We know Melanie Phillips is an out & out Muslim hater, but people often forget she is also a credulous fool & terrible journalist. During her lengthy spell at the Daily Mail, among her many sins, was the promotion of anti MMR vaccine lies, & repeated support for the disgraced Andrew Wakefield.

Of course he’s picked the one outlier poll from the last 2 years to hype up Starmer. His framing of the qs, again lends to a psychological coping mechanism, inviting callers to ring up and wax lyrical about Starmer. He’ll need a cold shower after this.

James O’Brien doesn’t know if Labour Together breaking electoral law 20times to elect Keir Starmer & concocting fake profiling of journalists with a view to blackmailing them is an important story or not and then reminds us he ‘does this for a living’.

And the media are now doing phone ins going: is he right

No, he’s wrong, morally and factually, wrong

Lisa Nandy started her answer on Sky yesterday with "He's right..."

See @mrjamesob.bsky.social can call out racism and prejudice - which is welcome, necessary and I give him so props for doing so, BUT Starmer has a litany of racism which he won't or can't call out - there lies the problem.

This cult?

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4. His ruthlessness as Director of Public Prosecutions sat oddly with his history as a defence lawyer. People remarked on it at the time. Perhaps human rights was not in fact soaked into his fabric, but something else was.
Ambition.
By any means.

Why has James O'Brien never covered this: bsky.app/profile/tejt...

Why has James O'Brien never covered this: bsky.app/profile/tejt...

They also explained their playbook to assembled journalists, who only revealed it in books last year.

Its astonishing that O'brien doesn't know this or ignores this.

‘I’m paid a vast salary to talk about and understand politics every day but I don’t know why Keir Starmer made a bad Prime Minister…despite having experts on my podcast deep dive explain to me in detail about why he will be a failure but I have to pretend to forget’

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Literally sounds like a toddler today - and thats an insult to the innocence of toddlers - but putting fingers in ears shouting la la la at any critique of Starmer thus relegating it a non discussion.

The cognitive dissonance must be at epic levels.

Starmer only courted the racists because he’s a decent man.

🤣🤣🤣

His self therapy session continuing as he tries to come to terms with the reality of Starmer vs the Starmer he concocted in his head & fell in love with. All desperate projection. He is literally the cult of Starmer.

His self therapy session continuing as he tries to come to terms with the reality of Starmer vs the Starmer he concocted in his head & fell in love with. All desperate projection. He is literally the cult of Starmer.

Donald Trump is:

- Openly racist
- Covering up evidence he may have sexually abused children
- Directly responsible for the murder of US citizens by masked agents of the state
- Openly looting the treasury and taking bribes from foreign leaders
- Polling at 38% amongst the American people

Racist woman to American with darker skin,

"I'll call ICE and they'll shoot you like they shoot the others"

The normalisation of racism and hate in the US under Trump is a really disturbing and sad thing to see

So hold on @mrjamesob.bsky.social spent the first half of show stating 'Starmer is a very decent man who has done nothing wrong' then the second half calling out Trump's racism, whilst conveniently forgetting Starmer grovelled at the feet of the racist begging him to come for a state visit.

Gladys Mae West obituary: mathematician who pioneered GPS technology She made key contributions to US cold-war science despite facing huge barriers as a Black woman.

No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition.

Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

+...Lord Ali, 'Israel has that right', Enoch Powell speech, State visit for orange nonce, just off the top of my head.

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@mrjamesob.bsky.social did a show once where Brits of colour called in to explain to him how Starmer's racist attitude & words have made them consider their place in the UK, their home, and today he said "Starmer has done everything right"

It's super important to listen to a range of voices on political issues - to get an understanding of framing and limitations - but if you want to understand less about Keir Starmer, tune into @mrjamesob.bsky.social on lbc, you will become less informed.

It's genuinely fascinating how despite Starmer's hatred of Boris Johnson, Boris is easily the PM he's most wound up resembling

Of course: Johnson and Starmer were both clueless frontmen for deeply malicious and extremely weird and unpleasant backroom staff, and they were both shitehoused to power in absolutely absurd campaigns of all-media horseshit, squealing and drivel. That’s two general elections in a row, at least.

It reminds me of Miatta Fanbulleh - the brilliant economist appearing frequently on TV admonishing the neoliberal household budget theory politicians love, who became a Labour MP, went on TV & started talking about 'growth growth growth as the credit card has run out'- this is what Starmerism does.

Yep, there's evidence that babies were raped and killed....how is this not on every front page and news cycle 24/7 💔

Not convinced on the basis of this Q+A that Starmer's line of essentially saying "I'm sorry I was lied to" is going to hold