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Sky News @news.sky.com · 2d

Macron reappoints Lecornu as prime minister - four days after he quit

French President Emmanuel Macron has re-appointed Sebastien Lecornu as prime minister.

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Jon Will Chambers @jonchambers.co.uk · 2d

Timing was never going to work, let alone the domestic issues. But if the Middle East deal holds, Trump could probably still get it next year.

James Fitzgerald @jamesfitzjourno.bsky.social · 2d

Good on her.

Also someone's going to be posting through this is 3, 2....

Nobel Peace Prize 2025 live updates: Venezuelan politician Maria Corina Machado wins

Nominations closed in January but US President Donald Trump had led a public campaign to win the award.

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 2d

It's never the comms. Labour's comms is grey because in the absence of a clear strategy for what the government wants to achieve, no-one can defend or articulate what the government says in an interesting or exciting way.

Lewis Goodall @lewisgoodall.com · 3d

I do wonder if Labour might look at the sorts of people dominating the discourse and dominating the content wars and maybe, just maybe, rethink the sorts of grey figures they routinely put up for interviews, instructed at that to be as cautious as possible. Things have changed. Their comms hasn’t.

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Jon Will Chambers @jonchambers.co.uk · 3d

At *20 years old* imagine producing this absolute stunning beautiful classic. Golden British talent that kills your heart strings. It’s a slam dunk 10/10. I beg the BBC to send something like this back to Eurovision. Definition of tearjerker. music.apple.com/gb/album/die... #newmusicfriday

Die On This Hill by SIENNA SPIRO on Apple Music

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Patch Thompson @patchthompson.bsky.social · 3d

Whatever Andrew Neill furiously argues these days, GB News was always about providing legitimacy, funding and a bespoke platform for Farage and his allies. And this was obvious from day one.

Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 4d

GB News pay party political leader Nigel Farage over half a million pounds. The TV channel pays him five times his MP salary - and as much as his other 11 further external jobs put together
www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news...

Nigel Farage earns over £1m from 12 'second jobs' - check how much your MP earns

The Reform UK leader's most lucrative second jobs include hosting on GB News, serving as a brand ambassador for Direct Bullion and recording videos for Cameo

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 3d

There was a 19% increase in recorded religious hate crimes against Muslims last year in England and Wales, according to new ONS figures.

This compares to just a 3% rise over the past year among all religious groups targeted by hate crimes

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Ben Fenton @benfenton.bsky.social · 3d

If a news organisation is making -200% margin after five years, it is not a commercial operation and should be assumed to have a different purpose.

Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 4d

The channel lost £33 million to communicate its content to a large audience
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GB News suffers huge loss despite doubling revenue and growing audience

The TV channel, whose well-known presenters include Reform UK leader Nigel Farage, fell to a pre-tax loss of £33.4m in the year to 31 May, 2024

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Jon Will Chambers @jonchambers.co.uk · 3d

Someone working for a donor also some months ago told me how amazing it was that they were giving away a million pounds. And it's like yea, what one thing are you gonna spend that on, and they were like oh no we have 3 work streams with 15 different things......

Jon Will Chambers @jonchambers.co.uk · 3d

But don't worry though cos for left wing causes you can get 10k from Joseph Rowntree or Edge Fund to defend people's literal human rights......

Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 4d

The channel lost £33 million to communicate its content to a large audience
www.business-live.co.uk/enterprise/g...

GB News suffers huge loss despite doubling revenue and growing audience

The TV channel, whose well-known presenters include Reform UK leader Nigel Farage, fell to a pre-tax loss of £33.4m in the year to 31 May, 2024

www.business-live.co.uk

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Jon Will Chambers @jonchambers.co.uk · 3d

That this is allowed to happen is a fcking scandal.

Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 4d

GB News pay party political leader Nigel Farage over half a million pounds. The TV channel pays him five times his MP salary - and as much as his other 11 further external jobs put together
www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news...

Nigel Farage earns over £1m from 12 'second jobs' - check how much your MP earns

The Reform UK leader's most lucrative second jobs include hosting on GB News, serving as a brand ambassador for Direct Bullion and recording videos for Cameo

www.mirror.co.uk

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Jonny Morris @jonnymorris.bsky.social · 4d

Is this real or am I in a coma?

Young Conservative with a Doctor Who question mark pullover.

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Jon Will Chambers @jonchambers.co.uk · 4d

Yea why the hell would you run when it was obvious you were gonna get creamed. Shabana saw this and swerved.

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Jon Will Chambers @jonchambers.co.uk · 4d

Trying to find the bathroom when you woke up at 3am at a friends house.

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Jamie McLoughlin @jamiematic5.bsky.social · 4d

Alan walking in his cloak with the lantern is the TV moment of the year. Can we have it on a loop? #CelebrityTraitors

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Mal-eficent! 🎃 😈 @malgm.uk · 4d

Stephen Fry couldn’t possibly be a Traitor……but Jonathon Ross is.

#CelebrityTraitors

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Jon Will Chambers @jonchambers.co.uk · 4d

Alan is going to be ICONIC.

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 4d

One of the Conservative party's contributions to our country has been keeping people who think you can measure integration through skin colour out of office - what next, are they only going to be lukewarm on the property-owning democracy?

Thank the Tories for keeping Robert Jenrick out of high office

Shadow justice secretary’s comment about not seeing a ‘white face’ shows he does not understand integration

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Digitalis @buzzocular.bsky.social · 4d

"while we were arguing about what a woman is, china was building five nuclear reactors"

Yes but that is very explicitly your fault, more than most, kemi.

She's such a strange perception of herself

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 4d

"We used to ring up our GP and get an appointment on the same day," says Kemi Badenoch. She does not add: we're all looking for the guy who did this!

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Jon Will Chambers @jonchambers.co.uk · 4d

Keir Starmer's luck is up again.

Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 4d

Kemi Badenoch says she will give a tax cut for private school fees and take away all the new workers rights brought in by Labour

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James Austin @jamesdaustin.bsky.social · 5d

This is my basic theory for a lot of what is going on with the centre right atm

The ideas failed utterly and now there is a total crisis of intellectual confidence

Indy @indy.bsky.social · 6d

It nags at me that people are dancing around the fact that one reason centre-right think-tanks are in an intellectual crisis moment is because we've spent over a decade where lots of their ideas were tried out and didn't pan out as advertised.

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Indy @indy.bsky.social · 6d

It nags at me that people are dancing around the fact that one reason centre-right think-tanks are in an intellectual crisis moment is because we've spent over a decade where lots of their ideas were tried out and didn't pan out as advertised.

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Jon Will Chambers @jonchambers.co.uk · 4d

Must be a short speech if Kemi is laying out the "successes of the last 14 years".

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Arthur Snell @snellarthur.bsky.social · 4d

Whereas stealing artists’ work is killing their industry, so…

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

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Jon Will Chambers @jonchambers.co.uk · 5d

Hard to see them going to the Lib Dem’s given Europe positioning and other things but maybe. Either way the tides are shifting. Are we ready? Not if we can’t call this what it is and respond. It’s not ok to divide us on race.

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