Sky News just had Kelvin Mackenzie on, former editor of The Sun, one of the people at the centre of probably the most disgraceful front page in newspaper history, complaining about BBC journalists not being objective and 'fake news'. Astonishing. ~AA

8 Senate Democrats sided with Trump and Republican fascists in throwing 15 million Americans off Medicaid and Obamacare: Dick Durbin (IL), Maggie Hassan (NH), Tim Kaine (VA), Angus King (I-ME), Cortez Masto (NV), Jeanne Shaheen (NH), Jacky Rosen (NV), John Fetterman (PA).

‘Gibb’s supporters say he is trying to save the BBC from itself; he was also heard last year to say that if he didn’t get his way, he would “blow the place up”.’

"with 1 trillion dollars, Elon Musk could-" He doesn't have one trillion dollars. He's not going to have one trillion dollars. The company promising to give him one trillion dollars isn't worth one trillion dollars. It's not going to be worth one trillion dollars.

just a reminder that the 8 Dems who folded need to vote again later in the week (thanks to dumb senate procedure, unsurprisingly) light their phones up tomorrow at 9AM

A national newspaper journalist went on a British TV channel to claim police stats showed asylum-seekers committed 44% of sex crimes in Dorset. This shocking claim was treated as fact by the channel which promoted the clip on social media where it was amplified by AI. Except... it's bollocks.

It’s easy to see why Trump wants to destroy the world’s number one news source. We can’t let him. The BBC belongs to all of us here in the UK. The Prime Minister and leaders from across the political spectrum should be united in telling Trump to keep his hands off it.

NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN was released 18 years ago today. One of the most successful movies of the Coen brothers, and acclaimed as one of the great book-to-screen adaptations of the 21st century, missing the story of how it came to be is like losing a Chigurh coin toss… 1/38

The BBC's senior leadership resigning en masse over one dodgy edit in one programme, simply because the right wing press demands it, tells you everything you need to know about where the power really lies in that relationship

Schumer (NY) 202 224-6542 Booker (NJ) 202 224-3224 King (ME) 202 224-5344 Hassan (NH) 202 224-3324 Durbin (IL) 202 224-2152 Ossoff (GA) 202 224-3521 Shaheen (NH) 202 224-2841 Gillibrand (NY) 202 224-4451 Masto (NV) 202 224-3542 Warner (VA) 202 224-2023

The Telegraph being praised by a foreign autocrat for undermining the BBC.

Be clear, the American far right are coming for British democracy.

On white poppies, it's worth remembering that they were associated with the Peace Pledge Union, by the late 1930s an objectively pro-Hitler organisation. Some people choose to wear them. They are fools, I'm afraid.

www.sheffieldtribune.co.uk/sometimes-it... I wrote last week about two villains and one hero in the battle between truth and lies. Well here’s another hero - the Sheffield Tribune, one of the Mill stable of independent news sites, had the courage to publish an important story despite legal threats..

Here’s a link beyond the paywall. And a donate button, if you wish to support the Tribune. www.sheffieldtribune.co.uk/a-london-law...

Liverpool City Region has been growing strongly since the pandemic - with particular strengths in education and science. Is this momentum on the Mersey a sign of things to come? futurenorth.substack.com/p/momentum-o...

The “canonical” story how Rosalind Franklin got wronged by Watson and Crick inadvertently makes her look far less scientifically competent than she was (“She did not realize the significance of her own data!”). This article offers a much more nuanced account of what happened.

New post just out: Why the criminal justice system should be top of No. 10's "shit list". No part of the public sector is more broken or brings with it greater political risk. As we saw these past two weeks. It desperately needs a new approach. (£/free trial) open.substack.com/pub/samf/p/f...

Incredibly sobering post but do bear this section in mind when you hear Chris Philp and Robert Jenrick getting on their high horse...

It blows my mind that there are real people who see a post like this and actually believe the whole “Christmas is being cancelled by Muslims” BS 🙄 Let’s have a quick look at what’s happening to Sheffield so you can put your Express reading uncle’s mind at ease!😆 1/15 🧵

Sadly another example of Simon Jenkins not having a clue what he's on about. Suggests "diocesan authorities" ought to transfer churches to secular parish councils. Something which they don't have the power to do because they don't own them - in fact they're as locally-owned already as they can get!

Sitcom idea: Men Behaving Baldly.

What a world

Rigged

Yorkshire Water: it’s time to end the rip-off Handing the company back to local people would return both control and value to those who need it most By John Hall @yorkshirebylines.co.uk @johnfromyorkshire.bsky.social

"When I picked up my granddaughter from the federal agents, she had a dirty diaper, a bruise on her face, and was developing a rash. She was exhausted and cried… My heart aches knowing this could happen to others, to my kids, or even me, despite being U.S. citizens.”

incredible new trump photo

‘Swindly’

Oh look, Robert Jenrick.

‼️ This is important. Russia and its propaganda machine targeting the Global South seek to build a cheap & inexhaustible reserve of expendable soldiers. Many impoverished people, poisoned&deceived by Kremlin propaganda and anti-Western rhetoric,head to the war in Ukraine in hopes of earning money⤵️

One of the things I appreciate most about living in Norfolk is the fact that it induces a near-constant state of bewilderment. 1/3

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.

A family friend has just opened a shop after 20 years in the making. Everything for sale is designed and hand made in the uk. He has no marketing strategy please follow his account or like or share to help him get off the ground. Ta lads x www.instagram.com/p/DQwoH7SDVx...

photos of Trump sleeping through yesterday's Oval Office event via Andrew Harnik of Getty

Haha! What an absolute tosser www.theguardian.com/football/202...

🚨NEW EPISODE🚨 Zohran Mamdani's victory in the New York mayoralty race leaves Trump titanically unamused. @jasonhazeley.bsky.social & @seththevoz.bsky.social join @rostaylor.bsky.social to discuss. Plus Matt Warman examines the drastic measures needed to keep Reform out 👉 linktr.ee/ohgodwhatnow...

The world’s first trillionaire initiated a move that has left more than half a million people dead, most of whom are children.

Basically Elon now earns $2,000,000 per dead child.

The man who ended USAID is the world's first trillionaire

Jeanine Pirro bragging in August that she just arrested Sandwich Guy and was going to teach him a lesson in court.

It's the question we thought we’d never to ask… Does the Tory Party need saving from oblivion for fear of something worse? @rostaylor.bsky.social, @seththevoz.bsky.social & @jasonhazeley.bsky.social discuss the unthinkable with ex-Tory MP Matt Warman. Listen now 👉 linktr.ee/ohgodwhatnow... #podcast

Lovely message from @neuroblastomauk.bsky.social thanking Alan Carr. Shared on their X. #CelebrityTraitors

I don't remember if Follow Friday is a thing here - but follow Postcard from the Past - the juxtaposition of often bland imagery but intriguing snapshots of lives from just one sentence is hauntology at its purest. Or is that surrealism?

I fully believe in the corporate death penalty and believe we would be a better world if OpenAI lost its corporate charter and was forcibly dissolved. www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...

Great administration we’ve got here