Honestly terrifying that the BBC can run an unhinged story about lesbians being forced to have sex with trans women, with one of the main sources being a rapist who responded to the story's publication by calling for trans people to all be hung, and the Official Consensus is they are too pro-trans

he's gone full City Watch oath

Humza Yousaf also belongs in this category, despite attempts by (hetero) Labour members to paint him as homophobic

The BBC’s coverage of *the United Kingdom* has been made worse due to conscious political pressure. Why would you think that would not also create bigger and worse problems in more complex beats and areas? (Answer: because you think “good journalism” and “journalism that I agree with” are the same!)

I don't think this is hyperbole btw. Things are spinning out pretty badly across multiple nations, obviously including the US, at a time when the stakes have never been higher. Twitter and elite whatsapps clearly key drivers.

Moore rather gave the game away on Today just now when he mentioned climate change as one of the things on which the BBC should be impartial. Treating the truth and lies as though they are equal isn't impartiality, it's an abdication of the most basic journalistic responsibility

A conscious and deliberate decision basically to weaken everything that demanded anything of anyone - whether it was effectively cancelling the old Newsnight, scrapping HardTALK, just at every stage a 'people won't get mad if we retreat from detail and rigour'.

Prescott's 19 page memo criticising specific programmes in 6 different areas. It is much more subjective - coming from his own perspective across issues - than the thematic reviews conducted by the BBC with a clear methodology & engagement with all perspectives www.bbc.co.uk/aboutthebbc/...

AND I SAID WHAT ABOUT BREAKFAST AT TIFFANY'S SHE SAID I THINK I REMEMBER THE FILM AND AS I RECALL I THINK WE BOTH KINDA LIKED IT AND I SAID WELL THAT'S THE ONE THING WE GOT

twitter being bought and turned into a propaganda machine for fascism, which is directly pumped into every journalist in the world's brain, is one of the worst things to happen in the last few years. we might not survive it.

Glad that someone has finally taken responsibility for the appalling assault on democracy that was the Jan. 6 insurrection. Slightly confused that it's the Director-General of the BBC, but what do I know?

A Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death. Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written." Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating. 🧪🧬🧫

Planet Rock came out of the two minute silence with Brothers in Arms, which is about as perfect a pick as a national commercial radio station could be reasonably expected to make

This is how transphobia's right wing fuckery blew open basic respect in the UK, there is absolutely no reason to expect now that being "women critical" is not also a protected belief, if you truly do not believe that women should just be reproductive slaves for cis men. This will be used to abuse.

I keep wondering how many cases of IPV the perpetrator has spent months talking to ChatGPT being told they are right and their partner is in the wrong and terrible. (Excuses nothing, obviously) It won't be a small number. What order of magnitude? How many levels is chatGPT use leading to violence?

It really does come back to Labour not understanding how lucky they are to not share most other social democratic parties' age curve.

congrats to everyone for thinking this through before signing very big contracts to put it on every student’s device at the school or university you run

This government is, at least, going to be a great case study for policy and business schools for decades in how your culture can lead you to just ignoring what every observable metric tells you that you have to do.

This emphasis on universes, real universes and imaginary universes, being a disgrace to all universes, it comes from a Magic the Gathering subreddit from 2022.

Generating text statistically similar to training, 2 years ago, meant statistically similar to humans. Now it means statistically similar to a billion reddit posts where a guy is ranting and raving about how quantum recursion is transforming him into an immortal god

The world’s first trillionaire initiated a move that has left more than half a million people dead, most of whom are children.

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The BBC are under fire over "censorship"of right wing views lately but here they censor the language of their own executive complaints unit, replacing the neutral and internationally accepted term "trans identity", with the politically partisan and inherently trans-skeptical term, "trans ideology".

I have to imagine far-right Catholics are really struggling with the fact that they can now hear this stuff in English directly from the pope.

A government where too many people disliked the first terms of Thatcher, Blair and Cameron and don’t understand that crucially, the voters who re-elected them did great out of those years!

Zohran at the rally for trans youth on february 8 ❣️ he was polling single digits.

Another loss by an independent in the US, despite an incredibly strong showing I guess Cuomo really has shown underdogs can't do anything without the support of the two big parties and has demonstrated the power of the two party system

I spotted this on Mastodon and I find it horrible, not least for the speed with which this has happened.

Just days after saying there was no place for transphobia in her new party Zarah Sultana cheered recruiting anti-trans trade unionist Mark Serwotka. Mark now saying exactly what you'd expect - that he intends to expunge the trans rights movement from Your Party to bring in anti-trans campaigners.

Met the former editor of the York Evening Press last night, who said in the mid-90s he had 85 people working directly for him, including nine staff photographers. All that to serve a city and surrounding area of about 200k people. Local news was wilddddd.

Also notable that the Tories are on 7% with people under-50. In fifth place. And only 4 points above the SNP in sixth (who obviously only stand in Scotland).

I’m sure Matt Goodwin will be along shortly to tell us all whether LNER Customer Service Host Samir Zitouni counts as British or not. news.sky.com/story/train-...

I have been confronted with an ad for Advent calendars and so it is time for the annual PSA: THE TWELVE DAYS OF CHRISTMAS BEGIN ON CHRISTMAS THEY ARE NOT ANY OF THE DAYS LEADING UP TO CHRISTMAS THAT IS ADVENT WHICH BEGINS FOUR SUNDAYS BEFORE CHRISTMAS THANK YOU FOR YOUR TIME

Saw a news report yesterday about children as young as 9 being given weight loss jabs on the NHS, and I think it shows just how utterly bullshit the “lack of research into long term impacts” excuse for banning puberty blockers for trans kids really was. It’s purely ideological.

From the country that brought you such PSAs as "the only person who can stop a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun", and "the only way to stop school shootings is to arm the teachers."

Zohran is stone cold man. Putting out an ad in Arabic after all the Islamophobic shit that’s been thrown his way? Pure swag. Dems don’t need to copy his politics or even necessarily his campaign strategy, they need to learn how to grow a fucking spine.

Radicalised billionaire Elon Musk articulates the dystopian hallucinations about Britain that underpin his sustained personal commitments to depose the elected government; to fund an extremist-led movement; dissolve anti-racism norms + legitimise political violence/civil war in our country

Making unfair dismissal a ‘day one’ right would be a big change from the UK’s current two-year qualifying period. The Government should keep but *reduce* ‘qualifying periods’ for unfair dismissal protection ⤵️ buff.ly/WepH7zY

I did not foressee "Zarah Sultana declares she no longer supports a two-state solution"

Piers Morgan is as angry about Glamour honouring trans women as he was about Eastenders showing two men kissing in 1989 and for exactly the same reason.

We are already helping several employees sue employers for enforcing the EHRC Interim Guidance, which *we think* is unlawful. Should the High Court agree, we plan to make available in generic form, for free, and in a usable state, all the legal materials a trans employee needs to sue their employer.

Very poor from the government: it won't review suitability of X for its communications, and insists on keeping secret its previous review.

It’s Brexit accelerating the normal pace of political careers. In the universe where Theresa May becomes prime minister in 2020, Badenoch is a 2020 intake MP getting her first minister of state job in the 2024 reshuffle.

My PhD thesis submitted for viva included a line reading "DELETE whatever Ohsomuch". (I passed; With corrections, obviously)

This such a perfect patriotic 🇬🇧 Fleet Street cock-up. It's one thing for a news outlet to be duped by a competent hoaxer. Excruciating, yes, but there's a fairly long history of such fuck ups. But to put out a statement SAYING you'd been hoaxed but you'd actually just emailed the wrong guy?

This is really poor by BBC researchers and producers. Goodwin hasn't been an active academic for a number of years, yet is described as one (thus legitimating his relentless Reform activism and constant bad faith misrepresentation of evidence). 1/?

Long past time for MPs and the government to get off social media platforms that endanger our elected representatives and undermine democracy and community cohesion in the UK.

I think Musk's comments to a rally of 100k people are the highest profile advocacy of political violence in the UK since the end of the Northern Ireland conflict. Does anybody have a counter-example? "Whether you choose violence or not, violence is coming to you. You either fight back or you die."