Yep it’s not easy! But the reality is, this individual paywall system is not working. News is locked away and misinformation is free.

There are several reasons these aren’t analogous. Right wing media isn’t funded with the expectation of turning a profit. The ones that do succeed on the back of pundits, not news. It‘s cheaper to run a newsroom divorced from facts than one attached to them.

In an interview with The Guardian, UNRWA Deputy Commissioner-General Nathalie Boucly said Israel is breaching international law by severely restricting humanitarian aid to Gaza. (1/2)

You cant parachute asylum seekers into deprived areas, in completely inappropriate housing, then say those migrants are 'dividing our country'. You divided the country because you can't organise a basic service and process claims in a timely way

"Thou Shalt Not Stand Idly By: Jews of Conscience on Palestine" gathers over a century of Jewish voices opposing Zionism. The moral clarity of its contributors is more needed than ever as the self-proclaimed Jewish state commits a genocide in Gaza. mondoweiss.net/2025/11/book... #Palestine #Israel

... "Twenty years is not a probation period, it is a lifetime." ...

Israel is advancing a bill to impose the death penalty on Palestinian prisoners. Right-wing leaders want to go even further and use the bill to give Israeli forces the authority to carry out extrajudicial killings. Cartoon by Carlos Latuff.

#WATCH | Gaza’s systematic annihilation continues; units’ mission: leave nothing. (Israel Genocide Tracker)

Danny Kruger claims migrant men represent a disproportionate threat to women. FACT-CHECK: Reform MPs are a bigger "Per Capita" threat to women and girls than ANY minority group. #Bbcqt

This rancid trash understands the significance of Labour's anti-refugee policies.

Brits and forgetting migrants exist and have lives and need to see their family, name a more iconic combo.

This isn't fixing the system though, it's punishing folks for being foreign and seeking asylum. This is pandering to the right whingers who they let drive the narrative. Solve the actual problems that are facing our nation: cost of living, house prices, social care, NHS, crumbling infrastructure…

The reprogramming clearly successful - “refugees do not exist, only illegal migrants & make sure you say ‘illegal migration’ as often as possible”.

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This seems like a good time to mention that this Labour, you know "protect vulnerable people" government has pretty much closed the last remaining "safe routes" for people to seek asylum in the UK, along with preventing refugees already here being reunited with their spouses or children.

That’s why “blue Labour” is doomed and was doomed from the start: you cannot make water run uphill. A party whose core electorate for over a decade has been socially liberal university graduates and ethnic minorities cannot sell itself as a party hostile to socially liberal values.

Terrific, thought-provoking piece by @chrisdillow.bsky.social:

Boy, King Charles is going to feel pretty stupid when he discovers that he stripped his brother Andrew of all of his titles just because of a hoax manufactured by some Democrats in America!

Today is the beginning of Trans Awareness Week. It’s an opportunity for us to celebrate trans people, acknowledge the challenges they face, and reflect on how we as a society can work together to improve trans people’s lives.

The government must remove Robbie Gibb from the BBC board immediately – and end the practice of political appointments, which so badly undermines the BBC, altogether.

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Settler Violence Attacks, 13th November 2025, as of 16:30~ 👉 Salfit (Arson) 👉 Palestinian Olive Harvesters (Physical attack) 👉 Jaber neighbourhood (Door blockades) 👉 Nearby Modi'in Illit (Physical attack) 👉 Kifl Haris (Vandalism)

The suspension (and seemingly likely cancellation) of the family reunion route for refugees. Objectively heinous and terrible.

Thank you being a sane voice in the media. Elsewhere the same voices are arguing to keep the massive salaries for CEOs and managers in large private companies. Strange how the NHS could run without management but in private companies they're worth millions.

Facial recognition, DWP-HMRC bank account snooping, restricting right to protest, Palantir, digital ID cards. It's all a bit of a top down one way street. No movement on dodgy donors, dark money, lobbying, the political revolving door, unregulated media, white collar crime...

NHS Admin are a valuable part of the team, without them clinical systems grind to a halt. They schedule lists, book appointments, chase contractors, equipment & orders. They are the unseen & often unthanked backbone of the service. To my former colleagues, once again going through this, stay strong

Lobbyists for Big Tech now outnumber MEPs On average, there are 3 meetings a day between Big Tech lobbyists + senior EU figures. Meanwhile an NGO fighting to stop people's water supplies being hoovered up by data centres will wait months to get a single meeting. A fascinating listen 👇

13 November 1943 | Dutch Jewish boy Ivor Arnold Troostwijk was born in Den Bosch. In January 1944 he was deported to #Auschwitz and murdered in a gas chamber after the selection. --- Watch a short video about Block 11 and its yard where shooting executions were held: https://t.co/VBgDxkWLMa

Have written for the New Statesman about why, if he will not accept an apology, the BBC should welcome a Trump lawsuit. They should show guts and fight it because impartially matters and if they don't, they will have tacitly accepted a rewritten history. www.newstatesman.com/politics/med...

In 2023, the Labour party supported mandating swift bricks, whipping FOR the swifts brick amendment. 2 years later, the same Ministers in charge of Housing put a 3 line whip (the most extreme block) AGAINST swift bricks. Listen to the strength of support in this powerful speech.

What on earth was the reason for the 3 line whip to vote this down? The Labour party supported the swift brick amendment when it was tabled on Conservative government legislation in 2023. Why has it gone from supporting swift bricks in opposition to imposing a 3 line whip to block them in government

Note who wants international organizations inside of Gaza. Note who is always begging for international, universalist organizations to come and establish rules and order for justice. Note who is making every effort to prevent any of that.

Personal note: London has been home for a very, very long time, but as of today, I am also officially a Brit - that is to say, a British citizen. I feel relieved and I feel grateful - but not, perhaps, in the forelock-tugging way GB News/Starmer expect a new immigrant to be.

Siri, what's one way that I could prove the lack of basic logic inherent in transphobia with one stupid, ironic choice?

- "Are there any innocent people in Gaza?" - "No We saw them feeding little children, and all the time 'Allahu Akbar, Allahu Akbar'... It’s everyone, you can’t point to someone" What? 🤦‍♂️ (Credit: ireallyhateyou)

Trump is now promoting right-wing channel GB News over Britain's flagship national broadcaster. GB News has been repeatedly sanctioned for misleading and conspiracy theory content. The Telegraph has faced a stream of press watchdog probes for misleading reporting, particularly on the climate.

The government needs to stand up for a truly independent BBC free from political meddling. That means sacking Robbie Gibb and ending the political grip on the BBC board.

An analysis of BBC news coverage over the last 4 years shows a shameless bias against Vladimir Putin, with BBC reporters insisting on calling the Special Military Operation in Ukraine “an invasion”

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Fun fact: Today is the 1 year anniversary of Farage's foreign national girlfriend Ferrari buying his house. With unexplained wealth. That should be investigated...

There's a part 2 to this Byline Times article by Dr Nafeez Ahmed. Not delved into it myself yet, but fill yer boots if you like. Just my own worthless opinion, but I think this is where the real story on the current BBC debacle is. Not that that will be widely reported. bsky.app/profile/pete...

The BBC is in crisis in the same way that GB News would be if you put Owen Jones on the board armed with a veto and plenty of coffee.

Fun (or not so fun) fact - the author of the “BBC bias” memo is a lobbyist for the American Pharmaceutical Group. U.S. pharma companies recently threatened to abandon the UK unless the NHS pays more for its medicines. They also donated millions to Trump’s campaign and inauguration

Russia has joined the attack on the BBC. It's becoming clear that what is happening is not a criticism of a mistake by the BBC, but an international fascist attack on British democracy. You only have to see the extraordinary number of trolls unleashed on X to know that's what is happening.

"But the true message—the prospective message—is that pardons will be available to everyone who joins him in election subversion in 2026 and 2028. This wave of preemptive pardons is a permission slip, an encouragement for election subversion in the future." open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...

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.

Can only conclude that the very online US commentators’ obsession with bashing the UK is the equivalent of a mental comforter to deflect from dealing with things closer to home.