Another interesting linguistic take on Mamdani: Matt Frei talked of his "Unapologetic left-wing politics". Why would he need to be apologetic? And do any of these media muppets ever talk about "unapologetic right-wing politics"? #LBC

Robinson cutting off Nadia Whittome mid-sentence was very rude. Even worse, it was to make way for an item with Reform's Tim Montgomerie and notorious transphobe Sonia Sodha. #r4today

What happened to Zack Polanski? He was billed to be on #HIGNFY tonight. All those breast jokes not needed after all.

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Lee Anderson says at one time in the Commons he was sat between Corbyn and Galloway which was "like a lunatic sandwich". But in that analogy Anderson would be the lunatic! 🤣#bbcpm

That American Richard Thaler seemed unaware that Reeves has already done what he wanted and means-tested the Winter Fuel Payment using the tax system. Amol Rajan should have told him that. #r4today

Even by the now debased standards of BBC News that interview by Webb with the man from the Maccabi Tel Aviv club was extraordinary, allowing a series of falsehoods to go unchallenged and even encouraged. #r4today @BBCr4today

No challenge to the nonsense from Tory Richard Holden that Lammy spent the whole of yesterday morning "on a shopping expedition". Nobody does that just before doing their first ever #PMQs. #PoliticsLive

Meanwhile over on #LBC Ferrari is trying to implant in listeners' minds an image of Starmer, who is attending COP, lounging in the sunshine on Copacabana Beach. We don't so much have a media as accomplished engines of propaganda.

David Lammy did not say, as snarling, sneering Emma Barnett claimed, that he'd spent the whole morning buying a suit. He'd have spent most of the morning preparing for PMQs. I checked Hansard and his words were "I bought a new suit this morning." Appalling interview. #r4today

One of the most remarkable books I've read on the British Empire is Empire and Sexuality by Ronald Hyam. There's a current obsession with immigrant sex offenders but there was widespread sexual abuse of native peoples by the Brits in the heyday of Empire. #r4today

Jeez, Andrew Marr talking about mental ill health on #LBC and saying "people need to toughen up". I'd hoped we were now past the "pull yourself together" ignorance.

It's like the old days under the Tories with Chris Mason popping up at the top of the BBC News to talk about their lead story of prisoners accidentally released. Oh hang on, he didn't though did he? #BBCNews

On #LBC Jon Sopel came up with yet another variation of this. I think it was "self-defined socialist". And don't laugh but Sopel and Shelagh Fogarty decided that Wes Streeting could be Britain's Zohran Mamdani. 🤦‍♂️

Wrong of #PoliticsLive to leave #PMQs just as a former Prime Minister is called to ask a question. They also missed an important question on matricide because the producers prioritise their futile studio argy-bargy over public service.

Vicki Young went for the formula "self-described democratic socialist". These forms of words are usually only used for people admitting to something socially unacceptable rather than a perfectly legitimate political position. #PoliticsLive

Hard not to believe there's a lot of projection going on when those on the right think that millions of sick and disabled people are cheating, scamming and 'playing the system'. #r4today #LBC

@justinonweb once again pushing his own personal prejudices. #r4today

.......and Webb is using this subject to pursue his own right-wing culture wars agenda about "victimhood" which Mayfield was sensibly reluctant to get involved in. #r4today

Mayfield wants decisions on ability to work removed from doctors. But if someone with clinical depression or clinical anxiety is pressured into work it can exacerbate the condition or tip them over the edge and clinicians are more likely to be aware of that than others. #r4today

According to Justin Webb the new New York Mayor Mamdani is not just a socialist but "a self-proclaimed socialist". Is that like a "self-confessed homosexual", a common phrase in my youth when being gay made you the spawn of the Devil? #r4today