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WHY DID BBC BREAKFAST GIVE REFORM UK A SPECIAL GRAPHIC?
A small detail in a brief report sparks some big questions about what the national broadcaster is doing during the run up to local and national elections.
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Please repost if you agree that the BBC has been undermining democracy and enabling foreign interference in our politics by promoting and protecting Farage.
Israel's continued strikes in Lebanon are undermining any hope of peace.
The UK must act now: sanction Benjamin Netanyahu and his security cabinet, and halt all UK arms exports to Israel.
We must also finally proscribe the IRGC and support multilateral plans to disarm Hezbollah.
🎧 Resurrection #396 is now online!
Indie, punk and post-punk from old favourites and emerging artists.
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Christopher Penn wrote: Just remember that given the abundance of neurodivergent people in science, it's far more likely that autism causes vaccines.
A different perspective.
Always helpful.
Liberal Democrats are calling for the Government to halt the award of public contracts to Palantir, including the Ministry of Defence. A Trump aligned tech giant should be allowed no where near our national security infrastructure.- Helen Morgan
Palantir should be nowhere near our NHS.
The government should be setting out its plan for removing it from our health service as soon as possible.
But calling for it anyway, however ignorantly, will make a direct difference to what climate change denying donors pay politicians. So there’s that.
Clean information and clean elections are as important as clean water. But are the regulators up to the job? The way GB News has quietly been allowed to become Reform TV should alarm us all app.prospectmagazine.co.uk/story/72784/...
I've 2 hours of bangers lined up from midday before twiddling the "ooh... flashing knobs" for the fabulous Vicki Michelle!
A new investigation claims GB News is failing to meet Ofcom standards – but nothing is being done.
GB News says it's fair and impartial, but journalist @arusbridger says only someone paid to work for the channel could claim that with 'a straight face'
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Stunning!
If (as Andrew Neil says) GB News has become Reform TV then maybe there’s a case for the @ElectoralCommUK to start taking an interest app.prospectmagazine.co.uk/story/72784/...
Yes, a few times
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To mark the release today of my new book "Immersive Prayer," Ellen turned the tables to interview me, as we reflect on some of its themes. Listen in at www.podbean.com/ew/pb-6w5bd-... . And look out for a FREE Kindle giveaway this coming weekend – more on that when Saturday rolls around!
Great work and well worth the read. Yet another useless regulator
What a spectacle of incoherence.
Reform’s Welsh leader promises not to go down the NHS/insurance route…while Farage keeps that option open for the rest of us. Probably because he’s already committed to selling us out.
Corruption and betrayal nailed on with this lot.
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"If Tony Blair, Nigel Farage, and Kemi Badenoch are telling you to go to war – it's pretty damn obvious you should not go to war."
The UK's right-wing were calling for Keir Starmer to offer full support to the Iran war – but now they've changed tune
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Complaining about & blaming Keir Starmer for a long-scheduled, still uncertain, six month distant increase in fuel prices literally *hours* after calling for more war in the Middle East is quite the flex. These are not serious people.
Telling how confident Starmer now feels in owning his Iran decision. His best outing against Badenoch at PMQs in months. KB not alone in shifting her position. Many of those in the press and politics demanding war and condemning Starmer loudest have been far quieter since the inevitable chaos began.
Perfect summary of Reform's hypocrisy.
We need a lot more accountability like this.
It really is something to see politicians, commentators and media outlets whose whole identity is based on being so-called ‘patriots’ frothing with excitement as they line up to back a deranged megalomaniac who consistently attempts to belittle and bully the country they claim to love
"It shows the vapid insincerity and shallowness of Hollywood. They will stand and cheer a film about Tourette's, but don't want to be around a bloke who has it."
Has debate about John Davidson's N-word use at the BAFTA turned into a bullying campaign?
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Plumber wins by-election for Greens
From the new Private Eye, in shops now.
Dear Shabana, I notice today that you referred to me in your speech on immigration at the IPPR think tank. You said: “A party leader should not be on the beaches of France encouraging people to make a perilous crossing on small boats.” I suppose I shouldn’t be surprised especially after the hateful Labour campaign in Gorton and Denton, but this is just the latest in a string of lies peddled by a discredited Government who intentionally fan the flames of racism and division. When I went to Calais, I was not there to encourage people to travel to the UK. I was there to see at first hand the suffering your Government and successive Governments have done in demonising migrants in a pathetic bid to pander to the base instincts of Reform and the flawed strategy of Morgan McSweeney. As you will know, if you even bothered to research my visit instead of taking Reform talking points, I was there to witness the brutality of families living in tents in freezing temperatures. I filled water tanks and picked up litter. What that visit did do is confirm my belief that if we are to smash the boat gangs and stop the boats, we need to offer safer and managed routes for migrants to come to this country. Showing compassion as a politician is not a crime. In fact, we need to see much more of it. It reminded me of a young MP who in October 2015 spent three days in Lesbos helping migrants fleeing war-torn Syria. She posted videos on X, talked about handing out water and croissants to refugees and food parcels. When she returned to the UK, she wrote a very moving piece in the New Statesman. She said “we have to work with our European partners and create new, safe, and legal routes for refugees to get to Europe. We cannot abandon them to their fate, left as prey for smugglers whilst risking death on the seas.” She said “maybe we can make ourselves feel better by saying no-one is making them get on the boats. And again, the Home Secretary is not entirely wrong when …
Dear Shabana,
Let's clear some things up around migration and remember we're talking about people's lives.
Shabana Mahmood’s decision to tell every person applying for asylum from Monday that their status is temporary could undermine the refugee convention, the Law Society has said
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Ed Davey, "We rightly expect our armed forces to protect British citizens around the world in crisis like this"
"But that includes tax exiles like Isabel Oakeshott who mock ordinary people who stay in the UK and pay our taxes here"
That’s a £30 billion black hole in our economy, according to the IFS. And a ‘car crash’ for our care industry & the NHS. Just for starters. On the plus side, Bromsgrove currently has hundreds of union flags flying from lampposts.
So presumably this Daily Mail campaign against "foreign-born" voters will quickly be applied to their foreign-born star columnist, Boris Johnson, and their own France-based for tax purposes non-dom owner?
