Dedicated to... Amyl and The Sniffers - "Jerkin'" (Official Video - Censored) youtu.be/98DrIPe7t8I?si=4Lg4… via @YouTube

Journalist Ellie Flynn goes undercover to investigate the shady world of online loan sharking. Watch the moment when she heads to Reddit to ask for a loan before being confronted with a barrage of sexual requests for nude photos.

It's funny to see @Nigel_Farage talking about VPNs when he told the Comissioner he breached his Register of Interests because, I quote, "I don't do computers".

👇@KemiBadenoch has yet to respond to this Tory crime sheet of financial incompetencies. #BBCLauraK #BBCBreakfast

Charlie Kirk's video accusing Netanyahu of having 'let the October 7 events happen' to remain in power has been deleted from YouTube Kirk asks: 'Was an order issued to withdraw and retreat on October 7?' (The answer: Yes, the borders remained empty for hours) 🕳️🇮🇱 They delete the video because they fear the truth... and Netanyahu fears the trial even more. 💀📛 The army withdraws... the borders are empty... and the massacres pave the way for the tyrant's survival. Who believes this is a coincidence?

Farage’s policy of kicking people with indefinite leave to remain out of social housing and threatening them with deportation if they don’t find private accommodation within three months is a truly despicable - and likely unworkable - idea.

This Reform UK stunt is tasteless, counterproductive, and morally repugnant. Jimmy Savile wasn't just a "bad guy" or a political opponent. He was a prolific, sadistic serial sex abuser who preyed on hundreds of vulnerable children and adults over decades, enabled by institutions and politicians that looked the other way. Using him as a punchline reduces one of Britain's worst scandals to a cheap gotcha. That's not edgy; it's grotesque and desensitising. Victims' advocates have rightly called out similar weaponisations of his name in politics as disturbing. It also undermines legitimate criticism. Labour has real failures that deserve sharp attack from across the political spectrum, as does Reform. Comparing the party to Savile doesn't illuminate those issues; it poisons the well and gives Labour’s defenders an easy out to dismiss critics as cranks. Effective opposition highlights specifics (policy records, hypocrisy, outcomes), not cartoonish hyperbole. In the tight Makerfield by-election where Reform is positioning as the serious alternative to Labour in the Red Wall, this hands opponents perfect ammo to paint the whole campaign as unhinged. Robert Kenyon already faces scrutiny over past sexist/abortion/Russia posts. Shock value rallies the already-convinced but repels swing voters who just want competence. It fits a pattern of an escalating rhetorical arms races. We've seen previous equivalents (e.g., false Savile smears against Starmer in 2022). When everyone treats politics like a troll war, trust collapses further. Public discourse suffers. Democracy suffers. Britain suffers. This should not be normalised. Free speech protects the right to hold up dumb signs, even vile ones. No one should face arrest or cancellation for this (barring direct incitement). Campaigners can criticise Labour - I have, often. But we shouldn't just shrug and treat invoking child rapists as standard banter. That's a race to the bottom that makes society coarser, not freer or truer. Healthy politics has guardrails of basic decency, not enforced by law, but by social norms, judgment, and electoral consequences. Hyperbole has limits; some historical monsters (Hitler, Savile, etc.) aren't reusable props without cost. The goal should be sharper arguments, better candidates, and accountability, not who can be more shocking. Reform supporters smirking and leaning into this kind of thing risks confirming critics' caricature of them as grotesque insensitive protest clowns who thrive on fearmongering, scapegoating, and unhinged rhetoric.

'I'm delighted with his speech.' Online safety campaigner Ellen Roome tells @NickFerrariLBC she's happy with Keir Starmer's social media ban for under 16s, and looks forward to hearing the specifics on how it will be implemented.

Anybody got the best bits of this week's #LastWeekTonight ready to run (especially the Farage bit)?

Seven parents who believe social media played a part in their children's deaths reacted on #BBCBreakfast to the announcement by Keir Starmer that it will be banned for children under 16 from next year bbc.co.uk/news/live/c77yx1jp…

A robotic phone farm with rigs that continuously tap, swipe, and scroll through short videos. The system simulates human activity around the clock, generating artificial views, watch time, likes, and other engagement signals.

RATM guitarist Tom Morello's message at Download Festival this weekend.

As this @YouGov polling demonstrates, action on protecting children from social media harms is one of the least politically contentious issues of our time. Almost all parents want government help to tackle this.

Transparency For Thee, Silence For Me Nigel Farage howls for transparency after every headline-grabbing attack, yet vanishes when £5 million gifts, mystery houses and shifting money stories come knocking, because demagogues love daylight on everyone else, and darkness where their own hands are buried.

A Medway councillor who quit the Conservatives to join Reform UK has now left the party, calling his decision to defect "the biggest mistake of my life". More here: bbc.in/49YhxCB

Capitalism is the issue

It's revealing that Farage and Reform have also started to push a "white lives matter" agenda too. I wonder why?

Socialism for the rich, capitalism for the poor.

🚜 🌾 🐄 🐖 🐓 Lincolnshire farmer Nick Allpress the Brexit tragedy. Many farmers were misled to believe Brexit would mean control, prosperity and a better deal for British agriculture. Instead they have watched: 🚜 Farm support slashed & IHT burden 🌱 Seed and inputs delayed by border bureaucracy 🥕 EU exports & imports hit by new barriers 👨‍🌾 European workers replaced with labour from much further afield 📉 Imports undercutting domestic production Nick’s point is devastating: “That boat’s sailed.” The idea that British workers would replace European seasonal labour simply did not happen. Brexit didn’t end dependence on migrant labour, it just changed where the labour came from and made the system more complex and expensive. Meanwhile British food security is washed away by lower standard imported food, impacting public health and weakening national security.

BREAKINGNEWS: Art of the deal. Iran says Trump agreed to 300 billion to rebuild Iran. 24 billion in frozen assets to be released. Iran claims some of that money has already been handed over. Jesus this is a mess. 🚨

When Enoch Powell made his Rivers of Blood speech, the UK population was forecast to hit 70m by the 1990s. Now, it's questionable whether we will pass that milestone at all. Fascinating from Tom Calver... thetimes.com/comment/columni…