The famously left-wing bias of the BBC. (From The Decade In Tory)

"Tim Davie believes the BBC’s comedy output is seen as too one-sided, and unfairly biased against the Tories, Donald Trump and Brexit" So one of the first things he did after getting his feet under the table was cancel the Mash Show, for criticising a prime minister whoended up leaving in disgrace.

See what’s happening. A Trumpist US media company has taken over Channel 5. Another US company is gunning for ITV. Our social media is saturated by Musk’s calls for civil war in the UK. The BBC is the last thing standing, and Trump/Johnson are trying to bring it down

Robbie Gibb is the one that should be resigning from the #BBC. His personal bias is utterly blatant.

Since we’re in the mood for strict accuracy in broadcast news, worth noting that a rival channel had a pundit - unchallenged - say asylum seekers in hotels committed 44% of sexual offences in one county, seemingly because she cannot understand basic maths.

Reminder that The Times ran two false stories last week (one made-up nonsense nicked from the Mail, another an interview with ther ex-mayor who wasn't) , both of which had to be withdrawn. No editors resigned.

The resignations of Tim Davie and Deborah Turness must be an opportunity for the BBC to turn a new leaf, rebuild trust and resist those like Nigel Farage who want to destroy it We must stand up for a strong, independent BBC, to stop Trump’s America becoming Farage's Britain.

Davie and Turness resign from the BBC, ironically after the Right whip up confected outrage about a Trump documentary. Now there’s a chance to get someone sympathetic to the BBC into the top job.

Share a TV series from the 1960s you love. 📺 Thunderbirds

Here's a look at the extent of the "warmth" across the #Arctic in October. This map uses my normal anomaly scaling for each month, but it clearly doesn't work for something this extreme. Data from doi.org/10.24381/cds...

Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez: “A few tech-oligarchs are clearly influencing electoral processes. We’ve seen it in the UK, Germany, France, Hungary…and I’m sure we will see it in Spain.” (El Pais)

"A new report suggests it is 'highly likely' that Britain’s biggest power plant sourced some wood from ecologically valuable forests as recently as this summer. #Drax ... has received billions of pounds in subsidies from burning biomass" 🤪 www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Russia deliberately targeted power substations linked to the Khmelnytskyi and Rivne nuclear plants last night. These are not random strikes, they are calculated attacks on Europe’s nuclear safety. Ukraine demands an emergency IAEA Board meeting to address this escalating threat.

"Were you aware [Uniserve] had no track record in the supply of PPE?” “No,” [Lord] Agnew replied, “OK, so if that’s correct, on what basis did you consider their offers merited urgent or priority ... within the VIP lane?” “I can’t remember,” Agnew replied. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

October 2025 was the 3rd warmest October on record for our planet, following 2023 (1st place) and 2024 (2nd place). This month was about 1.55°C above the 1850-1900 pre-industrial average. The last 12-months have been about 1.50°C above it. Summary of month: climate.copernicus.eu/surface-air-... 🛠️🧪🌊

How ever since Labour came to power, the British media has started to notice a whole series of problems they spent the previous 14 years completely ignoring www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/the-great-...

You'd be forgiven to think that 'prisoner releases in error' were a unique problem for the Labour govt. However figures from Justice Dept for Tory FY show 2010/1 63 2011/2 42 2012/3 44 2013/4 50 2014/5 49 2015/6 64 2016/7 72 2017/8 66 2018/9 64 2019/20 50 2020/1 46 2021/2 54 2022/3 81 2023/4 115

Shapiro: He rose to some prominence by writing a book about growing up in Appalachia, where there are a whole lot of people who get SNAP. He made millions of dollars off telling their stories, and then he turned his damn back on those very people he likes to write about and claim as his own.

The claim that “emissions have come down” in this @nytimes.com @sominisengupta.bsky.social article on where we are ten years post-Paris is FALSE. Global emissions were at an all-time high in 2024. As it stands this claim is misinformation. They need to issue a correction!

Missing 1.5C climate target is a moral failure, Guterres tells Cop30 summit

Dominic Cummings was always an absolute arsehole. The Conservative right loves to talk up imagined genius among their ranks when in truth there's nothing there but attitude, flex, and pose. Mogg, Johnson, Gove, Cummings. All tiresome little nobodies trotting out rehashed nonsense. Often nasty.

Anna Turley, "How have we got to this situation? We've seen so much chronic underfunding" She's 100% right So as well as already having underfunded public services, we'll continue to have underfunded public services, because we can't afford to fund them because of Brexit

Maths... If you make $100,000 a year (not bad), it will take you 10 MILLION years to earn a trillion dollars. If you make a million dollars a year (wow!), it'll still take you a million years to earn a trillion dollars. Tax the rich.

We need nothing less than a profound humbling - a change of mindset and values, and a service relationship with Nature and each other if we are to survive. I don’t say this lightly. www.ipsnews.net/2025/11/the-...

The Labour government's Social and Affordable Homes Programme is backed by £39bn funding. And today we hear that established mayors across 6 areas will be getting up to £7bn to accelerate the biggest increase in social and affordable housebuilding in a generation! 1/2 www.gov.uk/government/n...

Explain a film plot badly. Crazed killer and his pet robots have fun with watering cans. Mother nature is saved.

Guterres is right. Even a temporary overshoot could unleash far greater destruction and costs for every nation. It could push ecosystems past catastrophic and irreversible tipping points. Fossil fuel companies are deceiving the public and obstructing progress. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Well done everyone - Despite the Green Grinches, political destroyers and environmental eejits Brits still buying EVs, heat pumps and solar panels and YouGov polling suggests belief in and concern about man-made global warming remain as high as in their heyday in 2021 news.sky.com/story/brits-...

For good measure.

The new UNEP Emissions Gap Report points out that "no NDCs set targets to reduce oil and gas production or trim inefficient fossil fuel subsidies". That countries are not addressing fossil fuels - at the heart of the climate crisis - is deeply worrying. wedocs.unep.org/bitstream/ha...

This is what the top of my feed looks like on X every day in the UK. I don’t follow any of them.

"Reform’s cabinet member for adult social care, Graham Dalton ... owns a private care company in Lancashire." "But he said he had 'no pecuniary or non-pecuniary interest' in the care home closures." www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

So the Algerian, Brahim Kaddour-Cherif, wrongly released from prison: + is not an asylum seeker, as the Tories claimed in the Commons and asked the Deputy PM explicity about + entered the UK legally in 2019, under the Tories + overstayed his visa in 2020 & had his case creatd 6th Feb 2020 1/2

And with no hint of shame, humility or personal responsibility, the Tory who detonated the economy with his mini budget and whose party trashed the place with austerity and Brexit, then scorched the earth with unaffordable pre-election tax cuts, tells Reeves to apologise. Insufferable. (iPaper)

Seems ridiculous for the top two nations in Europe to be in the same qualifying group. Is there no seeding? 🤷‍♂️ www.bbc.co.uk/sport/footba...

A day of huge mourning for the Far Right in the UK. Not only was the Huntingdon train stabbings not the terrorist/asylum seeker/immigrant atrocity they’d hoped and prayed for, here is the hero of the day:

We fought hard last year to get rid of a corrupt government and get one which is competent and wanted to rebuild our country. Are we really going to throw that all away for a government that is even worse? And what for? Because the government tells you the truth about how tough things are? 1/3

Tory Chris Philp shamelessly attempting to politicise Huntingdon attack, by talking shite about stop-and-search and knife crime on #bbctoday #r4today 🤮 bsky.app/profile/lond...

Lewis is absolutely right here

Interesting piece: if Tesla collapses Musk’s entire empire could come crashing down because of the way he’s structured the companies’ finances.

Just checking this is Question Times’ ‘author and academic’ Matt Goodwin?

Loved this article about Unai Emery and #AVFC. 'From black and white football to full colour' - Emery's three years at Villa - www.bbc.com/sport/footba...

“the impact of Brexit for the City of London is clear. Frankfurt, Madrid, Milan & Paris are all doing better than they were..at London’s expense..City companies moved almost £1tn between them ~10% of the entire UK banking system – to financial hubs across the EU.” www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Well said Lisa Nandy! Reform have no real answers to anything. They just create fear, distrust and chaos! www.instagram.com/reel/DQc5Aot...

Swear her in. Release the Epstein Files.

Just when Bill Gates is saying we shouldn't be aggressively dealing with climate change, scientists release a new assessment saying we're heading for ‘climate chaos.' Bad timing, Bill. www.latimes.com/environment/...

Amid all the fuss, remember that for much of the 1960s and 1970s, "the Spare" Andrew Windsor was just one unfortunate incident away from being the next king. Hopefully, this appalling saga will lead to a proper national debate on our hereditary monarchy. Long, long overdue.

If Prince Andrew used Epstein’s child sex trafficking ring, he should go to jail. If Bill Clinton used Epstein’s child sex trafficking ring, he should go to jail. If Donald Trump used Epstein’s child sex trafficking ring, he should go to jail. That wasn’t so difficult, was it?