Once every 20 years or so, the director-general of the BBC is forced to resign for being insufficiently rightwing. Alastair Milne in 1987. Greg Dyke in 2004. Tim Davie in 2025. The great irony is that the BBC was in all cases profoundly biased towards established power. But just not biased enough …

If the government allows the right to win the war it has declared on the BBC it will be signing its own death certificate. It really is that simple. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

See what’s happening. A Trumpist US media company has taken over Channel 5. Another US company is gunning for ITV. Our social media is saturated by Musk’s calls for civil war in the UK. The BBC is the last thing standing, and Trump/Johnson are trying to bring it down

A rightwinger has interrupted an anti-ICE aerobics class outside of the Portland ICE facility by blasting an upbeat Alex Jones remix.

Remembrance Sunday = when we all remember that Liz Truss exists

Russia: Autocrat's rule is threatened by his own stupidity, arrogance and narcissism America: aspiring autocrat's rule is threatened by his own stupidity, arrogance and narcissism

Me: I bloody love this time of year Also me: *always forgets that the bins still have to be put out in Autumn*

Share a TV series from the 1960s you love youtu.be/J88udtXLStw?...

I'd love to believe that some sanity is going to be restored at the Beeb, but I think the more likely outcome is equally terrible people being slotted in and the death spiral of a cherished institution (the current affairs dept) continuing.

Ppl, there’s no hope whatsoever that Labour will institute proportional representation before the next GE. It’s about as likely as them abandoning xenophobia as their main policy.

Joey Barton is a fucking moron.

The tangible effects of politicians and media normalising racism and giving the worst people in our country a platform. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Covid was a gold rush for these people. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Chris Mason is what happens when a Hospital Radio DJ, whose sole qualification appears to be a sort of soporific inoffensiveness, is somehow promoted to BBC Politics Editor - a position that demands unflinching insight, objectivity, and sharpness. It's like a puddle trying to be the ocean.

Wow. Now it ALL make sense. It's Forrins releasing Forrins on purpose.

In America the revolving door is very clear across several arms of Government And Peter Theil has a finger in most of these pies. But this is now spreading to Europe. Including the U.K.

Well said Peter!

Yep. Fucking brilliant, wasn't it?!

The sight of freshfaced, enthusiastic, young American Mormon missionaries encountering raw, undiluted Preston, never gets old. 😂

BBC current affairs dept: *continually panders to the Far Right* It's reward from the Far Right:

Horrible. But for the most part, this is confined to online nuttiness and the kind of people who generally call in to radio and tv talkshows (bored/enraged/unstable). My area looks like Poppy Christmas right now. Ridiculous, but nobody has ever questioned me about not wearing one, on the street.

Before Blair went absolutely bananas and was complicit in war crimes and destabilising an entire global region, he actually achieved a great deal in terms of making Britain better and repairing Tory damage. For those of us who remember that, it makes Starmer look even worse.

Current choices for leftwing people in Britain: Goverment politicians who refuse to make anything better, because...*checks notes*...bond markets don't like that Elderly tankies who are mentally trapped in 1971 Shiny populists who say that we can have EVERYTHING and really don't need NATO

Every now and then, you get a little reminder of how much better life is for not being on X.

Watching Frankenstein. The prelude is

Nuremburg trials is the moderate position

I don't object to paying more tax. However, this is not a 'normal' Labour gov. So I'm rather skeptical about extra raised tax revenues being used to improve services. I'm even more skeptical about the rise in tax also being applied to the 1%.

Media: "Elon Musk will be the first trillionaire." Business analysts & Tesla watchers:

🚨On Halloween, ‘concerned citizens’ in Altrincham, Greater Manchester, shot fireworks at a hotel housing asylum seekers and encouraged residents to commit suicide during a protest, showing the ugly face of anti-migrant hate.⬇️

No. What’s breaking Labour is Labour forgetting to be Labour. What’s breaking Labour is Blue Labour.

This is heartbreaking. None of this is making Americans safer.

😬 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

The psychopath who did this may become the world's first trillionaire

This. The 'normal' alternative lauded by rightwing politicians in America, is actually, really, really bizarre.

Could someone please tell me what MTG's evil scheme is? Because 'I admire Pelosi' is not going to attract the frothing MAGAs Greene has spent years radicalising. 😳

How many Europeans across 6 countries surveyed are worried about climate change? ITA 76% very/fairly worried SPA 75% FRA 73% DEN 69% GER 63% UK 62% yougov.co.uk/politics/art...

Oh just perfect 🤣 *Global Britain as well, must be historic 🇬🇧🤪🇺🇸

When you have a Labour government guided by "the status quo is good/don't expect much from us, tbh," Labour MPs organising for actual Labourness in response, is inevitable. (How many will lose the whip?) www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

The poppy wars thing is extremely online nonsense. IRL, some people wear poppies, some don't. Neither party is stopping the other in the street and screaming HOW DARE YOU into their face. This stuff is the province of angry online nutters and journos who should really know better.

Ahh yes their made-up fantasies where they force their their views on others.

My 81 year old, very leftwing mum has discovered how to work YouTube. In a couple of weeks, she'll probably be telling me that women are to blame for the male loneliness epidemic, that Trump is the greatest human ever to have lived and that Britain is now 95% Muslim.

Far Right loons and Islamist loons gazing into each other's eyes: "You complete me." Everybody else: "please fuck off and leave us alone, loons."

Just a reminder🚨 Reform said that Kent County Council would be the best advert for what a Reform government would look like. This is all we need to know about them ⬇️ https://www.itv.com/news/meridian/2025-11-06/more-reform-uk-losses-in-largest-council-run-by-the-party

leftists: if nietzsche was alive today he would be a leftist! rightists: if nietzsche was alive today he would be a rightist! nietzsche if he was alive today: i am quite fond of the xenosaga trilogy

Steve Hilton Dominic Cummings Morgan McSweeney Morons who think they are geniuses, invited into Downing Street by Prime Ministers who don't know what the fuck they're doing and feel they need someone to hold their hand, while they sign important documents.

As usual, McSweeney is both self-serving and very, very wrong. Primarily because he’s asking the wrong question. Mostly voting Labour *won’t* keep Farage out. See Caerphilly.

Vital piece of investigative reporting from Sky. They've uncovered the X algorithm which feeds users extremist right wing material from the moment they join the site. It is a far-right radicalisation engine, by design. news.sky.com/story/the-x-...

Trump voters, Brexit voters, Reform voters. Will they ever learn? Probably not.