GB News loses £22m, taking their total losses to over £130m. Except it's not a 'loss', it's an investment by Paul Marshall in providing a propaganda service to platform right wing grifters, gobshites, conspiracy nutters and contrarian fuckwits.

If I was @zackpolanski.bsky.social, I would be pointing out to the BBC that whatever model they use to justify giving Farage & his boot-lickers season tickets for every BBC show under the sun must surely now treat Green Party politicians in exactly the same way. Might even be one for the lawyers...

Six Million Dollars doesn't buy much these days.

I'm off to Guildford today and then into surgery tomorrow for some, genuinely life-saving and hopefully life improving, surgery.

I'm looking forward to being Better ... stronger ... faster than I am right now - or at the very least in less pain

Good luck, Mike. Hope the operation goes well and that you are soon back on the Friday Night Politics Social Show. Perhaps you might need a sit/stand desk for a few weeks. 😉

"They died to save her face"

From the Private Eye archive.
Issue 550, January 1983, some months after the Falklands war.

It's time to widen the attacks on Reform UK and expose their plan to strip workers of their rights Martin Shipton When celebrities endorse politicians or political causes, it can appear crass and embarrassing, especially when they’ve previously had little to say, aren’t very articulate and it’s…

It’s time to widen the attacks on Reform UK and expose their plan to strip workers of their rights

“Labour must stop channelling Reform and unite with progressives. That’s the lesson from Gorton and Denton”
Sadiq Khan

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Uncut Trumpism. No election is valid unless they win it. Farage and Reform UK are outright enemies of democracy and the Mail is actively aiding them.

Reform FC Away Record

L Gorton & Denton
L Caerphilly
L Hamilton

It's not hyperbole to suggest that today we have a federal government that doesn't so much represent or resemble a federal administration as it does a family crime syndicate.

🔥 Write to you MP now!!

Here is the link you need —> www.europeanmovement.co.uk/contact-mp-e...

Sent my MP an email, using your link. Quick, easy and painless...

Over 80% of 16 to 24-year-olds would vote to rejoin the EU, ITV poll finds

Why would you pig-headedly ignore the voice of the next generation? Why would you saddle them with debt, shrink the job market and limit their opportunities? It runs counter to everything politics and society should want for them. For all of us. They’re the future.

www.itv.com/news/2026-02...

With reduced productivity, investment, and trade, the impacts of leaving the European Union is still being felt a decade later. As today marks 10 years since the date of the referendum was confirmed, it reminds us of the importance of repairing our relationship with Europe.

And yet the pathetic portion of the electorate that voted for it, now seems determined to place its architect into Downing Street - and organs like the Telegraph are happy to pretend they were not complicit in helping these events to happen...

NEW

How Palantir captured the Ministry of Defence

How a close read of public domain documents show how MoD was commercially colonised by Palantir

By me, at FT

www.ft.com/content/5207...

@davidallengreen.bsky.social: “Unless evidence to the contrary is provided to the public, it appears as if the government department responsible for defence has commercially surrendered to a single service provider.”

I have no particular knowledge nor interest in Palantir, but as a public procurement lawyer looking closely at the public domain documents about the MoD-Palantir contracts, there is something concerning going on.

Two successive high value tenders without advertisements or competition?

Really?

How Peter Thiel's Secretive Data Company Pushed Into Policing | Backchannel An investigation reveals the difficult issues police and communities face when they adopt Palantir’s data-scooping software.

Good to highlight this.

I always wonder how it is that this long piece in Wired from 2017, on how Palantir takes over institutions, has not found its way into the minds of public procurement decision makers around the world.

www.wired.com/story/how-pe...

The Equality Act is an essential safeguard against discrimination, and it should matter to everyone Humanists UK is dismayed at Reform UK’s announcement that it intends to repeal the Equality Act 2010 if it were to win the next general election. Humanists UK believes the Equality Act is a vital piece...

The Equality Act is an essential safeguard against discrimination, and it should matter to everyone

I'd rather speak with a foreign tongue than a forked tongue...

If UK news shows won’t call this absolute boll**** out let do it ourselves

Somehow, we need to legislate against 'Private Equity' firms - their participation in any sector is seldom to the benefit of the users of the products or services they are taking over.
It won't be easy, but it really would be a huge improvement to all, apart from those seeking short term profits.

Private equity firms are ‘cashing in’ on broken Send system, Lib Dems say Lib Dems leader Sir Ed Davey has called for the Send sector to be given legal protections

Private equity firms ‘cashing in’ on broken Send system.

Vulnerable children treated as "cash cows", successive govts obsessed with privatisation.

Public purse bears cost, local councils heading to bankruptcy.

Can't end profiteering without investing in public provision of children's care.

Hard to see the difference...

Why has nobody released this to the various Social Media sites which stream video? Is everyone employed by CBS a total coward?

Given half a chance, they'll flush Britain down the pan....