You are absolutely right. He has added this to his substack article: (Update 0820: the BBC has said that the episode of Panorama was not broadcast in the US and the iPlayer recording was not available for download there).

Rozenberg is not a lawyer

The Panorama episode in question wasn’t shown in America

It's possible that Florida libel law is very different to ours, but my limited knowledge of US libel is that it's harder to win there, not easier.

Second there are years of media commentary about Trump encouraging an attack before the broadcast. So how would a Panorama programme, in Florida, have influenced an average member of the public?

I'm not about to go up against Joshua Rozenberg on legal analysis, but his assessment on Radio 4 right now seems a bit odd. First, BBC player *isn't* available in Florida, is it? That's why you need a vpn to watch the Beeb there.

Farage: "I can tell you, a decade on almost from the referendum, that in every single industry, from financial services to fisheries, the burden of regulation, the threat of the regulator is worse now than it was then." And who's fault is that? https://bit.ly/4qQJHpS

Well, this is quite a serious allegation. I do hope the BBC shows true impartiality and investigate whether or not some of its Board members are systemically biased. www.theguardian.com/media/2025/n...

Westminster Voting Intention: RFM: 26% (-1) LAB: 19% (-1) CON: 18% (+2) GRN: 15% (-1) LDM: 14% (-1) SNP: 3% (=) Via @yougov.co.uk, 9-10 Nov. Changes w/ 2-3 Nov.

Leicestershire County Council has announced it is to pay consultants £30m to carry out a cost cutting review. They said it would be £1.4m. They lied. They said Reform DOGE would do all this. They lied. You can’t trust Reform UK.

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

Why can't the BBC just be more impartial towards President Trump, like GB News, says Nigel Farage. GB News:

I take no pleasure… no I take absolutely loads of pleasure,l… in my series of Substacks since August 2024 warning of this exact problem.

It's increasingly obvious that Labour's strategy - call it Starmerism, Blue Labour, whatever - has got it badly wrong. It has alienated the party's core vote while failing to win over those leaning to Reform. There was no shortage of people warning them they were getting it wrong either.

can't think of a headline that better sums up the BBC at present www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpo...

The General Staff confirms Ukraine struck the Saratov oil refinery, the Feodosia Marine Oil Terminal in occupied Crimea, and multiple Russian logistics and troop sites in Donetsk region overnight. All targets were hit with precision, disrupting key fuel and supply chains supporting Russia’s war.

You still have to read as far as the title, Elon. You know, to make sure you are listening to the book you intended to.

"The fact is that, through our own stupid fault, we’ve lost our status as the main Right-of-centre party. It’s now time to accept this loss — and focus instead on something we’ve gained....[W]e represent the neither/nor option i.e. neither unfettered populism nor a new coalition of chaos."

If that case is winnable, and there is good reason to believe it is, the BBC should fight it.

A brief, selective biography of Robbie Gibb #R4Today

the BBC had barely covered the Prescott dossier at all until Davie quit

I will restate my modest proposal to save the BBC: ban the BBC from covering itself. Every BBC scandal goes huge, because every BBC News show wants to assert its independence by covering it prominently, even if several other shows already did. So it gets blanket headlines.

Very interesting piece, including the extract below which has the ring of truth

Lots of opinion columns will be filled with speculation that is worth less of a damn than usual? The real fight for the next election won't begin for two or three years. If Labour haven't managed to make people feel better off by then, the rhetoricians like Polanski and Farage have their opportunity

+ consistent use of rules on expected behaviour through a mandatory code of conduct + standards committees & a national appeals process The government plans to bring forward the necessary legislation to Parliament in due course. 2/2

Cleaning up local politics The government's new standards regime will tackle widespread concerns about standards in local government. Measure include: + Tougher sanctions for councillors & mayors who break rules + Includes option for local authorities to suspend them or withhold allowances 1/2

Let’s have some perspective Sky, it’s really not that bad.

Dominic Cummings, in an earlier incarnation, ran a secretly-funded 'think tank' dedicated to attacking the Beeb while Robbie Gibb glided effortlessly from GBNews to the BBC & started lecturing staff on impartiality. Imagine (cos you'll have to) how the 'left-wing' equivalent would be reported.

“A sustained campaign of anti-migrant rhetoric is fuelling a growing cesspool of racism, including against international and ethnic minority nursing staff, without whom our health and care system would simply cease to function.” How disgraceful. www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

Reform UK councillor apologises for 'disgusting' X posts www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

"Research released this month by economists at the Bank of England, the Bundesbank, King’s College London and the universities of Stanford and Nottingham underscored the economic hit from leaving the EU. Brexit had reduced UK GDP by 6-8%" on.ft.com/4p1NoHv

It takes an obscene amount of hubris to lecture the BBC when you have The Telegraph’s record on truth-telling. Some of the paper’s errors this year are so bad they’re almost laughable 👇🏻

@bjennings90.bsky.social absolutely nails it. (www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...)

Perhaps the BBC could offer Trump one of his beloved deals: they'll apologise for broadcasting sections of his speech, if he apologises for trying to overthrow an election, lying about the result, pressuring election officials, urging a crowd to "fight like hell" & pardoning those who did just that.

Italian companies still operating in the Russian Federation are filling the Kremlin's war coffers despite active EU sanctions.

Feijóo accuses Sánchez of “undermining judicial independence” by defending the innocence of his Attorney General.

How is it possible that the greatest peacenik the world has ever known in thousands of years has failed to negotiate a lasting deal between these two countries. Oh wait … he once said he’d secure Russia-Ukraine peace “within 24 hours”.

Canada was first declared measles-free in 1998.

~Extract attached from a listener on how FPTP is driving tactical voting, and how this will maybe vary according to different parts of Britain, without AV~ From Rock & Roll Politics podcast with Steve Richards: “What do Labour's 'soft left' want?” 7 Nov 2025 podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/r...?

“Nick Robinson, one of the BBC’s most senior presenters, who has taken up the task of piecing together the events of the last week, observed one of the most glaring: ‘Neither [Turness] nor the outgoing director general Tim Davie explained what they thought had gone wrong’ he said.

If it’s okay with everyone I’m going to have my regularly scheduled Tuesday afternoon mental breakdown today, I can’t wait until tomorrow

Mark Urban’s take: “the BBC’s Editorial Guidance and Standards Committee discussed the misleading editing of Trump’s speech in January and May this year. They knew about the problem for months before newspapers published Prescott’s report. A serious mistake” markurban.substack.com/p/the-bbc-is...?

Robert Hutton - classic! thecritic.co.uk/crisis-at-th...

Our raver daughter eventually got a house and mortgage, after various lets. Our eldest grandchild is 20 - hope springs eternal that the future is not Farage. open.substack.com/pub/jemmafor...?

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

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?

A single shared source of truth is essential for a functioning democracy. Without it you’re left with fragmentation, polarisation and a perpetual culture war where the discourse focuses on what divides us rather than what we have in common. My column from last week: www.ft.com/content/5060...

A study earlier this month found that America’s more fragmented media landscape — particularly the takeoff of cable news — accounts for fully one third of the increase in cultural conflict in the US since the year 2000.

Quick thread on the BBC and the political and societal significance of recent developments: One of the main reasons the UK has historically been so much less polarised than the US, is that Britain has a shared source of information, consumed and trusted by most people regardless of their politics.

Starmer has put the Government behind the BBC, describing it as an "internationally renowned" institution. It rejected allegations that the broadcasting service is "institutionally biased" and said it is important the BBC acts to maintain trust. www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...