Martin Barnes

We may need a new word to encompass this potent cocktail of cowardice and stupidity.

Huge problems with axing fact-checkers, Meta oversight board says The body's co-chair says moving to community notes could have a big impact on gender rights and minority groups.

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Andrew Norfolk is the former Times journalist whose work brought the grooming gang scandal to public attention...

YouTube video by Best for Britain Starmer accuses Conservatives of years of inaction on child sexual abuse and rape gangs

Starmer says in Badenoch's 8 years as an MP - including as Children's Minister and Women & Equalities Minister - she hasn't once raised rape gangs or child sexual abuse in the House.

Badenoch pivots to talking about the Cass Review on treatment for trans children. #PMQs
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"These girls are being exploited all over again. Politicians jumping on the bandwagon after years of silence is 𝘴𝘩𝘢𝘮𝘦𝘧𝘶𝘭."

Andrew Norfolk, who exposed the grooming gang scandal in 2011, condemns the reuse of the abuse for political gain.

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'Why is your party not condemning this vicious, dishonest attack upon a woman held up by victims as the politician who has helped them more than any other?'

@mrjamesob.bsky.social sends a message to Tory members after Elon Musk called Jess Phillips 'a rape genocide apologist'.

How low will British politics go? Ask Elon, master of the Muskoverse – he’ll decide | Marina Hyde The unedifying spectacle of would-be strongmen bickering over how to protect women and girls is just the beginning Can it really be three weeks ago that Nigel Farage and Elon Musk were posing adoringly at Mar-a-Lago, in front of that hilariously naff…

How low will British politics go? Ask Elon, master of the Muskoverse – he’ll decide | Marina Hyde

This has to be the most dishonest reporting of an opinion poll I've ever seen

The survey actually found that over two thirds of voters *do not* think Starmer will be out of No 10 within a year.

Robert Jenrick would machine-gun his own gran for personal gain

Wes Streeting slams Elon Musk's attack on Jess Phillips as an 'appalling smear' against a 'brilliant woman' Health Secretary Wes Streeting has slammed Elon Musk’s attack on Labour MP Jess Phillips as "appalling" after the billionaire said she should “be in prison” over her response to grooming gangs in the ...

This is much better from Streeting, honestly a relief after the lukewarm rhetoric we saw earlier. www.lbc.co.uk/news/wes-str...

He should be sacked as a shadow minister and stripped of the Tory whip. I doubt he will be. By God I hope I'm wrong.

💥NEW: HOPE not hate can reveal that the two masked far-right extremists threatening to bring war to Leeds this weekend are Aidan Heaps and Toby “TJ” Chapman.
Heaps has a worrying previous criminal conviction.

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Jeremy Clarkson today has sought to argue he was only at the farmers' protest because he's angry for them. And he dismissed Victoria Derbyshire confronting him with his previous comments as "classic BBC". He challenges her on whether it's a fact he bought a farm to avoid Inheritance tax.
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Wonderful from Victoria Derbyshire. Pins down Clarkson using his own words. Leaves him with nothing but 'you people'.

“It’s not just farming, it’s civil liberties.

We’ve got people locked up for tweets and paedophiles walking the streets.”

@lewisgoodall.com talks to farmers protesting Labour’s inheritance tax plans outside Parliament.

“What are you going to do about your farm?”

“I’m going to have to plan my succession differently.”

“Is that such a bad thing?”

“It is to me, personally.”

Jon and Lewis asked farmers protesting how Labour’s inheritance tax plan will affect them.

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The first pic, Adam to Eve: "Nah, you have it - I've got a Greggs steak bake".

Allison Pearson’s ‘racist’ tweet is at centre of Telegraph’s row with police Exclusive: Person who complained tells Guardian that columnist’s ‘Jew haters’ post was inflammatory

Allison Pearson is likely being investigated by police because she tweeted a picture of two people holding a flag of a Pakistani political party standing next to some GMP officers and described them as 'Jew haters'. www.theguardian.com/media/2024/n...

Oh come on, who here can honestly say that they've never...