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Elinor Elliot
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Some of us saw this shit coming in 2016
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America has been radicalised by hate preachers.

The hate preachers are white nationalists who call themselves Christians.
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The only reason we know anything about the Epstein files is because the survivors refused to give up.

This release is about the the bravery & tenacity of the survivors who continue to fight for justice in a system seeking to crush, silence, and erase them.
Epstein accusers say they are compiling list of his associates
Victims of the disgraced financier give emotional accounts of abuse in a news conference on the steps of the US Capitol.
www.bbc.com
November 13, 2025 at 4:53 PM
This piece of work is apparently British, at BU on a sports scholarship.
November 13, 2025 at 6:10 PM
Imagine a former British Prime Minister saying this. Hang on, you don't have to.

The only "illegal aliens" we need to worry about in this country are traitors like Truss. They are the true betrayors of its culture.

A forensic examination of her financial affairs might reveal much.
This perfectly encapsulates why we need the BBC
November 13, 2025 at 4:18 PM
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The reaction to the Panorama edit has been nothing short of hysterical. Yes the BBC has some impartiality problems. But its biggest isn't the one you think.

New piece from me.

open.substack.com/pub/goodalla...
The truth about impartiality at the BBC
And the hysteria of the current "crisis"
open.substack.com
November 10, 2025 at 7:22 PM
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You can be assured that tendentious memo by Michael Prescott, and the co-ordinated combination of the Telegraph, Mail, Boris Johnson, Nigel Farage and the White House means that the BBC hit job has been long in the planning, and has some insider help
November 10, 2025 at 11:10 AM
He also apparently had NO conversation.

The source of his immense wealth has never really been explained.
Really wild how all these Harvard scientists and mathematics guys constantly talked about how Jeffrey Epstein was this brilliant, "misunderstood" man and then you read his emails and he's clearly a barely literate lecher, extremely easy to understand
November 12, 2025 at 9:22 PM
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November 12, 2025 at 8:27 PM
Ghislaine will have an "accident" involving hot oil and a fish knife in the prison kitchen.
As more and more files come out, Ghislaine Maxwell has less and less leverage for a pardon or commutation. Things are really going to start heating up.
November 12, 2025 at 9:02 PM
Among the many interesting aspects of this new Epstein email dump is how exactly Michael Wolff is going to squirm his way out of this situation.

Funny how nobody has ever really put him, and what he knew, under the spotlight.

I think that may be about to change.
November 12, 2025 at 8:30 PM
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My takeaway from every new Epstein revelation is that some powerful people victimized many powerless young women, many more knew, some actively enabled it--and we're still being told that MeToo and accountability for sexual violence have gone too far
November 12, 2025 at 5:05 PM
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Scientists now know that bees can process time, a first in insects #Bees🐝

www.ctvnews.ca/climate-and-...
Scientists now know that bees can process time, a first in insects
Bumblebees can process the duration of flashes of light and use the information to decide where to look for food, a new study has found.
www.ctvnews.ca
November 12, 2025 at 2:50 PM
America really needs to get over its fixation with this family.
November 12, 2025 at 1:38 PM
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When was the last time anyone at the BBC had to resign for misrepresenting a leftwinger?
November 10, 2025 at 2:06 PM
We are now seeing here the kind of attacks on institutions that have become the norm in the United States.

They will not be satisfied until they have burned down civil society. Cowardice in the face of these attacks will abet them. Starmer and Labour need to shit or get off the pot.
November 10, 2025 at 5:04 PM
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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...
November 10, 2025 at 10:52 AM
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Once every 20 years or so, the director-general of the BBC is forced to resign for being insufficiently rightwing. Alastair Milne in 1987. Greg Dyke in 2004. Tim Davie in 2025. The great irony is that the BBC was in all cases profoundly biased towards established power. But just not biased enough …
November 10, 2025 at 5:44 AM
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I just want my country back. I want our BBC back. I want our NHS back, our water, our energy companies. All back, out of the hands of foreign investors and tax-avoiding, Trump-supporting global companies.
November 10, 2025 at 7:44 AM
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The “Bootstraps” idiom was originally meant to refer to the literally impossible. It was co-opted.
Idiom Origin

“pull yourself up by your bootstraps”

This was originally *sarcasm* & meant to convey that the act was impossible.

A boot strap is a loop used to help put your boot on.

This 1921 cartoon from the “Nonpartisan Leader” showcases that you can’t pull upward on your boots to levitate.
November 10, 2025 at 12:02 AM
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Casual reminder that the myth of “pulling yourself up by your bootstraps” is a cruel hoax designed to convince poor people from all walks of life that the injustices they face are a result of their own actions, rather than an oppressive system rigged against them.
November 10, 2025 at 12:00 AM
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Incredible that Robbie Gibb - most influential person on BBC board by many accounts and from journalists I speak in BBC - was involved in setting up GB News.

GB News of course has breached Ofcom rules on *multiple* occasions - no sign of resignations though

www.theguardian.com/environment/...
‘Enforced veganism’: Ofcom lets GB News flout accuracy rules, say climate campaigners
Exclusive: Regulator has received 1,221 complaints about UK broadcasters since 2020 but found no breaches of its code
www.theguardian.com
November 10, 2025 at 8:25 AM
Gary Lineker: top-flight all time great footballer with an exemplary record (never once booked). Distinguished broadcasting career. Considered and thoughtful on so many issues. An extraordinarily accomplished person.

Yet it's David Beckham, Knight Bachelor.

That says so much about this country.
Gary Lineker: "This is the mistake the BBC makes. The BBC tries to appease the people that hate the BBC, rather than worrying about the people that love the BBC."
November 10, 2025 at 10:50 AM
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November 9, 2025 at 6:59 PM
Interesting to see the BBC paddle itself one-handedly further up shit's creek.
November 10, 2025 at 1:09 AM
Pearson routinely gets away with spreading racist, inflammatory and dangerous lies like this. She - not asylum seekers - is a menace to civil society.
A national newspaper journalist went on a British TV channel to claim police stats showed asylum-seekers committed 44% of sex crimes in Dorset.

This shocking claim was treated as fact by the channel which promoted the clip on social media where it was amplified by AI.

Except... it's bollocks.
November 9, 2025 at 5:39 PM