@SunderlandAFC He could have had 4 yellow cards today. He might have ended Romero’s season with that push.. you shouldn’t be applauding anything he did today. It sets a dangerous precedent.
Scott Mills sacked. Finally.
But how many allegations—how many women—had to speak up before the BBC acted?
Another case where “personal conduct” becomes a workplace crisis only when it hits the press.
Women’s safety in media shouldn’t depend on who gets caught. #r4today
@jeremycorbyn The new party launch is still going swimmingly then.
Why don’t these MPs all just join @TheGreenParty instead, which is already established & has almost all the same policies they want to launch?
Is it just because their egos couldn’t accept @ZackPolanski as their party leader?
I have seen many ugly things on social media. But after the murder of Charlie Kirk, something new and disturbing appeared.
My feed was filled with people celebrating his death with grotesque glee.
Videos of Kirk were chopped, twisted and repurposed by users, making him appear to say things he never said – all to justify their hate.
Influencers and Left-wing ‘journalists’ joked about the father-of-two’s assassination, reducing his death to a sinister meme.
This is not just cruelty. It is the normalisation of violence against those who dare to think differently. A culture that cheers when opponents are silenced by force is one that is heading towards catastrophe.
Yes, Kirk’s murder is a personal tragedy for those who knew him.
But it is also an attack on everything Western civilisation stands for: free debate, peaceful dissent and the ability to speak the truth even when others find it offensive.
The assassination alone will have a chilling effect on free speech – and not just in America.
In Britain we may not have the menace of guns, but we face the same threat from Leftist activists trying to silence and persecute their political opponents. And, chillingly, our rulers are following their lead.
Take Graham Linehan, the comedian and writer who gave us Father Ted and who was arrested by five armed officers at Heathrow airport last month for three tweets challenging the presence of males in women’s changing rooms.
He had made no threats. He broke no moral code. He said what millions of ordinary people believe.
Yet the thought police came for him, because someone disagreed with Linehan’s belief that men cannot be women and called them in. That should terrify anyone who values living in a free country.
There are several ways in which free speech is being eroded in Britain, and the @Conservatives are going to fix them all. Two of them stand out.
First is the criminalisation of speech. Laws meant to prevent harm are now being used to police people’s own opinions. Offending someone has effectively been turned into a crime. That is wrong.
Second is politicised policing. Real and appalling crimes – like shoplifting, burglaries and rape – are going unsolved, yet police are being sent after comedians like Linehan for what they post online.
Justice is being twisted into a weapon against ordinary people while violent offenders and abusers walk free.
At a time when bakeries are locking up sausage rolls for fear of theft, this is a waste of police time and a betrayal of voters who expect officers to protect public safety rather than for them to arbitrate on personal disputes.
Of course, what happened to Charlie Kirk and to Graham Linehan are on different scales. But both are symptoms of the same sickness: a culture that seeks to silence, not debate.
Worse, we have a government that sneers at those who dare raise the alarm about the erosion of free speech.
That is why I have asked Lord Young, founder of the Free Speech Union, to lead a review into the laws now being abused to stifle expression.
He will bring together the sharpest legal minds, parliamentarians and campaigners to identify where reform is needed.
Because this is bigger than one case – free speech is the foundation of democracy. Without it, there is no accountability, no creativity, no freedom.
I have never flinched from that fight. As equalities minister, I challenged Stonewall’s attempts to rewrite the law, defended academic freedom and said what too many feared to say: there is no right not to be offended. Protecting people from satire or criticism is not the job of the state.
Charlie Kirk paid the ultimate price for expressing his beliefs. And Graham Linehan is being dragged through the courts for sharing his.
Free speech is not negotiable. It is the bedrock of a free nation and one of the values true liberals and true conservatives share.
It is now the duty of all of us to defend it.
@KemiBadenoch This is excellent from Kemi. An intelligent party leader with a clear, concise message.
She's stands head-and-shoulders above Starmer and Farage. Kemi is a serious politician for serious times.
Mandelson might have gone but, just as with Angela Rayner, Starmer dithered when he needed to be decisive.
Time and again he puts party above country. He has no backbone and no convictions.
There are now serious questions over what Starmer knew and when. We deserve to know.
I'm sick of @AngelaRayner being hailed patronisingly by champagne socialists as a token female working class role model. And now as an innocent victim of prejudice.
I spent 35 years on the BBC working to prove that being a northern woman doesn't mean you are uneducated or thick. And then along came Ange with her lack of education, 22 letter alphabet and a teen pregnancy.
We paid for Angela Rayner’s education. We paid her wages when she worked for the local council. We paid her wages when she became an MP. We even paid the settlement that enabled her to buy a house. Tax payers have funded every aspect of her entire life.
'People who are more educated go to the left, when people who are less educated but more skilful go to the right.'
19-year-old Reform councillor Kieran Mishchuk tells @mattfrei that the working class are 'finally getting a voice'.
At the end of my first Reform conference I try and answer the question: What's the biggest difference between Tories and Reformers? The Conservatives are largely tactical, wanting to win votes. Reformers are largely substantial, wanting to change the country.
@Nigel_Farage@darrenpjones Nigel mentions the last five years. Before that, the UK was part of the Dublin Agreement, the result of which was small boats were not an issue or problem. Exiting the EU , ended the UK’s participation in the Dublin agreement. Well done Nigel!
This national inquiry is a hard-won victory for the brave survivors who refused to be silenced — who gave up their anonymity to expose the institutions that failed them.
Labour fought it every step of the way. They voted against it. Mocked campaigners. Smeared them. Branded it a “far-right bandwagon” and a “dog whistle.”
Now they’re pretending they supported it all along? Disgraceful. Their hand was forced.
Our job now is to make sure this inquiry delivers justice for every survivor. No more delays.
The Chancellor is cratering public mood, economy and jobs.
Borrowing is soaring, debt costs are rising and wasteful spending is out of control.
Reform by contrast are already saving tens of millions in the councils we now run
Another reason we are leading in national polls
Listen to Labour laugh when I say the public want honesty from government. That says it all.
They can’t negotiate. They concede before talks even begin — then pretend tiny gains are historic victories.
Gave away UK territory in Chagos. Settled for scraps in US and India deals. Caved to unions. Cut pensioners’ winter fuel. Taxed farmers and small businesses.
Every deal is a disaster. Britain is losing with Labour.