Andy King

If anyone is wondering why the BBC is actively misleading its news audiences over what is happening in UK - EU discussions, and why they are touting this "freedom of movement" scare story, I give you BBC News' director of programmes, John McAndrew. #bbcpm

Thames Water has gone bust So it's normal (and appropriate) for shareholders to get ZERO compensation And a huge chunk of its debt can be written off as part of the special administration process @andyburnham.bsky.social you have 2 DAYS to stop the bailout weownit.org.uk/news/5-thing...

This morning on BBC Breakfast, Nigel Farage said he had received “zero help from the state” with his security. Yet reports say he had previously received publicly funded protection and was offered a taxpayer-funded package including a bodyguard, a secure car and a trained driver.

Really worth noting that even in Red Wall constituencies which backed Leave, most *Labour* voters back rejoining the EU. Over 90% of Labour considerers back rejoin - opposition to EU membership is mainly coming from non-Labour voters in these seats. Was on Times Radio yesterday making this point.

Insulting the minions. So very Farage of him.

These degenerate bums will never learn—the only loser that Trump will ever back to the hilt is himself.

How do BBC News management have the ongoing chutzpah to defend this?

It's very, very telling, I think, that the markets are so concerned about the pro-democracy incumbent winning

BBC news still telling us what the papers say is anochronistic and idiotic. You're the ones supposed to tell us the news, not give free publicity to some tax-dodging billionaire's warped perspective of it.

All political issues can be revisited in a democracy. That’s the whole point. Why can the promised by Thatcher be revisited but not those made by Johnson? (Btw what did he actually promise?)

The Conviction of Estonia’s ‘Lord Haw-Haw’ Links Russian Intelligence to Moscow’s Interference on Brexit A 'diplomat' who launched the 'Conservative Friends of… https://bylinetimes.com/2026/10/26/the-conviction-of-estonias-lord-haw-haw-links-russian-intelligence-to-moscows-interference-on-brexit/

well well well

I get that the media is slow to catch up with things. I'm in the media, I am slow to catch up with things. But the week Reform's crowd looks like this, the BBC chooses _this week_ to go live to Farage's endless remarks on the budget; makes absolutely no sense

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Why are the people who accuse those talking about reversing Brexit of "living in the past" never asked about their own plans to rip up an international agreement that was first signed by the UK some 75 years ago?

By all accounts this is what most of the recent Reform media events have looked like. Bubble well and truly burst

As in Hungary, the authoritarian regime in Serbia is being dismantled . “For years, we failed to fulfill our duty. We kept silent, turned a blind eye, reported events one-sidedly, and failed to ask the necessary questions. For that, we owe our viewers an apology,” news anchor Goran Eror said.

As Nick Robinson interviews Farage on #r4today for the umpteenth time, may I remind you that BBC News has instituted a policy of trying to make itself more attractive to Reform voters. True story (see further down this thread for deets).

The BBC needs to provide an explanation for this.

ITV reports that Farage has criticised Burnham's decision to discuss the future of the UK's relationship with EU as "looking backwards". I mean, you have to laugh, right?

In comments at a private police conference, Flock CEO Garrett Langley said backlash to the company wasn't "real" and the work of "bots." Also he said his wife advised him to never apologize. Read now: www.404media.co/in-leaked-au...

Exactly right. It's why the idea of "UK PLC" was so grotesque - as if a nation was just a limited company, that could be wound up, taken over, merged or dissolved, with no roots in the past and no responsibility to the future.

A 2025 Nobel Prize winner in chemistry, Omar Yaghi is the son of Palestinian refugees who grew up in Jordan. He just left the US to move to China after raising concerns about rising anti-immigrant sentiment, like the kind shown here. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/china-than...

“Make bullies, criminals & wannabe tyrants terrified again“ seems like a great political strategy going forward. Thank you for your attention to this matter.

He is so close to getting it

Looks like Liz Truss’s first day as editor of The Economist is going well...

If the UK and France can't or won't hold the line against a Victor Orban Secretary-General bid, they should give up their Permanent Seats on the Security Council. No shame in no longer being globally relevant, but if it really has gotten that bad it would be humiliating to keep pretending.

"OK. I want everyone to be entirely clear on this. It is not, I REPEAT NOT, a metaphor of any kind. Got it?"

RFK: "There's five hundred million Arabs in the world. And yet they don't produce science. They don't win the Nobel Prize. They don't win the Fields Prize. They don't win the Wolf Prize. They don't produce literature."

It’s just so appalling and enraging how casual and commonplace this has become. I’m out of words.

This is objectively very very funny

A slowly-dying Far Right party.

@lisanandymp.bsky.social H o w M a n y T i m e s ? If you don't address the biases towards Reform within the BBC News editorial group, the BBC is going to lose the support of EVERYONE. Pandering to far-right doesn't work. See Brazil. Today. Face up. Sort it out.

I'd have a bit more time for this MattyY take if I wasn't 99% sure that had the result gone the other way he be all over Twitter smugly claiming there are important lessons for leftists to learn from Lula's failure (be more conservative, do not fight for anything ever).

Good! inews.co.uk/news/politic...

You first Liz, we'll follow along on another spaceship, promise

They got a cast-iron guarantee in 1994. How did that work out?

Thank goodness the beleagured people of Ukraine have someone as sage as Matthew Parris to tell them which bits of their country they should surrender to imperialist aggression. What would they do without him??

like the 'cast iron guarantee' that was given so that Ukraine would give up its nukes? Some columnist need to put out to pasture...

The Great Free Speech Absolutist

Elon Musk uses ties with other tech bro media monopolists and raw cash payments to successfully suppress distribution of Alex Gibney's explosive documentary "Musk." After TikTok Suspended Its Account for Two Days, the Elon Musk Documentary is Almost Gone From Theaters, and Musk

Nigel Farage and Robert Jenrick spoke to swathes of empty seats at what was meant to be the party's big event ahead of the budget 😬🤣 #StopReform

The Brain Truss has now really (and literally) gone "out there"...

The powerful executives who cozied up to Trump didn't oops accidentally forget about pendulum swings. They either: 1) Like the fascism 2) Calculated it was here to stay, so going along was savvy 3) Saw no real downside, no consequences when the pendulum swung Crucial to show them 3 was a mistake

Taken with claims for 19 days on which he has registered a vote or spoken (three times, including on his introduction to the House as Baron Houchen of High Leven), the total up to July comes to £33,260.

Since his ennoblement in Boris Johnson’s 2023 resignation list, Tees Valley regional mayor Lord (Ben) Houchen has claimed more than £25,000 in tax-free daily “attendance” allowances from the House of Lords for 73 days when he hasn’t voted, spoken or performed any recorded parliamentary activity.

It's really nice to see another Meta investment fail