Johnson Imode

Energy suppliers urge UK govt to help households struggling with energy bills. Silence on cutting profit margins, windfall taxes on excessive profits. Household energy debt heading to £7bn. 120,000 a year die in fuel poverty. We can't afford privatisation and resulting profiteering.

The ability to pour hundreds of millions of pounds into a loss-making TV channel, bent on wrenching British politics sharply to the right, is yet another of the ways in which extreme wealth is trying to remake UK democracy. It needs to be part of any serious conversation about political funding.

New GB News accounts are out. Here are their losses to date. Or "spent political donations" if you prefer

Honestly I am gutted Burnham STILL hasn't brought Thames Water into special administration Why not? It went bust 2+ years ago Shareholders have walked away US hedge fund creditors want to pollute illegally then sell it 16 million so-called "customers" need you to TAKE IT BACK

🔴 NEW Andy Burnham’s Labour Conference Speech Offers a Clear Break From the Politics of Despair By @adambienkov.bsky.social Read below. ↓

Pay rent, eat or keep warm? Growing numbers face hard choices as housing benefit gap grows. No curbs on rents. Shortage of social housing. 2.8m council homes sold since the 1980s, not replaced. Low wages, 37.8% of Universal Credit claimants are in work. Poverty is a political choice.

I don't think we disdain the center-right enough. First, they rode nativist populist tigers to power to get their tax cuts and deregulation; Then, they lost control of their own parties to those tigers; Now, they sit in lucrative jobs as columnists writing about how it's all the left's fault.

🚨 BREAKING: Patriot Platform, a new far right group launched by Tommy Robinson’s right hand man Daniel Thomas (AKA Danny Tommo) has blockaded the port and several roads in Dover. The masked men are from subgroups of PP, including Sussex, Essex, and South East Patriots Here’s all you need to know.

Capital gains tax revenues make the case for the Taxing Wealth Report www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2026/08... New data shows that increased capital gains tax rates raised more by themselves than some estimates for a wealth tax might deliver, as I predicted.

BBC coverage of Thetford case-study in impact of language. "Disorder"? Crowds attempted to break into housing for asylum seekers. That would be violent intimidation. "Anti-immigration"? Are protesters "anti-immigration," or just anti certain immigrants? If so, stop whitewashing their position.

Lorenzo Salgado Araujo was a 52-year-old Mexican national who worked in construction for more than three decades. The father of three was shot by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents after they attempted to pull him over. n.pr/4vQcKMm

Belgium players mocking the US and Trump's meddling in the World Cup by doing the Trump dance after scoring the 4th goal against the USMNT

In France 6 out of 10 households are served by publicly owned energy company EDF 💡 EDF just announced it will invest €80 million on cooling systems for schools, nurseries and daycare centres ❄️ This is why we need ambitious PUBLIC OWNERSHIP www.euronews.com/health/2026/...

Fuelled by blatant lies about immigrants and “national sovereignty,” 10 years ago today the UK committed national political suicide as the whole world watched. Six (soon to be seven) Prime Ministers and a steadily weakening economy later, it’s Brexit that’s tearing the country apart.

“Pick a fight with migrants, benefit claimants, or protestors – and the country knows who you are. Pick a fight with water bosses, landlords, private equity, tech monopolies, and the rentier class – and the country knows that too.” Full article here: bylinetimes.com/2026/06/19/a...

"If Burnham becomes Starmerism with a Lancashire accent, he will fail. If he uses the space to build a new settlement, Labour may remember what it is for." ✍️ @labourlewis.bsky.social

59% turnout is high for a by-election, but it still means that, in one of the most high-profile & consequential by-elections ever, more than 4 in 10 voters couldn't be bothered to do their democratic duty. Chartists, reformers and suffragists would be giving us some pretty hard looks right now.

Welcome to the party. If it does anything, I hope it shows the American people that there is a great big world outside of America full of amazing cultures and amazing people. Foreigners are nothing to be afraid of, the vast majority of people are decent, good people.

This is the one area that you're allowed to say we need infinite spending and nobody will ever say the budgets must balance or the bond markets will revolt. I wonder why that is?

Justin Webb now stating as fact that in Northern Ireland - and across the U.K. - for years people ‘have been able to come here and get access to services’ that local people can’t Is there any evidence for this? Why is a presenter on the BBC stating this as fact?

The absolute absence of political leadership against the far right in Britain is genuinely shocking, and will make things worse The only politician I heard really speaking out - and leading - in last 24 hours was independent councillor in Belfast

Dear BBC journalists, you really do not have to 'debate' every far-right talking point that pops up on your X feed. It is not "deeply contentious" to suggest non-white people can't be English. It's racist. The word you're looking for is racist

ultimately nothing changes unless broadcast executives think that Matt Goodwin openly race-baiting on their channels is *actually a problem*. at the moment some of them, including BBC management, practically have it as a KPI.

NEW | On the ghouls in the exploitation business… TRADING DOG WHISTLES FOR KLAXONS Right-wing columnists and politicians are exploiting the murder of Henry Nowak, turning him into a symbol to serve their grim ambitions. brokenbottleboy.substack.com/p/trading-do...

Who, I wonder, is too racist for the BBC now? This is the language of the NF and the BNP, neither of which were invited on to the sofa to chat politics. Racism spreads when institutions legitimise it

NEW | On this week’s biggest horror reboot: TRAPPED INSIDE THE BLAIR RICH PROJECT The media coverage of Tony Blair's essay on what the UK government should do treats him as a statesman rather than the salesman he really is... brokenbottleboy.substack.com/p/trapped-in...

Young people have been betrayed. The promise that doing well in school and university would, in and of itself, open doors to a career has been shown to be a lie. This government will not address this crisis, as they still believe that neoliberalism is the solution. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

This country has heard enough from Tony Blair.

The biggest majority in the modern era, and terrified of your own shadow for two years. It beggars belief. I've never known any govt. to have less to lose, and never known a greater need for political honesty than now. But, hey, best stay cautious. You don't want to become unpopular do you?

A Reform government is not inevitable. But more of the same will only make it more likely. Great to speak to the brilliant @trillingual.bsky.social about the rise of the British radical right - and what comes next, for Reform, Farage and all of us democracyforsale.substack.com/p/a-reform-g...

NEW | On the media assault against the Greens and one person in particular… POLANSKI IS PAINTED AS A MONSTER WHILE FARAGE ESCAPES PROPER SCRUTINY The same old playbook is in action. brokenbottleboy.substack.com/p/polanski-i...

'Their real crime is to challenge power'

Reporting that includes the two Jewish men that the Golders Green attacker is charged with attempting to murder but does not include the Muslim man he is *also* charged with attempting to murder is wildly inaccurate and distorts the story hugely. Sky News and the BBC have both done that.

“A few days of joviality will hardly guarantee Trump’s erratic affections for long, as Starmer found out the hard way. What will last far longer is the sense of complicity: the indefensible has yet again been legitimised.” My col. on the royal White House trip. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

The key issue is whether Starmer misled Parliament. If he did, he has to go: parliamentary democracy cannot function unless we uphold that norm. We'd demand it of Johnson & we should demand it of Starmer. Future PMs (including a possible Prime Minister Farage) must know that this is inviolable. 1/

It’s genuinely staggering how little substance there is to today’s instalment of the BBC’s attempt to create a national crisis out of a few unproven allegations of immigration fraud 1/

was that Melania speech one of Iran’s demands

Opposing the promotion of fear and hate is our political task now. It is, I suggest, the only way in which we can cling to our sanity. www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2026/04...

Trump is threatening genocide and King Charles is still planning a state visit to see him. Why, oh why, oh why? Has he really got such low self worth that he won’t tell Starmer where to get off? It’s time to refuse to obey orders.

There have to be consequences. Severe consequences. We can’t continue to live in a society where people can endorse or engage in criminality, indecency, cruelty, and bigotry with no consequence. It’s as if the seeming weightlessness of words online has somehow migrated to the real world.

As the police find no evidence whatsoever of illegal family voting or voter coercion in the Gorton and Denton by-election, the BBC should ask themselves why, on the morning of the result, they gave so much airtime to these absurd and obviously racist claims from Nigel Farage

NEW Will Google's AI hype man kill the BBC? Matt Brittin spent two decades at Google, a tech company helping to destroy journalism. His appointment as leader of Britain’s biggest news organisation represents an existential threat says @carolecadwalla.bsky.social www.thenerve.news/p/matt-britt...

They’re not good people if they’re not willing to stand up for us. That’s the whole point of you being there. Sorry, but I wholeheartedly disagree.

Jon Stewart isn't so sure Trump is actually talking to Iran's "top person"

Two days after Trump said there was no-one to talk to in Iran, he calls off strikes after talks with Iran "over the last two days".

Irish broadcasters have held him to account, in real time. If the BBC doesn't, it is because it chooses not to.