Practical amendments to provide safe and legal routes for refugees to reach the UK, and process the backlog of applications for asylum were voted on in the #HouseofLords tonight. Sadly, you can probably guess what happened

There's this story about how CS Lewis was out with a friend and stopped to give a vagrant some money. Lewis's friend chided him, saying "you know he's just to buy liquor with it, right?" Lewis responded, "Well, so was I."

Tobacco lobbyists are banned from WHO meetings, why not oil and gas polluters from #ClimateCOP? #COP30 www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Rupert Lowe has invited Wayne O'Rourke to parliament O'Rourke pleaded guilty to stirring up race hatred, after calling for people to go on the streets, burn cars, to attack mosques + the "traitors" defending Muslims Judge "You were not caught up in what others were doing, you were instigating it"

Can I share this curious bit of Faroese art factoid. The first Faroese artist Díðrikur á Skarvanesi died in obscurity, but his illustration of Faroese breeding birds (approx 1830s) is truly unique and (mayb biased) but I think this great skua is particularly beautiful 🌍🧪 #ornithology #teamskua #art

Much talk all the time of freshwater wetlands being great filters & cleaning water. We must remember that sending dirty water into wetlands destroys them. There is nothing more certain in science than that. Make wetlands clean!!! @ramsar.org @freshwaterbio.bsky.social

👉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...

Three German universities offering post-docs for researchers "who cannot conduct or continue their work in the USA appropriately because of actual political pressure. " www.uni-konstanz.de/zukunftskoll...

Well, if we can take a stand on this, we can surely defend our national broadcaster against spurious legal threats.

NEWS: The UK is no longer sharing intelligence with the US about suspected drug trafficking vessels in the Caribbean because it does not want to be complicit in US military strikes and believes the attacks are illegal, sources familiar with the matter told CNN. edition.cnn.com/2025/11/11/p...

Because these chemicals can linger in water, soil, and even the human body. The public will have less data about potential exposure. The EPA will take public comments for 45 days before deciding whether to finalize the new exemptions.

finished goods that simply contain PFAS, such as clothing or cookware. The agency says this change would reduce costs for businesses. Loosening the rules could hide important information about where PFAS are used and how they spread.

🚨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...

Trump’s Military Occupations of U.S. Cities Cost $473 Million and Rising Trump’s campaign to quell dissent by deploying the American military to U.S. cities comes at an immense price theintercept.com/2025/11/11/c...

"Neoliberalism was a technique of power. It did its job as a mechanism for profit, securing low-cost access to resources and cheap labour. It was never really about growth, efficiency or enlarging the pie for everyone."

Good! Although plenty of other international likely illegal actions the government should be changing policy on #HumanRights #RuleofLaw www.cnn.com/2025/11/11/p...

After the disasters of Brexit, Johnson & Truss, the BBC has a chance now to restore Britain’s tarnished reputation on the world stage. Esteem for the most trusted news organisation in the world will soar with an apology for that edit & a stand against Trump’s media bullying.

Nearly two years ago, I wrote about the extraordinary influence of former Tory spin doctor Sir Robbie Gibb on the BBC. It's still a helpful backgrounder for what's going on now. New readers start here: www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/media/...

Michael Prescott, author of the BBC/Trump dossier, is not a neutral voice... bylinetimes.com/2025/11/11/b...

If this investigation is ongoing, I'm sure HMRC will be watching www.cityam.com/jcbs-bamford...

This kind of (seemingly) reverse corruption needs a look 1. Reform MPs praise JCB endlessly, councillors promote the firm's tech on their authorities. 2. Then the boss gives a £200,000 party donation. To a cynical eye, it looks like an affiliate rewards scheme leftfootforward.org/2025/11/bill...

If BBC News was a hotbed of left-wing wokery producing *systemically* biased coverage Jeremy Corbyn may well have been elected Prime Minister in 2019. It’s not. He wasn’t. And we got Boris Johnson instead.

"Garden bird feeding is an institution in Britain, with almost half of households engaging in the practice... Its impact on birds, however, isn’t as benign as it may appear." Just some things to be aware of... 👇

Almost a year on and Nigel Farage has still not given any explanation as to what was going on here bylinetimes.com/2025/01/30/n...

Interesting nugget from BBC staff call this morning: Tim Davie said the biggest number of complaints the BBC is handling right now concern the corporation giving Nigel Farage's Reform too much airtime. bsky.app/profile/jake...

New: BBC employees in open revolt about Robbie Gibb on all-staff call this morning. BBC chair Samir Shah said attacks on board members are "disrespectful" and shut down talk of a Conservative coup as "fanciful." deadline.com/2025/11/bbc-...

Humpback whale... Fisherman films 'magical' humpback whale off Norfolk coast BBC News

Outgoing BBC DG Tim Davie says the corporation needs to "fight for our journalism". It also needs to fight for its independence. The two are linked. Davie, a former Tory councillor candidate, has inadequately fought for reporting that actually scrutinises rather than simply 'reflects' back opinions.

If we're talking about bias, why do BBC politics programmes, from Politics Live to the Laura Kuennsberg Show, still always begin with a look at the newspaper front pages, which are overwhelmingly biased in one direction. Helps frame the entire news agenda and debate in their favour

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Robbie Gibb was appointed to the BBC Board by Boris Johnson, was an editorial advisor for GB News, and worked as Theresa May's Director of Comms. He is not impartial or neutral. The government should remove him from the Board immediately to protect the BBC's independence.

"Managerial timidity, overcorrection for perceived internal liberal bias, and a continued reliance on the news agenda of a largely right-leaning British press, has led the BBC to haemorrhage support among many of its natural supporters" @bylinetimes.bsky.social bylinetimes.com/2025/11/10/t...

"It’s time for this government to decide whose interests it serves and ask those with the broadest shoulders to pay what they owe." @alchap.bsky.social on how the chancellor should change the tax system in the upcoming budget. www.bigissue.com/news/politic...

"A confident BBC would admit a mistake and move on without admitting legal liability. "But we do not have a confident BBC." davidallengreen.com/2025/11/a-cl...

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BirdLife Malta CEO Mark Sultana calls on the hunting lobby to engage constructively in shaping how #environmental rights and #sustainable #hunting can coexist. Protecting #nature benefits everyone, including hunters. 🌿🇲🇹 📰 Read the full opinion piece below. www.maltatoday.com.mt/comment/opin...

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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

Unlike you, I can read and that’s why I know what the constitution says.

‼️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...

🔴 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...

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...

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

He also lobbies for U.S. Big Tech companies that have donated millions to Trump

Fun (or not so fun) fact - the author of the “BBC bias” memo is a lobbyist for the American Pharmaceutical Group. U.S. pharma companies recently threatened to abandon the UK unless the NHS pays more for its medicines. They also donated millions to Trump’s campaign and inauguration

Until Starmer backs up his new anti-racism stance with cold, hard policies - changes to the hideous ILR stuff, safe routes for asylum seekers, changes such as allowing asylum seekers to work - I’ll take his new position with a massive pinch of salt.

Right message; and a clear repudiation of the "squalid chapter" rhetoric in the Immigration White Paper. But needs to be backed up with policy; making it more difficult for long-term residents (both workers and refugees) to get settlement and citizenship is bad for both economy and social cohesion.

This is a genuinely intolerable reality…

It’s astonishing that a man who was director of communications for a political party & who helped set up a right wing propaganda TV channel should have ever been placed on the board of a supposedly impartial & independent broadcasting service. www.theguardian.com/media/2025/n...