I've always felt that Johnson and Farage put self-interest over the national interest - hence their dallying with Putin and his oligarchs. But directly colluding with a foreign government to take down the BBC feels like an act of supreme treachery
Donald Trump is not going to sue the BBC for $1 billion
The real story today is both Reform/Farage and the Conservatives/Badenoch talking today about radically changing the BBC
This is the real agenda
Graphic showing Gibb and all his connections
Gibb describes himself as a “Thatcherite Conservative” and was an editorial adviser for GB News before its launch.
This graphic is a couple of years old, nearly, but it gives a sense of the web of influence.
So Turness and Davie out but Gibb and Shah remain. Fear for the BBC because the right wing ideologues are trying to capture it entirely
Reform’s only Black local chairman, Neville Watson, has quit, saying he couldn’t stand the party’s tone and language on immigration.
Watson, who chaired the Edmonton & Winchmore Hill branch, told reporters the rhetoric was “nasty” and “not what Britain needs.”
Another one walks out… 🫠
Rather amusing to watch the British and political media establishment tear itself apart over fear of insulting Trump just at the same time as Trump's myth of invincibility is falling apart in America
The front cover of the ladybird book sleeping beauty
I once found this very touching inscription in a book:
“This book belongs to Gillian Love, aged 7
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Thanks I’ll get him to ask as he’s another 2 yrs min of injections.
Hope they kick in quickly for you.
They’re awful aren’t they.
Partners suffering a lot a the moment, his are caused by the hormone injections he has for prostrate cancer treatment. We tried sage tablets which helped initially but they’re longer and worse than ever now.
60 London Underground staff some who have worked on tube for years could face deportation under tightened visa rules bit.ly/3XpfRuZ
Halloween followed by
🎶 1 2 Freddy’s coming for you 🎶
Always worth reporting these sick people.
He’s been suspended 🤣
What a weirdo . You should report with the details
Reported him
🤮🤮🤮
Sending DMs ??
The signs from Australia (their worst flu season on record), Japan (where they’ve had to close schools) and India indicate that this could be a long, drawn out flu season here with hospitals at capacity
If you haven’t had your flu vax get it
Covid as well if possible
inews.co.uk/news/doctors...
Ukraine has hit the thermal power plant in Belgorod. The area is in darkness.
#explodey
Emma Monk being brilliant again.
The best debunkling around. Make sure you are following her.
Banger
As billionaire Venture Capitalists and tech bros try to make the case for "natural aristocracy" let's remind ourselves of the salutary lesson of Australia's 'Bunyip Aristocracy'.
Me for @noosphere.app
www.noosphere.app/us-tech-bill...
We still don’t know where Laure Ferrari, 46, got the £885,000 that she used to purchase her and Nigel Farage’s constituency home near Clacton-on-Sea. 🤔
City of London lawyer Andrew Milne bought up hundreds of freeholds on homes across Sheffield before advising leaseholders that, if they didn’t pay him exorbitant sums (upwards of £25,000), he’d see them in court. Well done @sheffieldtribune.bsky.social @joshiherrmann.bsky.social for exposing this.
I keep reading it’s now 40
Inadvertent honesty from Trump tonight:
"I never thought we'd go into every city and take a really safe city that we've all been living with for years and make them safe... I did get elected for crime but I didn't get elected for what we're doing. This is many many steps above."
It’s deeply troubling that across the globe people acting in bad faith are attempting to poison each nation against each other from within. I hope and pray their efforts will be thwarted.
It hurts my heart that this is happening and that people feel threatened and made to feel unwanted 😞
"Another Reform MP has been accused of being in breach of Parliamentary rules, after its deputy leader Richard Tice failed to register lavish hospitality he received from Lubov Chernukhin – wife of a former Russian deputy finance minister"
leftfootforward.org/2025/10/refo...
