Peter West

Telegraph future in limbo again as RedBird abandons £500m deal RedBird has confirmed a Sky News report that it has withdrawn its £500m bid to buy the right-leaning newspaper titles.

Well it’s not all bad news today…
news.sky.com/story/telegr...

I suspect they’ve had feedback from a focus group of Reform voters and shat their pants

It’s pretty clear they’ve abandoned their strategy and are making tactical policy decisions based on what they think they will get hammered least for by the media/Reform. Absolutely spineless

I wonder if anyone at the BBC has the self awareness to realise that they have Farage a soap box for years, and now he wants to destroy them?

All the fuss about Trump attacking the BBC is just his latest smokescreen for this. As usual the media and chattering commentariat are falling for it

I guess he doesn’t remember Vietnam due to his bone spurs

So the government appear to have forced the DG of the BBC to resign to please Trump, and are still spending taxpayers cash posting on X to please Musk. Spineless. I had such high hopes and look at what we have ended up with.

There’s left over onion gravy so I’ve slopped it over a slice of bread and devoured it just like my great grandad would have done. Mrs W is not impressed

BBC director general Tim Davie and News CEO Deborah Turness resign over Trump documentary edit Davie says

Well that’s one Tory less in the BBC senior management

www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cd...

After about a month of noisy fireworks pretty much every night, some arsehole is setting them off here again tonight. Is it to commemorate Remembrance Sunday for all the people who have PTSD?

I wonder what she’ll say when she finds out that UK government posts on X are appearing right next to some horrible stuff

Is there something similar for the names for the bits of batter* that are sprinkled on the top of the chips?

* Scraps is the correct term for these although there seem to a number of abominations used

I’ve never yet seen a chippy with pepper on the counter

And he wonders why Labour are haemorrhaging support to the Greens

A bigger issue than the individual politicians is why the Government is still spending UK taxpayers money on content on the X platform. It’s about time the BBC, football clubs and corporations also took a stand on this

Mike Joyce talking about The Smiths on BBC 6 Music this morning. When asked about people who said they were boring, he retorted that those people had obviously never been to a Smiths gig.
For the record, I saw The Smiths live on their three UK tours and they were honestly one of the best live bands

Trump limits refugee admissions to 7,500 and gives priority to white South Africans

Tell me you’re a racist without telling me you’re a racist…

“Trump limits refugee admissions to 7,500 and gives priority to white South Africans”https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cy40jj71243o

This is absolute cowardice by Labour. Time someone explained what “leadership” means and that a continual retreat in the face of Reform and the rump of the Tory Party is going to result in their Dunkirk moment

Meanwhile the government continues to spend taxpayer money funding the X platform

Surely this mean Laura Kuenssberg gets that much deserved peerage?

Wikipedia reports traffic drop, blames AI search and social media Wikipedia has reported a reduction in readership, blaming the dip on rise in search engines’ AI summaries, bot traffic and a new information environment.

Wikipedia recently announced that most of their traffic is AI bots scraping data off their platform which drives up their cost

www.computing.co.uk/news/2025/ai...

I was just about to post exactly this. Basically Brexit was something that lived largely in people’s imagination rather than reality and now they’re disappointed and looking for an excuse for their stupidity rather than admit they were duped

You can’t create growth by cutting things. Investment in major infrastructure projects and a far closer alignment with the EU might help unless of course you’re frightened of upsetting the regressive tendency

I believe that he sees leaving NATO as a long term issue. Clearly the position of the current US administration is causing problems for the organisation and I would prefer to see a pan-European military alliance with less dependence on the USA

Kebatu manhunt latest: Epping hotel asylum seeker 'at large in London' after mistaken release - with three police forces searching for him Police have launched a manhunt to find an asylum seeker jailed for sexually assaulting a teenage girl who has been accidentally freed. Officers in Essex say he boarded a train for London after the rel...

With the hysteria that’s been whipped up by the media and far right recently I’m really concerned how this will play out

news.sky.com/story/kebatu...

Part of the lyric for Grace by IDLES: “No god No king I said love is the thing No crown No ring I said love is the thing”

Nick Grimshaw playing Grace by IDLES this morning. Is this related to the “big” news story about the king and the pope praying together yesterday or just a coincidence?

Three people arrested in London on suspicion of assisting Russian spy agencies Three people have been arrested in London under the National Security Act on suspicion of assisting Russian intelligence services.

Let’s hope it’s Boris Johnson, Nigel Farage and Richard Tice

news.sky.com/story/three-...

Trump says lots of things, but I’m pretty sure Putin decided that he’d got what he wanted from his useful idiot already.

All four members of my family are now Green Party members and I met someone else this morning who told me he joined last week having never been a member of a political party before

Money blog: Penguins and Clubs can no longer be called 'chocolate' - and McVitie's has had to change iconic slogan Welcome to the Money blog, Sky News' consumer hub. We kick off every Monday with a careers deep dive, today asking an aesthetics doctor what his job is really like. And there's bad news if you like a ...

A while back things like this would have been blamed on the EU, but turns out this is caused by climate change

news.sky.com/story/money-...