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Yinka Bankole was 12 when Farage spotted him in the playground:
“He towered over me. ‘Where are you from?’ he asked. Within seconds of offering my rather confused and sputtering answers, he had a clear response: ‘That’s the way back to Africa,’.”
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
“He towered over me. ‘Where are you from?’ he asked. Within seconds of offering my rather confused and sputtering answers, he had a clear response: ‘That’s the way back to Africa,’.”
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Former Dulwich pupil says Farage told him: ‘That’s the way back to Africa’
Exclusive: Yinka Bankole says he felt compelled to speak out after Reform leader’s attempts to ‘dismiss’ hurt of alleged targets
www.theguardian.com
December 6, 2025 at 8:58 PM
Yinka Bankole was 12 when Farage spotted him in the playground:
“He towered over me. ‘Where are you from?’ he asked. Within seconds of offering my rather confused and sputtering answers, he had a clear response: ‘That’s the way back to Africa,’.”
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
“He towered over me. ‘Where are you from?’ he asked. Within seconds of offering my rather confused and sputtering answers, he had a clear response: ‘That’s the way back to Africa,’.”
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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This little boy was 9, Farage was 17. The epitome of a school bully.
"'Where are you from?’ he asked. Within seconds of offering my rather confused and sputtering answers, he had a clear response: ‘That’s the way back to Africa,’ with an accompanying hand gesture pointing towards a place far away."
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Former Dulwich pupil says Farage told him: ‘That’s the way back to Africa’
Exclusive: Yinka Bankole says he felt compelled to speak out after Reform leader’s attempts to ‘dismiss’ hurt of alleged targets
www.theguardian.com
December 6, 2025 at 8:24 AM
This little boy was 9, Farage was 17. The epitome of a school bully.
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“Farage has suggested that it’s inconceivable that anyone could recall such events of more than four decades ago. I would simply ask: can a victim of such abuse ever forget?…I recognise his walk every time I see it on TV as that same walk that used to approach me”
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
I’ll never forget the look of hatred Nigel Farage had for me at school, simply for existing
The Reform UK leader doubts people can recall their abuse from years ago. I’ve never forgotten his – it felt malicious
www.theguardian.com
December 6, 2025 at 6:52 AM
“Farage has suggested that it’s inconceivable that anyone could recall such events of more than four decades ago. I would simply ask: can a victim of such abuse ever forget?…I recognise his walk every time I see it on TV as that same walk that used to approach me”
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Labour MP’s video explaining UK debt with biscuits racks up 3.3m views
Labour MP’s video explaining UK debt with biscuits racks up 3.3m views
Glasgow South MP Gordon McKee leading trend as politicians find traditional ways to reach voters no longer work
www.theguardian.com
December 5, 2025 at 7:01 AM
Labour MP’s video explaining UK debt with biscuits racks up 3.3m views
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The point is THEY CANCELLED IT Nigel... FORTY FIVE YEARS AGO.... remember mate this is the sort of stuff you get angry about...
December 4, 2025 at 6:00 PM
The point is THEY CANCELLED IT Nigel... FORTY FIVE YEARS AGO.... remember mate this is the sort of stuff you get angry about...
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The Chancellor delivered a ‘tax & SAVE’ Budget
This Budget didn't just restore headroom (eroded by forecast deterioration &policy U-turns), it more than doubled it.
New welfare decisions (pink bars) represent a tiny fraction of spending decisions made this Parliament.
This Budget didn't just restore headroom (eroded by forecast deterioration &policy U-turns), it more than doubled it.
New welfare decisions (pink bars) represent a tiny fraction of spending decisions made this Parliament.
December 3, 2025 at 3:33 PM
The Chancellor delivered a ‘tax & SAVE’ Budget
This Budget didn't just restore headroom (eroded by forecast deterioration &policy U-turns), it more than doubled it.
New welfare decisions (pink bars) represent a tiny fraction of spending decisions made this Parliament.
This Budget didn't just restore headroom (eroded by forecast deterioration &policy U-turns), it more than doubled it.
New welfare decisions (pink bars) represent a tiny fraction of spending decisions made this Parliament.
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December 3, 2025 at 3:33 PM
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Pleased to discover that slightly misnaming the national chess championship you won as a school child is a much more serious offence than repeatedly racially abusing your fellow pupils and telling them they should go to the gas chamber
December 3, 2025 at 1:15 PM
Pleased to discover that slightly misnaming the national chess championship you won as a school child is a much more serious offence than repeatedly racially abusing your fellow pupils and telling them they should go to the gas chamber
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Truly shocking that Rachel Reeves had the audacity to call herself the U14 girls chess champions when she won the U14 girls chess championship but some bloke thought she was talking about something else.
December 3, 2025 at 12:41 PM
Truly shocking that Rachel Reeves had the audacity to call herself the U14 girls chess champions when she won the U14 girls chess championship but some bloke thought she was talking about something else.
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Clarity is kindness! As many others have already said, this is well worth a read. More case-making threads please from politicians of all parties. Let's debate substance.
Rightly lots of debates about growth this weekend - rightly because it was low productivity growth that saw wages entirely flatline during the 2010s.
December 1, 2025 at 9:52 AM
Clarity is kindness! As many others have already said, this is well worth a read. More case-making threads please from politicians of all parties. Let's debate substance.
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Excellent thread on what it takes to increase economic growth and what the govt are doing about it
Rightly lots of debates about growth this weekend - rightly because it was low productivity growth that saw wages entirely flatline during the 2010s.
December 1, 2025 at 12:48 PM
Excellent thread on what it takes to increase economic growth and what the govt are doing about it
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I wonder if it's time to retire the role of "political editor" altogether
Return most of the coverage to the Economics Editor, the Health Editor, the Home Affairs team & so on.
Leave the "who-said-what-to-whom" & "what-does-it-mean-for-the-polls" to others. The BBC doesn't need to foreground this.
Return most of the coverage to the Economics Editor, the Health Editor, the Home Affairs team & so on.
Leave the "who-said-what-to-whom" & "what-does-it-mean-for-the-polls" to others. The BBC doesn't need to foreground this.
Watched BBC 6 o clock news. Just a completely unserious broadcast. Chris Mason, acting like a children's entertainer, giving a prolonged impenetrable editorial. Not a whiff of informative content about the Budget or what it means for the country. Just playschool blah blah bollocks.
December 1, 2025 at 10:17 PM
I wonder if it's time to retire the role of "political editor" altogether
Return most of the coverage to the Economics Editor, the Health Editor, the Home Affairs team & so on.
Leave the "who-said-what-to-whom" & "what-does-it-mean-for-the-polls" to others. The BBC doesn't need to foreground this.
Return most of the coverage to the Economics Editor, the Health Editor, the Home Affairs team & so on.
Leave the "who-said-what-to-whom" & "what-does-it-mean-for-the-polls" to others. The BBC doesn't need to foreground this.
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Watched BBC 6 o clock news. Just a completely unserious broadcast. Chris Mason, acting like a children's entertainer, giving a prolonged impenetrable editorial. Not a whiff of informative content about the Budget or what it means for the country. Just playschool blah blah bollocks.
December 1, 2025 at 6:28 PM
Watched BBC 6 o clock news. Just a completely unserious broadcast. Chris Mason, acting like a children's entertainer, giving a prolonged impenetrable editorial. Not a whiff of informative content about the Budget or what it means for the country. Just playschool blah blah bollocks.
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The more I think about it, the more bizarre I find the accusation that the Chancellor deliberately exaggerated the dire state of the finances in order to justify tax rises. The extent to which there is 'exaggeration' means more for fiscal headroom, which is what everyone wanted her to pursue 1/
December 1, 2025 at 10:18 PM
The more I think about it, the more bizarre I find the accusation that the Chancellor deliberately exaggerated the dire state of the finances in order to justify tax rises. The extent to which there is 'exaggeration' means more for fiscal headroom, which is what everyone wanted her to pursue 1/
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🔥 Highly recommended that you all sign and share.
Link to the petition—> petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...
Link to the petition—> petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...
November 26, 2025 at 8:55 AM
🔥 Highly recommended that you all sign and share.
Link to the petition—> petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...
Link to the petition—> petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...
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This is one of the big accounts boosting Tommy Robinson, Farage and Reform and ‘English Patriots’.
It’s Russian.
It’s Russian.
November 24, 2025 at 9:29 AM
This is one of the big accounts boosting Tommy Robinson, Farage and Reform and ‘English Patriots’.
It’s Russian.
It’s Russian.
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The BBC’s core problem is that, like the NHS, it models the benefits and virtues of a not-for-profit public service in a world of rapacious corporate greed and unstinting right-wing hostility to the idea of the public good www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/w...
Why the BBC Is Facing Its Gravest Crisis in Decades
www.nytimes.com
November 10, 2025 at 11:25 PM
The BBC’s core problem is that, like the NHS, it models the benefits and virtues of a not-for-profit public service in a world of rapacious corporate greed and unstinting right-wing hostility to the idea of the public good www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/w...
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Honestly, I did NOT have "punching the air and going HELL YES to Chris Patten" on my bingo card today. But what he says is SO rarely said and needed saying SO badly!
"How shall we treat Mr Farage's concerns? Shall we hail Brexit a tremendous success? Something that has cost the country billions?"
"How shall we treat Mr Farage's concerns? Shall we hail Brexit a tremendous success? Something that has cost the country billions?"
SUPERB and angrily unvarnished response, by former BBC chairman, Lord Patten.
"I don't think that we should allow ourselves to be bullied into thinking that the BBC is only any good, if it reflects the prejudice of the last person who shouted at it." ~AA
"I don't think that we should allow ourselves to be bullied into thinking that the BBC is only any good, if it reflects the prejudice of the last person who shouted at it." ~AA
November 10, 2025 at 6:47 PM
Honestly, I did NOT have "punching the air and going HELL YES to Chris Patten" on my bingo card today. But what he says is SO rarely said and needed saying SO badly!
"How shall we treat Mr Farage's concerns? Shall we hail Brexit a tremendous success? Something that has cost the country billions?"
"How shall we treat Mr Farage's concerns? Shall we hail Brexit a tremendous success? Something that has cost the country billions?"
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Just absolutely classic BBC. You've just broadcast the most successful programme of the year, uniting Gen Z kids online and Boomers on broadcast in a return to appointment television. And instead of celebrating, your DG reigns due to a made-up right-wing scandal.
November 9, 2025 at 8:10 PM
Just absolutely classic BBC. You've just broadcast the most successful programme of the year, uniting Gen Z kids online and Boomers on broadcast in a return to appointment television. And instead of celebrating, your DG reigns due to a made-up right-wing scandal.
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Meanwhile community support schemes, which help not only those seeking asylum but whole communities, have been shown to not only be a far more humane alternative to hotels, but also more cost effective and reduce community tensions.
www.theguardian.com/world/2023/a...
www.theguardian.com/world/2023/a...
Suella Braverman refusing to roll out asylum-support scheme deemed ‘more humane’
The UN hailed a pilot project that cut the cost of helping refugees, but the Home Office remains set on hardline illegal migration bill
www.theguardian.com
October 27, 2025 at 7:22 AM
Meanwhile community support schemes, which help not only those seeking asylum but whole communities, have been shown to not only be a far more humane alternative to hotels, but also more cost effective and reduce community tensions.
www.theguardian.com/world/2023/a...
www.theguardian.com/world/2023/a...
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This was in the Observer today
Worth a read
Worth a read
October 5, 2025 at 10:49 AM
This was in the Observer today
Worth a read
Worth a read
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“Israel is isolated... & public opinion in most countries, including the US has turned against Israel in last 2 years. There’s very little to show for his supposedly strategic accomplishments in the Middle East,” @alonpinkas.bsky.social to @thenationalnews.com www.thenationalnews.com/news/mena/20...
Netanyahu insists Israel is winning the war but reality tells different story | The National
He promised simple, total victory. Not only did he fail to achieve it, but he also plunged Israel into a 'diplomatic tsunami'
www.thenationalnews.com
October 6, 2025 at 8:44 AM
“Israel is isolated... & public opinion in most countries, including the US has turned against Israel in last 2 years. There’s very little to show for his supposedly strategic accomplishments in the Middle East,” @alonpinkas.bsky.social to @thenationalnews.com www.thenationalnews.com/news/mena/20...
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On Yom Kippur many Jewish people in Britain have their phones off to mark the holy day.
As it ends at 723pm, some will hear the tragic Manchester news for the first time.
At that time, please join many of us to send a message of solidarity to British Jews.Thanks Together coalition for proposing.
As it ends at 723pm, some will hear the tragic Manchester news for the first time.
At that time, please join many of us to send a message of solidarity to British Jews.Thanks Together coalition for proposing.
October 2, 2025 at 4:06 PM
On Yom Kippur many Jewish people in Britain have their phones off to mark the holy day.
As it ends at 723pm, some will hear the tragic Manchester news for the first time.
At that time, please join many of us to send a message of solidarity to British Jews.Thanks Together coalition for proposing.
As it ends at 723pm, some will hear the tragic Manchester news for the first time.
At that time, please join many of us to send a message of solidarity to British Jews.Thanks Together coalition for proposing.
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For those horrified by the increasing blatant anti-immigrant rhetoric, and who are able to, supporting Refugees at Home either financially or hosting refugees in your spare room while they find their feet (and accommodation) is one way to resist.
We are expecting our latest guest later today!
We are expecting our latest guest later today!
Want to know more about hosting?
We’re holding an online information session next month with our friends at the Diocese of Sheffield and two of our hosts from the area.
Sign up to hear about their experiences and ask any questions you have about opening your home 👇
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We’re holding an online information session next month with our friends at the Diocese of Sheffield and two of our hosts from the area.
Sign up to hear about their experiences and ask any questions you have about opening your home 👇
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
September 29, 2025 at 3:07 PM
For those horrified by the increasing blatant anti-immigrant rhetoric, and who are able to, supporting Refugees at Home either financially or hosting refugees in your spare room while they find their feet (and accommodation) is one way to resist.
We are expecting our latest guest later today!
We are expecting our latest guest later today!