What a shambles from @TheShardLondon no one had the foresight to think people from earlier slots wouldn’t leave because the eclipse was coming. Meaning those of us who booked months ago to see it couldn’t get in. Some staff didn’t even know it was happening. #runbymorons#eclipse
"More money in the pockets of working people" but not if you're working as a Ltd company director, huh Rachel. Nice 5% (real terms) tax increase for me. Cheers Rach. A real kick in the teeth for @ExcludedUK too who got NOTHING during covid #Budget2026
Listening to @harry_qp and @KirstieMAllsopp on @BBCr4today@harry_qp suggestiny 1600/yr is not much extra to pay is clearly divorced from reality of most ppl. Also no mention of mortgages. A £1m house might have a 90% mortgage. Ppl aren’t asset rich. #mansiontax
If you watch one thing today, make it this interview from last night in which the former head of M16 explains that Trump is a moron, that Europe must get hugely armed and fast because Russians are coming.
How dare @lisanandy suggest the UK has a shortage of skills in the creative industries - we have a WORK SHORTAGE. Thousands of skilled people have been forced to flee the film/TV industry last year with up to 70% of work drying up. Silence on that tho on @BBCr4today@bectu
Aside from vile choice of music (lyrics talk of sexually assaulting girls) - it’s great to see
@UKLabour
doing their bit for the UK creative sector by *checks notes* using AI to make their shitty videos.
@lisanandy
how’s this ‘protecting creators’
Another reminder how great @ThangamDebb is compared to other gutter politicians using dog whistle rhetoric to stoke hate. Another great bit of #journalism from @BBCNewsnight too
Must watch: Kevin Hollinrake trashes himself and the Conservative party on Newsnight
- Robert Jenrick accuses Labour of a cover up over Southport
- Kemi Badenoch joins him
- Nicholas Watt explains how they are both wrong
- Kevin Hollinrake joins Jenrick and Badenoch
- Thangam Debbonaire can't believe that Hollinrake ignored Watt's explanation and doubled down on what Jenrick and Badenoch have said
- Victoria Derbyshire challenges Hollinrake
- Hollinrake doubles down, again
- Debbonaire calls him out
- Hollinrake repeats the false claim again
- It's so bad Watt jumps in and explains to Hollinrake that he is wrong
- Hollinrake ignores the explanation by Watt and doubles down again
- It's so bad that Victoria Derbyshire has to step in, break up the disagreement and change the subject
Your reminder that Hollinrake is the Shadow Secretary of State for Business and Trade of the UK - no wonder the Conservative party tanked the economy, with stupidity and arrogance like this
Labour’s in a mess over ‘working people’, and rightly so youtu.be/7p6ILmPX28Y?si=Ohn-… Labour keeps talking about working people and says everyone knows what they mean when they use the term. Except, most people don’t, and the term makes no political sense in the way that they use it. It’s another fine mess they’ve got themselves into, and it’s all their own fault.
The way @bphillipsonMP keeps referring to ‘payslips’ is surely duplicitous and a clear sign that the self employed are about to be hung out to dry @ExcludedUK
Bridget Phillipson on £170,000, says she is a working person, but a small business owner who pays himself £5000 a year from his handyman business, to top up his state pension, isn’t. “I know it’s frustrating”, how patronising - they are truly awful.
Congratulations to:
GOLD: BADGER AND THE BLITZ
SILVER: 1984 – @Wondery
BRONZE: The Dial-Up – @dialuppod
In the Fiction category at the #BritishPodcastAwards
Congratulations to:
GOLD: BADGER AND THE BLITZ
SILVER: Koala Moon: Kids Bedtime Stories & Meditations
BRONZE: Hanes Mawr Cymru – @llinos_mai
In the Kids category at the #BritishPodcastAwards
Why can’t people like @RichardJMurphy be in govt? His suggestions are logical and #progressive. It’s all laid out for @RachelReevesMP and co. You’ll create a fairer more positive and more productive society. But we all know it’ll be the same old fiddling around the edges.
Who should Labour tax? youtu.be/lwlHJjIxXt4?si=n-FY… Who and what should Labour tax? Those things that cause harm, those things that create inequality, those things that we should be changing to make sure we have a society in the future. I think that's a basis for taxation that is ethically justifiable, irrespective of the questions about revenue that might or might not arise.
Who should Labour tax? youtu.be/lwlHJjIxXt4?si=n-FY… Who and what should Labour tax? Those things that cause harm, those things that create inequality, those things that we should be changing to make sure we have a society in the future. I think that's a basis for taxation that is ethically justifiable, irrespective of the questions about revenue that might or might not arise.
Hearing rumours that @Shurgard in #ForestHill#SE23 has been done over in the last 24hrs - loads of units apparently broken into. Anything to say @shurgard? as a customer I'd like to know.
Hearing that it happened Monday night and they've only just told people. Supposedly it was cleared out overnight (despite supposed security) @NewsShopper@SE23dotcom@SE23Forum@se23ldn