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'BBC Bias' Memo Was Authored by Lobbyist Tied to Pro-Trump Tech Giants The leaked memo that fuelled Trump’s attack on the BBC was written by a lobbyist at a firm paid by US tech giants tied to the President

He also lobbies for U.S. Big Tech companies that have donated millions to Trump

The Lib Dems continue to do the right thing, and are doing far better than Labour at encouraging support.

What he said Part 3: 💯 🎯

Israel top military lawyer arrested after she admitted leaking video of soldiers’ abuse Rightwing politicians and pundits have called the soldiers accused of attack on Palestinian detainee ‘heroes’ and military investigators traitors

Very poor headlineby Guardian, making it seem she was guilty of something. What she actually did, was try to maintain a last shred of respect for human rights in Israel. More evidence of grotesque abuse of Palestinians. Israel long ago lost its legitimacy. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...

Sorcery in Caerphilly:
@johnsweeneyroar.bsky.social visits the Welsh valleys on the trail of a Russian spy, his wife, a Reform politician taking bribes, party leader Nigel Farage and a vanishing by-election candidate.
Here's a sneak peak of John’s film - coming tomorrow only in the Nerve

Big guns for Reform UK out in Caerphilly.

I had some sympathy with Valleys Leave voters back in the day, but anyone who votes Reform in the Senedd in '26 is an irredeemable tosser.

Angela Rayner accidentally pays less tax than she should have, resigns, and the media gives her hell.

Nigel Farage deliberately pays less tax than he should have, and the media gives him a free pass.

That, right there, is the problem.

Peak time rail fares scrapped on ScotRail trains Some routes will see fares fall by as much as 50% at busy times, but on others prices will be unchanged.

Peak rail fares scrapped on ScotRail trains.

Scotland also has:
Public ownership of water, lower water bills than England's.
No university tuition fees for local students.
No prescription charges, abolished in 2011.
No two child benefit cap from March 2026.

England must follow.

Our government is not defending us As The Guardian reports this morning: Prominent women including cultural figures, politicians and campaigners have signed a letter criticising rightwing attempts to link sexual violence in Britain to...

Our government is not defending us www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/09... The UK is facing the greatest existential threat since WW II and Labour is hoping we won’t notice.

In the 1960s more than 40% of the money you spent went straight back to Government, everything spent on Water, Oil, Gas, Coal, Electricity, Social Housing, Telecoms, Steel, Ships...

Now it's less than 5%, and all that goes to billionaires Tax Havens

That's why there is no money

Marjorie Taylor Greene doesn't want you to know the name of her opponent but will try every desperate attempt to save her seat.

My name is Shawn Harris. I am a Democrat, husband, father, Retired Brigadier General, farmer, and I'm running against MTG. Can you spread the word?

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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Image from the Financial Times, placing Keir Starmer next to Enoch Powell.

Starmer's language was deplorable.

It was grotesquely offensive, accusing people who have brought their gifts to this country of doing "incalculable" "damage"; & politically foolish, in endorsing Farage's claims of an establishment conspiracy.

But bad analogies with Powell miss the key problem. 🧵

UK care homes face ban on overseas recruitment under migration plans Yvette Cooper to announce proposals to reduce net migration in response to growing pressure from Reform UK

We have a desperate shortage of care workers. This has a catastrophic effect on the NHS too.

Labour’s decision to close the care worker visa scheme for overseas recruitment is appalling, kneejerk politics that - yet again - will penalise the most vulnerable.

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Opinion from the FT's Editorial Board: 'The US and European countries that tout Israel as an ally that shares their values have issued barely a word of condemnation. They should be ashamed of their silence, and stop enabling Netanyahu to act with impunity.' www.ft.com/content/f5fd...

Voting for Nigel Farage because you want things to get better for the Working Class is like voting for Jimmy Savile because you want to help kids.

The idea of Farage’s goons controlling health, social care and education in 12 months from now should chill the bones of every Welsh resident.

Disgruntled French workers encouraged to arrive late in protest over pension age rise Artists created an AI ‘minister of latecomers’, who encourages people to compensate for years lost, and a tool calculating exactly how late to turn up

French workers encouraged to arrive late in protest over pension age rise from 62 to 64.

UK state pension age to rise from 66 to 67, lower pension than in France.

Rich retire whenever they want. Work till drop for the rest. LL

Britons need French lessons on resistance and protest.

Exactly this.

Tweet from JD Vance: "Today I met with the Holy Father Pope Francis. I am grateful for his invitation to meet, and I pray for his good health."

Could JD Vance please also pray for the good health of Vladimir Putin?

The 25 best places to travel in 2025 From bubblegum-coloured lakes in Australia to a solar-powered safari camp in Botswana, these are BBC journalists' top destinations this year.

Cymru/Wales 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

Number 5 on the list.

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A private equity firm just bought £1.6 BILLION worth of the NHS Assura has sold NHS buildings to a US private equity giant, making £1.61 billion from infrastructure that we should own

A private equity firm just bought £1.6 BILLION worth of the NHS.

It will make bigger profits by hiking rents for hospitals and NHS facilities. Previous govts privatized the estate.

That means less money for frontline healthcare. NHS already drained by PFI and private contractors.

When 2,800 jobs were being lost in Port Talbot, this UK Government chose not to consider nationalisation.

Now in Scunthorpe, everything is on the table.

Labour must now explain to the people of south Wales why their jobs weren’t worth saving.

Keir Starmer says ‘all options are on the table’ for Scunthorpe – rightly so. But when Port Talbot faced crisis, those options were nowhere to be seen.

Labour mocked Plaid Cymru’s call for nationalisation in Wales.

We’ll be calling out this double standard tomorrow.

I don’t think the Government will be thanked at the ballot box for being weak towards a bully, and bullying towards the weak.

Punching down on welfare recipients while pleading with Trump for a trade deal is an instant ick. So fwiw, I think I do support retaliatory tariffs.

Went to Cardiff Student’s Union Great Hall last night to see Kamasi Washington. What an incredible show! A bit different to the last time I was there, that was to see Wishbone Ash about 45 years ago…a can of IPA was certainly not £7.50 back then!

The real story for the UK media is how France manages to prosecute senior politicians (Chirac, Sarkozy, Juppé, Le Pen r etc.) for corruption / embezzlement, abeit slowly, but the UK does not.

Quick reminder: Le Pen wasn't found guilty because the French courts hate democracy. She was found guilty because she broke the fucking law.

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One of the longest silences I have seen in a Senedd committee for a while...