing media outlets who incessantly regurgitate the political views of their wealthy management, donors and owners. Support independent journalists instead.
jul 21, 2025, 7:34 am • 13 1 • view
You know that's not going to happen.
jul 21, 2025, 8:08 am • 0 0 • view
I’ve been doing that for the last five or so years. For an alternative news source I recommend The Byline Times and the wider Bylines network.
jul 21, 2025, 7:58 am • 18 2 • view
Ditto. I support Byline and Substack is also good. I follow a growing number of excellent journalists who contribute to both.
jul 21, 2025, 8:29 am • 6 0 • view
Agree about Substack, in the end though I’d subscribed to that many people I was getting circa 150 emails every day so had to have a thinning out yesterday.
jul 21, 2025, 10:15 am • 1 0 • view
I mean, Nigel, you don't stop crime by building prisons. You have to have crime to fill them up. If you stopped crime you could have fewer prisons, not more.
jul 21, 2025, 7:05 am • 3 0 • view
are they at least talking about how this effectively means Farage wants to disolve parliament and democracy in this country? Because that I guess is somewhat newsworthy considering Farage's prominence.
jul 21, 2025, 6:32 am • 2 0 • view
It's left to Caroline Lucy's and Stephen Flynn to call Farage out for his lies, hypocrisy and support for Johnson and Truss "The best Tory budget since 1986". The calamity of Brexit is costing us billions yet he is *never* held to account for it. bsky.app/profile/impl...
jul 21, 2025, 6:30 am • 40 9 • view
*Caroline Lucas
jul 21, 2025, 6:44 am • 5 0 • view
🤢🤮🤢🤮🤢🤮
jul 21, 2025, 9:26 am • 2 0 • view
It's actually quite twisted how he gets away without any real challenge. All his policies are designed purposefully to cause significant damage to people but he's not really pulled up on it
jul 21, 2025, 11:55 am • 1 1 • view
I'm surprised he hasn't started on the orange spray tan already...
jul 21, 2025, 4:05 pm • 1 0 • view
The BBC will shoe horn him in wherever possible.
jul 21, 2025, 7:38 am • 2 0 • view
I left the UK after Brexit because I was so fed up with people like Farage. 😕
jul 21, 2025, 8:54 am • 1 0 • view
I'm glad you are "that person", because someone with a higher profile than me needs to say these things. Shouting at the radio used to be my reaction, but now it's more of a groan/whimper. Thank you, Zoe.
jul 21, 2025, 6:26 am • 6 0 • view
😱😱😱😱😱
jul 21, 2025, 3:03 pm • 0 0 • view
“We”, being white people, does he mean? Because I’d like to have heard his response when BBC asked who “we” means
jul 21, 2025, 7:59 am • 9 1 • view
Absolutely nailed it. How many of these interviewer journalists are actually doing their job?
jul 21, 2025, 3:21 pm • 1 0 • view
Exactly my thought when I heard this. Nigel Farage says something, so it's headline news 🙄
jul 21, 2025, 6:09 am • 14 2 • view
The British media are trying to get the fascists into power any way they can.
jul 21, 2025, 11:05 am • 1 0 • view
I am so depressed at the state of the world. We now face massive problems, largely of our own making, and now is the time we need empathetic and intelligent leaders not narcissistic bullies and greedy populists. What happened to "never again"? - it's nearly upon us...
jul 21, 2025, 5:08 pm • 2 1 • view
I didn’t think the frog face liked the monarchy!
jul 21, 2025, 5:47 pm • 0 0 • view
If he became King, we'd have a pretty bloody quick revolution !
jul 21, 2025, 11:20 am • 0 0 • view
He'd be twice as safe & happy. He doesn't give a flying fuck about anyone else!
jul 21, 2025, 7:42 am • 8 0 • view
Can’t he be hanged, drawn and quartered for trying to usurp the Monarch. That would draw a good crowd, might even make it onto #r4today
jul 21, 2025, 10:42 pm • 0 0 • view
No bookie would even give you odds on Justin Webb starting the 'Today's headlines' section with "In the Telegraph..."
jul 21, 2025, 10:45 am • 0 0 • view
"If I was King..." should automatically exclude anyone from running for Office...
jul 21, 2025, 12:47 pm • 19 1 • view
He's a moron, which is why he appeals to other morons...
jul 21, 2025, 8:32 pm • 1 0 • view
I'm really concerned about Fuhrer Froggy 🐸 Farages🤡 mental health (not unlike the decline of his USA 'big buddy' who has cut off his ties to him. Respect to Danny Dyer who has a genuine claim to the throne...do us all a favour Danny..put 'fake' Farage in his seat...many thanks!👍
jul 21, 2025, 7:04 pm • 0 0 • view
Tennessee is such a cesspool of racism & fascism
jul 21, 2025, 7:26 am • 0 0 • view
c.f Trump again?? Pope next?? 🤣
jul 21, 2025, 6:57 pm • 0 0 • view
Farage is a word that describes a evil badger turd left in your good morning favourite cup of tea
jul 21, 2025, 8:18 am • 1 0 • view
I mean this is crazy! And the BBC are looking at reviewing its license fee because so many people stopped paying. It’s not the fee that the problem, it’s the fascism!
jul 22, 2025, 4:28 am • 3 0 • view
He's gone full on Trump.
jul 21, 2025, 8:02 am • 0 0 • view
It’s as if BBC have been told to enable Farage
jul 21, 2025, 6:52 pm • 0 0 • view
If he were king, it would at least keep him away from government.
jul 21, 2025, 7:49 am • 1 0 • view
And we can learn a lot from France how to deal with King Nigel
jul 21, 2025, 9:00 am • 1 0 • view
The BBC needs to go behind a paywall, it’s just a right wing propagandist channel now.
jul 22, 2025, 6:48 am • 1 0 • view
BBC are corrupt, so they anchor the Corrupt on screen.
jul 21, 2025, 7:02 am • 3 0 • view
Well he’s partially right, as king he would have no political power whatsoever, he would have to sit by and do the governments bidding. He can’t be stupid enough to think the king has any role in government, oh sorry it’s Nigel, he is that stupid
jul 21, 2025, 8:53 am • 1 0 • view
I wish all journos would preface comments about Jim with the destruction caused by Brexit
jul 21, 2025, 11:59 pm • 0 0 • view
PAHA! Oh boy what a scoop. Like making today's top story a 6-year-old boy announcing he's going to be a monkey at the zoo for his job.
jul 21, 2025, 8:13 am • 47 0 • view
Isn’t that illegal?
jul 21, 2025, 2:39 pm • 0 0 • view
He's married to a German, so he's well qualified.
jul 21, 2025, 6:16 am • 2 0 • view
They have separated and his current partner is French I believe.
jul 21, 2025, 6:21 am • 1 0 • view
Is that treason?
jul 21, 2025, 6:56 am • 1 0 • view
#r4today used to be the go-to deliverer of expert analysis and unforgiving interrogation. It's about as relevant to current affairs as Blue Peter. Mishal Hussain was the last decent presenter & she's sorely missed. Pass me The Beano.
jul 21, 2025, 1:52 pm • 9 3 • view
Has he done a survey or something?….because he didn’t ask me.
jul 21, 2025, 2:16 pm • 3 0 • view
If that scumbag was king, we'd be bringing out the axe again. #chopchop
jul 21, 2025, 10:19 am • 0 0 • view
Seems like the BBC are trying to dumb down the people that would choose to listen to Radio 4. They've managed with the hoypaloy.
jul 21, 2025, 8:15 am • 1 0 • view
Just heard that, he will halve crime will he? Stop his mates doing stuff I take it to achieve that goal.
jul 21, 2025, 8:15 am • 1 0 • view
We know the problem, how do we fix it.
jul 21, 2025, 8:15 am • 1 1 • view
We need a public sector broadcaster. Strong and independent.
jul 21, 2025, 8:15 am • 1 0 • view
True. You and I may know the problem but lots of people don't so please Repost if you want to.
jul 22, 2025, 7:26 am • 1 0 • view
I can’t understand media giving Farage so much air time, why is the time not given to the Liberal Democrat’s especially as they have far more seats than Reform!
jul 21, 2025, 12:28 pm • 1 1 • view
BBC News is an increasingly rabid right wing organisation. But, I strongly suspect you already know that... They're a very twisted joke nowadays
jul 21, 2025, 6:11 am • 28 1 • view
It’s much easier to read these things if you mentally substitute “Dave the pub bore” in for NF.
jul 21, 2025, 6:25 am • 7 0 • view
His initials sound familiar, to those of a certain age perhaps 🤔
jul 21, 2025, 7:44 am • 3 0 • view
Isn’t this exactly what Ed Davey was complaining about? The BBC keeps reporting REFUK tittle-tattle with no challenge on policies.
jul 21, 2025, 6:28 am • 86 10 • view
What makes BBC bias particularly destructive? Full article in link westenglandbylines.co.uk/news/media/g...
jul 21, 2025, 2:25 pm • 11 4 • view
@BBCr4 would say, "Shh. Anything is better than to talk about ongoing Genocide, supporting & spying for Israel"
jul 21, 2025, 7:47 am • 0 0 • view
It’s ludicrous in several ways: 1. He can’t be king. 2. The king has almost no influence on how happy and safe people are anyway. 3. So therefore he’s talking utter nonsense. 4. This is the sort of stuff Trump was doing before the election - I’ll end inflation/the war on day one.
jul 21, 2025, 9:07 am • 2 0 • view
oh ffs that is truly nauseating! And there are still some - mostly elderly now - who believe in the BBC enough to hang on to its claim of no bias. It was less biased 50+ years ago. Now - why not just hand it over to GBeebies & have done with it
jul 21, 2025, 8:55 am • 2 0 • view
& next on Radio 4, to put the other point of view is a spokesman from the Flat Earth Society.
jul 21, 2025, 9:37 am • 0 0 • view
... 'if he was king'... What. The. Actual. Fuck????
jul 21, 2025, 9:56 am • 0 0 • view
To paraphrase Radiohead, “If I were king he would be first against the wall”.
jul 21, 2025, 1:41 pm • 3 0 • view
No idea. The BBC wants that. Why? Do they believe him? Who's paying?
jul 21, 2025, 7:04 am • 0 0 • view
Farage wants to emulate America but America not "twice as safe & happy" but being disappeared, detained and denied human rights because Orange Fascist Felon President did not get what he wanted...insurrectionist gets a pass from because lawlessness evidently serves interests of traitors in power
jul 21, 2025, 10:01 am • 1 0 • view
Stop platforming bigots and fascists
jul 22, 2025, 8:45 pm • 0 0 • view
We are all that person! Good grief!
jul 21, 2025, 8:08 am • 0 0 • view
Propaganda.
jul 21, 2025, 8:48 am • 0 0 • view
This is the post Johnson - Cummings - Cain BBC They have left a lasting footprint which Lisa Nandy would do well to undo
jul 21, 2025, 8:48 am • 0 0 • view
Garage is apeing Trump’s playbook/Project 25, his will be Project2029. Latest idea for base to faun over, opening prisons somewhere abroad for criminals. Sound familiar?
jul 21, 2025, 7:45 am • 2 2 • view
Said exactly the same about how the BBC and Sky are reporting anything about Farage. They should be holding him accountable and pointing out how impossible all these promises are.
jul 21, 2025, 4:15 pm • 11 2 • view
It’s as ridiculous as how the US ended up with Trump, but that’s the point. It works and our media are following the playbook.
jul 21, 2025, 9:38 am • 0 0 • view
Like his master (Child Molester) King Con, Farrago dreams of being the centre of attention and all powerful. Craven @BBC sucks it all up.
jul 21, 2025, 9:48 am • 0 0 • view
I'm still waiting for the promise of free ice cream on Wednesdays. Trouble is, there are large numbers of ppl out there not on here that will believe it.
jul 21, 2025, 10:44 pm • 0 0 • view
They #r4today are therefore complicit.
jul 21, 2025, 2:12 pm • 1 1 • view
R4 being a source of interesting balanced news is a very dim and distant memory.
jul 21, 2025, 8:07 am • 3 0 • view
He is a Trump mini me, look at complete shitshow the USA is right now and don't vote for this grifter. We will be voting for our children's future.
jul 21, 2025, 10:35 am • 4 0 • view
Follow up headline… Hotels housing asylum seekers are being targeted by groups of violently racist nationalist thugs… No connection to Farage made at all. Despite last years #farageriots Not journalism. Not impartiality. Cowardice and complicity.
jul 21, 2025, 7:55 am • 200 41 • view
The last program I saw that discussed it was one of those awful chats on a sofa. They ignored the violence and just did the immigrant scapegoating. Probably "BBC Politics". I hate to do it as a good BBC is vital to our democracy but this aint it, so I may be pulling the plug on my licence fee.
jul 21, 2025, 12:36 pm • 3 0 • view
Exactly 😒 bsky.app/profile/wimb...
jul 21, 2025, 12:36 pm • 1 0 • view
A spine growing facility would be very profitable.
jul 21, 2025, 9:30 am • 2 0 • view
Useful but maybe not profitable, therefore it won't happen.
jul 21, 2025, 11:45 am • 0 0 • view
What on earth happened to our beloved BBC? Once a shining beacon of light in a murky world of half truths and downright lies😞 The Tory plants installed by Johnson at the top of the Corporation are largely to blame surely? the multi exodus of talent they have lost since then is a stark reminder..
jul 21, 2025, 3:14 pm • 3 0 • view
Meanwhile silent anti genocide protestors .. mainly old people have been arrested It’s been a vile few days and Farage is being paraded around the media circuit like the messiah Funny he’s in full Nazi PR mode when government is in recess What a
jul 21, 2025, 9:09 am • 3 0 • view
The reform councillor in Epping addressed the mob a little bit before the mob attacked the police …
jul 21, 2025, 3:16 pm • 14 2 • view
Even though he says last week there’d be more and a Deform councillor addressed the people outside of the hotel before they attacked. Linked?!
jul 21, 2025, 12:16 pm • 0 0 • view
jul 21, 2025, 8:14 am • 12 5 • view
And Pochin tried the same on #politicslive "just asking the question"
jul 21, 2025, 3:18 pm • 3 0 • view
🎯
jul 21, 2025, 7:56 am • 14 1 • view
To talk of the death of the king, which would allow Farage to be king, was/is treason. Hang Farage and R4 for treason!
jul 21, 2025, 8:29 am • 1 0 • view
Wanker’s gone full Trump, ffs, aided and abetted by almost the entirety of the UK media 🙄
jul 21, 2025, 9:02 am • 2 0 • view
www.bbc.co.uk/contact/comp...
jul 21, 2025, 10:49 am • 1 0 • view
😳😳😳
jul 21, 2025, 5:09 pm • 0 0 • view
Seriously, people should vote him as king of France!
jul 21, 2025, 9:17 am • 0 0 • view
AI slop
jul 21, 2025, 8:30 pm • 0 0 • view
I agree with you. The F man is simply a loud mouth - a silver spoon fed posh bloke pretending to be working class while all the time hating them. I hate the BBC grandstanding him they are failing in their duty to provide balanced news.
jul 21, 2025, 11:30 am • 16 3 • view
I still blame Keir Starmer for pulling labour candidate Jovan Owusu-Nepal. It was definitely a shoe in for Fromage
jul 21, 2025, 3:02 pm • 5 0 • view
He didn’t pull him
jul 21, 2025, 6:02 pm • 1 0 • view
He did
jul 21, 2025, 9:33 pm • 1 0 • view
After reading this, I listened to how they reported it & I don’t see how you can criticise the presentation. They reported what he was claiming, then reported what Lab & Cons said about it. Reform is the leading party in polls at the moment so ignoring what they say however daft is not realistic.
jul 21, 2025, 6:12 am • 0 0 • view
They have 4 seats. They are leading the polls *because* he is always platform this way. Farage is a creation of the people in the media who want him to win.
jul 21, 2025, 7:36 am • 2 1 • view
I’m no fan of Today, I listen to the much superior World Service in the morning now, and no fan of Reform, but I’m not sure this is the target you think it is.
jul 21, 2025, 6:15 am • 0 0 • view
They've been platforming Farage consistently for years. Ed Davey barely ever gets a mention and you wouldn't even know the greens exist. Meanwhile they have a tendency to demonise labour. Leading up to Corbyn's defeat they ran the antisemitism line every day for a year. R4Today is blatantly partial.
jul 21, 2025, 6:43 am • 9 4 • view
I’m not arguing with its partiality - and it’s pathetic chase after lols- it’s why I stopped listening, just with that particular instance which actually seemed balanced and appropriate.
jul 21, 2025, 6:53 am • 0 0 • view
I'm not sure it matters who Farage is or how you report it. Random statements that have no bearing on anything other than the individual's ego shouldn't be headline news - unless you're looking for an excuse to platform the person. It's the editorial decision that's the issue here.
jul 21, 2025, 6:56 am • 4 2 • view
Reform is currently the most popular party according to surveys. Crime is a big issue with most voters. This is claiming to be a big shift in policy. But they also reported criticisms about its uncosted and unrealistic nature. In this instance, the generally dodgy editorial judgement seems valid.
jul 21, 2025, 7:06 am • 0 0 • view
The bias is in the way they chose to report on his shenanigans years ago. They made him into a person who needed reporting on when he could have been laughed out of politics right from the start. You are using circular reasoning.
jul 21, 2025, 7:21 am • 2 1 • view
Farage is a pimple on a diseased body. If you had squeezed that pimple, another one would’ve appeared. I think you need to address the body, not the pimple.
jul 21, 2025, 7:23 am • 0 0 • view
Well there you are. They could have stopped the pimple in its tracks years ago, and cleaned up after to avoid a repeat. But they didn't. They let it grow, and here we are.
jul 21, 2025, 7:24 am • 1 0 • view
To which the BBC News team's answer was "let's make the pimple the most important person in the land". We are addressing the body - the body is the media, and in this case the BBC News team.
jul 21, 2025, 7:25 am • 4 0 • view
I think that’s putting a lot of weight on the influence of the BBC News team. I’m not saying they’re not biased, but I’m not sure they have the agency you think they have.
jul 21, 2025, 7:27 am • 1 0 • view
They're clever about how they go about being biased. If you look more closely at how they pitch claims & counter arguments you'll see they use different editorial approaches dependent on the protagonist. The approaches taken with right wing politicians are far more favourable than those on the left
jul 21, 2025, 7:11 am • 2 2 • view
Bias doesn't work as a form of influence on the undecided if it's obvious. The BBC news team are very good at the influencing/nudging game.
jul 21, 2025, 7:12 am • 4 1 • view
#wato continues the Beeb's faragmania... 🤨
jul 21, 2025, 12:10 pm • 1 0 • view
Two Tier BBC? #wato
jul 21, 2025, 12:14 pm • 1 0 • view
I listened to Today all my life. Not anymore. I can't even bear the radio 4 headlines.
jul 21, 2025, 11:04 am • 2 0 • view
@bbcnewsnight.bsky.social Please be the part of the BBC that finally investigates Farage and Reform. The majority are fed up up with the Farage being platformed without scrutiny and all his statements being repeated as “tittle tattle.” Do your job!
jul 21, 2025, 7:17 pm • 13 1 • view
To be fair, when Harry Secombe ruled the world every day was indeed the first day of Spring. But Nigel Farage? Every day will be the first day Dagon came out of the sea and turned us all into toad people.
jul 21, 2025, 10:53 am • 3 0 • view
Trumpian line if ever there was one. Mind you Farage’s kids do qualify for German passports on their Mum’s side. But I’m not sure Farage’s Huguenot ancestors (yes, he descended from refugees) would approve of his kingly pretentions…
jul 21, 2025, 7:07 am • 2 0 • view
It’s baffling that the Right hate the #BBC so much. No single media organisation has done more to promote F-Farage. I’ve been shouting at the radio for over a decade about this.
jul 21, 2025, 5:39 pm • 18 4 • view
I think it’s performative hatred that serves to keep pushing the broadcaster further and further to the right in order to placate their nonsensical claims of liberal bias.
jul 22, 2025, 12:27 am • 2 0 • view
I suspect the F-Farage narrative has its origins in something simpler and more stupid. A good ‘story’ doesn’t have to be actual news - until they make it news.
jul 22, 2025, 6:16 am • 1 0 • view
King of the nuthouse, yeah.
jul 21, 2025, 10:00 am • 0 0 • view
Sadly #r4today has become unlistenable - a real shame, I used to wake up to it every morning, but now it would start my day by irritating the hell out of me - especially Nick Robinson and Emma Barnett.
jul 21, 2025, 1:45 pm • 4 1 • view
Still the lead headline, with sound bite on the 6pm news. Ridiculous
jul 21, 2025, 5:12 pm • 0 0 • view
I had to abandon the BBC news programmes long ago.
jul 21, 2025, 6:52 am • 2 0 • view
The BBC has always been bias in favour of Farage and his grifting.
jul 21, 2025, 6:50 am • 9 1 • view
Etonian Board all of the right wing ghouls!
jul 21, 2025, 6:56 am • 2 0 • view
What makes BBC bias particularly destructive? Full article in link westenglandbylines.co.uk/news/media/g...
jul 24, 2025, 1:12 pm • 1 1 • view
Biased.
jul 21, 2025, 7:06 am • 3 0 • view
Have you complained to BBC DG?
jul 21, 2025, 11:53 am • 0 0 • view
Can't wait to see how he brings in 30,000 more police and builds extra prisons....all, whilst cutting taxes.... What a man....🤡
jul 21, 2025, 7:51 am • 0 0 • view
Indeed. That’s not news. It’s drama. A soap. Meanwhile, the Greens and Libs barely get any airtime. And most of what they do get is responding to another party vs what they’re saying themselves.
jul 21, 2025, 11:20 am • 8 1 • view
You are saying the right things... it's reality that's wrong, at the moment.
jul 21, 2025, 11:21 am • 1 0 • view
farage in saltburn mode
jul 21, 2025, 7:56 am • 0 0 • view
As King he would have no real powers. It is a largely ceremonial role and they have to read it what the government says. I would be happy if he was the King.
jul 22, 2025, 12:51 am • 0 0 • view
Honestly I can't describe the terror I feel of him getting to Power in 2029. It is on the whole BSky community to try and prevent that from happening.
jul 21, 2025, 11:39 am • 0 1 • view
Pardonwhatnow?
jul 21, 2025, 7:24 am • 1 0 • view
Just stop listening. I did years ago and every time I tune in to see if I made the right choice it’s confirmed. Until Labour undo what the Tories did it’s a waste of space.
jul 21, 2025, 7:03 am • 1 0 • view
Please keep being "this person", Zoe.
jul 21, 2025, 6:49 am • 3 0 • view
👏🏻👏🏻
jul 21, 2025, 7:12 am • 0 0 • view
Wasn’t his exact words, “ and we all lived happily ever after.” The pathetic man lives in his own fantasy world.
jul 21, 2025, 6:18 am • 0 0 • view
He fancies being in the footsteps of the 'King' Trump.
jul 21, 2025, 10:30 am • 0 0 • view
#R4Today GB News on the Radio! The R stands for Reform…
jul 21, 2025, 6:49 am • 18 3 • view
Nigel Farage is Curtis Yarvin-pilled?
jul 21, 2025, 8:01 am • 0 0 • view
Now there’s a story for the 21st century. King ‘Canute’ Farage standing on the shore, commanding the little boats to turn back. Just before he gets swallowed by the waves!
jul 21, 2025, 7:29 am • 1 0 • view
Had he lived in another time and made a treasonous statement like that. It surely would have been his last, but nowadays everyone will tolerate anything that implies you despise others who doesn’t seems to belong.
jul 21, 2025, 6:48 am • 2 1 • view
Media propping up Farage needs calling out!
jul 21, 2025, 8:03 am • 3 0 • view
Perhaps they are calling out what a vainglorious fantasist he is? Fat chance
jul 21, 2025, 6:11 am • 2 0 • view
'If he was king' is very revealing, in that he does not see himself as PM. He does not see himself governing the country, he sees himself ruling it with no opposition.
jul 21, 2025, 9:18 am • 23 1 • view
I’m listening to the excellent Dictators podcast on BBC Sounds. This is how Hitler started
jul 21, 2025, 12:00 pm • 2 0 • view
He 's looked at Fatso across the pond, and he wants to do the same.
jul 21, 2025, 11:31 am • 2 0 • view
He sees himself as an absolute monarch - accountable to no one but God.
jul 21, 2025, 11:01 am • 2 0 • view
God needn’t get his hopes up.
jul 21, 2025, 3:12 pm • 0 0 • view
She would probably think he’s a twat.
jul 21, 2025, 11:05 am • 3 0 • view
Well yes.
jul 21, 2025, 11:07 am • 1 0 • view
Just like Trump.
jul 21, 2025, 9:39 am • 2 0 • view
Governing requires effort and thought. He just wants to gnaw on chicken legs while sitting on his throne.
jul 21, 2025, 9:28 am • 8 0 • view
using same bones to point at a minion and say 'do that!' whilst minion cowers. He's like Johnson, wants the toys of office, the power of office, but not the responsibilities.
jul 21, 2025, 9:36 am • 7 0 • view
He's a politically-affiliated celebrity, not a politician. His every thought, word and deed is afforded column inches that serious politicians are never given. As we've seen with recent elections, both at home and abroad, that's what gets votes. It's depressing.
jul 21, 2025, 6:34 am • 14 2 • view
More Joe Lycett needed as an antidote , Steve Coogan for the Green’s & that awful unfunny Tory comedian , Ed Davy can do the comedy slot for LD . That’s what the “people” want love island meets dating in the dark . Celebrity wrestling with words. “We” have a media that wants to be the star eg Rigby
jul 21, 2025, 7:33 am • 1 0 • view
Stephen Flynn can cover for the SNP & any of the DUP can turn up as they are all very comical . Mary Lou won’t appear but her base is pretty secure shame though as I would pay good money to see her up against Farage. The point being if the media had a different front person to push they would.
jul 21, 2025, 7:38 am • 0 0 • view
Trump saying he would save folk from having to vote again, Farage talking about being king … Obviously democracy is safe if we just follow the crowd. Not the biggest crowd, though. The one with the highest alcohol content, most Nazi flags, biggest mouths, lowest IQ, worst teeth, fewest morals …
jul 21, 2025, 7:42 am • 3 1 • view
Has Garage dissed the actual King?
jul 21, 2025, 2:38 pm • 0 0 • view
Wouldn't surprise me - after all his dad was Greek, so by RefUK's standards Charles is "forrin". ps the Welsh have started calling him "Ffarij"!
jul 21, 2025, 2:46 pm • 2 0 • view
He better watch himself. Charles is an alpha Scorpio who knows the properties of plants. Also suggests that Ffarij is not really in. I hope they clear out soon, he has had far too long in the Sun. The old Empire stuff was good for brexit but now he just stinks of Hitler, a very unpopular "forrin".
jul 21, 2025, 2:54 pm • 0 0 • view