@johnglenn.bsky.social
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Putin: "We've taken Kupyansk"
Zelensky: "Here I am in Kupyansk"
Zelensky: "Here I am in Kupyansk"
Zelensky arrived in Kupyansk, which Putin claims is "under Russian control."
December 12, 2025 at 1:24 PM
Putin: "We've taken Kupyansk"
Zelensky: "Here I am in Kupyansk"
Zelensky: "Here I am in Kupyansk"
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'I'll play you Donald Trump lying, and the Met Commissioner doing what every patriotic Brit should be doing...'
@mrjamesob.bsky.social cautions against 'treachery', as Sir Mark Rowley rubbishes Trump's claims about safety under Sadiq Khan last month.
@mrjamesob.bsky.social cautions against 'treachery', as Sir Mark Rowley rubbishes Trump's claims about safety under Sadiq Khan last month.
December 12, 2025 at 3:03 PM
'I'll play you Donald Trump lying, and the Met Commissioner doing what every patriotic Brit should be doing...'
@mrjamesob.bsky.social cautions against 'treachery', as Sir Mark Rowley rubbishes Trump's claims about safety under Sadiq Khan last month.
@mrjamesob.bsky.social cautions against 'treachery', as Sir Mark Rowley rubbishes Trump's claims about safety under Sadiq Khan last month.
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Another depressingly tone-deaf performance by Badenoch at #PMQs. Our continent is threatened from East and West, and Kemi wants to talk Westminster gossip. Rarely have I seen anyone as witless, be so pleased with themselves. Truss springs to mind. Johnson. Cameron.
WAIT - I think I see a pattern.
WAIT - I think I see a pattern.
December 10, 2025 at 1:42 PM
Another depressingly tone-deaf performance by Badenoch at #PMQs. Our continent is threatened from East and West, and Kemi wants to talk Westminster gossip. Rarely have I seen anyone as witless, be so pleased with themselves. Truss springs to mind. Johnson. Cameron.
WAIT - I think I see a pattern.
WAIT - I think I see a pattern.
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The main ”game” relating to WW2 was making eye goggled with your fingers and run in zigs zags and zooms pretending to be giggles shorting down the Nazis.
I have zero recollection of a single bit of so-called “banter” suggesting “Gas the Jews”. Let alone repeated over several years.
I have zero recollection of a single bit of so-called “banter” suggesting “Gas the Jews”. Let alone repeated over several years.
December 10, 2025 at 12:57 PM
The main ”game” relating to WW2 was making eye goggled with your fingers and run in zigs zags and zooms pretending to be giggles shorting down the Nazis.
I have zero recollection of a single bit of so-called “banter” suggesting “Gas the Jews”. Let alone repeated over several years.
I have zero recollection of a single bit of so-called “banter” suggesting “Gas the Jews”. Let alone repeated over several years.
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Brexit was sold on empty promises.
"The new-found 'freedom' outside the EU has not enabled the UK to replace lost EU markets with new opportunities elsewhere."
https://www.irishtimes.com/business/economy/2025/12/08/britains-brexit-woes-are-a-problem-for-ireland/
"The new-found 'freedom' outside the EU has not enabled the UK to replace lost EU markets with new opportunities elsewhere."
https://www.irishtimes.com/business/economy/2025/12/08/britains-brexit-woes-are-a-problem-for-ireland/
We need Britain to get real about Brexit
Budgets in both Britain and Ireland have postponed difficult decisions in a manner that will reduce their room for manoeuvre when the next election looms
www.irishtimes.com
December 9, 2025 at 4:04 PM
Brexit was sold on empty promises.
"The new-found 'freedom' outside the EU has not enabled the UK to replace lost EU markets with new opportunities elsewhere."
https://www.irishtimes.com/business/economy/2025/12/08/britains-brexit-woes-are-a-problem-for-ireland/
"The new-found 'freedom' outside the EU has not enabled the UK to replace lost EU markets with new opportunities elsewhere."
https://www.irishtimes.com/business/economy/2025/12/08/britains-brexit-woes-are-a-problem-for-ireland/
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BBC Today has 2 people - a mother and chair of a current enquiry - criticising maternity services but nobody from maternity services or Royal College of Nursing to answer. Suspect underfunding/understaffing important
Where is the balance?
If it’s climate change, BBC would find a nutter for balance
Where is the balance?
If it’s climate change, BBC would find a nutter for balance
While there is an understandable desire for accountability about the past this will not give, in terms of the future, I also think this is 'the best opportunity in a generation to finally put maternity services on a safer path.'
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Maternity care failings 'much worse' than anticipated, says head of national review
An interim report by Baroness Amos finds poor care and dirty wards are blighting England’s maternity services.
www.bbc.co.uk
December 9, 2025 at 8:37 AM
BBC Today has 2 people - a mother and chair of a current enquiry - criticising maternity services but nobody from maternity services or Royal College of Nursing to answer. Suspect underfunding/understaffing important
Where is the balance?
If it’s climate change, BBC would find a nutter for balance
Where is the balance?
If it’s climate change, BBC would find a nutter for balance
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This sort of scintillating analysis is why they get the big bucks, I guess.
<Pops a third spoonful of cyanide into his cuppa, stirs, sips, and awaits Thanatos>
<Pops a third spoonful of cyanide into his cuppa, stirs, sips, and awaits Thanatos>
December 7, 2025 at 7:39 AM
This sort of scintillating analysis is why they get the big bucks, I guess.
<Pops a third spoonful of cyanide into his cuppa, stirs, sips, and awaits Thanatos>
<Pops a third spoonful of cyanide into his cuppa, stirs, sips, and awaits Thanatos>
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President Biden: My message to young people is this, just be you, you are loved.
December 5, 2025 at 9:35 PM
President Biden: My message to young people is this, just be you, you are loved.
Yes, but Nigel is one of us. He knows how to hold a pint.
A Thailand-based crypto investor has handed a record-breaking £9 million to Reform UK, shortly before Nigel Farage used media interviews to plug his crypto firm and promise lower taxes and deregulation on the industry
bylinetimes.com/2025/12/04/c...
bylinetimes.com/2025/12/04/c...
Crypto Investor Donates £9 Million to Reform UK After Nigel Farage Plugs His Company and Tells Industry 'I Am Your Champion'
The Reform leader recently used media interviews to back Christopher Harborne's company while promising to cut taxes and regulations on crypto firms
bylinetimes.com
December 4, 2025 at 3:38 PM
Yes, but Nigel is one of us. He knows how to hold a pint.
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If Brits wants to keep heritage buildings standing, we'll need to seriously consider measures like this too. Church assets look pretty small once you divide them amongst the thousands of buildings that need urgent work.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Proposal to give Jersey churches £50k a year for maintenance
Constable Karen Shenton-Stone says the buildings suffer from
www.bbc.co.uk
December 3, 2025 at 12:35 PM
If Brits wants to keep heritage buildings standing, we'll need to seriously consider measures like this too. Church assets look pretty small once you divide them amongst the thousands of buildings that need urgent work.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Why are Tories not being hauled over the coals about this.
They said 350m could be saved and given to NHS.
They didn't say how much the country would lose from lost trade, lost investment, lost EU grants, EU funding, lost knowledge (eg on sharing crime data)
Yet Labour getting trolled at budget.
They said 350m could be saved and given to NHS.
They didn't say how much the country would lose from lost trade, lost investment, lost EU grants, EU funding, lost knowledge (eg on sharing crime data)
Yet Labour getting trolled at budget.
David Davis said there wouldn't be a single downside to Brexit.
Yorkshire Bylines recorded >2,000 of them from 2021-2024.
Yorkshire Bylines recorded >2,000 of them from 2021-2024.
The Davis Downside Dossier
David Davis famously said there would be no downsides to Brexit only considerable upsides - so we started recording them.
yorkshirebylines.co.uk
December 1, 2025 at 6:49 PM
Why are Tories not being hauled over the coals about this.
They said 350m could be saved and given to NHS.
They didn't say how much the country would lose from lost trade, lost investment, lost EU grants, EU funding, lost knowledge (eg on sharing crime data)
Yet Labour getting trolled at budget.
They said 350m could be saved and given to NHS.
They didn't say how much the country would lose from lost trade, lost investment, lost EU grants, EU funding, lost knowledge (eg on sharing crime data)
Yet Labour getting trolled at budget.
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BREAKING: “The idea that leaving the EU was the answer to all our cares and concerns has clearly been proved wrong."
Keir Starmer says that "wild promises were made" about Brexit.
He adds: "The same argument is now being made about the European Convention on Human Rights"
Keir Starmer says that "wild promises were made" about Brexit.
He adds: "The same argument is now being made about the European Convention on Human Rights"
December 1, 2025 at 9:58 PM
BREAKING: “The idea that leaving the EU was the answer to all our cares and concerns has clearly been proved wrong."
Keir Starmer says that "wild promises were made" about Brexit.
He adds: "The same argument is now being made about the European Convention on Human Rights"
Keir Starmer says that "wild promises were made" about Brexit.
He adds: "The same argument is now being made about the European Convention on Human Rights"
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Mark Kelly, "When Trump was writing birthday greetings to Epstein, I was the first on the scene to recover the bodies of my fellow astronauts"
December 1, 2025 at 10:02 PM
Mark Kelly, "When Trump was writing birthday greetings to Epstein, I was the first on the scene to recover the bodies of my fellow astronauts"
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I hope somebody will complain to IPSO about this (and the similar Express splash). If so this will be a very useful reference.
Lies, damned lies and the Telegraph. They posted CSJ figures using an outrageously false comparison of 2 cases. It claimed a benefits family were better off by £18k than a working household when the real figure was £16k worse off. The details benefitsinthefuture.com #benefits #budget
Benefits in the Future – Welfare reform commentary and analysis
Welfare reform commentary and analysis
benefitsinthefuture.com
December 1, 2025 at 9:56 PM
I hope somebody will complain to IPSO about this (and the similar Express splash). If so this will be a very useful reference.
Sadly, agree. The BBC seem scared of informing/educating their viewers. We don't need gossip or vox pops in news reports. As a country, we need to aim higher.
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 10:22 PM
Sadly, agree. The BBC seem scared of informing/educating their viewers. We don't need gossip or vox pops in news reports. As a country, we need to aim higher.
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Well Hughes' letter is a good one, but I don't think he had to resign. It was a bad error in a critical process. But for me resignation should be reserved for misconduct at work, indiscretion, undisclosed conflicts of interest, errors of judgement in policy and economics.
December 1, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Well Hughes' letter is a good one, but I don't think he had to resign. It was a bad error in a critical process. But for me resignation should be reserved for misconduct at work, indiscretion, undisclosed conflicts of interest, errors of judgement in policy and economics.
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UK media must bear a large part of the blame. Profoundly unserious in what become stories. Time to face that particular truth.
December 1, 2025 at 7:20 PM
UK media must bear a large part of the blame. Profoundly unserious in what become stories. Time to face that particular truth.
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More fuel for the ‘some top jobs are becomg impossible’ to do. Yes the leak was bad and dumb and embarrassing! But on the whole i think resign when you have demonstrably hurt someone/failed in a core duty. Nobody died of ‘having an URL people can guess’ www.theguardian.com/business/202...
OBR chair quits after inquiry into early release of Reeves’s budget
Richard Hughes departs after investigation into how official forecaster accidentally published budget 40 minutes early
www.theguardian.com
December 1, 2025 at 7:15 PM
More fuel for the ‘some top jobs are becomg impossible’ to do. Yes the leak was bad and dumb and embarrassing! But on the whole i think resign when you have demonstrably hurt someone/failed in a core duty. Nobody died of ‘having an URL people can guess’ www.theguardian.com/business/202...
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Why, when sales of old fashioned print media like the Telegraph, the Times & the Mail are tumbling even faster than Tory poll ratings, does the BBC still use their headlines as their starting point on every news program?
bylinetimes.com/2025/12/01/r...
bylinetimes.com/2025/12/01/r...
Rachel Reeves and the Daily Mailification of the BBC
For all the focus on its supposed "left wing bias", the BBC's heavy coverage of Conservative allegations of dishonesty against Rachel Reeves shows how its political coverage is still largely led by th...
bylinetimes.com
December 1, 2025 at 2:40 PM
Why, when sales of old fashioned print media like the Telegraph, the Times & the Mail are tumbling even faster than Tory poll ratings, does the BBC still use their headlines as their starting point on every news program?
bylinetimes.com/2025/12/01/r...
bylinetimes.com/2025/12/01/r...
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This story is starting to make me feel I’m going slightly mad - maybe RR overdid the gloom, but the tax rises are paying for a) the welfare U-turns b) the £10bn-plus increase in headroom c) scrapping the two child limit d) bits of other spending eg higher local gov costs 🤷🏻♀️
December 1, 2025 at 8:15 AM
This story is starting to make me feel I’m going slightly mad - maybe RR overdid the gloom, but the tax rises are paying for a) the welfare U-turns b) the £10bn-plus increase in headroom c) scrapping the two child limit d) bits of other spending eg higher local gov costs 🤷🏻♀️
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I'm not sure a squeezed middle isn't an almost inevitable consequence of demographics. There are 13 million pensioners in the UK. Compared to 25 million full time workers. Do the maths, it won't be pretty however you cut it.
Latest from me: on the budget, Labour's troubles, & the government's increasingly tense & distant relationship with the UK's squeezed middle www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
The ‘squeezed middle’ is back – and this time it could be Labour’s undoing | John Harris
Last week’s budget left middle-income families anxious and angry. The party is turning its back on voters it can little afford to lose, says Guardian columnist John Harris
www.theguardian.com
November 30, 2025 at 5:33 PM
I'm not sure a squeezed middle isn't an almost inevitable consequence of demographics. There are 13 million pensioners in the UK. Compared to 25 million full time workers. Do the maths, it won't be pretty however you cut it.
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This is an excellent, level-headed, informative piece. I'd kill for a government which could discuss the issue with the same sense of objectivity and calm.
Here's this week's column. Please - please - can we stop talking about migration in a way that's completely detached from the facts? www.theguardian.com/business/202...
Net migration is plummeting. Why can’t Labour say so? | Heather Stewart
An honest debate is needed on this polarising topic as sectors such as social care struggle with recruitment
www.theguardian.com
November 30, 2025 at 12:48 PM
This is an excellent, level-headed, informative piece. I'd kill for a government which could discuss the issue with the same sense of objectivity and calm.