Reposted by @jpowls.bsky.socialJessica Elgot @jessicaelgot.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Badenoch says her air defence plan "is not going to be exactly like the Irone Dome. We haven’t called it an Iron Dome." Except this is what it said in the press release. www.theguardian.com/politics/202... 1917738
jpowls.bsky.social @jpowls.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Wow. Kemi Badenoch just admitted the Tories went into power not knowing that they wanted to do. That’s quite the admission. #r4today #toryparty 030
jpowls.bsky.social @jpowls.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Utterly ridiculous that you are forced to pay peak prices in the name of “simplification”. Northern are nationalised too so can’t just blame privatisation 000
Reposted by @jpowls.bsky.socialAlistair Coleman @alistaircoleman.bsky.social · 26/08/2026Just remembered the Dolly Parton bus. 192717504
jpowls.bsky.social @jpowls.bsky.social · 02/05/2026Tonight’s snooker and TOTP 1992 is worth the licence fee alone 110
jpowls.bsky.social @jpowls.bsky.social · 15/03/2026Meanwhile Rayner underpaid (and paid back) £40,000 over an error on stamp duty. Lough Hagh was hounded over for being the victim of a crime. 100
Reposted by @jpowls.bsky.socialSam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 27/02/2026A Green win must mean that "left behind" voters forgotten by Westminster want open borders and legalised class A drugs. That's how it works right? 401054183
jpowls.bsky.social @jpowls.bsky.social · 26/02/2026So much reporting on the government focuses on what it’s not done. If they spent money on this and not free school meals, they’d report about school meals. If they chose to do this but not lift the the 2 child limit, they would report on leaving kids in poverty. 100
jpowls.bsky.social @jpowls.bsky.social · 22/02/2026Jaime Redknapp thinks Spurs are a bigger club than Juventus 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 Sorry how many champions leagues or league titles have spurs won? Deluded 000
jpowls.bsky.social @jpowls.bsky.social · 22/02/2026Ooof. Nobody but no organisation does a montage like the BBC. Is there something in my eye? #WinterOlympics #BBC 010
jpowls.bsky.social @jpowls.bsky.social · 16/02/2026Have they been on the piss again? #T20WorldCup #EnglandvItaly 000
jpowls.bsky.social @jpowls.bsky.social · 16/02/2026If we get dumped out of the World Cup to Italy surely that’s terminal for Brook and McCullum 000
jpowls.bsky.social @jpowls.bsky.social · 14/02/2026How many times do some people need to be told. The rule isn’t about the number of men back, it’s the denial of a goal scoring opportunity. If you are Jacob Murphy, running at goal and go passed the keeper, you are almost certain to score. #VillaNewcastle #FACup 000
jpowls.bsky.social @jpowls.bsky.social · 10/02/2026Infuriating watching British Olympians (curlers) make mistake after mistake but the commentators just say how hard they’re trying! Give me bloody strength. This is why we fail. We are so soft. Call our failure where it is stop making excuses. 000
jpowls.bsky.social @jpowls.bsky.social · 09/02/2026When did politics stop being about policy or issues? It used to be about things that affected peoples’ lives. Now it’s got about as much substance as Hello magazine. What the vibe is or who’s tweeted what copy and paste response. It’s not about who’s up or down but normal people. Politics is broken 142
Reposted by @jpowls.bsky.socialFarrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 05/02/2026Left: Zia Yusuf, "Mandelson deserves to be in jail. The buck stops with the executive, Keir Starmer is a disgrace to his office and should resign" Right: Nathan Gill is in jail for accepting Russian bribes. Using Zia Yusuf's logic, isn't Nigel Farage also a disgrace, and should also resign? 56876267
jpowls.bsky.social @jpowls.bsky.social · 06/02/2026One day when Farage is PM and destroying the NHS, we’ll look back on this government and wonder why we held it to such ridiculous standards. 052
jpowls.bsky.social @jpowls.bsky.social · 25/01/2026Of course when we think of Stalin, the first thing that comes to mind is having a park and Dr’s surgery in a community close where we live. What has happened to The Telegraph where it’s peddling far right conspiracy theories? 132
jpowls.bsky.social @jpowls.bsky.social · 24/01/2026The News Agents should be called The Trump Agents. It’s all they talk about 000
Reposted by @jpowls.bsky.socialJim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 31/12/2025my theory: social media has whipped up impatience, scorn, hatred, anger, polarisation and frustration with anything other than immediate results 10331249
jpowls.bsky.social @jpowls.bsky.social · 04/12/2025Wanted: English batter brains for anyone not called Root. Last seen April 2022 #cricket #ashes 010
Reposted by @jpowls.bsky.socialToby Earle 🇺🇦 @tobyontv.bsky.social · 02/12/2025in my judgement, Chris Mason misled the country 1229876
Reposted by @jpowls.bsky.socialChris Dwyer @chrisgdwyer.bsky.social · 01/12/2025I follow politics, but not too closely. This budget OBR stuff is utter bollox. It’s tittle tattle mince, it’s some sort of gotcha without any substance or an actual gotcha. The BBC political analysis has dropped lower than a snakes belly button. 0445
jpowls.bsky.social @jpowls.bsky.social · 02/12/2025Can somebody tell me how these images are compatible? 000
Reposted by @jpowls.bsky.socialIan Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 01/12/2025Watched BBC 6 o clock news. Just a completely unserious broadcast. Chris Mason, acting like a children's entertainer, giving a prolonged impenetrable editorial. Not a whiff of informative content about the Budget or what it means for the country. Just playschool blah blah bollocks. 2212827535
Reposted by @jpowls.bsky.socialPeter Smith @redpeter99.bsky.social · 30/11/2025How Kuenssberg interviewed Rachel Reeves v How Kuenssberg interviewed Kemi Badenoch #bbclaurak 612927
jpowls.bsky.social @jpowls.bsky.social · 26/11/2025So the 8.10 slot on the Today programme had no guest but was just Emma Barnett, Chris Mason and co slagging the government off. No opinion from the government at all. How is that balanced coverage? 🤷♂️ 000
jpowls.bsky.social @jpowls.bsky.social · 22/11/2025DRS should have a timer and if a decision isn’t made or conclusive at the end of the timer then the on field decision should stand. #ashes 010
Reposted by @jpowls.bsky.socialPeter Smith @redpeter99.bsky.social · 18/10/2025It wasn't until John Major became PM in 1990 that being a football fan was remotely socially acceptable for Tories. Thatcher hated the game and regarded supporters as scum. 2373
jpowls.bsky.social @jpowls.bsky.social · 02/10/2025Why have BBC news got appalled quoted? As if to suggest it’s not genuine?! 010
jpowls.bsky.social @jpowls.bsky.social · 25/09/2025Labour wins power from the centre. Labour doesn’t like choices involved in governing. Labour moves to the left. Labour governs to the left with no mandate. Labour loses power. Labour moves further to left and loses. Labour moves to the centre to win power. Repeat repeat repeat. Infuriating. 000
Reposted by @jpowls.bsky.socialNatasha Devon @natashadevon.bsky.social · 25/09/2025It’s gone so quickly from ‘boat people’ to all immigrants. So quickly from ‘I don’t mind if they come here legally and pay taxes’ to ‘actually it’s anyone foreign’. We are living in the ‘first they came for’ poem. All to give the population a scapegoat so the super rich can hoard yet more wealth. 15357311658
Reposted by @jpowls.bsky.socialIan Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 24/09/2025Cool cool. So perhaps you'd like to stand in front of a moving vehicle. Or is that kind of science magically settled somehow? 61965127
Reposted by @jpowls.bsky.socialReform Party UK Exposed @reformexposed.bsky.social · 20/09/2025Surprise surprise, now the Reform UK councillors want more pay. 189430
Reposted by @jpowls.bsky.socialPeter Smith @redpeter99.bsky.social · 19/09/2025The scene at BBC News as Chris Mason is persuaded to make just one positive remark about Keir Starmer. 712329
jpowls.bsky.social @jpowls.bsky.social · 16/09/2025We can either fight amongst ourselves about not being perfect or we can deliver change that only a Labour government would. 010
jpowls.bsky.social @jpowls.bsky.social · 16/09/2025Had to turn off @newsagents.bsky.social this morning for their inability to consider why the government’s language at the weekend was cautious. When they called out the far right and Musk before they got accused of saying opposing immigration is far right. Or its racist to care about grooming gangs 110
Reposted by @jpowls.bsky.socialMehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 10/09/2025Charlie Kirk called me a ‘lunatic’ and a ‘prostitute’ and demanded I be deported. Nothing, *nothing*, justifies killing him, or robbing his kids of their dad. We don’t know the identity or motive of the shooter but murder can *never* be the response to political disagreements. 2343387056036
jpowls.bsky.social @jpowls.bsky.social · 11/09/2025I’m really tired of smug know it all journalists that do nothing but criticise. Whatever the government do, it’s wrong and they know better. We’re going to end up with Farage in number 10 because not everything Labour do in office is perfect. 010
jpowls.bsky.social @jpowls.bsky.social · 11/09/2025I don’t know Charlie Kirk is or why he was killed. I’m very sorry he was. But can somebody explain why this is leading the news on the Today Programme? 000
Reposted by @jpowls.bsky.socialWill Jennings📉🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 29/08/2025Large parts of the English press and radicalised X users are increasingly out of touch with public opinion. 1216241
Reposted by @jpowls.bsky.socialMichael Goodier @michaelgoodier.bsky.social · 22/08/2025Seems all you need to do to get a sympathetic front page these days is plead guilty to inciting racial hatred by calling for people to be burned alive inside hotels 0104
Reposted by @jpowls.bsky.socialBen Barclay @benbarclay.bsky.social · 22/08/2025She pleaded guilty and was sentenced by a judge. Starmer had f all to do with it. She knows that; the Telegraph knows that. 22460145
jpowls.bsky.social @jpowls.bsky.social · 12/08/2025The utter snobbery of Justin Webb on Today stressing “media studies”. 110
jpowls.bsky.social @jpowls.bsky.social · 03/07/2025I’m sure this will dominate the news for a week like it did with Labour … 030
Reposted by @jpowls.bsky.socialStephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 11/06/2025"I get every better every week" says Kemi Badenoch. At what? Finishing fourth? 1522917
jpowls.bsky.social @jpowls.bsky.social · 23/05/2025Sorry but England haven’t been nearly good enough in the field today. Sloppy dropped catches and now wickets on a no ball. It’s all very good against Zimbabwe but can’t do it against India or Australia. #cricket #EngvZim 000
