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A single shared source of truth is essential for a functioning democracy. Without it you’re left with fragmentation, polarisation and a perpetual culture war where the discourse focuses on what divides us rather than what we have in common. My column from last week: www.ft.com/content/5060...

A study earlier this month found that America’s more fragmented media landscape — particularly the takeoff of cable news — accounts for fully one third of the increase in cultural conflict in the US since the year 2000.

I first left the US before Fox News was launched in 1996 Every year I go back since it's impossible to miss the impact of cable news on political views, interpersonal interactions, and individual psychological wellbeing (including 'hatewatching')

Just wtf is this? I can’t think of many more unifying causes than standing up for the BBC against this absurd threat from Trump. And Farage will be on his side, snivelling along like the school-bully-errand-boy that he is. Traitorous little bastard. www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/donald...

The BBC's senior leadership resigning en masse over one dodgy edit in one programme, simply because the right wing press demands it, tells you everything you need to know about where the power really lies in that relationship

I’ve walked into a parallel universe where Farage of all people is accusing the BBC of bias and electoral interference. Yes, that’s the same Farage to whom the BBC has relentlessly given a platform.

Our entire political conversation - under a labour government - has taken a huge shift to the right. We can't let this be normalised. leftfootforward.org/2025/11/excl...

100% this ⬇️👏👏👏

Emma Haworth, Walkers in Autumn, 2024 UK painter #Womensart

Shamir Shah's letter to the DCMS is another shameful chapter in capitulation to Tufton Street lobbying and foreign influence from MAGA and Trump

I've just signed "Marks & Spencer - stop advertising on GB News" - Will you support the campaign too? actionstorm.org/petitions/ma... @StopFundingHate

I interviewed anyone who was alive. Roy Kerr, the New Zealander who found the shape of the space-time around a spinning black hole, gets a chapter. He was one of my most interesting (& controversial) interviewees. He said to me: “My advantage over the others in the field was that I was not stupid”!

I suspect that the UK government caved into Trump's bullying and forced Tim Davie to go. And as pointed out below, the whole disgraceful surrender is spreading the lie that Trump did not incite a violent coup attempt.

Dems. Snatching defeat from the jaws of victory

What is is about the insatiable desire of pathetic old men to sacrifice the lives of young men? Putin is just the last in a long line. My granddad, who survived 4 years in WWI, saw pretty much all the friends he'd started out with killed. His anger at the waste never abated. #Remembranceday2025

It’s clear from the supine posture of Starmer & his clique in relation to the right wing coup at the BBC that they are in Government but that Farage is in power. Every valued institution in the UK is being shredded by the worst of people. Voters in the UK are being boiled like frogs.

The fact that the BBC has made serious culpable errors does not negate the point that there is a real and concerted right-wing media campaign to destroy it. Both points can be true at the same time and the campaign would not end even if the errors did.

Maybe they have all missed BBCQT, Politics Live, Daily Politics, and This Week for the last two decades, for which Farage has his own dressing room.

Putin would be overjoyed to see the UK quit the ECHR and join Russia and Belarus as the only European countries outside the ECHR. Farage and Badenoch are collaborating in Putin's war against human rights and international law. They are acting as traitors serving the agenda of a foreign dictator.

Yep

Oh dearie me! How shocking? Any ideas of just who, exactly, may have betrayed small business owners? I guess we’ll never know.

Absolutely this.

When was the last time anyone at the BBC had to resign for misrepresenting a leftwinger?

I mean, what kind of legal action would this be exactly? Defamation? I would truly love to see it. 'They made it look like I instigated a coup during my very well recorded coup attempt.'

🔴The BBC’s Attempts to Appease the ‘Right-Wing Coup’ Against It Are Now Seeding Its Own Destruction By attempting to appease the forces seeking to destroy them, the BBC has helped trigger a crisis that now threatens its very future, argues @adambienkov.bsky.social bylinetimes.com/2025/11/10/t...

Should Gibb be sacked? yes, obviously. He's an abomination of basic journalistic standards. His GB News channel spreads conspiracy theory & disinformation. His Jewish Chronicle newspaper spreads invented stories. He is plainly trying to undermine the BBC so it's as bad as everything else he touches.

Mail Online reports Nigel Farage says that the BBC may have no future. He imagines bringing to an end century of public service broadcasting in the UK - because the populist politician and his US political ally Donald Trump do not want the BBC to survive No thanks, Nigel. No thanks, Donald

Just absolutely classic BBC. You've just broadcast the most successful programme of the year, uniting Gen Z kids online and Boomers on broadcast in a return to appointment television. And instead of celebrating, your DG reigns due to a made-up right-wing scandal.

Be clear, the American far right are coming for British democracy.

I’ve just listened to this. It’s stunningly good. I must religiously listen 2 this each wk instead of closing my 👀+ putting fingers in my👂because everything’s so awful. When we get @commonsspeaker.parliament.uk /his deputy blocking truth about racism (not for the 1st time) we KNOW we’re in trouble.

I had my disagreements with the BBC under Tim Davie but he was a decent man doing a difficult job. To see Trump's White House claiming credit for his downfall and attacking the BBC should worry us all.

The resignations of Tim Davie and Deborah Turness must be an opportunity for the BBC to turn a new leaf, rebuild trust and resist those like Nigel Farage who want to destroy it We must stand up for a strong, independent BBC, to stop Trump’s America becoming Farage's Britain.

Johnson attempting another comeback is at the forefront of the power grab of the BBC no doubt backed by the US far right. He seems to be on every right wing media at the moment.

So Turness and Davie out but Gibb and Shah remain. Fear for the BBC because the right wing ideologues are trying to capture it entirely

A big win for people more outraged by a silly edit at the BBC than by a man impeached by Congress for literally inciting an insurrection being back in the White House. Pathetic.

It’s ironic but predictable that the BBC duo -who tried so hard to please the right wing papers-are removed by the right wing papers.

youtu.be/JgQxT9wIkUI?... #ProudBlue. #ProudBlue. Trump celebrates his victory at SCOTUS in stopping all SNAP payments with a Versailles type party. This is intentional infliction of pain on those suffering under Trump’s Regime. They party while 41 million Americans starve. Guillotine Time?

The niche moment I'm waiting for is Kemi Badenoch denouncing whichever government was in charge when Davie was appointed.

Left: Lewis Gooddall challenges Lisa Nandy over her lies in parliament over Maccabi, she doubles down on her lies Right: The police advice confirming Lisa Nandy lied Keir Starmer, Shabana Mahmood and Lisa Nandy, all told the same lie, they conflated public safety with antisemitism

So the BBC is crawling to Trump now. God help us, when is this craziness going to end? I wish the rest of the world, including us, would just band together & tell him to Fuck Off. Blue states in the US also. We are no wiser now than the Germans under Hitler. www.theguardian.com/media/2025/n...

We need an international “What do we do about the billionaires?” summit. Their manipulation of our governments in the service of their insatiable greed threatens not only the quality of life of everyone on Earth but also the very survival of the human race.

Can anyone believe this?! The headlines UK media are using to describe Labour - like the Sunday Times here - are headlines never used to describe the Tories, who gave us 14 years of the most corrupt, incompetent and malicious government in living memory.

The BBC when there is a real scandal: takes years to do anything, drags its feet, is very defensive The BBC when the right wing goes for it: has a panic attack then throws itself on its sword immediately

This is the end of the speech as published by CSPAN. www.c-span.org/clip/campaig...

The double standards here are astonishing, given selective and/or often fabricated torrent of media distributed by Trump's supporters in justifying Jan 6. That British politicians are publicly pressurising the BBC over this is even more shocking.

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