Anthea West

I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture.

They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1

Today, after months of requests, I toured the Broadview ICE Processing Facility. I want to share what I saw.

The facility has no food vendor, no medical care, and detainees have to use toilets in the middle of shared cells. These are in no way suitable conditions to be holding anyone — period.

Trump wrongly indicted me. I’ll rightly impeach him.

Impeachment isn’t just an option, it’s a necessity. I know firsthand the lengths Trump is willing to go in order to silence dissent — but is it working?

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BBC Civilisations last night - interesting enough to continue with, but a bit heavy-handed in stressing the contemporary relevance. Some of us prefer to think it out for themselves. Oh, also, why didn't Shakespeare write about the fall of Rome? Right up his street, surely.

Looking forward to the Department of War sending Mark Kelly to trial for saying that service personnel should "refuse illegal orders."

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President Putin is said to have been personally "impressed" by the ability of Nathan Gill, the disgraced former Reform UK politician, to persuade a string of British MEPs to appear on a pro-Kremlin television channel. This praise was alluded to in WhatsApp exchanges between Gill and Oleg Voloshyn an alleged Russian agent, who paid the former leader of Reform in Wales up to £40,000 in bribes Gill was jailed for more than ten years on Friday after admitting that he accepted the money to promote the Kremlin's agenda in the European parliament

It's not going away

YouTube video by Kat Abughazaleh Trump Wrongly Indicted Me, I’ll Rightly Impeach Him | Kat Abughazaleh Speaks at Lincoln Memorial

Impeachment isn’t an option, it’s a necessity. I know firsthand the lengths Trump is willing to go in order to silence dissent.

Impeach, convict, remove. And if our current leaders won’t do it, they need to step aside for people who will: www.youtube.com/watch?v=jo54...

I never watch Laura K out of choice. This reminds me why.

Lord Lucas on the 1000 amendments tabled to the assisted dying bill in the House of Lords.

“It is an attempt to frustrate the legislation”.

@lbc.co.uk @lewisgoodall.com

@zackpolanski.bsky.social on taxing the rich: "This is about inequality. For decades now poor people have got poorer and rich people have got richer... the money [raised] is important but the real point is about tackling inequality.. we need to get those assets flowing around the economy"

Bluesky. Come for the politics, stay for the bird photos.

Boris Johnson took four days off as NHS warned Covid could ‘overwhelm’ system Files show then PM was walking dog, riding motorbike and hosting guests as pandemic planning stalled in ‘lost month’

I hope Baroness Hallett has Boris Johnson hauled up before the courts for contempt. Seems he lied under oath to the Covid inquiry.

I thought it was funny and clever. Ignore the idiots.

Richard Tice told The Times in March he had “never met Nathan Gill”

Tice - "Please welcome to the stage, Nathan Gill."
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Reform UK and Russian bribes: a Nathan Gill timeline As Reform’s former leader in Wales is sentenced to ten and a half years for taking bribes from a pro-Russian actor, here's a chronology of his actions and the wider context of Putin, Ukraine and Brexi...

NEW: If you have *any* interest in the Nathan Gill story, you need to look at this.

We’ve put all the dates into a timeline & it’s incredibly revealing.
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Richard Tice, March 2025:
"I have never met Nathan Gill, and he has never had anything to do with Reform,"

Rachel Reeves is studiously ignoring the cause of Britain’s woes: the Brexit-shaped hole in its roof | Jonathan Freedland The autumn budget will mop up some damage, but the true source of the economic crisis is clear. The government should now fix it – tragically, it won’t, says Guardian columnist Jonathan Freedland

“The world of 2026 is entirely different from 2016, the old red lines no longer make sense and Brexit was a waste of money that, now more than ever, we simply cannot afford” @jonathanfreedland.bsky.social
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Farage can now be easily boxed in to a corner where his only ‘defence’ becomes: “Yes I spouted Kremlin propaganda & Putin worship but, unlike Nathan Gill, I didn’t need bribes to do it.”
It is, once again, a question of whether interviewers have the temerity to shut down his whining obfuscations.

You couldn't make it up, could you?

The President of the United States just called for my arrest and execution.

In these moments, fear is contagious, but so is courage:

Remember: The oligarchs who control our economy and democracy seek to divide us so they can become more powerful.

They want us to turn on each other so we don't look up and see where all the wealth and power have gone.

Don't fall for it.

“If you’re quiet now, you would’ve been quiet in 1940.”

John Major labels Brexit an 'act of collective folly' John Major has launched a devastating attack on Brexit, branding it an "act of collective folly."

John Major labels Brexit an ‘act of collective folly’

'Britain's enemies celebrated and our friends despaired.'

www.thelondoneconomic.com/politics/joh...

Unbelievable. "The utility's lenders, led by a group of hedge funds including combative American firms Elliott Investment Management and Silver Point Capital, have in effect taken over the business ... [they] backed [the] decision to pursue Maynard for costs." Fortunately - this time - they lost.

Yep. Nomadic hunter-gathering was probably the ideal human situation. It's been downhill ever since. (I'm not joking.)

wonder if the Washington Post has any strong words about the President being buddy buddy with the man who ordered to have one of their reporters dismembered

Gary Stevenson, "You cannot allow the richest people in your society to take a bigger share, in economies with almost no growth, and not expect ordinary families to get poorer"

"The reason ordinary families and the gov get poorer year after year is because of this massively increasing inequality"

So you mistakenly dismembered a journalist?

"Polanski was joined by many Labour MPs in opposing the government’s plans, although most of them are thought to be prepared to reluctantly support the measures."

What's the point of being in Labour?

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