"Maxwell has received custom meals personally delivered to her cell, after-hours time in a private exercise area, access to a service puppy, and private meetings with visitors arranged by the warden, complete with snacks. Visitors were allowed to bring computers..." www.msnbc.com/msnbc/news/d...

UPDATE: Canada has announced that it has lost its measles elimination status. This is a direct result of the increase in anti-vax disinformation, which has caused large, sustained outbreaks in the country over the last year.

The Telegraph routinely spreads myths about a range of subjects - especially climate change. It has been forced to publish over 100 corrections this year so far. Yet it has the gall to lecture the BBC - and whip up a national panic - about journalistic standards

You’re going to have to start calling them fascists lads, it’s what they are and they aren’t even embarrassed about it.

To fight communism, America bombed Laos more heavily than any country ever in history. It lost. It took in the refugees who managed to make it out. Now it has changed its mind and is shipping them back. What kind of government does this

This by Lewis Goodall on the internal ugliness at the BBC is very well worth reading: open.substack.com/pub/goodalla...

Billionaires and corporations are causing climate breakdown. It's time to tax the rich. www.newstatesman.com/spotlight/su...

With millions in public money handed to private interests and serious questions over transparency and accountability, why hasn’t there been an inquiry into the goings-on on Teesside? Watch the full episode of Page 94, the Private Eye podcast, on YouTube.

Anyway, nice timing from Trump as I give my first defamation lecture of the term this Friday.

Turned on the BBC and Nigel Farage was delivering another speech. Does he now have a weekly slot? He was expressing concern that a betting tax would mean that children would no longer be able to put “tuppence” into a slot machine in seaside amusement arcades. Which I’m sure is a real thing.

To make up with Trump, Samir Shah should pledge to play his 6 January 2021 speech unedited and in its entirety. #BBCPM

The fools! They'd be so much happier now if they had just talked endlessly about battery trains and hydrogen.

Celebrity Traitors but it’s the bbc board and we all get to vote *that* right-wing guy off, overnight ratings of 78 million

Can I just say, as I've seen a few posts along these lines, it's a logical fallacy to suggest that because you're criticised by both sides you must be being neutral or impartial. One (or both) sides may be criticising unfairly or in bad faith. Indeed, they very often are. Please don't do this.

Great to see people catching up on Sir Robbie Gibb's role in setting up GB News - five years after @nafeez.bsky.social explained on @bylinetimes.bsky.social

Wonderful to see @bcpgreenparty.bsky.social on Greensky! Bournemouth was such a fantastic host for the Green Party Conference. Us lot from Wells loved our stay! Please follow/repost these guys Oh, they're likeable as well! @bcpgreenparty.bsky.social @zackpolanski.bsky.social

"Boris Johnson’s pick for BBC chair, Sharp, resigned 2 years ago having arranged him £800,000 loan "But Gibb (director of comms for Theresa May & editorial adviser at GB News) is still member of the BBC board & accused of interfering with editorial decisions" www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

The reaction to the Panorama edit has been nothing short of hysterical. Yes the BBC has some impartiality problems. But its biggest isn't the one you think. New piece from me. open.substack.com/pub/goodalla...

Good

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…

Is this a good time to recall this 1960 case on defamation?

“His wife has shared the wonderful news that Sam woke up briefly yesterday, and she was able to speak with him for a short time. This is a truly positive step forward, though there is still a long journey ahead in his recovery.” Excellent news. ~AA www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crim...

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Welsh Green leader Anthony Slaughter used his conference speech on Saturday to say Greens in the Senedd would ‘improve people’s lives’ & the country must make the most of a ‘once in a generation’ chance to elect a new Govt "We need a Govt that won’t bow down to landowners, landlords & corporations"

Mind you, Richard Tice would have lost when he threatened to sue the BBC for calling Reform Far Right. But still the BBC caved: it's strong with the weak and weak with the strong.

Conversely, if the BBC had been producing straight news for the last twenty years, Nigel Farage would have been history ages ago.

If you don't want to be accused of inciting an insurrection, it's probably a good idea not to incite an insurrection. Good bit of Insurrection advice right there

How's water supply in Syria nowadays? Shortages contributed to the civil war, as they did in Yemen. What's water shortage going to do to Iran? #PoliticsLive

If this is true - this should have happened a long time ago. The Green Party alongside campaigners have been calling for this - and it's good to see maybe they've finally listened. Will reserve relief for all children being lifted out of poverty until we know it's happening.

Just to get this straight in my head, we've gone from "BBC badly edited a piece about Trump, but was accurate overall", to the "BBC isn't transphobic enough and is all woke", and we're still arguing, regardless of the myriad of issues with the BBC, whether there's a genuine right wing attack on it?

An engineer wanted to make a quiet high-speed train. “The question then occurred to me — is there some living thing that manages sudden changes in air resistance as a part of daily life?” The answer: the kingfisher. See my story today for more tales of bioinspiration. Gift link: nyti.ms/4otNQyl

Press Gazette: "No one today has mentioned the BBC’s disastrous indecision and refusal to air the brilliant Gaza: Doctors Under Attack documentary as among the mistakes leading up to this crisis." Channel 4 eventually aired it and it's already won awards.

The BBC should reply by asking Trump to participate in their forthcoming documentary based on the copy of the Epstein files they’ve just been provided with.

"It is estimated that more than 400 women and girls were abused and exploited within Mohamed Al Fayed’s Harrods enterprise. I am one of them." This is a survivor's account of the structural failure of British justice when confronted with money and power. A must read ⤵️

Every personal attack. Every attempt to distract or to divide. It energises, strengthens and empowers our movement. Lower bills. Tax billionaires. Join us. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

This is the rule of law in the UK. 20 years in prison for stealing a phone. 8,493 persons serving indefinite prison sentences, often for petty crime. No one charged for the Post Office scandal, Grenfell fire, cladding scandal, mortgage prisoners, banking frauds. Who does the law serve?

He explicitly encouraged the Capitol riot

I fully get wanting to end the US government shutdown, especially as Trump is deliberately using it to starve the poorest and undermine the constitution, but imagine doing it on the basis that Trump has said he may consider doing something in the future? Basically it's all been for nothing.

"Take Buckle Street Studio, a 13-storey apartment hotel that breached BRE guidance for 201 windows across 166 rooms in 58 individual flats in neighbouring buildings .For each of these 58 homes, the drop in daylight levels amount to material harm." theconversation.com/daylight-rob...

I'd call the BBC a pro-Trump organisation. The slightest thing he says tends to be in the headlines, they've hardly ever looked at his criminal charges and anti-constitutional operations, and they've never considered his mental capacity. #R4Today

Trump incited violence on 6 January 2021. An outside producer made a bad edit when there was plenty of unedited material to show that. Today Trump's granting pardons to dozens of people involved in that day's attempt to sabotage the handover of power. The BBC flagelllates itself. #PoliticsLIve

Trump incited violence on 6 January 2021. An outside producer made a bad edit when there's plenty of material to show that. Today Trump is granting pardons to dozens of people involved in that day's attempt to sabotage the handover of power. The BBC doesn't report, but flagellates itself. #WATO

Such is the power of @zackpolanski.bsky.social that he's prompted the Daily Express(!) to write a totally respectful article about the meaning of the white poppy www.express.co.uk/news/uk/2131...

Yes, yes, I know you aren't meant to respond to someone, finally, moving in a positive direction with "about bloody time", but seriously. They had the chance to do this in July last year. How many children have suffered under this policy since then?

Fascinating that Nick Robinson names Robbie Gibb as the instigator of the coup at the BBC He was promoted to ensure that Brexit went ahead He is the sort of shadowy character who is essential to the unpicking of democracy This should be the end of his time on the BBC board

The consensus is that the electrification of transportation will destroy 5 million barrels per day of oil demand by 2030. In this new piece I argue that this number is too low for a bunch of reasons.

Our entire political conversation - under a labour government - has taken a huge shift to the right. We can't let this be normalised. leftfootforward.org/2025/11/excl...