Clara Hayes

This is a question I've been asking a lot of the BBC political coverage in recent months. I love the BBC and would pay the licence fee for Radio 4 alone, but I do appreciate balance and fairness too please.

VIDEO: 🇵🇭 At least 40 killed, hundreds of thousands displaced by typhoon flooding in Philippines

Entire towns on the island of Cebu have been inundated, while cars, trucks and even massive shipping containers could be seen being swept along by muddy floodwaters

NHS staff bearing brunt as ‘ugly’ racism of 70s and 80s returns, says Streeting Exclusive: Health secretary and NHS England chief warn of winter pressures and rising levels of abuse

I have witnessed racist patients demanding to be treated by white staff. The surging racism Streeting refers to is the inevitable consequence of the ‘war on woke’ that the Tories initiated after Black Lives Matter. Farage and Reform are now its beneficiaries.

www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

YouTube video by Cambridge Law Faculty Reflections on the Brexit Revolution: 2025-26 Mackenzie-Stuart Lecture

I did a lecture on the impact of Brexit on British politics. Watch it here if you're really bored www.youtube.com/watch?v=ztqL...

* making citizenship compulsory in primary: media literacy, financial literacy, law & rights, democracy & government, & climate

* a new oracy framework to ensure more young people become confident & effective speakers

* a new language qualification which motivates pupils to continue studying

4/5

New curriculum to give young people the skills for life and work Government to set out plans to bring the curriculum into the modern day and help young people step into the future.

Curriculum and Assessment Review

The review, by Professor Becky Francis has been published today.

Some highlights for me:

* primary school to teach how to spot fake news and identify misinformation & disinformation

* secondary schools to work towards offering triple science as standard

1/5

AOC: "This is about, do you understand the assignment of fighting fascism right now? And they assignment is to come together across difference no matter what."

The European Convention on Human Rights

Happy Birthday to the European Convention on Human Rights, which has helped to protect #OurRightsAndFreedoms for 75 years.

Here are more than 200 examples, from across the continent👇

🔗 www.coe.int/ECHR

There are thousands more.

#ECHR #ECHR75 @coe.int @echr.coe.int

You can't promote immigrant integration by making it harder You might want workers but you get people

Excellent piece from @colinyeo.bsky.social

"That Dubai-like future is one that Reform and the modern Conservative Party positively embrace and pursue. They want to exclude migrants from society, not integrate them. Labour should not follow their lead."

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I don't say this lightly but Elon Musk and his platform X is not only a national security threat to our country, he is a threat to our democracy, to our institutions, to public order and to the wellbeing of British children. And the UK government should treat him as such.

www.msnbc.com/msnbc/news/t...

It’s a four-page leaflet, btw.

THIS kind of communication to the electorate seems like a very good idea. Steve Race and the rest of the govt have after all achieved a fair amount in the last months and I’d hope his colleagues are getting similar kinds of good news across to their constituents.

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🏳️‍🌈 Every day, the world tries to break us—don’t let it win.
Staying is brave.
Holding on is rebellion.
We’re proud of you.
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Nige is no longer laughing at himself as he ‘performs’ yet another big speech | John Crace Reform leader is trying to make it as a mainstream politician – which involves contradicting himself and gaslighting voters

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

"When all are tired, cold, and hungry at the end of the day, it is the leader who puts aside his personal discomfort to look to the needs of his soldiers."

General George Catlett Marshall, Jr 🇺🇸
#SheShed

Worst weekend for air traffic controller staffing since start of shutdown | CNN Flight delays linked to the ongoing federal government shutdown continue, with this past weekend marking the worst for air traffic control staffing shortages since the shutdown began, according to a C...

Flight delays linked to the ongoing federal government shutdown continue, with this past weekend marking the worst for air traffic control staffing shortages since the shutdown began, according to a CNN analysis of Federal Aviation Administration operations plans.

Ukraine’s President Zelenskyy joins Euronews’ EU Enlargement Summit Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy confirmed that he will join Euronews’ one-of-a-kind political event, which will take place on Tuesday, 4 November, between 2 pm and 5 pm CET and will be broadca...

Via Euronews: Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy joins Euronews’ flagship EU Enlargement Summit www.euronews.com/my-europe/20...

UK university halted human rights research after pressure from China Exclusive: Leading professor at Sheffield Hallam was told to cease research on supply chains and forced labour in China after demands from authorities

www.theguardian.com/education/20...

I must admit I’m finding social media a struggle at the moment — filled as it is by toxic chancers deliberately targeting my fellow citizens (and friends) with hateful racist lies. The mental violence is sometimes overwhelming. But we must fight back

The grim task of recovering thousands of bodies from the rubble of Gaza Relatives and experts tell of the human and societal need to find and identify the dead, while images and data shed light on the scale of the job

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...

This racist "John Jones" says he sees Ben Habib as an ally, but he rejects the idea Habib can be British or should be an MP.

He plans to vote Reform, despite believing Zia Yusuf can't be British, in the hope Reform become more overtly racist later The overt racist is enthusiastic about Rupert Lowe

UK small businesses struggling to take advantage of trade deals British Chambers of Commerce urge ministers to do more to help exporters

UK small businesses struggling to take advantage of trade deals on.ft.com/3WwK2Ah

US attacks in Caribbean and Pacific violate international human rights law – UN Human Rights Chief GENEVA – Airstrikes by the United States of America on boats in the Caribbean and the Pacific – allegedly linked to drug trafficking – violate international human rights law, UN High Commissioner for ...

Fact ⬇️

🔗 www.ohchr.org/en/press-rel...

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Completing Europe: Ukraine’s integration is a strategic imperative Confidence in the European project depends on whether the EU can rise to this moment — by embracing those who are already defending European values on the front line, Ukrainian Ambassador to the EU Vs...

Via Euronews: Completing Europe: Ukraine’s integration is a strategic imperative www.euronews.com/2025/11/02/c....

Just - beyond! 😩

During the interview on MSNBC when Andrew Cuomo said diversity can be a "weakness," he confused the names of the two Black co-hosts, Jonathan Capehart and Eugene Daniels. When Eugene corrected him, Cuomo did not even acknowledge he had made a mistake--like it didn't matter to him:

I think hub and I will have to investigate!

Immigration, indecency, and incompetence. New post on my Brexit & Brexitism Blog. The ever-more indecent terms of the immigration 'debate' are another failure of Brexit, which links to the ever-more obvious incompetence of Reform in local government: chrisgreybrexitblog.blogspot.com/2025/10/immi...