Nick Haydon

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

Rob whistle | Robert Hutton | The Critic Magazine The day had begun with Robert Jenrick accused of racism. This is of course quite unfair. Racists believe in something. Some of us remember Jenrick as a chubby-cheeked fan of David Cameron fighting the…

It's quite wrong to suggest Robert Jenrick is a racist. Racists believe in something. My SKETCH.

Rob whistle | Robert Hutton | The Critic Magazine The day had begun with Robert Jenrick accused of racism. This is of course quite unfair. Racists believe in something. Some of us remember Jenrick as a chubby-cheeked fan of David Cameron fighting…

"The day had begun with Robert Jenrick accused of racism. This is of course quite unfair. Racists believe in something." Absolutely fantastic sketch by @roberthutton.co.uk. Every line is a banger:

The ITV exposé on COVID now turns its sights on testing. I was stunned in 2020 when Sir Paul Nurse - Director of the Francis Crick Institute - told me he’d written to the government to offer the services of the Crick (the biggest biomeolecular lab in the country) - and never got a reply…

Kemi Badenoch's 'Free Speech' Conservatives Ban Byline Times From Party Conference The ban on covering the party's annual gathering came despite Badenoch's repeated commitment to "fight" for free speech and a free press

'The Conservative party, whose leader Kemi Badenoch has repeatedly pledged to fight for “free speech”, has banned Byline Times from attending her party’s annual conference'
bylinetimes.com/2025/09/04/k...

Well, there's a thing.

New research from Oxford University says that misleading media coverage is shaping UK public debate on immigration, human rights and the European Convention on Human Rights #ECHR👇

🔗 www.ox.ac.uk/news/2025-09... via @bonavero.bsky.social

The EU Entry/Exit system and EU travel authorisation system https://commonslibrary.parliament.uk/the-eu-entry-exit-system-and-eu-travel-authorisation-system/

How Britain privatised itself into failure Britain outsourced its state – now private firms profit while public services crumble. In Failed State, Sam Freedman explains what went wrong

🚨How Britain privatised itself into failure.🚨

Britain outsourced its state – now private firms profit while public services crumble.

In 'Failed State', Sam Freedman explains what went wrong.

Want to import toxic chemicals into Britain with scant scrutiny? Labour says: go right ahead | George Monbiot Jacob Rees-Mogg’s Tory fantasy of a post-Brexit bonfire of regulations is coming true. Our bodies and ecosystems will pay the price, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

Sorry to burden you with another jaw-dropping scandal. But what the government intends to do to chemicals regulation in the UK is chilling. Its consultation was slipped out so quietly that most of us missed it. When I read it, I saw why.
This week's column:
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Hey, UK media!
Are you just going to let Farage dump another steaming pile of populist bullshit on us *without ever* properly scrutinising his ideas or him…his funding, his riots, his links to Putin and Trump, his Brexit shitshow, his grifting side gigs, his lies, his ignorance…?
Call. Him. TF. Out.

There is a lot of deflection taking place by politicians this morning, suggesting that the court kept the superinjunction in place and that had to be overcome.

That's not true or not complete- the government kept it in place by repeatedly applying for its renewal.

Rachel Reeves says the UK is open for business with the US, EU and India deals:

But we only get £22 billion:
- £3.4 billion from UK-US tariff deal
- £14 billion from UK-EU reset
- £4.8 billion from UK-India

Rejoining the EU Single Market would give us £140 billion

First past the post is bad enough, ‘safe seats’ like Tatton are an insult to democracy but this practice of jumping ship after you’ve been voted in, is pure pisstaking. If you defect, your seat should be up for grabs. Voters deserve better than this. Even in rock solid Tory Tatton.

Oh dear 🤦‍♀️

If the only way you'll ever hear someone call out Nigel Farage's destructive, divisive politics on the BBC is for me to do it, then so be it.

Wes Streeting has defended only paying for half the population to get an NHS dentist

Current £3 billion budget for England is only enough to fund NHS dental care for half the population,just think about that

Shocking new data shows nearly 14 MILLION ADULTS unable to access NHS dentistry in England

Normalising the far-right in the media As Reform gains ground, the media faces a stark choice: scrutinise its far-right populism – or risk normalising it

✍️ Normalising the far-right in the media

As Reform gains ground, the media faces a stark choice: scrutinise its far-right populism – or risk normalising it

By Julian Petley

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🚨Incredibly, a candidate for MP is not required to be registered to vote or be resident in the UK.🚨

The petition asks the Government to fix this.

Check it out here: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/71...

PS No idea why there’s a pic of Richard Tice in Dubai here.

🇬🇧Macron Snubs Farage During UK Visit - and He’s Right to Do So French President Emmanuel Macron is meeting leaders with real political weight, not poll-chasing populists like Nigel Farage.

Nice one France 🇫🇷

www.frenchdispatch.eu/p/macron-snu...

New post: Everyone knows Labour has made mistakes. What is more worrying is why those mistakes were made.
mainlymacro.blogspot.com/2025/07/ever...
If Labour thinks that an Osborne sized state is sustainable, and that the way to defeat Farage is to repeat his rhetoric, it will continue to fail.

But will anyone listen?🥺The BBC consistently provide a platform for ReformUK. Other MSM do likewise thus making them acceptable. If only they would examine their utterances & make them totally accountable in the way they do the Lib Dem’s & Greens!☹️

I don't care if they win the next election or not, there is no way i'm letting this cabal of lowest-common-denominator baiting racist troglodytes collect my personal data.

Ok, British media. You have here all the information you need to scrutinise Farage/Reform’s latest populist, headline-grabbing tosh.
If you’re still handing out free ‘Robin Hood’ passes to them now we have the details, then you are actively deceiving voters and undermining democracy.
Just don’t.

Britain’s got an EU deal — but the Brexit red tape keeps coming U.K. plows ahead with unpopular ‘Not for EU’ labels in Northern Ireland, despite planned deal with Brussels.

🚨🚨 Whilst the EU-UK deal was a clear improvement and win for Starmer, we should not forget that it does not change the major premises of relationship which is enshrined in the TCA and that #brexit still is a long and dragging beast of misery and pain. 🧵
www.politico.eu/article/brit...

Thames Water creditors demand protection from environmental laws Bondholders’ rescue plan for utility hinges on waivers from regulations and fines, documents show

Thames Water’s creditors want to be exempt from key environmental laws.

Exempt from dumping sewage, causing disease, destroying marine life, biodiversity.

Lawlessness to boost profits.

Must prosecute companies/directors.

End profit motive. Nationalise water, curb corporate power
archive.ph/WaCN1

40 years ago today Spain and Portugal joined the EEC

Fifty years of freedom and forty years which mark Spain’s longest democratic period — recovered after the 1936 military uprising, civil war, and 40 years of dictatorship

A further update on BBC News on 6 Music. Today the latest numbers of small boat crossings, and then over to Farage to comment on the economy, where he was allowed to spout his bile and lies unchallenged. Pretty sure this isn’t what 6 Music listeners want

Totally utterly completely indefensible

The ECHR needs practical reform Conservatives who say the UK should withdraw from the ECHR have the wrong solution to a political problem

The Tories are reviewing the UK’s commitment to the ECHR. They wants something akin to Brexit as a totem policy—but they’re wrong on the merits, writes @davidallengreen.bsky.social.
www.prospectmagazine...