Chris Gooch
@chrisdg.bsky.social
brewer, cyclist, still a trainee dad. Old enough to get free soup and unlimited tea in Asda cafes
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People fleeing war and persecution are ready and able to contribute to our society.
The problem is... they're not allowed.
Rather than shipping them off to army barracks all over the country, it's time to let asylum seekers work.
The problem is... they're not allowed.
Rather than shipping them off to army barracks all over the country, it's time to let asylum seekers work.
November 11, 2025 at 1:02 PM
People fleeing war and persecution are ready and able to contribute to our society.
The problem is... they're not allowed.
Rather than shipping them off to army barracks all over the country, it's time to let asylum seekers work.
The problem is... they're not allowed.
Rather than shipping them off to army barracks all over the country, it's time to let asylum seekers work.
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Robbie Gibb was appointed to the BBC Board by Boris Johnson, was an editorial advisor for GB News, and worked as Theresa May's Director of Comms.
He is not impartial or neutral. The government should remove him from the Board immediately to protect the BBC's independence.
He is not impartial or neutral. The government should remove him from the Board immediately to protect the BBC's independence.
November 11, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Robbie Gibb was appointed to the BBC Board by Boris Johnson, was an editorial advisor for GB News, and worked as Theresa May's Director of Comms.
He is not impartial or neutral. The government should remove him from the Board immediately to protect the BBC's independence.
He is not impartial or neutral. The government should remove him from the Board immediately to protect the BBC's independence.
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BREAKING: High Court finds no evidence that asylum seekers in Epping hotel are a strain on local GPs or social services.
Regardless of this decision, hotels & military sites are wholly unsuitable for housing people seeking asylum who are fleeing persecution.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Regardless of this decision, hotels & military sites are wholly unsuitable for housing people seeking asylum who are fleeing persecution.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
High Court rules asylum seekers can stay at Epping hotel
A council has lost its legal battle with the government in a landmark High Court ruling.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 11, 2025 at 2:57 PM
BREAKING: High Court finds no evidence that asylum seekers in Epping hotel are a strain on local GPs or social services.
Regardless of this decision, hotels & military sites are wholly unsuitable for housing people seeking asylum who are fleeing persecution.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Regardless of this decision, hotels & military sites are wholly unsuitable for housing people seeking asylum who are fleeing persecution.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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If we're talking about bias, why do BBC politics programmes, from Politics Live to the Laura Kuennsberg Show, still always begin with a look at the newspaper front pages, which are overwhelmingly biased in one direction. Helps frame the entire news agenda and debate in their favour
November 11, 2025 at 1:09 PM
If we're talking about bias, why do BBC politics programmes, from Politics Live to the Laura Kuennsberg Show, still always begin with a look at the newspaper front pages, which are overwhelmingly biased in one direction. Helps frame the entire news agenda and debate in their favour
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📈Today, 11 November 2025, 79 out of the 516 Crown courtrooms in England & Wales will not be sitting.
That's 15% of them.
#courtstats #CS11112025 courtstats.co.uk
That's 15% of them.
#courtstats #CS11112025 courtstats.co.uk
November 11, 2025 at 8:00 AM
📈Today, 11 November 2025, 79 out of the 516 Crown courtrooms in England & Wales will not be sitting.
That's 15% of them.
#courtstats #CS11112025 courtstats.co.uk
That's 15% of them.
#courtstats #CS11112025 courtstats.co.uk
Housing shortages are incredibly expensive. Building social housing is cheaper
November 11, 2025 at 8:26 AM
Housing shortages are incredibly expensive. Building social housing is cheaper
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Oh look. There really are "no go areas" in England.
And they're marked by St George's flags
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
And they're marked by St George's flags
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
NHS staff who visit patients at home say St George’s flags can mean ‘no-go zones’
Black and Asian staff left feeling ‘deliberately intimidated’, according to chief executive of one NHS trust
www.theguardian.com
November 11, 2025 at 8:00 AM
Oh look. There really are "no go areas" in England.
And they're marked by St George's flags
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
And they're marked by St George's flags
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
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Modern morality. She stole £5bn from pensioners. Product of a culture that values nothing except money. Either we control oligarchs or they will completely dominate every aspect of our lives & leave us morally & financially bankrupt facing mounting climate chaos
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Cryptoqueen who fled China for London mansion to be sentenced over £5bn Bitcoin stash
Qian Zhimin bought cryptocurrency using funds stolen from thousands of Chinese pensioners, say police.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 11, 2025 at 8:03 AM
Modern morality. She stole £5bn from pensioners. Product of a culture that values nothing except money. Either we control oligarchs or they will completely dominate every aspect of our lives & leave us morally & financially bankrupt facing mounting climate chaos
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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After years of craven silence, the British Medical Journal at last speaks out against Israeli state torture, & calls for the Israeli Medical Association to be shunned & kicked out of the WMA. "There is no place for the misuse of medicine as an adjunct to state repression and violence."...
November 11, 2025 at 7:56 AM
After years of craven silence, the British Medical Journal at last speaks out against Israeli state torture, & calls for the Israeli Medical Association to be shunned & kicked out of the WMA. "There is no place for the misuse of medicine as an adjunct to state repression and violence."...
That’s what I have always suspected life on Sark is like
There is only Denis, Miss Parrott and me. We all get along very well. Miss Tomb is away, has been since January. I've been planting cabbages this past week.
November 11, 2025 at 8:16 AM
That’s what I have always suspected life on Sark is like
Expect ITV to face accusations of pro-Palestinian bias next
An incredibly harrowing but worthy watch on ITV - Inside Israel’s War - just on tonight, with Nuremberg style admissions from IOF soldiers who were partaking in the genocide in the early stages. It goes into detail about Israeli propaganda, attitudes towards Palestinians, etc.
November 11, 2025 at 8:15 AM
Expect ITV to face accusations of pro-Palestinian bias next
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Simple Maths for Historians (Wes Streeting)
Resident Drs used to be paid £100
They lost 35% = £65
Even if the pay increased 28.9% of £65 = £83.78
Still down £16.22
£100k debts, reduced job prospects & working conditions
Labour isn’t good at Maths
www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk/comment/pay-...
Resident Drs used to be paid £100
They lost 35% = £65
Even if the pay increased 28.9% of £65 = £83.78
Still down £16.22
£100k debts, reduced job prospects & working conditions
Labour isn’t good at Maths
www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk/comment/pay-...
November 11, 2025 at 8:08 AM
Simple Maths for Historians (Wes Streeting)
Resident Drs used to be paid £100
They lost 35% = £65
Even if the pay increased 28.9% of £65 = £83.78
Still down £16.22
£100k debts, reduced job prospects & working conditions
Labour isn’t good at Maths
www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk/comment/pay-...
Resident Drs used to be paid £100
They lost 35% = £65
Even if the pay increased 28.9% of £65 = £83.78
Still down £16.22
£100k debts, reduced job prospects & working conditions
Labour isn’t good at Maths
www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk/comment/pay-...
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Instagram has become a marketplace for neo-Nazis. Influencers are using the platform’s massive reach to glorify Hitler, deny the Holocaust, and sell merchandise. Their content, drenched in antisemitism, misogyny, and racism, reaches millions daily. Meta knows it — but refuses to act.
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Instagram’s Antisemitism Economy
Instagram has become a marketplace for antisemitism. Influencers like Hayden McDougall, Dylan Shane, Jake Shields, and Myron Gaines are using the platform’s massive reach to glorify Hitler, deny the H...
globalextremism.org
November 11, 2025 at 12:57 AM
Instagram has become a marketplace for neo-Nazis. Influencers are using the platform’s massive reach to glorify Hitler, deny the Holocaust, and sell merchandise. Their content, drenched in antisemitism, misogyny, and racism, reaches millions daily. Meta knows it — but refuses to act.
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No surprise
Well, this is quite a serious allegation. I do hope the BBC shows true impartiality and investigate whether or not some of its Board members are systemically biased. www.theguardian.com/media/2025/n...
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 7:36 AM
No surprise
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“When I was [at the BBC], at the height of Boris Johnson’s strength, that fear was ubiquitous. Scripts were sometimes written with a view not solely to their impartiality or truth, but the management of perception of impartiality from one side of the spectrum.“ @lewisgoodall.com
The truth about impartiality at the BBC
And the hysteria of the current "crisis"
goodallandgoodluck.substack.com
November 10, 2025 at 8:21 PM
“When I was [at the BBC], at the height of Boris Johnson’s strength, that fear was ubiquitous. Scripts were sometimes written with a view not solely to their impartiality or truth, but the management of perception of impartiality from one side of the spectrum.“ @lewisgoodall.com
FFS
If you're tired of the biased BBC don't forget to tune in to GB News to watch shows hosted by Nigel Farage, Richard Tice, Lee Anderson, Matthew Goodwin or Jacob Rees-Mogg. 🤣
November 10, 2025 at 8:57 PM
FFS
Telegraph, Mail, Sun. Serial manipulators of reportage and selective quoters. Cant
The Telegraph had to correct its multiple lies about "illegal immigrants" in London at least three separate times.
It takes an obscene amount of hubris to lecture the BBC when you have The Telegraph’s record on truth-telling.
Some of the paper’s errors this year are so bad they’re almost laughable 👇🏻
Some of the paper’s errors this year are so bad they’re almost laughable 👇🏻
November 10, 2025 at 8:53 PM
Telegraph, Mail, Sun. Serial manipulators of reportage and selective quoters. Cant
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SUPERB and angrily unvarnished response, by former BBC chairman, Lord Patten.
"I don't think that we should allow ourselves to be bullied into thinking that the BBC is only any good, if it reflects the prejudice of the last person who shouted at it." ~AA
"I don't think that we should allow ourselves to be bullied into thinking that the BBC is only any good, if it reflects the prejudice of the last person who shouted at it." ~AA
November 10, 2025 at 6:40 PM
SUPERB and angrily unvarnished response, by former BBC chairman, Lord Patten.
"I don't think that we should allow ourselves to be bullied into thinking that the BBC is only any good, if it reflects the prejudice of the last person who shouted at it." ~AA
"I don't think that we should allow ourselves to be bullied into thinking that the BBC is only any good, if it reflects the prejudice of the last person who shouted at it." ~AA
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Not enough people know about Homer City. The single largest fossil fuel plant that's being built *explicitly* to power a data centre.
This isn't a future projection, or some hollow marketing. This is physical stuff happening right now.
bsky.app/profile/keta...
This isn't a future projection, or some hollow marketing. This is physical stuff happening right now.
bsky.app/profile/keta...
November 10, 2025 at 7:22 PM
FFS
The reaction to the Panorama edit has been nothing short of hysterical. Yes the BBC has some impartiality problems. But its biggest isn't the one you think.
New piece from me.
open.substack.com/pub/goodalla...
New piece from me.
open.substack.com/pub/goodalla...
The truth about impartiality at the BBC
And the hysteria of the current "crisis"
open.substack.com
November 10, 2025 at 8:03 PM
FFS
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Boy destroying a piano, Pant-Y-Waun, south Wales, 1961, photo by Philip Jones Griffiths (1936-2008).
November 10, 2025 at 7:24 PM
Boy destroying a piano, Pant-Y-Waun, south Wales, 1961, photo by Philip Jones Griffiths (1936-2008).
Hear hear
Farage is a politician who sits as a host of a TV show on GB News, the most egregious and blatant demonstration of bias it is possible to imagine. iandunt.substack.com/p/extra-edit... #wato
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 10, 2025 at 2:24 PM
Hear hear
A balanced view.
Written before the BBC resignations but this by @arusbridger.bsky.social is really worth reading. 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 12:49 PM
A balanced view.
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Why is the BBC News going live to Nigel Farage's comments on the BBC resignations when they have broadcast nothing from the LibDems, who have more than 14 times as many MPs or the SNP who have almost double? If the BBC wants to stop accusations of bias they should stop actively promoting Reform.
November 10, 2025 at 11:50 AM
Why is the BBC News going live to Nigel Farage's comments on the BBC resignations when they have broadcast nothing from the LibDems, who have more than 14 times as many MPs or the SNP who have almost double? If the BBC wants to stop accusations of bias they should stop actively promoting Reform.