Dave Crane

There's not enough words to describe the contempt we should have for a Labour Government who thinks people like this should represent them - let alone cabinet ministers. Where are the MPs with decency and basic humanity? Where are their red lines? Beyond time to speak up.

I just spent £61 in @NewLook and was told I had to give my email address to get a receipt. That is completely false and totally unlawful. A receipt is a legal requirement when a customer asks for one and it cannot be made conditional on handing over personal data. UK GDPR is very clear that consent has to be freely given and necessary for the service. An email is not needed to print a receipt. What makes this worse is their target demographic is younger people who often do not know their rights. The girls (all of them) behind the till lied straight to my face, then got shitty when I challenged them. When she realised I was a nasty mean old bird, she finally printed mine, and everyone else in the queue suddenly asked for printed receipts too. That tells you everything. Customers do not want this. I will be reporting it, because this kind of data-grabbing is out of control and companies like New Look know exactly what they are doing. It is shocking behaviour.

🔴We Need to Talk About Michael Gove and Crony Covid Contracts Gove claims he had no “active role” in procuring Covid PPE during the pandemic, yet evidence suggests he was involved in multiple VIP deals worth over £1billion, reports Russell Scott bylinesupplement.com/p/we-need-to-t…

Zohran Mamdani focused on childcare costs to win the race for New York Mayor, and the UK needs to have the same conversation about how no-cost childcare could help more than just parents. Me for @GlamourMagUK: glamourmagazine.co.uk/article/zohran…

I’m so happy to see this. @johnsweeneyroar is one of our own. Like @thenerve_news he’s an old Observer hand. Later at BBC he did everything, but in 2018, he found himself blocked from one particular subject…Russia & Brexit. Please give him a hand…Sweeney’s coming home 👏👏👏

Really important case - a free & democratic society where people can freely choose their leaders & representatives are core rights protected by the Convention - but unless governments are required to act on them, they remain theoretical 👇

Gosh. What times. An extract from my High Court judgment has just been rediscovered & is going viral.

Hey @ZackPolanski I hear you are talking to Laura Kuenssberg tomorrow morning? Can you ask her why this story is being exposed by a 3-week-old-old outlet @thenerve_news & not the BBC?? 🤔

NEW: Police knew a Kremlin spy ring recruited former leader of Reform Wales at least 3 years ago. So why was Nathan Gill not charged till Feb this year? Pls read part 2 of @thenerve_news special investigation into Nathan Gill. And please share! 1/

NEW: The British politician, his Russian intelligence handler & a Kremlin plot against the US & Ukraine. My new piece about Nathan Gill and Nigel Farage for @thenerve_news in which we ask: Why, even now, is no-one asking questions?

This is a lie. There are many criticisms you might sensibly and truthfully make of the Sentencing Council and the Sentencing Guidelines. I’ve been making them for years. But this is an outright lie. Pure fabrication. A fraud on the public.

Here I am in 2020 in the flimsiest, most pitful PPE - like so many other NHS staff, some of whom died from the Covid they caught in their hospitals. Tory peer @MichelleMone - who today rightly (& wonderfully) lost her legal case - dares to claim she’s been ‘scapegoated’. What, Michelle? For the £122 million you pocketed from taxpayers for delivering unusable PPE – at least £65 million of which went straight into your venal husband’s offshore accounts in the Isle of Man? For being one of a small minority of corrupt grifters who saw a global pandemic as nothing more than a chance to get rich quick? For caring more about lining your own pockets than the deaths of NHS staff & patients? For being disgustingly cynical & avaracious - unlike all those millions of ordinary, decent Britons across the country who stepped up with such courage & decency? I was given masks whose ear loops fell off & aprons so flimsy they ripped apart when you tried to put them on, Michelle. Nurses and porters in our hospital died from the Covid they caught there, Michelle. How dare you try to bleat victimisation now, Michelle? You are the polar opposite of the values that should govern public life. Repay what you owe & get your dishonourable form as far away from the House of Lords as possible.

Nathan Gill has pleaded guilty & this tweet has been doing rounds today. Now imagine my investigation into Russian interference hadn’t been crushed by lawfare, my news org had doubled down & carried on & govt had opened an inquiry as MPs demanded. 😢

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There are very many issues on which Angela Rayner and I disagree. But she is at least an authentic part of the labour movement. That cannot be said of many right wingers who are now delighted by her departure.

@AngelaRayner So sorry to see you go. We see the hypocrisy of the attacks on your life and financial situation. The right-wing media have been intent on holding you to a far higher set of standards than any Tory or Reform MP and 'getting you out'. It stinks of double standards and misogyny

Right wing media has had it in for @AngelaRayner from the start - they couldn’t bear a working class woman being so powerful & dynamic. She made a mistake & has paid heavily for it. Hope she’ll return at some point in the future - our politics needs more voices like hers

The targeting & killing of journalists in Gaza & the failure of the media to show collective solidarity & to take collective action is…incomprehensible. I feel a such profound sense of shame & failure. It’s not just the death of journalists. It’s the death of journalism. 1/

Just wonderful from Rosen. An ancient Buddhist text comments: 'Disturbed times produce some who, though buffeted by wild waves, move through the deep waters to embrace all who suffer. Even when undergoing fierce suffering themselves, they still extend kindness to others.'

The one certainty in media coverage is that whoever challenges a status quo pulling us towards annihilation – whether from nuclear war or ecological collapse – is going to be smeared as a "narcissist". More from Media Lens: medialens.org/2025/the-selfi…