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To be clear, lest anyone is in any doubt: this purported $1 billion lawsuit against Auntie does not stand a snowball's chance of success. And should be treated as entirely frivolous action, in the unlikely case it's ever laid down in court...in Florida!
November 11, 2025 at 8:10 PM
To be clear, lest anyone is in any doubt: this purported $1 billion lawsuit against Auntie does not stand a snowball's chance of success. And should be treated as entirely frivolous action, in the unlikely case it's ever laid down in court...in Florida!
bylinetimes.com/2025/11/11/b...
According to Byline Times
Michael Prescott is a lobbyist working for Hanover Communications - which has been paid at least half a million dollars by four American media and technology corporations whose founders and executives are closely tied to Donald Trump. #bbcpm
According to Byline Times
Michael Prescott is a lobbyist working for Hanover Communications - which has been paid at least half a million dollars by four American media and technology corporations whose founders and executives are closely tied to Donald Trump. #bbcpm
'BBC Bias' Memo Was Authored by Lobbyist Tied to Pro-Trump Tech Giants
The leaked memo that fuelled Trump’s attack on the BBC was written by a lobbyist at a firm paid by US tech giants tied to the President
bylinetimes.com
November 11, 2025 at 4:39 PM
bylinetimes.com/2025/11/11/b...
According to Byline Times
Michael Prescott is a lobbyist working for Hanover Communications - which has been paid at least half a million dollars by four American media and technology corporations whose founders and executives are closely tied to Donald Trump. #bbcpm
According to Byline Times
Michael Prescott is a lobbyist working for Hanover Communications - which has been paid at least half a million dollars by four American media and technology corporations whose founders and executives are closely tied to Donald Trump. #bbcpm
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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 7:08 AM
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...
What I don’t understand about Trump’s threat to sue the BBC. What court will hear the case? Florida? What jurisdiction would they have and if they had any. how would they enforce it?
#r4today
#r4today
November 11, 2025 at 8:47 AM
What I don’t understand about Trump’s threat to sue the BBC. What court will hear the case? Florida? What jurisdiction would they have and if they had any. how would they enforce it?
#r4today
#r4today
An essential precondition for authoritarianism is the neutering of sources of real news.
November 10, 2025 at 8:55 AM
Who remembers the video published by Govey’s daughter of him lying asleep on a sofa whilst she made vomit inducing gestures (relating to him) 🤮
It’s bad enough half the country hating you, but when your own daughter suggests she does - maybe it’s time to take a good look at yourself …
#r4today
It’s bad enough half the country hating you, but when your own daughter suggests she does - maybe it’s time to take a good look at yourself …
#r4today
November 7, 2025 at 8:38 AM
Who remembers the video published by Govey’s daughter of him lying asleep on a sofa whilst she made vomit inducing gestures (relating to him) 🤮
It’s bad enough half the country hating you, but when your own daughter suggests she does - maybe it’s time to take a good look at yourself …
#r4today
It’s bad enough half the country hating you, but when your own daughter suggests she does - maybe it’s time to take a good look at yourself …
#r4today
Musk’s $Tn remuneration package is dependent milestones being hit which will likely require changes in state & federal laws/regulations. Musk is not a betting man, he hacks systems : e.g. Starbase and how he’s hacked local government to acquiescence. This is more tech bro state capture
#r4today
#r4today
November 7, 2025 at 8:23 AM
Musk’s $Tn remuneration package is dependent milestones being hit which will likely require changes in state & federal laws/regulations. Musk is not a betting man, he hacks systems : e.g. Starbase and how he’s hacked local government to acquiescence. This is more tech bro state capture
#r4today
#r4today
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Get your colleagues and friends off it, folks.
must-read analysis of how Musk's twitter is drenching new users with right-wing propaganda
news.sky.com/story/the-x-...
news.sky.com/story/the-x-...
Elon Musk is boosting the British right - and this shows how
Elon Musk is boosting the British right - and this shows how
news.sky.com
November 6, 2025 at 11:22 AM
Get your colleagues and friends off it, folks.
Cogent hypothesis
#r4today
#r4today
1. In the wake on Mamdani’s win, we’ll see a lot more far right anti-urban sentiment. Here’s a thread on its roots and evolution.
The idea that the city is evil and corrupt, and the countryside innocent and pure, goes back a long way: to Theocritus in Alexandria, and to the Old Testament. 🧵
The idea that the city is evil and corrupt, and the countryside innocent and pure, goes back a long way: to Theocritus in Alexandria, and to the Old Testament. 🧵
November 5, 2025 at 8:54 AM
Cogent hypothesis
#r4today
#r4today
Tonight's Panorama programme showed how the billionaire oligarchs got Trump elected.
But he's just been the 'useful idiot' to help smash the US infrastructure ahead of the real danger:
Vance - a longtime pal groomed for power by Thiel and Musk
#bbcpanorama #Thiel
www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...
But he's just been the 'useful idiot' to help smash the US infrastructure ahead of the real danger:
Vance - a longtime pal groomed for power by Thiel and Musk
#bbcpanorama #Thiel
www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...
Panorama - Trump and the Tech Titans
Silicon Valley’s original disruptors didn’t just change technology - they rewired politics. Panorama investigates the 'PayPal Mafia' and their influence on Donald Trump’s rise to the White House.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 4, 2025 at 5:25 AM
November 3, 2025 at 8:56 AM
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Two things - imo.
1. This is just damage limitation - “The Firm” always come first.
2. The problem hasn’t gone away - William will have this festering around his watch for the next 30 years and Andrew will be beholden to fraternal charity ad infinitum
#r4today
Two things - imo.
1. This is just damage limitation - “The Firm” always come first.
2. The problem hasn’t gone away - William will have this festering around his watch for the next 30 years and Andrew will be beholden to fraternal charity ad infinitum
#r4today
Andrew in line for six-figure payout and annual stipend from king, sources say
The former prince remains under scrutiny as Buckingham Palace finalises plans for his future as a commoner
www.theguardian.com
November 1, 2025 at 8:41 AM
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Two things - imo.
1. This is just damage limitation - “The Firm” always come first.
2. The problem hasn’t gone away - William will have this festering around his watch for the next 30 years and Andrew will be beholden to fraternal charity ad infinitum
#r4today
Two things - imo.
1. This is just damage limitation - “The Firm” always come first.
2. The problem hasn’t gone away - William will have this festering around his watch for the next 30 years and Andrew will be beholden to fraternal charity ad infinitum
#r4today
Remember the Mark Mardell story earlier this week? The one where he was left feeling "humiliated" after he was told he could not board a flight because of Parkinson’s and I posted about it.
Am I being trolled by a bot?
#r4today
Am I being trolled by a bot?
#r4today
November 1, 2025 at 6:52 AM
Remember the Mark Mardell story earlier this week? The one where he was left feeling "humiliated" after he was told he could not board a flight because of Parkinson’s and I posted about it.
Am I being trolled by a bot?
#r4today
Am I being trolled by a bot?
#r4today
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A Great Gatsby party as SNAP expires. 👌
“They were careless people, Tom and Daisy – they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness, or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made.” #r4today
“They were careless people, Tom and Daisy – they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness, or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made.” #r4today
November 1, 2025 at 6:26 AM
A Great Gatsby party as SNAP expires. 👌
“They were careless people, Tom and Daisy – they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness, or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made.” #r4today
“They were careless people, Tom and Daisy – they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness, or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made.” #r4today
So the 78% of the 30% who’ll vote Reform think there are too many brown people in adverts. So, quick back of Farridge’s fag packet calculation suggests around 24% of the electorate think that.
Not altogether electorally overwhelming is it? Reform are preaching to the choir.
#wato
Not altogether electorally overwhelming is it? Reform are preaching to the choir.
#wato
78% of Reform voters say adverts "have gone too far" when it comes to making sure different social groups are represented
They are also the most likely to say they feel underrepresented across all five attributes we asked about: race, age, class, sexuality and gender
yougov.co.uk/politics/art...
They are also the most likely to say they feel underrepresented across all five attributes we asked about: race, age, class, sexuality and gender
yougov.co.uk/politics/art...
October 31, 2025 at 1:16 PM
So the 78% of the 30% who’ll vote Reform think there are too many brown people in adverts. So, quick back of Farridge’s fag packet calculation suggests around 24% of the electorate think that.
Not altogether electorally overwhelming is it? Reform are preaching to the choir.
#wato
Not altogether electorally overwhelming is it? Reform are preaching to the choir.
#wato
Did anyone else notice earlier in the week, shortly after the Government announced the Turkish aircraft deal, #r4today slipped in a story just before 08:00 about Parkinson’s diagnosed former BBC presenter Mark Martel and his harsh treatment by Turkish airlines - Robbie Gibb? maybe coincidence ?
October 30, 2025 at 9:05 AM
Did anyone else notice earlier in the week, shortly after the Government announced the Turkish aircraft deal, #r4today slipped in a story just before 08:00 about Parkinson’s diagnosed former BBC presenter Mark Martel and his harsh treatment by Turkish airlines - Robbie Gibb? maybe coincidence ?
I wonder why it seems it’s only female politicians of a centre left persuasion who seem to have issues around property and that these issue make news headlines ?
Surely there must be few men of a certain political persuasion who have had a few issues with property too…
No?
#r4today
Surely there must be few men of a certain political persuasion who have had a few issues with property too…
No?
#r4today
October 30, 2025 at 8:11 AM
I wonder why it seems it’s only female politicians of a centre left persuasion who seem to have issues around property and that these issue make news headlines ?
Surely there must be few men of a certain political persuasion who have had a few issues with property too…
No?
#r4today
Surely there must be few men of a certain political persuasion who have had a few issues with property too…
No?
#r4today
Dr Editor
The NHS
Ask Blue Robbie or Trumpy Webb to read out the thread of a record summer
Thanks to @sebastionsalek.com
#r4today
The NHS
Ask Blue Robbie or Trumpy Webb to read out the thread of a record summer
Thanks to @sebastionsalek.com
#r4today
The NHS just had a record summer.
That’s despite resident doctors striking in July. But no one is talking about it!
4 impressive stats:
That’s despite resident doctors striking in July. But no one is talking about it!
4 impressive stats:
October 28, 2025 at 5:39 AM
Dr Editor
The NHS
Ask Blue Robbie or Trumpy Webb to read out the thread of a record summer
Thanks to @sebastionsalek.com
#r4today
The NHS
Ask Blue Robbie or Trumpy Webb to read out the thread of a record summer
Thanks to @sebastionsalek.com
#r4today
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Farage: epic grifter
October 27, 2025 at 12:45 PM
Farage: epic grifter
#countryfile currently describing the plight of the inheritance tax changes for farmers. Which currently is approximately half the rate of the inheritance tax required to be paid for non farmers for a similar asset value to be handed down.
There may be good reasons why this tax break makes sense.
There may be good reasons why this tax break makes sense.
October 26, 2025 at 6:00 PM
#countryfile currently describing the plight of the inheritance tax changes for farmers. Which currently is approximately half the rate of the inheritance tax required to be paid for non farmers for a similar asset value to be handed down.
There may be good reasons why this tax break makes sense.
There may be good reasons why this tax break makes sense.
When was the last time the Lib Dem’s got a serious shout out on your prog?
How many seats in the HoC have they got?
How many seats do Reform have?
How many times have Reform featured versus LibDems since July 2024?
#bbclaurak
How many seats in the HoC have they got?
How many seats do Reform have?
How many times have Reform featured versus LibDems since July 2024?
#bbclaurak
October 26, 2025 at 12:48 PM
When was the last time the Lib Dem’s got a serious shout out on your prog?
How many seats in the HoC have they got?
How many seats do Reform have?
How many times have Reform featured versus LibDems since July 2024?
#bbclaurak
How many seats in the HoC have they got?
How many seats do Reform have?
How many times have Reform featured versus LibDems since July 2024?
#bbclaurak