David Souter

@tcanham459 Peterlee, obviously.

St Alban's, named after Saint Alban Bury St Edmunds, named after King Edmund Alice Town, named after Princess Alice Dudley, named after the Saxon Dudda Port Talbot, named after the Talbot family Helen's Bay, named after Lady Dufferin I can go on

Reform leaders @benhabib6 and @RupertLowe10 were regulars on GB News. When they left Reform they say they were never asked back. Probably a total coincidence app.prospectmagazine.co.uk/story/72784/co…

@LiamHalligan Next time you want to call someone ecomocally clueless you should take a look at how your newspaper wrote about the Truss/Kwarteng budget.

This story below reveals the true extent of Angela Rayner's cluelessness when it comes to economics, the public finances and financial markets. I say that not with glee - but deep alarm and regret. If this is really how the probable next Prime Minister of the UK thinks - betting markets put a more than 50% chance on leadership coup by June - then the ousting of Starmer/Reeves by Rayner (or Miliband) is likely to spark an instant spike in gilt yields, from their already elevated levels. Just the fact that Rayner has said what she has below will put yet more upward pressure on the market-driven borrowing costs – whatever the Bank of England says is these days mere mood – that drive the interest rates faced by firms and households. I have nothing against more social housing – on the contrary, the arguments in favour of building more are at the heart of my book "Home Truths", along with policy mechanisms that could get that done. But if you think that, in the current environment, hard-nosed international creditors do - or even should - give a monkey's about the "social benefits" of subsidised housing then you are utterly and dangerously deluded. Again, I say this in sorrow, not glee. I knew plenty of smart people at the top of successive Blair governments. The architects of New Labour – at least the Blairites – always made sure there were financially literate and market-savvy people in the room when big decisions were made. That was important back then - when the national debt Britain had to service was 35pc of GDP. Now – with the same metric pushing 100pc of GDP and Britain paying more than Morocco to borrow money – it is absolutely vital. It seems that there is no-one – NO-ONE AT ALL – near the top of today's Labour government who has the first clue about the realities of public accounts and global finance. These are – once again – NOT tribal or party-political points, but statements of cold fact ....

Nick Timothy has demonstrated that he does not know the meaning of the words "justice", "Christian", "Muslim" or "conservative".

Waiting for the “Free Speech Union” to respond. theguardian.com/politics/2026/…

'Historical figures' vs 'nature' will get you nature. 'Churchill' vs 'owl' will get you Churchill.

@BR7BR5BR1News Why are you reposting party propaganda?

A very interesting post from Reform UK. Although Council Tax is going up under them it's going up less than under the other parties - and just look at the Lib Dems!

@bbcquestiontime We ought to be amazed that the BBC is selectively promoting “Reform” party propaganda. It isn’t GB News and should not behave like it.

“I’m amazed that Keir Starmer is being portrayed as some strong, decisive leader” Reform UK’s James Orr says the Prime Minister’s response to the US-Israel war with Iran was “not clear” and “Starmer followed Farage” on allowing the US to use UK bases #bbcqt

A devastating indictment of Ofcom, the media regulator, which has let GB News to pump out Reform party propaganda and drive a coach and horses through the UK broadcasting laws. @arusbridger and I will be discussing this on @mediaconfpod shortly !

“Conservative Party denounces freedom of religion.”

“Just as Fox became the channel of Trump, it’s clear GB News has turned into the Reform channel."

A British political party has in effect developed its own in-house TV channel - and OfCom does nothing. Screen scandal: How Ofcom lets GB News get away with it - The New World thenewworld.co.uk/alan-rusbridge…

Magnificent article & investigation by Alan Rusbridger on how the utterly useless Ofcom allowed one of its regulated TV channels, GBNews, to be taken over by a political party.

Really? Has Robbie Gibb turned left?

And the complicity of Ofcom.

I genuinely do not believe that AI can make me a better writer. Not in the drafting, not in the editing, not in the conceiving or brainstorming, none of it. I crave human reviewers and editors. I embrace the virtue of doing things "inefficiently."

GB News has turned into the Reform channel. After a New World investigation found hundreds of breaches of the rules on accuracy and impartiality, Ofcom has failed to do its job and act. We've seen what Fox News has done to politics in the US. We can't let it happen here.

The Roost is at risk of closing for most of the week because of an unfair lease imposed by Bromley Council. "Keep The Roost Café Open – Protect Our Community Hub in Chislehurst Recreation Ground." Sign the petition at c.org/d94ZzMnwqf

Define “great”.

"Farage defends Richard Tice’s tax avoidance scheme and says ‘no one pays more tax than they have to’". But there is a big difference between that and taking every chance you can to avoid paying your fair share to fund the NHS, pensions, defence, policing and human decency.