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Carol Carman
@carolcarman.bsky.social
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Writer of comedy fantasy, short stories, poetry.
Very low giggle threshold.
Books: Gingerbread Children; Twicetime; Sticky Ends
Web: https://mccawmedia.co.uk/
info@mccawmedia.co.uk
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mrjamesob.bsky.social
Two stories you may not have seen this week that would be a big deal in a normal country:

1) The ‘dossier’ detailing the BBC’s editing of the Trump speech literally edited Trump’s speech.

2) The NBER calculated that Brexit’s longer term damage to GDP was greater than originally forecast.
November 14, 2025 at 3:35 PM
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timbale.bsky.social
Read 'em and weep. (www.nber.org/system/files...)
This paper examines the impact of the UK's decision to leave the European Union (Brexit) in 2016. Using almost a decade of data since the referendum, we combine simulations based on macro data with estimates derived from micro data collected through our Decision Maker Panel survey. These estimates suggest that by 2025, Brexit had reduced UK GDP by 6% to 8%, with the impact accumulating gradually over time. We estimate that investment was reduced by between 12% and 18%, employment by 3% to 4% and productivity by 3% to 4%. These large negative impacts reflect a combination of elevated uncertainty, reduced demand, diverted management time, and increased misallocation of resources from a protracted Brexit process. Comparing these with contemporary forecasts – providing a rare macro example to complement the burgeoning microliterature of social science predictions – shows that these forecasts were accurate over a 5-year horizon, but they underestimated the impact over a decade.
November 14, 2025 at 3:18 PM
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russincheshire.bsky.social
Trump appears in the Epstein files more than anyone else.

More than ANYONE ELSE.
November 14, 2025 at 9:30 PM
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carolecadwalla.bsky.social
In the same week a news hurricane engulfs the BBC in the UK, the NYT: hold my beer.

To be fair, I believe the NYT deserves a shitstorm: it does brilliant journalism. It’s also untransparent & unaccountable
datadrivenmd.social Jorge A. Caballero, MD @datadrivenmd.social · 3d
To recap: Jeffrey Epstein offered a NY Times reporter photos taken in Epstein's kitchen of Donald Trump and girls in bikinis *and* implored the NYT reporter to put this information in the public discourse in 2015

What did the NY Times editors know about this offer?
aridrennen.bsky.social Ari Drennen @aridrennen.bsky.social · 3d
“would you like photos of donald and girls in bikinis in my kitchen?” -Jeffrey Epstein
November 13, 2025 at 9:56 AM
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mrjamesob.bsky.social
The remarkable story we discussed this morning. (No paywall but do consider subscribing.) www.thenewworld.co.uk/james-ball-e...
EXCLUSIVE: Michael Prescott himself doctored Trump quote in his anti-BBC report
A report alleging Panorama broadcast misleading Trump quotes contains misleading quotes itself
www.thenewworld.co.uk
November 13, 2025 at 12:48 PM
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marcuschown.bsky.social
The problem after 14 years of damage wreaked by the Tories is that we now have a f***ed up BBC and a f***ed up NHS.

But, remember, the f***ing up has come from outside. It is not intrinsic

We desperately need a properly functioning BBC and properly functioning NHS

DEFEND THEM!
November 13, 2025 at 1:43 PM
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fayroberts.bsky.social
… WHAT…?!
whitneytrettien.bsky.social Whitney Trettien @whitneytrettien.bsky.social · 3d
Holy shit, just learned about the typewriter art of Montserrat Alberich Escardívol, a Catalan typist. Using an extra wide typewriter and 180 color ribbons, she built up elaborate images from simple characters like 'm' and '.' and ';'. Here is her typewritten painting of the Cathedral of Barcelona.
Full-color image of the Cathedral of Barcelona, composed on a typewriter by Montserrat Alberich Escardívol. Image from WikiMedia.
November 12, 2025 at 5:46 PM
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jamesrball.com
Left: Donald Trump’s Jan 6th quote, as presented in the dossier that brought down two BBC bosses

Right: What Donald Trump actually said.

Full story in @thenewworldmag.bsky.social: www.thenewworld.co.uk/james-ball-e...
“Fifteen minutes into the speech, what Trump actually said: ‘We are gonna walk down to the Capitol and I’ll be with you. I know that everyone here will soon be marching over to the Capitol building to peacefully and patriotically make your voices heard.’ It was completely misleading to edit the clip in the way Panorama aired it.” “We’re gonna walk down to the Capitol, and we’re going to cheer on our brave senators and congressmen and women, and we’re probably not going to be cheering so much for some of them. Because you’ll never take back our country with weakness. You have to show strength and you have to be strong. We have come to demand that Congress do the right thing and only count the electors who have been lawfully slated, lawfully slated. I know that everyone here will soon be marching over to the Capitol building to peacefully and patriotically make your voices heard.”
November 12, 2025 at 3:20 PM
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neilkbrand.bsky.social
£41 million! That’s how much more the Post Office has just agreed to pay Fujitsu to keep using the faulty Horizon IT system. Join me and 280,000 others demanding Fujitsu is finally held to account. Sign the petition now! you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/ho...
Hold Fujitsu to account for Post Office scandal
£41 million! That’s how much more the Post Office has just agreed to pay Fujitsu to keep using the faulty Horizon IT system. And that's on top of another whopping £65m the Government paid the scandal ...
you.38degrees.org.uk
November 11, 2025 at 6:00 PM
carolcarman.bsky.social
🤣🤣🤣
November 11, 2025 at 11:30 PM
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barbaranadel.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/media/2025/n... This is absolutely an attack on our BBC. Gibb should be shown the door.
BBC board member with Tory links ‘led charge’ in systemic bias claims, say insiders
Sources say Robbie Gibb amplified criticisms of Trump, Gaza and trans rights coverage, and had ‘a lot of oxygen in the room’
www.theguardian.com
November 11, 2025 at 8:23 AM
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petergeoghegan.bsky.social
Incredible that Robbie Gibb - most influential person on BBC board by many accounts and from journalists I speak in BBC - was involved in setting up GB News.

GB News of course has breached Ofcom rules on *multiple* occasions - no sign of resignations though

www.theguardian.com/environment/...
‘Enforced veganism’: Ofcom lets GB News flout accuracy rules, say climate campaigners
Exclusive: Regulator has received 1,221 complaints about UK broadcasters since 2020 but found no breaches of its code
www.theguardian.com
November 10, 2025 at 8:25 AM
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stevepeers.bsky.social
Two paragraphs from the article, pointing out Telegraph hypocrisy
November 10, 2025 at 8:02 PM
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privateeyenews.bsky.social
Tees Valley mayor Lord (Ben) Houchen promised renewal. Instead, Britain’s biggest regeneration project has turned into a taxpayer-funded scandal - enriching a few local businessmen while leaving public bodies on the brink.

Watch the latest episode of Page 94, The Private Eye Podcast, on YouTube.
November 8, 2025 at 10:42 AM
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paulkerensa.bsky.social
£40k = reported fee for each Celebrity Traitors player
x 19 players = £760k total
£1.5m = Nigel Farage's reported fee for I'm a Celebrity 2023
so
£Balding+Beaumont+Bonnar+Burns+Carr+Church+Codd+Daley+Empson+Faith+Fry+Garraway+Imrie+Marler+Mohammed+Omilana+Olusoga+Ross+Wilkinson = 1/2 £Farage
November 7, 2025 at 5:07 PM
carolcarman.bsky.social
👏👏👏 @banxtoons.bsky.social hitting the nail squarely on the head again. Every politician should be made to look at this drawing every single day. 👇
November 7, 2025 at 10:50 PM
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mrjamesob.bsky.social
Lowe doesn't need the money but the 'thrill' of engagment can be just as corrupting as the love of cash & if engagement/cash increase according to the extremity of the opinions expressed then you need integrity to resist the temptation to become ever more offensive. This is what Musk has engineered.
europeannick.bsky.social Nick Stone @europeannick.bsky.social · 9d
Human trafficking.

Rupert Lowe makes more money from using Elon Musk’s website than any other MP.

There is money to be made from mass deportations and talking about mass deportations.
November 7, 2025 at 9:16 AM
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banxtoons.bsky.social
From today's @financialtimes.com #foreverchemicals
November 4, 2025 at 5:51 PM
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jessicaelgot.bsky.social
What an absolute hero Samir Zitouni is - doubtless he saved lives that day

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Train hero who saved passengers during attack named
The rail worker credited with saving multiple lives is named as Samir Zitouni.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 4, 2025 at 11:36 AM
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marina-purkiss.bsky.social
YOUNG PEOPLE. LISTEN UP.

Today Nigel Farage said the government should cut the minimum wage for young people

...to “raise aspiration” and “boost business"

It's £10ph FFS!

Lower your pay so you’ll dream bigger

DO YOU SEE IT NOW?

Spread far & wide.

bylinetimes.com/2025/11/03/n...
Nigel Farage Says Minimum Wage Should Be Cut for Young People
The Reform leader said cutting the minimum wage for young people would boost business, as he attacked plans to raise taxes on the wealthy
bylinetimes.com
November 3, 2025 at 2:03 PM
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banxtoons.bsky.social
#halloween
November 2, 2025 at 4:43 PM
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marina-purkiss.bsky.social
These poor kids didn’t stand a bloody chance…

345 vulnerable kids, seeking asylum and then lost by our authorities

50 still missing

Likely to traffickers

How could this have happened?

Unforgivable from now-Reform controlled Kent County Council.

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
More than 50 child asylum seekers still missing after disappearing from Kent care
Council data obtained by the Guardian shows 345 children have gone missing in recent years, many probably taken by traffickers
www.theguardian.com
November 1, 2025 at 6:07 PM
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ronniebarbour.bsky.social
Bylines Scotland Radio.

Ronnie Barbour and Professor Sir John Curtice discuss the latest political polling and what it means for Scotland ahead of the Holyrood Elections in May 2026.
Bylines Scotland Radio - Professor John Curtice.
open.spotify.com
October 31, 2025 at 9:29 AM
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jameskettle.bsky.social
Hi Lisa Nandy! I’m a BAFTA winner from a small town. Instead of asinine questions like this, why not tell us how we can continue to make a living in the eviscerated creative sector over which you notionally preside?
October 31, 2025 at 7:10 AM
carolcarman.bsky.social
#Halloween book no. 2: Sticky Ends, illustrated by the fabulous @banxtoons.bsky.social. Comedy poems about the work of the Grim Reaper. Possessed gnashers, crossword fanatics, serial killer brides,a lonely school reunion, a bunch of drunks and the world’s worst outing to Blackpool. bit.ly/49qumGg
Cover of comedy poetry book Sticky Ends by Carol Carman. A catalogue of misfortunes,mishaps and meeting the maker. Unlucky - and unlikely - demises from the fevered imagination of Carol Carman, illustrated by Jeremy Banx. Front Cover shows a graveyard. Foremost grave is large, has a bony hand sticking out from the ground clutching a bunch of flowers, and on the gravestone is written Sticky Ends. In the background is the rest of the graveyard, with a church at the back and trees to the left hand side. Also in the graveyard are a bride with a black armband holding a bouquet, and a Grim Reaper clutching a bottle. Across the top is the strapline '65% Victoria Wood, 25% John Cooper Clarke, 10% Joyce Grenfell'.
October 31, 2025 at 11:24 AM