Back home from gig (which was incredible), and more storm damage. Front/side fence is back down again (no surprise), and bedroom window has been leaking (big surprise). More Things To Sort. 🙈 And the storm isn’t over. 🫣

“Protecting women and girls” update:

I am remembering a BBC correspondent who quit the BBC after transphobes changed his copy after he filed it, and without his permission.

I have some Storm Claudia damage, as she’s brought my pergola down.

Get this and other unsustainably specific references at the newly-relaunched opiumtea.com.

"Guardians of the countryside" update

Went to pub quiz tonight. And we won. Very happy me.

Bottomless brunch

Can we circle back to the part where the NY Times never disclosed that they have incriminating information on Donald Trump from sent by Epstein that's been sitting on their email servers for nearly a decade?

Feel it’s a discussion worth having about the vast overrepresentation of cishet men in the prison population. What is it about their cultural background that causes this?

My delivery is due by 10pm. Allegedly. 90 seconds to go.

Yes, I know, o. But that's not the joke here.

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Whereas concentrating more wealth in the hands of the top 1% than in the bottom 70% of society combined, is hard-nosed reality. Which reminds me, I keep meaning to check who owns the Times.

Apparently I’m Chairman Mao for wanting to treat people in need of support with empathy. 🤷‍♂️

"Those who launched the latest attack on the BBC have close ties to the MAGA movement, from Friends of Trump like Farage and former Tory Prime Minister Boris Johnson to others with links to the US Christian Nationalist organisation the Heritage Foundation."

Rupert Lowe has invited Wayne O'Rourke to parliament O'Rourke pleaded guilty to stirring up race hatred, after calling for people to go on the streets, burn cars, to attack mosques + the "traitors" defending Muslims Judge "You were not caught up in what others were doing, you were instigating it"

If BBC News was a hotbed of left-wing wokery producing *systemically* biased coverage Jeremy Corbyn may well have been elected Prime Minister in 2019. It’s not. He wasn’t. And we got Boris Johnson instead.

Just replied to a friend’s rant about benefits on facebook. Expecting a can of worms to be opened. Or for my comments to be deleted.

Guy Goma nomination when?

NEW | if the BBC *is* biased, it’s not against the right… Arsonists cosplaying as fire fighters: Why the right-wing war on the BBC is succeeding brokenbottleboy.substack.com/p/arsonists-...

Yes, "pregnant people" is inclusive language that describes pregnant cis women AS WELL AS trans men and nonbinary people, a lot of whom can get pregnant. But it also describes, like, 12-year-old girls who get pregnant. Do centrist pig-dogs think THEY are "women" too? Coz...bit of a red flag, that.

So that’s 69% of people who DON’T think the BBC has a left-wing bias, then. NB This newspaper believes that 52% is a sufficient crushing majority that everyone else should be silenced, mocked and shouted down for dissenting. Spread the word.

For years, I’ve known that Maitlis was a key player in the institutional and orchestrated attacks on Trans+ youth Now, emboldened and clearly unrepentant, she's flaunting her complicity The world can now see her for who she is - someone willing to weaponise their power against the vulnerable

Elon Musk is a Fraud, a cuckoo as described by John Amaechi.

I reckon a reasonable test of someone’s patriotism might be if they want to see the end of an historic national institution that is trusted and respected worldwide because they don’t like everything that institution does.

Whole fucking thing makes me sick to my stomach. An abject fucking liar, a man who lies as easily as he fucking breathes, threatening an organisation which strives for truthfulness. And plastic patriots like the Mail and Farage urging him on. Jackels.

A reminder that this anti-trans panic is 100% bullshit and exactly none of our country’s problems are related to someone expressing their gender identity and everyone who isn’t a hate-filled weirdo knows it.

The Telegraph routinely spreads myths about a range of subjects - especially climate change. It has been forced to publish over 100 corrections this year so far. Yet it has the gall to lecture the BBC - and whip up a national panic - about journalistic standards

When Boris Johnson was Prime Minister one of his senior advisers confided to me that one of the only things in politics his boss actually cared about was “killing off the BBC”. Five years on, and it is a campaign that appears to be finally coming to fruition. bylinetimes.com/2025/11/10/t...

im so fucking tired of america.

one mad thing about this bbc thing is Boris Johnson - B O R I S J O H N S O N - parping on about facts & quality journalism

This Robbie Gibb?

So Tom Swarbrick is interviewing “business giants” this week to talk about what should be in the next budget. Because it only affects businesses and not people. Expect a lot of “lower tax on us” demands. Grim.

Everything on our news agenda is being driven by a corrupted disinformation machine, run by a billionaire who sponsors Tommy Robinson and who keeps trying to foment civil war in the UK. And incredibly our MPs & news providers stay there. THAT is the problem. Not some bad editing choice on the BBC.

So the Telegraph’s “BBC bias dossier” - supposedly written by ex-BBC adviser Michael Prescott - is being used to claim there’s a rogue LGBT+ unit “censoring” gender-critical voices inside the BBC. Let’s look at what’s actually in it. Spoiler: it’s nothing but recycled transphobic talking points! 🧵

The Telegraph’s BBC “memo” isn’t evidence of anything except how far bad-faith actors will go to keep trans people’s existence a debate topic. It’s not whistle-blowing. It’s a culture-war press release with the insidious intention of making BBC coverage even MORE transphobic than it currently is! 😖

Firstly, the booing. Secondly, “I, and state your name…”. Please air this unedited, BBC News.

For context, I was a co researcher on the first ever piece of research on kids in care who are LGBT, so I’m not just some randomer who wanted to chat… I’m also care experienced and I am LGBT Ridiculous the minister doesn’t want to hear from those who have both professional and lived experience

People are saying Gary Lineker would be a great candidate for BBC Director General. #TimDavie

Billie Piper announced as the new BBC Director General but we've got to wait until next Christmas to find out why.

Ding dong , Davie’s gone. He should never have been appointed but also this shouldn’t have been a resigning matter. Hopefully his replacement will be less far right.

More genders please. Pile ‘em high

Shut this subsidy-sucking shithole DOWN!! 'Drax power plant has continued to burn 250-year-old trees sourced from some of Canada’s oldest forests despite growing scrutiny of its sustainability claims, forestry experts say.' www.theguardian.com/business/202...

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Where are the protests?

And they’re still going. From different directions.