Ian Dunt

Not even 9am. So far on Radio 6, the news bulletins have featured a mother saying her daughters aren't safe because of asylum seekers, a Tory politician lambasting Labour for crossing numbers & Badenoch encouraging councils to lodge legal challenges against hotels. An endless stream of hateful bile.

This is CNN, a channel I really enjoy when I'm in the US. I wonder if American journalists are aware of how completely insane they look to the rest of the world. How utterly detached their narrative is from everyone else's. edition.cnn.com/2025/08/19/p...

This is how you protect your democracy. The US is a demonstration of what happens when you don't. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

Doing another AMA. Send questions here or to ianduntmedia@gmail.com. silly, serious, anything.

Flicking through a 1976 issue of the NME and discovered this incredible couple of pars. Lesson right here for any commentator talking too confidently about the present day.

I can't quite believe I'm saying this but PMQs just became appointment viewing. It's basically a parable about whether one man can change the system or whether the system will change him inews.co.uk/opinion/hope...

Illiterate, desperate, embarrassing. More propaganda than journalism. The Telegraph doing their best to confirm our assessment of their decline at Origin Story Live last night.

This Burnham line on electoral reform is important: "I do believe there needs to be a mandate to make that change... I believe we will need to get a consensus at the next election. And if there is that consensus, then a change can be made in the next parliament."

Parliamentary motion against Mahmood's vicious immigration reforms gathering further signatures. Think it's pretty clear there's going to be concessions but they'd need to go very far indeed for the plan to be even halfway acceptable inews.co.uk/news/politic...

Thank you to whoever it was that recommended these guys to us: they were amazing. Affordable, hyper- efficient, friendly, a dream.

Yes. YEEEESSSS.

Nearly up there with HBO finishing every episode of Lanterns by saying: 'Do you want to watch the Ryan Reynolds film??!!??' You have never seen me dive so athletically across the room to grab the remote.

Stride was a decidedly non-bathshit figure in the shadow Cabinet, visibly more comfortable talking about fiscal policy rather than culture war nonsense.