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I'll do this bit properly one day
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Lewis Goodall
about 11 hours ago
Interesting to see so many great British patriots right now begging an American president to bankrupt one of Britainâs last remaining truly national institutions.
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Rob Ford
about 15 hours ago
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 partiesâ voters is overwhelming. The Reform voters this is aimed at will never vote Labour
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Henry Mance
about 18 hours ago
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...
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Rob DenBleyker
1 day ago
we have a president who only does good things when everyone calls him a pedophile. our mission for the next 3 years is clear.
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Andrew Fisher
about 19 hours ago
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...
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English councils plan to sell off social clubs and sports centres to balance books
Survey finds 60% of key cities councils are planning to sell assets to meet costs of adult and childrenâs social care
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/nov/15/english-councils-sell-off-social-clubs-sports-centres
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Jake Grumbach
1 day ago
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...
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Michael Flynn, DOJ in Settlement Talks Over $50 Million Claim
The Justice Department has been discussing settlements with two former officials from Donald Trumpâs first term who â like the president â claim theyâre owed major payouts from the US government as vi...
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-11-14/michael-flynn-doj-in-settlement-talks-over-50-million-claim
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Reproductive rights are legal fact not feminist fiction, whatever Prescott memo says | The Observer
https://observer.co.uk/news/opinion-and-ideas/article/reproductive-rights-are-legal-fact-not-feminist-fiction-whatever-prescott-memo-says
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'He was from Yorkshire too...'
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Stephen Collins
1 day ago
www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
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An historic moment - the arrival of the first ÂŁ10 pint: Stephen Collins cartoon
The Peronis, Madris, Buds are all jealous of my achievement
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/picture/2025/nov/14/first-10-pound-pint-stephen-collins-cartoon
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Nick Cohen
1 day ago
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
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The far right canât fight the even further right
Rod Dreher, Nick Fuentes, Tucker Carlson and compromised conservatism
https://open.substack.com/pub/nickcohen/p/the-far-right-cant-fight-the-even?r=333vp&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false
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Phil Harrison
2 days ago
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.
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Jane Green
2 days ago
Ultimately, politics is about making hard choices and leading. Sure, easy for me to say, but you wonât get there by focusing only on just the one selective bit of public opinion you fear today.
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Brian Tyler Cohen
2 days ago
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.
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Ashton Pittman
3 days ago
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...
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Tim Onion
2 days ago
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.
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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.
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Ciaran Martin
3 days ago
Extraordinary day and historic for the wrong reasons - a cyber attack featured in the GDP figures
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Jason Sinclair
3 days ago
Sad to hear about the fire at the DoJ filing room that happened next weekend.
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James OâBrien
3 days ago
The remarkable story we discussed this morning. (No paywall but do consider subscribing.)
www.thenewworld.co.uk/james-ball-e...
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EXCLUSIVE: Michael Prescott himself doctored Trump quote in his anti-BBC report
A report alleging Panorama broadcast misleading Trump quotes contains misleading quotes itself
https://www.thenewworld.co.uk/james-ball-exclusive-the-error-at-the-heart-of-trumps-bbc-attack
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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...
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Jason Koebler
3 days ago
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...
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AI-Generated Videos of ICE Raids Are Wildly Viral on Facebook
An account is spamming horrific, dehumanizing videos of immigration enforcement because the Facebook algorithm is rewarding them for it.
https://www.404media.co/ai-generated-videos-of-ice-raids-are-wildly-viral-on-facebook/
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So Gibb was active in the FCS, which was so extreme it had to ge disbanded... by Norman Tebbit.
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This is very good on why the Prescott report is very bad
observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
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The Prescott memo flunks the impartiality test | The Observer
https://observer.co.uk/news/national/article/the-prescott-memo-flunks-the-impartiality-test?utm_campaign=514910_TheObserverDaily_251112&utm_medium=email&utm_source=dotdigital&UID=&dm_i=7EQK,B1B2,UV968,1G2UZ,1
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Alistair Davidson
4 days ago
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
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John Simpson
5 days ago
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.
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Paul Singh
4 days ago
Labour have increased public spending on services by ÂŁ69.5 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 havenât is a simple barefaced lie.
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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.
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Two pieces on the BBC mess. One by
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James Ball
5 days ago
The worst you can accuse Panorama of doing is making a misleading edit â and Iâd dispute that! â 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.
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Rory Cellan-Jones
5 days ago
Itâs 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
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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans)
5 days ago
obviously you only sell almost $6 billion in stock when you're certain a company is going to get even more valuable
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Sathnam Sanghera
5 days ago
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
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BBC faces âexistentialâ threat after exit of top executives
Broadcasterâs deepest crisis in recent history comes amid fresh questions over its future role in British society
https://on.ft.com/3JVxC1Z
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Mike Nellis
5 days ago
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...
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Sam Bright
5 days ago
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
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The Telegraphâs Record of Climate Falsehoods
The Telegraph, which has accused the BBC of bias and a lack of editorial rigour, has been forced to amend a swathe of climate inaccuracies. The BBCâs director-general and CEO resigned this weekend aft...
https://www.desmog.com/2025/11/10/the-telegraph-record-climate-falsehoods-bbc/
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Sean | Drowned in Sound
5 days ago
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 â 100 million solar panels
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Robert Hutton
5 days ago
Crisis at the Critic Sketchcasting Corporation!
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Crisis at the CSC | Robert Hutton | The Critic Magazine
From the desk of Lord Kronsteen, founder and proprietor of the Critic Sketchcasting Corporation. To all staff, It is with a heavy heart that I take pen in hand to inform you of the resignation of bothâŠ
https://thecritic.co.uk/crisis-at-the-csc/
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Russell England
6 days ago
"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
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Best for Britain
6 days ago
Big pivot - and in the right direction. ~AA
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Ian Dunt
6 days ago
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.'
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Dorian Lynskey
5 days ago
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
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Robert Hutton
6 days ago
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.
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JWexTheSpa
6 days ago
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.
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Robert Shrimsley
6 days ago
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.
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Best for Britain
6 days ago
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
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James Cracknell
6 days ago
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 â regardless of whether people want to hear it.
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Jessica Elgot
6 days ago
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?
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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.
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Best for Britain
6 days ago
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
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This summary of Prescott's memo reads more like a right-wing whinge list than serious analysis of BBC news
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