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Kuennsberg banging on about the cost to taxpayers of taxis for asylum seekers. Priorities. www.theguardian.com/world/2022/f...

A good example of the mess the country’s in is that the BBC’s flagship TV politics programme starts with a look at the front pages. A glaring example of how the agendas of a few right-wing media owners dictate and distort policy and discourse.

A Labour government - a Labour government - intent on trying to please Yaxley-Lennon in a race to the bottom. How’s that for breaking a manifesto promise?

Finally got round to seeing ‘Black Mass’, just the 10 years late to the party. Very good, but couldn’t get Johnny Depp looking like this out of my head: encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn...

The Eubank-Benn conflict is as sure a case of ‘making the weight = making the money’ as it gets. It shouldn’t be happening.

Greece-Scotland is a mad cracker, a wonderful mix of great and also dreadful football.

There’s a word for people like this who actively work against their own country.

Wales v Lichtenstein is the ‘area the size of’ derby.

Good test for the 'patriots' with Trump attacking a cherished British institution. Imagine if Obama was doing this?

A hostile environment. And not just for refugees.

‘So you wan’ to go to Kidderminster Harriers away, Dominic?’

The Slovakia-Norn Ireland game is on BBC3, and for a 0-0, it’s a cracker. Mayhem. Also a fantastic display of bum-fluff taches on the Slovak mushes.

Reminder: Ruby Bridges is only 71 years old today. She still remembers how one woman she passed on her way into school would threaten to poison her every morning, and how the US Marshalls would only allow her to eat lunch brought from home, just in case. This history isn't ancient. It's recent.

Evening listen, and always a good one: www.youtube.com/watch?v=3TA4...

Local, sad news. Grubbs was indeed an institution, and a firm part of Brighton's nightlife: bacon double cheesburger with fries, please: www.theargus.co.uk/news/2561590...

Ah, so we're at the 'this will bring down Trump!' stage of the Epstein Files cycle. File away with all the other times he was 'finished, toast, done for.'

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🔴‘It’s Time for a Debate About Who Owns Our Media’ Says Leader of the UK’s Trade Union Movement TUC General Secretary Paul Nowak warns that tech and media billionaires are threatening our democracy, as they campaign to destroy the BBC bylinetimes.com/2025/11/14/i...

Worth noting the basic rate of income tax in 1975 was 35%; top rate 83%. Presumably the nostalgists want to go back to that, too?

Looking to indulge in some glorious Spurs nostalgia? Make sure you listen to today's released podcast about the 1991 FA Cup Semi-Final...the last one we won...but what an afternoon! Nayim and @danielwynne.bsky.social joined me to reflect. All RP's much appreciated!

VAR check: serious foul play. On-field decision upheld, goal kick to Bewcastle.

Ronaldo sent off. Good.

Tin-hat time, here goes. John Lewis using 'Where Loves Lives' is right on brand, not just for the retailer as much as for the message and the demographic. House-trained house for a generation that flirted with the genre but at a safe distance, steering clear of anything more overtly edgy/political.

Imagine saying this out loud and not expecting any kind of blowback. As @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social says, we need to bring back shame so ghouls like Kelly are banished for life for saying shit like this.

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Cynical view but if Spurs have sense they should PR the hell out of Spence. He has the potential to reach a constituency of fan that few other players and more conventional PR can't. See how transformative Ian Wright was for Arsenal.

20 degrees on the Sussex Riviera seafront a bit earlier. In mid November. This is nuts.

So will ‘peado-friendly wrong ‘un Andrew’ because it’s adjectival, so swings and roundabouts. cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_ful...

Three points I keep repeating 1. Left and liberal voters actually really exist 2. The right and "centre" are trying to rule without liberals - they are way out over their skis 3. Reports of right wing total information control are greatly exaggerated

Um, no. That's not it, JD. The scientific method does involve questioning. But it also involves assessing evidence in an effort to determine the truth. I think you're confusing science with having your own podcast.

I urge every one of my followers to read this whole thread, if only to get to the spaceship one. Enjoy.

Judge for yourself: did the dossier accusing the BBC of doctoring a Trump quote…doctor a Trump quote?

This is excruitiating from Starmer. PMQs is political panto and about as serious, but he's floundering badly and it's all self-inflicted. As for the rest of them, the bloke who makes a virtue out of falling off a paddleboad is the only one who's had something serious and important to say.

Making Kimi Bad Enoch look vaguely competent sure is a big win for the McSweeney gang. Put that in the spreadsheet, lads!

Bang on.

Ah, but who is briefing that the young tyros of Number 10 are briefing? And who is briefing that those people are briefing about Number 10 briefing etc etc, ad nauseum. Isn't the UK's politics and political media just the best!

An important and very revealing read from @lewisgoodall.com. It lifts the veil of what really goes on at the BBC (and, in part, in the wider media), and it doesn't make for pretty viewing: goodallandgoodluck.substack.com/p/the-truth-...

'They were those like Sir Oswald Mosley who were fascinated by the spectacle of brutal power. They would like to use it themselves. They grovelled to Nazi dictatorship in order that they could make people in their turn grovel to them' Winston Churchill, 1936

Who else is old enough to remember when Laura Kuenssberg sent her 'briefing notes' to Boris Johnson in advance of an interview with him which was then cancelled? Not so vocal about the BBC then, was he? 'A spokesman declined to comment'. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

A brilliant example of what Lewis Goodall talks about when he argues why right-wing radicals keep winning. They don't play by the rules and simply don't care. Whereas the institutions they want to destroy do even when said rules are contorted to absurdity and are blatantly being used against them.

Here’s a fun impartiality game: when the BBC is reporting on the budget, see how many times they mention Brexit.

This. The Trump edit is a means towards a far more serious end. These people hate the BBC for ideological and entirely selfish economic reasons. They want to destroy but also asset strip and leverage its demise.

The Special Relationship has become an abusive one. And the rich, phoney British patriots cheering this on are Quislings.

Left: Boris Johnson attacking the BBC over Panorama's coverage of Trump on Jan 6th Right: Boris Johnson criticising Trump over Jan 6th A former British PM attacking the BBC, is that really patriotism?

As ever, this errant nonsense can be easily countered and demolished. But as long as those with the means to do so at the very least don’t stand up to him and his paymasters, then we are heading down a very nasty path.