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Direct Line still haven’t dealt with my subsidence claim AFTER FIVE YEARS!

And they’ve taken more than five years to deal with my subsidence claim. Appalling

‘A leading pollster has suggested that support for Reform UK has “topped out”, and that the momentum that was carrying the party up in the polls has ground to a halt’
Yet BBC Mason says the momentum is with Reform.
Which is it?

Thank god there wasn't a BBC #Germanycast in the early 1930s when a Justin Webb figure could have excused the 'excesses' of the government there whose crackdown on dissidents was presented as an administration 'honouring its promises' made before the election of 1933. #r4today

BBC Bosses Draw Up Plans to Win Over Reform Voters by Changing News and Drama Output The Director General Tim Davie and other executives discussed altering BBC “story selection” in order to secure the "trust" of supporters of Nigel Farage’s party

When did you ever hear the BBC stating that it must alter “story selection” and “other types of output, such as drama”, to win the trust of Green voters, or of unrepresented people on the left?
All the shifts are in just one direction.
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As if the BBC hasn’t boosted Farage enough…

Another great thing about the match yesterday was Udogie looking back to form

Absolutely. His one sided articles compromise his role on R4 Today. We switch him off

As I've been grumbling about certain BBC presenters, it's important to say that correspondents like Jeremy Bowen, Lyse Doucet and Steve Rosenberg continue to not just deliver the finest reporting and analysis but push back against daft questions. It's such a relief to hear them instead of [redacted]

An absolute disgrace at this point in time

Archie Gray has been named Men's Young Player of the Year at the London Football Awards 🤩

Congratulations, Archie! 👏

The Telegraph has become nothing more than a national embarrassment

Joe Haines, former press secretary to Harold Wilson, dies aged 97 Haines worked closely with Labour PM for two spells in 1960s and 70s and was also a respected political journalist

Sad to hear Joe Haines has died. One of the most revealing insiders into Harold Wilson's governments, his books and interviews are compelling historical sources - despite omitting at least one secret (Wilson's affair) which he only revealed last year.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

PMQs verdict: Kemi Badenoch puts in her worst performance yet - Politics.co.uk The Conservative leader is often accused, not least of all by this commentator, of constructing her arguments based on a skim of her social media feed — from which she duly draws a litany of pugnaciou...

Final thought on #PMQs:

When Badenoch said to Starmer, “He’s not listening, he is too busy defending the international law framework” - I genuinely burst out laughing

What on earth does that mean?
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Turn on BBC news to hear a top story about how Rachel Reeves left the Bank of England in March 2006 rather than December 2006. Turn off BBC news.

Tottenham injury crisis eases as FIVE could return to face Man Utd Ange Postecoglou’s options at the back and in attack are set to be bolstered

Guglielmo Vicario, Destiny Udogie, James Maddison, Brennan Johnson and Timo Werner are all pushing to return to training for Tottenham this week, as the club's chronic injury crisis finally begins to ease. Story:
www.standard.co.uk/sport/footba...

A much more measured tone than The Times inaccurate headline

Packed state schools have no room for private pupils

Official government estimates suggest that the moves will lead to a drop-off in private school pupil numbers of 37,000. Given the increase in fees, 35,000 are expected to seek a space in the state sector instead. Ministers have stressed that nationally there is enough capacity to absorb any transfer in pupils, and that thousands of children every year move between the state and private system. Nationally, there are 578,000 unfilled places in primary schools and 465,000 unfilled places in secondary schools. Some 83 per cent of primary schools and 77 per cent of secondaries have at least one spare space. However, figures released

this Times headline is very misleading as the following pars - in the same article - explains

more fair to say “a handful of packed state schools have no room for private pupils says 2022/23 data”

Woke up with a terrible dread, realised that it’s match day. Timidly crying out #COYS

Trump making America “normal” again?!

Oh. Bugger off Murdoch. (And Justin Webb). And @thetimes.com

Doesn't the morning after a win feel lovely? Even when the rain is coming sideways in the wind

Unbelievable!

What an extraordinary man Attlee was - ex-Haileybury, Army Major, clipped accent, Home Counties, married to a Conservative, practicing Christian, but a lifelong socialist. He’d be drummed out of the Labour Party today!

Badenoch was Minister for Children and Families. She never once raised the issue of grooming gangs or met any survivors.
But now she implies that Labour MPs are complicit, refuses to defend Jess Phillips and hopes to wreck the child safety bill.
All to please Musk.
Utterly… unforgivably detestable.

Holy shit 2025 has got off to a galloping start hasn’t it? Just everything in the news is completely unhinged.

Spurs are the most entertaining team in the league

This Spurs side needs therapy

Be prepared for lots of articles about middle class women of a certain age

Mishal Husain to leave BBC

What a grievous loss for the BBC and us the audience.
Brilliant journalist, and such a fine person and role model
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