Daveydoodle
@daveydoodle.bsky.social
Rage against the dying of the light, politely.
Middle-aged guy in the UK, loves astronomy, landscapes, good politics & good people. Ready to help through the dark times ahead - bad guys always lose in the end
Middle-aged guy in the UK, loves astronomy, landscapes, good politics & good people. Ready to help through the dark times ahead - bad guys always lose in the end
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In the most predictable development ever, Mike Johnson is not committing to hold a House vote on ACA subsidies
November 10, 2025 at 10:19 PM
In the most predictable development ever, Mike Johnson is not committing to hold a House vote on ACA subsidies
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This Reverend destroys the Christian Nationalism propaganda coming out with his understanding of teachings from The Bible.
November 11, 2025 at 3:47 AM
This Reverend destroys the Christian Nationalism propaganda coming out with his understanding of teachings from The Bible.
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The Democrats in the Senate who handed the GOP a lifeline with the shutdown cave in stopped a massive Trump cave in that would have happened sooner rather than later. With the busiest flying season approaching, Trump desperately needed a deal. Sadly Democrats gave it to him.
November 11, 2025 at 1:05 PM
The Democrats in the Senate who handed the GOP a lifeline with the shutdown cave in stopped a massive Trump cave in that would have happened sooner rather than later. With the busiest flying season approaching, Trump desperately needed a deal. Sadly Democrats gave it to him.
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Information underpins democracy and the BBC is a key part of that.
We need to protect our institutions
open.substack.com/pub/christin...
We need to protect our institutions
open.substack.com/pub/christin...
Information underpins Democracy – why the BBC must be defended
Recent events at the BBC have wide-reaching implications for our democracy - and the sooner we realise it, the better
open.substack.com
November 11, 2025 at 7:42 AM
Information underpins democracy and the BBC is a key part of that.
We need to protect our institutions
open.substack.com/pub/christin...
We need to protect our institutions
open.substack.com/pub/christin...
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'The Panorama edit may have been a mistake. The campaign to defend it is not.'
I've followed the story with great interest & I heartily agree!!
#OV1
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
'The Panorama edit may have been a mistake. The campaign to defend it is not.'
I've followed the story with great interest & I heartily agree!!
#OV1
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
The Guardian view on the BBC under siege: Britain must defend its own truth | Editorial
Editorial: With Donald Trump circling and Labour ministers wavering, defending the corporation’s independence is now a test of national will
www.theguardian.com
November 11, 2025 at 1:13 AM
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'The Panorama edit may have been a mistake. The campaign to defend it is not.'
I've followed the story with great interest & I heartily agree!!
#OV1
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
'The Panorama edit may have been a mistake. The campaign to defend it is not.'
I've followed the story with great interest & I heartily agree!!
#OV1
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Health secretary Streeting has taken the most on donations from private health donations of any of 650 MPs.
A conflict of interest big enough to see from space
Labour is totally compromised.
OUR NHS IS NOT SAFE WITH LABOUR
After 14 years of underfunded & privatision of our NHS, we deserve better
A conflict of interest big enough to see from space
Labour is totally compromised.
OUR NHS IS NOT SAFE WITH LABOUR
After 14 years of underfunded & privatision of our NHS, we deserve better
No indeed I certainly didn’t but then again look at their list of donors !!!
How can you be Health Secretary AND recieve donation from The Private Health Sector !
Utterly compromised
How can you be Health Secretary AND recieve donation from The Private Health Sector !
Utterly compromised
November 11, 2025 at 9:53 AM
Health secretary Streeting has taken the most on donations from private health donations of any of 650 MPs.
A conflict of interest big enough to see from space
Labour is totally compromised.
OUR NHS IS NOT SAFE WITH LABOUR
After 14 years of underfunded & privatision of our NHS, we deserve better
A conflict of interest big enough to see from space
Labour is totally compromised.
OUR NHS IS NOT SAFE WITH LABOUR
After 14 years of underfunded & privatision of our NHS, we deserve better
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Leicestershire County Council has announced it is to pay consultants £30m to carry out a cost cutting review.
They said it would be £1.4m.
They lied.
They said Reform DOGE would do all this.
They lied.
You can’t trust Reform UK.
They said it would be £1.4m.
They lied.
They said Reform DOGE would do all this.
They lied.
You can’t trust Reform UK.
November 11, 2025 at 9:44 AM
Leicestershire County Council has announced it is to pay consultants £30m to carry out a cost cutting review.
They said it would be £1.4m.
They lied.
They said Reform DOGE would do all this.
They lied.
You can’t trust Reform UK.
They said it would be £1.4m.
They lied.
They said Reform DOGE would do all this.
They lied.
You can’t trust Reform UK.
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BBC board member with Tory links 'led charge' in systemic bias claims, say insiders 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 9:55 AM
BBC board member with Tory links 'led charge' in systemic bias claims, say insiders www.theguardian.com/media/2025/n...
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Farage bad mouths our country while abroad and asks foreign nations to interfere in our governance.
There's a word for that.
We are literally paying Farage to destroy our country.
#FarageTraitor
There's a word for that.
We are literally paying Farage to destroy our country.
#FarageTraitor
November 11, 2025 at 9:55 AM
Farage bad mouths our country while abroad and asks foreign nations to interfere in our governance.
There's a word for that.
We are literally paying Farage to destroy our country.
#FarageTraitor
There's a word for that.
We are literally paying Farage to destroy our country.
#FarageTraitor
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Fire Robbie Gibb and a handful of Tory cronies appointed by Johnson and the rest
That’s all it would take for the BBC to turn a corner and begin on the road to recovery.
That’s all it would take for the BBC to turn a corner and begin on the road to recovery.
Unlike the NHS, which surely needs much greater funding and assistance to maintain itself, the BBC could be 'fixed' in a matter of days or weeks. How many bad actors in high positions do you think would be needed to be fired and replaced with sensible, fair folk before the old Beeb would be back?
November 11, 2025 at 9:55 AM
Fire Robbie Gibb and a handful of Tory cronies appointed by Johnson and the rest
That’s all it would take for the BBC to turn a corner and begin on the road to recovery.
That’s all it would take for the BBC to turn a corner and begin on the road to recovery.
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There’s a good chance the British Prime Minister’s main adviser on AI is an OpenAI shareholder - but the government refuses to say whether she is.
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November 11, 2025 at 9:25 AM
There’s a good chance the British Prime Minister’s main adviser on AI is an OpenAI shareholder - but the government refuses to say whether she is.
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The historian in me feels the need to note that contests between cities and their rural hinterland are not new things and they do not generally go great for the rural folks.
California alone produces a third of all the food America eats. So this is a lie.
But let’s break down the food produced by the red states:
Guess what percent is harvested by people from Latin America?
But let’s break down the food produced by the red states:
Guess what percent is harvested by people from Latin America?
November 11, 2025 at 1:14 AM
The historian in me feels the need to note that contests between cities and their rural hinterland are not new things and they do not generally go great for the rural folks.
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Said it before but it never ceases to astound me just how hollow all the 'sovereignty, national pride, take back control' rhetoric turned out to be shorn of its partisan dimension
November 11, 2025 at 10:21 AM
Said it before but it never ceases to astound me just how hollow all the 'sovereignty, national pride, take back control' rhetoric turned out to be shorn of its partisan dimension
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Ironically, when people complained that it was a bit much to Photoshop someone in front of the Kremlin for the background of a discussion of foreign policy, it was described as "Trumpian"
Why is the only resignation-worthy issue at the BBC one which succinctly but slightly lazily told a basically accurate story about the right? Can we count the number of times "misleading editing" misrepresented the left?
November 11, 2025 at 9:58 AM
Ironically, when people complained that it was a bit much to Photoshop someone in front of the Kremlin for the background of a discussion of foreign policy, it was described as "Trumpian"
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If I had only 6 letters to describe Britain, they would be NHS-BBC.
Both have been under sustained attack by politicians for over decade.
And I would be dishonest if I didn’t point out the BBC has played a major role in attacking our NHS.
Nevertheless, both are utterly essential to our democracy.
Both have been under sustained attack by politicians for over decade.
And I would be dishonest if I didn’t point out the BBC has played a major role in attacking our NHS.
Nevertheless, both are utterly essential to our democracy.
November 11, 2025 at 9:37 AM
If I had only 6 letters to describe Britain, they would be NHS-BBC.
Both have been under sustained attack by politicians for over decade.
And I would be dishonest if I didn’t point out the BBC has played a major role in attacking our NHS.
Nevertheless, both are utterly essential to our democracy.
Both have been under sustained attack by politicians for over decade.
And I would be dishonest if I didn’t point out the BBC has played a major role in attacking our NHS.
Nevertheless, both are utterly essential to our democracy.
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Because it is clearly being used as an opportune moment to destabilise the UK. The BBC is something standing in the way of US and right wing interests. You can reform the BBC in isolation of these events, should you agree it needs to be done. A mistake such as this does not warrant its destruction.
November 11, 2025 at 9:01 AM
Because it is clearly being used as an opportune moment to destabilise the UK. The BBC is something standing in the way of US and right wing interests. You can reform the BBC in isolation of these events, should you agree it needs to be done. A mistake such as this does not warrant its destruction.
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As with the EHRC, I think there has been a deliberate wrecking strategy, where there first stage (now pretty much complete in both cases) is to corrupt the organisation to the extent that the people who would defended it the hardest instead see it as irretrievably broken.
November 11, 2025 at 8:08 AM
As with the EHRC, I think there has been a deliberate wrecking strategy, where there first stage (now pretty much complete in both cases) is to corrupt the organisation to the extent that the people who would defended it the hardest instead see it as irretrievably broken.
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In the last decade, the BBC has legitimised climate change denialism, paved the way for Brexit, defended the coup that was prorogation, over-platformed Farage's Far Right projects, and is neutral on our abandonment of human rights norms.
What is this 'good' it supposedly does?
What is this 'good' it supposedly does?
November 11, 2025 at 8:30 AM
In the last decade, the BBC has legitimised climate change denialism, paved the way for Brexit, defended the coup that was prorogation, over-platformed Farage's Far Right projects, and is neutral on our abandonment of human rights norms.
What is this 'good' it supposedly does?
What is this 'good' it supposedly does?
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I think the combination of the dominance by the BBC of news, together with the levels of trust it enjoys, gives it a degree of influence which is unhealthy for it and for democracy. And it uses them to perpetuate a status quo-ism which is demonstrably failing the nation.
November 11, 2025 at 8:01 AM
I think the combination of the dominance by the BBC of news, together with the levels of trust it enjoys, gives it a degree of influence which is unhealthy for it and for democracy. And it uses them to perpetuate a status quo-ism which is demonstrably failing the nation.
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Personally I'd be pleased to see BBC News disappear entirely. To argue, as many do, that British politics or our news environment would be so much worse without the BBC you have to explain why British politics and news environment is so very bad with the BBC.
November 11, 2025 at 7:55 AM
Personally I'd be pleased to see BBC News disappear entirely. To argue, as many do, that British politics or our news environment would be so much worse without the BBC you have to explain why British politics and news environment is so very bad with the BBC.
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Damned unBritish of Farage and Rees-Mogg to demand our constant capitulation to every whim of the US (especially when they claimed the very opposite for the EU).
November 11, 2025 at 9:59 AM
Damned unBritish of Farage and Rees-Mogg to demand our constant capitulation to every whim of the US (especially when they claimed the very opposite for the EU).
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The worst you can accuse Panorama of doing is making a misleading edit – and I’d dispute that! – to make *a point that was true*.
The programme aired without anyone seeing any issues with the edit. It was on iPlayer for a year without complaints. Donald Trump *did* incite Jan 6th.
The programme aired without anyone seeing any issues with the edit. It was on iPlayer for a year without complaints. Donald Trump *did* incite Jan 6th.
Tory culture spox demanding the BBC "grovel" to Trump is baffling. Who is this supposed to chime with?
Just a bizarre line that no one who doesn't use X would ever think.
Just a bizarre line that no one who doesn't use X would ever think.
November 11, 2025 at 8:54 AM
The worst you can accuse Panorama of doing is making a misleading edit – and I’d dispute that! – to make *a point that was true*.
The programme aired without anyone seeing any issues with the edit. It was on iPlayer for a year without complaints. Donald Trump *did* incite Jan 6th.
The programme aired without anyone seeing any issues with the edit. It was on iPlayer for a year without complaints. Donald Trump *did* incite Jan 6th.
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Yup. I said this earlier today, but it was only a guess. Thanks for confirming it. It is no coincidence that of the 8 who came forward to do this, none of them are running in 2026. But they ran cover for some who are.
November 11, 2025 at 2:12 AM
Yup. I said this earlier today, but it was only a guess. Thanks for confirming it. It is no coincidence that of the 8 who came forward to do this, none of them are running in 2026. But they ran cover for some who are.
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A Selection of Detected Galaxies in the Hubble Ultra Deep Field Area - From Rolf Wahl Olsen - https://flic.kr/p/2nEZwhA
November 11, 2025 at 10:00 AM
A Selection of Detected Galaxies in the Hubble Ultra Deep Field Area - From Rolf Wahl Olsen - https://flic.kr/p/2nEZwhA