This perfectly encapsulates why we need the BBC

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

Thank you Congressman Neguse for laying it plain.

Farage: epic grifter

Polanski is talking nonsense about wealth taxes.

The Spectator (owned by GBNews owner Paul Marshall - estimated wealth of £800 million) doesn’t like taxing wealth fairly.

I wonder how they got to this editorial decision?

Let’s tax wealth fairly, fund front line services & make hope normal again.

join.greenparty.org.uk

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Greta Thunberg has just been released and she is back on the warpath, exactly like our leaders should be.

Israel will never silence her or the billions who oppose them.

Greta Thunberg “I'm not scared of Israel. I’m scared of a world that has seemingly lost all sense of humanity.”

Stand with Greta, stand with humanity.

Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.

He’s foaming at the mouth to go full Gestapo.

2 Children Are Dead and 2 Are in Critical Condition in Texas Shooting A 13-year-old and 4-year-old were killed, officials said. A 9-year-old and 8-year-old were airlifted for medical care and were in critical condition.

Two children were killed and two are in critical condition after a shooting south of Houston on Saturday morning, the authorities said.

Tim Walz: "My god, we've got the White House threatening investigations and jail time because an escalator stopped? Walk up the damn stairs!"

Jimmy Kimmel on Donald Trump, "I never imagined that we’d ever have a president like this and I hope we don’t have another like this again”

I have no idea who shot at the ICE facility or why, & hard to trust this FBI director. Murder is always inexcusable.

Now, the idea that people are mad at ICE because of ‘Democrats’ rhetoric’ & not because of daily videos of masked ICE agents assaulting people, including citizens, is for the birds.

Jimmy Kimmel’s suspension wasn’t “cancel culture.” It was government coercion. Brendan Carr told Benny Johnson, “we can do this the easy way or the hard way,” and affiliates panicked.

Regulatory threats can’t be the answer to speech we don’t like. If we let this stand, no voice is safe.

Ousted CDC Director Susan Monarez testifies her refusal to "replace evidence with ideology" led to her firing

"This type of language spurs on depraved people, deranged people who who take that as a cue."

Right, Speaker Johnson?

Zoe Gardiner, "The saddest thing I've heard about Trump's visit, is that he is going to get his golden carriage ride, but in private, because the great British public would have given him the rotten tomato treatment if he dared to show his face in public"

Next time someone on the right claims all the political violence in this country is coming from the left, not the right, do please show them this.

You're welcome

Judging by the shamefully opportunistic & politicizing rhetoric of some rightwingers on Twitter, & their cynical use of Charlie Kirk’s horrific murder for political point scoring, it’s almost as if Minnesota Rep. Melissa Hortman wasn’t murdered by a Trump-voting MAGA maniac just 12 weeks ago.

Newsnight call our Kemi Badenoch's hypocrisy,

"You say Labour are pushing the UK closer to a bond crisis. Presumably you'd be an expert in that as a member of Liz Truss's government"

Jamie Raskin, "They only want to protect free speech that they agree with"

JR then demolishes Farage, ending with

"You might want to think twice before you let Nigel Farage Make Britain Great Again"

Welch: Everybody's missing the point here. The point is, he's doing this on purpose. He's priming the public to get accustomed to having the military in the streets

'When the Conservatives were in power and there were asylum seekers housed in hotels were you at that time encouraging local councils to take legal action?'

It’s such a right wing thing to do - to stand very much for something one day and dead against it the next. Jenrick went from procuring hotels for immigrants (and boasting about it) when in government them to protesting them now in opposition, alongside Neo Nazis. Populists have no principles.

Marc Maron
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It's amazing what evidence based policy can do.

The evidence that the 20mph limit is working fantastic from the point of view of saving lives and saving the taxpayer money in Wales is overwhelming.

You can be annoyed about it.

But you can't argue that it isn't doing what it was supposed to do.

ITV News film Gaza from an aid drop flight

Emma Murphy, "Building by building, Gaza is being erased"

Since Dec 2023 the UK's RAF has flown 500+ flights over Gaza gathering intelligence, photographing, and filming, they literally have a record of the destruction of Gaza and have said nothing