Janet Londonborn of the House Collins, 1st of my Name, the Uncluttered, Queen of the Pasta Bake, Khaleesi of No. 20, Breaker of Worries, and Mother of Joneses.
Mehdi Hasan's full interview on Sky News this morning
Where he introduces https://t.co/6S8ajcqFxG @mehdirhasan
"There's a gap in this market. There are underserved communities, groups, voters, readers, viewers, who aren't happy with the British media"
"I'm not anti mainstream media.. We can compliment what mainstream media is doing in the independent space"
"It's what you're not doing well that we want to do better"
"We see media playing both sides journalism on issues that are not really both sides, like racism, the genocide in Gaza, and right now the war in Iran"
"This isn't a criticism of individual journalists, we're here at Sky where I think Alex Crawford has done a fantastic job covering the middle east"
"But overall institutionally if you look at outlets coverage, it's not been as blunt about what is going on"
"Lots of journalists think we are raising the bar, raising the standards, we are also about media accountability"
"We journalists talk about finding the truth, that is what our viewers want, but then we hit certain topics and say we can't say the truth because it might upset this or that faction, this or that person in power"
"We have this fake definition of impartiality, we must always say X says something, Y says something, even when when Y is lying"
"We get to a point where we need to call out lies"
"We see that in the coverage of Gaza, in the US with Trump. The media really struggles with a president who lies every day"
"People are fed up of that"
"Allowing the right to turn the murder of Henry Nowak into an immigration story when the guy who killed him was born in the UK, his father was born in the UK"
"It's a real problem when one side is just lying about what is going on"
"We shouldn't pretend impartiality means we should take a middle position between two sides"
"Take the genocide for example. The number of times Sky or other broadcasters have given Israel a pass. Or taken an Israeli denial as fact, when we know its not fact"
"The humanising of one side of the conflict. I think it's undeniable. The British media humanises Israeli victims of violence more than Palestinian victims of violence"
"I'm worried about the state of American democracy"
Domestic violence rates in Northern Ireland are VERY high, one in five of all recorded crimes.
A streamer from NI was recently jailed for brutally murdering his pregnant girlfriend. He left her face down in a dog bowl.
No riots
Remember this as the far right mobs assemble.
Why are Reform supporters trying to suppress debate about the role their MPs - Suella Braverman and Robert Jenrick - had in allowing the Belfast attacker to remain in the UK. Why are they trying to suppress debate about Nigel Farage's failure to condemn last night's violence.
🚨 NEW YouGov polling:
Ten years on, 57% of Britons now say it was the wrong decision to leave the EU.
Even among 2016 Leave voters, 23% now admit it was wrong.
Brexit regret is real and growing. The public has seen the results: weaker economy, higher costs, lost opportunities.
The case for rejoin gets stronger every day.
Guess who was Home Secretary from 25th October 2022 - 13th Novermber 2023, (the same year) Hadi Alodid was granted permission to stay here ?
Anybody ?
Anybody read who it was in the press ?
Anybody heard an appology from someone ?
Anybody see Braverman in the H.O.C. today ?
We had NHS dentists, and free education, we owned Rail, Mail, Telecoms, Water, Energy, Steel and Ship Building, Social housing was built, and we owned care homes.
All of this was stolen to allow the rich to rob us forever for using essential services.
The fake version of reality conjured by X algorithms - 'British Gotham' - grows in detail and persistence.
I've been shown this "Heroic Farage socks it to Andrew Bailey" image perhaps 20x in the last 24h. Each time under a new account.
X has no interest in cleaning this up...
Whatever crap it is that you’re selling, I aint’t buying.
My white skin is an accident of birth. My worldview is the product of life experience and learning.
The man who saved my life, after crashing a car in Northern Mexico and breaking my neck in 1992, was Hispanic.
The neurosurgeon who put me back together again in hospital in San Diego was Jewish.
A black guy once backed me up in a brawl in a nightclub in Edinburgh and prevented me from being stabbed.
I have learned more about the human condition from the words of Malcolm X than I ever have from those of Shakespeare.
You can take your racism and fucking ram it.
No one should have to worry if they can keep the lights on or power essential medical equipment.
Our Essential Energy Guarantee would give every household discounted energy. Because energy is not a luxury, it is essential.
@libdemdaisy
Once again, GB News trying to gloss over reality.
Perhaps Beverley Turner could come down from her lovely high horse in Washington DC, and walk the streets of Belfast, as a journalist.
Journalists were attacked last night during the riots. By rioters.
An isolated tragedy in Belfast is being used as an excuse for racist thuggery, all in the name of patriotism.
Musk, Farage and their cronies are spreading hate, and trying to divide our communities.
But we won't let them. We know the truth: there's many, many more of us than them. And we're going nowhere. Solidarity, love and compassion will win 🧡
Stabbing and mutilating someone in the street is barbaric.
But that barbarism came from one man in Belfast.
Mobs of thugs trying to burn innocent people alive, and their cheerleaders in the press & Parliament...
THAT barbarism is a far larger threat to our national security.
The Belfast attacker was granted refugee status in 2023 while Suella Braverman was Home Secretary.
She’s now in Reform attacking Labour over immigration.
If politicians should be accountable for failures in the system, does that include the ones who were running it?
"Andy Burnham boost as pop legend and water campaigner Feargal Sharkey backs him for PM."
I see Defra are still telling that utterly debunked lie about it costing £100 billion to nationalise the water industry. Just one of the reason they'll lost all credibility.
https://t.co/ncoHZI921f
Yaxley Lennon is genuinely a disgusting individual.
Sharing people's homes being being burnt down because they don’t have the same skin colour as him.
The attack on the innocent man in Belfast was sickening. It's also sickening how Yaxley Lennon is trying to profit from it.
Bloke that was sacked at the 11th hour by the Tories because he sent dick pics to councillors.
Standing next to the woman who gets angry when she sees black people on TV.
Standing next to the bloke who posted a whole host of creepy misogyny, homophobia and hate on his deleted and suspended accounts.
Reform UK is a circus.