Phil Truckel

Heidi Alexander: "We're putting the railways back into the service of passengers, not being focused on profit & shareholders"

So why aren't you nationalising the private rolling stock leasing companies? And why doesn't the same argument apply to e.g. the private water industry?

“I’d have no problem releasing the video”

“I didn’t say that, you said that. Fake news.”

5 days apart 😬

(From @therecount.com )

“In 2017 there was not a single asylum seeker who arrived on a boat. Today we have 46,000 a year and do you know why? It was because of the botched Brexit deal pushed through by Boris Johnson and championed by Nigel Farage. Nigel Farage should be here apologising”

Daisy Cooper

D'you remember Sid - the tagline used by the Conservative government in 1986 to push the idea of privatising gas?

Oxford City Councillor Ottino had some home truths for Sid, in a debate on Thames Water.

After 40 years, privatisation of public services has failed. It's time for public ownership.

Holocaust survivors call on Nigel Farage to apologise over alleged antisemitic comments Exclusive: Group’s open letter says Reform UK leader must take responsibility for behaviour as a schoolboy

The hounds are yapping at Farage’s heels. Interesting to see how he wriggles out of this one.

Very well said

Very well said

"It gives more power to a smaller number of people - 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵’𝘴 𝘢 𝘸𝘰𝘳𝘳𝘺."

Is scrapping jury trials for crimes that carry a likely sentence of under 3 years the right move?

@maitlis.bsky.social | @jonsopel1.bsky.social | @lewisgoodall.com

UK aims to secure agreement to rejoin Erasmus student exchange scheme Britain quit EU programme after Brexit, when Boris Johnson claimed it did not offer good value for money

At last!
Continued British participation in Esrasmus was part of the Withdrawal Agreement, signed by Johnson, but which he later, in a fit of cultural vandalism, refused to implement once Brexit was enacted
www.theguardian.com/education/20...

Attorney general urges Nigel Farage to apologise over alleged racism and antisemitism Exclusive: Richard Hermer, a senior Jewish minister, says Reform leader ‘clearly deeply hurt’ many people with his alleged behaviour

I know how #R4Today team love to bash along with the same story day after day after dull day … long after the country seems ready to move on

So here it is …

TfL's cycleway network had 90km of routes in 2016. Now it’s more than 430km.

And Londoners are cycling like never before, with 1.5 million bike trips every day.

We’ll continue to work with TfL and London’s boroughs to make cycling safer, easier and more accessible for all.

🎩Get this POS outta the White House! 🇺🇸

Petition: Call a public inquiry into Russian influence on UK politics & democracy We are concerned about reported efforts from Russia to influence democracy in the US, UK, Europe and elsewhere. We believe we must establish the depth and breadth of possible Russian influence campaig...

Just because it's reached the 100,000 threshold, doesn't mean anything will happen.

So keep signing and sharing, because we need to show MPs that there's a huge demand.

petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...

Minister defends watering down Angela Rayner's flagship Bill amid backlash Education Secretary Bridget Phillipson said there was a 'very real prospect' that key measures in the Employment Rights Bill would not be in place by April without the change

Education Secretary Bridget Phillipson claimed there was a "very real prospect" the new Employment Rights Bill would not be in place by April without the U-turn

www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...

🚨WOW! The Petition calling for a public inquiry into Russian influence on UK politics & democracy has now rocketed past 75,000 signatures! 🙏

LET’S KEEP GOING!

If a petition is what it’s going to take let’s get this done!
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...

The UK, where the day after a decision to take half a million children out of poverty, the media & political world has been full of sneering at those same children & their families, labelling them as ‘Benefits Street’, while the same people are moaning about a tax on £2m mansions. Shameful stuff.

Wow. The more you know…

'Because of the pragmatic approach that's been taken from April next year millions of your viewers will have better rights at work'

Education Secretary Bridget Phillipson #BBCBreakfast

Govt minister @karinsmythmp.bsky.social nods along as Sophy Ridge tells her about the cuts that hospices are having to make.

It's a scandal that hospices rely on charity for most of their funding & what we need is a publicly funded & fully resourced hospice system within the NHS.

Brexit costing UK up to £90bn in lost tax revenue , new analysis shows Exclusive: Britons also up to £3,700 worse off, leading to calls for the Labour government to improve relations with the EU

Brexit costing more than previously thought...
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...

Petition: Call a public inquiry into Russian influence on UK politics & democracy We are concerned about reported efforts from Russia to influence democracy in the US, UK, Europe and elsewhere. We believe we must establish the depth and breadth of possible Russian influence campaig...

This petition calling for a public inquiry into Russian influence on UK politics & democracy already has over 26,000 signatures. Let’s get it to 100,000 this week.

Please sign and share 🙏

petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...

A wide aerial view of central London on a clear, sunny day, showing the River Thames, Tower Bridge, and the Shard.

NEW: Help inform our plans for 2026.

I’m working on the next Budget for London, my plan to continue building a fairer, safer and greener London.

Share your views on what London needs more of next year. Join @talklondon.bsky.social and take the short survey now:

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Still reeling from the Stanford report on Brexit. Reduced GDP by up to 8% and investment by as much as 18%. The UK Treasury would have £40 billion more each year if Britain had remained in the EU. Devastating self-immolation.

David Clayton. NC-05
Watch him.
The breed of Democrat that is entering the political arena.

Quiet piggy: ‘Trump finds the easiest response is to shame women into silence’ | The News Agents The president has had two public outbursts against female reporters in the past week, showing a leader unravelling on live TV. Is the Epstein Files pressure finally getting to him?

"What he does is he shames," says Emily Maitlis

"He finds the easiest response is just to shame women into silence or hope that he's shaming women into silence"

www.thenewsagents.co.uk/article/quie...

Ken Clarke rips Reform to pieces, they don't know what they are talking about, they don't know what they are doing, they resigned instantly when they realised they couldn't do the job.

#bbcqt

MPs and BBC staff call for Robbie Gibb to leave broadcaster’s board Boris Johnson’s appointee is accused of pushing claims of institutional bias at the corporation after shock resignations

MPs and BBC staff call for Robbie Gibb to leave broadcaster’s board.

Staff left unhappy at all staff meeting today, as their questions about the board go unanswered…

www.theguardian.com/media/2025/n...

Ken Clarke, "Politically you can't rejoin the European Union at the moment it would cause its own nightmare, divisions and crisis"

"Brexit is doing damage to our economy"

"The time has come to rejoin the Customs Union and the EU Single Market would be a huge, huge advantage to us"