Graeme Purves

Nigel Farage lied multiple times at his press conference today - including saying no-one who voted Green in Gorton and Denton has a job and he's "certain" Reform won most British born voters in the by-election, based on zero evidence, and yet not a single journalist there pushed back on them

Sometimes the simplest questions are the most effective.

The next person to interview Badenoch should ask her if she believes international law matters.

He clearly doesn't want to be Prime Minister anymore. Should have just resigned over the Mandelson appointment and saved everyone some trouble.

Can you explain the curious use of the word 'defensive' in this context, Pippa, given that it was the United States and Israel that attacked Iran? 🧐

I met my favourite goose today and it didn't fly away .. Anser indicus, aka Bar-headed goose.. mid Hampshire, England

Scottish Government ‘gave no thought to independence’ when creating new bonds scheme

NEW: The Scottish Government gave 'no consideration' to Scotland becoming an independent country when it set up a 10-year bond programme, a fresh report has said

Ye don't say? 🤔

YouTube video by chartrand Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here

🎵Did they get you to trade your heroes for ghosts?
Hot ashes for trees? Hot air for a cool breeze?
Cold comfort for change? Did you exchange
A walk-on part in the war for a lead role in a cage?🎵

- Pink Floyd, from their album 'Wish You Were Here' (1975)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=IXdN...

So, about those Epstein files…?

#Trump, We hate you for FREE!!!

#Iran

#Epstein

#EpsteinFiles

#TrumpEpsteinFiles

Labour is stubborn in defeat because it knows this: we face the belated end of the political 20th century | John Harris In Gorton and Denton, I heard again and again that people wanted seismic political change – Labour and the Tories are no longer part of that conversation, says Guardian columnist John Harris

"Whereas so-called 'red wall' residents who have moved to the right have been lionised by Labour insiders as 'hero voters' to be chased and never criticised, Labour-Green switchers must apparently be scolded for being seduced by indulgent and reckless gesture politics."

A big part of the authoritarian playbook is war. War takes over the news. War blots out criticism. War divides a nation’s people, subjecting those against it to being called unpatriotic. War grants leaders all sorts of emergency powers. War consumes everything else.

We mustn’t let this war do so.

Would you be surprised to hear that none of the leading American political reporters are talking about this? They are acting like this never happened. Because it reveals the state of mind of our Commander in Chief. And that’s a taboo subject in America.

Nice to be clamping down on refugees just when we’re participating in a war that will create hundreds of thousands of new refugees.

"We can bring you a round up of the latest that's happened"

Sky News tells us that people are being killed in Israel, Kuwait, Abu Dhabi & the UAE. I guess nobody is being killed in Iran though!

A useful record of Farage’s failure and his inability to cope with it. A cheat and a very bad loser who would happily trash democracy to get the result he wants. And then remove our rights to stop us holding him to account.
Such a corrupt, egomaniacal liar should have no hope of getting power.

'Scottish' Labour - The Fuckwittery You Could Do Without.

John Healey refuses to say if the UK will join the US & Israel in bombing Iran. I guess we don't have a right to know if our govt is planning to take us to war.

And as for #trevorphillips calling bombing Iran a positive action rather than an offensive action. That says it all.

Polanksi and Farage have more in common than you might think Despite huge political differences, the Green and Reform leaders have much in common, writes Laura Kuenssberg.

These people are entirely different in their personalities and politics. But I thought I’d draw some spurious comparisons anyway

Labour MP Clive Lewis doesn’t hold back on the Gorton and Denton result in this interview with ITV

It's not hyperbole to suggest that today we have a federal government that doesn't so much represent or resemble a federal administration as it does a family crime syndicate.

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@zackpolanski.bsky.social : "Reform are finding their anti migrant & divisive rhetoric is not working anymore. I think people are sick of it and want solutions.. Farage doesn't have any of those solutions because he pretends to be a man of the people but he's a man of the wealthy people.."🎯

In reality the result was not a victory for sectarianism or "cheating" but for the unity of most voters in the Greater Manchester seat to reject the politics of Reform. Just as in the recent Caerphilly by-election where an expected Reform win ended up as a decisive victory for Plaid Cymru instead, voters are starting to show their determination to work together in order to reject Nigel Farage's party and the politics it represents. The truth is that if such tactical voting is replicated across the country at the next general election then current national opinion polls showing a clear lead for Reform would be unlikely to translate into a parliamentary majority.

Lovely. And what we now need to collectively shake off is the rightwing determination to tell us what we want and need. They don’t speak for us at all.

This result is our voice and it needs to get louder and listened to…