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Passionate, articulate, visionary - Mike Rowbottom is none of these. A regular dogwalker, Mike also likes reading old football biographies. Micro entrepreneur.

[Andrew Western MP @AndrewHWestern]

Musk.

Vance.

Farage.

Lowe.

They know what they are doing. They are far more calculated than it may seem.

This has been a difficult week and they have sought to weaponise it for their own malevolent means despite the express wishes of the Nowak family,

We must call out their hatred and fight for the values we believe in.

Fairness, diversity, tolerance, equality.

They hate it all. And each of them uses their platform to try and undermine these values that we cherish.

The vast majority of people can see what they are trying to do and want it to stop. We need to stand together to ensure that happens.

[arf @arf84648947]

This is what Brexit was all about - so rich people could become much richer.

[Simon Schama @simon_schama]

This is a special kind of loathsomeness: a blend of historical deafness , grotesque stupidity, and comically ludicrous self- importance . As if the little people's rage against immigration somehow is superior to the war against the 3rd Reich and entitles this comic book nobody to lecture the actual heroes

[David Head @DavidHeadViews]

Time for the BBC to part company with Robbie Gibb.

[Philip O'Connor @PhilipOConnor5]

If you, like me, feel that we are fortunate to have @Keir_Starmer as our Prime Minister please repost. I am not even a member of the Labour Party.

[Lance Lachlan ✌🏻 @lancelachlan]

.@lisanandy needs to go. As Culture Secretary, she’s had years to tackle media reform, yet disinformation, outrage farming and deliberate attempts to inflame tensions continue unchecked across parts of the media landscape, especially GBNews.

It’s time for someone with the courage to act: implement the remaining Leveson recommendations, strengthen media accountability, increase transparency around ownership, and have a serious debate about foreign influence in British media.

The media should inform the public, not divide it for clicks and profit. Time is running out, and the government can no longer afford to sit on its hands.

[Hugh 🌹 @HughEdw31897368]

Well done @BBCNews @BBCPolitics for playing your part in the latest #FarageRiots
Platforming Reform all day across BBC output, Zia Yusuf, Matt Goodwin and clips of Farage.

@Ofcom @lisanandy you’re supposed to regulate the media. You’re failing us.

#bbcnews

[Linda #TeamStarmer @LindaR39]

Good to see @Keir_Starmer getting more traction on his tweets. #10YearKeir

[Waqas🔶️ @m0w4q45]

I was a prison officer, Nick. You can't preach "tough on crime." Your lot cut nearly 7,000 prison officers since 2010 and handed our jails to G4S and Serco. You broke the system, then act shocked it doesn't work.

You know what actually works? Lads out on licence getting their track tickets, learning a trade, coming home as taxpayers instead of reoffenders. That's using human capital, not warehousing it. A lad sat in a cell doing nothing helps nobody.

And funny how quiet you all go on the tax dodgers and the oligarchs bankrolling Putin's war. Boris took a Russian ex-KGB man's hospitality at his Italian villa, dodged his own officials, then made the son a Lord. Where's your "lock them up" energy for that?

[Keir Starmer @Keir_Starmer]

The Tories waged an ideological war on the idea of social housing, leaving many families stranded without support.

This Labour government is ending that so everyone, no matter their background or circumstance, can have a secure place of their own.

https://t.co/RhoTDMcWuV

[Alethea Bernard @Tush27J]

Dear Laura Kuenssberg
I do hope you'll be interrogating Nigel Farage with enthusiastic zeal ( when you find him) regarding the following:
A £5 million gift.
A £1 million gift to stitch up the 2019 General Election with Boris Johnson.
House purchases by girlfriend.
#BBCLauraK

[Heidi Alexander MP @Heidi_Labour]

Today we've renationalised the UK's largest train operator.

Passengers will see fewer last-minute cancellations, cleaner toilets and more services to Gatwick Airport.

We are building Great British Railways. 🇬🇧🚆

https://t.co/h6VOnqaPRf

[Keir Starmer @Keir_Starmer]

I promised we would fix our broken railways.

Today Southern, Thameslink, Great Northern and Gatwick Express return to public ownership. Run for the public good, not private profit.

This Labour government is putting passengers first.

[Farrukh @implausibleblog]

A few days ago, Ben Habib claimed that both Nigel Farage and Boris Johnson each received £1 million from a foreign-based crypto billionaire in November 2022

These alleged payments came years after the 2019 election, which Habib has linked to a deal where the Brexit Party stood down in key seats to help the Conservatives

Yet the media storm quickly moved on from Farage and the donations to Reform candidate Robert Kenyon and his offensive racist, misogynistic, and sexist social media posts

And not a peep about Boris Johnson receiving £1m in what is effectively foreign influence in the UK's democracy, the exact thing he said Brexit would stop

Why?

Is it normal for British politicians to receive £1m gifts from foreign based billionaires?

[Reform Party UK Exposed 🇬🇧 @reformexposed]

Nigel Farage has been desperately trying to distance himself from Donald Trump over the last few months.

Don’t let him get away with it, share and share!

[David Perell Clips @PerellClips]

Our obsession with the news distorts our reality and "industrializes" our inner lives. Author and philosopher Alain de Botton explains:

"People will routinely say things like, 'Of course, we're living in this very sad age.' And sometimes I think: says who? When did this age get anointed? Compared to what, the fourth century in Abyssinia, the twelfth century in Syria?

Our inner lives have been industrialized. And commercialized. And that's no good for the free thinker, the honest thinker, the authentic thinker.

"You're not really a responsible adult until you don't know certain things that people around you think are very important. If there's a singer you don't know about, a movie you just haven't crossed that threshold on--congratulate yourself. You're doing well. You're keeping a bit of your mental experience for yourself.

We don't need to know everything that everybody else knows. We need to know the interesting bits of our own experience."

[Cherry @Cherryopenmind]

This is what elite, world-class investigative journalism looks like:

Carole Cadwalladr and her team at The Nerve have forensically stripped the mask off the British political establishment.

The pattern they found in The Harborne Receipts is nothing short of terrifying. Millions of pounds flow from a crypto-billionaire into the pockets of Boris Johnson and Nigel Farage, and like clockwork, weeks later, those exact politicians start pushing laws to benefit the crypto industry.

It is the exact same playbook Donald Trump used in America. It is cash-for-policy, clear as day.

While the billionaire-owned press tries to distract us with culture wars and theatre, true journalists follow the money.

This is the toxic soil that is destroying our democracy from within.

Absolute honour to see her back in action!

[John Roucker @Johnisnotjoker]

Has @Nigel_Farage personally sued Ben Habib yet?

Has @Nigel_Farage reported his "hacked" phone to the proper authorities yet?

Has @Nigel_Farage answered how his girlfriend afforded that house in Clacton yet?

Has @Nigel_Farage settled on a lie for that £5 million yet?

[OLBG.com @OLBG]

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[Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla]

I sent @bbcpress questions ahead of tonight’s show about the the failure to include a single critical voice & whether the lack of due impartiality is a breach of the BBC’s editorial code…

….I received no reply.