Carole Cadwalladr on why appointing Matt Brittin as director general could be a huge mistake for the BBC

Let it be clear: you are wanted here.

Prime Minister Péter Magyar inaugural speech: "The psyche of the whole country was poisoned by politics that was artificially inciting hatred. The Hungarian state is not allowed to do anything like this ever again... This era is, once and for all, finished."

When the real history of the last few years comes to be investigated, I think many will be surprised at how deliberate and strategic those Summer 2024 riots were - and how effective at taking out a very new govt's legs from under it. Planned and simply looking for a trigger event, would be my guess.

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I think it would be good to repost the shit out of this.

Gaza: Doctors Under Attack wins a BAFTA Award Executive Producer Ben de Pear, "Just a question for the BBC, given you that you dropped our film will you drop us from the BAFTA TV screening later on tonight?" And guess what, they edited it to this shorter version

If you like data, here is something interesting for you: Bridget Phillipson interview on LK: 9m 40" LK number of interruptions/talking over: 31 Richard Tice interview on LK: 8m 23" LK number of interruptions/talking over: 9

'The Establishment' (I kind of hate that term but it just fits here) have already decided that Farage will be the next PM. I've always been politically engaged, so I know all the deregulation & small state stuff. I'm just genuinely surprised by HOW much they want it. Cause it's gonna be a car crash.

A wall of crypto money is powering Nigel Farage, both politically and personally. And much of the British media just shrugs app.prospectmagazine.co.uk/story/73421/...

As some point dividing up the electorate into little blocs you have to pick and choose between is part of why Labour is in this mess. At some point you just have to make people's lives better. I'm not saying that's easy, but it's not as hard as Labour make it seem either

❌ Not one of Trump's judicial nominees are brave enough to confirm that Trump is not eligible to seek a third term as President. Dangerous and frightening.

It is worth listening to the whole interview because she falls to pieces under some fairly straightforward questioning. Some of the stuff she comes out with would be pretty shocking, if you didn't already know that she's an intellectual lightweight who doesn't really understand much about anything.

Reform Candidate tweeted about White people as the Master Race, cheered an asian woman being raped, and unwisely also tweeted pictures of his house and dog to prove it was him.

“It’s a corruption story, the Trump administration.”

Well, at least things will get even more 'interesting' if Reform are in government. I mean, who doesn't wanna see crypto and tech bros, sat in their big golden chairs as they oversee the 2029 UK Hunger Games. "Oh but he likes a pint!" Give me fucking strength 🤦‍♂️

There’s no “accused” about it - a politician being handed £5m IS a conflict of interest. Accepting such a gift is an open and shut case of not being interested in, let alone fit for, public service www.ft.com/content/6a56...

Through the gateway. Taken in Avalon orchard.

No men in women’s sport you say?

Kinnock’s Observer column: 6-8% GDP gone, £90bn a year in lost tax, trade with Europe down 15%, investment down 18%. All sourced. All independent. All measurable. Brexiters’ answer? Still “but the sovereignty mate”. The most expensive vibe in British history.

How odd. I'm seeing amazing people running the London Marathon, supporting each other, cheered on by a brilliant crowd. And making shedloads of money for charity. I thought it was some kind of violent hell-hole where you couldn't walk the streets 🤔 Btw, suck it up, New York. We got sub 2hrs first!

I rate Lewis Goodall generally speaking, and he can be quite formidable at times in his questioning of politicians. That said, I'm not at all surprised that he got quite ratty on his @lbc.co.uk show this morning, because Darren Jones absolutely had him on toast!

COACH SULLY: “Shift your eyes to this monstrosity… one year. One President. Donating his salary is just a headline. It doesn’t offset the BILLIONS Trump is accumulating elsewhere.” 💰

More elephants stomping on big game hunters please.

I'll just tread a little lighter on the ground, for the rest of today. My whistle will be just a little louder. My smile will be a little wider. Ain't justice a bitch sometimes 😁

NEWS: Bette Midler just released a new music video for her remake of "All You Fascists Bound to Lose"—featuring Barbara Hershey, other celebrities, and crowds from the No Kings protests in a joyful, powerful show of resistance. You have to see this.

Chris Philp on C4 News again talks up leaving the ECHR and again, as with Reform politicians saying same thing, goes unchallenged on what that means for our trade deal with the EU. It would destroy it. And we would be back to a no deal Brexit even worse than the rubbish deal we have now.

Tortoise Media has celebrated the one year takeover of the Observer by axing two photographers. They’d been with the paper for more than half a century. No notice, no warning, no pay off.

"Small boat crossings are still increasing" reports the BBC's flagship Radio 4 Today programme. Editors could check BBC Verify, which reports they are down 35% year on year. The trend began Sept 2025, though crossings rose before that, but falling for over 6 months now if compared like with like.

Re Mandelson, a Labour Party that set its face against Leveson 2 and media ownership reforms etc cannot complain about it being media bias etc Can’t even tackle the GBNews debacle ffs

In short Rayner had to resign due to concerted media & political pressure over a single stamp duty mistake. Millionaire Tice bankrolled his party through deliberate, dodgy, tax-avoiding corporate tricks and yet the media pressure is limited to a few outlets. www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...

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We’ve spotted several almost identically-worded social media posts claiming 460 masked rioters recently stormed migrant hotels in Rotherham and Tamworth. But this isn’t true. South Yorkshire and Staffordshire police forces confirmed this didn’t happen.

A video viewed over 1.7 million times appears to show an interview with two Muslim women saying people shouldn’t bring dogs to the beach. It’s generated a huge amount of negative engagement and comments, but it’s fake. It’s been created with AI.

Mystical archway at dawn. The view from St Michael's tower on Glastonbury Tor this morning.

More coverage of our report www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

"You said that Iran pioneered the use of terrorism in the Middle East. Actually that was the Zionist gangs, the Stern Gang and the Irgun... bombed the King David Hotel..." I factchecked a lying Israeli military spokesman on 'Piers Uncensored.' Full show: www.youtube.com/watch?v=pkk1...

Could MattGPT face scrutiny under the UK’s ‘proceeds of crime’ law? The British right is awash with money from Orban thinktanks…which Hungary’s new PM says was stolen. Brilliant deep dive into Orban’s vast UK network by @McCoolingtons for @thenerve_news. 👏

There'll be people saying to their grandkids, "Yes, when I was your age, America ran the world!"

There's no real strategy or planning or end goal. Apart from avoiding prison, perhaps. But, ultimately, it just looks like frenzied bloodlust from Netanyahu, his handlers, and the IDF. That's all I can see.

Tonight in Budapest’s Heroes’ Square, a sea of young Hungarians—who’ve only ever known Orbán’s corrupt, suffocating regime—are packed together, singing, chanting, and daring to dream of freedom again. Their hope is raw, their courage is real. The heart of Europe is beating in Budapest tonight. 🇭🇺❤️🇪🇺

The Telegraph just gave a convicted criminal a two-page spread to explain why he's pumping £4 million into Reform UK. They tucked his criminal record away in the small print. So as a former financial crime specialist I’ll do their job for them👇

Journalist hits back at the Trump administration 👏 "Our job as journalists is to report on what is happening in a war. "Our job is not to try and please the president or only report the statements he likes."

Saucy!

That rabbit. That rabbit though! Please tell me I've actually just been tripping for the last, I dunno, decade/4 hours. That would do me just fine.

I’m reminded of Churchill: ‘We shall f*cking fight those bastards on the f*cking beaches, we shall fight on the f*cking landing f*cking grounds, we shall fight in the f*cking fields & in the f*cking streets,we shall fight in the f*cking hills; we shall never f*cking surrender.’

I love books. My old man instilled a love of reading in me at a young age. I'll always be thankful for that. And yet, blow me if this 'five books to get to know me' shit isn't the wankiest thing I've ever seen or heard. Ever!

I feel much more anger towards the British pundits & politicians who failed to understand the depravity & derangement of Donald Trump than I do the ones who failed to understand the idiocy of Brexit. But it doesn’t really matter because they’re exactly the same bloody people.