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I thought that Fiona Bruce had been getting better as host of #bbcqt in the last few weeks but tonight's effort was a disaster. Letting right wing panellists drone on and on whilst also allowing them to interrupt others and even interrupting them herself. Shameless right wing bias!

Spanish PM Pedro Sánchez on Iran: “Spain is against this disaster. Because we understand that governments are here to improve people's lives, to provide solutions to problems, not to make people's lives worse.

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Russia’s winter offensive ground to a halt as Ukraine recaptured more land than it lost in February, Syrskyi says The Commander-in-Chief reported that over three winter months, Ukrainian forces killed or wounded nearly 100,000 Russian troops — more than Russia managed to recruit into its ranks over the same…

For the first time since Kursk, Ukraine regained more ground than Russia seized in a single month, Syrskyi says.

Russia's reward for three months of grinding? 92,850 casualties — and less territory than where it started February.

🔗 euromaidanpress.com/2026/03/03/r...

The next election could be Reform vs Green… and nothing in between: what I wrote on 1 Feb www.independent.co.uk/voices/gorto...

Traditional Tory voters are literally dying off and Labour no longer represents the working class (partly because the working class don't exist in the same way as they did). Anybody under about 50 with no prospect of owning a home and shafted by eye-watering student debt is bound to look elsewhere

I'm not even sure it was a foul.

Undermining the results of a democratic election in Britain is completely unjustified and very very dangerous! The leaders of all other parties in the UK need to recognise the seriousness and urgently issue statements to highlight the peril of this development.

For once the Daily Mail actually serves to clarify the truth. This is exactly what Farage meant even though he was careful not to say it exactly. This attack on faith in the democratic system is completely unjustified and very very dangerous!

Labour getting criticism from all angles, some of it justified, but it is still worth pointing out that it's far harder to govern than to oppose. Populist slogans like 'deal with immigrants' or 'tax the rich' are easy enough to run with relentlessly when not governing, but are nothing like governing

@zackpolanski.bsky.social has been saying consistently that immigrants are definitely not the reason why life has been so tough for so long in this country. Reform, Tories and Labour the opposite basically to varying degrees so it's hardly surprising that immigrants and ethnic minorities voted Green

Very dangerous comments by Farage planting the seeds to doubt the outcome of democratic elections. There has never been any credible evidence to doubt the outcome of democratic elections in Britain. Saying things like this ought to be a potentially criminal offence; it's that serious!

14 years of Tory social destruction leads to lost deposit. Some voters blame immigrants, but more voters identify the rich as the source of the vicious, ongoing cost of living crisis. Labour, steering a cautious line between these two extremes are punished for not delivering quickly. That's my take.

Yes, exactly the Trump strategy of undermining the result of elections when they don't win. Unfortunately it then weakens faith in democracy overall which is very serious, opening up the possibility of authoritarian manipulation further down the line (as in the US).

That moment when Farage not only goes for the Trumpesque 'stolen election' line, but with added islamophobia. Yes that moment before the ballot boxes have even be opened from the man who stood down loads of candidates in seats to help the Tories

@zackpolanski.bsky.social deserves huge credit for this spectacular breakthrough result. A worrying result for all the other parties but that's not his problem. It's quite amusing watching the BBC struggling to pivot from their heavy promotion of Reform.

Finally, a government minister on #bbcqt points out that much of the money being raised from business tax rises is going to the NHS. It's my view that this is essentially what the British people voted for at the last election and the government needs to keep saying so over and over again.

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

Yes, the business bosses and shareholders have always operated to make money but they got too greedy. Reform divert the blame to immigrants. Greens identify the correct cause, but I am dubious they can get much money back; it's long gone and hidden. Meanwhile, food prices keep going up.

As usual on #bbcqt plenty of talk about business pain, but also as usual the Labour rep failing to point out what the taxes are for! If you just let opponents whine on and on about businesses without shifting the discussion to the reasons why, you end up on the defensive all the time.

The danger of taxing private business in order to try and repair 14 years of Tory social destruction, particularly NHS waiting lists, is that businesses might not be able to bear the weight. #bbcqt

Huge applause as Starmer declares Britain has moved beyond the Brexit years. One of the strongest EU speeches by a PM in decades - yet barely covered by the BBC or MSM. While serious leadership is ignored, airtime still goes to Farage and recycled outrage. Kuenssberg, Zeffman, Mason, Gibb - out.

I knew I saw this somewhere before. Funny that it’s almost exactly what’s actually happening now.

This is what a rigged economy looks like.

Johnson, Gove, Rees-Mogg, and possibly David Davis were plotting with paedophile Jeffrey Epstein and white supremacist Steve Bannon to bring down a British Prime Minister. Why this treason isn’t front-page news is a disgrace for the journalistic profession in the UK.

Billy Bragg, "I was more interested in what Marco Rubio said, about support from the USA being based on whether we follow their values"

"I'm concerned about that because the current values coming from the USA is might is right"

The slurry of dirty money, corruption, ties to Putin and Netanyahu. To destroy the world order.

Oh and the horrific child abuse from well known very rich, very powerful men who have massive control over all our lives.

There is a reason why media men are only going after Mandelson and Starmer.

Why are the men’s names redacted and the victims names exposed?

Because during the (extended) redaction process the DOJ have put all their efforts into protecting Donald Trump and the rich and powerful (American) associates of Donald Trump. The victims and foreigners, like AMW and Mandelson, were irrelevant.

I wish we'd stop trying to replace PMs every few months. It's pointless. Labour have a huge majority and an established leader, who seems to me to be doing fine at trying to get his government to implement their (rather limited) manifesto pledges - Waiting lists, housing, immigration control.

One of several missteps the government has made, which raises questions about their left wing / socialist principles. In essence, everybody should contribute to education because it benefits society as a whole and enriches individual lives. And it's more than economics!