Make them famous....

Whenever I see a Tory shadow minister talking about how bad crime is I’m reminded that they got rid of 1/2m years of policing experience, 800 police stations, 600 courtrooms, 1000s of probation officers and added just 482 prison places What the f*** did they expect to happen?

“Racist far right posts and Islamophobic conspiracy theories” One for you Mr Chairman @ZiaYusufUK “Candidate for Probus and St Erme in Cornwall, Jacqueline Francesca Wall who is one of the groups admins can be seen in the group replying to posts claiming that Britain is becoming an Islamic Caliphate and the statement “what bothers me more than anything is that a Muslim is leading the Reform Party” without challenging the substance of the claims. The posts remain up in the group”

I was just on the Easyjet EZY8084 from Palma to Gatwick. Once we got on board we got an air traffic delay. The captain came out and explained the situation and invited anyone with children who wanted to use the 45 minutes delay to come and visit the cockpit. Once we took off there was medical emergency which meant half the cabin were occupied dealing with the situation. The remaining crew managed to deal with everyone else with good humour and all the passengers seemed to act with respect and patience. When we landed the captain explained that the medical emergency would be dealt with at the front and asked passengers to disembark through tje rear row by row. I just wanted to say this was the perfect example of how to manage a situation and I wanted to congratulate the captain and the crew because it could not have been handled better.

Wow! A new tax grab on savers! How did I miss that? Thread (spoiler: I didn't. There is no "tax grab". Someone's got a bit too excited).

Britain we - and we alone - have a major diplomatic problem. Witkoff, Trump's envoy to RU, claimed on record that the four disputed provinces of Ukraine plus Crimea were "handed over by Kruschev" 1/ We are signatories of Budapest...

On Wednesday we published an interactive map showing the tens of thousands of UK companies hiding their beneficial owner. It's now updated - with filters and search functions. In this thread I use it to uncover a truly shocking and unexpected case of hidden ownership.

Just watched Sir Gareth Southgate deliver The Richard Dimbleby Lecture 2025 on @BBCOne . It is utterly outstanding - superbly composed , brilliantly delivered , compelling , bold and true . Its really is what we pay our licence fee for . You can watch it here . . . bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m0…

Mone and Barrowman lied. They told an enormous fib - that they didn't own PPE Medpro - and then sent lawyers to threaten journalists who were exposing the fib. I've no idea why they think anyone will believe this new statement.

'End of an era': Last surviving Battle of Britain pilot dies Thank you for your service Sir 🙏🏼 bbc.com/news/articles/cvg1z4…

Trump team now making direct contact with Zelensky opponents in Ukraine; Trump warning ordinary Gazans they will be wiped out (or ethnically cleansed); on top of tariffs on countries historically considered allies, claims on friendly territories like 🇨🇦 🇩🇰 and #vileVance whacking 🇬🇧 🇫🇷 military. But Trump yet to make a single criticism or demand of Putin. It is hard to see how long anyone can go on pretending that he is a reliable ally, or indeed any kind of ally. I get why @Keir_Starmer and others have to say the words. But the reality is chilling. Macron speech last night excellent. Merz saying the right things ahead of taking office. Starmer been vg. Europe really has to get its act together fast. And we are part of Europe. As is Ukraine.

RT @BenWallace70: Russia invaded Ukraine based on 4 assumptions; 1. His Army was invincible - It wasn't.2. The Ukrainians wouldn't fight -…

RT @BenWallace70: Slava Ukraini! - Героям слава!

Trump's lies about Russia's invasion of Ukraine and about the government of President Zelensky become more astonishing by the day. Even more astonishing is to listen to them being repeated by Vice President JD Vance and Defence Secretary Hegseth. All this before we listen to the rants of Elon Musk. Thus the leadership of the USA is being turned into the court of the emperor Nero, with a narcissistic ruler surrounded by sycophants-a disaster for the people of the United States and of all the free world. Yet the implications for the security of the U.K. are still being tiptoed around. We are facing our biggest crisis since 1939 and our self inflicted damage from Brexit is going to make it harder for us to rise to the challenge. It would be a miracle if the Prime Minister's trip to the USA brings a change of direction there. We are going to need to co- operate closely with our European partners in matters of defence and defence procurement if we are to get through this and stop Putin's aggression.

That's leadership

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If you want to know the truth about Elon Musk, British journalist Ian Hislop nails him. I refuse to entertain anyone's delusions about Elon Musk that he cares about or is working to help anyone other than himself.

Why can’t this approach, rather than “he said/she said”, or “he’s the richest pub bore in the world so anything he says is ‘news,’” or “this clearly adds to the government’s problems”, guide media approach to MegaloMusk?

Among those currying favour with Elon Musk, it has become an article of faith that the “mainstream media” ignored the UK’s grooming gangs scandal until the brave truth-tellers of X uncovered it, er, last week. Give over. Feminist writer Julie Bindel first wrote about the disappearance of Charlene Downes in 2004, a year after the Blackpool teenager went missing. And if anyone deserves credit for bringing this story to wider attention, it’s Andrew Norfolk of the Times, who doggedly reported on cases across the north of England, starting in 2011, despite legal pressure and accusations of racism. He won Private Eye’s Paul Foot Award for investigative journalism in 2012, with the citation pointing out at the time — almost thirteen years ago — that his work “has prompted two government-ordered inquiries, a parliamentary inquiry and a new national action plan on child sexual exploitation”. Norfolk then bagged the Orwell Prize for Journalism in 2013. Subsequent cases, including those in Rotherham, Telford, Huddersfield, Oxford and Oldham, also received widespread coverage. The news even made it to America, with the liberal New York Times running typically ponderous headlines like “Life in an English Town Where Abuse Flourished” and “Indifference to Child Rape” in 2014. That year, columnist Ross Douthat wrote that “what happened in Rotherham was rooted both in left-wing multiculturalism and in much more old-fashioned prejudices about race and sex and class”. Full story in the new Private Eye, out now.

I’m still buzzed from the wonderful BEAT tour. I have a video coming out Friday of my song “Road Dogs”, that features pics and video of crew and band from the tour (and, yeah, also some shots from Crimson and Peter Gabriel tours!). I’ll post the link when it goes live.