Here we are again. Jon Sopel has now ignored his world-famous Bluesky account for a truly staggering eight months. When Guido began this series, he imagined one of two outcomes: either Sopel would return, or Guido would get bored of reporting on it. Neither has come to pass.
Sopel last posted to Musk’s X less than 24 hours ago, where he shared his thoughts on Celebrity Traitors. Those who fled Musk’s playground to the safety of Bluesky will have no idea Sopel thinks David Olusoga and Nick Mohammad have “not an ounce of common sense between them“. A shame…
Starmer spoke to Nick Robinson for the Today Programme on Polanski’s criticism of the Golders Green police officers:
“I want everybody just to imagine what it might be like. You’re trying to arrest someone who has already attacked two people and has no regard for life. We know that tasers were fired. I know from my own experience with the police, that there are only two shots in a taser, and once you’ve shot them, there’s nothing left. There’s a guy on the ground, he’s got a rucksack on. And I don’t know what was going through the mind of those officers, but if I was there, I’d be thinking, he’s going to detonate something. He’s going to blow me up and everybody around here. In those circumstances, I think you can quite see why what could have gone through their mind is, we need to do whatever we can to disable this guy…
Now, when I then see Zack Polanski come out and retweet or support a criticism of that, I think it’s disgraceful… He’s not fit to lead any political party.”