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#BBC Question Time coming from St. Andrews tonight. Five person panel including Thomas Kerr, Reform councillor for Glasgow (originally elected as a Tory): platforming a party which has never elected a single representative in Scotland. But no space for Greens or Lib Dems. #bbcqt

Labour isn't Working. Resolution Foundation predictions for this UK Parliament show a minuscule rise in living standards overall, wider inequality & the poor taking the biggest hit. If this is the case: what is the point of this Labour Government? #c4News

Sarah Vine comes over completely self-obsessed & lacking thought for others & the consequences of her actions. Brexit for her seems all about herself: her & Michael Gove; Michael, her, David & Samantha Cameron. And I have sadly read her book; thats the impression of the book.

Pensioners are not paid "benefits". They are not paid welfare or social security. They are paid a pension. If the UK is ever to repair its broken social contract we need to get language correct. And not describe everything in the language of the anti-state right-wing.

Tony Blair hitting the nail on the head with Brexit. Brexit is the core problem with Brexit.

A Labour love-in. Ed Balls interviews his former Labour ministerial colleague, Douglas Alexander. #GMB reducing itself to a Labour equivalent of GB News.

The real meaning of Taking Back Control. An unreformed, undemocratic, rotten political centre attempting to reassert unchecked parliamentary sovereignty & absolutism over the UK.

Keir Starmer admits he got it wrong on the "island of strangers" comment. This is to be welcomed. He admits that as PM he gave a speech he had barely read due to the arson attack. There is a real human dimension here; question is do people want that from leaders?

Another new low for the Republican Party. A House of Rep Congressman calls on a political opponent to be denaturalised & deported from the US (after he won a Mayoral primary). Rep. Andy Ogles: in the racist, xenophobic, demonising gutter with the rest of his party.

Maybe the UK mainstream media can now challenge the outright lies & disinformation of Israeli state apologists when they deny the killing sprees of the IDF.

The Blair-Brown constitutional reforms clearly weakened & limited the power of the ancien regime & absolutism. But they did not kill it off completely or make a new settlement. Hence the attempt at retrenchment & reasserting the political centre & a new absolutism across the UK.

It is official. The meaning of the English language has been devalued & debased. "Terror offence."

Kemi Badenoch taking the right's cultural wars too far. Or maybe the end days of her leadership call for desperate action. Note: this is a real image taken today at an army barracks in Essex.

The Reaganite-Trump-Trussonomic-Faragist line that "tax cuts will pay for themselves" is a straight out lie. The evidence in the US is that Reagan, Bush II & Trump massively increased the US deficit with unfunded tax cuts. HT Justin Wolfers

Time is running out for Kemi Badenoch: "Kemi’s polling is in Liz Truss territory", says a shadow minister. "There is now no precedent for it." A senior Tory concludes: "She seems to be auditioning to be a Spectator columnist" telling this to The Spectator spectator.co.uk/article/its-li…

Tories like Robert Jenrick really think we are all fools. The sky high levels of rent in London & elsewhere are NOTHING to do with immigration. Thatcher sold off two million council homes at bargain basement prices. And greedy landlords like Jenrick own multiple properties.

Those fearless advocates of free speech & vanguard warriors against cancel-culture: spiked have blocked me. Goodbye to the tiresome & cliche ridden reactionary drivel from the likes of Brendan O'Neill & others.

This is a complete non-story. Large parts of the British establishment were pro-Nazi including large parts of the Tory Party & UK royal family. Edward VIII was known for his Nazi sympathies & a security threat during WW2. Below: BBC on MI6 head. bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

A victory for free speech & the power of music. The wonderful Kneecap who get under the skins of so much of the British establishment. #BBC #Glastonbury #GlastonburyFestival

One year of Keir Starmer & Rachel Reeves in office. They started not very popular & since have slowly sunk in tandem. They may have problems, constraints & a terrible legacy from the Tories but neither have had a good year. And Starmer is not really a leader. #Newsnight