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@davidallengreen.bsky.social
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Mainly law and policy; Aston Villa supporter; sometimes ironic.
Birmingham/London.
Mainly law and policy; Aston Villa supporter; sometimes ironic.
Birmingham/London.
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lol she got his ass and he knows it
November 9, 2025 at 3:36 PM
lol she got his ass and he knows it
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BBC: "While President Trump has not disclosed any legal cause of action against us, we wish to apologise unreservedly to him, lick his boots, cancel shows that he doesn't like and which we never had any intention of broadcasting, and give him all our licence-fee payers' money by way of settlement"
November 10, 2025 at 4:07 PM
BBC: "While President Trump has not disclosed any legal cause of action against us, we wish to apologise unreservedly to him, lick his boots, cancel shows that he doesn't like and which we never had any intention of broadcasting, and give him all our licence-fee payers' money by way of settlement"
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When Donald Trump threatens to sue the BBC ("for $1bn" in true Dr Evil style) now is the time for every other media organisation to stand with the BBC
November 10, 2025 at 3:57 PM
When Donald Trump threatens to sue the BBC ("for $1bn" in true Dr Evil style) now is the time for every other media organisation to stand with the BBC
My post on President Trump threatening to sue the BBC will up tomorrow morning.
November 10, 2025 at 4:02 PM
My post on President Trump threatening to sue the BBC will up tomorrow morning.
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If the BBC is guilty of anything it has been far too ready and willing to follow the right-wing media narratives pushed by the billionaire press barons, instead of pursuing its own independent journalism based on exposing and uncovering the truth – regardless of whether people want to hear it.
November 10, 2025 at 1:01 PM
If the BBC is guilty of anything it has been far too ready and willing to follow the right-wing media narratives pushed by the billionaire press barons, instead of pursuing its own independent journalism based on exposing and uncovering the truth – regardless of whether people want to hear it.
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Most of the print media is owned billionaires, who have used their papers to distract people from the real causes of social problems by instead focusing public anger towards immigrants and minorities.
Now the billionaire owners of social media giants are doing a similar thing with their algorithms.
Now the billionaire owners of social media giants are doing a similar thing with their algorithms.
November 10, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Most of the print media is owned billionaires, who have used their papers to distract people from the real causes of social problems by instead focusing public anger towards immigrants and minorities.
Now the billionaire owners of social media giants are doing a similar thing with their algorithms.
Now the billionaire owners of social media giants are doing a similar thing with their algorithms.
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This as not simply populism, it's an extreme assault on public institutions and structures. The last week has been about the BBC, but comes alongside mounting attacks on judicial independence/the European Court of Human Rights. Treating each issue in isolation will see them killed off one by one.
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 11:32 AM
This as not simply populism, it's an extreme assault on public institutions and structures. The last week has been about the BBC, but comes alongside mounting attacks on judicial independence/the European Court of Human Rights. Treating each issue in isolation will see them killed off one by one.
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“There will be those who will clap and cheer at the senior BBC resignations … but such elation is misconceived. For the BBC to be this weak as an institution when faced with outside (and politically motivated) criticism is not a sign of a healthy mixed polity.”
By @davidallengreen.bsky.social
By @davidallengreen.bsky.social
The BBC’s depressing lack of inherent institutional strength
10th November 2025 The BBC needs to be a robust, independent institution * The British (or Bullied) Broadcasting Corporation is suffering another kicking. Of course, the BBC is not perfect, and nor…
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November 10, 2025 at 11:23 AM
“There will be those who will clap and cheer at the senior BBC resignations … but such elation is misconceived. For the BBC to be this weak as an institution when faced with outside (and politically motivated) criticism is not a sign of a healthy mixed polity.”
By @davidallengreen.bsky.social
By @davidallengreen.bsky.social
The BBC's depressing lack of inherent institutional strength
The BBC needs to be a robust, independent institution
By me
Substack emptycity.substack.com/p/the-bbcs-d...
Personal blog davidallengreen.com/2025/11/the-...
The BBC needs to be a robust, independent institution
By me
Substack emptycity.substack.com/p/the-bbcs-d...
Personal blog davidallengreen.com/2025/11/the-...
The BBC's depressing lack of of inherent institutional strength
The BBC needs to be a robust, independent institution
emptycity.substack.com
November 10, 2025 at 11:11 AM
The BBC's depressing lack of inherent institutional strength
The BBC needs to be a robust, independent institution
By me
Substack emptycity.substack.com/p/the-bbcs-d...
Personal blog davidallengreen.com/2025/11/the-...
The BBC needs to be a robust, independent institution
By me
Substack emptycity.substack.com/p/the-bbcs-d...
Personal blog davidallengreen.com/2025/11/the-...
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See also the prison service, universities, local government, and the rest.
And the response of this government?
No - not to fund and run them better and prepare the ground for success.
But to join the baying mob. 2/2
And the response of this government?
No - not to fund and run them better and prepare the ground for success.
But to join the baying mob. 2/2
November 10, 2025 at 8:32 AM
See also the prison service, universities, local government, and the rest.
And the response of this government?
No - not to fund and run them better and prepare the ground for success.
But to join the baying mob. 2/2
And the response of this government?
No - not to fund and run them better and prepare the ground for success.
But to join the baying mob. 2/2
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The BBC is the latest part of ‘the public realm’ to feel the wrath of the right.
The playbook is wearyingly similar.
Underfund them. Hold them (piously) to the highest standards. Pillory them for all errors. And then co-opt, or neuter, them. 1/2
The playbook is wearyingly similar.
Underfund them. Hold them (piously) to the highest standards. Pillory them for all errors. And then co-opt, or neuter, them. 1/2
November 10, 2025 at 8:32 AM
The BBC is the latest part of ‘the public realm’ to feel the wrath of the right.
The playbook is wearyingly similar.
Underfund them. Hold them (piously) to the highest standards. Pillory them for all errors. And then co-opt, or neuter, them. 1/2
The playbook is wearyingly similar.
Underfund them. Hold them (piously) to the highest standards. Pillory them for all errors. And then co-opt, or neuter, them. 1/2
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Just absolutely classic BBC. You've just broadcast the most successful programme of the year, uniting Gen Z kids online and Boomers on broadcast in a return to appointment television. And instead of celebrating, your DG reigns due to a made-up right-wing scandal.
November 9, 2025 at 8:10 PM
Just absolutely classic BBC. You've just broadcast the most successful programme of the year, uniting Gen Z kids online and Boomers on broadcast in a return to appointment television. And instead of celebrating, your DG reigns due to a made-up right-wing scandal.
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Don’t think I saw a single post from Trump himself about the BBC over the whole week btw, let alone an actual comment. It was all from the White House press team, in response to queries from UK media. Not sure the President even knows what Panorama *is*.
November 9, 2025 at 8:09 PM
Don’t think I saw a single post from Trump himself about the BBC over the whole week btw, let alone an actual comment. It was all from the White House press team, in response to queries from UK media. Not sure the President even knows what Panorama *is*.
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The BBC's senior leadership resigning en masse over one dodgy edit in one programme, simply because the right wing press demands it, tells you everything you need to know about where the power really lies in that relationship
November 9, 2025 at 8:04 PM
The BBC's senior leadership resigning en masse over one dodgy edit in one programme, simply because the right wing press demands it, tells you everything you need to know about where the power really lies in that relationship
Depressing that the BBC has so little inherent institutional strength, it is kicked about so easily.
This is not good sign for our polity.
This is not good sign for our polity.
November 9, 2025 at 8:13 PM
Depressing that the BBC has so little inherent institutional strength, it is kicked about so easily.
This is not good sign for our polity.
This is not good sign for our polity.
The true mystery of the Louvre robbery now solved.
Wonderful piece.
Wonderful piece.
Loving today's news that the mysterious "fedora man" outside the Louvre heist was actually a 15-year-old museum visitor who dresses like a 1940s French detective all the time, just because. apnews.com/article/louv...
Fedora man unmasked: Meet the teen behind the Louvre mystery photo
Fifteen-year-old Pedro Elias Garzon Delvaux has become an internet sensation after an Associated Press photo captured him outside the Louvre on the day of a crown jewels heist.
apnews.com
November 9, 2025 at 5:43 PM
The true mystery of the Louvre robbery now solved.
Wonderful piece.
Wonderful piece.
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WORD OF THE DAY.
Excellent.
To give up spreadsheets for forty days.
Excellent.
To give up spreadsheets for forty days.
November 9, 2025 at 4:17 PM
WORD OF THE DAY.
Excellent.
To give up spreadsheets for forty days.
Excellent.
To give up spreadsheets for forty days.
One of the greatest social media follows for anyone genuinely interested in practical law and policy is @mentalhealthcop.bsky.social.
Posts like this explain why.
Posts like this explain why.
I'm obliged for the nod.
The "Penrose Effect" seems to be a real thing - hypothesised in the 1930s and re-tested in the last decade or so:
Where you reduce your inpatient psychiatric provision, you'll see a correlated rise within 10yrs in prisons of seriously mentally ill prisoners.
The "Penrose Effect" seems to be a real thing - hypothesised in the 1930s and re-tested in the last decade or so:
Where you reduce your inpatient psychiatric provision, you'll see a correlated rise within 10yrs in prisons of seriously mentally ill prisoners.
November 9, 2025 at 1:22 PM
One of the greatest social media follows for anyone genuinely interested in practical law and policy is @mentalhealthcop.bsky.social.
Posts like this explain why.
Posts like this explain why.
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I'm obliged for the nod.
The "Penrose Effect" seems to be a real thing - hypothesised in the 1930s and re-tested in the last decade or so:
Where you reduce your inpatient psychiatric provision, you'll see a correlated rise within 10yrs in prisons of seriously mentally ill prisoners.
The "Penrose Effect" seems to be a real thing - hypothesised in the 1930s and re-tested in the last decade or so:
Where you reduce your inpatient psychiatric provision, you'll see a correlated rise within 10yrs in prisons of seriously mentally ill prisoners.
November 9, 2025 at 11:37 AM
I'm obliged for the nod.
The "Penrose Effect" seems to be a real thing - hypothesised in the 1930s and re-tested in the last decade or so:
Where you reduce your inpatient psychiatric provision, you'll see a correlated rise within 10yrs in prisons of seriously mentally ill prisoners.
The "Penrose Effect" seems to be a real thing - hypothesised in the 1930s and re-tested in the last decade or so:
Where you reduce your inpatient psychiatric provision, you'll see a correlated rise within 10yrs in prisons of seriously mentally ill prisoners.
This is an outstanding post on the criminal justice system. Do read.
New post just out:
Why the criminal justice system should be top of No. 10's "shit list".
No part of the public sector is more broken or brings with it greater political risk. As we saw these past two weeks.
It desperately needs a new approach.
(£/free trial)
open.substack.com/pub/samf/p/f...
Why the criminal justice system should be top of No. 10's "shit list".
No part of the public sector is more broken or brings with it greater political risk. As we saw these past two weeks.
It desperately needs a new approach.
(£/free trial)
open.substack.com/pub/samf/p/f...
Flashing Red
Why the criminal justice system should be top of No. 10's "shit list"
open.substack.com
November 8, 2025 at 9:22 AM
This is an outstanding post on the criminal justice system. Do read.
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"Seizing Brexit opportunities to deregulate" was mostly unspecified magic fairy pixie bullshit then, and it's not going to get any more realistic in the hands of a bunch of Reform clowns who don't know how anything works, don't care to learn and disdain anyone that might.
November 8, 2025 at 9:18 AM
"Seizing Brexit opportunities to deregulate" was mostly unspecified magic fairy pixie bullshit then, and it's not going to get any more realistic in the hands of a bunch of Reform clowns who don't know how anything works, don't care to learn and disdain anyone that might.
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BREAKING: Following trial, Judge Karin Immergut, a Trump appointee, finds that Trump did not properly invoke federal law to call up the National Guard and "permanently enjoins Defendants’ orders to deploy federalized members of the National Guard to Oregon."
November 8, 2025 at 1:31 AM
BREAKING: Following trial, Judge Karin Immergut, a Trump appointee, finds that Trump did not properly invoke federal law to call up the National Guard and "permanently enjoins Defendants’ orders to deploy federalized members of the National Guard to Oregon."
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Due to the escalating, bone-headed addiction @davidallengreen.bsky.social describes, "law and order" politics will alway exacerbate the very problems for which it claims to be the only solution.
November 7, 2025 at 12:12 PM
Due to the escalating, bone-headed addiction @davidallengreen.bsky.social describes, "law and order" politics will alway exacerbate the very problems for which it claims to be the only solution.
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"Prison is a costly system for worsening the social problem of crime ... but our political and media class are addicted to the bidding war of ever-heavier sentences
...we cannot afford this addiction."
davidallengreen.com/2025/11/the-...
...we cannot afford this addiction."
davidallengreen.com/2025/11/the-...
The real problem which blights our prison and punishment system
7th November 2025 The way we think about custodial sentences is what needs to change * Today’s news is about prisons: * Let us take a step back. There is a serious addiction problem which blights o…
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November 7, 2025 at 12:05 PM
"Prison is a costly system for worsening the social problem of crime ... but our political and media class are addicted to the bidding war of ever-heavier sentences
...we cannot afford this addiction."
davidallengreen.com/2025/11/the-...
...we cannot afford this addiction."
davidallengreen.com/2025/11/the-...
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What’s happened here is that, by sticking to their guns and refusing to be intimidated and shitehoused, the club and police have thankfully prevented Parliament and the press inciting rioting and running battles in the streets of a major city.
November 7, 2025 at 8:54 AM
What’s happened here is that, by sticking to their guns and refusing to be intimidated and shitehoused, the club and police have thankfully prevented Parliament and the press inciting rioting and running battles in the streets of a major city.