I love that he's just in the queue like an ordinary punter but also in classic Gordon dress down holiday - a formal shirt and trousers

3 years on from my first attempt, I've decided to have another go at making a railway version of the BBC News Countdown. Quite happy with it, I tried to highlight more of the railway industry than I had in the original attempt, also tried to get pacing better with the cuts.

We discuss on this week’s @RestIsPolitics - @donaldtusk observed recently that he couldn’t understand how a Russian backed arson attack on a 🇬🇧 PM’s home and property was treated like “Arsenal 2 Liverpool 1,” just a run or the mill event. Fair play BBC for their investigation but generally the lack of interest and concern underlines systemic anti Labour bias across most of media, and with large elements of the right backing anything thought to be had for Starmer, even if (in some cases especially if) it aligns with Russia China or anyone else who might want to damage Britain. Putin has plenty of useful idiots here

RT @peterjukes: During the 2024 election — only two years ago while a Reform candidate — Kenyon was amping up the summer riots. When will t…

Farage’s worst nightmare.

83% of British people are white 87% of MPs are white 92% of Police officers are white 94% of the House of Lords are white 85% of Britains richest families are white The notion that Britain experiences systemic anti-white racism is absurd It’s a far-right conspiracy

This is a really important point: watch how Reform are switching to overtly racial politics (focusing on crime) as immigration drops sharply. It’s about sowing division, fear and instability in order to persuade voters to give them a chance.

Spot on. When it's not immigration it will be integration. It's all they have to shout about.

Arson targeting Keir Starmer properties originated in Russia ft.com/content/dd79d6eb-44e4… via @ft

RT @b_judah: Northern Ireland remaining in the EU single market for goods means we have an entire region running as a counterfactual on how…

The art of the deal.

This deal reopens a body of water that was open before the war and begins a nuclear negotiation far narrower than what Trump was seeking before the war. All at a staggering cost to the entire world while leaving an IRGC-led government that feels strengthened.

Asylum backlog falling fast...

You’re going to see an incredible amount of fake outrage about facial scans by people who merrily have their faces scanned 20 times a day to use Apple Pay.

You’re going to see a lot in your X timeline about how the social media ban is unworkable and illiberal - and it will be one the most obvious examples of how social media skews debate. But it will be one of the most popular things the government is doing theguardian.com/uk-news/2026…

...small boat crossings falling for first time in years...

Makerfield would now vote to rejoin the EU – further evidence of why viewing British politics as frozen in 2016 is such an error.

“Shut up, traitorous appeaser. You will pay the price eventually. Tick f***ing tock.” Online posts this week called for my execution, my home to be burnt down & my kids hurt. The far right want to freeze their critics into silence. They will never win. belfasttelegraph.co.uk/sunda…

Totally agree - still a big traditional TV audience for the World Cup. BBC’s obsession with digital first and chasing social media engagement in particular is chronically undermining its claim to be providing universal public service broadcasting.

Media covering Musk trillion without any real regard to broader issues of inequality, tech bro abuses of power, his extreme politics. Glad to have been in a primary school this morning where the views on Musk were a lot wiser and less flattering.