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It wasn't until John Major became PM in 1990 that being a football fan was remotely socially acceptable for Tories.
Thatcher hated the game and regarded supporters as scum.
Thatcher hated the game and regarded supporters as scum.
October 18, 2025 at 5:34 AM
It wasn't until John Major became PM in 1990 that being a football fan was remotely socially acceptable for Tories.
Thatcher hated the game and regarded supporters as scum.
Thatcher hated the game and regarded supporters as scum.
Why have BBC news got appalled quoted? As if to suggest it’s not genuine?!
October 2, 2025 at 10:16 AM
Why have BBC news got appalled quoted? As if to suggest it’s not genuine?!
Labour wins power from the centre. Labour doesn’t like choices involved in governing. Labour moves to the left. Labour governs to the left with no mandate. Labour loses power. Labour moves further to left and loses. Labour moves to the centre to win power. Repeat repeat repeat. Infuriating.
September 25, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Labour wins power from the centre. Labour doesn’t like choices involved in governing. Labour moves to the left. Labour governs to the left with no mandate. Labour loses power. Labour moves further to left and loses. Labour moves to the centre to win power. Repeat repeat repeat. Infuriating.
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It’s gone so quickly from ‘boat people’ to all immigrants. So quickly from ‘I don’t mind if they come here legally and pay taxes’ to ‘actually it’s anyone foreign’. We are living in the ‘first they came for’ poem. All to give the population a scapegoat so the super rich can hoard yet more wealth.
September 25, 2025 at 7:38 AM
It’s gone so quickly from ‘boat people’ to all immigrants. So quickly from ‘I don’t mind if they come here legally and pay taxes’ to ‘actually it’s anyone foreign’. We are living in the ‘first they came for’ poem. All to give the population a scapegoat so the super rich can hoard yet more wealth.
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Cool cool. So perhaps you'd like to stand in front of a moving vehicle. Or is that kind of science magically settled somehow?
Farage asked on @lbc.co.uk whether he agreed with on the unproven link between paracetamol and autism
“I have no idea... We were told thalidomide was a v safe drug and it isn’t. who knows. I don’t know, you don’t know…when it comes to science I don’t side with anybody. It’s never settled.”
“I have no idea... We were told thalidomide was a v safe drug and it isn’t. who knows. I don’t know, you don’t know…when it comes to science I don’t side with anybody. It’s never settled.”
September 24, 2025 at 7:27 AM
Cool cool. So perhaps you'd like to stand in front of a moving vehicle. Or is that kind of science magically settled somehow?
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Surprise surprise, now the Reform UK councillors want more pay.
September 20, 2025 at 8:50 AM
Surprise surprise, now the Reform UK councillors want more pay.
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The scene at BBC News as Chris Mason is persuaded to make just one positive remark about Keir Starmer.
September 19, 2025 at 11:49 AM
The scene at BBC News as Chris Mason is persuaded to make just one positive remark about Keir Starmer.
We can either fight amongst ourselves about not being perfect or we can deliver change that only a Labour government would.
'It's difficult to overstate what a landmark moment this is'
Liam Thorp, political editor of the Liverpool Echo, speaks to #BBCBreakfast about the introduction of the 'Hillsborough Law' bill will force public officials to tell the truth during investigations into major disasters
Liam Thorp, political editor of the Liverpool Echo, speaks to #BBCBreakfast about the introduction of the 'Hillsborough Law' bill will force public officials to tell the truth during investigations into major disasters
September 16, 2025 at 2:45 PM
We can either fight amongst ourselves about not being perfect or we can deliver change that only a Labour government would.
Had to turn off @newsagents.bsky.social this morning for their inability to consider why the government’s language at the weekend was cautious. When they called out the far right and Musk before they got accused of saying opposing immigration is far right. Or its racist to care about grooming gangs
September 16, 2025 at 6:55 AM
Had to turn off @newsagents.bsky.social this morning for their inability to consider why the government’s language at the weekend was cautious. When they called out the far right and Musk before they got accused of saying opposing immigration is far right. Or its racist to care about grooming gangs
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Charlie Kirk called me a ‘lunatic’ and a ‘prostitute’ and demanded I be deported.
Nothing, *nothing*, justifies killing him, or robbing his kids of their dad.
We don’t know the identity or motive of the shooter but murder can *never* be the response to political disagreements.
Nothing, *nothing*, justifies killing him, or robbing his kids of their dad.
We don’t know the identity or motive of the shooter but murder can *never* be the response to political disagreements.
September 10, 2025 at 9:58 PM
Charlie Kirk called me a ‘lunatic’ and a ‘prostitute’ and demanded I be deported.
Nothing, *nothing*, justifies killing him, or robbing his kids of their dad.
We don’t know the identity or motive of the shooter but murder can *never* be the response to political disagreements.
Nothing, *nothing*, justifies killing him, or robbing his kids of their dad.
We don’t know the identity or motive of the shooter but murder can *never* be the response to political disagreements.
I’m really tired of smug know it all journalists that do nothing but criticise. Whatever the government do, it’s wrong and they know better. We’re going to end up with Farage in number 10 because not everything Labour do in office is perfect.
September 11, 2025 at 2:16 PM
I’m really tired of smug know it all journalists that do nothing but criticise. Whatever the government do, it’s wrong and they know better. We’re going to end up with Farage in number 10 because not everything Labour do in office is perfect.
I don’t know Charlie Kirk is or why he was killed. I’m very sorry he was. But can somebody explain why this is leading the news on the Today Programme?
September 11, 2025 at 7:04 AM
I don’t know Charlie Kirk is or why he was killed. I’m very sorry he was. But can somebody explain why this is leading the news on the Today Programme?
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Large parts of the English press and radicalised X users are increasingly out of touch with public opinion.
Polling on Lucy Connolly tweet following her release finds that 35% think her sentence too harsh, but the majority of Brits: 52% say it was about right or too lenient. Most 2024 Reform voters say too harsh, Tory voters split harsh or lenient/about right. Most Labour/LD/Green the latter
August 29, 2025 at 10:45 AM
Large parts of the English press and radicalised X users are increasingly out of touch with public opinion.
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Seems all you need to do to get a sympathetic front page these days is plead guilty to inciting racial hatred by calling for people to be burned alive inside hotels
THE SUN: I was PM's political prisoner for a year #TomorrowsPapersToday
August 22, 2025 at 10:07 PM
Seems all you need to do to get a sympathetic front page these days is plead guilty to inciting racial hatred by calling for people to be burned alive inside hotels
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She pleaded guilty and was sentenced by a judge. Starmer had f all to do with it. She knows that; the Telegraph knows that.
Well, I suppose she could seek asylum somewhere. More seriously, the political right seems to have gone utterly mad.
www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/08...
www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/08...
Lucy Connolly’s first interview: I was Starmer’s political prisoner
Northampton childminder speaks exclusively to Allison Pearson, the Telegraph journalist who led the campaign for her release
www.telegraph.co.uk
August 22, 2025 at 5:53 PM
She pleaded guilty and was sentenced by a judge. Starmer had f all to do with it. She knows that; the Telegraph knows that.
The utter snobbery of Justin Webb on Today stressing “media studies”.
August 12, 2025 at 7:21 AM
The utter snobbery of Justin Webb on Today stressing “media studies”.
I’m sure this will dominate the news for a week like it did with Labour …
MPs declare over £1m of gifts in one year - from holidays to helicopter rides
www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...
www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...
MPs declare over £1m of gifts in one year - from holidays to helicopter rides
Reform UK leader Nigel Farage declared the highest value, receiving gifts worth a total of £98,709 over the past year - including a £8,413 for a helicopter ride
www.mirror.co.uk
July 3, 2025 at 10:03 PM
I’m sure this will dominate the news for a week like it did with Labour …
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"I get every better every week" says Kemi Badenoch. At what? Finishing fourth?
June 11, 2025 at 11:11 AM
"I get every better every week" says Kemi Badenoch. At what? Finishing fourth?
Laughable amateurism from Emma Barnett on Today who doesn’t understand the difference between Labour MP and government MP
May 22, 2025 at 6:31 AM
Laughable amateurism from Emma Barnett on Today who doesn’t understand the difference between Labour MP and government MP
Note to media interviewers the next time they claim the public don’t want closer ties
May 20, 2025 at 10:35 AM
Note to media interviewers the next time they claim the public don’t want closer ties
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I’m old fashioned enough to think the BBC should be leading on what the deal is and what it means. Rather than the political claims from both sides.
May 19, 2025 at 4:25 PM
I’m old fashioned enough to think the BBC should be leading on what the deal is and what it means. Rather than the political claims from both sides.
Jo Coburn’s introduced discussion of the employer NI increase as the “job’s tax”. The mask slipped!
May 14, 2025 at 11:47 AM
Jo Coburn’s introduced discussion of the employer NI increase as the “job’s tax”. The mask slipped!
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Tory leader Kemi Badenoch complaining about jobs losses whilst simultaneously criticising a trade deal which has saved jobs
#PMQs #PoliticsLive
#PMQs #PoliticsLive
May 14, 2025 at 11:13 AM
Tory leader Kemi Badenoch complaining about jobs losses whilst simultaneously criticising a trade deal which has saved jobs
#PMQs #PoliticsLive
#PMQs #PoliticsLive