BREAKING: UK’s response to Covid was “too little too late”. Acting faster could have saved 23,000 lives in England according to the public inquiry.
Boris Johnson presided over a “toxic, sexist, chaotic culture” in No10, where rule-breaking seriously undermined public confidence.
20.11.2025 16:07 — 👍 508 🔁 188 💬 55 📌 39
Yay, the even worse option of lots of small taxes upsetting noisy lobby groups.
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This analysis explains Labour’s approach too. Ageing white men must be placated at all costs in all circumstances.
10.11.2025 13:58 — 👍 122 🔁 20 💬 3 📌 2
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Like the T-Rex in the clouds
10.11.2025 20:55 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Huh? How do you do a "balancing" program when one candidate did an insurgency trying to overturn the election and the other...didn't?
Would Prescott have been satisfied with an hour of people telling BBC journalists why they didn't try and stoke a riot to overturn Trump's second win?
09.11.2025 21:45 — 👍 415 🔁 123 💬 14 📌 3
We are so far through the looking glass that the man who tried to overthrow an election becomes president, the people who attacked the Capitol are turned into martyrs, & it's the BBC that gets punished - cheered on by the worst news outlets in the UK & the two most dishonest politicians of our age.
09.11.2025 21:07 — 👍 670 🔁 267 💬 9 📌 2
Tim Davie resigning from the BBC over the edited Trump video is like Al Capone being jailed for tax evasion: sometimes the right thing happens for the wrong reason.
09.11.2025 18:44 — 👍 204 🔁 39 💬 5 📌 0
only in the small print of this article do they make clear that the pensioners paying an extra £2,500 of tax would have to have
“earnings over £125,140”
I know many pensioners are asset rich but how many have income at that level?
07.11.2025 17:28 — 👍 771 🔁 296 💬 63 📌 14
You should definitely wear them. Can’t imagine anyone saying anything with so many servicemen present
07.11.2025 21:54 — 👍 8 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
No idea what Powell’s plan here is supposed to be, other than undermine the government.
06.11.2025 21:35 — 👍 63 🔁 8 💬 5 📌 0
As anti-Labour media will always put words in her mouth, why not beat them to it:
"Yes it's true, Daily Mail readers, we are coming for you and your money because a) everyone else had to pay under the Tories b) Brexit screwed the poor c) you voted for both. Cheers, Rachel."
04.11.2025 08:57 — 👍 734 🔁 148 💬 20 📌 5
Moisés Caicedo has been at this level since the final months of Poch imo. I’ve been surprised for a long time that so many people didn’t notice
01.11.2025 19:52 — 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 5 📌 0
a close up of a man 's face with his eyes closed in a suit and tie .
ALT: a close up of a man 's face with his eyes closed in a suit and tie .
● Andrew Windsor remains 8th in the line of succession.
●King Charles III will privately fund his new living arrangements despite Andrew being very rich indeed
● Actually we don't know how wealthy Andrew is because his mother's will is sealed for 90+ years
● Sleep well serfs.
● Know your place.
30.10.2025 23:54 — 👍 1565 🔁 461 💬 137 📌 47
Keep this guy on the "defecting to Reform" watch list, i reckon.
28.10.2025 23:03 — 👍 94 🔁 8 💬 6 📌 0
If people like @itvpeston.bsky.social are unsure whether Sarah Pochin's statement was racist, they should try saying exactly the same thing to their employer and see how it goes.
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The delivery is so Alan-Partridge-trying-to-be-hard-hitting.
27.10.2025 22:37 — 👍 5 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 1
Is the UK addicted to “full independent inquiries”? Does it really take a years-long process costing millions to say it was a mistake to release Hadush Kebatu on Friday? Wouldn’t a faster internal process into what went wrong allow the government to *fix* it faster?
27.10.2025 08:01 — 👍 762 🔁 106 💬 102 📌 11
I agree, but I imagine people thought the same about Trump
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Tom Tugendhat
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How am I out of pocket when I feed my kids? Isn't feeding my children the basic purpose of a parent?
Sure, some need help, but for most of us, feeding our kids is our responsibility.
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Parents shouldn’t be out of pocket by setting their children up for school.
That’s why we are rolling out free breakfast clubs and from next September, schools will be required to limit branded items of uniform.
Saving families £500 and giving kids the best start in life.
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Kevin Hollinrake MP
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Try telling Marcus Rashford that 🤷♂️
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Fascinating that both of these people were considered on the "soft" centre-right of the Tory Party not so long ago.
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"Amazing result for Plaid Cymru, so here's a guest from Reform anyway..."
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Caerphilly Senedd By-Election Result:
🌼 PLC: 47.4% (+19.0)
➡️ REF: 36.0% (+34.2)
🌹 LAB: 11.0% (-34.9)
🌳 CON: 2.0% (-15.3)
🌍 GRN: 1.5% (New)
🔶 LDM: 1.5% (-1.2)
🐉 GWL: 0.3% (New)
💷 UKIP: 0.2% (New)
Plaid Cymru GAIN from Labour.
Changes w/ 2021.
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Scale of Plaid win in Caerphilly is significant, not least because of what it says about the potential for progressive tactical voting in (relatively) high turnout elections to block Reform. Voters in this race knew it was a Plaid-Reform contest and voted accordingly.
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Quite an unfortunate place to drift off into an ellipsis.
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Fingers crossed, they’ve lent their vote to Plaid. That’s a sentence I never thought I’d write
23.10.2025 21:35 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
All I can see is a big church
23.10.2025 08:47 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Zack Polanski should be the biggest wake up call for Labour that people want to hear the truth. Even if they don’t like it
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Was a lot of good signs. Gittens in particular looked good. Estevao continued to look like the man and most importantly we didn’t get the red
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