There's one book already there...

This is why this matters to Trump. And why it will be a tragedy when the BBC kowtow.

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.

Yeah...but watch them fold like wet broccoli anyway...

The first item on the first agenda of any left wing party is the split.

“There is no such thing as too much flattery for Trump, no level of praise that he thinks is a bit much. In short, he wants the news to be like The Apprentice: flashy, brash, and with a heroic vision of himself always at its centre.” inews.co.uk/news/world/t...

It occasionaly occurs to me that one option in this defamation case might be to say "see you in court, you orange mob leader." www.theguardian.com/media/2025/n...

Good morning to all those people who wasted the last decade saying, "there's no point tackling climate change in the UK, because China." www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...

Oh look. There really are "no go areas" in England. And they're marked by St George's flags www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

‘I once planned to sue the bbc for suggesting I encouraged an insurrection the time I encouraged an insurrection on live tv’

I wonder when he will start suing news outlets for describing his barefaced lies about the 2020 election as barefaced lies…

SUPERB and angrily unvarnished response, by former BBC chairman, Lord Patten. "I don't think that we should allow ourselves to be bullied into thinking that the BBC is only any good, if it reflects the prejudice of the last person who shouted at it." ~AA

The CURRENT sitting MP for Clacton earns £511,000 as a presenter for GB News and took £281,000 as a brand ambassador for Direct Bullion. So maybe sit this one out, you rancid herring.

The party of business understand absolutely nothing about business. This is true from the TV businessman on down.

Two-thirds of California's power comes from clean energy. For 9 in 10 days so far this year, we were 100% powered for some part of the day by clean energy. The Golden State has become the world's fourth-largest economy because of our climate leadership, not in spite of it.

The pardon covers 77 people, including members of the president’s former legal team, including John Eastman, Jenna Ellis and Sidney Powell.

Trump won last year because people sensed a vacuum where progressive politics ought to be. That vacuum must be filled or Trump and his personal, idiosyncratic madness is only the beginning of dark days for the whole world.

Appeasement over the Rhineland led to the Anchluss...und so weiter.

The other fact that people are ignoring is that Prescott is not some random chap plucked out of obscurity to do an 'independent' report. He's part of the campaign from the start.

I’ll add: the “dossier” here was clearly part of a concerted effort to oust the BBC’s top management. Neither the BBC nor the government response acknowledged that. It was slow, ineffective, and outdated. “Old” media orgs need to learn the new game, or they’ll die out.

Giving in to Trump is the beginning, not the end.

My family has been without half our income for 40 days. It has been.. very hard. We are willing to feel that pain so people can have health care next year, or to undo these illegal recissions. We are not willing to have been put through this for NOTHING.

If you want to sustain your carefully-cultivated fury at the stupid Panorama edit then don’t, whatever you do, read or listen to Trump’s speech in its entirety…

NEW: The First Circuit Court of Appeals has denied the Trump admin's efforts to stop the release of full funding for November's SNAP benefits payments as ordered by a lower court judge. The Supreme Court's administrative stay will now expire 48 hours after the 1st Circuit's ruling.

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...

This is not a deal, it’s a surrender to Trump. Senate Democrats should reject this plan that does nothing to prevent healthcare premiums from skyrocketing for millions of Americans. I’ll be a HELL NO in the House.

"The BBC belongs to Britain, not Trump. We must defend it together."

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?

www.theguardian.com/politics/liv... They were told in 2016 that Brexit would INCREASE regulation, that the point of a Single Market, is to DECREASE regulation. That they believed Farage telling them lies, and now appear to believe his lies about the lies, begs the question as to who betrayed whom.

Which ties his recent political success very specifically to the political failure of Labour in power.

We live in a culture that has entirely given up on any positive idea about the future. Discuss. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Enlightened self-interest, the basis of law and commerce, is a staggeringly poor predictor of human behaviour.

The US Prison System has more to do with Jim Crow than it does with John Grisham

Nothing like duress to MAKE you ready...

What you’re witnessing is a populist assault on the BBC. This is not an institutional scandal in any meaningful sense of the word. It is an attack on public service broadcasting. iandunt.substack.com/p/extra-edit...

The BBC's depressing lack of inherent institutional strength The BBC needs to be a robust, independent institution By me Substack emptycity.substack.com/p/the-bbcs-d... Personal blog davidallengreen.com/2025/11/the-...

Weird.

Was a recording of the Nuremberg Rallies being broadcast inside the booth?

Nah. Probably not.

Dems have spent the past two months saying they're fighting to address the crisis of spiking healthcare costs and now they're caving for a deal that does nothing to address healthcare costs ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Sounds like good TV. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...

Precisely. We have a quisling problem.

In 'How They Broke Britain', I do a pretty good job of detailing the depth & breadth of Tufton Street/Tory/Murdoch/Mail attempts to scupper the BBC, even as I castigate some presenters for going too easy on precisely the people who seek the Corporation's abolition. But I should have done more. 1/2

Katie Razzall will be gone by the end of the week. You think these fuckers are goijg to stop here? "Draw a line?" How little you know them! www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

“I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time.” aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...

Tonight’s Senate vote on the federal government shutdown should have been a time for strength. Instead we saw capitulation and a betrayal of working Americans. The American people need more from their leaders.

I was thinking exactly this reading Michael Prescott's memo. The notion that BBC coverage must be worded so as not to upset the American right is simply wrong. American viewers know what the first B stands for. No one is forcing them to watch, or pay the licence fee.