Jane Paxton

It would be interesting to know the total spent on court cases by the administration

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It's supporting The Clark Family's Christmas Light Display fundraising for the "Tiny Toes" (neonatal and special care baby units) campaign of East Kent Hospitals Charity. Please download and share far & wide 🎄🎶❤️

Many belief systems invoke mythological small creatures or sprits. I think they are at work when you have jet lag. They dance around your body making all sorts of mischief 😈

I wonder if it's time to retire the role of "political editor" altogether

Return most of the coverage to the Economics Editor, the Health Editor, the Home Affairs team & so on.

Leave the "who-said-what-to-whom" & "what-does-it-mean-for-the-polls" to others. The BBC doesn't need to foreground this.

“Labour are total bastards. They’ve caused all the problems of the past 2000 years.

Just paraphrasing UK media, including BBC

Does anyone remember this kind of coverage of Tories, when, for 14 yrs, they were lying through their teeth, directing untold billions of public money to their friends etc?

Very nice to see! And what a bargain! And, yes, I will be reading it to you!

Left: Luke Johnson, Chairman of Gail's Bakery, who was pro-Brexit, criticises Labour for not understanding the private sector and how wealth is created

Right: The thing he voted for, Brexit, costs the UK £90 billion in lost tax revenue every year #BBCQT

The war will end when Russia stops fighting. Therefore, pressure has to be put on Russia, so that they stop believing that they will win. Why is that so hard to understand?

I guess the brave BBC will be sandblasting Orwell's "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear" off the front of Broadcasting House?

REVERE, Mass. — A woman with a family connection to White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt has been arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Revere, Massachusetts. The woman, Bruna Ferreira, has an 11-year-old son with Michael Leavitt, Karoline Leavitt's brother. Ferreira migrated with her family to the United States from Brazil as a child and is currently in custody at an ICE facility in southern Louisiana. Michael Leavitt released a statement, saying that his "only concern has always been the safety, well-being, and privacy of [his] son."

"A woman with a family connection to White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt has been arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Revere, Massachusetts."

www.wcvb.com/article/karo...

Yes please!! Can we have a decent swimming pool in Bath?

Three more ex-pupils at school with Nigel Farage reject ‘banter’ claims Exclusive: Dulwich college contemporaries ‘rubbish’ Reform UK leader’s suggestion alleged racist taunts not intended to hurt

Does it matter if it’s ‘banter’ ? It’s still just as offensive.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Trump’s Fury at BBC Gets Unnerving Results with Pro-MAGA Edit Stunner First, British Broadcasting Corporation execs resigned after Trump complained about a segment. Now the BBC edited out a line from a historian that was critical of Trump. Where does this end?

NEWS --> BBC confirms to me that they did edit a line out of historian @rutgerbregman.com's speech. It called Trump "the most openly corrupt president in US history."

BBC also confirms this was done on the advice of lawyers. So Trump's threats worked.

New piece:
newrepublic.com/article/2036...

a close up of a cartoon character with a very angry face and a tie . ALT: a close up of a cartoon character with a very angry face and a tie .

Why is train WiFi in the UK so uniformly rubbish? Yeah atm that’s you @greateranglia.bsky.social

National Academies - Statement on CDC’s Updated Vaccine Guidance National Academies respond to CDC’s updated vaccine guidance, offering scientific context and clarity on vaccine safety.

Proud to be a Fellow of the National Academy of Medicine in USA, which, along with the National Academies of Science and Engineering, have published a statement on the CDC's "updated" (aka meddled-with by RFK) vaccine guidance.

www.nationalacademies.org/news/stateme...

Newmarket MP Matt Hancock gave a £37bn Covid testing contract to Jockey Club director Dido Harding, who subcontracted it to Grand National sponsor Randox, employer of Tory MP Owen Paterson, whose late wife chaired Aintree racecourse. That's how the Tories handled the pandemic.

NATO's Supreme Allied Commander, Dwight D. Eisenhower in his diary on June 11, 1951, “Europe’s security problem is never going to be solved satisfactorily until there exists a United States of Europe."

For Shabana Mahmood to attack some of the most cruelly treated people in the world as having won a "golden ticket" because they manage to get to and claim asylum in Britain is unforgiveable.

A new, far right, low for which I can think of no precedent, by any UK Government.

😩 what a criminal waste of a decent majority of

Asylum system in UK ‘out of control’ and dividing country, home secretary says Shabana Mahmood to unveil new proposals modelled on Denmark’s controversial system

Everything about the current 'debate' around this is dismal, not just morally but because it is so stupid. For example:

It conflates asylum-seeking and illegal immigration (and sometimes with migration generally)

It shows no understanding of why there is AS

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025... 1/3

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To suggest that having lived a life so grim that even an English tribunal will grant you asylum, and to have somehow managed to get here at great risk to life, is a "golden ticket" is absolutely fucking contemptible. Shame on this so-called Labour Party.

How do we, as a society, let companies get away with this behaviour?

Don’t argue with strangers… and 11 more rules to survive the information crisis Feeling overwhelmed by divisive opinions, endless rows and unreliable facts? Here’s how to weather the data storm

"We are not surrounded by cretinous, vicious imbeciles but mostly by careful, thoughtful people who may disagree with us but usually have good reasons for doing so."

Fascinating & wise piece from @naomialderman.bsky.social

www.theguardian.com/books/2025/n...

Remember: The richest 1% evade over $160 billion in taxes every year.

That amount would fund SNAP for a year with money to spare.

Ask yourself who the real freeloaders are.

It’s the BBC v Trump, Farage and co. Who in their right mind would want to be its new boss? | Marina Hyde Public life is a minefield and the best and brightest just don’t want to know. How convenient for foes of the most trusted news organisation in the world, says Guardian columnist Marina Hyde

Are we just gonna let it go? BBC News reaches 74% of UK adults in a week.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Yep and I’m one of them.

Cartoonist: Jeff Koterba

SUPERB and angrily unvarnished response, by former BBC chairman, Lord Patten.

"I don't think that we should allow ourselves to be bullied into thinking that the BBC is only any good, if it reflects the prejudice of the last person who shouted at it." ~AA

Years of right wing bias in BBC news and current affairs and nothing happens, but upset Trump and the Tory director general resigns…

We are in such a bad place in the UK