MichaelWhite

Elderly Hack and Sage

[MichaelWhite @michaelwhite]

Fair point Marina though I disagree. I was horrified when Ed Mil did a session with Brand to impress the youf. But Thatcher was warned against giving Savile a K . Both showed poor judgement though Savile’s crimes were unknown, merely suspected . But legit targets IMO

[Marina Purkiss @MarinaPurkiss]

What is wrong with this woman?

What made her think weaponising Russell Brand would be a good idea for PMQs?

Has she forgotten the victims?

Or indeed her hero Thatcher cosying up to Saville?!

[MichaelWhite @michaelwhite]

I’ve not been able to find a good account of the “ joke” . Can you send one please?

[RajS @pdxraj]

@michaelwhite It wasn’t a joke. Someone suggested Dana White who’s a Defense Dept spokesperson and he got the wrong end of the stick. Joke is just his excuse.

[MichaelWhite @michaelwhite]

Not sure you’re right there about Thatcher. I never heard her make “ cruelty based jibes “. - unlike Trump - and I heard her a lot . But I agree about empathy and emotional intelligence

[NoJezzaNo @NoJezza]

@michaelwhite She was humourless. Like him. Cruelty based jibes aren't humour . Folk that want to lead should pass a humour test followed by empathy. Time we had emotionally intelligent leaders not complete tossers.

[MichaelWhite @michaelwhite]

Not quite. MT didn’t have much sense of humour, but as a successful leader she did listen to advice and trusted them to read out their jokes without always getting the joke herself

[NoJezzaNo @NoJezza]

@michaelwhite He does jokes the Thatcher way.

[MichaelWhite @michaelwhite]

Well, humour is a very subjective thing. Could you provide me with a sample of Trump’s funny side. I genuinely struggle. He’s brutal and crude IMO . I quoted Boris’s bookshop joke only yesterday, a bully but witty sometimes

[le Couteau @alkanomega]

Trump is the funniest POTUS ever

"doesn't do jokes" 🙄🙄

#middleclasslefties

[MichaelWhite @michaelwhite]

I may have been the last person to realise that Trump’s appointment of wrestling promoter , Dana White, to be his press secretary was a Trump “joke.” Why do? Because Trump’s crazy enough to do it and he doesn’t do jokes - unless his whole presidency is one. How can we tell?

[MichaelWhite @michaelwhite]

Sorry, Ramon. A “reasonable question@is as not one which includes the despicable phrase “ coup d’état” - inflammatory language which may excite idiots prone to violence

[Ramon Agusta @ramonagusta]

@michaelwhite Michael

There were 400+ MPs and many ministers to choose from.

Apparently none of those were good enough.

So, why was he parachuted in?

Surely you think that is a reasonable question?

[MichaelWhite @michaelwhite]

Pizza in his left hand. ?

[Mrs Saltire….Reform Member.🇬🇧🩵NO DMs @Scotia_1954]

Here’s Nigel

[MichaelWhite @michaelwhite]

Exactly

[David Aaronovitch @DAaronovitch]

I didn't know Russell Brand was a rapist when I wrote this in 2014. But I did know that he was a fraud
https://t.co/e1TdqxhZAk

[MichaelWhite @michaelwhite]

Dumbo

[NorthWiltsMan #YourParty @KarlMarxUpgrade]

@medialens She ceased to be a journalist when she joined the BBC. They're All state propagandists #nonuanceneeded

[MichaelWhite @michaelwhite]

Alas, I fear you illustrate the same failure you charge Kuenssberg with. A crude partisan summary of a complex tragedy in which there are few heroes on either side

[Media Lens @medialens]

To be fair to Laura Kuenssberg, she admits that her new book, ‘Pay Attention’, is not ‘an academic tome’. (Kuenssberg, ‘Pay Attention’, Corsair, 2026, p.10). Even so, it beggars belief that someone who was BBC political editor (2015-2022) and who currently hosts BBC One’s flagship Sunday morning politics show, Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg, could say this of the Israel-Palestine crisis:

‘If you started reading all the books, watching all the documentaries and listening to all the podcasts that seek to get to the bottom of the decades-old clash, you would be busy for the rest of your life. And I don’t propose to add to those arguments here.’ (p.45)

If the public isn’t paying Kuenssberg between £395,000–£399,999 (as of 2025) to ‘get to the bottom’ of the crucial issues of our time and ‘to add to those arguments’, what on earth is it paying for?

On her show last year, Kuenssberg said this of the genocide in Gaza:

‘Often when it comes to the debate about Gaza, it gets very binary and very aggressive very, very quickly and there’s sort of no room for nuance.’

But how can anyone be in a position to judge what does or does not constitute ‘nuance’ if they haven’t read the books and watched the documentaries ‘to get to the bottom of the decades-old clash’? If Kuenssberg had done that research, she might feel shocked that she ever suggested that one should respond to a genocide with ‘nuance’. And she might feel ashamed that she had ever described a classic case of genocidal settler colonialism as a ‘clash’...

Read the rest of our latest media alert here:

The Art Of Not Taking A View – ‘Pay Attention’ By Laura Kuenssberg
https://t.co/zVE23Hy1is

[MichaelWhite @michaelwhite]

Remain won by a ratio of 2-1 in 1975 refo but mandates do not last forever - as I’m sure you wd say to explain why the Brexit campaign never ceased after the 1975 result

[MichaelWhite @michaelwhite]

Oh dear, Ramon, you say you are as “ British as fish and chips” (surely you mean tikka masala?) but you talk like a fan of Franco or Musso. Burnham came to power the same way as 7 of our past 11 PMs. Why incite civil war? As you must know the Spanish civil war was very cruel

[Ramon Agusta @ramonagusta]

This is the man parachuted into No 10 following an effective coup d'état via Makerfield.

Who, exactly, is this bloke working for? 🤔

[MichaelWhite @michaelwhite]

1956 : End of Illusions ;Those cherishing nostalgic notions of British global power would be wise to learn from this series. You are obviously too young to have experienced this painful lesson

https://t.co/1IM9700xpk

[MichaelWhite @michaelwhite]

Watch out, folk. I suspect Benny Is harvesting your data, a common trick these days. Churchill, a great man ( two words) , would have disapproved

[Benonwine @benonwine]

Describe Winston Churchill in TWO words? https://t.co/xSzVQScU9d

[MichaelWhite @michaelwhite]

Hush, they don’t talk about that now.

[Steve_Wright @SteveWright58]

@michaelwhite Plenty of Brexiteers were in favour of single market and much closer ties than we have now.

[MichaelWhite @michaelwhite]

That’s not right, Howard. Most experienced soldiers hate war because they know its reality. After the carnage of Waterloo, Wellington was deeply upset and promised himself never to fight another one

[Howard Richards @WelshRebel49]

@michaelwhite Soldiers will always promote conflict to justify their jobs. We need peace mongers not war mongers. What the people want.

[MichaelWhite @michaelwhite]

Agreed, but there are plenty more

[Ennius @red_loeb]

@michaelwhite I admire and enjoy the work of BBC journalists especially @JohnSimpsonNews @BBCSteveR @bbclysedoucet @BowenBBC @tombateman .

[MichaelWhite @michaelwhite]

Ouch !

[This account does not exist. @RansomVipond]

@michaelwhite Like his fellow countryman Julian Assange, Pilger was a regular on Russia Today (RT). I wouldn't call that very lefty.

[MichaelWhite @michaelwhite]

I don’t quite follow, can you explain ?

[derek thrower @dthroat]

@michaelwhite BBC News has been in demise since the Kelly debacle where they played their source to make a point rather than simply report news.