Jon Bacon

Do you think that from the first day The Labour Party took office the mainstream media has run an unrelenting campaign of negativity against Sir Keir Starmer?🤔 Repost after voting please.

BANNON got rid of May in order to get Boris installed.Bannon is calling the tune to get Keir Starmer out of office.They are desperate to get Reform voted in & join up with Trump's America. DON'T ALLOW A FOREIGN POWER TO DECIDE WHO OUR GOV.SHOULD BE.

@fluffybubbles73 @bagshaw2112 @ITV I had £24,000 stolen off me in the last season! Never saw the woman again. Saw a producer at the tube station on my way home. I said "oh well, it's just a game." she said, "I hate working on this show. it brings out the worst in people.." show was cancelled shortly after..

@bagshaw2112 @ITV I always wondered if after the filming the winner would give the loser a bit of money

OMG what would you have done. This programme #goldenballs was fantastic .. why did it go? Brilliant TV . I remember watching this … @ITV

It is difficult to accept the basis upon which these so called facts are presented. In modern times, the two most demonstrably unsuccessful Prime Ministers this country has endured are Boris Johnson and Liz Truss. No other Prime Minister, including Sir Keir Starmer, approaches the scale of those failures. What has followed is a narrative constructed and sustained across major broadcasters, including the BBC, ITV, Sky News, and GB News, alongside sections of the wider press, the persistent chorus of voices from within the Conservative Party, and the influence of Reform UK. Within that narrative, criticism of Sir Keir has been constant from the moment he assumed office. That scrutiny stands in stark contrast to the latitude afforded to his predecessors, particularly at times when serious errors were made and rules were plainly disregarded. The effect is cumulative. A narrative is repeated, reinforced, and amplified until it presents itself as established fact, regardless of whether it withstands scrutiny. It is this constant echo that many have grown weary of, particularly when it appears so plainly unbalanced in its application. It is not unreasonable to conclude that such imbalance reflects editorial inclination rather than objective assessment. A Labour Prime Minister does not sit comfortably with certain proprietors or institutions, and that discomfort appears to shape the tone of coverage. Yet one fact remains beyond dispute. Sir Keir secured a decisive electoral mandate, a landslide victory that confers both authority and responsibility. Those who supported him expect that mandate to be honoured through steady and effective governance. To date, there has been no failure of the kind so readily alleged. What we are witnessing instead is the noise of political transition. Meanwhile, the Conservative Party finds itself diminished, its relevance increasingly in question, and its future uncertain. It would therefore be welcome if sections of the press returned to the task of reporting events as they are, rather than seeking to shape them into something they are not.

Something I have noticed about age 67 is that life becomes painfully quiet, and in that quiet, the truth finally speaks. The noise is gone, the rush is gone, the need to prove anything to anyone has faded. What remains is you, your memories, and the weight of the choices you made when you still had time. At that age, you don’t argue with reality anymore, you sit with it. At 67, people are not chasing life, they are reviewing it. The conversations are slower, the laughter is softer, and sometimes, the silence says more than words ever could. You begin to feel the absence of people who once filled your world, and you realize that time didn’t just pass, it took things with it. It is also the age where regrets become clearer than dreams. The chances you didn’t take, the love you didn’t express, the time you wasted trying to be everything except yourself, these things don’t shout, they sit quietly in your chest. And yet, there is a strange kind of wisdom that comes with it, a deep understanding that life was never about how fast you moved, but how well you lived. At 67, the truth is no longer negotiable, it simply stands in front of you, asking one question: Did you truly live, or did you just pass through time?

Bob Odenkirk drops a heartbreakingly beautiful truth on Mike Birbiglia: “Who are you jealous of?” “Anybody who’s still got little kids at home growing up. No question.” He explains: When his kids were young, he knew exactly who he was every single day. “I didn’t have to ask myself, ‘What am I doing here? How can I be meaningful today?’ The answer was simple: Pick up everything between here and the door, make sure they get to school, have a laugh with them. You absolutely know who you are. You’re a dad.” The quiet ache of purpose fulfilled—and now missed. Hits hard for anyone who’s been there (or wishes they were). Dads (and moms) who’ve had that phase: Does this resonate? Parents still in the thick of it: Do you feel that clarity every day?

FOR THE LOVE OF GOD… Can we STOP with this ‘special relationship’ BS And also…can we wake up to the treachery of our right wing press?!

Volume up.. 😂⚒️

@SpeakSpeechUK We've done it! Our first ever podcast... youtube.com/watch?v=4XeuYe… ...where we talk about communication —the good, the bad, and the moments where things get… lost in translation. Hope you enjoy it! #communication #presentations

Watch this from Historian Sir Anthony Seldon 👏 ➡️ Calls to wipe student debt and pay for it out of general taxation ➡️ Bring in Martin Lewis and give him four weeks to find a solution ➡️ There are no dead end courses eg the arts, stresses universities are so much more, "Education is the great human activity, it is the liberation of the soul and the human mind"

A billionaire worth £17,000,000,000 who moved to Monaco to dodge £4,000,000,000 in tax is now blaming immigrants for Britain’s problems. If parasitic billionaires like Jim Ratcliffe paid what they owe — and politicians weren’t in their pockets — our NHS, schools and public services wouldn’t be on their knees. It is textbook divide and rule. The real enemy of the working class travels by private jet, not migrant dinghy.

If you are going to apologise do so properly. Jim Ratcliffe’s half-apology is worse than saying nothing. He will never recover from this Fan Hitter and the advisers around him are cowed by his money and are, frankly, as big a disgrace as he is.

The BBC is reporting that "Sir" Jim Radcliffe has apologised. He has done no such thing. He has apologised if his choice of words has upset "some people." Typical non apology-apology just PR generated weasel words

‼️ Offshore Jim Lectures the Rest of Us (Again) He lives in Monaco, shelters his fortune from the British taxman, then lectures the country about being colonised. You couldn't script the arrogance. Jim Ratcliffe peers out from a gilded balcony and declares that Britain has been overrun, that immigrants are the great burden, that nine million idle hands drain the purse. The numbers are wrong, the history is worse, and the language reeks. Colonised, he says, as if the word were a toy. As if Britain had not carved its own brutal path across continents and called it glory. This is the co-owner of a football club whose lifeblood is foreign talent, foreign investment, foreign devotion. Manchester United has been built, rebuilt, and enriched by people who crossed borders. The Premier League thrives on that traffic. Ratcliffe banks the dividends, then snarls at the principle. There is a particular gall in a billionaire seeking public support for grand projects while scolding the public about cost. He trims workers, courts subsidy, misquotes population figures, then presents himself as the lone brave man willing to be unpopular. It is not bravery to inflame; it's pure vanity. Football binds cities, cultures, languages. It should not be used as a pulpit for grievance politics dressed up as hard truth. Division has never healed a society, though it has enriched plenty of men who already had more than enough. Ratcliffe may own a slice of the club. He doesn't own the country, nor the meaning of the words he tosses so carelessly into the air.

We have been asked to comment on the #LucyLetby #Netflix documentary, we are only qualified to comment on issues relating to the alledged #whistleblowing aspect. We like many thought at the start that #LucyLetby must be guilty because we should be able to trust our justice system, but from day one we could see no evidence of #whistleblowing doctors and publicly stated this. Many engaged with this phantom #whistleblowing. Some still endorse these individuals. All we can say about the #Netflix film is that we note no references are made to the non existent #whistleblowing doctors. Every time #Fake #whistleblowers are endorsed the genuine are harmed, they are less likely to be believed, this puts public safety at risk. The justice system must undo the harm and the truth must prevail however hard or inconvenient that truth is.

Outstanding work by @BBCMaryam and the team in Studio E 🙌🏼

@themagic_tophat We had this all last year so get used to it, MH. Champions League table tells you all you need to know about the standard of the PL....

What does this say about Chelsea then who are 16 points behind and will probably finish more than 28 points behind by the end of the season? That in a “normal” year, Chelsea would be bottom 8 trash? Yeh, sounds about right I guess. 🤝

Man City bought Khusanov + Marmoush for over €100m a year ago, swaying the latter with an astronomical salary. Their ‘generational’ manager hasn’t made them work, so they drop another €100m a year later on two of the PL’s best players + huge salaries. Doped, artificial club.

@themagic_tophat For all the brilliant posts you have written, the bottom line is you have a club with unlimited wealth and a panel who have better things to do than to sort out the biggest sporting scandal of all time. You predicted they wouldn't be able to spend big anymore, alas that was wrong

Miguel has impressively confirmed that an initial decision is yet to be made in the Man City case. He has also sourced information that confirms the Panel members have been working on other cases. This is significant and could have serious consequences for the PL. TBC…