Sycophants will claim to love anything to get validation. Except for ants, by the sound of it

Tuesday, innit

As a TV licence payer I would like to give the BBC my permission to say fuck off to Trump.

Well, this is quite a serious allegation. I do hope the BBC shows true impartiality and investigate whether or not some of its Board members are systemically biased. www.theguardian.com/media/2025/n...

Let's stop pretending that the billionaire media, endlessly attacking the BBC, has the slightest interest in balance, impartiality and accuracy. They won't be happy until the BBC is more rightwing than Vlad the Impaler. And then it still won't be enough.

It's what's inside that counts. If you want a premium rate service that delivers, inside is where you have to be. "We have a 100% success rate in not deliberately leaving packages with a neighbour." www.newsbiscuit.com/post/highest...

The President has 2 settings: diarrhea and asleep

Look guys I’ve spent the last day playing this over and over again. Don’t read the comments first and stick it through to the second verse. It is in fact one of the funniest things I’ve ever heard.

I just dropped the only copy of my autobiography into a vat of glue. That’s my story & I’m sticking to it

I can draw this cartoon for you, using as few lines as possible. www.worldofmoose.com/products/min...

If you don't want to be accused of inciting an insurrection, it's probably a good idea not to incite an insurrection. Good bit of Insurrection advice right there

Every office requires someone to get in early and inform all who arrive marginally later: "afternoon". It is unclear if that must be the same colleague who enquires of all leaving slightly before them: "only working a half day today?".

The BBC: Impartial GB News: I’m partial Fox News: Inpatient

"What failed in the test flight?" - "I think it's called a flange?"

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Tonight's Channel 4 News: @krishgm.bsky.social interviewing @arusbridger.bsky.social about the BBC. Turner can be ignored. Partly for failing to disclose that a BBC saboteur leaked a memo to gift complicit Sunday Telegraph a 'scoop' on a year old non-story. www.channel4.com/news/will-tr...

Smashing perspective from Greg Jenner. So, apart from factual programming, children’s education, history shows, religious discussion, poetry, arts, and state of the nation debate, what has the BBC ever done for us?

This week’s main story is about how you can legally wind up in prison for murder without actually killing anyone, and why Alabama’s official state motto should be a derogatory “Yep.” Full segment at the link in our bio.

Here’s last night’s story about felony murder – a way you can wind up in prison for murder without actually killing anyone – as well as a certain Minnesota law regarding slippery pigs. youtu.be/Y93ljB7sfco

More US administration misdoings. Next week, maybe how those misdoings extended to a baseless attack on the UK and its media for not being Trumpian enough in its impartiality? americansunlight.substack.com/p/last-week-...

‘Loophole’ in sanctions allowing Russian oil to be imported to Australia through port part-owned by Macquarie Bank www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

I gave Volodymyr Zelenskyy a copy of my book "Invasion" at the presidential palace in Kyiv. Seconds after we sat down for an interview the electricity failed, plunging us into darkness! Zelenskyy seemed relaxed, good-humoured and resilient, after almost four years of full-scale war. A remarkable guy

Post 1 (of 5): George Monbiot's BBC "rage" thread. For today's excellent BBC insight, thanks to: @georgemonbiot.bsky.social @arusbridger.bsky.social @peterjukes.bsky.social @ottoenglish.bsky.social @hardeepmatharu.bsky.social @adambienkov.bsky.social @nujofficial.bsky.social @ifjglobal.bsky.social

Posts 2 & 3 of George Monbiot's BBC "rage" thread: 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... [link so it doesn't just say 'Bot verification']

4 & 5 of George Monbiot's BBC thread: "Panorama made a stupid editing mistake. But compare this to the deliberate and systemic attempt, sustained across years, to ensure that BBC output aligns ever more closely to the demands of economic power. Against your straw of bias, I raise you a haystack."

This accidentally turned into a short thread. Bit of a rage-thread I'm afraid. Please read to the end if you can. Thanks

Nearly two years ago, I wrote about the extraordinary influence of former Tory spin doctor Sir Robbie Gibb on the BBC. It's still a helpful backgrounder for what's going on now. New readers start here: www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/media/...

A BBC free from political interference? Yes please. Plus also: free from oligarchic capture, and private interest manipulation. Which I suspect is even harder to achieve.

Noel Edmonds had to go for saying some harsh things about Mr Blobby. But in fairness, Mr Blobby was just another radical centrist.

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

You had me at "directly colluding". Lost me at "feels like". But had me back again at "supreme treachery". If only there were some real investigative journalists somewhere, free to roam and report on, say, monies taken from enemies to assist in the destruction and manipulation of the BBC. Again.

Here’s @freepress.bsky.social’s new fact sheet about how media mergers are undermining free speech, creativity and media independence. Learn what’s happening and what you can do to help. www.freepress.net/download/fre...

Trump is not playing 4-D chess. He is playing 4-D put the giraffe in the star-shaped hole. It's true. Everyone says so. He does about himself. Often.

There should be pushback. But I'm not clear on whether the US still controls most of the UK's weapons and defence it can just turn off at a flick of a switch? Or... er... did Starmer make the situation worse by buying more military equipment from our closest ally who is now a very special frenemy?

I'm not up to speed on this. Is Sir Knight of the Realm to be trusted with Britain's security Robbie Gibb a donor to the ConseЯvative Party of Fucking up Britain and then handing it to Trump on a silver platter, or a donor to the Яeform Party of Fucking up Britain and handing it directly to Putin?

In a just world, the UK in conjunction with the BBC would counter-sue Trump for £1 Trillion. And win.

A key victory in Trump's road to power in America was successfully branding the majority of its established press as "fake news". Now, he is bringing this across the pond to the BBC – where these same tactics are favoured by prominent politicians and media outlets on the right. A dangerous moment.

The thing about the moment we are in is we have been here before. During the Brexit Referendum campaign, the Johnson years, and now with Farage's ascent. Our established press has played a role in why we have got to this point in British politics. What's happening at the BBC now was an inevitability

The UK is under attack from the US and Russia at the same time. Classic pincer movement. Classic giant pincer movement. If it wasn't already captured, the BBC could've been one strong form of defence from these attacks. It still could be.

An essential point regrading the BBC. Just because the Director General has gone does not mean it isn't still riddled with rot since Tim Davie's infiltration. Gibb is one example of many who must be ousted and severely dealt with. Otherwise: 1. nothing will change, or 2. it will get worse.

I don't often call for resignations. But Sir Robbie Gibb's role in the BBC boardroom coup makes his continued role there untenable. He must resign or be removed

This one I won't read myself, but that doesn't mean you shouldn't. Fair warning: this is not the Observer as it was alongside the Guardian in the past - it is now owned by individuals and organisations who are themselves a threat to the UK. Nothing against former Observer journalists still there.

There should be no doubt from anyone paying proper attention that the current US regime is attacking the UK in multiple ways to undermine the nation and take control. News and media of all types is one attack angle and it has complicity and assistance from British traitor "patriots" on the inside.

If you've never seen or heard of The Newsroom before, have a glimpse at its opening scene, episode 1, season 1. Decide for yourself if it's for you. It doesn't falter throughout 3 seasons. Written by Aaron Sorkin, you might know from such things as The West Wing. www.youtube.com/watch?v=EWQp...

Many news providers - especially right now - have distinguished themselves in misunderstanding the basics of news bias. Here is a simple lesson for each and every one of 'em. The Newsroom is my favourite TV series ever. American, sure, but absolutely applicable to UK news provision in so many ways.

As threatened, here is Ouroboros. An impartial public news media organisation cannot report opinion on 'what is occurring internally or what should happen' from those it itself chooses. Call it out when it does. Especially if it comes from that BoJo tit who wilfully caused this whole BBC mess.