A superb, mature response from Bernie Sanders about the murder of Charlie Kirk. Sanders would have made a great President.

A drug-addled South African rocket maker plotting regime change in Britain is very Brosnan-era Bond, isn’t it?

Trump: Shakespeare, Tolkien, Orwell are unbelievable people like we have rarely seen before, probably maybe we won't even see again. What?

The Daily Show gets a White House-authorized makeover and Jon Stewart recaps Dear Leader Trump's unbelievably successful U.K. visit

Newly released court documents shed light on law firm Carter Ruck's role trying to silence whistleblowers and journalists who sought to expose the multi-billion dollar OneCoin cryptocurrency investment scam thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2025-0…

5️⃣ And yet most people also want tech companies to be held responsible for the falsehoods users share on their platforms. Again, this finding is consistent across countries and across different types of platforms: video networks, social media and messaging apps

GB News has issued a clarification and apology to UK-based charity Islamic Relief after an interviewee wrongly said it had funded terrorist groups gbnews.com/news/clarifica…

Steven Swinford Having seen this - hard to disagree x.com/TheMercianNews…

Leave aside the architect of Blue Labour so closely aligning himself with the leader of a rival party, I’m increasingly uneasy that a party leader can present a News/current affairs show affording this kind of exchange. There are journalistic lines that should not be crossed.

The phone-hacking scandal showed what happens when the press neglects ethical practice and public interest journalism. The repercussions continue to be felt today. But we can change that 💪 Introducing the Better Media Fund 🚀 🔗 bit.ly/4pHznAa #TheHack

Wise words from #TheNewsAgents, emily m & #jonsopel . Our hearts go out to all the families & friends who lost their loved ones today in a sacred place of peace and prayer🙏

I urge anyone thinking about protesting this weekend to recognise and respect the grief of British Jews. This is a moment of mourning. It is not a time to stoke tension and cause further pain. It is a time to stand together. We are a country that welcomes all people, no matter

An expanded version of this thread, with links to references and further background, is here: taxpolicy.org.uk/small-company-…

So much political reporting - personified by the BBC’s Messrs Mason and Kuennsberg - and even infecting the great pollster John Curtice is now locked in a morass of day to day hysteria. Jenkins is right. Farage has close to zero chance of being PM - ever. theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

In the client journalism of modern times, allied to the right wing bias of our press and its influence on the broadcast media, the papers whip themselves into a conference season hysteria - main story Farage to be PM - and given they know he is Trumpian in media matters, they

Haven’t ever retweeted Melanie Phillips before but I agree with her about this.

Reminder - week Monday (Oct 13) I'm showing how Freedom of Information has been undermined (by all governments) in 20 years since it started. 7.30pm Plume of Feathers SE10 9LZ Greenwich SitP. 5 mins from Maze Hill station (direct trains London Bridge, Farringdon, St Pancras)

Ofcom now taking the IPSO approach to shrugging off failed media standards: yes GB News breached the Code, but Ofcom won't hold them accountable because they broadcast a non-apology nearly 3 weeks later

A quick note on the government saying it will grant "new" power to the police to take into account the cumulative impact of protests when deciding whether to restrict them. These are not new powers. They were part of our law from 2022 (passed by the Johnson government in

I have received A LOT of questions about Nathan Gill, having sat as a Brexit Party MEP alongside him in Brussels and Strasbourg. He was also the Reform leader in Wales. For those who don’t know, he has pleaded guilty to taking pro-Russian bribes over a number of months.