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'Patriotic' TV 'news' channel that pays Farage among many other far-right loons calls for foreign interference in the affairs of Great Britain.

No doubt the intelligence services will be all over this.
/bitter laughter/
November 11, 2025 at 12:06 AM
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Calling for Foreign interference in our democracy @ofcom.bsky.social should immediately withdraw their broadcasting licence.
November 10, 2025 at 4:48 PM
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My story on GB News in this month's print edition of @bylinetimes.bsky.social is now online:

GB News’ new show broadcast live from the US features non-stop praise for Donald Trump – with the channel’s co-owner begging ‘MAGA’ politicians to save the UK
GB News Calls For Trump's America to 'Save Britain’
GB News’ new show broadcast live from the US features non-stop praise for Donald Trump – with the channel’s co-owner begging ‘MAGA’ politicians to save the UK, reports Josiah Mortimer
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November 10, 2025 at 5:19 PM
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There’s a really good article in @bylinetimes.bsky.social about how it all started with Cummings, aided by subsequent Tories to get a far right media. They say it better (being great journalists and all 😉) Well worth the read!
November 10, 2025 at 8:11 PM
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Wonderful, thought-provoking night with @bylinetimes.bsky.social friends at the Cockpit Theatre
November 10, 2025 at 10:55 PM
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A key victory in Trump's road to power in America was successfully branding the majority of its established press as "fake news". Now, he is bringing this across the pond to the BBC – where these same tactics are favoured by prominent politicians and media outlets on the right. A dangerous moment.
November 10, 2025 at 3:53 PM
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BBC Bosses Draw Up Plans to Win Over Reform Voters by Changing News and Drama Output – Byline Times bylinetimes.com/2025/06/09/b...
BBC Bosses Draw Up Plans to Win Over Reform Voters by Changing News and Drama Output
The Director General Tim Davie and other executives discussed altering BBC “story selection” in order to secure the "trust" of supporters of Nigel Farage’s party
bylinetimes.com
November 9, 2025 at 7:13 PM
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TONIGHT at The Cockpit! Byline Times is deep diving into the gnarly Lure of Class - conscious and otherwise. Ripe for discussion with all the public schoolboy shenanigans at the Beeb currently @bylinetimes.bsky.social

www.thecockpit.org.uk/show/the_lur...
November 10, 2025 at 11:10 AM
🔴GB News Calls For Trump's America to 'Save Britain’

GB News’ new show broadcast live from the US features non-stop praise for Donald Trump – with the channel’s co-owner begging ‘MAGA’ politicians to save the UK, reports @josiah.writes.news

www.bylinesupplement.com/p/gb-news-ca...
GB News Calls For Trump's America to 'Save Britain’
GB News’ new show broadcast live from the US features non-stop praise for Donald Trump – with the channel’s co-owner begging ‘MAGA’ politicians to save the UK, reports Josiah Mortimer
www.bylinesupplement.com
November 10, 2025 at 3:54 PM
🔴‘The BBC’s Surrender to Trump Is a Moment of Existential Weakness’

This latest attack will leave an already weakened BBC in a perilous fight for its future, argues journalist and presenter Matthew Gwyther

bylinetimes.com/2025/11/10/b...
'The BBC's Surrender to Trump Is a Moment of Existential Weakness'
This latest attack will leave an already weakened BBC in a perilous fight for its future, argues journalist and presenter Matthew Gwyther
bylinetimes.com
November 10, 2025 at 3:37 PM
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How by attempting to appease the forces on the right seeking to destroy them, the BBC has helped trigger a crisis that now threatens its very future
bylinetimes.com/2025/11/10/t...
The BBC’s Attempts to Appease the 'Right-Wing Coup' Against It Are Now Seeding Its Own Destruction
By attempting to appease those forces seeking to destroy them, the BBC has helped trigger a crisis that now threatens its very future, argues Adam Bienkov
bylinetimes.com
November 10, 2025 at 12:39 PM
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When Boris Johnson was Prime Minister one of his senior advisers confided to me that one of the only things in politics his boss actually cared about was “killing off the BBC”.

Five years on, and it is a campaign that appears to be finally coming to fruition.

bylinetimes.com/2025/11/10/t...
The BBC’s Attempts to Appease the 'Right-Wing Coup' Against It Are Now Seeding Its Own Destruction
By attempting to appease those forces seeking to destroy them, the BBC has helped trigger a crisis that now threatens its very future, argues Adam Bienkov
bylinetimes.com
November 10, 2025 at 12:49 PM
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"When Boris Johnson was Prime Minister one of his senior advisers confided to me that one of the only things in politics his boss actually cared about was “killing off the BBC”.

"Five years on, and it is a campaign that appears to be finally coming to fruition."
bylinetimes.com/2025/11/10/t...
The BBC’s Attempts to Appease the 'Right-Wing Coup' Against It Are Now Seeding Its Own Destruction
By attempting to appease those forces seeking to destroy them, the BBC has helped trigger a crisis that now threatens its very future, argues Adam Bienkov
bylinetimes.com
November 10, 2025 at 12:40 PM
🔴The BBC’s Attempts to Appease the ‘Right-Wing Coup’ Against It Are Now Seeding Its Own Destruction

By attempting to appease the forces seeking to destroy them, the BBC has helped trigger a crisis that now threatens its very future, argues @adambienkov.bsky.social

bylinetimes.com/2025/11/10/t...
The BBC’s Attempts to Appease the 'Right-Wing Coup' Against It Are Now Seeding Its Own Destruction
By attempting to appease those forces seeking to destroy them, the BBC has helped trigger a crisis that now threatens its very future, argues Adam Bienkov
bylinetimes.com
November 10, 2025 at 12:38 PM
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Which is why @bylinetimes.bsky.social the @bylinesnetwork.co.uk and other independent media organisations are so vitally important.
November 10, 2025 at 7:41 AM
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Also reminder of this

Robbie Gibb cancelled an investigation into Farage's Leave dot EU campaign shortly before the EU Ref

Arron Banks thanked him for it

"Robbie Gibb is being quite helpful and says he’s trying to hose it down."

cc @baghdaddi.bsky.social
"Funnily enough Andy [Wigmore], the only time I ever experienced political interference in one of my investigations at the BBC, was when I was investigating you and Arron Banks

Your mate Robbie Gibb put a stop to a story we were running."

- former BBC investigative reporter Manveen Rana, 2022
November 10, 2025 at 6:55 AM
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"Elon Musk's takeover of X has very clearly and demonstrably led to an increase in extreme language on the platform."

@goldbergradio.bsky.social on how BNP rhetoric infected UK politics with @josiah.writes.news @hardeepmatharu.bsky.social @bylinetimes.bsky.social

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Byline Podcast: Off Colour: How The BNP's Rhetoric Went Mainstream
Adrian Goldberg discusses how the language of the far right British National Party have been incorporated into mainstream political discussion by members of supposedly mainstream parties. He's join...
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November 10, 2025 at 7:26 AM
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@mrjamesob.bsky.social a brilliant investigation by Adam Bienkov and Patrick Howse. Explains *exactly* where we now are.
November 10, 2025 at 10:23 AM
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Why aren’t more questions being asked about Prescott andHanover Comms, who their clients are, why they operate out of Abu Dhabi, where the leaks to the Redbird owned Telegraph fit in ?? As for Nandy we’re ’not afraid the regulate big tech’… lol
November 9, 2025 at 11:27 PM
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How the BBC kowtowed to Boris Johnson. Amazing that, even though we now know what a corrupt, mendacious, useless Prime Minister Johnson was, the BBC are kowtowing to him again
November 9, 2025 at 11:36 PM
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This will be the Robbie Gibb of the BBC, 'responsible for upholding the independence of the BBC'. Yeah, right.
From the archives 🔎

GB News ‘Founder’ in Business with Two Top Priti Patel Appointees

Sir Robbie Gibb, who helped found the new ‘anti-woke’ media channel, is tied to the Government’s bid to attack Black Lives Matter and Extinction Rebellion

bylinetimes.com/2021/02/10/g...
GB News ‘Founder’ in Business with Two Top Priti Patel Appointees
Nafeez Ahmed reveals how Sir Robbie Gibb, who helped found the new ‘anti-woke’ media channel, is tied to the Government’s bid to attack Black Lives Matter and Extinction Rebellion
bylinetimes.com
November 8, 2025 at 7:47 AM
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From the archives 🔎

GB News ‘Founder’ in Business with Two Top Priti Patel Appointees

Sir Robbie Gibb, who helped found the new ‘anti-woke’ media channel, is tied to the Government’s bid to attack Black Lives Matter and Extinction Rebellion

bylinetimes.com/2021/02/10/g...
GB News ‘Founder’ in Business with Two Top Priti Patel Appointees
Nafeez Ahmed reveals how Sir Robbie Gibb, who helped found the new ‘anti-woke’ media channel, is tied to the Government’s bid to attack Black Lives Matter and Extinction Rebellion
bylinetimes.com
November 8, 2025 at 1:33 AM
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As the BBC comes under growing criticism for its coverage of Reform, @bylinetimes.bsky.social republishes Adam Bienkov and Patrick Howse's 2024 investigation into how the corporation's leadership became cowed by the right open.substack.com/pub/bylinesu...
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
open.substack.com
November 9, 2025 at 9:47 AM
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Johnson’s crony directors and client journalists should have been cleaned out of the BBC within the first year. Very disappointing that they weren’t. @bylinetimes.bsky.social
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 9, 2025 at 1:55 PM