Tim Scannell

Always Curious

[Alex Groundwater @alexgroundwater]

@John_Stepek, remember when I said 3yrs ago that our single biggest fundamental problem was our debt mountain, as it removed any ‘wriggle room’ and you weren’t convinced? Are you and @MerrynSW becoming believers? 🤔😅

[Winston Marshall @MrWinMarshall]

I went on @BBCNewsnight and enraged all the usual radical-left loons stating these simple facts:

~1.85m foreign nationals claim £23 billion in welfare each year in Britain

~ 1.3m foreign nationals claim £11.9billion of Universal Credit

Britain must put the British people first

**Britains tax burden is the highest it’s been since the War (1948 to be exact)**

If you want to lift people up, you have to create wealth. You have to incentivise work. Which means tax them less.

Anyone who runs a business knows this.

Since then, far-left X has launched a series of ad-hominem attacks. Some even saying these ideas are “extreme far-right”

None of them have addressed the substance of my arguments.

Instead they are trying to shame me for being in one of the most successful bands of last 20 years, whilst ignoring that I have one of the biggest independent politics podcasts in Britain.

And ignoring that I’ve generated 10s of £millions in wealth and taxes for the economy, created 1000s of jobs, and built several successful companies.

Likewise they think that I might be anything but immensely proud to be associated with my own dad, one of the most successful businessmen and generous individuals this country has produced since the War, and his association with GB News, officially the most viewed and trusted news channel in the country.

He’s a hero.

Thanks to Newsnight for having me!

[Olly Parramore 🇬🇧 @OllyParramore]

Someone buy this woman a very large wine… a bottle… the whole fucking vineyard…👏👏👏👏👏

[ⱤɆ₳Ⱡ ฿Ɇ₦ @AtRealBen]

The entire covid saga summed up in less than 2.5 mins.

Absolutely on the money, and hilarious AF 😭👌🏻⚡️

[Nicolas Hulscher, MPH @NicHulscher]

This is CRAZY…

A bacterium discovered in the gut of a Japanese tree frog just COMPLETELY ERADICATED CANCER in 100% of treated mice after ONE DOSE.

Ewingella americana even OUTPERFORMED chemotherapy and immunotherapy in the study.

[Ian @Iwendtster]

This is the most important video I have made to date.

This is how they do it to us. I caught them red handed this time.

Watch.

(Update — Part 2 addresses how I got this wrong)

[Jeff Cunningham @cunninghamjeff]

Who was first? Palestinians or Jews? The answer is not 'either or'.

In the Egyptian Museum in Cairo stands a slab of black granite carved around 1208 BCE. Its hieroglyphs celebrate the victories of the pharaoh Mernepta: “Israel is laid waste; his seed is not.”

The display makes no mention that more than three thousand years ago, an Egyptian king who knew nothing of the Hebrew Bible recorded that a people called Israel was living in Canaan.

The modern pro-Islamist claim that Jews are latecomers is historically false. Numerous ancient records refute it.

Around 840 BCE, King Mesha of Moab carved a stone boasting of his war against Israel and naming the Israelite king, Omri.

A ninth-century BCE inscription found at Tel Dan refers to the “House of David.”

In 701 BCE, the Assyrian king Sennacherib recorded his siege of “Hezekiah the Judean” in Jerusalem.

These records are written by people with every reason to ignore Israel, that confirm that an Israelite and Judean people lived in the hills of Canaan for centuries before Rome existed.

The second claim is that Palestinians are an ancient people of the region, even older than Israel. This also fails.

The word Palestine is truly old, but it never referred to the people who carry that name today. Herodotus used Palaistinē in the fifth century BCE, and it comes from the Philistines, a seafaring people who arrived on the southern coast around 1200 BCE.

A 2019 study of ancient DNA from Ashkelon, published in Science Advances, found that the Philistines brought European-related ancestry with them, and that within two centuries it had been absorbed into the local population.

The Philistines disappeared after Babylon destroyed their cities around 604 BCE. Rome revived their name in about 135 CE, after crushing the Bar Kokhba revolt, and renamed the province of Judea as Syria Palaestina.

The Arab armies came in the 630s CE, some 1,800 years after Merneptah’s scribe carved the word Israel. They brought new rulers, a language, and a religion, and over the centuries most of the population adopted all three. What we call the distinctly Palestinian national identity arrived much later.

The Palestinian historian Rashid Khalidi, no friend of Zionism, dates its emergence in his book Palestinian Identity to the late Ottoman period and the early twentieth century.

Under the British Mandate, “Palestine” was attached to any group that lived in the region, including Christians, Muslims, and Jews, that the country’s leading English-language Jewish newspaper was called the Palestine Post.
It became the Jerusalem Post in 1950.

Modern genetic studies show that both Jews and Levantine Arabs, including Palestinians, carry substantial similar ancestry from ancient populations.

But historically, the Jewish people have an independently documented presence in that land going back more than three thousand years. Palestinians are, in large part, Arab descendants of the land’s long-term inhabitants, but their national identity is about a century old.

As to the claim of who lived in the land first, between Jews and Palestinians, the answer is not close.

Anyone who stands on a campus and calls the Jews of Israel foreign colonizers in their ancestral home is arguing with a granite slab in Cairo that names a Judean king in Jerusalem nearly 1,300 years before Muhammad was born.

Stones never lie.

[Martin A. Armstrong @ArmstrongEcon]

Merz, former BlackRock chairman in Germany, I believe has a serious conflict of interest. I know, people point out that he is the grandson of Nazi party official, Josef Paul Sauvigny, who joined the SA in 1933. However, if Ukraine loses the war, BlackRock’s $800 billion fund to “rebuild Ukraine” will become one of the biggest losses in financial history.

European Business Magazine, February 28, 2026 wrote: “BlackRock is leading an $800 billion investment framework to rebuild Ukraine".

[Adam Brooks AKA EssexPR 🇬🇧 @EssexPR]

Ann Widdecombe’s murder could have been stopped, if the Police investigated the alleged terrorist who targeted @Nigel_Farage

[Ivor Cummins @FatEmperor]

Always, always, it's the Globalist scourge. We have always been undermined and our societies ruined by the Globalist scourge. Great short video here illustrating the reality:

[Leo Kearse - see me on tour! Links in bio @LeoKearse]

What's racist today? Today, getting fit is racist

[Sandra Parker @AngryBritishMum]

• 6th May 2026, James O'Brien accused Nigel Farage of lying about terrorist attempts to fire bomb his home

• Today Joshua Kerry was charged with preparing terrorist acts against Nigel Farage

• Today @LBC deleted the 6 May 2026 James O'Brien show from @GlobalPlayer 🧐 #OBINGO

[The Mercian @TheMercianNews]

So the police lied to Nigel Farage by telling him that the cameras didn't capture Kerry after he tried to set his house on fire, despite there being plenty of footage of him.

In doing so, Kerry was allowed to walk away with no charges or investigation despite there being more than enough evidence to do so.

He then went on to murder Ann Widdecombe.

Wow.

[Ivor Cummins @FatEmperor]

INSANE. The Globalists have jumped the shark, and dictated that their owned UK puppeticians go totally INSANE.

Interesting times...end game stuff:

"UNLAWFUL ARREST
On Sunday, police forcefully detained and handcuffed a young man under Section 13 of the Terrorism Act. They stripped him of clothing while dragging him across the floor.
He had not committed any crime.
15 minutes later, they admitted their mistake and released him without any apology."

He was in the area outside the Labour Party conference with his dog, his mum and his sister witnessing the arrests of over 150 peaceful sign-holders, and at no point did he hold a sign himself.
This ban is unenforceable. The police can’t even identify who the “terrorist” signholders are.

[J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling]

But it couldn’t be social contagion, folks. It’s just that young people, especially autistic, gay and mentally ill ones, are finally free to be their authentic selves.

The sudden explosion of young women who want to cut off their healthy breasts and take testosterone? Well, it’s absolutely not the newest form of self-harm, to which troubled adolescent girls are provably prone, ok? It’s not a consequence of the commonplace fear of becoming an adult woman, with all that that entails. No, there’s nothing to worry about there.

The possibility of regret? Naturally, we don’t let minors get tattoos or own guns or vote, because that would be ridiculous, but if they want irreversible surgeries and drug treatments, they must be given them, and everyone around them must immediately agree they are now the opposite sex. That’s called being kind.

And the mounting numbers of detransitioners? They were never trans, obviously, and should be mercilessly attacked, especially if they now say they were vulnerable and in a friendship group, online or off, dominated by trans identities, where transitioning was presented as a way to resolve all their social and emotional difficulties. (I have the emails).

No, there’s nothing whatsoever to see here. Keep justifying it, keep cheering it on, keep insisting that the doctors and drug companies making serious money out of it all are acting with the purest of motives. Answer every reasonable question with an accusation of hatred and bigotry. Dispel every qualm of conscience with an activist-approved talking point. Reassure yourself that everyone on your dinner party circuit agrees with you.

And when, in years to come, we’re all looking back on graphs like this, be proud that you did your bit to monster whistleblowers, parrot unevidenced claims and create the climate of fear that allowed the worst medical scandal in a century to take place.

[Liz Truss @trussliz]

Gilt yields hit 6%.

Will the Bank of England Bailey the Government out again?

[Moving Home with Charlie @moving_charlie]

The last honest Labour prime minister. Listen to him, how statesmanlike his speech, and how honestly he confronts the situation.

The same situation we have today, while they all pretend everything is fine.

[Matt Le Tissier ✝️ @mattletiss7]

Remember, when the government talks about misinformation they were the ones lying to you about Covid every single day for months and months. They partied and laughed at you behind your backs while you walked round supermarkets in one way systems with a useless mask on.

[Alex Groundwater @alexgroundwater]

Help to Buy 2.0: great little earner! c. 15% so far… nice one @andyburnham. But it’s going to help first time buyers… yeah? 🤔

[Roseanne Barr @therealroseanne]

Absolutely heartbreaking. Your silence is deafening.