It’s bigger than you think.

It’s a free canva font. That’s all I can see.

That strategy is called “Robbie Gibb” We told you all why he was appointed. And so many called that an “overreaction”. Not calling it an overreaction now, are they

As with the EHRC, I think there has been a deliberate wrecking strategy, where there first stage (now pretty much complete in both cases) is to corrupt the organisation to the extent that the people who would defended it the hardest instead see it as irretrievably broken.

Revealing division in my timeline between (1) my insider friends who have lived privileged lives who are very keen that we defend the BBC and think it's important it survives and (2) my outsider friends who feel (at best) ambivalent about the BBC's survival.

The United States expended 25% of its entire missile defense capacity to prevent Israel from facing consequences for its war of aggression against Iran! The US Navy pushed maintenance schedules back years to kill Yemenis on behalf of Israel! They poured F/A-18s into the Red Sea for Israel!

NEW: UK confirms 15% cut to the Global Fund to Fight Aids, Tuberculosis and Malaria for its next funding round, a decision aid agenices say will result in hundreds of thousands of otherwise avoidable deaths. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Trump’s legal letter to BBC was sent to wrong address and contained an embarrassing error www.thelondoneconomic.com/politics/tru...

BBC

Reform council follows the trend with double council tax on second homes which its leader called ‘madness’ bit.ly/47LwaHq (paywall) but now says he was misquoted

London's High Court slams oligarchs Kolomoisky and Boholiubov with a $3 billion bill for looting Ukraine's biggest bank through sham loans that drained $5.5 billion, nearly toppling the system. #Corruption

The Trump administration's crackdown on states for distributing SNAP benefits, like freezing funds just before the holidays, leaves poor kids starving as political pawns. #EndHunger

In Ukraine, Russians booby-trap everything from food to dead bodies, even children's toys, leaving a third of the land mined and civilians dying daily. Clearing it might take 750 years. #StandWithUkraine

While opposition leader İmamoğlu fights for democracy in Turkey, the real tie-wearing tyrant drowning in corruption is Erdoğan, rigging elections and silencing dissent. #ErdoganCorruption

Turkish prosecutors demand a staggering 2,000-year sentence for Istanbul Mayor Imamoglu over a supposed insult, turning justice into a farce of vengeance. #HumanRights

"Leopards are eating people's faces" warns man in charge of breeding Leopards and setting them on people

Personally I'd be pleased to see BBC News disappear entirely. To argue, as many do, that British politics or our news environment would be so much worse without the BBC you have to explain why British politics and news environment is so very bad with the BBC.

This a big deal: "China’s carbon dioxide emissions have been flat or falling for 18 months" China's economy has grown by ~5% in the last year, so this comprehensively debunks the idea (again) that emissions are tied to growth. So yes, faster progress needed, but this is how you turn the corner.

"The hard truth about underfunding palliative care is that people who are at their most vulnerable – the dying – suffer more pain, more indignity, less choice & less autonomy than they might have." Incredibly, only 30% of hospice care is NHS funded. Pls read my piece in today’s @theguardian.com.

◾ >9 years since Tees Valley voted for supposed benefits of Brexit ◾ >8 since Houchen was elected Mayor of Tees Valley ◾ >6 since Johnson promised to level up left-behind areas ...Middlesbrough remains the local authority with the highest proportion of most deprived neighbourhoods in England.

I wonder if I can get a group of people in my life to stand around me and say stuff like this.

According to Al Jazeera, Israel has bombed 97% of all UNRWA schools.

when someone gets into knitting, crochet, sewing and such things for the first time, the universe should deliver unto them a tin of biscuits. both encouragement and destiny fulfilment for what the tin will ultimately get used for: CRAFTY BITS

If we're talking about bias, why do BBC politics programmes, from Politics Live to the Laura Kuennsberg Show, still always begin with a look at the newspaper front pages, which are overwhelmingly biased in one direction. Helps frame the entire news agenda and debate in their favour

The BBC is not fit for purpose It needs to be put down

Is Starmer in a self induced coma or something? Nothing ever stirs him into life - unless its a ban on Israeli football hooligans coming over to Britain, then he has a view.

Robbie Gibb was appointed to the BBC Board by Boris Johnson, was an editorial advisor for GB News, and worked as Theresa May's Director of Comms. He is not impartial or neutral. The government should remove him from the Board immediately to protect the BBC's independence.

The originals for Gertie Soot and Jasper Blackwell are still available. Graphite on paper. 11”x14” each. $750 for the set of two. DM for purchase inquiries.

The BBC is ours. It's ours to love. Ours to criticise. Ours to shout at when we feel in the mood. And if Farage thinks that the way to win favour with voters is to stand around cheering as Trump takes down the BBC for $1 billion of personal enrichment then he's a bigger fool than anyone thought.

Is Socialism The Answer? open.substack.com/pub/therevol...

Follow the money….

“It’s impossible to reboot Bond” says production team who decided Bond first got his licence to kill in the 21st Century, as Daniel Craig, then got incredibly old within two films and was being put out to pasture, but also had Sean Connery’s 1960s car. It’s Bond. Just do whatever the fuck you like.

Four-fifths of water supply in Gaza contaminated, says Red Crescent - https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/four-fifths-water-supply-gaza-contaminated-says-red-crescent

Keir Starmer's Israeli handlers hails the soldiers who GANG-RAPED Palestinian hostages in torture camps as victims of a “terrible libel” and vows to prosecute those who investigated them, including Israeli whistleblowers and lawyers Starmer is furious that his proxy state could be soo undemocratic

GLOBAL: How Wages for Housework sparked an international solidarity movement www.opendemocracy.net/en/beyond-tr...

the country that produced the world's first trillionaire is also the country whose citizens can't afford food or health care 👍

⭕️ Sakher & Reem really need our help‼️ ⭕️if you're unable to donate, share & acknowledge them, they're human beings ⭕️They desperately need the following: 🚨✅️FOOD 🚨✅️SHELTER 🚨✅️WARM CLOTHES FOR WINTER 🚨✅️MEDS FOR VERY ILL PARENTS OF BOTH SAKHER & REEM 🚨✅️ OUR PRAYERS & SUPPORT 🔗🔁 gofund.me/43528f80e

open.substack.com/pub/jojofrom... The Democrats had one fucking job. One. Fucking. Job. Not “reinvent capitalism.” Not “end white supremacy with a TED Talk and a Canva deck. Not “heal the nation through brunch and borrowed gravitas.” Just: don’t cave to fascists. Don’t hand them a win.

Trump Drowned in Boos at Commanders NFL Game While Struggling to Read newrepublic.com/post/202924/... via @newrepublic.com

Convicted Child Sex Predator Avoids Prison Thanks to Trump Pardon newrepublic.com/post/202993/... via @newrepublic.com

Trump Hid That Ghislaine Maxwell Is Applying for a Commutation: Dems newrepublic.com/post/202944/... via @newrepublic.com

Hello from Chicago! There is no such thing as the “Miracle Mile Shopping Center.” That is a thing that exists only in this doddering old man’s imagination.

I want a living wage for all workers and universal basic income so people aren’t going hungry or unhoused in one of the richest nations on earth. And I want universal healthcare so people aren’t chained to their employers and can pursue meaningful use of their time and talents.

Incredibly bittersweet to be published in Teen Vogue this weekend after devastating layoffs, including my editor for this piece. It’s about how beauty influencers have fallen into and become part of the alt-right pipeline targeting girls and women www.teenvogue.com/story/womano...

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

I like his mother too: “Art and museums are living spaces,” she said. “Life without art is not life.” Also, "The fedora, angled just so, is his homage to French Resistance hero Jean Moulin." That's exactly the energy I needed. Especially from a 15-year-old French boy, in these uncertain times.