Patrick Howse
@baghdaddi.bsky.social
Writer, poet & snowshoe hiker. Journalist: @BylineTimes contributor & ex-BBC newsgatherer. English born, proud Irish & EU citizen: "one of the Wildgeese". Lives in Munich
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Patrick Howse
@baghdaddi.bsky.social
· Nov 18
Shadow Cast by Mountains - Hayloft Publishing Ltd
Published 2017 212 pages Illustrated with 17 original paintings
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My collection Shadow Cast By Mountains: hayloft.eu/product/shad... - @sambrook.bsky.social review:
"The poems are accessible, beautifully written & take us beyond the headlines to an emotional reckoning. This is a compassionate, intellectual & literary response”.
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"The poems are accessible, beautifully written & take us beyond the headlines to an emotional reckoning. This is a compassionate, intellectual & literary response”.
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🚨 The BBC’s Road to Appeasement
As the BBC comes under growing criticism for its coverage of Reform, we republish @adambienkov.bsky.social and @baghdaddi.bsky.social’s 2024 investigation into how the corporation's leadership became cowed by the right
www.bylinesupplement.com/p/the-bbcs-r...
As the BBC comes under growing criticism for its coverage of Reform, we republish @adambienkov.bsky.social and @baghdaddi.bsky.social’s 2024 investigation into how the corporation's leadership became cowed by the right
www.bylinesupplement.com/p/the-bbcs-r...
The BBC’s Road to Appeasement
As the BBC comes under growing criticism for its coverage of Reform, we republish Adam Bienkov and Patrick Howse's 2024 investigation into how the corporation's leadership became cowed by the right
www.bylinesupplement.com
November 11, 2025 at 10:51 PM
🚨 The BBC’s Road to Appeasement
As the BBC comes under growing criticism for its coverage of Reform, we republish @adambienkov.bsky.social and @baghdaddi.bsky.social’s 2024 investigation into how the corporation's leadership became cowed by the right
www.bylinesupplement.com/p/the-bbcs-r...
As the BBC comes under growing criticism for its coverage of Reform, we republish @adambienkov.bsky.social and @baghdaddi.bsky.social’s 2024 investigation into how the corporation's leadership became cowed by the right
www.bylinesupplement.com/p/the-bbcs-r...
I very much enjoyed taking part in this. Panorama made a stupid mistake, allowing mortal enemies - some of whom are inside the BBC - a chance to advance their agendas.
"They have hated the very fact that there is a BBC. They hate it profoundly. They want it dead."
Ex BBC staffer @baghdaddi.bsky.social PLUS @adambienkov.bsky.social @bylinetimes.bsky.social talk #BBC with @goldbergradio.bsky.social
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Ex BBC staffer @baghdaddi.bsky.social PLUS @adambienkov.bsky.social @bylinetimes.bsky.social talk #BBC with @goldbergradio.bsky.social
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Byline Podcast: Trump And The Battle For The Beeb
Adrian Goldberg explores what some observers are describing as an 'existential crisis' for the BBC, following its apology for editing a speech by Donald Trump on Jan 6, 2021. Trump is threatening t...
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November 14, 2025 at 9:27 AM
I very much enjoyed taking part in this. Panorama made a stupid mistake, allowing mortal enemies - some of whom are inside the BBC - a chance to advance their agendas.
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Been back to my childhood village in Essex for a funeral.
High Street is littered with tatty flags attached to every lamp post and telegraph pole, and by God, it looks awful.
Everyone I spoke to hates them. So intimidating. Apparently- "Epping Forest council is scared of offending the nasties."
High Street is littered with tatty flags attached to every lamp post and telegraph pole, and by God, it looks awful.
Everyone I spoke to hates them. So intimidating. Apparently- "Epping Forest council is scared of offending the nasties."
October 23, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Been back to my childhood village in Essex for a funeral.
High Street is littered with tatty flags attached to every lamp post and telegraph pole, and by God, it looks awful.
Everyone I spoke to hates them. So intimidating. Apparently- "Epping Forest council is scared of offending the nasties."
High Street is littered with tatty flags attached to every lamp post and telegraph pole, and by God, it looks awful.
Everyone I spoke to hates them. So intimidating. Apparently- "Epping Forest council is scared of offending the nasties."
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Iraq War veteran Tom Mossey at No Kings protest today in Washington DC: “I didn’t deploy three times [to Iraq and Afghanistan] for this bullshit.”
October 18, 2025 at 4:40 PM
Iraq War veteran Tom Mossey at No Kings protest today in Washington DC: “I didn’t deploy three times [to Iraq and Afghanistan] for this bullshit.”
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Meet Nadia Sass.
This is the wife of the man who bribed Nathan Gill.
Today @thenerve.news reveals how she was a key part of the Kremlin operation that targeted not just Gill but at least 2 other MEPs and a member of the House of Lords.
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This is the wife of the man who bribed Nathan Gill.
Today @thenerve.news reveals how she was a key part of the Kremlin operation that targeted not just Gill but at least 2 other MEPs and a member of the House of Lords.
thenerve.news/p/nathan-gill-…
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October 18, 2025 at 8:53 AM
Meet Nadia Sass.
This is the wife of the man who bribed Nathan Gill.
Today @thenerve.news reveals how she was a key part of the Kremlin operation that targeted not just Gill but at least 2 other MEPs and a member of the House of Lords.
thenerve.news/p/nathan-gill-…
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This is the wife of the man who bribed Nathan Gill.
Today @thenerve.news reveals how she was a key part of the Kremlin operation that targeted not just Gill but at least 2 other MEPs and a member of the House of Lords.
thenerve.news/p/nathan-gill-…
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October 9, 2025 at 8:44 PM
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Man who hates everything else about Britain hates our schools too.
Hardly news.
Hardly news.
Nigel Farage says UK teachers are ‘poisoning our kids’ and predicts strikes as PM
Nigel Farage says UK teachers are ‘poisoning our kids’ and predicts strikes as PM
Exclusive: Reform UK leader, speaking at event for private US college, also claimed the ‘Marxist left’ controls education
Nigel Farage has predicted teachers would go on strike within weeks of a Reform UK government, and accused them of “poisoning our kids” by telling them that black children are victims and white children oppressors.
The Reform UK leader set out his view on British schools in an event for a private US Christian college in Michigan, claiming the “Marxist left” was “now in control of our education system”. Continue reading...
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October 9, 2025 at 7:35 PM
Man who hates everything else about Britain hates our schools too.
Hardly news.
Hardly news.
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It is demented that on the same day Kemi BadEnoch declared English degrees worthless and Nick Clegg declared the entire AI industry reliant on royalty & copyright free access to all text written ever.
October 8, 2025 at 4:54 PM
It is demented that on the same day Kemi BadEnoch declared English degrees worthless and Nick Clegg declared the entire AI industry reliant on royalty & copyright free access to all text written ever.
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The "us" in this absurd statement is conservative white people
Mike Johnson: "If you're a young, pregnant American citizen women who shows up in an ER and you get treated and they pay the hospital less for treating you than some illegal rabble rouser who came in from some South American country to do us harm, that is wrong."
October 8, 2025 at 3:34 PM
The "us" in this absurd statement is conservative white people
the world upside down I agree with MTG.
Greene said “not a single Republican in leadership” had addressed the issue of people’s health insurance premiums doubling if Affordable Care Act subsidies are allowed to expire.
Marjorie Taylor Greene Says She’s ‘Disgusted’ Health Insurance Costs Could Double
Greene said “not a single Republican in leadership” had addressed the issue of people’s health insurance premiums doubling if Affordable Care Act subsidies are allowed to expire.
www.forbes.com
October 8, 2025 at 5:10 PM
the world upside down I agree with MTG.
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"15 years ago, Polish workers came here to find opportunity. Now Poland is growing twice as fast as we are," says Kemi Badenoch.
Any ideas what may have happened in the interim?
Any ideas what may have happened in the interim?
October 8, 2025 at 10:33 AM
"15 years ago, Polish workers came here to find opportunity. Now Poland is growing twice as fast as we are," says Kemi Badenoch.
Any ideas what may have happened in the interim?
Any ideas what may have happened in the interim?
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Thorough, important, and gripping journalism.
Please take time to read.
Please take time to read.
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@bylinetimes.bsky.social can now reveal that, during the crucial period when convicted Reform leader Nathan Gill was most active, working directly with Russian President Vladimir Putin’s most senior ally in Ukraine, he was also one of Nigel Farage’s closest confidantes 1/12
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@bylinetimes.bsky.social can now reveal that, during the crucial period when convicted Reform leader Nathan Gill was most active, working directly with Russian President Vladimir Putin’s most senior ally in Ukraine, he was also one of Nigel Farage’s closest confidantes 1/12
‘Thick as Thieves’: Nathan Gill and Nigel Farage’s Putin Problem
Far from being distant from the Reform UK Leader, insiders told Byline Times that the former MEP convicted of bribery was one of Farage’s closest aides, while we reveal how Gill worked on the Kremlin’...
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October 4, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Thorough, important, and gripping journalism.
Please take time to read.
Please take time to read.
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It's The Day of German Unity today, and I for one will be heading for the #Oktoberfest a bit later. Here's a poem I wrote three years ago.
October 3, 2025 at 8:14 AM
It's The Day of German Unity today, and I for one will be heading for the #Oktoberfest a bit later. Here's a poem I wrote three years ago.
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Why are this Labour government quite so poor at messaging on migration?
September 11, 2025 at 9:22 AM
Why are this Labour government quite so poor at messaging on migration?
A new poem, Sorrow
September 25, 2025 at 1:43 PM
A new poem, Sorrow
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The true sign of patriotism for prospective prime ministers at the next election will be to post an AI-generated image of themselves draped in poppies and flags, with their finger on an imaginary nuclear button and a tagline saying ‘I would. Would they?’
September 2, 2025 at 11:20 AM
The true sign of patriotism for prospective prime ministers at the next election will be to post an AI-generated image of themselves draped in poppies and flags, with their finger on an imaginary nuclear button and a tagline saying ‘I would. Would they?’
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They should do it anyway for the environmental benefits.
To defend against Russian tanks, Finland and Poland consider restoring wetlands
Finland and Poland are both considering rewetting dried-out peatbogs to form defence barriers against a potential Russian ground invasion. Restoring these natural carbon sinks could also bring signifi...
www.france24.com
September 1, 2025 at 12:32 PM
They should do it anyway for the environmental benefits.
I am very happy to have made a contribution to the Action on Armed Violence website, in the form of a poem I wrote almost 12 years ago, describing experiences I had in Gaza and Iraq, and the murder of Lee Rigby.
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NBH: a journalist remembers - AOAV
Patrick Howse’s poem NBH offers up a reflection on how the experience of witnessing war endures long after leaving the battlefield.
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September 1, 2025 at 8:54 AM
I am very happy to have made a contribution to the Action on Armed Violence website, in the form of a poem I wrote almost 12 years ago, describing experiences I had in Gaza and Iraq, and the murder of Lee Rigby.
aoav.org.uk/2025/nbh-a-j...
aoav.org.uk/2025/nbh-a-j...
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This is a music station by the way. A couple mins of news every half hour or so. A station you listen to to hide away from news. But even here, you get these vicious little snippets of hatred towards refugees, leaking out from the broader BBC output.
August 21, 2025 at 7:41 AM
This is a music station by the way. A couple mins of news every half hour or so. A station you listen to to hide away from news. But even here, you get these vicious little snippets of hatred towards refugees, leaking out from the broader BBC output.
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“Establishing the BBC's independence is critical if we want to build confidence in shared facts and respect for the truth".
Observer editor-in-chief James Harding says BBC should be 'put beyond reach of politicians'
Editor-in-chief of The Observer, James Harding, a former head of the BBC's news and current affairs programming, says establishing the corporation's independence is critical "if we want to build confi...
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August 21, 2025 at 8:10 AM
“Establishing the BBC's independence is critical if we want to build confidence in shared facts and respect for the truth".
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Not even 9am. So far on Radio 6, the news bulletins have featured a mother saying her daughters aren't safe because of asylum seekers, a Tory politician lambasting Labour for crossing numbers & Badenoch encouraging councils to lodge legal challenges against hotels. An endless stream of hateful bile.
August 21, 2025 at 7:35 AM
Not even 9am. So far on Radio 6, the news bulletins have featured a mother saying her daughters aren't safe because of asylum seekers, a Tory politician lambasting Labour for crossing numbers & Badenoch encouraging councils to lodge legal challenges against hotels. An endless stream of hateful bile.
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🔴Keir Starmer’s Government Still Hasn’t Reviewed Use of Musk’s X Despite Platform ‘Amplifying Hate Speech and Misinformation’
Downing Street refuses to explore alternative platforms, like Bluesky, despite the role of X in last summer’s violent disorder
bylinetimes.com/2025/07/31/k...
Downing Street refuses to explore alternative platforms, like Bluesky, despite the role of X in last summer’s violent disorder
bylinetimes.com/2025/07/31/k...
Keir Starmer's Government Still Hasn't Reviewed Use of Musk's X Despite Platform 'Amplifying Hate Speech and Misinformation'
Downing Street continues to refuse to explore communicating through alternative platforms, like Bluesky, despite the role of X in last summer's violent disorder
bylinetimes.com
August 11, 2025 at 3:10 PM
🔴Keir Starmer’s Government Still Hasn’t Reviewed Use of Musk’s X Despite Platform ‘Amplifying Hate Speech and Misinformation’
Downing Street refuses to explore alternative platforms, like Bluesky, despite the role of X in last summer’s violent disorder
bylinetimes.com/2025/07/31/k...
Downing Street refuses to explore alternative platforms, like Bluesky, despite the role of X in last summer’s violent disorder
bylinetimes.com/2025/07/31/k...
I have had a long and varied journalistic career... This was a moment that gave me some satisfaction...
July 30, 2025 at 10:20 AM
I have had a long and varied journalistic career... This was a moment that gave me some satisfaction...
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🔴 New research reveals the best attack lines to use against Reform
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New research reveals the best attack lines to use against Reform
How to stop Farage...
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July 15, 2025 at 6:21 PM
🔴 New research reveals the best attack lines to use against Reform
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