Trump and his cronies have the BBC in their sights. Leaders can’t stay silent while one of our great institutions is attacked. We must defend its independence, end political appointments, and remove Robbie Gibb from the Board.

🎯 Davey is spot on. "We can have criticism of the BBC, but within that, we need to recognise how valuable an institution it is [and how] precious to our country. And that's one of the reasons why people like President Trump and Nigel Farage, want to undermine the BBC." 👏🏽~AA

I’ve written to Keir Starmer, Kemi Badenoch and Nigel Farage urging them to condemn Donald Trump’s attack on the BBC. The BBC belongs to Britain, not Trump. We must defend it together.

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?

The famously left-wing bias of the BBC. (From The Decade In Tory)

A very useful analysis that give the bigger picture. 👇👇

An essential precondition for authoritarianism is the neutering of sources of real news.

What happened when I dug into some of the key studies and ideas quoted in The Tipping Point and its sequel… kucharski.substack.com/p/the-real-r...

So I made this video 4 years ago - and somehow things have got worse since then… youtu.be/bJnT2yL66Kw?...

"Seizing Brexit opportunities to deregulate" was mostly unspecified magic fairy pixie bullshit then, and it's not going to get any more realistic in the hands of a bunch of Reform clowns who don't know how anything works, don't care to learn and disdain anyone that might.

Unfortunately no one will be surprised. Why aren’t the powers that be - here in the U.K. - take action against the people that have (and are continuing) to destroy the country? (Johnson, Mone, Hancock, Farage and many more)

Elon Musk is deliberately using his platform to poison our politics and divide our country. It's time for the government to wake up to the threat he poses to our democracy.

Douglas Barrowman and Michelle Mone made £65m selling faulty PPE to the Government. HMRC now wants £39m in unpaid tax — and we think we know why: Barrowman and Mone may have avoided tax on their £65m profit.

A new @climateanalytics.org report has come out today, with a profoundly hopeful message: even though the world is on track to exceed 1.5°C of global warming, we can peak at 1.7°C and get temperatures back down well below 1.5°C by end of century. But.... only if we phase out fossil fuels, fast. 🧵

Pinched from the Anti Reform group on Facebook. Which I recommend! 👍

BBC News bulletins leading on the story of an Algerian man being mistakenly released by the prison service. Funnily enough I don't remember these cases ever leading the bulletins when an average of ten prisoners were mistakenly released a month in the final year of the last Government

🚨 BREAKING 🚨 18 months after we submitted a formal complaint, the charities regulator has told the IEA that it has to act on transparency and balance: https://goodlaw.social/8vmm

"A lobbying organisation for the financial services industry has been allowed to place staff temporarily inside the Treasury, information secured by Abolish Westminster ahead of this month’s budget reveals" open.substack.com/pub/abolishw...

When a journalist was punished for protecting a source, the ECHR stepped in. It ruled that a free press must be able to expose wrongdoing without fear. The ECHR defends accountability, and losing it would weaken the public’s right to know the truth.

“Frankfurt, Madrid, Milan and Paris are all doing better than they were. It has been at London’s expense. There is no question about that.” ~AA www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Nigel Farage, whose own adviser was convicted of fraud after admitting to advertising money laundering services on the dark web, is now complaining about banks having to implement "money laundering directives"

92%: the percentage of funding for Nigel Farage's far-right political party Reform UK that comes from fossil fuel interests. Across the world, anyone blaming immigrants, etc, it's all just a smokescreen to allow the rich to keep on getting richer by killing our planet. share.google/W2gwfc0XVpUy...

If Americans genuinely want “no kings” they have a hard struggle ahead, writes @davidallengreen.bsky.social, as Trump is subverting the constitution from within.

New from Bellingcat: “‘Pattern of Extreme Brutality’ — Tear gas, pepper balls among weapons used by federal agents at Illinois immigration protests.” Read the full investigation: www.bellingcat.com/news/2025/10...

Wherever we looked for the prominent flaggers and leaders of this movement, we found people smugglers and sex doll salesmen, people with dubious criminal pasts and people willing to put in a good word for Adolf Hitler. manchestermill.co.uk/the-men-who-...

We just stopped Nigel Farage’s plan to drag Britain out of the ECHR and tear up people’s rights. Farage wanted to scrap Churchill’s legacy and bring us closer to Trump's America.

Wow. I did not know that Alfred Russell Wallace (co-discoverer of evolution by natural selection) wrote a book in 1904 about the biological potential for life on other planets, and I've just found this extraordinary paragraph setting out the insanity of atmospheric pollution [1/3]. In 1904!

Man with stubble, "Small boats arrivals are 37,000. There are over 4 million kids in child poverty. And 4.5 million who can't get a dentist appointment" #BBCQT "We spend 90% of the media discourse on the 37,000. How much more could we achieve if we put that effort into the 4.5 million?"

my god, what a paragraph (from tonight's @hcrichardson.bsky.social)

If you're a National Trust member, it's that time of year again: Midnight tonight is the deadline. It's a shame people have to keep doing this to keep a toehold on historical truth in this country, but here we are. Voting link: www.nationaltrust.org.uk/who-we-are/a...

Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House. Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity. They are not the same.

98% of fish & mussels tested in English rivers & coastal waters contain mercury above safety limits Mercury from crematoria, where vapourised fillings of those who have died go up the chimney, is one of the chief sources www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Government has published one of those quiet but important documents that might get overlooked as it is not 'newsy'. The headline finding is that £1 of public R&D investment generates £8 in net economic benefits for the UK over the long term www.gov.uk/government/p...

"Since the war [in Ukraine] started we are asking everyone to pull away from Russia, but we forget how may decades Russia has invested in their economy, education and society." @andihoxhaj.bsky.social on challenging Russian influence in the Western Balkans. Watch in full ➡️ bit.ly/4qkZnS0

a policy programme that would be brutal, insane and undeliverable

For whom does the winds of winter blow? They blow for thee, Sam Altman.

The "hard-men" of Gondor were getting their shit kicked in until they were rescued by foreigners and a girl. The Shire was doing fine until they let a fascist demagogue ("Sharkey" aka Saruman) take over, close the gates, impose a bunch of thug-enforced rules, and despoil nature for profit.

Minority representation on TV causes outrage From the new Private Eye, in shops now.

Reform are into Day Three of Racismsplaining. It's harder than it looks. thecritic.co.uk/easy...

I think any story about Trump's autocracy should be mostly about the people and institutions who failed to stop it. This guy isn't a political genius, everything else just happens to be rotten. 'Toddler Consolidates Power In Household' is a story about incompetent parents, not shrewd maneuvering

It's quite something that only 38% of *white* voters say Reform isn't racist and yet they're presented as the tribunes of the forgotten masses.

Is this politician racist? See me live on tour! www.livenation.co.uk/matt-green-t...

The moderate left needs to challenge this kind of nonsense. NATO is a diminished alliance that is finding its feet at a critical moment – pushing back against an actual imperialist power.

This one is a big deal, in my view. Potentially marks an end to Thatcher-era deregulation of the buses across England. And it's the law as of last night: bylinetimes.com/2025/10/28/a...

"I DON'T NEED YOU TO FUCKING REWRITE WHAT I'VE JUST WRITTEN!"

Fab study, delivers truth to the lies of the right wing. Its fossil fuels driving bills up and green drives them down, you paying attention Tony, Nigel, Kemi.....? buff.ly/uvJ952M

AI is all about stealing

“The wealth gap is choking off growth, funnelling resources into property and financial assets rather than productive investment. It is worsening the housing crisis, which now stands as both a symptom and a driver of broader inequality” @fairness.bsky.social fairnessfoundation.com/risks-2025

Breaking News! Code UFB!!! October 25th, 2025 was the hottest on record for the date since records began in 1940, making it likely the hottest October 25th in the last 120,000 years. More records are forecast to be set over the next week. Stay tuned.