I do media analysis of immigration coverage as part of my job. The BBC is far from the worst, but lack of context for reasons people come to UK, language, repetition of falsehoods, especially without genuine pushback etc, has gotten worse, and is undoubtedly feeding the anti-immigration narrative.

I have defended the BBC again and again. No more.

#Yorkshire linseed paint maker expands to EU to grow sales - so sets up Dutch base + online store businessupnorth.co.uk/uk-linseed-paint-maker-brouns-co-expands-to-europe-with-netherlands-base-and-dedicated-online-store-as-eu-sales-rise-150/ See comments for THE #BREXIT EFFECT on UK prices #RejoinEU

Imagine spending years proving you belong here, paying thousands, following every rule - only for Nigel Farage to threaten to tear up your status. This is not policy - it’s cruelty, it’s showmanship, and I for one, am sick to the damned back teeth of it.

Any journalist quoting this absurd, invented £234 billion number cited by Farage/Reform should make absolutely clear that it has been withdrawn by *its own authors* (the Centre for Policy Studies) after they admitted it contained several major errors (1/3)

“It’s time to change the narrative. Tommy Robinson does not represent the majority of Britons. We aren’t afraid. We’re angry. And we won’t be defeated.” The power we need coming from @sangitamyska.bsky.social here www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...

.@SadiqKhan responds to Farage’s deportation plan “Thousands of Londoners have indefinite leave to remain. They have legal rights and are our friends, neighbours and colleagues, contributing hugely to our city. Threatening to deport people living and working here legally is unacceptable.”

Ed Davey, "I'm afraid Nigel Farage should be apologising for helping cause this problem in the first place" "Before Brexit we didn't have a small boats problem because we had 27 return agreements with EU countries and we could return people" -Maybe we should call them Farage's Brexit Boats

Small boats: TV coverage - day after day after day after day.... PPE scandal: TV coverage - let's stick this powerful, enraging documentary on at quarter past ten on a Sunday night.

I often argue politics through a third-person lens, but this policy would affect me. And wouldn't Farage love to deport a loud, leftist brown immigrant who'd never vote Reform. It suddenly feels more personal.

People get in a tizzy about whether to use legal or practical or moral arguments, to deploy reason or emotion, data or storytelling. The answer is: everything. Let him have it.

"More than a century and a half ago, this country ignored the explicit words of men who sought to raise an empire of slavery, transformed them into gallant knights who sought only to preserve their beloved Camelot. Words are not violence, nor are they powerless." www.vanityfair.com/news/story/c...

If you don't, you'll be too scared to have that fight. You'll lack the confidence in the country. True progressive patriotism means taking the fight to Farage.

The true question right now is whether you believe in the moral character of the British public. If you do, you'll want to have the fight with Reform. You'll believe that the public will hate the idea of breaking up families, spying on & deporting people who've worked here for years.

Oh, the irony! Brexiters blame #EU for UK factory jobs vanishing. This Hull Daily Mail says other factors to blame THEN - but post- #Brexit, regaining #SingleMarket access IS a real reason NOW for British firms to move or open sites elsewhere in Europe. #RejoinEU

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#Tory grandee Lord Patten: “No hope for #Conservatives until face up to #BrexitShambles.” #BrexitReality left Britain with low growth, poor productivity & “a difficult position.” #RejoinEU Via @yorkshirepost.co.uk | by @bradford4europe.bsky.social | @europeanmovement.co.uk

So what is the real reason Farage wants to take away our human rights?

Honest to god. I dread to think what the front pages of the tabloids are, given these are the supposedly serious papers. The immigration ‘debate’ has become a ruinous madness. (Trump also said he’d settled the war between Azerbaijan and Albania, so why are we listening to *anything* he says?)

Disappointed that this BBC news piece about Trump not wanting Mayor Sadiq Khan at the State Banquet doesn't once mention Khan's race or religion. If you leave out that Khan is a brown Muslim man, you gloss over why he's targeted by Trump. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Great to see a #Yorkshire firm growing in #EU - but no surprise needs new EU warehouse to do so. Many UK firms face the same #BrexitReality: red tape, extra costs, or lost EU sales. This #BrexitShambles costs UK jobs & growth. #RejoinEU Brexit isn’t working. 🔗 www.thebusinessdesk.com/yorkshire/ne...

CBS liked my outfit more than GB News who admitted they had "never heard of the Handmaid's Tale" ...says it all really! 😅 www.cbsnews.com/video/london...

This whole thing is so unimaginably gross. Makes me sick to my stomach. inews.co.uk/opinion/king...

Windsor Castle Tuesday night. Four of us arrested for 'malicious communications'. Now released. www.youtube.com/watch?v=K8V4...

Oh please fuck off and take any other deranged racists who think you can "mobilize the military" against people seeking safety and asylum with you. Utterly unhinged nonsense, only supported by racist imbeciles with absolutely no clue as to the real world. www.bbc.com/news/article...

What a day! Thousands of wonderful people protesting PEACEFULLY against fascism and Donald Trump's state visit. Such a fantastic march. Thank you @ukstoptrump.bsky.social 🙌🏽

Hull Daily Mail ✉️ shows a shift: many Leave voters would choose differently now, and #proEU young joining electorate also boosting #RejoinEU support. Meanwhile, #Brexit advocates still mislead on #EuropeanUnion costs — while accusing #RejoinEU voices of “downright lies.” Does that surprise you?

Don’t you dare call us fascists, they say, as they force people off the airwaves for criticizing them while vowing to crush and criminalize their opposition.

“You can’t bomb the truth away” My full speech at Wembley Arena tonight, in London, to 12,000 people at the Together for Palestine concert, paying tribute to murdered Palestinian journalists and their bravery, and calling out the silence and complicity of Western media.

Starmer claimed that Trump had agreed to reduce tariffs on British steel to 0%, now he is desperately trying to get assurances the tariff will not rise above 25%. You don’t get much for a state visit these days…

OMG! In less than one minute, Trump has boasted about his second state visit, got several royal titles wrong, AND made an incredibly crass, implicitly racist, comment about the names of some of the soldiers he met. OMG. He just can’t help himself.

Activists from @GreenpeaceUK have rebranded Westminster to protest Trump’s state visit to the UK, covering the area with posters and stickers reading: “The enemy doesn’t arrive by boat, he arrives by private jet.”

The 'Stop Trump March in London..is big

Orwellian indeed! Utterly ridiculous, and frankly embarrassing, that we are pandering to a convicted criminal and narcissist to this degree. Well done Led by Donkeys. You can donate to show your support here: www.ledbydonkeys.org www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

🚨 POLICE TOOK OUR TRUMP & EPSTEIN VAN They're obviously terrified of THIS photo of Donald with the world’s most notorious paedophile making headlines while Trump visits the King. So whatever you do - DO NOT SHARE THIS VIDEO Location: Windsor High Street, UK #trump #epstein

It seems that megalomaniac billionaires are allowed to beam in video urging people to bring down a government and to fight or die without anything happening whilst others are arrested for showing factual images publicly and widely available.

In London, hate will never win.

Interesting stats bsky.app/profile/ianb...

Also whilst I am on about Badenoch, I fail to see how you can make a big political stink about Starmer appointing Peter Mandelson on the basis in the past he was mates with Epstein even after Epstein was convicted, whilst failing to comment on Trumps past relationship with Epstein.

I have never seen anything that is not from the right/far right of political thinking calling for any kind of physical violence. This reluctance to call out Musk on the basis of some phantom 2 sides narrative is just plain wrong.

Brexit is the toxic epicentre of the political shitshow we now have to endure. It promoted idiocy and deceit, endorsed racism, divided us, made us poorer, weaker, less safe and less sane. It’s belittled the country, killed the Tory party and given birth to Reform. A relentless klaxon of failure.

Lewis Goodall, "Whether it is the British with Starmer as result of the Mandelson" "Whether it's the British royal family and the connection with Prince Andrew" "Or the American president" "They all have a serious connection to Epstein who was perhaps the most prolific pedophile of our age"

Protestors project Trump with Epstein, and Prince Andrew with Epstein, on Windsor castle

Well done Sadiq Khan, this is the kind of decisive leadership that is required. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

#Labour's #EU minister only 45 – but claims we won't #rejoin #EuropeanUnion 'in his lifetime' Our Chair @leedsblue67.bsky.social more optimistic in @yorkshireeveningpost.co.uk: #BrexitShambles shifting opinion, young #proEU? UK voices shifting - wait 40 years to #RejoinEU? #UKPolitics #Yorkshire

Zoe Gardiner, "The saddest thing I've heard about Trump's visit, is that he is going to get his golden carriage ride, but in private, because the great British public would have given him the rotten tomato treatment if he dared to show his face in public"

Suddenly "hate speech" is bad. Suddenly "dehumanizing" people is bad. Suddenly "cancel culture" is good. Suddenly words have consequences. The modern American right in 2025, folks.

This really shouldn't even need saying, let alone agitating for. It is a truism more than a proposition.

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