Reform's ban on the Nottingham Post and Local Democracy Reporters is a sinister early sign of an increasingly hostile attitude to journalists, journalism, and democracy that the party could take all the way to Westminster. Link to my Substack: open.substack.com/pub/frombehind…

This goes well beyond the local. Every journalist in the country, and anyone who values freedom of the press, should be behind NottinghamshireLive, Oliver Pridmore and Natalie Fahy on this. Reform is trying to suppress free journalism, and will continue to do so all the way to Westminster.

Increasingly Reform are using Trump reality-non-reality tactics: Admit nothing, even when it's proved, deny having said something, despite it being on record, boast confidently of being the precise opposite of what you are. The real problem is, it's incredibly effective.

Iced Gems were the hors d'oeuvres of the sweet world.

Google: Sorry, which school shooting in this city did you have in mind?

Hell is a culture that produces an A.I. generated deep fake YouTube Christopher Hitchens which 'skewers' modern public figures, offers Hitchens 'takes' on the Epstein files, the shooting of Charlie Kirk, and JK Rowling, and is cheered by bots and bot-like humans in the comments.

This is the funniest tweet in the history of British politics x.com/zarahsultana/s…

As laughably predictable as this all is, Corbyn's leadership of Labour was almost as chaotic and dysfunctional, and was just as implausible to the electorate. What a shame it took two election defeats for the Corbynites to accept reality. What a double gift for the Tories it was.

Reform UK just filibustered a motion submitted by Broxtowe Alliance Councillors to a full Notts County Council meeting condemning the party's ban of the Nottingham Post and LDRs, defending freedom of the press. It's almost as if they fear scrutiny from journalists and, now, fellow councillors.

Genuinely hard to tell what’s parody and what isn’t, given the self-parody nature of Corbynism, but assuming this isn’t, it didn’t take long for the same old feeble 2015-2019 self-delusions about ‘the establishment’ and the media to kick in.

Overheard quote of the evening from Oasis at Wembley last night (epic): "I'm looking for my mate. He's wearing a bucket hat."

Excellent news not just for NottinghamshireLive but for all newspapers and publishers, setting a very important precedent: if Reform tries to block the press in future they can and will be challenged legally. Well done Natalie Fahy and Reach for sticking to the guns. linkedin.com/posts/natalie-…

How has the anti-racist alt-left media covered the Manchester synagogue attack? Socialist Worker, which cried "rejoice" on October 7th, hasn't at all. Neither has Novara Media. Neither has Stop The War Coalition. They haven't even mentioned it, among numerous posts since.

It was lovely to chat to Benedict Cooper for October’s LeftLion Magazine Nottingham about Who Wants Normal? and what it was like to interview 50+ of Britain’s best known disabled women. Online here: leftlion.co.uk/features/2025/…