CarolineJMolloy
@carolinejmolloy.bsky.social
Writer, editor, #healthpolicy nerd. Loves evidence, humans, the NHS, equity. NUJ. Green. Grew up on free school meals.
Surprisingly good at identifying plants. Stroud-based. 📧caroline.molloy@cantab.net
Surprisingly good at identifying plants. Stroud-based. 📧caroline.molloy@cantab.net
If I had a national institution I wanted to undermine, Hanover Communications are who I’d go to.
They’ve been undermining the NHS for years, successfully lobbying for firms to get NHS ££, including US giant United Health, & providing staff to pro-private politicians.
It’s just what they do.
They’ve been undermining the NHS for years, successfully lobbying for firms to get NHS ££, including US giant United Health, & providing staff to pro-private politicians.
It’s just what they do.
1/ Michael Prescott of Hanover Communications, whose leaked memo alleging left-wing bias led to the BBC meltdown.
You could be forgiven for thinking that a corporate lobbyist & former Murdoch press hack may not have the best interests of public-service broadcasting at heart.
You could be forgiven for thinking that a corporate lobbyist & former Murdoch press hack may not have the best interests of public-service broadcasting at heart.
November 11, 2025 at 8:13 AM
If I had a national institution I wanted to undermine, Hanover Communications are who I’d go to.
They’ve been undermining the NHS for years, successfully lobbying for firms to get NHS ££, including US giant United Health, & providing staff to pro-private politicians.
It’s just what they do.
They’ve been undermining the NHS for years, successfully lobbying for firms to get NHS ££, including US giant United Health, & providing staff to pro-private politicians.
It’s just what they do.
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Tech guys six months ago: haha yes we’re cutting all this WASTEFUL spending by eliminating medical research and USAID
Tech guys now: yes I think taxpayers will be excited to bailout my non consensual pornography machine
Tech guys now: yes I think taxpayers will be excited to bailout my non consensual pornography machine
November 8, 2025 at 11:02 PM
Tech guys six months ago: haha yes we’re cutting all this WASTEFUL spending by eliminating medical research and USAID
Tech guys now: yes I think taxpayers will be excited to bailout my non consensual pornography machine
Tech guys now: yes I think taxpayers will be excited to bailout my non consensual pornography machine
We can say ”tweeting” to mean “posting on BlueSky”, these days. right?
Now that the ManBoy has destroyed Twitter and turned it into a weird crypto and supplements advertising machine?
Now that the ManBoy has destroyed Twitter and turned it into a weird crypto and supplements advertising machine?
November 10, 2025 at 7:02 PM
We can say ”tweeting” to mean “posting on BlueSky”, these days. right?
Now that the ManBoy has destroyed Twitter and turned it into a weird crypto and supplements advertising machine?
Now that the ManBoy has destroyed Twitter and turned it into a weird crypto and supplements advertising machine?
I am totally here for the BBC presenters tweeting their greatness right now
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November 10, 2025 at 6:59 PM
I am totally here for the BBC presenters tweeting their greatness right now
Vouchers? 😡
I remember behind a mum in a supermarket queue who had “food vouchers” (cos she was a refugee) & was trying to buy a small toy alongside her food. The cashier said she had to put it back. Both women, & the whole queue, looked mortified.
The next person behind paid for the toy, btw.
I remember behind a mum in a supermarket queue who had “food vouchers” (cos she was a refugee) & was trying to buy a small toy alongside her food. The cashier said she had to put it back. Both women, & the whole queue, looked mortified.
The next person behind paid for the toy, btw.
Scrapping the cap entirely is both good policy *and* good politics.
Half measures will "save" some money short-term, but will piss *everybody* off and still leave very large numbers of children suffering from a policy designed to make them poorer.
inews.co.uk/news/politic...
Half measures will "save" some money short-term, but will piss *everybody* off and still leave very large numbers of children suffering from a policy designed to make them poorer.
inews.co.uk/news/politic...
Food vouchers, free milk and two-child cap: Reeves weighs up help for families
Ministers' long-awaited child poverty strategy is due this month - and it's closely tied to the Chancellor's Budget
inews.co.uk
November 10, 2025 at 6:40 PM
Vouchers? 😡
I remember behind a mum in a supermarket queue who had “food vouchers” (cos she was a refugee) & was trying to buy a small toy alongside her food. The cashier said she had to put it back. Both women, & the whole queue, looked mortified.
The next person behind paid for the toy, btw.
I remember behind a mum in a supermarket queue who had “food vouchers” (cos she was a refugee) & was trying to buy a small toy alongside her food. The cashier said she had to put it back. Both women, & the whole queue, looked mortified.
The next person behind paid for the toy, btw.
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Nearly two years ago, I wrote about the extraordinary influence of former Tory spin doctor Sir Robbie Gibb on the BBC. It's still a helpful backgrounder for what's going on now. New readers start here: www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/media/...
How the government captured the BBC
A right-wing cabal, largely unaccountable, is waging war on the principles that made our public broadcaster great. It must not succeed
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk
November 10, 2025 at 3:52 PM
Nearly two years ago, I wrote about the extraordinary influence of former Tory spin doctor Sir Robbie Gibb on the BBC. It's still a helpful backgrounder for what's going on now. New readers start here: www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/media/...
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not only was Prescott’s former employer Hanover Communications a Tory outfit, it also represented Sky News for many years….
Michael Prescott and Sir Robbie Gibb both bailed out of journalism years ago, and enjoy lucrative careers in corporate PR. And now they are the arbiters of BBC editorial standards. Go figure www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/media/...
The BBC has bigger impartiality problems than its coverage of Trump
It is the BBC’s entire governance structure–rather than individual stories–that should cause most concern
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk
November 10, 2025 at 7:40 AM
not only was Prescott’s former employer Hanover Communications a Tory outfit, it also represented Sky News for many years….
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"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
Your mate Robbie Gibb put a stop to a story we were running."
- former BBC investigative reporter Manveen Rana, 2022
November 10, 2025 at 6:24 AM
"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
Your mate Robbie Gibb put a stop to a story we were running."
- former BBC investigative reporter Manveen Rana, 2022
So I didn’t have “US President sues the BBC” on my 2025 bingo card
but Robbie Gibb, his mates Prescott, Johnson, Farage, and the Mail/Telegraph/Times/GB News lot, almost certainly did.
Because for all its flaws, it’s still better than their basic reactionary bullshit. And they can’t stand that.
but Robbie Gibb, his mates Prescott, Johnson, Farage, and the Mail/Telegraph/Times/GB News lot, almost certainly did.
Because for all its flaws, it’s still better than their basic reactionary bullshit. And they can’t stand that.
November 10, 2025 at 5:52 PM
So I didn’t have “US President sues the BBC” on my 2025 bingo card
but Robbie Gibb, his mates Prescott, Johnson, Farage, and the Mail/Telegraph/Times/GB News lot, almost certainly did.
Because for all its flaws, it’s still better than their basic reactionary bullshit. And they can’t stand that.
but Robbie Gibb, his mates Prescott, Johnson, Farage, and the Mail/Telegraph/Times/GB News lot, almost certainly did.
Because for all its flaws, it’s still better than their basic reactionary bullshit. And they can’t stand that.
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Absolutely right. I criticise BBC News, because we need it to be as good as we know it can be. People like Farage criticise the BBC, because they work for its competitors and don't want it to exist.
🎯 Davey is spot on. "We can have criticism of the BBC, but within that, we need to recognise how valuable an institution it is [and how] precious to our country. And that's one of the reasons why people like President Trump and Nigel Farage, want to undermine the BBC." 👏🏽~AA
November 10, 2025 at 2:42 PM
Absolutely right. I criticise BBC News, because we need it to be as good as we know it can be. People like Farage criticise the BBC, because they work for its competitors and don't want it to exist.
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Once every 20 years or so, the director-general of the BBC is forced to resign for being insufficiently rightwing. Alastair Milne in 1987. Greg Dyke in 2004. Tim Davie in 2025. The great irony is that the BBC was in all cases profoundly biased towards established power. But just not biased enough …
November 10, 2025 at 5:44 AM
Once every 20 years or so, the director-general of the BBC is forced to resign for being insufficiently rightwing. Alastair Milne in 1987. Greg Dyke in 2004. Tim Davie in 2025. The great irony is that the BBC was in all cases profoundly biased towards established power. But just not biased enough …
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You can be assured that tendentious memo by Michael Prescott, and the co-ordinated combination of the Telegraph, Mail, Boris Johnson, Nigel Farage and the White House means that the BBC hit job has been long in the planning, and has some insider help
November 10, 2025 at 11:10 AM
You can be assured that tendentious memo by Michael Prescott, and the co-ordinated combination of the Telegraph, Mail, Boris Johnson, Nigel Farage and the White House means that the BBC hit job has been long in the planning, and has some insider help
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Prescott also thinks there should be more push alerts about migrants! Nobody should be taking this list of far-right grievances seriously. It's just one guy's opinion
Institutional capture of the BBC: Michael Prescott former political editor of the Murdoch Sunday Times - so you can guess his politics - alleges the following. All the current far right obsessions in bullet points. Laughable and totally rancid
November 10, 2025 at 1:24 PM
Prescott also thinks there should be more push alerts about migrants! Nobody should be taking this list of far-right grievances seriously. It's just one guy's opinion
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The other fact that people are ignoring is that Prescott is not some random chap plucked out of obscurity to do an 'independent' report. He's part of the campaign from the start.
The fact that the BBC has made serious culpable errors does not negate the point that there is a real and concerted right-wing media campaign to destroy it. Both points can be true at the same time and the campaign would not end even if the errors did.
November 10, 2025 at 1:36 PM
The other fact that people are ignoring is that Prescott is not some random chap plucked out of obscurity to do an 'independent' report. He's part of the campaign from the start.
not a good look
Michael Prescott's report makes vital points about the importance of being accurate, and also how difficult that is. For instance, he describes himself as having been Political Editor of the Sunday Times for 10 years, which is not what the Guardian reported when he left the job.
November 10, 2025 at 4:12 PM
not a good look
PR for oligarchs to BBC bashing, nice work if you can get it
Not the same Michael Prescott who was a spokesman for a friend of Putin, I presume. www.theguardian.com/world/2009/j...
November 10, 2025 at 4:10 PM
PR for oligarchs to BBC bashing, nice work if you can get it
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This is extraordinary.
Tell me you don’t understand risk pools without telling me you don’t understand risk pools
November 10, 2025 at 4:03 PM
This is extraordinary.
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There’s no daylight between what Candace says here about “the Jews” & what Nazi propagandists & Father Coughlin said about the Jews in the 1930s. Her show is one of the top 5 “conservative” podcasts in the US. She has 5.5 million subscribers on YouTube and 7.3 million followers on X.
November 8, 2025 at 8:37 PM
There’s no daylight between what Candace says here about “the Jews” & what Nazi propagandists & Father Coughlin said about the Jews in the 1930s. Her show is one of the top 5 “conservative” podcasts in the US. She has 5.5 million subscribers on YouTube and 7.3 million followers on X.
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If you liked that chart you may like this cartoon
November 8, 2025 at 9:37 PM
If you liked that chart you may like this cartoon
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‘Al could end scarcity, end humanity - or boost trend growth by 0.2
percentage points’
Well that’s the best chart of the year in this @johnthornhill.bsky.social column and basically sums up where we are
on.ft.com/4qMMkJd
percentage points’
Well that’s the best chart of the year in this @johnthornhill.bsky.social column and basically sums up where we are
on.ft.com/4qMMkJd
November 7, 2025 at 9:08 PM
‘Al could end scarcity, end humanity - or boost trend growth by 0.2
percentage points’
Well that’s the best chart of the year in this @johnthornhill.bsky.social column and basically sums up where we are
on.ft.com/4qMMkJd
percentage points’
Well that’s the best chart of the year in this @johnthornhill.bsky.social column and basically sums up where we are
on.ft.com/4qMMkJd
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I'm so fed up with this hostile environment
60 London Underground staff some who have worked on tube for years could face deportation under tightened visa rules bit.ly/3XpfRuZ
Dozens of TfL staff to lose right to remain in visa rule change
‘Rail travel assistants’ were removed from a list of ‘shortage occupation’ exceptions in July, but the London mayor’s office condemns the move
bit.ly
November 8, 2025 at 9:42 PM
I'm so fed up with this hostile environment
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🎉 I’ll be appearing live on #TheLastLeg tomorrow night. 10pm on Channel 4.
🎤 Reply below or text The Last Leg on 07956 175 908 with any questions you’d like me to answer on the show!
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November 6, 2025 at 1:14 PM
🎉 I’ll be appearing live on #TheLastLeg tomorrow night. 10pm on Channel 4.
🎤 Reply below or text The Last Leg on 07956 175 908 with any questions you’d like me to answer on the show!
🎤 Reply below or text The Last Leg on 07956 175 908 with any questions you’d like me to answer on the show!
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Zohran Mamdani focused on childcare costs to win the race for New York Mayor, and the UK needs to have the same conversation about how no-cost childcare could help more than just parents.
Me for @glamouruk.bsky.social:
www.glamourmagazine.co.uk/article/zohr...
Me for @glamouruk.bsky.social:
www.glamourmagazine.co.uk/article/zohr...
Zohran Mamdani's victory is a win for mothers. Is the UK ready to follow?
Childcare is an election-winning issue, writes Green Party MP Siân Berry for Glamour.
www.glamourmagazine.co.uk
November 5, 2025 at 10:25 PM
Zohran Mamdani focused on childcare costs to win the race for New York Mayor, and the UK needs to have the same conversation about how no-cost childcare could help more than just parents.
Me for @glamouruk.bsky.social:
www.glamourmagazine.co.uk/article/zohr...
Me for @glamouruk.bsky.social:
www.glamourmagazine.co.uk/article/zohr...
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Is this same Labour Government expanding airports,
refuses to rule out extracting more fossil fuels from the Rosebank Oil Field
Intent on destroying bats, newts and doesn't care about nature?
Not sure going to Brazil alone is going to do much good.
Join.greenparty.org.uk
refuses to rule out extracting more fossil fuels from the Rosebank Oil Field
Intent on destroying bats, newts and doesn't care about nature?
Not sure going to Brazil alone is going to do much good.
Join.greenparty.org.uk
November 3, 2025 at 8:57 PM
Is this same Labour Government expanding airports,
refuses to rule out extracting more fossil fuels from the Rosebank Oil Field
Intent on destroying bats, newts and doesn't care about nature?
Not sure going to Brazil alone is going to do much good.
Join.greenparty.org.uk
refuses to rule out extracting more fossil fuels from the Rosebank Oil Field
Intent on destroying bats, newts and doesn't care about nature?
Not sure going to Brazil alone is going to do much good.
Join.greenparty.org.uk
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A new day, and a new poll showing Greens on their joint record polling (YouGov have Greens on 16% - same as Tories and one point ahead of Lib Dem’s).
November 4, 2025 at 8:18 AM
A new day, and a new poll showing Greens on their joint record polling (YouGov have Greens on 16% - same as Tories and one point ahead of Lib Dem’s).