“.. As the raids have continued, consumers have started to question whether the company’s silence makes it an accomplice to the sweeps rather than merely the backdrop. .. A backlash is coming for the company.” @bloomberg.com $HD www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

I see your problem mate. You trusted the Royal Mail with a ten grand gold bar.

An Oxbridge man replying to Brittney telling him her latest struggles

Incidentally, I don't think I notice a black person at that event, other than Aurora. And this is the second time recently she gets booed at one of their pressers.

it's also entirely unnecessary since the justice department is just a wing of trump inc. now so it's literally just a big fuck you

today in "any other president in history would be immediately impeached and removed for this"

Scrapping the cap entirely is both good policy *and* good politics. Half measures will "save" some money short-term, but will piss *everybody* off and still leave very large numbers of children suffering from a policy designed to make them poorer. inews.co.uk/news/politic...

If the lads had been upfront all along and just said that the likes of Sonia are vicious whackjobs and crackpots - and they absolutely are - then we might not be in this mess now.

If you have a doubt the MAGA attack on the BBC is not co-ordinated, read what GB News owner told the US “We need you to come and save us. To rescue us … You are making America great again… We need to make Britain great again” subscribe.bylinetimes.com/edition/79/a...

You don't join immigration control because you want a measured conversion about the pros & cons of immigration, or to facilitate the decent functioning of a community. You do it because you're a freak who wants to don a mask and beat up women and pepperspray babies.

seems to me that those democrats inclined not to fight perceive themselves as living through a somewhat ordinary cycle of presidential overreach and backlash and not something much more significant and dangerous

this stuff matters in itself, of course, but also the TERF-Industrial complex won't ever stop. Each "win" is just the new base camp for the next battle.

In my inbox this morning, and email that begins: "Dear $Firstname, I have been a fan of yours for many years".

The left gets blamed for having fringe views that become associated with the party writ large - but this sort of capitulation, which is wholly the work of the “responsible center” and absolutely backed by leadership, is so much more damning in the eyes of the public.

According to a new letter from @raskin.house.gov: "The deference and servility to Ms. Maxwell have reached such preposterous levels that one of the top officials at the facility has complained that he is 'sick of having to be Maxwell’s bitch.'" www.msnbc.com/msnbc/news/d...

And that GB News is only a ‘news channel’ when it suits it. It exists purely to react with cynical opinions against other news outlets’ hard work.

Incredible that Robbie Gibb - most influential person on BBC board by many accounts and from journalists I speak in BBC - was involved in setting up GB News. GB News of course has breached Ofcom rules on *multiple* occasions - no sign of resignations though www.theguardian.com/environment/...

After millions of people took to the streets, and a resounding nationwide electoral sweep, Democrats clearly had no other option in the Senate but to utterly capitulate to the Republicans.

Congrats to the eight Democrats who gave this regime a huge win over the weekend. Here’s your reward. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/u...

It's not on the Beeb so this broadcast might still go ahead, but I'll be fascinated to see what efforts are made to attack, smear & undermine this documentary and, if all else fails, drown it out with all-channels screeching about bias & anti-Israel racism (including the IDF soldiers speaking out).

Great job, @schumer.senate.gov. You've changed the story from "GOP hurting millions of Americans to please unpopular, failing, delusional despot who's destroying his party" to "Dems are too weak and divided in the face of Trump's strength to take a stand and protect Americans"

Not that he didn’t already know, but now Trump knows for sure he can roll the Dems every time and there’s no need to negotiate for anything

you know what, i was sitting here looking at my memes folder, and i realised: this guy is an actual idiot who does not deserve to be made fun of with such things

Both evil *and* that particular kind of rich person stupid that simply cannot countenance things not working out in their favour.

Notable that the supposedly “patriotic” wing of British politics wants to destroy / defund almost all of our national institutions

The important thing to remember is that, yes, they would pick fascists over leftists, but they also went to school with the fascists and, deep down, believed that the fascists wouldn't *really* dismantle the good old BBC. Stop scaremongering about good old Adolf, dumb lefties.

The BBC will fuck things up from time to time. Lots of major news organisations do; just look at The Times having to memoryhole several fake news stories in a matter of weeks. No one is calling for the abolition of The Times, however. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

No, I think it’s much the same as “the Iraq-Gilligan crisis” in the sense that it is vexatious horseshit deployed as an excuse to step on the BBC and intimidate it into obeying a bunch of malicious wankers, and the excuses for doing it are insulting drivel that should be ignored.

This has been my question for Clintonian Liberalism since November 2016

Zelensky: “Europe is afraid of the word ‘escalation’. They see any response as escalation. But Russia views non-military, intellectual responses as weakness.” During the interview at the Mariinsky Palace, the power suddenly went out.

I'm not a fan of BBC News; since the death of Dr David Kelly in 2003, the corporation has been too cautious about opposing the govt that manages its funding. But the current political interference is anti-truth. Anyone who thinks it's pro-Gaza and pro-trans is deluded observer.co.uk/opinion-and-...

Michael Wolff: Is it dementia or something else? What one of Donald Trump's closest political advisors revealed to me.

Good to see someone involved in the field describing the techbro fantasies as “bullshit”. But note the link between this nonsense and eugenicist ideas from Altman. These people are rich, stupid and influential, which = dangerous.

The real special relationship between the US and UK is the competition over whose politicians have the most moral cowardice

Chuck Schumer Helps Pull Democrats Back From Brink Of Courage

You won't find a much clearer statement of the extreme rightwing drive to support tyranny, genocide and the persecution of helpless minorities than this. Even hinting at the truth accepted by independent observers = "institutional bias"...

America has a substantial white Christian Evangelical population and activating them politically was a 40+ year project. These guys think they’re gonna make Christian Nationalism work here when the population is secularising and most devout Christians are among the immigrant groups they despise.

Reality has a well-known liberal bias, which is why the rightwing crusade to ignore reality as much as possible is so determined.

Erron Gordon still there too, presumably? www.thenational.scot/news/2430324...

Note that still in post at the BBC is Robbie Gibb, who helped set up GB News, and John McAndrew, formerly director of news and programmes at GB News.

I mean, just look at how far they stooped to try to appease not just the right but the far right. But you can never stoop far enough. Appeasement gets you nowhere. bylinetimes.com/2025/06/09/b...

Once every 20 years or so, the director-general of the BBC is forced to resign for being insufficiently rightwing. Alastair Milne in 1987. Greg Dyke in 2004. Tim Davie in 2025. The great irony is that the BBC was in all cases profoundly biased towards established power. But just not biased enough …

"Funnily enough Andy [Wigmore], the only time I ever experienced political interference in one of my investigations at the BBC, was when I was investigating you and Arron Banks Your mate Robbie Gibb put a stop to a story we were running." - former BBC investigative reporter Manveen Rana, 2022

Robbie Gibb who cancelled a BBC investigation into Farage's Leave dot EU campaign shortly before the EU Ref Arron Banks thanked him for it "Robbie Gibb is being quite helpful and says he’s trying to hose it down." - @channel4news.bsky.social in 2019

That's practically just driving

They’re wearing masks so they can’t be prosecuted later. As long as they think they can’t be prosecuted, their crimes will intensify. They will torture, starve and kill, as they have already, on greater and greater scale. Signed, someone who’s covered the unaccountable War on Terror for 23 years.

. “The President was not sleeping,” WH spokeswoman Taylor Rogers said. Trump, who repeatedly mocked President Biden by calling him “Sleepy Joe,” had his eyes closed, was slumped in his chair, and snored while Dr. Oz was speaking. Gift article: wapo.st/4oqQm8F

“I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time.” aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...

They can’t but really, if we find that worrying, then we’ve had ample time to speak out against the constant ruinous shenanigans of the world’s most poisonous and destructive media outlets. And ultimately, all the lads have had far more important priorities.