Victoria Derbyshire is really good at having a no bullshit approach, asking incisive questions, while not smothering the guest with ego and bluster. A real asset to the BBC.

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Me telling 19 year old leftist shitposters that Paul Mason used to actually be a serious broadcast journalist on Newsnight.

Remember the time Jess Phillips claimed tweeting the words 'Palestine lives' is antisemitic?

Having a party’s national executive committee not only impose parliamentary candidates but actually be the candidates themselves is now ‘anti-Stalinism’.

Remember that Jess Barnard is in her 20s - and Joseph Stalin died in 1953.

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In 2016 there was the line that the Labour parliamentary party wanted to ‘break Corbyn as a man’.

Very hard not to conclude the same here with Abbott.

A completely dysfunctional culture pervades both major parties. It’s why we need an end to the two party system.

A reminder that Labour used Frank Hester’s racist comments towards Diane Abbott for a fundraising mailshot just a few months ago.

The two most immoral organisations in British civil society are the Conservative and Labour parties.

It’s why we need PR.

Wow.

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And with PR costs of entry to starting a new party are far lower.

Meaning this kind of authoritarianism has major downsides - and disincentives.

I'm being deadly serious: no leading figure in British politics has been this comfortable lying before. Not Blair, not Johnson.

Nikki Hailey in Israel scribbling 'FINISH THEM'on the shells that the IDF is about to fire into Rafah in defiance of the International Court of Justice. Biden provided the shells, Republicans autograph them. The US political class is united in its complicity with this genocide.

When Mothin Ali won a council election in east Leeds, he didn’t expect to make headlines across the rightwing press.

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If this stops *one person* being murdered by Israeli strikes it’s worth it.

Given the scenes of a decapitated child in Rafah earlier this week it’s hard to think of a more virtuous act, frankly.

If the U.K. won’t end arms sales to Israel this has to keep happening.

I firmly believe this could happen to any legislator or UK diplomat if political weather ever changed by the way. Just look at what happened to British forces in Palestine after 1945.

Would the 73 'Labour Friends of Israel' MPs support that? My bet is they'd just say nothing.

I can't wait to see at the NEC candidates approval meeting - if any NEC member selected as a candidate is there to - approve themselves.

This would mean that every Labour MP who went on television and said that there was an ongoing independent investigation into Diane Abbott was either lying, or deliberately misled by the party leadership.