"Despite ... having been led for the last five years by a close ally of the Tories, being overseen by committees of Tory appointees, and Turness's own efforts to skew news story selection to "win over" Reform supporters, the right in this country want to see the BBC destroyed."

Vibrant engagement: balancing the risk of the end of civilisation against the risk of boardroom bonuses taking a knock www.theguardian.com/business/202...

It probably isn't a question of people being "suspected." It's just cheaper and easier to take a scattergun approach www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

Honorary Britishness just about possible for brown people who kill foreigns to order

A similar approach might once have worked with the strutting Caudillo of the Farage Falange. Bit late now, of course www.theguardian.com/books/2025/n...

It may safely be assumed that Team Starmer is preparing to purge the Football Association of Ireland from the international sporting community thecurmudgeonly.blogspot.com/2025/11/poli...

It's that Farage Falange county again www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

I certainly am glad all our troops didn't sacrifice themselves for the wrong kind of freedom www.theguardian.com/law/2025/nov...

Deafest armed forces in the world www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

"... from the standpoint of British capital, Starmer's disastrous leadership is on the verge of liquidating organised labour as a political force. Something worth a shower of damehoods, gongs, and knights garter."

"The Department for Communities and the Home Office have been approached for comment" - which would certainly have been forcefully forthcoming had the victims ranked better in the racism hierarchy www.theguardian.com/news/2025/no...

Diane Arbus, was a "horrible, mean, depressive person" and a monster who allowed other people's bad haircuts to scratch at her soul. Jonathan Jones, on the other hand, is what passes in the Graun for an art critic www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...

British extremists are very selfishly becoming less Islamic and more like the political mainstream thecurmudgeonly.blogspot.com/2025/11/prev...

Say what you like about the state of Britain's prisons, it does at least allow for the occasional good old-fashioned lynching www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Isn't inexpensive British decency a beautiful thing www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

We'll lead the way, and the lesser breeds can pay

Even now that Remembrance Sunday has been more or less officially re-branded as a rah-rah for the troops, the poppy-wearing patriotic consciousness remains in need of protection from certain British soldiers thecurmudgeonly.blogspot.com/2025/11/we-w...

When I voted for the squillionaire's private corporation, I never expected it to run things for the benefit of private corporations www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

"He descended into bitterness and isolation in the years after La commune. But most of what he said about where we’re headed was correct" www.criterion.com/current/post...

We fined them a few fancy lunches, rah rah www.theguardian.com/business/202...

"... limbering up to break tax promises wouldn't automatically put a black mark against the Labour's name, provided most people thought they were doing an okay and competent job. Unfortunately for this government, this is far from where the public are."

Halloween FrightFest: the @buck-theorem.bsky.social capsules bucktheorem.blogspot.com/2025/11/frig...

A sort of reverse Jane Goodall - one of the world's more disastrous chimpanzee handlers t.co/tVip76V1st

The only way that watchdog has ever hindered those thieves is by trying to hump their legs as they saunter off with the swag www.theguardian.com/environment/...

It worked with Argentina, so why wouldn't it work with them there crazy foreigns in NYC www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Well, this is deranged: the forces of democracy aren't lying enough to win back from Russia the moral high ground that Russia doesn't have www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

"The political of Farage's economy also owes more to the miserly managerialism of Rishi Sunak than the bombast of fellow 'populist' Boris Johnson"

A dilemma for the clean-limbed cadres of the Kent Farage Falange, whose county council is being forced to choose between that great Englishman, Saint George, and that other great Englishman, Baby Jesus thecurmudgeonly.blogspot.com/2025/11/thei...

What could any reasonable person say but tee hee hee www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

So there. Not even slightly genocidal, just a disease or two and some deeply and sincerely held beliefs. And some of the natives helped theguardian.com/world/2025/n...

Which one will Team Starmer listen to? Gosh, I wonder

On the cultural perils of Bob Newhart, and related matters thecurmudgeonly.blogspot.com/2025/11/that...

Trade union officials and other criminals have very treacherously, ungratefully, antisemitically and un-Britishly presumed to warn prison authorities and His Majesty's Government about the state of the national punishment system thecurmudgeonly.blogspot.com/2025/11/pris...

A slightly smaller and somewhat less iconic automobile than the Continental

It should be remembered that Team Starmer's only real criticism of the system that produced this fiasco has always been that it doesn't kick 'em out fast enough or cheap enough www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

He was not, you will observe, a leftist - his political affiliations are mentioned some thirteen paragraphs in www.theguardian.com/books/2025/n...

Member of the Conservative Party sues over being treated like a member of the Labour Party www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

I take it "liberal-progressive with a tough stance on immigration" means another bland technocrat for business as usual? www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

Why are they targeting taxpaying families who can afford a holiday abroad, instead of families too poor to pay tax? www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

Jury in Stonehenge orange spray protest case does the sensible thing www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Immigration, indecency, and incompetence. New post on my Brexit & Brexitism Blog. The ever-more indecent terms of the immigration 'debate' are another failure of Brexit, which links to the ever-more obvious incompetence of Reform in local government: chrisgreybrexitblog.blogspot.com/2025/10/immi...

"Reeves looks crooked because she and her peers have decided that being seen to be on the take isn't a problem"

Once more the strutting Caudillo of the Farage Falange has brought his hobnailed common sense to bear upon a sensitive subject thecurmudgeonly.blogspot.com/2025/10/some...

"The parallels with Senegal struck many cast members, many of whom grew up on streets still bearing colonial names. French colonial authorities renamed Ndakaaru to Dakar in 1857" www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

Used to be a newspaper of record, once www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Why are the right embracing open racism? It has something to do with the collapse of hegemony-oriented politics.

It was obviously no fun, but the article makes clear that he did not let it ruin his life www.theguardian.com/film/2025/oc...

Those in favour of an alliance will be gratified that nobody objects

Decent of Mark Gatiss to tell us it's a ghost story, just in case we hadn't heard

From breakfast clubs to genocide, the achievements of His Majesty's Government have been so spectacular that the great British public hasn't noticed them thecurmudgeonly.blogspot.com/2025/10/our-...