Journalists near the bottom. Anyone who has seen and listened too the news media circus in the UK, will understand why they have such a poor rating. Bias and low standards are the reason.

GB News investor and Spectator owner Paul Marshall is in the running to buy the Telegraph now that the RedBird takeover plan has collapsed, the Guardian reports. Hard to see this being anything other than a disaster for public discourse in Britain if that goes ahead.

Has anyone seen anything by a Florida defamation lawyer commenting on the likely prospects of Trump vs BBC? Lots of speculation, but would be good to see what an actual expert thinks.

Just in the past 3 days, I happened to speak to an academic, a US politician and a former Biden official who had all received death threats and severe harassment from the MAGA movement. It's now a common experience. I am sorry MTG has to live through the same thing, but she can't be surprised

🎥: Trump is a grifter and the BBC mustn’t pay him a dime, says former BBC executive Pat Younge. He joined the Media Confidential podcast with @arusbridger.bsky.social and @janinegibson.ft.com to discuss the latest BBC scandal: www.prospectmagazine...

It's not perfect, but we need to fight for the BBC. We'll be effed if we end up with only news sources like the grotesque GBNews. "Trump says he will take legal action against BBC despite apology". www.bbc.com/news/article...

Live pictures of Reform UK’s Kent Leader Linden Kemkaran running away from BBC documentary crews.

Want some good news about the UK economy for once...levels of GDP (and forecasts) keep getting revised up...

Actually, Mark Lobel, I think your guest was absolutely right. It was your reporting that got a bit overexcited on the basis of ten minutes. Market reaction has evened out.

Is it me, or has the discourse on Bluesky become more crude & reactive recently? So many responses where the person hasn't read the article. So many comments that are devoid of anything showing basic knowledge of the subject. Although I keep muting & blocking the clichéd comments keep coming.*sigh*

This hysterical, knee jerk ‘journalism’ is tearing our country apart. WE can ignore it, but others are taken in. It’s exhausting.

Ah the 1970s. Stagflation, three day weeks, collapsing infrastructure. Civil War in Northern Ireland. In yer face racism and bigotry everywhere. Bin strikes. Strikes in general. Blackouts. Industrial decline. Wage inequality. Dog crap everywhere. And households spent 25% of their income on food.

A Reform UK MP has been accused of “complete fabrication” after incorrectly claiming she helped get funding for a charity boxing club in her constituency.

When are the media going to be doorstepping Farage and forcing him to state his ongoing support for his close friend, the orange child rapist, before the Epstein files are released next week?

Police and crime commissioner roles to be abolished

Atlantic salmon in stretch of Derbyshire river 'extraordinary'

Our deep dive into the recesses of Epstein's inbox found repeated instances of him seeking to exploit his Trump relationship. "I am the one able to take him down," Epstein wrote in December 2018. 🎁🔗 @jsgatnyt.bsky.social @nickconfessore.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/11/12/u...

pretty funny in retrospect that QAnon hinged on the idea that powerful elites at the highest levels of government were smart enough to talk in code when sending emails to each other about their despicable crimes

Looking forward to all the Trump fans in British politics being asked their views about the latest Epstein revelations tomorrow...

The Kremlin disguised a nearly $100 mn payment to Trump in the form of a brokered real estate deal... and both Jeffrey Epstein and William Pulte were involved in the deal. That's very interesting.

The official investigation into the January 6 riots concluded Trump “summoned the mob, assembled the mob, and lit the flame of this attack" in an effort to halt the peaceful transfer of power. No billion dollar lawsuit can change reality. The BBC should call this convicted criminal’s bluff.

It’s been a year since it was revealed that Nigel Farage hasn’t actually paid for his house in Clapton. A year of silence from the media. A year of looking the other way from the media. A year of trying to pretend everything is in order. We deserve better than a complicit media

I support Sir Keir Starmer. He is our PM and must remain as PM. This speculation about his future needs to stop. The media have it in for him and he is actually doing a bloody good job.

"Surely the clearest indication of the BBC's fundamental truthfulness and integrity is the number of known liars who wish to destroy it." Isabella Stone Sheffield

Cornwall Reform UK branch mired in infighting over leadership change www.cornwalllive.com/news/cornwal...

I see the media are trotting out the same old shit about Starmer fighting for his job. Either after the Budget or maybe after the May elections. When will they realise this is a Labour gov. Not the backstabbing Tories. Starmer gave them an election victory no one thought possible. He’s going nowhere

Northern Lights set to dazzle UK this week due to possible 'severe' geomagnetic storm. www.bbc.co.uk/weather/arti...

This kind of (seemingly) reverse corruption needs a look 1. Reform MPs praise JCB endlessly, councillors promote the firm's tech on their authorities. 2. Then the boss gives a £200,000 party donation. To a cynical eye, it looks like an affiliate rewards scheme leftfootforward.org/2025/11/bill...

Amid all the bad things that are happening, a "good things are coming" story

Nowhere in the hysterical pile-on against the BBC in the British press has anyone mentioned that BBC News now has 77 million viewers & listeners in the US and has established itself as the second most trusted news source there.

Solar’s price drop is astonishing: panels are now 98% cheaper than when I first analyzed them in 2004. Today, building a fence with solar can be cheaper than using wood.

Anybody in Britain who gives credence to Trump's absurd bullying of a news organisation by claiming significant reputational impact (damage) from a BBC edit of Panorama in October 2024 should lose any credibility - Demonstrate a shift in Trump's reputation at that moment! - Attribute it to the BBC

You wouldn’t believe how far the BBC reaches. The furthest away country, you’ll meet some locals. They ask you if you’re British, they’ll tell you about the BBC.

Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk: “Putin has tools that can destroy the European Union as an organization, but also Europe as a cultural phenomenon. “These tools are Russia’s fifth columns, present in every country of Europe.”

Maybe Keir should demand the heads of major US news networks any time they imply Britain is on the brink of civil war or that we live under sharia law. Or does it not work both ways?

Sack the editor of the New York Times every time it writes about boiled mutton.

Incredible that Robbie Gibb - most influential person on BBC board by many accounts and from journalists I speak in BBC - was involved in setting up GB News. GB News of course has breached Ofcom rules on *multiple* occasions - no sign of resignations though www.theguardian.com/environment/...

The BBC has long since been tying itself up in knots appeasing a right wing agenda. Davie and Turness have now quit in the face of a new onslaught from Trump, the Daily Mail and the rest of them. None of this bodes well for a public broadcaster which we need now more than ever.

The BBC is facing a coordinated, politically motivated attack. With these resignations, it’s given in | Jane Martinson

This has been obvious for some time. None are so blind as those who will not see.

‘Is there anyone else in Reform UK who cld be taking bribes from pro-Russian politicians?’ 👇 Zia Yusuf: ‘I don’t believe so’

The case against British assets became badly oversold; the pendulum is now swinging back. Their outperformance could have some way to run

The BBC is apologising for its Panorama edit. It shouldn’t. First, the narrative is true: Donald Trump *did* incite the Capitol riot. Second, the apology won’t appease those attacking it. So why not at least stand for something? Wrote this on it earlier this week: inews.co.uk/news/world/b...

A criminal court in Brussels on Wednesday convicted two Polish nationals – including a current European Parliament assistant – of misusing EU funds tied to political entities associated with Brexit-backer Nigel Farage. https://bit.ly/4oSrA0R

London's latest Blue Plaque is a brilliant one. (It was put up at the Tesla dealership in Tottenham by campaigners)

David Lammy has a record of speaking out bluntly about Dominic Cummings which I doubt has been well-received.

Do we know how that house was paid for in Clacton? That story has gone quiet.

Two donors to Nigel Farage’s partner Laure Ferrari convicted of fraud, money-laundering and forgery. Belgian court rules that Daniel Pawlowiec and Marian Szolucha illegally funnelled over £100,000—largely in public funds—to the think tank she ran.