🔴‘The UK’s Suspension of Intelligence Sharing Over Trump’s Caribbean Boat Strikes Risks a Transatlantic Rift’ Keir Starmer’s Government risked being implicated if the President’s attacks were found to break international law, reports @alexhh.bsky.social bylinetimes.com/2025/11/12/t...

There has been little concrete progress on Government commitments to repair relations with the EU, according to a new parliamentary report

"This could have a chilling impact on the BBC's coverage of US politics - faced with a contentious story about Donald Trump, will they be brave enough to go ahead?" @goldbergradio.bsky.social @adambienkov.bsky.social @baghdaddi.bsky.social @bylinetimes.bsky.social podfollow.com/byline-podca...

Excellent thread, quality journalism. 'Leadership' at the BBC seem to conflate independence with treating all opinions as valid. Their charter states they must act in the public interest. You can't act in the public interest if you're not exposing the truth and its actual/likely consequences.

In case you missed it: *of course* the guy who wrote the BBC memo was a paid lobbyist.

In the UK there has been a decades long campaign against the BBC by the right wing. They can’t stand the fact that the BBC is owned by the people and corrects the narrative that the right wants to impose on the public. The BBC belongs to the British people, not a billionaire. #DemVoice1 #DV1

"We need to know where these attacks are coming from and what the agenda is - these are competitors of the BBC, as well as ideological opponents." @goldbergradio.bsky.social is joined by @baghdaddi.bsky.social ex BBC & @adambienkov.bsky.social @bylinetimes.bsky.social podfollow.com/byline-podca...

Worth spending the TV license on @bylinetimes.bsky.social instead of funding the spineless BBC.

This! This is the kind of journalism that keeps me subscribing to @bylinetimes.bsky.social Just waiting for mainstream media to run this wee story 😳🙄

Farage says he's "boycotting the BBC" all the time. Here he is last year. Normally lasts until the next invitation comes.

An incredibly important piece—but there is even more damning information about Prescott coming out now; I'd say it's worth revising your piece to add some of this.

In part 2 of my @bylinetimes.bsky.social investigation, I reveal how the 'BBC bias' memo - written by a Trump-aligned lobbyist whose firm was paid up to a million by pro-Trump donor tech giants - was politically biased and reliant on pro-Trump partisan sources bylinetimes.com/2025/11/11/p...

EXCLUSIVE: My @bylinetimes.bsky.social investigation reveals: 'memo' which sparked President Donald Trump to threaten a $1bn lawsuit against BBC was written by lobbyist at firm paid by pro-Trump tech giants and Trump donors bylinetimes.com/2025/11/11/b...

Proper journalism and facts (remember them?) about the far-right infiltration of the BBC. Byline Times is the only news source I "trust".

The BBC is one of a few worldwide English-speaking broadcasters that pose an inconvenience to the spread of rhetoric in America. This ends one of 3 ways: -Trump successfully sues, justifies banning BBC programming -BBC wins, trump calls it conspiracy, bans BBC -BBC apologises, trump bans BBC

Yet again. A big story hits the news that @bylinetimes.bsky.social have been investigating and reporting on for years They really are an outstanding news outlet and well worth supporting.

This thread is quite the interesting read you would expect from @bylinetimes.bsky.social bsky.app/profile/byli...

Pull up a chair, make yourself a cuppa, and read the whole damn thread. Byline Times have given us a doozy!

This is essential reading shedding light on what is a far-right attack on the BBC as a public broadcaster

This article is just one reason why I'm a subscriber to @bylinetimes.bsky.social Independent media is critical now, more than ever, for shining a light where others choose not to. Subscribe for yourself, or as a gift for someone, to allow them to continue speaking truth to power

This really is worth reading. How the author of the leaked memo, Michael Prescott, working for Hanover that earns $$$ lobbying for American tech, was ushered into oversight of OfCom selection by Johnson and into a key position of power on the BBC by Robbie Gibbs.

Nigel Farage said their flagship council in Kent would be a "shop window" for how they would run the country. Just months after taking over they're now set to slash multiple council committees as they struggle to fill posts after sacking nine of their own councillors bylinetimes.com/2025/11/12/r...

🔴Reform Council in Chaos as It Prepares to Slash Scrutiny Committees Following Wave of Councillor Suspensions EXCLUSIVE: Reform’s flagship Kent administration is planning to shut down multiple council committees as it struggles to fill posts after suspending nine of its own councillors

🚨UPDATE WITH COMMENT FROM THE BBC: Byline Times can confirm that of the four-person BBC panel that interviewed Prescott and made the decision to appoint him as an advisor, three of them had longstanding Conservative Party ties. bylinetimes.com/2025/11/11/b...

At Byline Times we’ve published dozens of articles on Sir Robbie Gibb’s role at GB News, the Jewish Chronicle, and of course BBC News for nearly five years Tomorrow’s headlines today bylinetimes.com?s=Sir+Robbie...

I do not believe there is a news source on the planet right now which has published (or broadcast) more detail on what has really been going on at the BBC internally, and the external forces at play. Congratulations once more. This is way more than a scoop or an exclusive. More like a full inquiry.

👉Bottom line: partisan sources + lobbying conflicts + a choreographed leak = a weaponised attack on public-service journalism. Read both parts: bylinetimes.com/2025/11/11/b... • bylinetimes.com/2025/11/11/p... 12/12

On the facts: the Jan 6 Committee found Trump the “central cause” of the insurrection; aides’ testimony backs it. Panorama’s substance aligned; the cut removing his lone “peacefully” was an editorial error, not defamation. 11/12 www.congress.gov/117/chrg/CHR...

The Telegraph misdescribed Prescott’s memo as “internal.” It wasn’t commissioned by the BBC and was sent after his advisory stint ended 10/12 www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...

UK Lawyers for Israel, another source, openly advocates for Israel; its conduct is under SRA examination — hardly neutral arbiters of BBC impartiality. 9/12 www.lawgazette.co.uk/news/law-cen...

“History Reclaimed,” cited as objective, is stacked with Conservative-aligned figures (e.g., Tombs, Abulafia; advisers Biggar, Gebreyohanes) and culture-war voices used to indict BBC “bias.” 8/12 bylinetimes.com/2024/07/17/t...

But Prescott’s memo wasn’t an internal BBC document — it was unsolicited. And its “neutral” proof relies on partisan, Trump-aligned sources. Full analysis in Part Two: bylinetimes.com/2025/11/11/p... 7/12

Taken together, the ties and timing suggest an orchestrated pressure campaign producing the BBC’s worst governance crisis in a decade 6/12 bylinetimes.com/2025/11/10/t...

After a week of BBC delay, the Telegraph’s leak triggered Trump’s $1bn threat over Panorama. BBC chair Samir Shah apologised; DG Tim Davie and BBC News chief Deborah Turness resigned 5/12 bylinetimes.com/2025/11/10/b...

Prescott’s BBC role was reportedly eased by Sir Robbie Gibb (GB News co-founder/BBC Board). GB News co-owner Paul Marshall has called for the BBC to be dismantled. 4/12 subscribe.bylinetimes.com/edition/79/a...

Oracle’s Larry Ellison — a Trump-aligned megadonor — joined a Nov 2020 call on overturning the US election and is consolidating media power (Skydance/Paramount, interest in TikTok US) and Channel 5 in the UK 3/12 bylinetimes.com/2025/10/16/p...

EU/UK filings show Hanover represents Oracle, Apple, Meta & Paramount — with six-figure payments for lobbying on AI, data, competition & comms. Major conflict for a supposed “independent” BBC adviser. 2/12

🧵On our revelations today about the BBC Coup and the Prescott Dossier. The leaked ‘BBC Bias’ memo Trump used to attack the BBC was authored by Michael Prescott — a Hanover lobbyist paid by US tech/media giants tied to Trump. Full story: bylinetimes.com/2025/11/11/b... 1/12

🚨 The BBC’s Road to Appeasement As the BBC comes under growing criticism for its coverage of Reform, we republish @adambienkov.bsky.social and @baghdaddi.bsky.social’s 2024 investigation into how the corporation's leadership became cowed by the right www.bylinesupplement.com/p/the-bbcs-r...

Lots of stuff here that you won't read in most of the legacy media which seems completely uninterested in the backgrounds, associations and possible motivations of those behind the BBC crisis. Why was the BBC having its homework marked by a lobbyist who hasn't worked as a journalist for 20 years?

Excellent 12-part Byline Times thread bringing together and linking to evidence of collusion between conflict-of-interests BBC hierarchy and external forces aligned with Trump. Many names and organisations implicated in plotting to undermine, perhaps bring down the BBC - maybe even a takeover plot?

🚨UPDATE WITH COMMENT FROM THE BBC: Byline Times can confirm that of the four-person BBC panel that interviewed Prescott and made the decision to appoint him as an advisor, three of them had longstanding Conservative Party ties. bylinetimes.com/2025/11/11/b...

🧵On our revelations today about the BBC Coup and the Prescott Dossier. The leaked ‘BBC Bias’ memo Trump used to attack the BBC was authored by Michael Prescott — a Hanover lobbyist paid by US tech/media giants tied to Trump. Full story: bylinetimes.com/2025/11/11/b... 1/12

did the BBC misrepresent..Trump’s role in the attack on the ..Capitol?..the US House Select Committee on the Jan. 6 Attack..found that Trump’s rhetoric & conduct were the “central cause” of the insurrection..report concluded..he..'lit the flame of this attack', language far stronger than..Panorama.

Jan 2020 - just as he was helping to set up GBNews (and Johnson had won a landslide) x.com/robbiegibb/s...

Our Byline Times draft front page for the next edition. And yes, it will show that the BBC is both a promoter of scapegoats, and a scapegoat itself. Subscribe tonight to have it delivered to your door soonest 👉 subscribe.bylinetimes.com

What a surprise-after posting yesterday that there was very little about Prescott or Hanover Communications online, @bylinetimes.bsky.social have been doing some digging and guess what? The so called independent advisor to the BBC is anything but…

Looking forward to when the mainstream media picks up and publicises this story.

🔴 The Pro-Trump Bias of the ‘Neutral’ Sources in the Leaked BBC ‘Prescott Dossier’ Byline Times’ analysis of key sources in the memo about the BBC’s alleged ‘progressive bias’ shows it relied on highly partisan, Trump-aligned organisations. @nafeez.bsky.social bylinetimes.com/2025/11/11/p...

‼️The Pro-Trump Bias of the 'Neutral' Sources in the Leaked BBC 'Prescott Dossier' @nafeez.bsky.social’s analysis of key sources in the memo about the BBC’s alleged ‘progressive bias’ shows it relied on highly partisan right-wing, Trump-aligned organisations bylinetimes.com/2025/11/11/p...