Ian Naysmith

The BBC is in crisis in the same way that GB News would be if you put Owen Jones on the board armed with a veto and plenty of coffee.

This guy needs to be put in team with Danny Kruger.

Getting lost in statistics about numbers and semantics about ideology misses real issue: This is no "grassroots" movement. It is externally funded and organised. Its network ALL have X blue ticks and Musk beamed in to incite violence. Stop the dark money and astroturfing. The rest will soon wither.

Two important omissions from this story

The reporting barrister, Steven Barrett, is associated with “Lawyers for Borders” who encourage and assist local authorities seeking these injunctions

Complaints about judicial case management decisions are outside the remit of the conduct body

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🛒 the single market
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These are just some of the ways the EU works for you every day.

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Training Eddie's Euro star (6,4)

In the regrettable absence of Céline, the best song of the night was the Waterloo singalong.

The worst possible, most politically illiterate, most damaging lessons were distilled from the local election result. The decision to fight the far right on its own terms is strategically catastrophic. The Blue Labour agenda - unless we govern like bigots, we risk a bigot gov't - is incoherent. BOAK

An old white paper bag with a repeated design of the text WH Smith in brown and cubes made up of the letters WHS in orange.

Apparently today is #NationalPackagingDay and it reminds us of that day we opened a book and found this paper bag and it was like we'd travelled back in time.

“Starmer needs to start governing. Labour need to stop triangulating and start running the country. They are wasting the term they were given, worrying about a second one. They can do a lot of good, if they stop being terrified of losing power in 2029 and start using the power they have in 2025.”

Throwback to May 1949.

Tomorrow, 76 years ago, the Treaty of London was signed by Belgium, Denmark, France, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Norway, Sweden and the United Kingdom, founding the Council of Europe.

"L'extrême droite de Farage" - 🇬🇧 "far right"

French press calls it likes it sees it 👇
(contrairement aux médias 🇬🇧)

The Liberals remain in power, but Canada’s political landscape has shifted.

Here’s what the 2025 election results look like.

Well, that’s definitely one take. Another would be:

“Trump triggers massive and immediate swing away from Trump-aligned, populist headbangers.”

Anyone else remember the VisionOn childrens TV show from the BBC?

My point here is not so much that Trump might not try and run, but how it should be covered journalistically. It would be illegal for Trump to run. There’s no legitimate way around it. Entertaining the prospect, as if there’s some clever way around it, lends the idea legitimacy.

“When the victory was won, he made the announcement himself”

Suetonius on Emperor Nero’s absurd participation in the Olympic Games.

I mean fine, but it’s only because of France that the United States exists.

Elbows up!

Le premier ministre Mark Carney et la gouverneure générale, Son Excellence la très honorable Mary Simon, posent pour une photo de groupe avec les membres du 30e Conseil des ministres du Canada.

Chers Canadiens et Canadiennes, voici votre nouveau Conseil des ministres. Nous avons bâti une équipe plus petite, axée sur l’action et expérimentée, taillée sur mesure pour affronter la situation actuelle.

Prime Minister Mark Carney and the Governor General, Her Excellency the Right Honourable Mary Simon, smile for a group photo with members of the 30th Canadian Ministry.

Canada, meet your new cabinet. We’ve built a smaller, focused, and experienced team that is made to meet this moment.

Les Britanniques ne décolèrent pas contre les États-Unis, leur allié historique

Selon un sondage mené en Europe, c’est en Grande-Bretagne que Donald Trump atteint des records d’impopularité avec 80% d’opinions défavorables (72% en France, 63% en Italie)

C’est peu dire que la nouvelle administration américaine indispose le peuple anglais...

Some thoughts on the European response to the chaos now emanating from the White House - on Ukraine and more broadly, based on chats with senior European policymakers directly or indirectly involved in formulating the bloc's response 1/

Maybe world leaders should just take turns in enraging the toxic racist wotsit and his chinless nazi carebear. Exhaust them. Like, do a rota. “Manu, I think you’re on tonight.”

Told you so.

🇪🇺🇬🇧 Through my first set of meetings in Brussels. The praise for Starmer is overwhelming: “What he has managed to do is not just good for him. It's good for all of us. Absolutely top notch. This is the UK at its best. The UK we have always admired.

"falsely"

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