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The Reform Party may as well be called "Farage". The Conservatives are a party, Labour are a party. The Greens have been lifted by Polanski but they still have a party identity. I think we are a long way from this with Reform and that leaves a huge vulnerability, and challenge for predicting 2028/29
December 19, 2025 at 12:15 AM
The Reform Party may as well be called "Farage". The Conservatives are a party, Labour are a party. The Greens have been lifted by Polanski but they still have a party identity. I think we are a long way from this with Reform and that leaves a huge vulnerability, and challenge for predicting 2028/29
Not so much throwing out the baby with the bathwater, but blowing up the entire street.
December 15, 2025 at 8:54 AM
Not so much throwing out the baby with the bathwater, but blowing up the entire street.
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Unlike Clarkson, or Sugar, Andrew Neil actually fronted BBC politics programmes, at the same time was the publisher of a right-wing Conservative magazine and freely expressed his very right wing opinions on Twitter.
Not once did he come under pressure to step down
Not once did he come under pressure to step down
December 13, 2025 at 4:49 PM
Unlike Clarkson, or Sugar, Andrew Neil actually fronted BBC politics programmes, at the same time was the publisher of a right-wing Conservative magazine and freely expressed his very right wing opinions on Twitter.
Not once did he come under pressure to step down
Not once did he come under pressure to step down
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Jeremy Clarkson regularly wrote political columns backing the Conservatives and conservative views, was personal friends with David Cameron and called the then Labour Prime Minister a "one-eyed idiot" on air.
Again, not a problem.
Again, not a problem.
December 13, 2025 at 4:47 PM
Jeremy Clarkson regularly wrote political columns backing the Conservatives and conservative views, was personal friends with David Cameron and called the then Labour Prime Minister a "one-eyed idiot" on air.
Again, not a problem.
Again, not a problem.
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A reminder that when Gary Lineker was under fire a couple of years back for criticising the Conservatives while a BBC presenter, the channel said, by contrast, it was fine for Lord Sugar to repeatedly endorse the Tories because he was "free to say, as a business person, what he wants to say."
December 13, 2025 at 4:40 PM
A reminder that when Gary Lineker was under fire a couple of years back for criticising the Conservatives while a BBC presenter, the channel said, by contrast, it was fine for Lord Sugar to repeatedly endorse the Tories because he was "free to say, as a business person, what he wants to say."
I wasn't saying he was fine on this issue, I was saying I'd had a quick look and hadn't seen anything either way but I HAD seen something for the other BC (ie quite the opposite of me confusing the 2), hence me asking for some context, which you have given.
December 13, 2025 at 2:48 PM
I wasn't saying he was fine on this issue, I was saying I'd had a quick look and hadn't seen anything either way but I HAD seen something for the other BC (ie quite the opposite of me confusing the 2), hence me asking for some context, which you have given.
No I didn't! I was answering the first paragraph of your post
December 13, 2025 at 2:42 PM
No I didn't! I was answering the first paragraph of your post
I'm not confusing them, that was my point, that the only thing that I could find that could be linked even tangentially to anti trans for BC turned out to be the actor
December 13, 2025 at 2:32 PM
I'm not confusing them, that was my point, that the only thing that I could find that could be linked even tangentially to anti trans for BC turned out to be the actor
OK. Is there some context to this? I have read about BC supporting JKR but think that was the other BC.
December 13, 2025 at 2:14 PM
OK. Is there some context to this? I have read about BC supporting JKR but think that was the other BC.
All very sad. 2 thoughts. Firstly it's a pity BC didn't do an Ian Wright. Secondly I bet you, unlike Linehan won't be invited on the Liz Truss show to speak about being cancelled.
December 13, 2025 at 1:07 PM
All very sad. 2 thoughts. Firstly it's a pity BC didn't do an Ian Wright. Secondly I bet you, unlike Linehan won't be invited on the Liz Truss show to speak about being cancelled.
Pity Cox didn't do an Ian Wright
December 13, 2025 at 12:39 PM
Pity Cox didn't do an Ian Wright
But will she stick to that position?
December 11, 2025 at 12:45 AM
But will she stick to that position?
Bonnie Blue writing in The Spectator about "sensible positions". The comedy writes itself.
December 11, 2025 at 12:14 AM
Bonnie Blue writing in The Spectator about "sensible positions". The comedy writes itself.
In this whole discussion around immigration and asylum the sad reality is that the likes of the Tories and Reform and increasingly Labour are trying to appeal to a voter who has a particular person in their mind's eye and that person would not be a white person.
December 8, 2025 at 11:51 PM
In this whole discussion around immigration and asylum the sad reality is that the likes of the Tories and Reform and increasingly Labour are trying to appeal to a voter who has a particular person in their mind's eye and that person would not be a white person.
Robbie Gibb with his Chris Mason love in comments seems to have triggered first Mason and now her to write editorials of their views rather than actual analysis
December 7, 2025 at 9:30 AM
Robbie Gibb with his Chris Mason love in comments seems to have triggered first Mason and now her to write editorials of their views rather than actual analysis
She's in an all out battle with Chris Mason for the Robbie Gibb's favourite BBC journalist award.
December 6, 2025 at 9:33 PM
She's in an all out battle with Chris Mason for the Robbie Gibb's favourite BBC journalist award.
It's like when you're 3 and it's your older sibling's birthday and your Mummy and Daddy wrap a little present for you too to shut you up.... except a literal country elected you as the most powerful man in the world
December 5, 2025 at 5:35 PM
It's like when you're 3 and it's your older sibling's birthday and your Mummy and Daddy wrap a little present for you too to shut you up.... except a literal country elected you as the most powerful man in the world
Infantino and The Infant.
December 5, 2025 at 5:31 PM
Infantino and The Infant.
Try checking out on there too! It's liberating
December 5, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Try checking out on there too! It's liberating
On the clip I think ZP was stretching it beyond breaking to describe the people he said he was listening to as "brilliant economists a whole range of economists". Just because I prefer the left morality and integrity wise doesn't mean I'm happy when they do the equivelant of the Minford brexit thing
December 5, 2025 at 4:06 PM
On the clip I think ZP was stretching it beyond breaking to describe the people he said he was listening to as "brilliant economists a whole range of economists". Just because I prefer the left morality and integrity wise doesn't mean I'm happy when they do the equivelant of the Minford brexit thing