I would like to buy this wonderful human being a pint. 🔥 #BBCQT

Utterly graceless speech, by a uniquely shit candidate, reported on a profoundly inept news channel.

😶 A company that landed £5.3m of contracts through the Tories’ unlawful VIP lane has gone into liquidation 🗑️ bringing the total spent on unusable PPE which the government is unlikely to ever recover to £338m #TheVIPFiles goodlaw.social/nzs0

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An on-air appeal for GB News viewers to vote in this ‘News Presenter’ category for an award for somebody Ofcom says isn’t a News Presenter. ⁦Ofcom⁩

News channel that’s not a news channel asks for votes for a news presenter that’s not a news presenter in the news presenter category. Maybe a regulator that’s not a regulator needs to think about being a regulator.

The national service nonsense does give me the opportunity to tweet one of my favourite recent bits of polling when Ipsos actually ran the famous "Yes Minister" questions as a randomised experiment, and showed that it worked.

So far answers to this have included; * no sanctions * possible fines * no access to public sector jobs without it * Royal commission will figure it out Looking forward to seeing if we can add fo the list today.

85.4% of Europe's bathing water sites met 🇪🇺 most stringent ‘excellent’ bathing quality standards in 2023. We are committed to maintaining these standards and enhancing water resilience. Europeans can enjoy safe standards for their swimming activities this summer.

Politics aside, I think it says much about the UK as a country and the British as a people that a man can escape torture from the Taliban theocracy as a 12 year old, arrive as a refugee and be running as an MP for the nation.

Sunak: “Do you want a photo!” Hero: “No, I want to know why you hate young people so much.” Sunak: “I don’t.” Hero: “So why compulsory national service? I’ve volunteered all my life.” Sunak: “Well then you’ll love it!” 🙈🙈🙈🙈 Oh my goodness. ~AA

Incredible. Absolutely incredible. Kemi Badenoch was quick enough to take charge and fire people summarily, even though they had nothing to do with the Horizon scandal, in order to take political pressure off herself. But to the main culprit? Have another £180m. Offensive. ~AA

Student Henry Hassell ambushed Rishi Sunak to ask him why he hates young people so much. Sunak scuttled off, but the short exchange before he managed to get away was still revealing... Henry Hassell: "I was just going to ask: why do you hate young people so much? You're making

Nigel Farage is hoping that he doesn't win in Clacton because in the same way he never wanted to win Brexit what he seeks is never ending opposition. He wants to keep his luxury flat in Châtelain and he wants to maintain his post Brexit lifetime resident status in Belgium.

An image widely circulating online allegedly shows Vice President Kamala Harris with Jeffrey Epstein. But the picture has been edited to include Epstein’s face. The original shows Ms Harris with her husband Douglas Emhoff. buff.ly/4cRntwF

‘People say I’m stirring up racial tension and fear; I don’t know if that is true but it’s a legitimate question, because it can look as if I am, though perhaps I’m not. And you’ve got to ask: is the ambiguity deliberate? And if it is, what else am I up to? Who knows?’

On 20 June, the main official Conservative party Twitter account posted this video. They still haven't taken it down, despite all the violent rioting that has happened in the last week. That tells you everything you need to know about their real mindset.

"With nearly 195mn followers, he is America’s most influential purveyor of disinformation. In total he has made 50 posts since January 1 that have been debunked by independent fact checkers ... These were viewed 1.2bn times." ft.com/content/bdd100…

Jacob Rees-Mogg delivers a monologue about why he doesn't think civil servants should work from home... ...on his show that he is presenting from his Somerset home.

It's rare that James O'Brien and Nigel Farage are in the same room. So when the Reform UK leader was leaving the LBC studios after his phone-in with Nick Ferrari, James O'Brien delivered a one-of-a-kind handover.