David Leadbitter

Oli Bainbridge makes the league’s Team of the Week! 👊 Well Done, Oli! 👏 Blackett and Finch must have been playing darts… 🎯 #SSFC #AlwaysReady

Why has @Ofcom allowed GB News to become the broadcasting arm of Reform UK? Chris Banatvala literally wrote the rules when he was i/c standards at Ofcom. He's on @mediaconfpod this week with @lionelbarber and me to discuss what's going on prospectmagazine.co.uk/podcasts/media…

@We_OwnIt The water industry MUST be regulated into bankruptcy – and then renationalised. Given the amount we'll have to pay to remediate the mess they have left we cannot afford to pay the shareholding parasites a single penny.

Thames Water's creditors are trying their luck. Their latest proposal is another brazen attempt to dodge regulations. I've just emailed my MP asking them to reject the proposal, and bring Thames Water into Special Administration. Email your MP now: weownit.org.uk/act-now/email-…

The UK Could Be Quietly Heading for a Solar Power Revolution – Byline Times bylinetimes.com/2026/03/19/the…

Hail the heroes who opposed & resisted the Poll Tax in 1990-91 Poor people paid the same Poll Tax as millionaires. That was so unjust I was one of millions who withheld payments to make the Poll Tax unworkable Like others, I strung out court dates until the law was repealed

Beautiful Britain slowly coming back from Boris’s racist Britain.

Defeated Reform parliamentary candidate Matt Goodwin has been accused of using ChatGPT to research his latest book. Goodwin, the GB News presenter who contested the Gorton and Denton byelection last month, published Suicide of a Nation: Immigration, Islam, Identity on 16 March. Early readers of the book say that it includes fake quotes, cites non-existent articles and relies on “AI hallucinations” to make statistical claims. “I’m only 5 chapters in and have found a huge amount of what appears to be false quotes and basic misinterpretations of data that appear to be AI hallucinations,” wrote Andy Twelves, a New Statesman contributor, in a long thread on X. Twelves accused Goodwin of “statistical illiteracy” regarding the claim that most primary schoolchildren in Leicester, Luton and Slough do not speak English as a “main language”. Children who grow up speaking an additional language at home are more than capable of speaking English fluently or as a “main language” at school, Twelves pointed out. Goodwin’s book also includes quotations from Roman statesman Cicero, economist Friedrich Hayek and political theorist James Burnham – but Twelves claims that none of the quotes exist in the public domain. John Merrick, deputy editor of The Break-Down, pointed out that several of the book’s footnotes include ChatGPT in the URL – meaning the source of information was not found by Goodwin, but generated by the AI chatbot. “If the research of Goodwin's book was conducted mainly by AI, then he's done a terrible job of hiding it,” Merrick wrote on X. He added that there are only 12 footnotes in the book, with five referring to Goodwin’s own Substack and two generated by ChatGPT. Multiple X users who have criticised Goodwin’s methods claim that he has since blocked them. Goodwin responded: “Everything in this book is based on official UK census data and the very same projections that are used by the Office for National Statistics and expert demographers.” He added: “The Left don't want you to read it, they don't want you to know what is in this book, because they do not want you to know what is happening around you.” Goodwin was a professor of politics at the University of Kent for nine years until 2024. In February he ran for MP against Green candidate and plumber Hannah Spencer, who won the vote by a margin of over 4,000.

The French socialist party has held onto power in mayoral elections in the country's four biggest cities, holding off a challenge from the far right. The centre left, and its allies, won comfortably in Paris, Marseille, Lyon and Lille.

What is wrong with @UKLabour @Conservatives @reformparty_uk This is wrong with them all None of them are objecting all are complicit

So it’s confirmed: BadEnoch lies. Anybody surprised? That the numbers aren’t higher?

Get out and stay out. It’s much nicer. 🔗 join.greenparty.org.uk Unseat Labour. Stop Reform. Vote Green.

Once again we write to the British government calling on them to STOP lying to us and the Nation How difficult can it be for public servants to do their duty with dignity, respect and above all legally? #HillsboroughLawNow ✊🏻 @chriswardmp @HaemoSocUK @TaintedbldMedia @UN

9th April is the date that Official Candidate Lists get published. Reform UK are literally begging anyone to stand for them as they cannot get enough people. Those they have announced (Scotland) are proving that no vetting was conducted. Reform UK = Shitshow

Shame on Nick Ferrai and some of the other Right Wing Jumped up Journalists running down and criticising Keir Starmer’s government at this very SERIOUS moment in WORLD HISTORY If you think Kemi Badenoch or Nigel Farage could do better I got a bridge to sell you Stop spreading FEAR and start acting responsibly !!!!! #lbc #BBCBreakfast #r4today #JeremyVine #GBNEWS

Brexit has likely done more economic damage than feared. Recent evidence suggests the economic cost of Brexit may be approaching twice the 4% impact assumed by the OBR. The Chancellor has signalled a shift in approach to EU trade, but the effect will depend on how far the govt goes on alignement.

It's worth remembering how quickly the UK media buried the story of Tesla deciding to build its mega factory in Germany and not the UK precisely because of Brexit. A €4 billion investment lost to Britain along with 11,500 jobs. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gigafacto…

The Government has announced plans for ID cards - they claim they'll be voluntary and that they'll make life more convenient - but it looks more like a compulsion funnel to turn you into a number - we hear from Phil Booth of NO2ID 🎥 @financialeyes

A message to the new DG Please get rid of these two as quickly as you can they have poisoned @BBCNews @BBCPolitics Then you can dig a little deeper and restore the gravitas

Got the receipts. Tory MPs acting shocked that the Middle East conflict is pushing up bills, suddenly acting like they get it… …just a few weeks after backing more UK involvement in strikes. Everyone sees through it. Jokers.