Francis Eldergill
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Francis Eldergill
@eldergill.bsky.social
Ex Lab GE Candidate. @joecguinan.bsky.social "With such cognitive firepower, rapier wit & winning personality difficult to believe that you didn't make it into Parliament"
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If you're cheering Trump on then you have no right to call yourself a patriot.

You absolute moron.
November 15, 2025 at 5:55 PM
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Not the first to make this point. But there is a tyrant in charge of another country who is accused of being heavily linked to a paedophile sex ring - and supposed ‘patriots’ in this country are passionately willing him to take down our national broadcaster. Madness.
November 15, 2025 at 7:57 PM
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Interesting to see so many great British patriots right now begging an American president to bankrupt one of Britain’s last remaining truly national institutions.
November 15, 2025 at 4:14 PM
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NEWS: The UK is no longer sharing intelligence with the US about suspected drug trafficking vessels in the Caribbean because it does not want to be complicit in US military strikes and believes the attacks are illegal, sources familiar with the matter told CNN. edition.cnn.com/2025/11/11/p...
Exclusive: UK suspends some intelligence sharing with US over boat strike concerns in major break | CNN Politics
The United Kingdom is no longer sharing intelligence with the US about suspected drug trafficking vessels in the Caribbean because it does not want to be complicit in US military strikes and believes ...
edition.cnn.com
November 11, 2025 at 3:06 PM
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If we're talking about bias, why do BBC politics programmes, from Politics Live to the Laura Kuennsberg Show, still always begin with a look at the newspaper front pages, which are overwhelmingly biased in one direction. Helps frame the entire news agenda and debate in their favour
November 11, 2025 at 1:09 PM
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That renowned and respected lover of truth and journalistic integrity.... THE KREMLIN.... has stepped up to defend Trump in his battle against the BBC.

SO that's Farage, Netanyahu, Putin, and Boris Johnson...
November 11, 2025 at 7:33 PM
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If BBC News was a hotbed of left-wing wokery producing *systemically* biased coverage Jeremy Corbyn may well have been elected Prime Minister in 2019.

It’s not. He wasn’t.

And we got Boris Johnson instead.
November 11, 2025 at 7:49 PM
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If you've ever needed a reason to rally behind the BBC then this is it.
November 10, 2025 at 4:09 PM
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Lawyers for Donald Trump say the BBC must retract the Panorama documentary Trump: A Second Chance? by Friday (i.e. remove it from iPlayer etc) or face a $1bn lawsuit. I hope the BBC doesn't cave in to this legal sabre-rattling.
Trump threatens BBC with legal action over edit of speech in documentary
Leaked BBC report said film had ‘completely misled’ viewers by splicing two parts of January 6 speech together
www.theguardian.com
November 10, 2025 at 5:11 PM
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"Despite ... having been led for the last five years by a close ally of the Tories, being overseen by committees of Tory appointees, and Turness's own efforts to skew news story selection to "win over" Reform supporters, the right in this country want to see the BBC destroyed."
The Right Wing War on the BBC
The resignations of Tim Davie, BBC Director General, and Deborah Turness, the corporation's Head of News was some unexpected Sunday news. Th...
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November 9, 2025 at 10:18 PM
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Be clear, the American far right are coming for British democracy.
November 9, 2025 at 8:45 PM
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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
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The BBC is apologising for its Panorama edit. It shouldn’t. First, the narrative is true: Donald Trump *did* incite the Capitol riot. Second, the apology won’t appease those attacking it. So why not at least stand for something?

Wrote this on it earlier this week:
inews.co.uk/news/world/b...
The BBC was right about the Capitol riots. In a sane world, Trump would be in jail
The US President faced impeachment over the violence, and in a world where Republicans had more courage, he would have been found guilty
inews.co.uk
November 9, 2025 at 7:05 AM
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Afghan immigrant who helped U.S. military fight Taliban arrested by ICE
Afghan immigrant who helped U.S. military fight Taliban arrested by ICE
The father of four, who had settled in Colorado and gotten his commercial driver’s license, was driving a truck through Indiana when he was taken by masked ICE agents in October
coloradosun.com
November 7, 2025 at 6:10 PM
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Word of the Day is ‘catchfart’ (17th century): an obsequious individual who sucks up to the boss and always follows the political wind.
November 7, 2025 at 10:12 AM
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This is the way the monarchy dies: open.substack.com/pub/davidaar...
The unmaking of the monarchy
Why we may run out of royals
open.substack.com
November 7, 2025 at 11:23 AM
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BREAKING: Zohran Mamdani wins the New York City mayoral race, NBC News projects. nbcnews.to/4nIzNUC
November 5, 2025 at 2:33 AM
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This week, Elon Musk’s AI Grok came out with “Grokipedia” as a competitor to Wikipedia, and irony is dead. A story in two parts.
November 1, 2025 at 9:51 PM
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We’re building the major infrastructure projects that will create high-paying careers, reduce emissions, and grow our economy.
October 23, 2025 at 7:20 PM
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Via Press Gazette: "The Daily Star’s livestream of the Liz Truss lettuce has been acquired by the British Film Institute’s National Archive for a collection of significant pieces of online video. The BFI’s curator said it was “a seminal moment in British political history”"
October 21, 2025 at 7:13 PM
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What do you do when your media org is captured? You start your own.

Introducing....The Nerve!!! @thenerve-news.bsky.social

We're all-female, journalist-owned & launching next week.

Please help us build a truly independent, progressive new media!👊👊👊
Former Observer big-hitters inc @carolecadwalla.bsky.social launch new title The Nerve with redundancy payouts

After Observer sale: "We decided to launch a title that the journalists themselves would own, that would be truly independent"
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Former Observer big-hitters launch new title with redundancy payouts
Five former Observer journalists including Carole Cadwalladr have launched their own culture publication using their redundancy money.
pressgazette.co.uk
September 26, 2025 at 11:03 AM
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Today, a company linked to Baroness Michelle Mone was told it must repay the government £122m for breaching a contract for medical gowns during the Covid pandemic.

Read our special report online on some of the other fat cats who made a mint during covid.

➡️ www.private-eye.co.uk/pictures/spe...
October 1, 2025 at 7:19 PM
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October 3, 2025 at 10:31 PM
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This story is now big news all over the world... except in the UK.
October 3, 2025 at 5:47 PM
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Utterly despicable.
This Israeli government decision to host Tommy Robinson will widen the growing gulf between the Netanyahu government and the British public, including the broad majority of Jews in Britain (3/4 of whom dsapproved of Netanyahu, before this new link to this anti-Muslim racist UK far right convict).
October 3, 2025 at 5:07 PM