David Sword

This is amongst the most impactful two minutes of broadcasting I’ve ever seen.

By Emma Murphy, International Editor, ITV News. #Gaza

47% of people think immigration is primarily illegal. There were 4% irregular arrivals in March

New YouGov polling. A monumental failure of our political class to educate, a monumental failure of our media to report fairly, for a generation

I prosecute and defend the most serious sexual offences in our courts.

The overwhelming majority of offenders are British-born. Overwhelmingly the victim is someone known to them, either a partner or relative.

Anybody purporting to care about protecting women might start there.

Is there anything much more repulsive than a very wealthy, safe, privileged Tory/Reform MP/commentator targeting deliveroo drivers and asylum-seekers in dismal hotels with their anti-immigrant, racist bile - to whip up civil unrest that they hope to use as their lever into power? No.

Does anyone believe that Netanyahu wants to extend the war in Gaza in order to bring back the hostages? He's just trying to save his political skin - and Strumpf is too frit to stop him.

I've heard that Badenoch no longer identifies herself as a serious politician.

Good to hear Sam Freedman on the BBC Today programme this morning making the case for rational policies towards immigration rather than throwing around numbers about channel crossings

It's about time that evidence-based, rational discussion informed the politics of immigration. This article sets it out clearly and succinctly for all to see.

This is the problem with the crisis in Gaza. There is such a lack of trust between the protagonists that they alone are no longer able to offer viable solutions. Any solutions will have to be guaranteed by external, independent agents who are not driven by self interest.

REFORM UK VS REALITY Farage's party has started to sound bitter The Guardian Nigel Farage's great appeal to his followers used to be the fact that he liked a drink and a laugh; that he was enjoying himself. But lately his party has begun to sound bitter, nihilistic, oddly hysterical. Claiming that Britain is on the verge of societal collapse plays well on X, but perhaps less well in daylight. Britain has big problems, many of them deep seated. But it's still a country where people wash their cars in suburban driveways on a Sunday, not a post-apocalyptic wasteland. There's undeniably a market for politicians wallowing angrily in dreams of a better yesterday. But I suspect there's still a bigger one waiting to catch sight of a better tomorrow. (Gaby Hinsliff)

Yes, Farage. You’re bitter and boring.

“There's undeniably a market for politicians wallowing angrily in dreams of a better yesterday. But I suspect there's still a bigger one waiting to catch sight of a better tomorrow.”

@gabyhinsliff.bsky.social in the Guardian (summed up in the iPaper)

New report shows 24 million people in the UK are below minimum socially acceptable living standards New research reveals a sharp rise in the number of individuals in the UK living in households with incomes below the Minimum Income Standard (MIS).

The state we are in.

24m Britons, 36% of the population, live below minimum socially acceptable living standard.

Wealth systematically transferred to the rich - 1% have more than 70% of the population combined.

Can't rebuild without improving spending power of the bottom 50% of population.

These chargers look like Tesla's gravestones.

Lib Dem Leader Meets BBC Boss To Complain About Level Of Reform Coverage Exclusive: Ed Davey has met with BBC boss Tim Davie to complain about the broadcaster’s coverage, which the Liberal Democrats claim is weighted too...

Ed Davey: "BBC’s Farage obsession is a joke. Reform has 4 MPs, Lib Dems have 72 - yet get sidelined. This isn’t journalism, it’s free PR. If the Beeb’s chasing shock value over vote count, just admit it and drop the "balanced" act."

Tice doesn't like human beings with names he doesn't like. Tice is a sad little man.

Hammer on nail... this man is going viral.

Where there's right wingers there's lies and hypocrisy. They want laws that apply to those they hate. Never to themselves.

Andrew Marr - tries to accentuate the positives
Extracts ⬇️

www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-...

The problem is that the panic is based on blaming the means of delivery rather than the publishers of the content.

That clip of Pochin honking out her toxic racism with no statistics or even rudimentary analysis to back up her nasty, curtain-twitching beliefs… is a large part of why our politics is in such a mess. Viciously useless people being made MPs by voters persuaded to think that hatred will fix things.

Starmer is thinking what we are thinking and what most of the world is thinking.

Trump acknowledges ‘real starvation’ in Gaza and tells Israel to let in ‘every ounce of food’ Starmer said to have pressed US president on humanitarian crisis during talks at Turnberry golf resort in Scotland

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
I’ll take that as a win and I don’t care how much grovelling Starmer had to do to get it. Nothing was more important and to get those words from Trump.

Skegness, one of your absolute finest people right here. Buy her a drink whenever you see her.

Man of the people, Fartage, giving us advice on wearing Rolex watches.

The senile blobberty-blip speaks his doolally mind.

Totally deranged ... 👇👇👇

It's NOT a natural famine in Gaza. Israel is preventing aid delivery. Israel is deliberately starving Palestinians. Men, women, children, babies. This is a war crime. This is genocide. Even if they were only starving Hamas members it would STILL be a war crime. #IsraeliWarCrimes #GazaGenocide

The price Netanyahu is happy to pay to keep himself out of prison ...