Hear hear

A balanced view.

Why is the BBC News going live to Nigel Farage's comments on the BBC resignations when they have broadcast nothing from the LibDems, who have more than 14 times as many MPs or the SNP who have almost double? If the BBC wants to stop accusations of bias they should stop actively promoting Reform.

Ghislaine Maxwell to seek commutation, document indicates https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/ghislaine-maxwell-seek-commutation-document-100000683.html

It’s often hard to get your MP to understand specific GP problems and influence decisions Take for example Ilford North where GP to patient ratios are some of the worst in the country and aren’t improving 2661 patients/GP up 510 since 2018 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 2257 patients/GP If only the local MP had any influence

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 steak and kidney pudding became highly popular in the nineteenth century and was a staple dish in eating houses, restaurants and in the home. You can find the recipe at piespuddingsandpottages.com/recipe-post/... #britishfood #foodhistory #puddings #recipe #steakandkidney

We've a new episode arriving on Wednesday, with @samiraahmeduk.bsky.social and @gkw.bsky.social kw looking at shows from November 1984, including...

The BBC will fuck things up from time to time. Lots of major news organisations do; just look at The Times having to memoryhole several fake news stories in a matter of weeks. No one is calling for the abolition of The Times, however. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Locals assemble

7 November 1942 | Just over two weeks after his 7th birthday a Dutch Jewish boy Abraham Henselein was murdered in a gas chamber at Auschwitz II-Birkenau with 464 other Jews deported from #Westerbork. SS doctors did not select anyone from this transport for registration.

You ever just snap & write a sternly-worded letter to threaten people for feeding hungry children? No?

Great piece here on the BBC. Seems like the dossier criticising the BBC was a right-wing stitch up, and odd how the corporation capitulated so easily. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Just absolutely classic BBC. You've just broadcast the most successful programme of the year, uniting Gen Z kids online and Boomers on broadcast in a return to appointment television. And instead of celebrating, your DG reigns due to a made-up right-wing scandal.

While all around was hustle and bustle, President DJT …..

Motherfuckers

Jan. 6 gunman arrested on kidnapping and aggravated assault charges www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...

No kidding

New impartiality study: Contrasting media coverage of the Caerphilly by-election in Wales with UK-wide news: how did broadcasters balance parties and leaders? Thread 1/10 www.enhancingimpartiality.com/blog/caerphi...

They’re wearing masks so they can’t be prosecuted later. As long as they think they can’t be prosecuted, their crimes will intensify. They will torture, starve and kill, as they have already, on greater and greater scale. Signed, someone who’s covered the unaccountable War on Terror for 23 years.

A right-wing anti-drag queen advocate, Marc Villanti, has just been arrested for possession of over ONE THOUSAND files of child sexual abuse material.

13,300 confined children in the U.S. are detained pretrial – aka, they’re legally innocent Locking kids up in deplorable conditions is traumatizing and counterproductive to public safety in the short & long term

Meanwhile, in Reality Land: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/o...

Good times

@eddsmitty.bsky.social if you have already posted this I missed it

I did not know any of this

You can spend the weekend at the ‘Crackers for Christmas’ event. A free family-friendly weekend of activities, music, storytelling, crafts and panto. This is the “replacement” for the light ‘switch on’. I think everyone will be ok 👍🏼 9/15

Racist slurs quashed here

Negative attitudes to welfare have soared since 2020 (I wonder what/who has driven that? 🤔) But it is entirely a perception issue. Also, from the FT, this chart showing how welfare spending as a % of GDP is actually pretty stable and nowhere near a high. The UK does not have a welfare problem.

Natural Resources Wales is calling on a community to help tackle pollution affecting a local brook, which continues to suffer from poor water quality following a series of incidents

On the day of the #AstonVilla #MaccabiTelAviv this piece by Paul Dorfman brilliantly cuts through the efforts of politicians, including Starmer, to equate anti-thuggery with anti-semitism. He gives a voice to all pro-democracy, anti-Zionist Jews sussexbylines.co.uk/community/sp...

Kristi Noem, reportedly authorized the purchase of Spirit Airlines jets before discovering the airline didn’t actually own the planes – and that the aircraft lacked engines. 🤡 She intended to use the jets to expand deportation flights – and for personal travel. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Urgently needed reformation of science publishing edzardernst.com/2025/11/the-...

Hear hear

This is self-evidently true.

ICE agents in Chicago violently detain a non verbal autistic man for being “non compliant” He couldn’t “comply” because of his disability…they don’t care This is not the first time they’ve gone after a disabled person They target the most vulnerable because it’s an easy way to meet their quota

Charlie Chaplin and Edna Purviance catch their first glimpse of America-- and the American way of immigration-- in his 1917 political comedy THE IMMIGRANT.

During an event on Thursday, Donald Trump seemed to repeatedly struggle to keep his eyes open. A Washington Post analysis of multiple video feeds found that Trump spent roughly 20 minutes battling to keep his eyes open. New video w/ @ddiamond.bsky.social www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Israeli forces kill several people across Gaza, as settlers and military continue attacks in the occupied West Bank.

We obtained audio recordings and logs from each hearing of a sexual assault case that has spanned 10 years. Nearly every time the defense attorney asked to delay the trial, a judge agreed. (Published January with @adn.com)

After the Leveson Inquiry, is the press now beyond control? The Leveson Inquiry was meant to usher in a new era of press regulation, but have we gone from one ineffective regulator to another? #TheHack @cliffmitchell.bsky.social

Nicholas Kristoff: Trump seems to care about only Christians in Nigeria, but even among them, "the number killed by jihadists is very likely to pale beside the number dying from Trump aid cuts."

The Good Law Project’s initial complaint related to potential political bias as well as perceptions of a potential lack of transparency around funding.

Did you know❓ The British army’s 77th brigade held secret exchanges with the Israeli military. www.declassifieduk.org/uk-psycholog...

Drives me mad that people talk about Danish immigration policy as a *political* success without bothering to look at the polls.

❗️ Parliament has refused to issue us a Westminster press pass. Was it something we said❓ 23 MPs are calling on parliament to issue us with a pass. Please ask your MP to join them. www.declassifieduk.org/westminster-...

"Migrants are also likely to be net fiscal contributors. Far from draining our welfare system, migrants are supporting the British state’s solvency." 🖊️ Lauren Gilbert argues that lower migration is bad news for the UK economy https://ukandeu.ac.uk/lower-migration-is-bad-news-for-the-uk-economy/