Tom Rennie

As journalists working today many of us are taught to recognise disinformation when we see it and fight back against it.

Unfortunately there are some who willingly seek it out and put it on their front pages. A disgrace to the profession.

There doesn’t seem to be any standards or values. There’s no good practice across the industry. Information as entertainment posted as quickly as possible. Hot takes with little to back them up from all over. Everyone moving further and further right. The legacy outlets gave up.

About 15 years ago I decided to turn to sport/ football full time as opposed to stick with news coverage. It looked too depressing, and I couldn’t see how it could be any fun.

Now, every news reporter is a sports journalist. They pick a team, they’re hysterical, and it’s entertainment first.

Hard to recall a war that even those starting it couldn't really come up a pretence for. They've already blown up nuclear weapons capacity and bombing won't force the regime out.

Every time I watch the news I just keep thinking is anybody going to stop this mad man?

Tragic news. Red Dwarf is a masterwork. I’d been looking forward to the book this year too. Thanks Rob.

Smoke me a kipper, I’ll be back for breakfast.

The current argument of the British right is that Muslims turned out in "blocs" with "family voting" to cast their ballots for a party led by a gay Jewish man, and this shows that multiculturalism has failed, voting is "sectarian" and we are in a crisis.

Hmmmmmm.

Imagine devoting your entire career to selling the idea that the British public hates wokery and is clamouring for radical right wing populism, only to then be defeated in an actual election by the most left wing possible coalition of politicians and activists in the country.

It's got to hurt

If Labour doesn’t start appealing to the centre left now, they really can’t read the room. Reform voters aren’t ever going to vote Labour. They never were. Obviously.

Extraordinary that in these fractious & divided times, so many of us can unite around the single, simple fact that Matthew Goodwin is an irredeemable twat.

Gorton and Denton by-election: The silent majority isn't silent, and it isn't Reform Hannah Spencer’s historic Green victory shows voters are rejecting division and embracing progressive politics

The “silent majority” has now been tested more than once. And when it is summoned to the ballot box, it turns out the majority isn’t silent. And it isn’t Reform.

@theleaduk.bsky.social

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Reform, which spent its by-election campaign warning about the UK's "Christian heritage" being under threat, while proposing a ban on visas from predominantly Muslim countries, now accuses their opponents of engaging in "sectarian politics"

Until yesterday you couldn't get Reform UK off #r4today and Mason, Robinson, and Webb going on and on about them. This morning, barely mentioned...

turns out McSweeney and the Blue Labour gang were wrong and the out of touch woke liberal elite Bluesky echo chamber bubble was right

It’s a running joke in academia that Matt Goodwin is bad at maths.

This sort of thing is why: the combined Labour/Green vote could have split in any way possible and Goodwin would have finished 2nd or 3rd. He did not lose because progressives coordinated. He lost *in spite of them not doing so*.

Has Andy McDonald ever supported Starmer at all?

Netflix Backs Out of Bid for Warner Bros., Paving Way for an Ellison Takeover

The richest man owns X.

The second and third richest men control Google.

The fourth richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp.

The fifth richest man owns The Washington Post.

And now the sixth richest could soon take over both Paramount and Warner Bros.

See the problem here?

So the Telegraph is taking this well

Jake Wallis Simons The Greens’ extremist victory pushes Britain one step closer to the abyss Polanski’s party has embraced sectarianism with open arms. It will be the death of the British liberal tradition

This kind of stuff isn’t going to work when the new Green MP is a white working class plumber.

I like that the picture suggests that he’s just written this graceless codswallop on the notes section of his phone

Reform, once again, showing that the right are nothing more than nasty, whinging, losers. The country wants a progressive agenda, not regressive far right poison. It needs it. Not some foreign flavoured culture war.

Farage hasn't been to one regeneration meeting despite plans for £20m cash In 2023, Clacton was named among 54 other towns to receive a vital cash boost as part of the government’s Long Term Plan

❌ Nigel Farage has missed EVERY meeting about regenerating his constituency of Clacton since becoming an MP.

But he did find time to go and perform a publicity stunt in the Indian Ocean last week...

⚠️ A warning to those in Gorton & Denton over the kind of representation Reform UK provide.

Reform's Plans to Import Trump’s Authoritarian 'Project 2025' Blueprint to the UK Far from defending British independence, Reform and its by-election candidate Matt Goodwin are taking blueprints - and cash - from a global network of American hardliners

🔴Reform’s Plans to Import Trump’s Authoritarian ‘Project 2025’ Blueprint to the UK

Far from defending British independence, Reform and its by-election candidate Matt Goodwin are taking blueprints – and cash – from a global network of American hardliners

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A reminder, one day ahead of a by-election in which the Greens are favourites to defeat Reform, that the Daily Mail owner's wife recently donated £50,000 to Nigel Farage's party

surely all Keir Starmer needs to do is to hear an apology from Farage is to pay him for a Cameo video, doesn’t he say anything if the price is right

Gorton & Denton — wake up.

Matt Goodwin doesn’t live in the area.
Don’t use your services. And after the election? He’ll disappear.

He lives in Hertfordshire.
Parachute candidate. No stake. No accountability.

Look at Clacton under Nigel Farage — that’s your preview.

Anyone who says ‘let me get this straight’ is about to say some really stupid shit.

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Starmer berates Farage for not condemning the death threat to Natalie Fleet MP from a Reform UK councillor.

"Look at their candidate in Gorton and Denton. A man who says anyone who isn't white cannot be English. No wonder he's been endorsed by Tommy Robinson."

Reform UK's Matt Goodwin Advised the Wealthiest 1% While Claiming to Stand Against ‘The Elite' Goodwin's definition of “the elite” includes university professors and civil servants while seemingly excluding the investment bankers, asset managers and global real estate executives who pay him

How Matt Goodwin's definition of "the Elite" focuses on university workers and civil servants, while excluding the investment bankers, asset managers and global real estate executives who pay him

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From Trump’s Maga to Farage’s Reform, they’re all following Putin’s nationalism playbook | Rafael Behr Reform is promising a ‘patriotic school curriculum’ – but what does that mean? In the end it comes down to submission to the leader, says Guardian columnist Rafael Behr

“Authoritarian regimes never trust people to love their country spontaneously”

Reform insist on patriotism, flags and their version of our history and society because they can’t persuade. They goosestep into authoritarian fascism to crush diversity and challenge.
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