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· Jun 13
Went for a swim where the land is falling quietly into the sea
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Both the Budget and the asylum bill are disintegrating before they've even been formally announced.
Absolutely dead government.
Absolutely dead government.
November 17, 2025 at 9:19 AM
Both the Budget and the asylum bill are disintegrating before they've even been formally announced.
Absolutely dead government.
Absolutely dead government.
Hearing this on the radio bulletins is so weird, feels like an opening montage to a disaster movie. Absolute fantasy numbers. Why only 20 years, why not 3 generations with a final qualifying performance at the proms? Like opening Pandora's box of dystopia policies and being surprised at the result.
Shabana Mahmood has vowed to end Britain’s “golden ticket” for asylum seekers by forcing people arriving illegally to wait 20 years before they can apply for permanent settlement
Shabana Mahmood: ‘Illegal migration is tearing Britain apart’
The home secretary is planning to introduce a 20-year wait for permanent stay to end a ‘golden ticket’ for asylum seekers
www.thetimes.com
November 16, 2025 at 11:21 AM
Hearing this on the radio bulletins is so weird, feels like an opening montage to a disaster movie. Absolute fantasy numbers. Why only 20 years, why not 3 generations with a final qualifying performance at the proms? Like opening Pandora's box of dystopia policies and being surprised at the result.
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Not everyone is unhappy about the Government's descent into anti-refugee politics
November 16, 2025 at 9:54 AM
Not everyone is unhappy about the Government's descent into anti-refugee politics
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The 'bogan' Australian giving War & Peace an irreverent remake
The 'bogan' Australian giving War & Peace an irreverent remake
Ander Louis has written a new version of Leo Tolstoy's classic Russian novel in Australian slang.
www.bbc.com
November 15, 2025 at 12:08 AM
The 'bogan' Australian giving War & Peace an irreverent remake
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Fascinating look into how reputation laundering works in practice
So I’ve had a very brief search of the Epstein database in the last half hour.
Noticed Epstein was paying for Google search result poisoning and attending hacker conferences
Noticed Epstein was paying for Google search result poisoning and attending hacker conferences
November 14, 2025 at 11:36 AM
Fascinating look into how reputation laundering works in practice
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After huge losses, Russian forces are entering Pokrovsk from the south. They also claim to be inside Kupiansk.
When President Trump suggests he might let Kyiv and Moscow “fight it out”, it means Ukrainian towns gradually being captured or destroyed.
When President Trump suggests he might let Kyiv and Moscow “fight it out”, it means Ukrainian towns gradually being captured or destroyed.
November 11, 2025 at 10:02 AM
After huge losses, Russian forces are entering Pokrovsk from the south. They also claim to be inside Kupiansk.
When President Trump suggests he might let Kyiv and Moscow “fight it out”, it means Ukrainian towns gradually being captured or destroyed.
When President Trump suggests he might let Kyiv and Moscow “fight it out”, it means Ukrainian towns gradually being captured or destroyed.
For real, that's the edit, 10 seconds of Trump's own words, where Trump said you've got to fight, and then there was a massive fight, and now the BBC is on fire? What? This is so eye wateringly stupid it actually hurts #newsnight
November 10, 2025 at 10:41 PM
For real, that's the edit, 10 seconds of Trump's own words, where Trump said you've got to fight, and then there was a massive fight, and now the BBC is on fire? What? This is so eye wateringly stupid it actually hurts #newsnight
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Why can't the BBC just be more impartial towards President Trump, like GB News, says Nigel Farage.
GB News:
GB News:
November 10, 2025 at 9:26 PM
Why can't the BBC just be more impartial towards President Trump, like GB News, says Nigel Farage.
GB News:
GB News:
Come for the rather grim former insider's view of the beeb and stay for Robbie Gibb getting absolutely skewered.
The truth about impartiality at the BBC
And the hysteria of the current "crisis"
open.substack.com
November 10, 2025 at 9:44 PM
Come for the rather grim former insider's view of the beeb and stay for Robbie Gibb getting absolutely skewered.
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The impact of Russia's bombing campaigns and the resulting blackouts isn't just physical, it's a constant state of high-alert anxiety and anger.
The physical hardship is secondary. The true horror of the blackouts is isolation.
The physical hardship is secondary. The true horror of the blackouts is isolation.
November 10, 2025 at 4:10 PM
The impact of Russia's bombing campaigns and the resulting blackouts isn't just physical, it's a constant state of high-alert anxiety and anger.
The physical hardship is secondary. The true horror of the blackouts is isolation.
The physical hardship is secondary. The true horror of the blackouts is isolation.
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NEW: Rachel Reeves signals she intends to remove the two-child cap *in full*
"I don't think a child should be penalised because they're in a bigger family through no fault of their own," she tells BBC.
"I don't think a child should be penalised because they're in a bigger family through no fault of their own," she tells BBC.
November 10, 2025 at 3:05 PM
NEW: Rachel Reeves signals she intends to remove the two-child cap *in full*
"I don't think a child should be penalised because they're in a bigger family through no fault of their own," she tells BBC.
"I don't think a child should be penalised because they're in a bigger family through no fault of their own," she tells BBC.
Presumably this is just part of the typical Trump tantrum perpetual grievance playbook and isn't expected to lead to anything more than that but still quite significant that Trump has no problem extorting Brits to give him money because of a very minor mistake about how much of a shit he is.
Donald Trump has sent a letter to the BBC threatening legal action, following a bitter row over its coverage of his administration.
Donald Trump threatens BBC with legal action
The broadcaster said it would review a letter from Trump’s team and respond in due course.
www.politico.eu
November 10, 2025 at 2:54 PM
Presumably this is just part of the typical Trump tantrum perpetual grievance playbook and isn't expected to lead to anything more than that but still quite significant that Trump has no problem extorting Brits to give him money because of a very minor mistake about how much of a shit he is.
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Robbie Gibb criticising the BBC for journalistic standards is a glass house so big you could hold the Great Exhibition of 1851 in it and still have room for an excellent tomato crop
Should Gibb be sacked? yes, obviously. He's an abomination of basic journalistic standards. His GB News channel spreads conspiracy theory & disinformation. His Jewish Chronicle newspaper spreads invented stories. He is plainly trying to undermine the BBC so it's as bad as everything else he touches.
November 10, 2025 at 2:03 PM
Robbie Gibb criticising the BBC for journalistic standards is a glass house so big you could hold the Great Exhibition of 1851 in it and still have room for an excellent tomato crop
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Beebgate demonstrates two truths:
1 Right wing media hold everyone else to exacting standards of ethics and probity while holding themselves to none whatsoever.
2. You can’t curry favour with the right wing if you’re an entity they want to destroy.
1 Right wing media hold everyone else to exacting standards of ethics and probity while holding themselves to none whatsoever.
2. You can’t curry favour with the right wing if you’re an entity they want to destroy.
November 10, 2025 at 10:15 AM
Beebgate demonstrates two truths:
1 Right wing media hold everyone else to exacting standards of ethics and probity while holding themselves to none whatsoever.
2. You can’t curry favour with the right wing if you’re an entity they want to destroy.
1 Right wing media hold everyone else to exacting standards of ethics and probity while holding themselves to none whatsoever.
2. You can’t curry favour with the right wing if you’re an entity they want to destroy.
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![Cartoon by Stephen Collins for The Guardian. Script as follows:
[scene is Winston Churchill in a bbc studio, giving his 'finest hour' speech]
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CHURCHILL:
The whole fury and might of the enemy must very soon be turned on us.
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CHURCHILL:
Hitler knows that he will have to break us in this Island or lose the war.
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CHURCHILL:
If we can stand up to him, all Europe may be free
and the life of the world may move forward into broad, sun-
BBC PRESENTER:
Thank you prime minister
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BBC PRESENTER:
Mr hitler, your response?
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HITLER [in the studio]:
Vell zis is hysterical woke nonsense as usual from mr Churchill
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HITLER:
What we are proposing -
CHURCHILL:
Hang on
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HITLER:
Let me finish - what we are proposing eez a simple power-sharing arrangement -
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CHURCHILL:
What's he doing here
BBC PRESENTER:
It's important we hear both sides of the debate
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CHURCHILL:
This isn't a debate
You don't debate fascists
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HITLER:
Oh here we go with ze Godwins law!
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HITLER:
Why must you people always compare ze things you don't like to 'fascists, Nazis, Hitler'...
CHURCHILL:
Because you are a fascist Nazi Hit-
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HITLER [standing up, saluting]:
RAUSS!
BBC PRESENTER:
*Please* Mr Churchill let him speak
[ends]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:4m3we4apbjayclzcnhwe3pfp/bafkreibw4ldc3fhslbvxgy2oqrof2oys5kpgh7zu6a5f3usmx3lf4547qm@jpeg)
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And if we think it’s bad now, imagine what it could look like, say, two months from a U.K. general election?
Could imagine huge sums in US far right cash flooding in, much of what would only be declared after the election (our electoral rules really are a jape)
Could imagine huge sums in US far right cash flooding in, much of what would only be declared after the election (our electoral rules really are a jape)
Be clear, the American far right are coming for British democracy.
November 9, 2025 at 8:50 PM
And if we think it’s bad now, imagine what it could look like, say, two months from a U.K. general election?
Could imagine huge sums in US far right cash flooding in, much of what would only be declared after the election (our electoral rules really are a jape)
Could imagine huge sums in US far right cash flooding in, much of what would only be declared after the election (our electoral rules really are a jape)
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It’s not at all clear to me how the BBC can do any kind of serious journalism if its top two bosses can be forced to quit over such an obviously confected scandal. There is no substantive error here. How can the BBC report on Trump, or Farage, or anyone else, in these circumstances?
November 9, 2025 at 7:30 PM
It’s not at all clear to me how the BBC can do any kind of serious journalism if its top two bosses can be forced to quit over such an obviously confected scandal. There is no substantive error here. How can the BBC report on Trump, or Farage, or anyone else, in these circumstances?
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The BBC needs someone experienced enough to run a huge media org, and willing to take a job with no security. They need to know the BBC well enough to do the job, but not be an “insider”. They need to somehow be acceptable to a Lab government but also right-wing papers.
This person doesn’t exist.
This person doesn’t exist.
November 9, 2025 at 7:15 PM
The BBC needs someone experienced enough to run a huge media org, and willing to take a job with no security. They need to know the BBC well enough to do the job, but not be an “insider”. They need to somehow be acceptable to a Lab government but also right-wing papers.
This person doesn’t exist.
This person doesn’t exist.
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I’ll add: the “dossier” here was clearly part of a concerted effort to oust the BBC’s top management. Neither the BBC nor the government response acknowledged that. It was slow, ineffective, and outdated.
“Old” media orgs need to learn the new game, or they’ll die out.
“Old” media orgs need to learn the new game, or they’ll die out.
Maybe there was an era when apologies helped. Now it’ll just pivot the story to “so you admit you got this wrong, who’s to blame and why haven’t they resigned yet?”
If someone resigns, it’ll be “why didn’t their boss resign too?”, and so on.
The game has changed. Institutions need to catch up.
If someone resigns, it’ll be “why didn’t their boss resign too?”, and so on.
The game has changed. Institutions need to catch up.
November 9, 2025 at 7:19 PM
I’ll add: the “dossier” here was clearly part of a concerted effort to oust the BBC’s top management. Neither the BBC nor the government response acknowledged that. It was slow, ineffective, and outdated.
“Old” media orgs need to learn the new game, or they’ll die out.
“Old” media orgs need to learn the new game, or they’ll die out.
I assume Davie walked cos else Trump has a grievance he can milk dry and us reporting v compromised but still v depressing to again see BBC flagelatting itself for the benefit of right wing cranks; and hard to imagine a DG resigning for a Dem Pres ever, just perpetuates right wing media dominance.
November 9, 2025 at 6:45 PM
I assume Davie walked cos else Trump has a grievance he can milk dry and us reporting v compromised but still v depressing to again see BBC flagelatting itself for the benefit of right wing cranks; and hard to imagine a DG resigning for a Dem Pres ever, just perpetuates right wing media dominance.
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It is bad that the director of the BBC has resigned over a scandal people only cared about because the mentally unwell President of the United States became fixated with it, and it then went viral on the website controlled by the world's richest man.
November 9, 2025 at 6:09 PM
It is bad that the director of the BBC has resigned over a scandal people only cared about because the mentally unwell President of the United States became fixated with it, and it then went viral on the website controlled by the world's richest man.
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I don’t understand how Kash Patel, superficially in a job he really wanted, manages to have this energy in every single media appearance
November 8, 2025 at 11:35 PM
I don’t understand how Kash Patel, superficially in a job he really wanted, manages to have this energy in every single media appearance
babe what's wrong you've hardly even touched your
Ass Ades
Germany, Lutheran Baptisms, Marriages, and Burials, 1500-1971
Germany, Lutheran Baptisms, Marriages, and Burials, 1500-1971
November 8, 2025 at 5:54 PM
babe what's wrong you've hardly even touched your