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Sat in a restaurant last year listening to someone talk about how they were getting ChatGPT to do their assignments for *an English masters they were doing part-time*. I still think about it occasionally.
Dude in the row in front of mine on a flight is literally producing the entire marketing campaign of a _________ fellowship using ChatGPT. Coolio…
November 11, 2025 at 1:44 AM
Sat in a restaurant last year listening to someone talk about how they were getting ChatGPT to do their assignments for *an English masters they were doing part-time*. I still think about it occasionally.
Spot-on by @iandunt.bsky.social . And an important reminder of the context:
November 10, 2025 at 9:15 PM
Spot-on by @iandunt.bsky.social . And an important reminder of the context:
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But that is not enough. No.10 should never have been in a position to install Gibb in the first place. It shouldn't control the board membership, the DG appointment, or the purse strings. What's required is genuine independence for the BBC.
November 10, 2025 at 12:50 PM
But that is not enough. No.10 should never have been in a position to install Gibb in the first place. It shouldn't control the board membership, the DG appointment, or the purse strings. What's required is genuine independence for the BBC.
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Anybody who had a vision to bring American levels of political, cultural and social polarisation to Britain - whether their motive was clicks or cash, ideology, boredom or anything else - would make it their top strategic priority to abolish the BBC, or to damage and diminish it at the very least
Quick thread on the BBC and the political and societal significance of recent developments:
One of the main reasons the UK has historically been so much less polarised than the US, is that Britain has a shared source of information, consumed and trusted by most people regardless of their politics.
One of the main reasons the UK has historically been so much less polarised than the US, is that Britain has a shared source of information, consumed and trusted by most people regardless of their politics.
November 10, 2025 at 8:41 PM
Anybody who had a vision to bring American levels of political, cultural and social polarisation to Britain - whether their motive was clicks or cash, ideology, boredom or anything else - would make it their top strategic priority to abolish the BBC, or to damage and diminish it at the very least
Raging. How dare Donald Trump come for the BBC. If you feel similarly, here's the petition: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/sa...
Save Our BBC
I've just signed the petition calling on the government to stop their attack on our BBC. We need an independent national broadcaster we can trust. Please sign and share today.
you.38degrees.org.uk
November 10, 2025 at 7:46 PM
Raging. How dare Donald Trump come for the BBC. If you feel similarly, here's the petition: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/sa...
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Tell me you don’t understand risk pools without telling me you don’t understand risk pools
November 10, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Tell me you don’t understand risk pools without telling me you don’t understand risk pools
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If true, this would be very welcome. I had written to the IOC in June 2025 requesting that the female category in sports be protected.
www.thetimes.com/sport/olympi...
www.thetimes.com/sport/olympi...
Transgender women to be banned from all female Olympic events
IOC likely to announce new policy early in new year after findings of a scientific review about the permanent physical advantages of being born male
www.thetimes.com
November 10, 2025 at 5:50 PM
If true, this would be very welcome. I had written to the IOC in June 2025 requesting that the female category in sports be protected.
www.thetimes.com/sport/olympi...
www.thetimes.com/sport/olympi...
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They're not going to ban transgender athletes from female events; they're going to ban MALE athletes from female events.
November 10, 2025 at 1:12 PM
They're not going to ban transgender athletes from female events; they're going to ban MALE athletes from female events.
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"[The BBC] isn't perfect, and in an ever more chaotic world full of misinformation and bad actors, it's going to make mistakes from time to time. But it's been under attack for years, by people that would love to see it fail, replaced by GB News or Fox." act.38degrees.org.uk/act/bbc-dg-o...
Sign the petition: save our BBC: don't let the likes of Trump and his UK cronies meddle with our public broadcaster
🚨Our BBC is under attack 🚨 We can't let those that want to see it torn up & replaced by the likes of GBNews or Fox win. Sign the open letter now to demand the new BBC boss is someone that will protect...
act.38degrees.org.uk
November 10, 2025 at 6:16 PM
"[The BBC] isn't perfect, and in an ever more chaotic world full of misinformation and bad actors, it's going to make mistakes from time to time. But it's been under attack for years, by people that would love to see it fail, replaced by GB News or Fox." act.38degrees.org.uk/act/bbc-dg-o...
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Brilliant news. All men to be banned from women's olympic sports. The gross sexism of Aotearoa New Zealand featuring prominently in the header image.
www.thetimes.com/article/b168...
www.thetimes.com/article/b168...
Transgender women to be banned from all female Olympic events
IOC likely to announce new policy early in new year after findings of a scientific review about the permanent physical advantages of being born male
www.thetimes.com
November 10, 2025 at 6:24 PM
Brilliant news. All men to be banned from women's olympic sports. The gross sexism of Aotearoa New Zealand featuring prominently in the header image.
www.thetimes.com/article/b168...
www.thetimes.com/article/b168...
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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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Taekwondo athlete and gymnastics instructor Hanieh Shariati #Roudposhti detained over street performance without #hijab iroon.com/irtn/photo/1...
November 10, 2025 at 10:59 AM
Taekwondo athlete and gymnastics instructor Hanieh Shariati #Roudposhti detained over street performance without #hijab iroon.com/irtn/photo/1...
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The Anglo consensus of the first half of 2010s was that where continental Europeans were endemically subject to crises and demagoguery, "we" were distinctly were more enlightened. Cameron's Britain. Obama's America. Ponderous essays about Magna Carta and the "golden thread".
How wrong it all was.
How wrong it all was.
I fear we are seeing in the UK what has become abundantly clear in the US: for all their power and privilege, elites and institutions are absolute cowards in the face of right-wing authoritarianism. Weak, weak, weak, as Tony Blair once said
November 10, 2025 at 5:28 PM
The Anglo consensus of the first half of 2010s was that where continental Europeans were endemically subject to crises and demagoguery, "we" were distinctly were more enlightened. Cameron's Britain. Obama's America. Ponderous essays about Magna Carta and the "golden thread".
How wrong it all was.
How wrong it all was.
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This is rather on the nose and gets to my view that if you wanted a group of people who were very often completely wrong about everything while at the same time being absolutely convinced of their perfect rightness look no further than British politicians / pundits 2020-2015.*
* Exceptions apply
* Exceptions apply
The Anglo consensus of the first half of 2010s was that where continental Europeans were endemically subject to crises and demagoguery, "we" were distinctly were more enlightened. Cameron's Britain. Obama's America. Ponderous essays about Magna Carta and the "golden thread".
How wrong it all was.
How wrong it all was.
I fear we are seeing in the UK what has become abundantly clear in the US: for all their power and privilege, elites and institutions are absolute cowards in the face of right-wing authoritarianism. Weak, weak, weak, as Tony Blair once said
November 10, 2025 at 7:18 PM
This is rather on the nose and gets to my view that if you wanted a group of people who were very often completely wrong about everything while at the same time being absolutely convinced of their perfect rightness look no further than British politicians / pundits 2020-2015.*
* Exceptions apply
* Exceptions apply
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Crisis at the Critic Sketchcasting Corporation!
Crisis at the CSC | Robert Hutton | The Critic Magazine
From the desk of Lord Kronsteen, founder and proprietor of the Critic Sketchcasting Corporation. To all staff, It is with a heavy heart that I take pen in hand to inform you of the resignation of both…
thecritic.co.uk
November 10, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Crisis at the Critic Sketchcasting Corporation!
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Suffice to say that an EU riven with division has been unable to respond effectively to either the US or China, leaving officials to do the best they can. As for having partnerships for economic security... ha and good luck with the protectionists.
November 10, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Suffice to say that an EU riven with division has been unable to respond effectively to either the US or China, leaving officials to do the best they can. As for having partnerships for economic security... ha and good luck with the protectionists.
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Ant Middleton combines racism with ignorance about the world wars as he continues his racist campaign to lose his Mayor of London deposit (when he advocates a racist bar on the current Mayor from offiice + over two-thirds of the London electorate if their grandparents weren't born here!)
"I wouldn't expect someone like Adil Ray to understand...I'd love to have grabbed Adil Ray by the scruff of the neck & thrown him back to 1944... on the beaches of Normandy... and also for him to look to his left and his right and realise they look nothing like him."
www.youtube.com/watch?v=xkng...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=xkng...
'Grab Adil Ray By The Scruff Of The Neck' Says Former UK Special Forces Officer Ant Middleton
YouTube video by TalkTV
www.youtube.com
November 10, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Ant Middleton combines racism with ignorance about the world wars as he continues his racist campaign to lose his Mayor of London deposit (when he advocates a racist bar on the current Mayor from offiice + over two-thirds of the London electorate if their grandparents weren't born here!)
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WTAF
Plaques commemorating Black WWII soldiers fighting against Nazi Germany have been removed from a U.S. military cemetery in the Netherlands —Newsweek
November 10, 2025 at 5:36 PM
WTAF
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Here’s the same data, but with trust broken down by political views (circles are trust among people on the left, +s the right).
It’s not just that the BBC is widely consumed — it also has solid trust on both left & right, whereas trust in the biggest US media brands is hugely polarised.
It’s not just that the BBC is widely consumed — it also has solid trust on both left & right, whereas trust in the biggest US media brands is hugely polarised.
November 10, 2025 at 1:43 PM
Here’s the same data, but with trust broken down by political views (circles are trust among people on the left, +s the right).
It’s not just that the BBC is widely consumed — it also has solid trust on both left & right, whereas trust in the biggest US media brands is hugely polarised.
It’s not just that the BBC is widely consumed — it also has solid trust on both left & right, whereas trust in the biggest US media brands is hugely polarised.
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The CURRENT sitting MP for Clacton earns £511,000 as a presenter for GB News and took £281,000 as a brand ambassador for Direct Bullion.
So maybe sit this one out, you rancid herring.
So maybe sit this one out, you rancid herring.
November 10, 2025 at 5:44 PM
The CURRENT sitting MP for Clacton earns £511,000 as a presenter for GB News and took £281,000 as a brand ambassador for Direct Bullion.
So maybe sit this one out, you rancid herring.
So maybe sit this one out, you rancid herring.
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I've always felt that Johnson and Farage put self-interest over the national interest - hence their dallying with Putin and his oligarchs. But directly colluding with a foreign government to take down the BBC feels like an act of supreme treachery
November 10, 2025 at 5:50 PM
I've always felt that Johnson and Farage put self-interest over the national interest - hence their dallying with Putin and his oligarchs. But directly colluding with a foreign government to take down the BBC feels like an act of supreme treachery
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Donald Trump is not going to sue the BBC for $1 billion
The real story today is both Reform/Farage and the Conservatives/Badenoch talking today about radically changing the BBC
This is the real agenda
The real story today is both Reform/Farage and the Conservatives/Badenoch talking today about radically changing the BBC
This is the real agenda
November 10, 2025 at 6:07 PM
Donald Trump is not going to sue the BBC for $1 billion
The real story today is both Reform/Farage and the Conservatives/Badenoch talking today about radically changing the BBC
This is the real agenda
The real story today is both Reform/Farage and the Conservatives/Badenoch talking today about radically changing the BBC
This is the real agenda
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Must have missed the explosive row & resignations over the claim, wrongly made by many including here in the Telegraph last week, that this prematurely-released prisoner was an "asylum seeker"
uk.news.yahoo.com/prison-chief...
uk.news.yahoo.com/prison-chief...
Prison chiefs must face justice for such unbelievable ineptitude - Yahoo News UK
It’s happened again. A prisoner has been released by mistake. This time it’s understood to be Ibrahim Kaddour-Cherif, an Algerian asylum seeker with a record of committing sexual offences. He was rele...
uk.news.yahoo.com
November 10, 2025 at 6:20 PM
Must have missed the explosive row & resignations over the claim, wrongly made by many including here in the Telegraph last week, that this prematurely-released prisoner was an "asylum seeker"
uk.news.yahoo.com/prison-chief...
uk.news.yahoo.com/prison-chief...
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Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk: “Putin has tools that can destroy the European Union as an organization, but also Europe as a cultural phenomenon.
“These tools are Russia’s fifth columns, present in every country of Europe.”
“These tools are Russia’s fifth columns, present in every country of Europe.”
November 10, 2025 at 6:35 PM
Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk: “Putin has tools that can destroy the European Union as an organization, but also Europe as a cultural phenomenon.
“These tools are Russia’s fifth columns, present in every country of Europe.”
“These tools are Russia’s fifth columns, present in every country of Europe.”
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The BBC has long pursued a strategy of appeasing its enemies and alienating its friends.
The result is an endless series of capitulations to those political forces most determined to destroy it
www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/the-bbc-su...
The result is an endless series of capitulations to those political forces most determined to destroy it
www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/the-bbc-su...
The BBC Surrenders to Trump
The capitulation of our national broadcaster to the political forces most determined to destroy it is a worrying sign of things to come
www.adambienkov.co.uk
November 10, 2025 at 6:55 PM
The BBC has long pursued a strategy of appeasing its enemies and alienating its friends.
The result is an endless series of capitulations to those political forces most determined to destroy it
www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/the-bbc-su...
The result is an endless series of capitulations to those political forces most determined to destroy it
www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/the-bbc-su...