We are now seeing here the kind of attacks on institutions that have become the norm in the United States. They will not be satisfied until they have burned down civil society. Cowardice in the face of these attacks will abet them. Starmer and Labour need to shit or get off the pot.

What you’re witnessing is a populist assault on the BBC. This is not an institutional scandal in any meaningful sense of the word. It is an attack on public service broadcasting. iandunt.substack.com/p/extra-edit...

Once every 20 years or so, the director-general of the BBC is forced to resign for being insufficiently rightwing. Alastair Milne in 1987. Greg Dyke in 2004. Tim Davie in 2025. The great irony is that the BBC was in all cases profoundly biased towards established power. But just not biased enough …

I just want my country back. I want our BBC back. I want our NHS back, our water, our energy companies. All back, out of the hands of foreign investors and tax-avoiding, Trump-supporting global companies.

The “Bootstraps” idiom was originally meant to refer to the literally impossible. It was co-opted.

Casual reminder that the myth of “pulling yourself up by your bootstraps” is a cruel hoax designed to convince poor people from all walks of life that the injustices they face are a result of their own actions, rather than an oppressive system rigged against them.

Incredible that Robbie Gibb - most influential person on BBC board by many accounts and from journalists I speak in BBC - was involved in setting up GB News. GB News of course has breached Ofcom rules on *multiple* occasions - no sign of resignations though www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Gary Lineker: top-flight all time great footballer with an exemplary record (never once booked). Distinguished broadcasting career. Considered and thoughtful on so many issues. An extraordinarily accomplished person. Yet it's David Beckham, Knight Bachelor. That says so much about this country.

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Interesting to see the BBC paddle itself one-handedly further up shit's creek.

Pearson routinely gets away with spreading racist, inflammatory and dangerous lies like this. She - not asylum seekers - is a menace to civil society.

Reposted every year in response to all those who fetishize remembrance

Chris Packham on the political shift on climate change: “It’s no secret that the fossil fuel companies are funding Reform and The Conservatives - that’s a fact. These people are either denying something extremely dangerous or they’re puppet-ing it for their paymasters” #bbclaurak

Beyond disgusting.

Spring in the Weald of Kent by the Kentish artist Rowland Hilder I love everything about it. The blossom on the trees, the long gone Elm trees, the horse and cart slowly moving through a hedgerow lined lane, the Oasts

I am a patient in St.James’s, Dublin Chainsaws are cutting an Alder tree It has survived 30yrs at least I went out to stop it but had to leave. I am distraught. It grew straight to get some light. Why do this. DH

I need you all to know that my mother sent me this. 🤣 That is all.

‪If you stand in front of a mirror at midnight, flanked by two lit candles, close your eyes and chant "Jellyman Jellyman Jellyman", Nigel Farage will appear in a puff of foul-smelling smoke.

Just need everyone to Google the name "Rosalind Franklin" at this moment.

Let's not forget Lise Meitner.

‪If you stand in front of a mirror at midnight, flanked by two lit candles, close your eyes and chant "Jellyman Jellyman Jellyman", Nigel Farage will appear in a puff of foul-smelling smoke.

I am not a doomer, I am simply saying, we need to get real, and to start looking at the whole big picture, and to stop ignoring the biodiversity crisis etc, as if it is a separate issue, which it is not. It is clear, that very few people on high salaries, are objective. They are compromised. 8/

"We cannot solve the threats of human-induced climate change and loss of biodiversity in isolation. We either solve both or we solve neither." Sir Robert Watson, climate scientist and former chair of the IPCC and IPBES. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... 6/

Renewables don't just replace fossil fuels, because things like AI and the general push for economic growth, is massively increasing energy demand, and as I explain here, unless you eliminate the extravagance of the top few percent, we are heading towards catastrophe. bsky.app/profile/steb... 5/

It's now clear that Ed Miliband, bizarrely thinks we can "beat" climate change with more renewables. Renewables can be part of a solution, but it must involve phasing out fossil fuels, and general system change. Fossil fuel use is growing, despite renewables. 4/

The problem with most climate professionals, is that they tell politicians and the public what they want to hear. How we're on our way to "beating" climate change, and the future is rosy. Most of the techno-fixes they are counting on, will not work at scale. The level of delusion is frightening. 3/

As @kevinclimate.bsky.social points out here, we are actually on course to 3-4C of warming, and that was before Trump 2.0. I have got huge respect for Professor Kevin Anderson, because he tells it like it is, and points out the problem with most climate professionals. youtu.be/o_FtS_HNbkc 2/

'“I’m not giving up on 1.5C,” said Miliband.' At one time I held out some sort of hope, that Ed Miliband, knew what he was talking about, as regards climate change. But it is now clear that he hasn't got a clue, and is away with the fairies. www.theguardian.com/environment/... 1/🧵

BBC News at 6 headines: 1. ALGERIAN SEX OFFENDER VISA OVERSTAYER MISTAKENLY RELEASED FROM PRISON BUT NOW IN BACK CUSTODY!! 2. POLISH MADELEINE MCCANN IMPERSONATOR GETS HER JUST DESERTS!!! This used to be a serious current affairs programme, not a tabloid psyops outfit.

Normies trying to understand sociopaths problem. In America, many believe if you are poor it is your own fault. Moreover, they don't believe people like this should be allowed to breed. It follows that they think hunger is a "necessary corrective". And there are plenty who think similarly here.

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Remember the time Obama personally caught a fainting woman during his speech — rather than just blankly staring like a sociopath? Character isn't something you tell people about. It's something you live.

To me it expresses the essential loneliness of the narcissist. Exclusive self-focus leaves you with no one in the end.

"I come from a land whose democracy from the very beginning has been tainted with race prejudice born of slavery, and whose richness has been poured through the narrow channels of greed into the hands of the few." - Langston Hughes

Even if this were possible, it would never really catch on, because rich people get a much bigger kick out of abusing human servants than robot ones.

And it’s had enough of your bullshit.

How the wicked prosper. End times must indeed be upon us.

This actually just made my day.

Devastating— “I’m afraid for my parents to leave the house. They treat us like dogs because of the color of our skin. I shouldn’t be scared, I should be focusing on school.” A 16yo American living in fear of the Trump regime’s ICE goons terrorizing brown people pleads for help.

Time for Lavrov to start avoiding high windows.

I don't know what is more depressing. That the BBC seems to have no clue what democratic socialism is or that someone who comments on politics for a living thinks it's the same as communism. Jesus wept, indeed. GCSE, Introduction to Politics, Chapter 1, stuff.

The BBC are dragging up the whole Kate Clanchy affair, four years later, with a SIX part podcast. There is no public interest reason for this, and they are just going to retraumatise the victims: the people who criticised Clanchy. One of them has already started receiving hate mail again.

People will say similar about Blair. All the political connections and money he can amass won't change that.

It wasn't that long ago that train staff unions were demonised for fighting to keep train staff in carriages. I can't imagine what would have happened if this had been a driver only train.

Let's just take a moment to reflect on the self-sacrifice and hope this person embodies - not the evil, hateful monsters thirsting for violence.

There may be no honour among thieves, but there seems to be solidarity among rapists. [or maybe it's just kompromat]

The Royal Family are the real victims here, right?

Goodnight from the unofficial floating market on the canal by The Hairy Pike pub, where Pru Hood is doing surprising brisk business in St. Anthony bells. Goodnight from Elizabeth Charnock, putting down an extra plate of Sunday lunch leftovers just for the ghost cats. Goodnight from Hookland.

Sun spurge in an unusual habitat of a grassy road verge near Truro, Cornwall today for #wildflowerhour Euphorbia helioscopia

I had about 26k followers on X. I deleted my account after Space Nazi's double Sieg Heil without hesitation. It's a lot quieter and lonelier over here, but franky, I DGAF. Anyone still on X is overdue a long, hard look at themselves.