1. Placing these two graphs side by side shows why we have a prisons crisis. They can also be seen as a kind of Authoritarianism Index, showing the trend in state attitudes. On the left is the Crime Survey for England and Wales. On the right is the UK prison population. 🧵1/8

3. Very rich people and corporations suffer from what I call Property Paranoia: an extreme fear of lower social classes, who might want what they have and seek to take it from them. They demand ever more draconian legal regimes to keep the masses in check. 3/8

7. You can see this pressure working simultaneously in the same government’s astonishingly draconian anti-protest laws: piling yet more measures on top of the extreme punitive regime introduced by the Tories. Want to free up some prison places? Then stop banging up peaceful protesters.

The BBC's appalling distortion of expert opinion grossly perverted the debate about Brexit. Brexit was not an exercise in democracy. It was an exercise in the abuse of democracy.

A Day late, sorry, but!

These class warriors are NOT our friends.

"Yorkshire Water was privatised in 1989 under the Water Act, launched debt-free and promoted as the start of a new, efficient era. What followed was anything but. Today, the company carries almost £7bn in debt. Our rivers are polluted, our bills keep rising, and we’re told to pay still more..."

Remember Maggie Thatcher saying 'There's no such thing as society'? Well, billionaires, oligarchs, corporations and slimy toads like Trump and Farage are currently waging war on society.

Yet idiots still support Farage🙄

Robbie Gibb was appointed to the BBC Board by Boris Johnson, was an editorial advisor for GB News, and worked as Theresa May's Director of Comms. He is not impartial or neutral. The government should remove him from the Board immediately to protect the BBC's independence.

Exhibit 481 that it’s not immigrants who are the problem, it’s greedy, privileged bastards, who often reside in tax havens while ripping us off and laugh their heads off as they watch us blame immigrants, thereby allowing them to screw their pay and conditions further into the dirt.

Unemployment jumps to 5% in the UK, exacerbated by Labour’s Employers National Insurance rise. Meanwhile in SNP controlled Scotland, unemployment has dropped to 3.7% despite the Labour tax on jobs.

Oh here we go

My post yesterday on the $Ibn Trump legal threat against the BBC has been picked up by newspapers around the world. It would appear few had gone through the letter and spotted that, well, it contained no evidence in support of its claims of damage. >

If only the BBC would boycott Nigel Farage, or at least report him commensurate with 0.7% of MPs

Race to the bottom. UK banks push for easing of capital adequacy rules. They want deregulation and lower capital requirements to compete with shadow banks which are unregulated. This will end in tears. Public purse will bear the cost. All avoidable. Will any govt resist the City? archive.ph/t2poX

Farage is a GB news shareholder and is paid through a private company for his appearances on the channel. So, here he is shit-stirring with Trump over the BBC and grifting his nasty little arse off… There is really nothing of ours he won’t ruin to grab for power and wealth for himself. (iPaper+LFF)

“Fearless journalism is what terrifies politicians, and it must not be cowed." The BBC must stand up to Trump's $1 billion lawsuit - or risk legitimising the president's false narrative of what really happened on January 6 www.thenewsagents.co.uk/article/if-t...

And today it's the turn of The Times to try and patronise us all. Every single day the right wing establishment tries to close ranks. And every day we are growing. Join.greenparty.org.uk

Ladies and gentlemen, Sir Robbie Gibb, the BBC Board Member with the impartiality remit

But Prescott’s memo wasn’t an internal BBC document — it was unsolicited. And its “neutral” proof relies on partisan, Trump-aligned sources. Full analysis in Part Two: bylinetimes.com/2025/11/11/p... 7/12

🚨UPDATE WITH COMMENT FROM THE BBC: Byline Times can confirm that of the four-person BBC panel that interviewed Prescott and made the decision to appoint him as an advisor, three of them had longstanding Conservative Party ties. bylinetimes.com/2025/11/11/b...

◾ >9 years since Tees Valley voted for supposed benefits of Brexit ◾ >8 since Houchen was elected Mayor of Tees Valley ◾ >6 since Johnson promised to level up left-behind areas ...Middlesbrough remains the local authority with the highest proportion of most deprived neighbourhoods in England.

Conservative Shadow Culture Secretary Nigel Huddleston tells GB News that the BBC should "grovel" to Trump. Amazing how many British 'patriots' are spending their time telling our national broadcaster to prostrate itself before a hostile foreign leader

You may have missed this gem yesterday. From which we learn that: 1. Betting shops are really good for the mental health of isolated people. 2. Most drug-takers are not a problem. 3. Kids put tuppence in slot machines in the hope of getting rich. 4. Farage probably has a gambling industry donor.

Brexit reduced the UK’s GDP by between 6% and 8%. That is MASSIVE. #ProjectFear #wetoldyouso www.nber.org/papers/w3445...

Well, this is quite a serious allegation. I do hope the BBC shows true impartiality and investigate whether or not some of its Board members are systemically biased. www.theguardian.com/media/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...

England homelessness grown by a fifth since 2022, now 300,000. Successive govts cut local authority funding in real terms, cut real wages/benefits, no curbs on profiteering, lack of social housing. Cheaper to build social housing than using temporary accommodation. Misery is a political choice.

Once every 20 years or so, the director-general of the BBC is forced to resign for being insufficiently rightwing. Alastair Milne in 1987. Greg Dyke in 2004. Tim Davie in 2025. The great irony is that the BBC was in all cases profoundly biased towards established power. But just not biased enough …

🚨 The BBC’s Road to Appeasement As the BBC comes under growing criticism for its coverage of Reform, we republish @adambienkov.bsky.social and @baghdaddi.bsky.social’s 2024 investigation into how the corporation's leadership became cowed by the right www.bylinesupplement.com/p/the-bbcs-r...

Its decision to leave the Tory appointees in post at the BBC is one of so many Labour have made that I can't begin to understand. Any guesses?

Robbie Gibb who cancelled a BBC investigation into Farage's Leave dot EU campaign shortly before the EU Ref Arron Banks thanked him for it "Robbie Gibb is being quite helpful and says he’s trying to hose it down." - @channel4news.bsky.social in 2019

Yes, absolutely there is an impartiality crisis at the BBC. But it's not the one the billionaire media insists it is. novaramedia.com/2025/06/16/b...

You'll be amazed to hear that a vile "journalist" on a vile "news channel" is peddling ignorant xenophobic falsehoods

Prince William who doesn't even need to be there, went to the UN Climate Conference on a Private Jet. He doesn't give the slightest toss about Climate Change, only getting publicity for doing nothing.

UK electricity bills up 163% since 2008. Wages haven't. 6.1m households in fuel poverty, £4.43bn debt Profiteering: Energy sector average profit margin 23%, grid sector 38%, gas extraction 58%. Profit last year £30bn. 128,000 a year die in fuel poverty. No govt checks profiteering.

Elon Musk’s AI service Grok is so drunkenly, transparently biased that it would be funny – if it weren’t a mortal threat to democracy This week’s column by Stewart Lee www.thenerve.news/p/stewart-le...

Your quick reminder that the reason the NHS is in this state is specifically because of what politicians have done. The NHS isn’t useless. The model isn’t defunct. Politicians have actively under-resourced our public healthcare system. It’s a travesty. 🚨 www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news...

So it gets worse for Michelle Mone and those connected with MedPro. Somehow a company set up to sell dodgy PPE to the UK government not only needs to pay back more than £120m for failed contacts... ...but it also has £188m in debts... ...including £39m in unpaid tax owed to the Treasury!

Belgian court convicts two for EU funds misuse linked to Nigel Farage's Brexit group Verdict ends decade-long probe into alleged misuse of EU funds by associates of top Brexit campaigner

Small boats: TV coverage - day after day after day after day.... PPE scandal: TV coverage - let's stick this powerful, enraging documentary on at quarter past ten on a Sunday night.

Reality of Brexit. No one is making a move to better our lives, they are hindering our growth actually. This is madness, Government needs to Wake T.F up!!!!!

The UK Must Urgently Distance Itself From Elon Musk and Space X, Warns Parliamentary Report The UK’s infrastructure has become far too reliant on the far-right billionaire, who could ‘politicise’ our reliance upon his companies, the report warns bylinetimes.com/2025/11/04/t...

💷 Reeves Admits Brexit Damage 👉But Still Won’t Rejoin the Cure Rachel Reeves has finally said it: Brexit is damaging Britain’s economy. But instead of fixing the cause, she’s doubling down on the pain. Thread 👇 www.thenational.scot/news/2559524...

Zohran's campaign was his determination to make New York a city everyone can afford to live in. Huge congratulations! His success will resonate throughout the world. A story where no one is left behind. It's time to write that story across England & Wales too.

Looking forward to hearing why hard pressed working people will have to pay more tax, when the 50 UK families who collectively own £2/3 TRILLION - equal to half the population - remained untouched Dead chancellor walking - dead government walking www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cw...

Farage “knows he has to moderate his tone and get across some budget details. But attention to detail [isn’t] his thing and responsibility bores him”…and makes a bore of him. His success lies in him talking shite. If he can’t do that, he becomes v dull v quickly www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...