@dotdarling.bsky.social
Dual US/Dutch citizen living in UK. Freelance translator. Ink drinker & over-thinker.
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The remarkable story we discussed this morning. (No paywall but do consider subscribing.) www.thenewworld.co.uk/james-ball-e...
EXCLUSIVE: Michael Prescott himself doctored Trump quote in his anti-BBC report
A report alleging Panorama broadcast misleading Trump quotes contains misleading quotes itself
www.thenewworld.co.uk
November 13, 2025 at 12:48 PM
The remarkable story we discussed this morning. (No paywall but do consider subscribing.) www.thenewworld.co.uk/james-ball-e...
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Something that’s so striking in these emails is how…unimpressive Epstein is. He comes off as a pompous, sub-literate lech. Yes everyone is so mortifyingly solicitous of him! All fawning and flattery! Why?????
November 13, 2025 at 3:43 AM
Something that’s so striking in these emails is how…unimpressive Epstein is. He comes off as a pompous, sub-literate lech. Yes everyone is so mortifyingly solicitous of him! All fawning and flattery! Why?????
Oh good. Extra side orders of E. coli anyone?
November 13, 2025 at 8:37 AM
Oh good. Extra side orders of E. coli anyone?
Well how about that.
House Democrats on Wednesday released emails in which Jeffrey Epstein wrote that Donald Trump had “spent hours at my house” with one of the convicted sex offender’s victims, among other messages that suggested Epstein believed Trump knew more about his abuse than he has acknowledged. nyti.ms/441Dyxh
November 12, 2025 at 2:25 PM
Well how about that.
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I guess if you are going to do awful things, now is the time while all things terrible are happening www.wesh.com/article/cent...
Central Florida soup kitchen faces eviction after church raises rent, cuts operation hours
The Wildwood Soup Kitchen has operated in the church's fellowship hall for decades, but it's now ending as volunteers say they were told to pay more or get out.
www.wesh.com
November 12, 2025 at 10:16 AM
I guess if you are going to do awful things, now is the time while all things terrible are happening www.wesh.com/article/cent...
@mrjamesob.bsky.social here’s another pertinent “P”: the Press.
November 12, 2025 at 11:22 AM
@mrjamesob.bsky.social here’s another pertinent “P”: the Press.
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“Is there a leadership challenge?” Ridge asked.
Labour’s Wes Streeting replied: “No, and I think whoever’s been briefing this has been watching too much Celebrity Traitors.”
It was the Guardian’s Crerar who started this shit-stirring BTW - farcical British journos chasing rumours again.
#ukpolitics
Labour’s Wes Streeting replied: “No, and I think whoever’s been briefing this has been watching too much Celebrity Traitors.”
It was the Guardian’s Crerar who started this shit-stirring BTW - farcical British journos chasing rumours again.
#ukpolitics
November 12, 2025 at 8:03 AM
“Is there a leadership challenge?” Ridge asked.
Labour’s Wes Streeting replied: “No, and I think whoever’s been briefing this has been watching too much Celebrity Traitors.”
It was the Guardian’s Crerar who started this shit-stirring BTW - farcical British journos chasing rumours again.
#ukpolitics
Labour’s Wes Streeting replied: “No, and I think whoever’s been briefing this has been watching too much Celebrity Traitors.”
It was the Guardian’s Crerar who started this shit-stirring BTW - farcical British journos chasing rumours again.
#ukpolitics
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The first and last lines of Joni Ernst’s legacy as a human on earth will be that she was instrumental in the confirmation of the Sec of Defense most hostile to women serving in military, and she knew that when she voted for him.
November 12, 2025 at 12:55 AM
The first and last lines of Joni Ernst’s legacy as a human on earth will be that she was instrumental in the confirmation of the Sec of Defense most hostile to women serving in military, and she knew that when she voted for him.
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Ladies and gentlemen, Sir Robbie Gibb, the BBC Board Member with the impartiality remit
November 11, 2025 at 7:46 PM
Ladies and gentlemen, Sir Robbie Gibb, the BBC Board Member with the impartiality remit
What a surprise
"On another occasion, a BBC executive forbade me from writing for the New Statesman, imploring me to ask The Spectator instead, saying that would be perfectly fine."
goodallandgoodluck.substack.com/p/the-truth-...
goodallandgoodluck.substack.com/p/the-truth-...
The truth about impartiality at the BBC
And the hysteria of the current "crisis"
goodallandgoodluck.substack.com
November 11, 2025 at 12:49 PM
What a surprise
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a new genre of photo in the last year is federal agents working for ICE pointing guns directly at photographers
November 11, 2025 at 12:41 AM
a new genre of photo in the last year is federal agents working for ICE pointing guns directly at photographers
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“whatever club he’s invited to join has been devalued by the invitation”
November 11, 2025 at 3:05 AM
“whatever club he’s invited to join has been devalued by the invitation”
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At 20 years old, Karl A. Peckol was the youngest crew member of the Edmund Fitzgerald. He would now be 70 years young.
November 10, 2025 at 4:09 PM
At 20 years old, Karl A. Peckol was the youngest crew member of the Edmund Fitzgerald. He would now be 70 years young.
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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 10:52 AM
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...
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A man rushed to the Broadview ICE facility searching for his wife. They followed every legal step, but ICE took her into another room and she vanished. He tracked her phone there when the signal died. Police told him to “look up her name online.” He sat in the parking lot, weeping, with no answers.
November 9, 2025 at 1:34 PM
A man rushed to the Broadview ICE facility searching for his wife. They followed every legal step, but ICE took her into another room and she vanished. He tracked her phone there when the signal died. Police told him to “look up her name online.” He sat in the parking lot, weeping, with no answers.
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Since it’s @scaramucci.bsky.social talking about how Tim Mellon is the “Epstein connection you don’t know about,” I kinda wish I’d made the connection 11 days ago. But alas, it was two weeks ago.
November 9, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Since it’s @scaramucci.bsky.social talking about how Tim Mellon is the “Epstein connection you don’t know about,” I kinda wish I’d made the connection 11 days ago. But alas, it was two weeks ago.
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Please don’t think this beltway game of having retiring Dem senators vote yes while everyone else votes no is going to shield leadership from the end result. We see what is happening and can’t be fooled by those games.
November 10, 2025 at 1:15 AM
Please don’t think this beltway game of having retiring Dem senators vote yes while everyone else votes no is going to shield leadership from the end result. We see what is happening and can’t be fooled by those games.
Funny how that works…
How ever since Labour came to power, the British media has started to notice a whole series of problems they spent the previous 14 years completely ignoring
www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/the-great-...
www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/the-great-...
The 'Great Noticing' Era
Ever since Labour came to power, the British media has started to notice a whole series of problems they spent the previous 14 years completely ignoring
www.adambienkov.co.uk
November 8, 2025 at 12:38 PM
Funny how that works…
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Eight child abusers were jailed today.
8 child sexual predators who had been operating in areas such as Gravesend, Gillingham, Swanley, & Margate jailed for a combined 100 years.
This managed not to be the top story on repeat for BBC, itv or sky News.
I wonder why.
#bbcbias #itvbias #skybias
8 child sexual predators who had been operating in areas such as Gravesend, Gillingham, Swanley, & Margate jailed for a combined 100 years.
This managed not to be the top story on repeat for BBC, itv or sky News.
I wonder why.
#bbcbias #itvbias #skybias
November 8, 2025 at 10:07 AM
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US layoff announcements have hit a two-decade high, CNN reports.
Quite the achievement for an economy that was booming under Biden.
Quite the achievement for an economy that was booming under Biden.
November 6, 2025 at 3:23 PM
US layoff announcements have hit a two-decade high, CNN reports.
Quite the achievement for an economy that was booming under Biden.
Quite the achievement for an economy that was booming under Biden.
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November 6, 2025 at 9:17 PM