Surprised this hasn’t received more pushback because it’s a bit of a mad comment from someone who’s apparently angling to be PM.
Missed this. Green Party leader Zack Polanksi explained on BBC Question Time why he was in favour of high immigration. “I don’t know about you, but I don’t particularly want to wipe someone’s bum”. Says a lot about Mr Polanski.
December 11, 2025 at 4:49 PM
Surprised this hasn’t received more pushback because it’s a bit of a mad comment from someone who’s apparently angling to be PM.
Desperately want to experience even a quarter of the excitement of the turn-of-the-Millennium C5 exec who signed this deal, confident that the sun shall never set on the Home & Away Age
Reminder that Channel 5 acquired the rights to Home & Away in 2000 by agreeing to an extraordinary lifetime deal with the Seven Network in Australia meaning they are locked into a contractual obligation to keep paying for Home & Away for as long as it exists.
First Neighbours, now Home & Away.
Australian soap reportedly moving to 5Star, and won't be shown on Channel 5
www.backtothebay.net/news/2025/12...
Australian soap reportedly moving to 5Star, and won't be shown on Channel 5
www.backtothebay.net/news/2025/12...
December 8, 2025 at 8:41 PM
Desperately want to experience even a quarter of the excitement of the turn-of-the-Millennium C5 exec who signed this deal, confident that the sun shall never set on the Home & Away Age
Public finances are tight but is there any chance of anyone over the age of 45 carrying a bit of the load, ever?
Young people risk losing benefits under UK welfare reforms on.ft.com/3YcIvA1
Young people risk losing benefits under UK welfare reforms
Youths must accept offers of work or training as part of government programme, says McFadden
on.ft.com
December 7, 2025 at 11:58 AM
Public finances are tight but is there any chance of anyone over the age of 45 carrying a bit of the load, ever?
Can’t believe them three billy goat slags crossed that bridge still freaks my nut out to this day
Danny Dyer is doing a CBeebies Bedtime story.
“F**king hell, this opportunity is f**ing mad” Dyer said (this is a joke)
“F**king hell, this opportunity is f**ing mad” Dyer said (this is a joke)
December 5, 2025 at 12:08 PM
Can’t believe them three billy goat slags crossed that bridge still freaks my nut out to this day
This is quite unhinged, not least because Farage keeps calling them his “alleged” remarks when he’s already admitted that he said them (including earlier in this press conference)
December 4, 2025 at 4:13 PM
This is quite unhinged, not least because Farage keeps calling them his “alleged” remarks when he’s already admitted that he said them (including earlier in this press conference)
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Relatedly, one of the most tedious things people do is go 'wow. How profound. My pre-school child, who I literally taught to speak and whose brain is a highly powerful and retentive sponge, has paraphrased my politics back at me in a cute way'. I mean, no kidding.
What exactly is the end game here? Fail at banking, fail at being a business guru, try to become fixture of right wing think tank set?
Finally home after > 27 hours of grindset creating shareholder value through AI agentic workflow and guiding a warrior-ethos meditation during my ketamine break.
My 8 year old dog: "Do you have to slay so hard because the villain misrepresented an OBR analysis to Parliament?"
Me: "Bitcoin."
My 8 year old dog: "Do you have to slay so hard because the villain misrepresented an OBR analysis to Parliament?"
Me: "Bitcoin."
December 4, 2025 at 1:27 PM
Relatedly, one of the most tedious things people do is go 'wow. How profound. My pre-school child, who I literally taught to speak and whose brain is a highly powerful and retentive sponge, has paraphrased my politics back at me in a cute way'. I mean, no kidding.
Look we’ve had podcasts from the serial killer-obsessives, from the deranged and the fame-hungry, from the people who can’t get any other media job, why not let the UK’s shortest serving PM and perhaps our weirdest ever politician have a crack.
New: Liz Truss will tomorrow premiere the first episode of The Liz Truss Show.
Billed as "A bold new programme in a media landscape dominated by groupthink and timid consensus".
Truss: "The Deep State tried to destroy me but now I'm back and excited to launch this show."
Billed as "A bold new programme in a media landscape dominated by groupthink and timid consensus".
Truss: "The Deep State tried to destroy me but now I'm back and excited to launch this show."
December 4, 2025 at 2:14 PM
Look we’ve had podcasts from the serial killer-obsessives, from the deranged and the fame-hungry, from the people who can’t get any other media job, why not let the UK’s shortest serving PM and perhaps our weirdest ever politician have a crack.
Is this the face of someone hearing good policy
December 2, 2025 at 8:57 AM
Is this the face of someone hearing good policy
How does this fit with his ‘I’ll do 10 films then I’m out’ approach
Quentin Tarantino says he's interested in doing a 'Kill Bill' prequel project
It would focus on Bill and the three Godfathers that made him
"Will I live long enough to do that?... That remains to be seen”
It would focus on Bill and the three Godfathers that made him
"Will I live long enough to do that?... That remains to be seen”
December 2, 2025 at 8:54 AM
How does this fit with his ‘I’ll do 10 films then I’m out’ approach
As in ‘let’s confirm wtf is wrong with this guy’s brain to prevent us all from speculating’
December 1, 2025 at 6:59 PM
As in ‘let’s confirm wtf is wrong with this guy’s brain to prevent us all from speculating’
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There is an actual interesting little deceit in the budget, namely ther have the OBR still forecasting based on increasing net immigration back to 300-350k whilst the Home Secretary is promising to bring it down from 200k, which does dissolve about half the headroom, but somehow we're doing vibes.
Think this is exactly right - political journalism that is completely abstracted from policy, which was not the norm before 2017, has become the default. Impossible to have a serious attempt to either shrink what the state does or widen the tax base (have to do at least one) on that basis.
All this budget news, claims, counter claims is confusing, but two things of consequence.
1. We're all talking about that, not any financial benefits (or losses) of the budget.
2. Yet more focus on the very weird few weeks and politics of it all. Starting to feel dangerously like a norm.
1. We're all talking about that, not any financial benefits (or losses) of the budget.
2. Yet more focus on the very weird few weeks and politics of it all. Starting to feel dangerously like a norm.
December 1, 2025 at 1:38 PM
There is an actual interesting little deceit in the budget, namely ther have the OBR still forecasting based on increasing net immigration back to 300-350k whilst the Home Secretary is promising to bring it down from 200k, which does dissolve about half the headroom, but somehow we're doing vibes.
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No that's not *your* on *our behalf*. Your job is to report the story, presenting all sides fairly and then *we* call it. What Mason is saying here is fundamentally not what the bbc is for!
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
December 1, 2025 at 11:29 AM
No that's not *your* on *our behalf*. Your job is to report the story, presenting all sides fairly and then *we* call it. What Mason is saying here is fundamentally not what the bbc is for!
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Hadn’t realised until this conference quite how many poisonous, incapable or just downright bonkers Left figures Your Party has helped to siphon off for the Greens. Polanski must be thanking his lucky stars.
Former Labour MP Claudia Webb is announcing the results of voting at YP conference. She was expelled from Labour after being convicted of harassment.
November 30, 2025 at 11:15 AM
Hadn’t realised until this conference quite how many poisonous, incapable or just downright bonkers Left figures Your Party has helped to siphon off for the Greens. Polanski must be thanking his lucky stars.
Our process has been dogged by power struggles and petty squabbles, but that should all stop once we’re led by committee
November 28, 2025 at 6:58 AM
Our process has been dogged by power struggles and petty squabbles, but that should all stop once we’re led by committee
If license fee money is used to pay Trump then shut down the BBC because what is the point
I might be wrong, but this stinks of Pharage involvement.
November 11, 2025 at 9:52 AM
If license fee money is used to pay Trump then shut down the BBC because what is the point
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The presentation here of the country’s fiscal problems as being something the chancellor ought to solve personally without bothering anyone else is so odd as to make me question why these people want to cover politics for a living.
“Don’t try to make me feel it’s my job to help you out of your problem - that’s just wrong.”
Rachel Reeves urges the public to “do their bit” ahead of a Budget widely expected to include manifesto-breaking tax rises.
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Rachel Reeves urges the public to “do their bit” ahead of a Budget widely expected to include manifesto-breaking tax rises.
@maitlis.bsky.social | @jonsopel1.bsky.social
November 6, 2025 at 6:50 AM
The presentation here of the country’s fiscal problems as being something the chancellor ought to solve personally without bothering anyone else is so odd as to make me question why these people want to cover politics for a living.
Love to open The Times and see the latest PR push by a gambling industry resistant to paying more tax while it rips wages out of communities.
November 2, 2025 at 9:38 AM
Love to open The Times and see the latest PR push by a gambling industry resistant to paying more tax while it rips wages out of communities.
October 23, 2025 at 8:33 PM
October 22, 2025 at 8:55 PM
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The fact that this is even seriously discussed, by frontbench politicians and in mainstream publications, shows that something fundamental has broken in UK politics. All those who look at Germany with horrified faces because of the rise of the AfD, kindly take a look in the mirror.
October 22, 2025 at 8:45 AM
The fact that this is even seriously discussed, by frontbench politicians and in mainstream publications, shows that something fundamental has broken in UK politics. All those who look at Germany with horrified faces because of the rise of the AfD, kindly take a look in the mirror.
I mean not *all* the men and women worked together during the week. Some did, some had other jobs. For instance, Robert Jenrick’s dad was Managing Director at Cannon Industries.
Jenrick casting 1980s British football hooliganism as something that was easily dealt with by police and not an era defining issue which we're still living with the consequences of today... He's genuinely the most unserious person in British politics rn
October 17, 2025 at 6:46 PM
I mean not *all* the men and women worked together during the week. Some did, some had other jobs. For instance, Robert Jenrick’s dad was Managing Director at Cannon Industries.
If the UK had any sense it would be rolling out the red carpet for every American scientist. But a substantial part of that would involve fixing our HE sector, so
RFK Jr: We need to stop trusting the experts... Trusting the experts is not a feature of science or democracy, it's a feature of religion and totalitarianism.
October 16, 2025 at 10:54 PM
If the UK had any sense it would be rolling out the red carpet for every American scientist. But a substantial part of that would involve fixing our HE sector, so
Reform has 5 MPs and 4 of them are among Parliament’s highest earners. Party of the people.
October 9, 2025 at 7:24 AM
Reform has 5 MPs and 4 of them are among Parliament’s highest earners. Party of the people.