Interesting to see so many great British patriots right now begging an American president to bankrupt one of Britain’s last remaining truly national institutions.

This statement not acceptable and I suspect not sustainable. Large majority of public support principle of asylum, support letting people stay permanently. Majority for that among Labour and other progressive parties’ voters is overwhelming. The Reform voters this is aimed at will never vote Labour

Why is it so hard to run the BBC? Is impartiality possible? Is it even what polarised viewers even want? An essay for the Weekend FT: www.ft.com/content/7124...

we have a president who only does good things when everyone calls him a pedophile. our mission for the next 3 years is clear.

You can't pay the rent for long by selling your furniture ... This is a disastrous strategy caused by a decade and a half of austerity and underfunding www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

Basically saying "if you do crime for me, I won't only pardon you--I'll give you millions of dollars of public money." Truly unprecedented level of corruption www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

'He was from Yorkshire too...'

Conservatives cannot fight the thuggery and conspiracy theories of modern fascism unless they confront their own support for the thuggery and conspiracy theories of Trump and his allies. And they're too corrupted to do that

This whole miserable affair could have a silver lining in that it's dragged Gibb out of the shadows and into the spotlight. I suspect many more people now know about him and his entrenched bias and control-freakery than was the case this time last week.

Ultimately, politics is about making hard choices and leading. Sure, easy for me to say, but you won’t get there by focusing only on just the one selective bit of public opinion you fear today.

A teenage girl just alleged she had sex with Matt Gaetz while living in a homeless shelter because she was saving up money to pay for braces to fix her teeth. She had just finished her junior year of high school.

At the same time the New York Times was running nonstop stories on Hillary's email server, they were sitting on this emails (and photos of Trump with Epstein victims, apparently). bsky.app/profile/data...

Michael Wolff, Steve Bannon and Jeffrey Epstein taking time out of their day covering up the world's most famous pedophile ring to complain about Ta-Nehesi Coates.

All I want for international week is something that rounds up all the WC qualifier highlights (Euro at least, the world would be the dream) in one single programme.

Extraordinary day and historic for the wrong reasons - a cyber attack featured in the GDP figures

Sad to hear about the fire at the DoJ filing room that happened next weekend.

The remarkable story we discussed this morning. (No paywall but do consider subscribing.) www.thenewworld.co.uk/james-ball-e...

How did I not know Palantir's UK boss is an actual Mosley? And one who seems very reluctant to be drawn on granddad. www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/dem...

The most horrifying AI slop of ICE raids you can possibly imagine is wildly viral on Facebook, collectively totaling tens of millions of views from a single account. First spotted by @chadloder.bsky.social www.404media.co/ai-generated...

So Gibb was active in the FCS, which was so extreme it had to ge disbanded... by Norman Tebbit.

This is very good on why the Prescott report is very bad observer.co.uk/news/nationa...

Three points I keep repeating 1. Left and liberal voters actually really exist 2. The right and "centre" are trying to rule without liberals - they are way out over their skis 3. Reports of right wing total information control are greatly exaggerated

Nowhere in the hysterical pile-on against the BBC in the British press has anyone mentioned that BBC News now has 77 million viewers & listeners in the US and has established itself as the second most trusted news source there.

Labour have increased public spending on services by £69.5 billion in the last budget. There has been an increase in capital spending, public sector pay, benefits & day to day spending. To imply that they haven’t is a simple barefaced lie.

Far-right, Danny, they're the far-right. 'Woke right' is a stupid term invented by the terminally online who can't bear to concede they've been palling around with fascists.

Two pieces on the BBC mess. One by @lewisgoodall.com includes this key line. The other, by Hannah Barnes in the @newstatesman1913.bsky.social, doesn't even touch on it, instead offering the kind of concern trolling about 'BBC standards' you'd expect from The Times. What a mess that mag has become.

The worst you can accuse Panorama of doing is making a misleading edit – and I’d dispute that! – to make *a point that was true*. The programme aired without anyone seeing any issues with the edit. It was on iPlayer for a year without complaints. Donald Trump *did* incite Jan 6th.

It’s already started - the BBC allows Newsmax boss to opine about bias, suggest some of the Jan 6 mob were merely innocent tourists visiting Congress, without pushback

obviously you only sell almost $6 billion in stock when you're certain a company is going to get even more valuable

I do not understand the Labour government's reticence over defending the BBC and social media regulation. Their long-term survival basically depends on it. Their cowardice in the face of it may be the single thing they are most remembered for. on.ft.com/3JVxC1Z via @FT

Trump pardoned a drug dealer with ties to the Kushner family, and today that man was sent back to federal prison for threatening to kill a woman, groping his family's nanny, and several other crimes. Seems relevant, given Trump has admitted he has no idea who he's pardoning...

The Telegraph routinely spreads myths about a range of subjects - especially climate change. It has been forced to publish over 100 corrections this year so far. Yet it has the gall to lecture the BBC - and whip up a national panic - about journalistic standards

The Telegraph published 4 articles in Dec & Jan that included the false claim that Energy & Net Zero Secretary Ed Miliband plans to build 1 billion solar panels to meet his net zero emissions targets In reality, reaching net zero by 2050 will require a 10th of that figure – 100 million solar panels

Crisis at the Critic Sketchcasting Corporation!

"Funnily enough Andy [Wigmore], the only time I ever experienced political interference in one of my investigations at the BBC, was when I was investigating you and Arron Banks Your mate Robbie Gibb put a stop to a story we were running." - former BBC investigative reporter Manveen Rana, 2022

Big pivot - and in the right direction. ~AA

I mean, what kind of legal action would this be exactly? Defamation? I would truly love to see it. 'They made it look like I instigated a coup during my very well recorded coup attempt.'

I fear we are seeing in the UK what has become abundantly clear in the US: for all their power and privilege, elites and institutions are absolute cowards in the face of right-wing authoritarianism. Weak, weak, weak, as Tony Blair once said

Michael Prescott's report makes vital points about the importance of being accurate, and also how difficult that is. For instance, he describes himself as having been Political Editor of the Sunday Times for 10 years, which is not what the Guardian reported when he left the job.

The far-right is coming for everything - the BBC is just tip of the iceberg. Give it power and it will take control of the courts, the Electoral Commission, the universities, the school curriculum and all other organs of civic power. The aim is very simple: never losing power again.

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.

Mhari Aurora asks a pretty fair question, is booed by the crowd and told off by Dear Leader. Then Noa Hoffman, lobs a dogwhistle soft ball about making "our high streets beautiful again", not "covered in illegal migrant vape shops," to great applause. Genuinely ugly moment. ~AA

If the BBC is guilty of anything it has been far too ready and willing to follow the right-wing media narratives pushed by the billionaire press barons, instead of pursuing its own independent journalism based on exposing and uncovering the truth – regardless of whether people want to hear it.

Maybe Keir should demand the heads of major US news networks any time they imply Britain is on the brink of civil war or that we live under sharia law. Or does it not work both ways?

The only thing Mackenzie should be invited to opine about is his role in the systemic smearing of Liverpool fans at Hillsborough. That aside, keep this foul, lying scumbag off air.

Sky News just had Kelvin Mackenzie on, former editor of The Sun, one of the people at the centre of probably the most disgraceful front page in newspaper history, complaining about BBC journalists not being objective and 'fake news'. Astonishing. ~AA

This summary of Prescott's memo reads more like a right-wing whinge list than serious analysis of BBC news