BBC Under Attack: Pot and Kettle Special The new Private Eye is out now.

“So we asked ourselves: how could we make the common bicycle heavier, more dangerous and, ultimately, reliant on electricity” From the new Private Eye, in shops now.

That final point is absolutely crucial.

The fact that the BBC has made serious culpable errors does not negate the point that there is a real and concerted right-wing media campaign to destroy it. Both points can be true at the same time and the campaign would not end even if the errors did.

So little patience for the people perfectly content riding the tiger of white resentment and nativism while it was helping them push through tax cuts, who now stare at it running loose and feral in the streets and are like, "the left should reflect on how it let things get this far."

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

Important to be clear here that the proposed homes wouldn't mean demolishing the 18th century garden - it's just that they might possibly be visible from it. What appallingly selfish behaviour.

A big win for people more outraged by a silly edit at the BBC than by a man impeached by Congress for literally inciting an insurrection being back in the White House. Pathetic.

Just absolutely classic BBC. You've just broadcast the most successful programme of the year, uniting Gen Z kids online and Boomers on broadcast in a return to appointment television. And instead of celebrating, your DG reigns due to a made-up right-wing scandal.

The BBC should serve as an example to all that there is nothing you can give the far rabid right that will satisfy it. It has simpered, pandered, soft-balled and fluff-jobbed, both-sidesed and debased itself into being a platform for liars to look down the camera and lie on, & it still gets fucked.

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Sometimes I see people like 20 tweets deep into an argument with Grok. Like, what are you doing brother? You are trying to win an argument with a vending machine.

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A big part of the institutional racism problem @mrjamesob.bsky.social is talking about is that, once the idea takes hold, every negative outcome comes under suspicion even if it's reasonable in context. However, you don't escape that problem by pretending it doesn't exist. You have to work harder.

Put a pin on this one. I suspect it is something we will be coming back to, time and again.

The whole "OMG a prisoner has been mistakenly released" thing is such shit. No one gave a toss till it was an asylum seeker released.Last year, 262 prisoners - five a week - were released from prisons/courts before they should have been. Zero front-page reporting. www.theguardian.com/society/2...

Year one: "We can work it out as an estimate" Year two: "Oh, look, lots of people are dodging the system!" Year three: "We need to fit mandatory trackers to every car in the country." Year four plus: "Why shouldn't tracker data be used in evidence? What have people got to hide?"

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This morning's top headline on Today: "Robert Jenrick has accused the government of a total dereliction of duty after two inmates were mistakenly released". The release of a prisoner is news. What Jenrick says about it is comment. Both have a place, but only one of those is in the headlines.

It's obviously a bad thing if any prisoner is released by mistake, but why is it worse if it's an asylum-seeker? It seems just to be taken for granted now that someone is more dangerous because they're an asylum-seeker than because they're a criminal. Something very dangerous is building here.

The Supreme Court is so funny. Trump is flagrantly abusing a law passed to let a President shut down trade during an invasion to punish Brazil's courts for being mean to Balsanaro. Supreme Court, 414,729 words later: "Help me understand the word 'Regulate' because it's used as a noun but..."

My latest cartoon for @airmail.news about one of our time’s greatest scourges: #privateequity

Really important point.

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I don't know why, but this really tickled me. Did you really need to tally the rest up when the percentage is calculated in the very next column?

Many in politics and media are trapped on X/Twitter, a latter-day Plato's cave, mistaking projected shadows for reality. No social media platform can be perfect - the 'social' bit ensures that - as people are also not perfect. But some platforms are better than others.

Want to see how racist Anger Yam is? The man endorsed a white Democrat to defeat an immigrant in NYC and refused to endorse a Black Republican candidate in VA.

Traditional American politics is premised on the notion that sometimes you lose and sometimes you win and you have to deal with that. But Trumpism is premised on the notion that any result where you don’t win is illegitimate, unlawful, fraud, criminal. You can’t negotiate with people like that.

If anyone ever wondered whether anyone could be worse at #PMQs than Badenoch, Cartlidge is providing a definitive 'yes' in the Chamber right now.

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Who would have guessed

I'm just asking questions.

It's going to be a difficult few days for racists. No sooner do we discover the attacker was a British man called Anthony Williams, we then discover the rail worker hero who almost gave his life to save others is called Samir Zitouni. We can't wait to hear the hot takes on whether he is British...

Sorry @mrjamesob.bsky.social but the role of the father in birthing should be strictly limited to supporting the mother's wishes. It's the person giving birth who is going to be running the greatest risk and the idea that she isn't also worrying about her as-yet unborn child is bullshit.

Oasis are the Nigel Farages of the pop world: harking back to slightly iffy things from generations past and the media love them as they'll always pop up with an off colour quote.

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On a tangential point, the US ideas of "safety" seems to be predicated on being better armed than a potential assailant. It's a ridiculous argument the moment you think about it. Anything that's legal to carry foryou, by definition, would be legal to carry for the assailant.

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Since it is apparently up to self-appointed, middle-aged white British men to decide who truly is or is not British, I’ve decided Matt Goodwin isn’t.

“There is a concerted effort to turn this into a positive story about the monarchy bravely ejecting this one bad apple. I find it bizarre that there is no serious discussion of whether we must also look at how inherited privilege passes to and is used by unsuitable, undeserving people. Not a peep.”