The only shocking thing about this is that the incident took place in October 2022 - meaning that it's taken nearly *two years* to come to trial. Our criminal justice system is broken. The Secret Barrister Idle Courts The CBA Joanna Hardy-Susskind

Nigel Farage's tactic in the Commons seems to be to act as inflammatory as he can in order to get an audible response from other MPs. So far, they seem to be keeping schtum, and so avoiding giving him the social media clips he so craves.

Well, well, well...

Labour rebels.

Ruthless Starmer strikes again. And rightly so to secure his authority. Clown days are over. Apsana Begum, Richard Burgon, Ian Byrne, Imran Hussain, Rebecca Long-Bailey, John McDonnell and Zarah Sultana all suspended for six months. Fair play…

After the events of the last week it is foolish to be making confident pronouncements on the likely outcome of the US presidential election. Indeed, replacing Biden with Harris adds considerably to the uncertainty attached to any predictions.

Jonathan Ashworth's position as Minister for the Today Programme continues...

Yeah, but Larry the Cat is still gonna scratch him if he comes anywhere near Downing Street.

At least he doesn't have to call an election. #OpeningCeremony

That’s quite the jump

dave lawrence 🐟🐟🐠 Sun Politics Braverman's own campaign manager abandoned her - that suggested she might find it a little difficult to proceed.

A woman who lives nearby pleads with men to stop as they continue to stream in from other parts of the country. “What are you doing?!” “You’re the problem! You keep letting them in!” the men reply.

Sums it up really. Local residents want to come together to grieve - Yaxley Lennon's little band of idiots have turned up to spread discord.

Edward-Isaac Dovere I guess it's just like Trump, he was White all the way and all of a sudden he made a turn and he became orange

It's quite something to see Donald Trump handed the greatest possible chance to secure the presidency and to watch him throw it all away.

It took 3 days for any of your leadership candidates to mention Southport or the riots. The police, courts and prisons are in a substantially worse state than in 2011 which makes dealing with them far harder. You won't sack a shadow cabinet member for calling the riots justified.

Trump's gonna start calling Tim Walz 'Tiny Tim', isn't he?