At the very least, the bbc is the Thames barrier - holding back the floods of bad actors and right wing shittery, but never built to withstand the levels that it now encounters. It needs help, not destruction

This kind of thing, btw, is one of the reasons I think it's right to use the (admittedly ugly) word 'Brexitism': there are multiple recurring threads linking Brexit to post-Brexit politics/ culture wars. So many things which aren't about Brexit per se are in/directly connected to it. 3/3

I'm not sure if others have noticed this, but interesting that one of the Prescott criticisms of the BBC is based on those of the 'History Reclaimed' group, which is also associated with the 'Restore Trust' group's attacks on & so far unsuccessful attempts to take control of the National Trust. 1/3

Note that still in post at the BBC is Robbie Gibb, who helped set up GB News, and John McAndrew, formerly director of news and programmes at GB News.

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 opened YouTube on a completely clean browser recently and the default feed for a randomer in the UK is full of "Sadiq Khan has ruined London and the city is nothing but no-go zones for white people' videos. Google/YT are actively radicalising people for kicks and profit.

🚨NEW - The PNG Courier's overseas correspondent on the crisis at the Beeb And Auntie's anti-Trump bias Click for more: mrhenrymorris.substack.com/p/the-png-co...

Also Keir Starmer: "The damage [immigration] has done to our country is incalculable" "squalid chapter" "an island of strangers"

Ed Davey calls for Robbie Gibb to be ousted from BBC board https://www.europesays.com/2561920/ Ed Davey calls for Robbie Gibb to be ousted from BBC board https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/bbc-robbie-gibb-ed-davey-tim-davie-b2862736.html by GeoWa

"ceasefire"

Another case of Reform saying one thing then doing the other: A Reform-led council is planning to double council tax on second homes six months after party leader Nigel Farage denounced such policies as “madness” and “extortion” By me, for Politics Home www.politicshome.com/news/article...

Two things can be true: the people at the top of the Labour party don't understand media (they're lawyers & economists, not PR guys like Cameron or journos like Johnson & Gove - which I thought we said we wanted?), & they DO understand that going hard on this would be picking a fight with Trump.

Way back in 1999, campaigners foresaw this danger in the Terrorism Act — we ignored them then, but we must listen to today's campaigners now. 4/4

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/...

“We are at a moment right now where people are asking themselves why can’t the Democratic Party defend this assault on democracy . . . and I would submit to you that if you can’t draw the line at genocide, you probably can’t draw the line at democracy.” -Ta-Nehisi Coates

America currently facing the fact that all of those West Wing cunts would have voted to end the shutdown last night.

Started getting serious replies about who the BBC can and cannot select, like I was actually suggesting that the evil spirit of Oswald Mosley would be an actual contender and not making a fucking joke.

No, we weren’t meant to believe Renee Zellwegger’s Bridget Jones was fat. One of the character’s main traits was that she believed she was fat due to the world she was living in. The book and film got this aspect right.

America has a substantial white Christian Evangelical population and activating them politically was a 40+ year project. These guys think they’re gonna make Christian Nationalism work here when the population is secularising and most devout Christians are among the immigrant groups they despise.

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

Oh look. There really are "no go areas" in England. And they're marked by St George's flags www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

As with the 2010-11 Arab uprisings, the ubiquitous reach for social media as the explanatory factor is masking a plethora of causes, including far deeper, more fundamental ones. It's an obstacle to the much needed re-examination of the status quo ante that got us here.

Which one is more English?

Incredible that WWII has been the origin myth of the West for 80 years - saturating the culture, looming large in political rhetoric - and yet these leering beasts have been allowed to just saunter back into power as if no one has read a single history book.

VP Cheney will be honoured with a 21 gun salute accidentally aimed directly at 21 of his friends

Found this incredible clip of A. Sivanandan on 'racial awareness training'.

Met police’s culture makes racial harm ‘inevitable’, internal review finds

Someone at a Russell Group university was moved to almost-poetry by their Faculty Meeting… Can anyone do better?

The hour is too late to luxuriate in the illusion that British racism is a matter of a small band of eccentric fascists among a majority of otherwise decent and anti- or non-racist people.

Of course, because this is precisely why they were put up and what they’re for.

A radio programme like the Shipping Forecast but it’s called Bin Day and it just reads out every single council in the country’s bin schedule

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

Seems to me that in a system competent enough to conceal the malice of its agents, these generals would’ve been taken aside for chats and sternly advised to shut the fuck up a long time ago. I suspect nobody thinks that’s necessary any more, and more likely they all approve.

Worth wondering how many different major British institutions have to be deeply malicious, for a story like this to appear.

I suspect the Germans are a long way ahead of Brits on this one. They're certainly far ahead of the UK govt, which is still pathetically pretending that it's business as usual, rather than planning for the changed reality.

This will be an ongoing thread of articles/research about BBC bias. www.opendemocracy.net/en/ourbeeb/h...

This is an entirely uncontroversial view in international law and usually taught in 101.

I see that we are all learning the true meaning of Atlanticism together, at this late hour, in 2025.

"Chuck Schumer should go ... he's no longer capable of leading the Democratic Party." "I am an establishment Democrat and I'm here to say that Bernie Sanders is much more in line with where I and many other Democrats are today than Chuck Schumer is."

The reaction to the Panorama edit has been nothing short of hysterical. Yes the BBC has some impartiality problems. But its biggest isn't the one you think. New piece from me. open.substack.com/pub/goodalla...

People calling out the players. That's a start.

This has been the right wing game for *decades*. This is just "you're being racist against white people". The entire thing has been seeing anti-racism as some advantage that the oppressed have over them, because it's a boundary on their behaviour, and seeking to get it for themselves.

Liz Truss was Prime Minister for 49 days, departing in October 2022. Today marks her fourth appearance as a former Prime Minister at the Rememberance Day service. Liz Truss is 50. If she lives to be 96, she will have spent more days attending the service than actually being Prime Minister. /1

National Trust council elections saw a defeat for the Restore Trust campaign. 35k members voted to re-elect a slate of council candidates endorsed by the nominations committee 12k - 13.5k voted for candidates on Restore Trust slate Non-slate candidated www.nationaltrust.org.uk/who-we-are/a...

The attention the Tory party in the media and in the Commons are giving to this story is a reflection of just how far off the deep-end both have gone in recent times. Sure, they have a long-term vested interest in trying to undermine faith in the Beeb. But this is such a non-issue for most voters.

Drax still burning 250-year-old trees sourced from forests in Canada, experts say