Andrew Thatcher

Good question for the BBC and its board.

No one quite deserves to be made to look such a fool as Matt Goodwin. This is truly heartening.

Confirmation of how low BBC News has sunk. Reeves' trivial administrative cock up leads its news website when, for example, Jamaica is being destroyed by a hurricane.
Sod the 1000s of Brits worried about family, embarrassing Labour is more important.

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One on the left

A majority of voters, and a plurality of white voters, think that Reform is a racist party with racist policies.

She's a racist you useless bastards.

Asylum seekers, housed in hotels in Manchester, are reaching out in their own words to address the concerns of the local community.

Please take a minute to read their letter, & share it with the people in your life who need to hear the truth about the people they are protesting.

Chart showing OECD's index of strictness of employment law relating to dismissing individual workers on a refular contract: OECD countries, 2019

The UK currently imposes few restrictions on employers making dismissals - there are only five OECD countries where it is easier to fire someone.

So while there's space for reform, on unfair dismissal the Government looks set to move from extreme to the other.

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At no point should discussions around Conservative or Reform mass deportation policies be about the "workability" or "practicality" of such policies. They should be about the inhumanity and immortality of them. They should be about the racism of them. Anything less is normalisation of xenophobia.

If you think that black and brown faces in advertising is linked to "legitimate concerns" about mass migration, it does suggest that you think that all black and brown people are foreigners. Which, for a party whose current leader is black and whose previous leader was brown, is quite something.

The British right is swimming in an open sewer We are drifting into territory that once would have seemed extreme

"Promises were made, and lives and families built upon them. How have we reached a place where wrecking those lives is even up for discussion?"

On Powell, Heath, Lam and the descent of the British right.

This is worse than her doing it IMV

"Let's not forget, when we remember the service and the sacrifice with this poppy, that the people who bled and died for our democracy and our freedom, weren't just my grandfather who looked like me & worshipped the same God, but people across Empire & Commonwealth, who were Muslim, Sikh & Hindu'

Wes Streeting on visiting a secondary school and talking to 11-18 year olds in Ilford on their expericences of racism. "We have seen a return of 1970s-style and 1980s-style racism ... We need to call it out and confront it for what it is & for the decent majority so stand against it" (BBC)

“Legitimate concerns” update

Mealy mouthed apology from Pochin after her outright racism here. When she says she will endeavour to make sure her language is more accurate in future? What is a more accurate way of her saying she can’t stand seeing black and Asian people on TV?

Laura Kuenssberg Presenter, Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg 26 October 2025, 06:01 GMT Updated 12 minutes ago Former US Vice-President Kamala Harris has expressed concern that she didn't ask Joe Biden to pull out of the race for the White House. In an interview with the BBC for Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg, she said: "I do reflect on whether I should have had a conversation with him, urging him not to run for re-election."

simply amazing how these weak sauces continue to talk about Biden’s cognitive decline in a way they never do with Trump

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….the “Best Post of the Day”

Earlier today I said what I usually shout out at home at radio phone ins on a radio phone in. I am sorry I was caught out by the MSM.

Four straight defeats after five wins. Not going well right now. But #ynwa #LFC

OK, who did this?!!! 🤣

SPOILER ALERT: Ronald Reagan did not love tariffs. In a radio address on April 25, 1987, he stated categorically that in the long run, tariffs "hurt every American worker and consumer".

According to the official ONS statistics, it reached 948,000 in April-June 2025, up by 140,000 (or 17 per cent) compared to the same period in 2019

There are now almost a million NEETS (young people not in education, employment or training) aged 16-24.

This means by 2025, more than one-in-eight young people were NEET, up from one-in-nine in 2019.

Meet You at the Hippos Mark Bonnar returns to the Scottish new towns in which he grew up to explore the street sculpture made by artists such as his dad.

Loved this documentary about Mark Bonnar's father who made sculptures for a couple of Scottish new towns Meet You at the Hippos: www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m00124rq via @bbciplayer

People who have come to the United Kingdom legally, played by the rules and made it their home do not need to “go home”. This is their home.

I've written to Kemi Badenoch to give her the chance to reject these divisive calls from her frontbencher Katie Lam.

I do hope that if they do choose to become immigrants in another country they plan to fully assimilate, abandon any home culture, become fluent in the new language, make no claim on state services or pensions, and fulfil all the other demands they make of people choosing to live here.

In their mind they won't be immigrants they'll be "expats" and whichever country they inflict themselves on "will need them more...etc"