Elon Musk can say what he likes about me but I won't stay silent whilst foreign tech billionaires, money earned off the backs of real workers, try to interfere in our democracy, incite violence in our communities and tear apart our country.
Time for him to pipe down.
Pathetic little man. Helps fuel race riots to take the heat off the limited media probing into his crypto financing. Avoids anything but tame interviews which allow him to spout his slogans. Takes sides with a fascist South African tech bro also whipping up racial hatred against the elected PM of UK, the country he claims to love and wants to lead. Demands apologies for word slips on the BBC (which made him). Yet to apologise for the Brexit which has made British people financially worse off (not him though)
🚨 WATCH: Nigel Farage is repeatedly heckled by MPs as he calls on Keir Starmer to end "two-tier policing"
Starmer: "His response has been to appeal for rage. That’s his response to a father who lost his son & asked for this not to happen... it shows exactly who he is"
#PMQs
BBC has been key in developing and sharing British culture & talent for decades
Blue Planet II cost £15m to make, generated £1bn+, BBC created The Office, Doctor Who, Blackadder
BBC helped discover & push Ricky Gervais & Stephen Merchant, Rowan Atkinson, Idris Elba, Louis Theroux, Ed Sheeran, Stephen Fry, Olivia Colman, Helen Mirren, Judi Dench
Due to it being publicly owned it has been able to be an incubator of talent and take risks in a way often private networks could never
BBC has problems, but if you can't see the sum of BBCs contribution to British culture then you are insane
Mina the Hollower achieves the same heights in both action and style that its impressive inspirations – Zelda, Castlevania, and FromSoft RPGs – reach on a regular basis, and with far fewer resources.
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This really is tone deaf stuff from Blair.
The extreme, neoliberal, centre is what’s led to a cost of living crisis, food banks and wider decline in our country, and why people across this country are rejecting it outright.
It’s his brand of politics that’s led us to an utterly broken country.
It’s crystal clear Tony Blair does not care about the lives of working class people.*
And, this intervention definitely does not speak on their behalf
He speaks for the billionaire class, vested interests and the status quo with the aim of protecting their wealth and power, much like his great friend Peter Mandelson.
His institute are bankrolled by big tech and corporate interests, not the 99% struggling through austerity, insecurity and inequality.
They don’t represent ordinary communities nor possess the answers to the problems facing the country in 2026.
Time to bow out Tony you have done enough damage.
Mick Lynch on Nigel Farage:
"He's going to unleash a torrent of racism & division.. putting us into the dark ages"
ML calls out the Telegraph:
"The Telegraph seems to be preparing itself to become a fully signed up affiliate of Reform & all the racism & disunity it will cause"
The father of one of the girls killed in the Manchester bombing is calling out all the weirdos using his child’s death to spread hate.
Lee Rigby’s family also issued multiple statements consistently asking them not to use his death, name, or image to promote division & racism.
Burnham is not the be all and end all, he is not the objective, he is far from perfect.
But this should be seen as an achievement of the greens - you are having a mainstream potential labour leader give ground at least rhetorically to an anti thatcher, anti neoliberal and pro public ownership argument.
This moves the narrative away from immigration and the greens can build from this.
This can pave the way for a much more radical future, this is a win to see this enter mainstream politics.
I welcome HMRC’s conclusion, which has cleared me of any wrongdoing.
I have been exonerated by HMRC of the accusation that I deliberately sought to avoid tax.
When purchasing a home of my own with a mortgage, I did not own any other property and had no personal financial interest in the court-instructed trust set up to manage my son’s financial award. I was advised by experts that I should pay stamp duty at the standard rate.
I set out to pay the correct amount of tax. I took reasonable care and acted in good faith, based on the expert advice I received, and HMRC has accepted this.
I have always sought to act with integrity, and I believe politicians should be held to high standards - that is why I resigned from government and cooperated fully with HMRC.
I wanted to ensure that I paid every penny that I owed, and have done so. I am relieved that my family can now move on - and that I can get on with my job.
As Health Secretary, Wes Streeting deepened the privatisation of our NHS and handed over our data to Palantir, a company involved in genocide.
I am sure his friend Peter Mandelson is very proud.
Time to reinstate our NHS as a fully public service — and kick Palantir out!
How to actually defeat the rise of fascism in Britain.
Reform's rise isn't a mystery. It's the result of four decades of managed decline, meaning stagnant wages, gutted empty high streets, privatised utilities bleeding us dry, and a state that has visibly given up on building anything.
Resentment -- which we might even call the ideology of Reform -- is the natural product of those conditions. Labour's instinct has been to chase that resentment onto the right's terrain -- borders, rhetoric,all raising the salience of the very issue Reform owns, raising the sailence of its ideology of resentment.
This is a losing game because every day spent talking about small boats is a day not spent talking about who actually hollowed the country out. And so, the way to break Reform is to change the subject -- to change the material conditions that gave it oxygen.
What does this mean?
1. Proportional Representation. Strip Reform of the threat that they could win a parliamentary majority on a third of the vote.
2. Big, visible infrastructure in de-industrialised regions. Politicians standing in front of concrete, all the time. Hosptials, schools, transport, whatever. Just stand in front of concrete.
3. Re-nationalise the utilities. Water, energy, rail. Stop the rentier extraction that everyone across the political spectrum can see and resents.
4. A joined-up green industrial strategy. Energy security in five years, with green manufacturing jobs anchored in the places that lost the last industrial settlement.
5. Tax wealth, not work. Equalise capital gains with income tax, close the non-dom loopholes properly, and introduce a serious wealth tax.
6. Council housing at scale. Not "affordable" homes pegged to a broken market but actual public housing, built by the state, let at social rents. The single fastest way to cut the cost of living and break the landlord lobby's grip on politics.
7. Restore the union settlement. Repeal the anti-strike laws, introduce sectoral collective bargaining, and back it with real enforcement. Wages rise when workers have power.
8. Universal basic services. Free public transport in the regions, expanded free childcare, NHS dentistry rebuilt. Decommodify all the basics thrown into the market that has eroded workers spending power in the real economy.
In short, the only way to defeat fascism is from the left