Ben Walker

Ministers coming out to bat for a Prime Minister, despite a critical error of judgement backing a crony, whilst wishing not to criticise radical right-wing groups. This could be five years’ ago. No wonder the charge ‘they are all the same’ cuts through.

Biggest issue of the day: the silence coming out of Number 10, other than Twitter posts about immigration, despite the owner of said platform inciting the overthrow of the government at a violent rally yesterday.

You have power to do this, Kevin. Introduce a private members bill. Get support from the PLP. The vast majority of the country cannot understand why the government is paralysed here. We want action. This is the change we want.

When Ted Heath sacked Enoch Powell he was acting in the face of a majority in favour. Harold Wilson backed him up and called the speech “evil”. Long past time for Keir and Kemi to do the same.

This is to buy the whole city, right? Still no.

You’ve heard of wally with a brolly? Meet sacked with a Filofax.

The image shows the 17th century painting “Landscape with Windmills near Haarlem” by the Dutch painter Jacob van Ruisdael.

Disgusted to see this beautiful landscape ruined by wind turbines.

Why allegations of BBC bias on Israel are becoming hard to reconcile The BBC is criticised—from both sides—for its reporting on Israel. A kind of groupthink is setting in that means there is no room for new narratives

It is close to an article of faith for some that the BBC is biased against the right, Brexit and Israel. But @arusbridger.bsky.social asks: is it, really?
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Feels like someone needs to tell Gerard Butler he’s got a new trilogy to film.

If Ben Whishaw was asked to play a drunk Mick Jagger. #The1975 #Glasto

Watching a 'genius' reaching a high-school level of understanding of what party politics is in real time.

@acjimbo.bsky.social if you don’t open with ‘Due per Doue’ in the next @totallyshow.bsky.social pod then I will eat my (Fabio) capello.

Mail complaining in poor English about immigrants with poor English

The Daily Mail complaining that immigrants have not the English too well.

www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...

But has he ever thrown a shoe over a pub?

Feels a no brainer to have him Rice and Bellingham as the midfield 3. So cannot wait for Jordan Henderson to lead us out in the group stages of the World Cup.

“We must take care of nature so that it takes care of us.”
— Pope Francis

Individually caring about the wellbeing of others = Good Christian Values

Caring about a society which looks after the wellbeing of others = Sinister Socialism

Cannot help but think you missed an opportunity to turn that cloud into his profile with big hair.

BIRMINGHAM. ON THE RISE AGAIN. 🔵 pic.twitter.com/LQsWdPS3TR

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@sustainabletall.bsky.social thought you might be interested in this: builtbn.org/news/builtby...

Fiddler on the roof looks like he has great form and guaranteed minutes. I reckon bring him in if you cannot roll it until next week.

Meanwhile the mob across the Expressway have the worst wages to turnover ratio in Europe. Interesting times.

Word of the day is ‘arsle’ (19th century): to have a distinct sense of going backwards.

Seriously, what was that about? I was half expecting the words ‘this party political broadcast was brought to you by MAGA’ to be read at the end. Embarrassing for all involved, not least the licence-fee payer.

I was listening too and I could not believe the softball questions. At one point he even led the spokesperson to claim he represented ‘the centre of public opinion’ because it seemed he had forgotten to mention it.

Thanks. Interesting that myself (and others) naturally went hyperbolic! Although I seem to remember that previous administration handover they reset the follower count to zero on Twitter… hope you are well!

The only things golden will be those bloody awful curtains in the Oval Office.

Potter currently smashing it on both ITV channels. Good lad. #bcfc #kro #wizard