Rob Taylor

Oh my.

James Talarico is incredibly skilled in dismantling Christian Nationalists.

Get this man in the Senate.

The real BBC bias story, narrated by Anna Ford

I mean, look, I'm not a reporter, so who am I to talk?

But on a day where the president both just called a woman reporter "Piggy" and is celebrating someone who had people bone saw apart one of my colleagues, I might just be a little ready to defend my colleagues and profession.

But that's just me

the. president. of. the. united. states.

Trump’s little British helpers Nobody should be surprised that the US president has the BBC in his sights

“Trump’s aim is to raise the cost of telling the truth about his attempt to overturn an election.”

So, naturally, Farage scuttled off to Washington to help him. As did his own propaganda outlet, GBnews… conducting its interview with Trump from a studio somewhere up his backside.

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Who better to fix Britain than the dickhead who broke it?

Reform to bin DOGE at Lancashire County Council and raise council tax instead In spite of promising to bring down council tax, Reform 2025 Ltd-run councils in Lancashire are now talking about increases

In spite of promising to bring down council tax, Reform-run councils in Lancashire are now talking about increases.

Why we - and the Home Secretary - disapply the ECHR at our peril By Jessica Frank-Keyes

As Labour proposes limiting the protection of the ECHR, we must remember what it was set up to do; protect us all from abuses of power by our govts.
Be v wary then of anyone calling to do that. You may not be the target now. But why shouldn’t you be next?
bestforbritain.substack.com/p/why-we-and...

Reform council repaints road markings for school which closed in 2016 Kent County Council sold the disused school site to a government agency in March, but has repainted yellow zigzags and "School Keep Clear" warnings.

In a spell-binding move, Reform run, cash-strapped, Kent County Council repaints the yellow 'Keep Clear' lines outside a school that closed 10 years ago

news.sky.com/story/reform...

There are many factors at play in how the discourse of UK political governments became detached from (geo)political reality, but a key aspect is in how both Labour and Conservatives came to assert supposed Brexit benefits that much of the rest of the country knows are pure fantasy

Reform would ‘cut benefits for EU nationals and hike NHS immigration surcharge’ Party claims its policies would eliminate ‘black hole’ Rachel Reeves faces in the budget – but Labour says the ‘fantasy numbers don’t add up’

The stupidity of Farage’s latest ‘plan’ is staggering.
Claiming they’d save British taxpayers money by ripping up international commitments and starting a trade war with Europe is the puerile foot-stamp of a party that uses prejudice as policy. Ruinous nonsense.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

The North-South divide is as wide as ever Ninety years after Orwell exposed northern hardship, new data shows deprivation remains stark across England’s North

It is 90 years since George Orwell travelled to the north of England to learn about the living conditions of the northern working-class, during the long Depression of the 1930s.

Today’s figures show not much has changed.

Graph showing decline since 2005

There were 93 homicides in London last year: population 9 million

In New York - population 8.5 million - there were
391.

London's homicide figure is 6 times lower than LA, 9 times lower than Miami, 17 times lower than Chicago.

And it's falling year on year despite the population increasing

For people who promised to fix things on "Day 1," the Trumpers spend a lot of time blaming a guy who hasn't been president for 10 months.

When reality bites: the rapid rise and chaotic fall of Reform UK in Cornwall Resignations, suspensions and infighting lead to party losing crown of highest number of seats in the county

“along with the chaos in the Reform-led council of Kent, the farcical scenes in Cornwall, where Reform act as the official opposition [despite originally winning most seats] are further evidence that the party is not capable of delivering beyond a protest vote.” www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

If you're cheering Trump on then you have no right to call yourself a patriot.

You absolute moron.

Forgive me if I'm wrong, I can't think of a single politician who campaigned hard for Brexit who has since come out and said that they think it was a mistake. Surely, in their heart of hearts, literally one or two of them must know that. So is it that they can't admit it to themselves or just to us?

This paper examines the impact of the UK's decision to leave the European Union (Brexit) in 2016. Using almost a decade of data since the referendum, we combine simulations based on macro data with estimates derived from micro data collected through our Decision Maker Panel survey. These estimates suggest that by 2025, Brexit had reduced UK GDP by 6% to 8%, with the impact accumulating gradually over time. We estimate that investment was reduced by between 12% and 18%, employment by 3% to 4% and productivity by 3% to 4%. These large negative impacts reflect a combination of elevated uncertainty, reduced demand, diverted management time, and increased misallocation of resources from a protracted Brexit process. Comparing these with contemporary forecasts – providing a rare macro example to complement the burgeoning microliterature of social science predictions – shows that these forecasts were accurate over a 5-year horizon, but they underestimated the impact over a decade.

Read 'em and weep. (www.nber.org/system/files...)

Reform UK’s energy plans crumble under scrutiny Reform UK rails against net zero, but the evidence shows green jobs and growth are already powering the UK economy

Reform UK energy plans crumble under scrutiny

Reform UK Ltd rails against net zero, but the evidence shows green jobs and growth are already powering the UK economy

By Brian McHugh

@yorkshirebylines.co.uk
@brianmchugh.bsky.social

Government’s last chance to keep control of digital Digital sovereignty isn’t optional anymore. We sold our water to foreign billionaires. Now we’re handing them our health data

We sold our water to foreign billionaires. Now we’re handing them our health data.

Remember when you were the future Liz? No, me neither!
That one's been on quite a journey, all downhill. Every time you think she's reached the bottom, she finds another trap door and down she goes. She's redefining political irrelevance!

Ah the 1970s.

Stagflation, three day weeks, collapsing infrastructure. Civil War in Northern Ireland. In yer face racism and bigotry everywhere. Bin strikes. Strikes in general. Blackouts. Industrial decline. Wage inequality. Dog crap everywhere. And households spent 25% of their income on food.

For all the media scaremongering on tax rises, a small reminder of how it was with tax cutting Tories, from just last year ......

Norway, Iceland, Switzerland & Liechtenstein are in the Single Market but not the EU. Andorra, Monaco, San Marino & Turkey have customs unions with the EU for certain sectors. I'd prefer our first step toward rejoining to be more like Norway or Switzerland than Turkey. That means Freedom of Movement

I didn't understand that bigly! Hope that helps?

Defend the BBC before it’s gone – an open letter The BBC isn’t perfect – but it’s ours. If we don’t defend it now, we may lose a cornerstone of British democracy

"The BBC isn’t perfect – but it’s ours. If we don’t defend it now, we may lose a cornerstone of British democracy"

Trump is hurtling into lame duck territory.

His ratings are off a cliff. It's his second term, and the next generation of Republicans are desperately distancing themselves from him, fearing wipeout.

Nigel Farage, meanwhile, clearly hasn't noticed and thinks it's all going to be happy days ahead.

Whole fucking thing makes me sick to my stomach. An abject fucking liar, a man who lies as easily as he fucking breathes, threatening an organisation which strives for truthfulness. And plastic patriots like the Mail and Farage urging him on. Jackels.

Houchen’s deprivation failure exposed – official Middlesbrough remains the local authority with the highest proportion of most deprived neighbourhoods in England

◾ >9 years since Tees Valley voted for supposed benefits of Brexit

◾ >8 since Houchen was elected Mayor of Tees Valley

◾ >6 since Johnson promised to level up left-behind areas

...Middlesbrough remains the local authority with the highest proportion of most deprived neighbourhoods in England.

Reform Council To Double Tax On Second Homes Despite Nigel Farage Calling The Idea A Reform-led council is planning to double council tax on second homes six months after party leader Nigel Farage denounced such policies as “madness” and “extortion”.

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They’re finding out what it’s like to have to actually do the job of governing instead of grifting from the sidelines. Tory austerity has done this to Councils. The policy you Farage, want to continue.