Christian Mole

The BBC is the biggest thump of soft power the UK has and its reach and influence to the benefit of the country is extraordinary. Destroy it, hugely damage the UK. The same people who helped weaken us over Brexit are seeking to do it again.

'London is world's best city - people claiming it's lawless hate its success' 'The fact that London has again been crowned greatest city in the world disproves everything our critics claim, and they can’t stand it', the London Mayor Sadiq Khan writes

Here’s what you won’t hear from some commentators on social media: in the year to October, London recorded 10,000 fewer violent crimes leading to injury than it did in the twelve months before I was elected.

More on the progress we’re making ⬇️ www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...

Took me a while to read this (email backlog) but a truly excellent piece. And particularly grateful for the handy to cut out and keep list of reasons (to date) of why to detest the orange one

Exactly right. Mistakes must be corrected, but deliberate campaigns should be recognised for what they are.

Tees Valley mayor Lord (Ben) Houchen promised renewal. Instead, Britain’s biggest regeneration project has turned into a taxpayer-funded scandal - enriching a few local businessmen while leaving public bodies on the brink.

Watch the latest episode of Page 94, The Private Eye Podcast, on YouTube.

Agreed in full. I can only assume that Barnett is auditioning for a Daily Mail column

This interview is just awful.

This isn't Radio 5 Live, ffs.

Does Emma Barnett start everyday asking "what would the Daily Mail say?"

Totally tabloid. Excruciatingly amateurish.

A waste of the prime 8.10 interview slot.

#r4today

In a year of disaster, last night was finally a very good night for Democrats

-sweeping the board in Virginia and New Jersey (two states where they went seriously backwards in 24)
-Mamdani win
-California redistricting win

Foreshadows potential blue wave in midterms

Mr. "I Don't Take Responsibility At All" thinks the MASSIVE BLUE WAVE was because he wasn't on the ballot, not
a Major Referendum on his 2nd Term.

Turns out folks prefer feeding the hungry over building expen$ive, tacky Ballrooms.

Looking forward to the midterms... 🌊

#AccountabilityIsComing

Taking the peace.

How to make Keir Starmer a social media star Five ways for the PM to connect with voters, without tap-dancing naked down Camden High Street

I dont agree with all the ideas in this but theyre all better than what’s happening right now, which is nothing, nada, zip of interest open.substack.com/pub/peterhym...

Americans are being deprived of food benefits, Republicans are refusing to reinstate subsidies that keep health care affordable, air travel in parts of the country may shut down…

...and Donald Trump is hosting Great Gatsby parties and funneling $300M into a ballroom.

After a week of faffing around the @dailymail.co.uk have agreed to apologise. Here it is. Fingers crossed for fewer lies/smears dressed up as news in future

This is just inspired…

@newsagents.bsky.social 4 of the last 6 NewsAgents shows have headlined on bloody Prince Andrew. I’m sorry @maitlis.bsky.social , but @rory-stewart.bsky.social definitely has a point!

Will do. I have a monthly subscription (and have had ever since extra takes started)

Hope

Hmmm. Can’t help feeling a bit disappointed that the result of the subscriber consultation earlier this year just seems to have been finding a new way to squeeze some more money out of us, and also requiring us to sign up to a completely new platform (with no discount for existing Vanguardistas)

Trump and Stephen Miller’s authoritarian playbook is painfully predictable:

1️⃣ Target a Democratic city
2️⃣ Lie about crime
3️⃣ Deploy heavily armed agents to aggressively detain innocent people and violate their rights
4️⃣ Create stress and chaos
5️⃣ Use self-created chaos as excuse for militarization

Let’s hope they are finally learning

Michael Gove admits that post-Brexit trade deals were bad for farmers Michael Gove has admitted for the first time that the Australia and New Zealand trade deals negotiated by the former Tory government did not protect Britain’s farmers.

This deserves more attention than it has received.

Gove: "we were too anxious as a government to secure those deals in order to show that Brexit was working".

Exactly as so many of us warned at the time, and as the government denied at the time.
www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/country-and-...

Oh.

I actually thought quite a smart move by the committee given Machado was nominated by Rubio and that both her and Trump are obviously highly anti-Venezuelan govt. Keep an eye on Truth Social to see if he does the grown-up thing and congratulates her, or if he reverts back to man-child whinging.

I have had a Canon Pixma for a few years (I think G2750 is the current equivalent model) and it has been great. Reliable, very infrequent refills needed, easy to use and set up.

I would love to know exactly how many “deadlines” Trump has set during his time in office so far, whether related to Gaza, Ukraine, Chinese Tariffs etc and how many he has actually followed through on

So where exactly has Starmer’s wife been expressing Zionist views?

I’d have been truly impressed if you’d got the 4th on…..

Amusing though how he completely ran away from the subject when challenged over free speech: so add cowardly to the above

Predictably depressing listening. Aggressive, close-minded and delusional. Not a pleasant combination.