Is the U.S. holding those responsible for shooting down planes in general? Or just cherry picking? Anyone ever held to account for this incident? Or was “Whoops, sorry ‘bout that,” considered enough? #Cuba #Iran #RaulCastro #r4today

#BBCNews #R4Today George Michael given a posthumous fellowship at the #NovelloAwards … as was Thom Yorke (08:09.53) - a rare honour, since he is not actually dead Please think about what you are saying. Words have meanings.

Don't underestimate how brave the flotilla activists are. Last time round many were abused, repeatedly strip searched and one young woman was even raped. #r4today freedomflotilla.org/2026/01/02/f...

They already are Mark Rowley’s #MetropolitanPolice hold direct talks with Israel and abduct anyone who protests #Genocide and #WarCrimes in #Palestine #Hostages held by #Zionists worldwide increase daily Want #Peace? Release the hostages* *West Bank, Gaza, East Jerusalem, London, NYC, Berlin, …

This is what our great friend and ally, Israel, does to pesce activists on camera. Imagine what they do to Palestinians when the cameras are off. #r4today youtube.com/shorts/6Nuif...

#R4Today “I live in an ex-council house” does NOT mean “I had it tough” It means “I was able to take advantage of a bad policy that benefited me but made things harder for many other people” If you want to buy a house, don’t deprive the less-advantaged of a home He is lucky he can refuse work.

Cormac McCarthy’s #BloodMeridian features a gang roaming Mexico collecting Native American ears for a bounty in the 1800s. Chuck Palahniuk’s #AdjustmentDay (2018) includes similar acts in the modern #USCapitol building. This passage seems to reveal an element of wish-fulfilment. #BookSky #Trump

#R4Today Astonishing! A #football team has won the league - the first time this has ever happened Another football team watched how competitors play, in hope of being able to beat them - another unprecedented act Mercifully these cataclysmic events happened when the world is calm and peaceful.

#R4Today Is vaccine hesitancy really “particularly prevalent in #Africa”, #NickRobinson? The vision in my head is of people walking vast distances to join queues The hesitancy seems to be in #USA and, increasingly, a dumbed-down #UK, where #sovereignty means slavishly becoming a US vassal state

#R4Today #Supermarkets urged to limit prices on bread, milk, eggs That should be popular with #farmers, who say they cannot survive at current prices, despite voting for #Brexit, and being desperate to pass the farms (and debts) to their children Yet the cost of farmland keeps riding …

#R4Today Still talking about a #ceasefire, while #Israel continues its hostile #invadion of #Lebanon Not only my government but now my national broadcaster pretending #WarCrimes are acceptable, so long as the ‘right people’ commit them #Complicity #Genocide

#R4Today Really? We need to fit air conditioning to combat the effects of #ClimateChange? That should help prevent climate change getting worse.

#BBCNews #R4PM Surely by now we should be calling it LS2? #HS2 #Delays #Costs #Incompetence #Corruption

#R4Today Nick Robinson: “I said ‘for certain people’ …” Or: “I used sly innuendo to avoid defining who I was talking about, thereby making my claim unchallengeable” John Swinney deserves a medal for his calmness.

#R4Today Caroline Dineage talks of “almost doubling down” on checks and balances on reality TV. What does she actually mean? “… singling down”? “… one and a half times-ing down”? “… doubling down on the level, but heading towards a decline”? Why don’t politicians speak English?

Cartoon from Andy Donato.

#BBC #R4Today Like Anna Foster, I have never seen a completed #Panini sticker album But that’s because I am a grown-up and, even as a child, always considered them an imbecilic waste of money Like paying £3,000 to buy a book in 60 monthly parts, just because it comes with a free 60-piece toy.

#BBCNews #R4Today On the other hand, if #AndyBurnham had the integrity to stick to his #Rejoin credentials, it could defenestrate #Farage and be a real step towards dragging UK out of its current malaise.

Trump also has lawyers, governors and billionaires. If Americans think the answer to the corruption of democracy lies in the hands of the very people on whose behalf it was corrupted, you are in for a shock. You need to purge them, not sit meekly waiting for them to rape you a different way.

This must create quite the dilemma for Yaxley lemon: Dangerous foreigners being banned from entering the country should be right up his street, except he had invited those himself #r4today

#BBC #R4Today After years of BBC #complicity with #Genocide, how refreshing - a stroke of genius - to set up John Mann to tell Daniel Levy why he is #antisemitic for opposing #EthnicCleansing and supporting #peaceful #FreeSpeech Will Mann complain?

#BBCNews #R4Today If I #rape someone, kidnap and torture a #Sikh, or travel abroad to murder a #Muslim #child, I can expect to wait until 2028 or later before trial … but if I whisper to a close friend that I think #Genocide is bad, regardless of by whom, my trial will be swift? #Complicity #Lies

If you have to call a £5m 'reward for Brexit campaigning' a 'gift', you’ve already admitted it’s political. Nigel Farage didn’t just forget to declare it; he explained why he should have. #r4today #BBCBreakfast #GMB #skynews

#R4Today #BBCR4 At long last! After a decades-long inquest into why the #England #football team are overpaid prima donnas with no incentive to try to win anything, #BBC have finally asked the ultimate soccer lad … Stephen Fry Are you aware he is #NotTheMessiah, just another overpaid prima donna?

#R4Today Wednesday: 4 ministers quit. #Streeting has coffee with PM. Thursday: #Burnham finds way to become a challenger. Streeting quits as Health Sec, “considering” launching a challenge. Friday: Streeting still does nothing. #Labour MPs hail him the “decisive leader” they need. NO F’ING WAY

#BBCNews #R4Today Why not do a story on how the richest man in the world has such extraordinary business sense that he invests $38,000,000 in an #AI business without making sure it will be used for the purpose intended? It’s like closing a #strait to keep it open. #Trump #Musk #Idiots #Complicity

NOTE: “… in urgent need of reform” NOT “… in urgent need of Reform”, who typify the problem rather than the remedy.

#R4Todsy #NickRobinson: “I’m going to have to interrupt you to repeat the pointless revelation that #Streeting has left #DowningStreet after twenty minutes. “… exactly as we had reported before we started interviewing you” The rudeness and desperation to speculate is shameful. #Complicity #Bias

Some idiot #Tory on #R4Today complaining that the #KingsSpeech contains too many policies carried over from previous year clearly considers doing what you promised in your election manifesto to be a weakness. Says it all about #Conservatives

#R4Today #JustinWebb repeats Linehan’s claim of #antisemitism in #Ireland airing Father Ted instead of #Eurovision Protest against #Israel is not antisemitism. #Discrimination against Jewish people is Did Linehan ever write a (bewilderingly) popular sitcom about a #Rabbi? He must be antisemitic🤷‍♂️

#BBC #R4Today “If nobody briefs us, we don’t know” - #NickRobinson, desperate to speculate but equally desperate not to jump the wrong way.

It is physically and logically impossible to know the true purpose of a ‘gift’, therefore gifts to politicians (even ones not committed to standing at that precise moment) are incompatible with the idea of democracy. Gifts from overseas agents are even more problematic. ALL gifts must be banned.

#r4today #WATO

#BBC #R4Today After all the work he has done to get where we are, will #Netanyahu even ALLOW a #Labour leadership challenge?

I’m as disappointed by Starmer as the next person, but this country is up Shit Creek and the only place we have to paddle is towards the EU. Playing PM musical chairs now isn’t going to help Labour, never mind the economy. #R4Today

#R4Today “We did the rooftop concerts on the roof” Paul McCartney still the wordsmith.

#R4Today “We could choose different birds (as background sound) according to the tone of the interview”, says #NickRobinson, with vultures in mind. Incidentally, am I the only one who thinks Sam Lee is the cheesiest of attention-seekers in contemporary music? Fits right in with the #BBC agenda.

#R4Today Stockport MP talking about “unenforced mistakes” might explain why people no longer listen to #Labour Do no #Starmer spads suggest “doing traditional Labour things” as a way of bolstering support? Reining in capitalism, standing up to #Trump, not arming #Genocide, helping the poor …?

#BBCNews #R4Today Instead of paying a fortune for a new IT setup to share patient records with the corrupt and dangerous #Palantir, why not just let #NHS medics get our medical notes from #Alibaba?

A Palestinian family was forced to remove a body from a grave near the settlement of Sha-Nur in the West Bank on Friday after local Israeli settlers began to dig it up, claiming the burial was too close to the Israeli settlement border. #R4Today

#BBCNews #R4Today #Trump “growing increasingly impatient” over #Iran Did you mean “Trump’s infantile attention span is becoming increasingly difficult to explain away”? The bloke is an idiot. He is already suing you; be honest about his inadequacy and let his petulant outbursts prove you right.

#R4Today #BBCNews Is this a joke? Having won Reform hundreds of seats in local elections, is #NickRobinson now aware of the damage he has done, or just loving the opportunity to bash poor, uneducated people - the ones who will actually lose out, big time, from the shift to the right? #Complicity

This is exactly why language matters: “women were given the vote” frames equality as a gift from men, instead of hard won political power extracted through organized resistance. Nobody gave women anything. Women fought, marched, strategized, endured violence, went to prison and died for it.

#BBCNews ##R4Today Former #IslamicState detainees in #Syria arrive home to #Australia Those shouting “We should follow Australia on treatment of immigrants” will now demand the return of #ShamimaBegum … or does it only work one way? At least she never killed anyone, unlike that Leicester doctor.

The Seesaw Formula: I've often wondered what the formula is for determining whether "degree of power and wealth of perp" versus "how many victims of their wrongdoing need to come forward" reaches the threshold for charges to be brought.... #r4today

#BBCNews #R4Today Why are you STILL reporting comments by #Trump about the assault on #Iran as “news”? Please point to a single one of his premature ejaculations that have borne any semblance to #truth.

#Norway sells #gas at market prices “Is this immoral?” asks #R4Today Perhaps what WAS immoral was selling #UK gas reserves to private companies, who have been #profiteering from crises for several decades, but that would mean criticism of #Thatcherism, so a #BBC taboo? #Complicity #Bias #Balance

Sharing, without comment, British newspapers’ depictions of the only Jewish person currently leading a UK political party . Times. Mail. Telegraph. Sun.

Nick Robinson didn't even raise an eyebrow when Zack brought up the Times' antisemitic portrayal of him. These fucking people do not give a shit about antisemitism, only protecting Israel's self-given right to do pogroms, ethnic cleansing and genocide. #r4today