An Oxbridge man replying to Brittney telling him her latest struggles

Genuinely suprised he didn’t go for the fake Voltaire quote that actually came from that other nazi peadophile

Ofcom's board consists largely a load of right-wingers with a background in banking. There's only one person on the board with a background in journalism and one person with a background in TV production* and unfortunately they're the same bloke. It's not fit for purpose.

Uk political parties keep trying to do youth branches, it's amazing. No matter how many times it ends in horrifying disaster

"Trump pardons Biden era political prisoners who did no wrong" -the BBC, probably

It baffles me that people wonder why newspapers are dying when they hold up obvious no hopers like Michael Prescott as someone to listen to

The key is to raise taxes enough to actually be able to do something with it, beyond placating the OBR and bond markets

Objectivity, impartiality and balance are all *different things*, and the lazy tendency to treat them as synonyms, and to use partisan balance alone as a proxy for the others, is the root cause of a vast amount of nonsense.

Shocking article in the Sheffield Tribune. A solicitor, Andrew Milne, buying up freeholds of houses and then making (false) threats to the leaseholders to bully them into buying the freehold at a huge premium.

One thing not being said - indeed, I think everyone misses this - but the requirement for the BBC to show impartiality and balance relates to the politics of *this* country, there’s no requirement to show some mythical balance globally, only to report the truth without fear or favour.

twitter being bought and turned into a propaganda machine for fascism, which is directly pumped into every journalist in the world's brain, is one of the worst things to happen in the last few years. we might not survive it.

Indeed. I feel like a lot of the reactions to the BBC exits are repeating the flaws of this era in BBC News, which is to go 'never mind the professionalism, let's focus on the politics'.

And yet having racists on BBC politics panel shows while there’s an actual Islamophobic so-called news channel with the same racists presenting shows on it, none of that merits a peep. www.theguardian.com/media/2025/n...

Incredibly sobering post but do bear this section in mind when you hear Chris Philp and Robert Jenrick getting on their high horse...

the right winger who was appointed to lead the BBC in the hope of appeasing right wingers has been driven out by right wingers for not appeasing right wingers enough and the BBC has the chance to do the funniest thing ever

Think you’ll have to clear out the board too just to be safe. Start with anyone who’s failed at every job they’ve had their mates hand them - whoever that could be www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cd...

The fact the BBC Director General, who is a former conservative candidate, is resigning for being "too woke" over some cooked up Trumpist nonsense is quite a stark reminder of the drivers behind the current media environment.

The niche moment I'm waiting for is Kemi Badenoch denouncing whichever government was in charge when Davie was appointed.

"Vladimir, look into my eyes not around the eyes and denuclearise."

Altman has been quite clear about his strategy. From the 2008 crash he learned that if you bind enough of the economy to your business you can do whatever you like; government will decide the rules no longer apply. What he's selling is unaccountabilty.

Looking at the GOP acting electorally suicidally and saying “they’re not acting like they’re planning on having elections” is like watching someone driving 90mph at a brick wall and being like “wow they must have figured out a way for this not to kill them.”

“woke” is when you acknowledge that black people have contributed to the united states

oh so these people do pay attention to who politicians follow on social media, they just don’t care that the vice president follows a bunch of actual neo-nazis

The Heritage Foundation, which is staffing the US presidential administration, has spent the past two weeks mainstreaming actual neo-Nazis into American public life, and much of the American Jewish establishment is panicking about a Muslim mayor of New York City.

man, with everything they're going through right now, Palestinians deserve advocates in the West who aren't this fucking stupid

A government that did a wealth tax that literally brought people to the streets to protest against it, but is, somehow, having its lunch eaten by people calling for wealth taxes!

I think it’s worse than the 70s because then it was a bottom up phenomenon, and while their response was often inadequate, there was at least a sense that the elite were pushing back. Now it’s much more top down and the attitude of elite liberal circles is “leave me alone, I CBA to deal with it”

this would require a theory for how the assets and liquidity in the "AI market" would, upon depreciation, spring into a wider fire sale of assets and trigger contagion. this would also require answering why injecting liquidity into the general market isn't a superior solution

A weird inversion of normality if nobody did think that because outside of politics, everyone I knew thought that taxes had to go up, by a large amount.

God, that reply to Sultana pointing out she’s from Birmingham

“Our media and political elites, frankly, need to get over themselves. There is no intrinsic British sensibleness that will get us through this [resurgence of fascism], that renders us invulnerable to what is destroying other free countries.”

I made a “how do you do, fellow kids?” joke to someone in their mid 20s who, it turns out, was too young to have heard of that meme. So “how do you do, fellow kids?” is now an example of “how do you do, fellow kids?”

I don’t think it’s inappropriate to have some news stories about migration issues but it is very odd indeed for BBC 6 Music, a station essentially targeted at hipster leftie middle-aged people, to be majoring on asylum seeker stories as much as it does.

Agree or disagree with Zarah Sultana, as you would with any other politician. But the people of Coventry South, and respectively of Uxbridge - decided that she belongs in Parliament and Laurence Fox does not.

only in the small print of this article do they make clear that the pensioners paying an extra £2,500 of tax would have to have “earnings over £125,140” I know many pensioners are asset rich but how many have income at that level?

Just naked bigotry, they don't even bother trying to hide anymore

I couldn't be a mainstream journalist these days. One day you're doing a completely normal interview with an actress and suddenly thousands of poorly socialised weirdos are getting the callipers out to say you're biologically pre-destined to be a HR officer

Amazing

What a banger

Can’t believe they remade Geronimo

Fighting ISIS is woke

Accidentally opened Don Jr’s post www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

I feel like I could live with the brass neck - it is the seemingly successful way that he and others have brainwashed themselves into thinking “our crumbling justice system” has an explanation beyond “we didn’t spend enough money on it” that I can’t stand.

Gosh, I hope Andrew Milne doesn’t become so well known doing this shit becomes impossible for him.

BBC really burying the lede there

IMO the *lack* of a widespread moral panic around this is genuinely very weird and the outlier in terms of social reactions in modern history