[The Weeping Angel]

Brian Cox now enjoys frequent invites on this and similar news review shows for no identifiable reason other than he played a fictional Murdoch type character.
Don't know if Rachel Brosnahan has had as many invites as Brian to discuss current affairs but she is Lois Lane in the latest Superman film so just as qualified as Logan Roy.

It helps if 90% of your show's audience works in the media.

[Bones McCoy]

[Bones McCoy]

All there, isn't it:
* The Left. (So powerful they are capitalized).
* My friend.
* Someone.
* Silenced (some truth in that this time).

Farege shoehorns his victimhood into a rambling headline, and the Scottish Heil fills its front page.

Meanwhile... real Farage crosses Atlantic frequently and rubs shoulders others who demonise "enemies" and turn a blind eye to "convenient" political violence, including killings.

[Spoonman]

I believe this is the same Farage that in the wake of Jo Cox's murder proclaimed that Leave won the EU referendum "...without a shot being fired"?

Pepperidge Farm remembers. Cunt.

[Youngian]

Doesn't look like the sort of t-shirt a leftist would wear so Farage knows he's shit stirring without any evidence.

[soulboy]

QTWTAIN.

Own it, you cunt. Half page apology on the front of the Mail would tick the equal prominence box.

[RedSparrows]

God I'd love someone to really fucking take him to task for his shit. Cut past his blather, his slimy equivocations.

'You wrote in defense of a man who expressed deeply prejudiced and fundamentally moronic opinions, based on arbitrary moralising and absolutely no concern for the flourishing of people other than those he arbitrarily thought acceptable, who, yes, shouldn't have been murdered, and in writing of this you implied it was the left's fault, some amorphous blob you're extremely practised at demonising and waving your hand in disgust at - what have you to say now, you absolute fucking weasel?'

How anyone can admire this man is beyond me. It's not politics, it's fucking basic human intuition.

The wilful blindness to right wing radicalism is so unbelievably obvious I'm baffled it has to be observed, yet he gets away with this shit every time.

[mattomac]

God I'd love someone to really fucking take him to task for his shit. Cut past his blather, his slimy equivocations.

'You wrote in defense of a man who expressed deeply prejudiced and fundamentally moronic opinions, based on arbitrary moralising and absolutely no concern for the flourishing of people other than those he arbitrarily thought acceptable, who, yes, shouldn't have been murdered, and in writing of this you implied it was the left's fault, some amorphous blob you're extremely practised at demonising and waving your hand in disgust at - what have you to say now, you absolute fucking weasel?'

How anyone can admire this man is beyond me. It's not politics, it's fucking basic human intuition.

The wilful blindness to right wing radicalism is so unbelievably obvious I'm baffled it has to be observed, yet he gets away with this shit every time.

At the moment I can count on one hand the people who have actually taken him to task….

That congressman a week back….that seems about it bar some jibes from Starmer.

[davidjay]

It's not only him. There's an entire narrative being built around the idea that the Left are violent terrorists (Left of course covering everything from the Lib Dems to Trotsky) and the right are decent, peace-loving and respectful people.

[Youngian]

The US now has Schrodinger's leftists: Gun control pussies who are also quick on the draw assassins.

[Youngian]

I'm just a fan, Alan

[Oboogie]

Jamie Oliver?

[Watchman]

Why are immigrants eating swans…..when they live in 5 Star luxury with 3 meals a day?

[Bones McCoy]

Only the Immigrant house of Saxe Coburg

[Tubby Isaacs]

Reform leader Nigel Farage has stepped up calls for the Bank of England to halt bond sales and cut the interest it pays to UK banks, after a meeting with its governor Andrew Bailey.

Farage met Bailey on Thursday morning at the Bank’s Threadneedle Street headquarters with Reform MP Richard Tice, after the governor reportedly requested their first formal meeting.

The pair would like to see politicians take a firmer grip on the operation of the institution, made independent by Gordon Brown when he was chancellor, in 1997.

What's Andrew Bailey doing pissing about with these goons? All he's done is make them look more serious than they are. The Bank is heading in the direction of cutting back bond sales anyway. Farage gets a nice "See, I told them, I get things done" card if and when that happens, whereas Reeves can't be seen to undermine the Bank publicly.

Farage talking over the Bank would be a short cut to higher borrowing costs, just like the Left taking it over. Sure, that is how the system used to work, but there'd be a cost for going back to that.

[Youngian]

Its possible the BoE has some informal obligation to meet representatives of all elected representatives. But other parties don't shout about it in a desperate quest to sound important. This unilateral cutting of bond payments (its not just Reform who support it, Tice probably read the idea in a City AM article copied from the FT) looks and sounds desperate like a defacto default. Especially if a clown like Tice was in power proposing it.

[Tubby Isaacs]

Cutting interest payments on central bank deposits has been suggested by people on the left too. Banks would I presume raise the cost of their services to recoup the money. It's above my pay grade to decide if this is better.

[Killer Whale]

Isn't it conventional that senior civil servants meet with members of potential governments in-between elections to ensure continuity? I don't think there's anything to see here at all, aside from a tacit acknowledgement on both sides of the obvious (to everyone else) fact that Reform is basically Farage and Tice and a fan club.

[Malcolm Armsteen]

Isn't it conventional that senior civil servants meet with members of potential governments in-between elections to ensure continuity? I don't think there's anything to see here at all, aside from a tacit acknowledgement on both sides of the obvious (to everyone else) fact that Reform is basically Farage and Tice and a fan club.

You are correct.

[Tubby Isaacs]

Isn't it conventional that senior civil servants meet with members of potential governments in-between elections to ensure continuity? I don't think there's anything to see here at all, aside from a tacit acknowledgement on both sides of the obvious (to everyone else) fact that Reform is basically Farage and Tice and a fan club.

This far out from an election? Maybe, but I've not heard of it before.