@spbluebell.bsky.social
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It’s worth saying No10 has also cancelled lobby briefing today - so a limited number of journalists will get a question at the press conference. But by cancelling lobby there is no briefing with officials where any member of the media can ask qs for as long as necessary. Deeply unsatisfactory.
It's not the biggest issue today, but this statement should be given in Parliament.
This isn't fuddy-duddyism. It allows MPs to ask questions, puts other parties on the record, and, most importantly, doesn't allow a PM to pick the audience: a power that Starmer does not abuse, but future PMs will.
This isn't fuddy-duddyism. It allows MPs to ask questions, puts other parties on the record, and, most importantly, doesn't allow a PM to pick the audience: a power that Starmer does not abuse, but future PMs will.
January 19, 2026 at 9:13 AM
It’s worth saying No10 has also cancelled lobby briefing today - so a limited number of journalists will get a question at the press conference. But by cancelling lobby there is no briefing with officials where any member of the media can ask qs for as long as necessary. Deeply unsatisfactory.
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Ed Davey, "We've got to stand up to Trump"
"He's a bully"
"Invading Greenland would end NATO"
"If it ends in an economic war it would further his the cost of living"
"I hope Starmer stands up firm against Trump in a way he has not done hitherto"
"The US policy Starmer has had is in tatters"
"He's a bully"
"Invading Greenland would end NATO"
"If it ends in an economic war it would further his the cost of living"
"I hope Starmer stands up firm against Trump in a way he has not done hitherto"
"The US policy Starmer has had is in tatters"
January 19, 2026 at 8:49 AM
Ed Davey, "We've got to stand up to Trump"
"He's a bully"
"Invading Greenland would end NATO"
"If it ends in an economic war it would further his the cost of living"
"I hope Starmer stands up firm against Trump in a way he has not done hitherto"
"The US policy Starmer has had is in tatters"
"He's a bully"
"Invading Greenland would end NATO"
"If it ends in an economic war it would further his the cost of living"
"I hope Starmer stands up firm against Trump in a way he has not done hitherto"
"The US policy Starmer has had is in tatters"
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Birdsong, clean rivers, wildlife in our gardens and green spaces all hang in the balance.
We need action now: properly funded protected sites, more high-quality nature-friendly farming and delivery at a scale that will reverse the decline.
Time to deliver.
(2/2)
We need action now: properly funded protected sites, more high-quality nature-friendly farming and delivery at a scale that will reverse the decline.
Time to deliver.
(2/2)
January 13, 2026 at 3:15 PM
Birdsong, clean rivers, wildlife in our gardens and green spaces all hang in the balance.
We need action now: properly funded protected sites, more high-quality nature-friendly farming and delivery at a scale that will reverse the decline.
Time to deliver.
(2/2)
We need action now: properly funded protected sites, more high-quality nature-friendly farming and delivery at a scale that will reverse the decline.
Time to deliver.
(2/2)
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Farage gets all defensive and flappy when Zahawi is asked about vaccines.
- "We believe in free speech."
- "I was asking Mr Zahawi."
- "He wouldn't know the answer."
Ah yes. The sort of 'free speech' that Trump's White House believes in. ~AA
- "We believe in free speech."
- "I was asking Mr Zahawi."
- "He wouldn't know the answer."
Ah yes. The sort of 'free speech' that Trump's White House believes in. ~AA
January 12, 2026 at 12:38 PM
Farage gets all defensive and flappy when Zahawi is asked about vaccines.
- "We believe in free speech."
- "I was asking Mr Zahawi."
- "He wouldn't know the answer."
Ah yes. The sort of 'free speech' that Trump's White House believes in. ~AA
- "We believe in free speech."
- "I was asking Mr Zahawi."
- "He wouldn't know the answer."
Ah yes. The sort of 'free speech' that Trump's White House believes in. ~AA
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Reform UK, which says it represents “change” from Conservative failures, has so far accepted defections from:
- A disgraced Tory minister sacked for tax-dodging
- Disgraced Tory vice chairman suspended for racism
- Disgraced former minister suspended for abandoning constituents for a reality TV gig
- A disgraced Tory minister sacked for tax-dodging
- Disgraced Tory vice chairman suspended for racism
- Disgraced former minister suspended for abandoning constituents for a reality TV gig
January 12, 2026 at 12:45 PM
Reform UK, which says it represents “change” from Conservative failures, has so far accepted defections from:
- A disgraced Tory minister sacked for tax-dodging
- Disgraced Tory vice chairman suspended for racism
- Disgraced former minister suspended for abandoning constituents for a reality TV gig
- A disgraced Tory minister sacked for tax-dodging
- Disgraced Tory vice chairman suspended for racism
- Disgraced former minister suspended for abandoning constituents for a reality TV gig
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Preventing the sharing of sexualised images of children is “censorship” according to Elon Musk.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Musk says X outcry is 'excuse for censorship'
The government is urging Ofcom to use all its powers – up to and including an effective ban – against X.
www.bbc.co.uk
January 10, 2026 at 5:51 AM
Preventing the sharing of sexualised images of children is “censorship” according to Elon Musk.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Farage has declared £9,663 in total payments from X, Tice has earned £5,770, and Lee Anderson £3,871. They are the only MPs who have declared payments from the social media website apart from Rupert Lowe (ex Reform) who has earned £40,000 from posting on X since his election last year.
January 9, 2026 at 10:13 PM
Farage has declared £9,663 in total payments from X, Tice has earned £5,770, and Lee Anderson £3,871. They are the only MPs who have declared payments from the social media website apart from Rupert Lowe (ex Reform) who has earned £40,000 from posting on X since his election last year.
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If a new app was produced which had, as its core features, the generation of sexual deep fake images of children and calls for a violent global far-right revolution, then not only would it be swiftly banned, but you wouldn't have a single mainstream politician willing to associate themselves with it
January 9, 2026 at 10:30 AM
If a new app was produced which had, as its core features, the generation of sexual deep fake images of children and calls for a violent global far-right revolution, then not only would it be swiftly banned, but you wouldn't have a single mainstream politician willing to associate themselves with it
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Make this go viral.
Labour MP Louise Haigh.
Labour MP Louise Haigh.
I call on my party and my government to remove themselves entirely from X and communicate with the public where they actually participate online and can be protected from such illegality.
January 8, 2026 at 1:00 PM
Make this go viral.
Labour MP Louise Haigh.
Labour MP Louise Haigh.
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This Government has no moral authority left to protect. But still, this is an agonising read from the great @georgemonbiot.bsky.social.
Let’s be clear: if the Palestine Action hunger strikers die, the government will bear moral responsibility | George Monbiot
The three remaining hunger strikers have been convicted of nothing. Yet with astonishing cruelty, ministers refuse to listen to their reasonable demands, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
www.theguardian.com
January 7, 2026 at 12:38 PM
This Government has no moral authority left to protect. But still, this is an agonising read from the great @georgemonbiot.bsky.social.
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Fujitsu ‘not a parasite’, boss says while refusing to give redress figure for Horizon IT scandal victims.
It lied. Enabled the Post Office to convict innocent postmasters, boosted exec pay.
Public purse has paid £1.32bn compensation. Zero contribution from Fujitsu. Still gets govt contracts.
It lied. Enabled the Post Office to convict innocent postmasters, boosted exec pay.
Public purse has paid £1.32bn compensation. Zero contribution from Fujitsu. Still gets govt contracts.
Fujitsu ‘not a parasite’, boss says while refusing to give redress figure for Horizon IT scandal victims
Paul Patterson questioned by MPs as firm continues to make millions from UK government contracts
www.theguardian.com
January 7, 2026 at 10:26 AM
Fujitsu ‘not a parasite’, boss says while refusing to give redress figure for Horizon IT scandal victims.
It lied. Enabled the Post Office to convict innocent postmasters, boosted exec pay.
Public purse has paid £1.32bn compensation. Zero contribution from Fujitsu. Still gets govt contracts.
It lied. Enabled the Post Office to convict innocent postmasters, boosted exec pay.
Public purse has paid £1.32bn compensation. Zero contribution from Fujitsu. Still gets govt contracts.
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🔴Boris Johnson’s Radon Gas Filled Prison Deal to Cost Taxpayers £100 Million
The full costs of the botched agreement to lease an unusable prison filled with poisonous gas from the Duchy of Cornwall, revealed for the first time
bylinetimes.com/2026/01/07/b...
The full costs of the botched agreement to lease an unusable prison filled with poisonous gas from the Duchy of Cornwall, revealed for the first time
bylinetimes.com/2026/01/07/b...
Boris Johnson's Radon Gas Filled Prison Deal to Cost Taxpayers £100 Million
The full costs of the botched agreement to lease an unusable prison filled with poisonous gas from the Duchy of Cornwall, revealed for the first time
bylinetimes.com
January 7, 2026 at 8:12 AM
🔴Boris Johnson’s Radon Gas Filled Prison Deal to Cost Taxpayers £100 Million
The full costs of the botched agreement to lease an unusable prison filled with poisonous gas from the Duchy of Cornwall, revealed for the first time
bylinetimes.com/2026/01/07/b...
The full costs of the botched agreement to lease an unusable prison filled with poisonous gas from the Duchy of Cornwall, revealed for the first time
bylinetimes.com/2026/01/07/b...
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If the Palestine Action hunger strikers die - which they could do at any moment, as they are now very close to the end - it will be the government that killed them. Today’s column explains why. Please share, and write urgently to your MP.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Let’s be clear: if the Palestine Action hunger strikers die, the government will bear moral responsibility | George Monbiot
The three remaining hunger strikers have been convicted of nothing. Yet with astonishing cruelty, ministers refuse to listen to their reasonable demands, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
www.theguardian.com
January 7, 2026 at 8:07 AM
If the Palestine Action hunger strikers die - which they could do at any moment, as they are now very close to the end - it will be the government that killed them. Today’s column explains why. Please share, and write urgently to your MP.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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I knew Tory ministers could be cruel, unfeeling bastards. But the insouciance, even mockery, by Labour ministers towards people convicted of no crime, who are at imminent risk of death as a result of an unconscionable period on remand is on another level altogether. They are revelling in it.
January 7, 2026 at 8:14 AM
I knew Tory ministers could be cruel, unfeeling bastards. But the insouciance, even mockery, by Labour ministers towards people convicted of no crime, who are at imminent risk of death as a result of an unconscionable period on remand is on another level altogether. They are revelling in it.
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Well spotted on the date.
In his emails to Epstein in mid November 2018 Bannon claims to have met up with Rees Mogg, Farage and Boris Johnson to keep Brexit on track and defeat Theresa May. Farage denies this…. And yet….
bylinetimes.com/2025/11/19/d...
In his emails to Epstein in mid November 2018 Bannon claims to have met up with Rees Mogg, Farage and Boris Johnson to keep Brexit on track and defeat Theresa May. Farage denies this…. And yet….
bylinetimes.com/2025/11/19/d...
NTM Farage & Johnson & Johnson & Bannon.
Bannon: ‘He (#LiarJohnson) flew right over after WE👈👈won”
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019...
Bannon: ‘He (#LiarJohnson) flew right over after WE👈👈won”
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019...
January 2, 2026 at 8:54 AM
Well spotted on the date.
In his emails to Epstein in mid November 2018 Bannon claims to have met up with Rees Mogg, Farage and Boris Johnson to keep Brexit on track and defeat Theresa May. Farage denies this…. And yet….
bylinetimes.com/2025/11/19/d...
In his emails to Epstein in mid November 2018 Bannon claims to have met up with Rees Mogg, Farage and Boris Johnson to keep Brexit on track and defeat Theresa May. Farage denies this…. And yet….
bylinetimes.com/2025/11/19/d...
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“The idea that squeezing a tiny elite of billionaires will pay for everything is fantasy and we do need to expose that.”
Good job no one’s ever actually said that - including me.
So why is Labour again repeatedly lying to avoid taxing the super-rich?
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Good job no one’s ever actually said that - including me.
So why is Labour again repeatedly lying to avoid taxing the super-rich?
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Zack Polanski offering voters fantasy solutions, says head of Fabian Society
Joe Dromey, head of the Labour thinktank, urges his party to take on the ‘twin populisms’ of Reform UK and the Greens
www.theguardian.com
December 31, 2025 at 9:20 AM
“The idea that squeezing a tiny elite of billionaires will pay for everything is fantasy and we do need to expose that.”
Good job no one’s ever actually said that - including me.
So why is Labour again repeatedly lying to avoid taxing the super-rich?
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Good job no one’s ever actually said that - including me.
So why is Labour again repeatedly lying to avoid taxing the super-rich?
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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December 25, 2025 at 2:50 PM
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Ciaran Jenkins and I have recorded another Channel 4 News/BBC News long-distance musical collaboration for Christmas. This year we play The Coventry Carol. To all who are celebrating, wishing you a happy, peaceful Christmas.
For Christmas, a BBC/Channel 4 collaboration: The Coventry Carol
YouTube video by Steve Rosenberg
youtu.be
December 24, 2025 at 7:09 PM
Ciaran Jenkins and I have recorded another Channel 4 News/BBC News long-distance musical collaboration for Christmas. This year we play The Coventry Carol. To all who are celebrating, wishing you a happy, peaceful Christmas.
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Lunatic spouts kindness
Right wing press having a real normal one about this Christmas Day message.
Does anyone think we should be spending £476m on cruelty towards vulnerable people?
Watch it live at 3pm:
youtu.be/lopMMkz0law?...
Does anyone think we should be spending £476m on cruelty towards vulnerable people?
Watch it live at 3pm:
youtu.be/lopMMkz0law?...
December 24, 2025 at 6:05 PM
Lunatic spouts kindness
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The Government Media Office in the Gaza Strip reports that Israeli forces have committed 875 violations over 74 days of the ceasefire, killing 411 Palestinians and injuring 1,112 as they also arrested 45 people.
December 23, 2025 at 9:07 PM
The Government Media Office in the Gaza Strip reports that Israeli forces have committed 875 violations over 74 days of the ceasefire, killing 411 Palestinians and injuring 1,112 as they also arrested 45 people.
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There are those driven by love and those driven by hate - sadly, the base simplicity of hate means it is platformed so often because it travels fast and thoughtlessly, thankfully I know far more people who have the courage and strength to be driven by love
December 23, 2025 at 6:36 PM
There are those driven by love and those driven by hate - sadly, the base simplicity of hate means it is platformed so often because it travels fast and thoughtlessly, thankfully I know far more people who have the courage and strength to be driven by love
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And here are my workings. By running those hopeless stories about criminality, the British media made a positive choice to mislead its audiences.
Not entirely clear to me what offence the artist in Bob Vylan might have committed.
The obvious candidate is section 44 Serious Crime Act 2007 but he would say it was an expression of anger and he wasn't seriously encouraging people to go to Israel and kill members of the IDF. /1
The obvious candidate is section 44 Serious Crime Act 2007 but he would say it was an expression of anger and he wasn't seriously encouraging people to go to Israel and kill members of the IDF. /1
December 23, 2025 at 5:59 PM
And here are my workings. By running those hopeless stories about criminality, the British media made a positive choice to mislead its audiences.
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Greta Thunberg arrested for holding a sign opposing genocide.
When peaceful protest is a crime, democracy is in deep trouble.
Happening under a Labour Government.
When peaceful protest is a crime, democracy is in deep trouble.
Happening under a Labour Government.
🚨BREAKING: GRETA THUNBERG ARRESTED UNDER TERRORISM ACT FOR SUPPORTING 'PALESTINE ACTION PRISONERS'
December 23, 2025 at 11:20 AM
Greta Thunberg arrested for holding a sign opposing genocide.
When peaceful protest is a crime, democracy is in deep trouble.
Happening under a Labour Government.
When peaceful protest is a crime, democracy is in deep trouble.
Happening under a Labour Government.
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The UK Government is unlikely to see most of the £148m it is owed by a faulty PPE supplier linked to Baroness Michelle Mone after the company was wound up.
Who saw that coming?
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Who saw that coming?
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Michelle Mone-linked PPE firm liquidated and unlikely to repay £148m
The firm led by Baroness Mone's husband Douglas Barrowman breached a contract to supply surgical gowns during the Covid pandemic.
www.bbc.co.uk
December 21, 2025 at 1:07 PM
The UK Government is unlikely to see most of the £148m it is owed by a faulty PPE supplier linked to Baroness Michelle Mone after the company was wound up.
Who saw that coming?
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Who saw that coming?
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...