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Lib Dem Leader Meets BBC Boss To Complain About Level Of Reform Coverage Exclusive: Ed Davey has met with BBC boss Tim Davie to complain about the broadcaster’s coverage, which the Liberal Democrats claim is weighted too...

Ed Davey: "BBC’s Farage obsession is a joke. Reform has 4 MPs, Lib Dems have 72 - yet get sidelined. This isn’t journalism, it’s free PR. If the Beeb’s chasing shock value over vote count, just admit it and drop the "balanced" act."

Motherfucking wind farms…

About time..#BBC has a very long history of publicising @NigelFarage. Right back to his appearances on question time, far more invites than any other politician.

Euro 2025: Lionesses flying home after retaining European title with historic win over Spain Reaction as England defend their European title with a dramatic penalty shootout win over Spain in Switzerland.

Lionesses welcomed home by cheering fans after Euro 2025 win - watch and follow live

BBC Verify largely factchecks international stories – what about UK politics? In a world of fake news and disinformation, factchecking claims and veracity of images has become an important part of impartial journalism

BBC Verify largely factchecks international stories – what about UK politics?

In a world of fake news and disinformation, factchecking claims and veracity of images has become an important part of impartial journalism | Stephen Cushion, Nathan Ritchie
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231 MPs calling for recognition of Palestine is a third of the Commons, BBC News. They're not all Labour MPs, and it's not just a third of the parliamentary Labour party.

Get it right.

#r4today

Is anyone out there planning a #Band Aid for Gaza. We need it @BobGeldof @Bono @boygeorgeofficial.bsky.social @the-paulmccartney-project.com @midgeure-is.bsky.social @PhilCollins @paulwellernews.bsky.social @brucespringsteen.net

Ian Hislop, "It is pretty ludicrous we have got to a state where a man is arrested for carrying a joke? I mean, freedom of expression, freedom of speech, all those things we claim to be interested in?"

Shame on Labour this isn't the change any of us wanted after 14 years of Conservative chaos

ARE PRIVATE EYE JOKES CRIMINAL?! 'PALESTINE ACTION' EXPLAINED ❌ Unacceptable Palestine Action Spraying military planes with paint ✅ Acceptable Palestine Action Shooting Palestinians queueing for food © Private Eye no. 1653 --- PALESTINE Solidarity campaigner Jon Farley was arrested, bundled into a van and taken to the cells during a silent march in Leeds last weekend. What egregious act had prompted the police to act? He was, er, carrying a Private Eye joke piece as a placard (pictured)! As the Eye went to press, Mr Farley, a retired headteacher who marches regularly with the Leeds Palestine Solidarity Campaign, told the Eye that police had confirmed on Monday morning there would be no further action and all bail conditions were lifted. He described the ordeal as a “nasty experience”, noting that West Yorkshire cops are “normally quite reasonable” but that despite his efforts to explain the obvious point the Eye’s joke was making, “nuance isn’t their thing”. More than 100 people were arrested at various protests over the same weekend, amid warnings from police not to test the limits of the law by expressing support for Palestine Action, now a proscribed organisation, meaning any show of “support” for the group is a criminal offence. Even when no charges are brought, being arrested under the Terrorism Act leaves a record potentially affecting travel and employment. Home secretary Yvette Cooper took measures to proscribe Palestine Action after activists broke into RAF Brize Norton in Oxfordshire last month and sprayed two planes with paint. As the Eye wrote in issue 1652: “Some will argue that proscribing Palestine Action and extending the definition of terrorism to direct action groups that destroy property but don’t aim attacks at the public — rather than using the current criminal law — is a high price for society to pay.” This was before the police decided to extend the definition of terrorism to include people cutting jokes out of satirical magazines…

We're at a pretty worrying place when it comes to protest rights in the UK, in my opinion.

Via the new Private Eye (alt text available)

'Suffering of civilians in Gaza has reached new depths': 26 nations call for immediate end to war in Gaza We've just had a statement from the UK and more than 20 other countries calling for an immediate end to the war in Gaza. Here's the statement from the UK Foreign Office in full: We, the signatories listed below, come together with a simple, urgent message: the war in Gaza must end now. The suffering of civilians in Gaza has reached new depths. The Israeli government’s aid delivery model is dangerous, fuels instability and deprives Gazans of human dignity. We condemn the drip feeding of aid and the inhumane killing of civilians, including children, seeking to meet their most basic needs of water and food. It is horrifying that over 800 Palestinians have been killed while seeking aid. The Israeli government’s denial of essential humanitarian assistance to the civilian population is unacceptable. Israel must comply with its obligations under international humanitarian law. The hostages cruelly held captive by Hamas since 7 October 2023 continue to suffer terribly. We condemn their continued detention and call for their immediate and unconditional release. A negotiated ceasefire offers the best hope of bringing them home and ending the agony of their families. We call on the Israeli government to immediately lift restrictions on the flow of aid and to urgently enable the UN and humanitarian NGOs [non-governmental organisations] to do their life-saving work safely and effectively. We call on all parties to protect civilians and uphold the obligations of international humanitarian law. Proposals to remove the Palestinian population into a “humanitarian city” are completely unacceptable. Permanent forced displacement is a violation of international humanitarian law. We strongly oppose any steps towards territorial or demographic change in the occupied Palestinian territories. The E1 settlement plan announced by Israel’s civil administration, if implemented, would divide a Palestinian state in two, marking a flagrant breach of international law and critically undermine the two-state solution. Meanwhile, settlement building across the West Bank including east Jerusalem has accelerated while settler violence against Palestinians has soared. This must stop. We urge the parties and the international community to unite in a common effort to bring this terrible conflict to an end, through an immediate, unconditional and permanent ceasefire. Further bloodshed serves no purpose. We reaffirm our complete support to the efforts of the US, Qatar and Egypt to achieve this. We are prepared to take further action to support an immediate ceasefire and a political pathway to security and peace for Israelis, Palestinians and the entire region. This statement has been signed by: The foreign ministers of Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and the UK. Plus the EU commissioner for equality, preparedness and crisis management.

UK and 25 other countries condemn "horrifying" killings of hundreds of Gazans trying to access Israel's aid operation

In 2 weeks time the House of Lords will vote on proposals to give dads and second parents the right to 6 weeks paid leave at 90% of salary by end of this parliament through the Penn Amendment to the Employment Bill. Share and spread the word we need the Lords help in the fight for parental leave!

Couldn’t agree more. If you are more outraged by a rapper’s chant than the shooting of 100s of starving people lured to their deaths you need to switch your moral compass off and then back on cos it just isn’t working.

If you can watch this and then think ‘I won’t share because that might be putting myself on the line’ then you know what you’d have done if you were in Germany when your Jewish neighbours were being loaded into to cattle trucks. Nothing. Please share - it’s our ‘I’m Spartacus moments

Daniel Hannan celebrates his chronicle of Brexit idiocy foretold | John Crace Back in 2016, Dan prophesied about what the post-EU sunlit uplands would be like on this very day – no spoiler alert needed

“Daniel Hannan Day celebrates #Brexit idiocy…Cows with smiling faces, safe in the knowledge they would never hear moos with a French accent. Millions of cod swimming back into British coastal waters, desperate to be turned into fish fingers by Captain Birds Eye.” www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Well done Lib Dems. Politico: "MPs will vote on Labour’s plan to [allow] foreign state ownership of newspapers at 15%, after Lib Dem MPs scuppered the govt's attempt to pass secondary legislation without a full vote (on the nod)"

We'll see which MPs are happy with legislating for the Telegraph...

As I said on the show today, the word to watch is ‘obliterated’. It’s his ‘alternative fact’ (aka bare-faced lie) & the acolytes are programmed to repeat it until it becomes the accepted but still utterly false narrrative. Most media still can’t process the completeness of the corruption.

Daniel Hannan Day Hannan's 2016 article should be his and Liberal Leavers' political tombstone

'Daniel Hannan Day'

New Substack post, hopefully with some original insights on exactly what happened over the last 10 years.

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Nine years ago the godfather of Brexit, Lord Daniel Hannan, predicted life in Brexit Britain in June 2025. Roll the tape…
(VO by @gavinesler.bsky.social. Part 2 below👇)

Tx for reply. PA ? Not sure what that means. Maybe my bias is getting in the way. I might give the "i" a go. Ownership.put me off

But it's owned by The Mail !!

Shhh. Republicans are trying to repeal Obamacare again. Sort of. They’re not branding it an Obamacare repeal this time around, but congressional Republicans are pursuing cuts to programs that are part of the 15-year-old health-care law.

Here's something everybody should be paying attention to: Congressional Republicans are trying to weaken the Affordable Care Act and put millions of people at risk of losing their health care. Call your Senators and tell them we can't let that happen.

Today they have crossed a deep red line.

We, the people, must hold the president and his appointees accountable for this outrageous abuse against American liberty.

Race Across The World winners cross the finish line in final leg The duo will share a cash prize of £20,000 after racing through China, Nepal and India.

Did I miss the bit when Caroline told us although she had given up everything to be a mother, she has recently won major National Horse Eventing competitions?? Feel played @BBC
BBC News - Race Across The World winners crowned
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Give new dads six weeks off work at nearly full pay, MPs say A report says dads should be paid 80% of earnings and allowed six weeks off work when they have a child.

Great idea BBC News - Give new dads six weeks off work at nearly full pay, MPs say - BBC News
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Support for nationalising utilities and public transport has grown significantly in last seven years | YouGov Large majorities of Britons now want to see water, energy, railway and bus companies nationalised

82% of the electorate want water companies nationalized. yougov.co.uk/politics/art...

I take it all those Reform patriots shouting about DOGE realise that so far Musk's version has cost at least 16x what it's saved…

…and that's before you account for collateral damage to governance and credibility.

And it had the benefit of a world-renowned genius to head it up 😀🤣😂

Tory MP Robert Jenrick: “I don’t think Starmer is a bad man, I just think he’s fundamentally ill suited to these challenges”

That’s the same Robert Jenrick who played a leading role in a Tory government that caused these challenges

#bbclaurak

Nigel Farage: Reform UK want to make it easier for people to have children Reform leader backs lifting the two-child benefit cap and introducing more generous tax breaks for married people.

@BBCnews did you bother asking how this would be funded or did it just sound like a good advert for Reform ???
BBC News - Nigel Farage: Reform UK want to make it easier for people to have children - BBC News
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