Chris Culpin

“That’s what democracy looks like!” said the woman in California, following the arrest of Andrew by police at 8am this morning.

There is growing concern about the BBC’s political coverage and the way recent events have been reported. Too often, reporting appears to rely on assumption, interpretation and anonymous briefing, presenting a picture that does not reflect the mood within the Labour Party or among voters. Commentary risks being treated as fact, and Westminster speculation has too often been given greater weight than the views of the wider membership and the electorate. The Parliamentary Labour Party is not the Labour Party. MPs were elected under the Labour banner, on the party’s manifesto and under the leadership of Keir Starmer. The democratic mandate rests with the members and the voters, not simply with internal briefings and political gossip. Over the weekend, the public pushed back strongly against the narrative being constructed. People challenged the claims, questioned the evidence and made it clear that they expect facts, attribution and balance, not speculation presented as reality. The Cardiff University analysis, highlighting the disproportionate level of coverage given to Reform compared with its electoral weight, has added to concerns about balance and proportionality. The BBC is funded by licence fee payers and carries a duty of strict impartiality. If reporting continues to rely on narrative framing rather than verifiable fact, public trust will continue to erode. If you share these concerns, the appropriate response is to use the BBC’s formal complaints process and ask for transparency and review. Make a complaint here: bbc.co.uk/contact/compla… Or write to: Director General BBC Broadcasting House Portland Place London W1A 1AA Public trust sustains the BBC. If enough people believe standards are slipping, their concerns should be formally heard.

What is the point of the ending of Night Manager? That evil triumphs in the real world, so we’ll do the same in our fantasy world? That another series for Hugh Laurie is on the way? Thanks for nothing, BBC!

Very clear now: Trump gave Putin huge publicity stunt - and no follow up to put pressure on him

Is this photo kosher? Original sources please.

A genuine account exposes the real Farage - see second tweet for corroboration Fascinatingly has echoes of what others have stated over time and the evidence from the way he has 'lost' many others he worked with.

"brazen illegality and gleeful coercion" - Tony Wood on the Venezuela coup in the New Statesman

@GadSaad Aren’t you constantly talking about how ”dangerous” European cities are becoming?

Of the 899 arrested following the 2024 riots, 41 per cent had previously been reported to police for domestic abuse. In certain areas, the figure was 68 per cent. This reminds us that the greatest threat to women is not strangers arriving on dinghies, but men closer to home.

Ghislane: “Trump always behaved like a perfect gentleman “ Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Expect her presidential pardon will be coming through any day soon

Trump silent on Gaza genocide and famine, wriggling out of putting any pressure on Putin

1. Why does Trump smell so awful? 2. Is there anyone in the entire USA, once a great democracy, who dares to tell the President that he stinks and needs to do something his personal hygiene?

Spotted in a Brooklyn doorway by a friend this afternoon

Yesterday I took a journey to demonstrate the benefits of GM’s newly-integrated public transport system.👇🏻

@Tuttlebees @simon_schama @Jim_Cornelius That’s even more worrying, because then we get President Vance!

@simon_schama @Jim_Cornelius Well yes…all these repetitive obsessions, short term memory loss…my dad was like this before he was diagnosed with dementia.

because he is utterly, absolutely, irretrievably nuts

Thoughts from the US "In my life, I have watched John Kennedy talk on television about missiles in Cuba. I saw Lyndon Johnson look Richard Russell squarely in the eye and and say, "And we shall overcome." I saw Richard Nixon resign and Gerald Ford tell the Congress that our long national nightmare was over. I saw Jimmy Carter talk about malaise and Ronald Reagan talk about a shining city on a hill. I saw George H.W. Bush deliver the eulogy for the Soviet bloc, and Bill Clinton comfort the survivors of Timothy McVeigh's madness in Oklahoma City. I saw George W. Bush struggle to make sense of it all on September 11, 2001, and I saw Barack Obama sing 'Amazing Grace' in the wounded sanctuary of Mother Emanuel Church in Charleston, South Carolina. "These were the presidents of my lifetime. These were not perfect men. They were not perfect presidents, god knows. Not one of them was that. But they approached the job, and they took to the podium, with all the gravitas they could muster as appropriate to the job. They tried, at least, to reach for something in the presidency that was beyond their grasp as ordinary human beings. They were not all ennobled by the attempt, but they tried nonetheless. "And comes now this hopeless, vicious buffoon, and the audience of equally hopeless and vicious buffoons who laughed and cheered when he made sport of a woman whose lasting memory of the trauma she suffered is the laughter of the perpetrators. Now he comes, a man swathed in scandal, with no interest beyond what he can put in his pocket and what he can put over on a universe of suckers, and he does something like this while occupying an office that we gave him, and while endowed with a public trust that he dishonors every day he wakes up in the White House. "The scion of a multigenerational criminal enterprise, the parameters of which we are only now beginning to comprehend. A vessel for all the worst elements of the American condition. And a cheap, soulless bully besides. We never have had such a cheap counterfeit of a president* as currently occupies the office. We never have had a president* so completely deserving of scorn and yet so small in the office that it almost seems a waste of time and energy to summon up the requisite contempt. "Watch how a republic dies in the empty eyes of an empty man who feels nothing but his own imaginary greatness, and who cannot find in himself the decency simply to shut up even when it is in his best interest to do so. Presidents don't have to be heroes to be good presidents. They just have to realize that their humanity is our common humanity, and that their political commonwealth is our political commonwealth, too. Watch him behind the seal of the President of the United States. Isn't he a funny man? Isn't what happened to that lady hilarious? Watch the assembled morons cheer. This is the only story now." - Charles Pierce