Beth Rigby: "Keir Starmer has changed his top team more than I've had hot dinners."

In two years before Starmer we had 3 PMs, 4 Chancellors, 3 Foreign Secretaries, 5 Home Secretaries, 5 Education Secretaries, 5 Cabinet Secretaries, etc. - total 221 ministerial departures.

Maybe Beth is on a diet.

Congratulations to Lucy Powell. Labour’s new Deputy Leader. Lucy will be a strong independent voice at the heart of this Labour Government. Looking forward to what comes next.

How to Defeat Nigel Farage The Reform leader is a deeply flawed politician who is leading an even more flawed political party. It's time for his opponents to finally start taking him on

Recent events have shown how deeply flawed a politician Nigel Farage really is.

It's time for his opponents to stop being so afraid and finally start taking him on.

www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/how-to-def...

Oil and Gas Lobby tells Farage his anti green energy drive is a mistake. Love it.

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China 'enemy' reference removed from key witness statement for collapsed spy trial The publication of letters comes amid a political row over the collapse of the prosecution of two men accused of conducting espionage for China.

A reference to China being an "enemy" of the UK was removed from key evidence for a collapsed spy trial in 2023 as it "did not reflect government policy" under the Conservatives at the time, according to the national security adviser

news.sky.com/story/china-...

Crikey, the latest series of The Diplomat is utterly fantastic — sublime writing, great performances, and yet another finale with a WTF moment at the end!

China spy case witness removed 'enemy' from evidence under Tories Security adviser Matthew Collins says the term

Every media and Tory attack on Starmer and Labour is made up, lies and deliberate falsehood.

Here's another.

@bbcnewsnight.bsky.social Will the media sensationalise for days over this?

Not on yer nellie.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

You may have seen quite a bit of news from Caerphilly today.

But how much have you seen about the Reform candidate’s relationship with Nathan Gill?? Anything? Nothing?

Watch & read @johnsweeneyroar.bsky.social on the trail of ‘Moscow Gold’

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My eldest brother - a die hard Tory voter - said he would do anything and vote for any party if it stopped Reform and Nigel Farage getting into power. He’s living in an area where that is likely.
I had to take smelling salts when he announced this.
And I’m ashamed to admit it..,

Dave: The Boy Who Played the Harp review – it’s clearer than ever what a stunningly skilled rapper he is Returning with his first album in four years, the arena-filling UK rapper is still such a smart, sharp lyricist as he explores a series of existential crises

Dave: The Boy Who Played the Harp review – it’s clearer than ever what a stunningly skilled rapper he is

Adil Ray, "Prince Andrew has given £12 million of his mum's money to someone he has never met before"

"Has renounced all his titles for something he didn't do"

"With the same person he's never met before"

"At the house of someone he was only friends with"

"To be polite"

#HIGNFY

The Reform Backlash: Caerphilly By-Election Result Shows Nigel Farage’s Party Is Much Weaker Than It Looks

Despite widespread media predictions of a Reform victory on Thursday, Farage's defeat shows his party continues to be overestimated, argues Adam Bienkov

Remember - this started with an unfounded allegation that Labour had intervened to water down the Deputy NSA's statement to the CPS.

Now that it turns out not only that wasn't true, but if anyone interfered, it was under previous Tory gov't, Swinford & Pogrund skirt over to some other gossip.

A rising star but categorically *not* in the Katie Lam sense. Give him a listen. It’s the slot that persuaded the bosses to give me the big show when I did it for six months…
Oh. Hang on. Please ignore the above. Lad’s a menace.

The only time I’m tempted to have a look at Twitter is to see how the bent Tory client media spins something like being so wrong about the China spy business. And the only time I’m grateful to people here showing me what’s happening on Twitter is when they show me how the bent Tory client media… etc

BREAKING: Keir Starmer and Volodymyr Zelenskyy embrace on the steps of No 10 as the Ukrainian president arrives for a Coalition of the Willing summit on the war in Ukraine

Oh

People will not need to ‘re-verify’ their bus passes from October – Full Fact Videos circulating on social media are spreading misleading claims about supposed changes to people’s bus passes.

A video circulating online claims that from October, there will be several changes to bus passes across the UK, including a requirement for people to ‘re-verify’ their pass.

But the Department for Transport has confirmed these claims aren’t true.

Such a wonderful warrior who has worked tirelessly for years for these victims of abuse. Jess Phillips deserves better. I smell a stinking Reform rat and BadEnoch is only too happy to derail her good work for no other reason than to score political points. It's never about the victims for the RW

"Amazing result for Plaid Cymru, so here's a guest from Reform anyway..."

I’m so happy to see this.

@johnsweeneyroar.bsky.social is one of our own. Like @thenerve.news he’s an old Observer hand. Later at BBC he did everything, but in 2018, he found himself blocked from one particular subject…Russia & Brexit.

Please give him a hand…Sweeney’s coming home 👏👏👏

Such a relief that Russia lost in Caerphilly.

Except you haven't applied to ask a question since July have you, you lazy little gobshite?

Stephen Kinnock explains the Dublin agreement where the UK could send asylum seekers back to the first country they stepped into the EU, when we were members of the EU

With Brexit, when we left the EU, we were no longer able to do that

Proof that Nigel Farage hardly knew Nathan Gill, the traitor who took Russian bribes.

Renters’ Rights Bill
1. Abolishes “no-fault” evictions
2. Replaces fixed-term tenancies
3. Limits rent increases to once per year
4. Introduces a Decent Homes Standard
5. Bans discrimination against tenants with children or on benefits.
6. Gives tenants a legal right to have pets,

Labour👍

Loch Ness monster next?

"You left Europe because you wanted less boats, and you have more boats. You left Europe because you wanted more happiness. Now you are depressed."

This calm, cool decency is dangerously absent from our discourse at the moment. Almost everyone is embracing, normalising or ignoring the 'cruel bigotry, compulsive violence, and the sadistic persecution which has characterised the philosophy and practice of fascism.'
We need more Bertrands.

Remember - the murder of Daniel Morgan is still unsolved - and victims of phone hacking still don’t have justice.

These two things are inextricably connected.

#TheHack