Chalkwitch Tiff
@chalkwitch.bsky.social
Cake baker, book lover, pro democracy,
mum and advocate to 2x amazing ASC ADHDers and no, vaccines didn't cause it.
Love art, nature, pumpkins, fungi and the coast
mum and advocate to 2x amazing ASC ADHDers and no, vaccines didn't cause it.
Love art, nature, pumpkins, fungi and the coast
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Join me next summer for a tour of Edward I's magnificent castles in north Wales. www.traveleditions.co.uk/tour/great-c...
November 9, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Join me next summer for a tour of Edward I's magnificent castles in north Wales. www.traveleditions.co.uk/tour/great-c...
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Have written for the New Statesman about why, if he will not accept an apology, the BBC should welcome a Trump lawsuit. They should show guts and fight it because impartially matters and if they don't, they will have tacitly accepted a rewritten history.
www.newstatesman.com/politics/med...
www.newstatesman.com/politics/med...
Trump's attack can rescue the BBC
The BBC should use the threat of legal action to strike a blow for press freedom
www.newstatesman.com
November 13, 2025 at 2:26 PM
Have written for the New Statesman about why, if he will not accept an apology, the BBC should welcome a Trump lawsuit. They should show guts and fight it because impartially matters and if they don't, they will have tacitly accepted a rewritten history.
www.newstatesman.com/politics/med...
www.newstatesman.com/politics/med...
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November 13, 2025 at 12:45 PM
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Claes Bang Q&A by @guylodge.bsky.social
The Danish star of The Square and Dracula on his recent work, his favourite decade and the unexpected joy of gardening
www.thenerve.news/p/claes-bang...
The Danish star of The Square and Dracula on his recent work, his favourite decade and the unexpected joy of gardening
www.thenerve.news/p/claes-bang...
November 13, 2025 at 12:31 PM
Claes Bang Q&A by @guylodge.bsky.social
The Danish star of The Square and Dracula on his recent work, his favourite decade and the unexpected joy of gardening
www.thenerve.news/p/claes-bang...
The Danish star of The Square and Dracula on his recent work, his favourite decade and the unexpected joy of gardening
www.thenerve.news/p/claes-bang...
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Beech Grove (Stanwix - not the one in Houghton) to close for 3 days just north of Larch Drive. Temporary road closure expected to commence 24th November 2025.
The relevant legal notice can be viewed at:
api-gb.one.network/downloads/tm...
The relevant legal notice can be viewed at:
api-gb.one.network/downloads/tm...
November 13, 2025 at 12:00 PM
Beech Grove (Stanwix - not the one in Houghton) to close for 3 days just north of Larch Drive. Temporary road closure expected to commence 24th November 2025.
The relevant legal notice can be viewed at:
api-gb.one.network/downloads/tm...
The relevant legal notice can be viewed at:
api-gb.one.network/downloads/tm...
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November 13, 2025 at 12:02 PM
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EXCLUSIVE 🚨 A report alleging Panorama broadcast misleading Trump quotes contains misleading quotes itself
✏️ @jamesrball.com
✏️ @jamesrball.com
Exclusive: the error at the heart of Trump’s BBC attack
A report alleging Panorama broadcast misleading Trump quotes contains misleading quotes itself
www.thenewworld.co.uk
November 13, 2025 at 11:41 AM
EXCLUSIVE 🚨 A report alleging Panorama broadcast misleading Trump quotes contains misleading quotes itself
✏️ @jamesrball.com
✏️ @jamesrball.com
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I find the endless, often pointless drama that has typified UK politics coverage for a decade as draining & unedifying as anyone. But, *as of now* & by every relevant measure, Starmer’s position is perilously close to untenable. Of course people are planning for a future where he’s no longer leader.
November 12, 2025 at 7:58 AM
I find the endless, often pointless drama that has typified UK politics coverage for a decade as draining & unedifying as anyone. But, *as of now* & by every relevant measure, Starmer’s position is perilously close to untenable. Of course people are planning for a future where he’s no longer leader.
She could always busk to get the money 🤣
Pay back your travel expenses Jenkyns!
Reform UK’s Andrea Jenkyns is claiming travel expenses for her job as Mayor of Lincolnshire, why? Because she lives in Yorkshire (despite saying she lives in Lincolnshire on her nomination forms).
Reform UK’s Andrea Jenkyns is claiming travel expenses for her job as Mayor of Lincolnshire, why? Because she lives in Yorkshire (despite saying she lives in Lincolnshire on her nomination forms).
November 12, 2025 at 3:15 PM
She could always busk to get the money 🤣
Gambling tears families apart.
Nigel Farage is defending the gambling industry now.
£16bn it made in profit in 2024.
Most of it taken from less than 2 million people.
It shouldn't be taxed he says, because they bring such joy and bring people together.
£16bn it made in profit in 2024.
Most of it taken from less than 2 million people.
It shouldn't be taxed he says, because they bring such joy and bring people together.
November 12, 2025 at 3:12 PM
Gambling tears families apart.
It remains outstanding.
The finale of the great TV comedy show Blackadder goes Forth.
Back then I didn't expect one of the funniest programmes ever to end with a scene that makes me cry every time I see it.
Every single time.
Back then I didn't expect one of the funniest programmes ever to end with a scene that makes me cry every time I see it.
Every single time.
November 12, 2025 at 2:59 PM
It remains outstanding.
On the nose by Ian Dunt. It's also why Reform & the Right Wingers try every year to plant Reform Trust on the National Trust board. So they can attack from within & claim woke lefty bias.
Another bang-on-the-money polemic on the BBC situation from @iandunt.bsky.social , to go with the ones I already posted from @bearlypolitics.co.uk and @lewisgoodall.com .
iandunt.substack.com/p/extra-edit...
iandunt.substack.com/p/extra-edit...
Extra edition: The populist assault on the BBC
Johnson, Gibb and the Telegraph are trying to turn the BBC into GB News.
iandunt.substack.com
November 12, 2025 at 2:54 PM
On the nose by Ian Dunt. It's also why Reform & the Right Wingers try every year to plant Reform Trust on the National Trust board. So they can attack from within & claim woke lefty bias.
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The more I think about, the more I realise that the attack on the BBC really is terribly thinly veiled - and listening to @newsagents.bsky.social’s episode today, you can see just how dangerous things are right now.
A very good episode from the people who know the BBC best.
A very good episode from the people who know the BBC best.
Inside the BBC: What really went on
Podcast Episode · The News Agents · 10/11/2025 · 35m
podcasts.apple.com
November 10, 2025 at 8:23 PM
The more I think about, the more I realise that the attack on the BBC really is terribly thinly veiled - and listening to @newsagents.bsky.social’s episode today, you can see just how dangerous things are right now.
A very good episode from the people who know the BBC best.
A very good episode from the people who know the BBC best.
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Politico: "Veteran BBC presenter David Dimbleby told Channel 4 last night that it is “one of the most violent assaults on the BBC’s independence that I’ve seen in my lifetime,” while Playbook is told staff have been voicing “a lot of anger towards [right wing BBC board member] Robbie Gibb.”
November 11, 2025 at 9:35 AM
Politico: "Veteran BBC presenter David Dimbleby told Channel 4 last night that it is “one of the most violent assaults on the BBC’s independence that I’ve seen in my lifetime,” while Playbook is told staff have been voicing “a lot of anger towards [right wing BBC board member] Robbie Gibb.”
He absolutely is being bankrolled by the gambling industry isn't he?! This is absolutely insane. You don't need therapy you need gambling has got to be one of the most insane concepts ever!
You may have missed this gem yesterday. From which we learn that:
1. Betting shops are really good for the mental health of isolated people.
2. Most drug-takers are not a problem.
3. Kids put tuppence in slot machines in the hope of getting rich.
4. Farage probably has a gambling industry donor.
1. Betting shops are really good for the mental health of isolated people.
2. Most drug-takers are not a problem.
3. Kids put tuppence in slot machines in the hope of getting rich.
4. Farage probably has a gambling industry donor.
November 11, 2025 at 1:21 PM
He absolutely is being bankrolled by the gambling industry isn't he?! This is absolutely insane. You don't need therapy you need gambling has got to be one of the most insane concepts ever!
We really are utterly pants at holding people to account. I've seen wet cardboard be more robust.
As the Yorkshire Post enquires, what is the point of Ofwat?
When Yorkshire Water get away with paying greedy Nicola Shaw from a parent company, pretending this isn’t a replacement for the bonus she shouldn't get because of their appalling pollution record? 🤮
www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/news/environ...
When Yorkshire Water get away with paying greedy Nicola Shaw from a parent company, pretending this isn’t a replacement for the bonus she shouldn't get because of their appalling pollution record? 🤮
www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/news/environ...
Ofwat says off-shore payments to Yorkshire Water boss do not flout bonus ban
Campaigners have slammed Ofwat after the water regulator found that the undisclosed off-shore payment of £660,000 to Yorkshire Water boss Nicola Shaw did not flout the Government’s bonus ban rule.
www.yorkshirepost.co.uk
November 11, 2025 at 1:19 PM
We really are utterly pants at holding people to account. I've seen wet cardboard be more robust.
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Nowhere in the hysterical pile-on against the BBC in the British press has anyone mentioned that BBC News now has 77 million viewers & listeners in the US and has established itself as the second most trusted news source there.
November 11, 2025 at 8:37 AM
Nowhere in the hysterical pile-on against the BBC in the British press has anyone mentioned that BBC News now has 77 million viewers & listeners in the US and has established itself as the second most trusted news source there.
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Worth noting that the U.S. has a specific law (the SPEECH Act) that means foreign libel judgments are unenforceable in U.S. courts.
They do like a bit of hypocrisy.
They do like a bit of hypocrisy.
November 11, 2025 at 10:02 AM
Worth noting that the U.S. has a specific law (the SPEECH Act) that means foreign libel judgments are unenforceable in U.S. courts.
They do like a bit of hypocrisy.
They do like a bit of hypocrisy.
Follow the money ...
Reform UK Leicestershire are crooks.
They announced consultants Newton would do a £1.4m savings review.
That’s ballooned to £30m in 6 just days.
Leader Dan Harrison is a con man.
Leicestershire you’ve been had.
leicestermercury.co.uk/news/local-n...
#ReformLies
They announced consultants Newton would do a £1.4m savings review.
That’s ballooned to £30m in 6 just days.
Leader Dan Harrison is a con man.
Leicestershire you’ve been had.
leicestermercury.co.uk/news/local-n...
#ReformLies
Firm leading council savings review could receive £30m
The county council currently needs to plug an expected £90 million gap in its day-to-day spending
leicestermercury.co.uk
November 11, 2025 at 10:08 AM
Follow the money ...
Positive, maybe. I hope.
Good morning to all those people who wasted the last decade saying, "there's no point tackling climate change in the UK, because China."
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
China’s CO2 emissions have been flat or falling for past 18 months, analysis finds
World’s biggest polluter on track to hit peak emissions target early but miss goal for cutting carbon intensity
www.theguardian.com
November 11, 2025 at 10:07 AM
Positive, maybe. I hope.
And there we have it admitted. GB news isn't impartial. Most of it isn't even news, it's just Orwellian Hate and disinformation. Farage just wants us to be the 51st state with suppression of all minorities. Not sure how that sits with his other chum in Russia.
Why can't the BBC just be more impartial towards President Trump, like GB News, says Nigel Farage.
GB News:
GB News:
November 11, 2025 at 10:06 AM
And there we have it admitted. GB news isn't impartial. Most of it isn't even news, it's just Orwellian Hate and disinformation. Farage just wants us to be the 51st state with suppression of all minorities. Not sure how that sits with his other chum in Russia.
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Tax Landlords more than anyone else.
Make it unprofitable to be a Landlord like it was in the 1940's-70's when they paid 90% tax.
Make it unprofitable to be a Landlord like it was in the 1940's-70's when they paid 90% tax.
November 10, 2025 at 12:20 PM
Tax Landlords more than anyone else.
Make it unprofitable to be a Landlord like it was in the 1940's-70's when they paid 90% tax.
Make it unprofitable to be a Landlord like it was in the 1940's-70's when they paid 90% tax.
Exactly
What you’re witnessing is a populist assault on the BBC.
This is not an institutional scandal in any meaningful sense of the word. It is an attack on public service broadcasting.
iandunt.substack.com/p/extra-edit...
This is not an institutional scandal in any meaningful sense of the word. It is an attack on public service broadcasting.
iandunt.substack.com/p/extra-edit...
November 10, 2025 at 5:09 PM
Exactly
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As prep for this article, I listened to the BBC Origin Story from @originstorypodcast.bsky.social by @iandunt.bsky.social and @dorianlynskey.bsky.social - a highly important listen and one that I can strongly recommend.
The BBC – Part one – Inform, educate, entertain
Podcast Episode · Origin Story · 04/12/2024 · 1h 12m
podcasts.apple.com
November 10, 2025 at 10:50 AM
As prep for this article, I listened to the BBC Origin Story from @originstorypodcast.bsky.social by @iandunt.bsky.social and @dorianlynskey.bsky.social - a highly important listen and one that I can strongly recommend.
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A good day to listen to our proud, joyous history of the BBC: One of the greatest British inventions of the 20th Century. An institution which, even at its worst, is far better than its detractors podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...
podcasts.apple.com
November 10, 2025 at 11:02 AM
A good day to listen to our proud, joyous history of the BBC: One of the greatest British inventions of the 20th Century. An institution which, even at its worst, is far better than its detractors podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...