MPs and BBC staff call for Robbie Gibb to leave broadcaster’s board

Hello @support.bsky.team I heard from Sarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior.bsky.social that her account was suspended. Can you please look into this and reinstate her account? She’s a published author and scholar on authoritarianism. Her presence here is valuable. cc: @jay.bsky.team @aaron.bsky.team

Short of calling for targeted violence or self-harm—which I can’t imagine Sarah doing—the threshold for suspending the account of a journalist should be EXTREMELY high. This response to the outcry is only undermining trust further, @aaron.bsky.team. But it’s clear her suspension was NOT inadvertent.

One for the #UKCanals and #WeDigCanals feeds. 👍

LibDem leader Ed Davey wants Gibb removed from the BBC board now + "an end to political appointments" on the Johnson/Gibb model www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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.

cool to mention SNAP, which was unpaid because the admin chose to affirmatively suspend it, and not due to the shutdown, and ICE being paid "due to a special law" when they were being illegally paid despite the shutdown. So in both cases not tied to the shutdown, but the admin's general lawlessness

Southern Water apologises for catastrophic spill of plastic biobeads in Sussex

YIKES

Want to know why the prisons system seems to be suddenly falling apart? Well, it's not sudden. It's just suddenly being REPORTED. This rot was a deliberate policy choice, and I kept the receipts. Because I'm not the BBC. (A note on what Tories did to cause this, from The Decade In Tory)

Reform says Kent CC is their "shop window", where the country can see what a Farage gov't would be like. Well... chaos, suspensions, defections, paralysis, zero "DOGE" savings, tax rises, and a leader making mad-dictator speeches, sounds about right. ~AA www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

South Korea's ousted conservative President Yoon Suk Yeol faces additional criminal charges as prosecutors allege that he flew drones over North Korea to deliberately create tensions and justify his plans to declare martial law.

46% error rate. So it was only accurate 54% of the time. This is DWP, AI benefit checking. Not fit for purpose.

Ms. Rachel 2028

Looks at camera so hard the screen shatters www.brown.edu/news/2025-11...

Probably a good way to tell right now if the job you’re applying for is run by absolute dumbfucks is to ask if they’re using AI.

Happy 423 years of us! 🎉 📚 The Bodleian Libraries opened for the first time on 8 November 1602... This means, we're older than the refracting telescope (1608), the publication of Shakespeare's Hamlet (1623) and Sir Isaac Newton's apple (1666)! 😅

Tesla’s $1 trillion “pay deal” for Elon Musk? Conditions are highly dubious: 1️⃣ Tesla must reach 8× today’s value 2️⃣ 1m robot-taxis deployed 3️⃣ 1m robots must be sold 4️⃣ Musk must remain CEO for 7 years without disruption In other words, it’s a theoretical maximum, not a real pay cheque

E3G is on the front page of the Guardian website today with 60 other organisations, from energy suppliers to consumer groups, fuel poverty charities and climate NGOs, urging the government not to cut one of its major decarbonisation schemes, ECO, in the budget. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

A bid to save a 125-year-old tall ship by raising more than £250,000 for urgent repairs has been launched. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

From the archives 🔎 GB News ‘Founder’ in Business with Two Top Priti Patel Appointees Sir Robbie Gibb, who helped found the new ‘anti-woke’ media channel, is tied to the Government’s bid to attack Black Lives Matter and Extinction Rebellion bylinetimes.com/2021/02/10/g...

am reminded of the old joke: what did James Watson discover? Rosalind Franklin’s notes.

Full circle

If you buy a Tesla you are now spending $50,000 of that straight to Elon Musk's bank account. No wonder the cars are so shit.

Going down a rabbit hole of mistaken prison releases. They've definitely got up recently, but between 40 and 115 offenders were incorrectly released *every year* from 2011 to 2024 (so over 800 while the Tories were in government). It just doesn't normally make the news news.sky.com/story/how-ma...

Solidarity with @pcsunion.bsky.social workers at the British Library. 300 workers on strike. Some of them having to take second jobs or taking out loans just to be able to survive. A Pay "award" below inflation is a pay cut. Unacceptable. Solidarity - and keep organising! ✊🏼

Dear GOD if you want to save money in the asylum system 1. LET ASYLUM SEEKERS WORK 2. FAST TRACK STATUS FOR EVERYONE FROM CLEARLY UNDAFE COUNTRIES like Sudan, Syria, etc 3. Run an asylum accommodation system that is NOT FOR PROFIT #r4today

I’m old enough to remember a time when this - just this alone - would be the kind of scandal that would drag on for months. As things are now, I wonder whether anyone will even bother to write it up.

84% of trans people polled by YouGov said Britain is “fairly unsafe” or “very unsafe” for trans people. A terrifying story - founded on actual data - which the BBC still refused to carry. Link to polling in the blog. goodlawproject.org/abject-terro...

The part of Mamdani's speech that I found most exciting was "you dismantle the conditions that allowed him to gain power. That's how we stop Trump — and the next one." We need popular political figures to point out that Trump is not an anomaly and there are plenty more to take his place.

mmmm my favorite mcdonald’s food, Dore, Caprer, and a side of Cchinges

X is designed to radicalise people. The algorithm promotes Elon Musk's agenda to promote racists and people who want violence bought - specifically - to the streets of Britain. Members of Parliament, major institutions and the media should not be there. news.sky.com/story/the-x-...

We see the growing destitution. We want everyone to be able to live a decent life.

(1/2) 🏛️ For too long, the Conservatives turned a blind eye to law-breaking on our high streets, including tax dodging, illegal working, shoplifting and dodgy products.

I don’t know how many times I’ve watched this video. I don’t know how we’ve gotten to the point where men in full balaclavas can abduct daycare teachers while they’re watching children. But I do know that this isn’t sustainable. Abolish ICE. There is no way to reform this.

I know how they got to that point. Because we’re a few steps behind, living through the “getting to that point” right now in the UK.

I think we’re still within the acceptable catchment period, so, if you haven’t seen this yet, it’s worth watching with the sound on:

The Reform UK-led council in Kent shows exactly what a Reform UK government would look like. David Lammy: "Reform said that Kent County Council would be the best advert for what a Reform government would look like. "They're delivering on the chaos that they promised."

There's a case for raising income tax to fund public services, but there's a much stronger case to tackle the cost of living crisis by clamping down on profiteering.

This. A thousand times this. Print it on posters and flyers. Pin it above the desk of every pro-democracy politician, staffer and strategist. Make memes and insta stories of it. Do Tik-Tok dance routines to it. Use it as a rallying cry and make it the accepted norm, not a lost epitaph of failure.

Serious financial irregularities have been uncovered with claims that some donors were awarded questionable contracts. Today a specialist financial crime court in Brussels will deliver its verdict.

Laure Ferrari, Nigel Farage’s girlfriend, was manager of the Institute for Direct Democracy in Europe (IDDE). EU's anti-fraud office Olaf has been investigating their funding and its ties to a European Parliament alliance led by UKIP.

Why today’s news proves I am right - Democrats and other centre left parties have ceded the discourse of change to the right. When they take it back they win.

AOC: "The Supreme Court has given Trump a blank check to continue to commit crimes while in office. So we cannot underestimate the threat and danger of this moment, but we cannot respond to that threat with cowardice."

Mamdani: "We can respond to oligarchy and authoritarianism with the strength it fears, not the appeasement it craves. After all, if anyone can show a nation betrayed by Donald Trump how to defeat him, it is the city that gave rise to him."

Just Stop Oil protesters convicted after being denied right to state climate facts

Hey Texas! There are 17 constitutional amendments on the block, most of them conservative wet dreams involving turning Texas into a tax haven for the wealthy in case of an AI driven economic collapse. So, you know, maybe carve out half an hour to pop out and vote that shit into the ground.

Yuuuup. It's started. There's something like 1200 agents at Denver International Airport. Salary reports are all over the place, but $50k seems like a good middle mark for the average agent salary - or $24/hour. That's good money, but not "have months of all your expenses saved" money.