Minimum wage, universal credit & Personal Independence Payments, meanwhile, go further than anyone deserves. And don’t get me started on the *real* victims of economic injustice: parents apparently unable to afford VAT on school fees…

Putin was warned by US intelligence that an Islamic State terror attack was likely but chose to ignore it in order to blame the atrocity against his own people on Ukraine. It’s almost too sick to process.

A very helpful explainer of what Hunt was trying to say but couldn’t because he’s not very competent and/or it’s a problem of his own making. With examples in the replies.

Congratulations, Donald. Quite the accomplishment.

Counterfactuals are not always helpful but some stories highlight, to an almost unbearable degree, how utterly corrupted much of our media has become. Just imagine the quality & quantity of coverage this story would get if Labour had made the same mistake...

"Some of the conned deserve contempt because they relish being conned." 'What did people hear when the rest of us were giving them the truth?' asks James O'Brien, reflecting on the state of British farming after Brexit.

"It’s like saying 'I don’t want pocket money' to your parents, and then saying ‘I’ve got no money to spend’”.   Caller Donna tells James O'Brien that farmers who voted for Brexit ‘deserve to be poorer'.

Are you ready? Hey! Are you ready for this? Are you hanging on the edge of your seat? Out of the doorway the bullets rip To the sound of the beat, yeah…

Blessed are the desperate, for they shall be deported…

For the second time, I’m punting the idea that the more apocalyptic it looks for the Tories, the *more likely* people are to vote Labour. It’s the anti-lethargy thesis & it’s all mine…

When Frank Hester’s racist comments about Diane Abbott were revealed, Kemi Badenoch and Michael Gove called for him to be “forgiven”. But does forgiving racists help or hinder people of colour? Join us Uppity: The Intellectual Playground for 'The Trial of Forgiveness' Details: eventbrite.com/e/uppity-the-i…

Oh dear oh dear.

The NHS, private health providers & Wes Streeting versus ‘middle class lefties’. Sure Start centres & the Tories’ shameful destruction of them. Do manners matter? globalplayer.com/podcasts/episo…

What a strange saga. I wonder whether it’s over now…

The callers on James O'Brien LBC today are outstanding.

The Cass Report, how gender questioning children are treated & the sadly inevitable failure of Cass’s calls for an end to toxicity from people treating them “as a football”. Extraordinary calls. Banning under-16s from social media. Meet Vaughan Gething. globalplayer.com/podcasts/episo…

Is it condescending or patronising?

Someone please add up the IQ of each list. I wonder if the combined IQ of republican endorsees will reach double digits… 😂

Petition: Call a General Election petition.parliament.uk/petitions/7001…

People are done with LIARS. This number is climbing rapidly. ⁦Keir Starmer⁩ ⁦Rachel Reeves⁩