Gareth Bouch
@garethbouch.bsky.social
BA Hons Philosophy. Graphic designer. Director at Vroom Media. Also musician / composer as The Rain Dogs - @theraindogs.bsky.social
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Vroom Media:
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The Rain Dogs:
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Robbie Gibb was appointed to the BBC Board by Boris Johnson, was an editorial advisor for GB News, and worked as Theresa May's Director of Comms.
He is not impartial or neutral. The government should remove him from the Board immediately to protect the BBC's independence.
He is not impartial or neutral. The government should remove him from the Board immediately to protect the BBC's independence.
November 11, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Robbie Gibb was appointed to the BBC Board by Boris Johnson, was an editorial advisor for GB News, and worked as Theresa May's Director of Comms.
He is not impartial or neutral. The government should remove him from the Board immediately to protect the BBC's independence.
He is not impartial or neutral. The government should remove him from the Board immediately to protect the BBC's independence.
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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
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
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I agree that the BBC should apologise to Trump for being misleading.
Right after Trump apologises for the 30,573 false or misleading claims he made during his first presidency, or for each of his current daily average of 21 new lies per.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_o...
Right after Trump apologises for the 30,573 false or misleading claims he made during his first presidency, or for each of his current daily average of 21 new lies per.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_o...
November 11, 2025 at 11:55 AM
I agree that the BBC should apologise to Trump for being misleading.
Right after Trump apologises for the 30,573 false or misleading claims he made during his first presidency, or for each of his current daily average of 21 new lies per.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_o...
Right after Trump apologises for the 30,573 false or misleading claims he made during his first presidency, or for each of his current daily average of 21 new lies per.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_o...
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On the 11th hour, of the 11th day, of the 11th month…
Never forget.
(Siegfried Sassoon fought in the infantry on the Western Front in WW1. He was awarded the Military Cross for bravery in 1916.)
Never forget.
(Siegfried Sassoon fought in the infantry on the Western Front in WW1. He was awarded the Military Cross for bravery in 1916.)
November 11, 2025 at 10:54 AM
On the 11th hour, of the 11th day, of the 11th month…
Never forget.
(Siegfried Sassoon fought in the infantry on the Western Front in WW1. He was awarded the Military Cross for bravery in 1916.)
Never forget.
(Siegfried Sassoon fought in the infantry on the Western Front in WW1. He was awarded the Military Cross for bravery in 1916.)
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New research carried out by Protect the Wild and Grantham Against Blood Sports has revealed that more than £1m in farming subsidies have been handed out to hunts since 2000.
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Revealed: The Hunts Bankrolled by Your Taxes Even After Breaking the Law
New research carried out by Protect the Wild and Grantham Against Blood Sports has revealed that more than £1m in farming subsidies have been handed out to hunts since 2000.
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November 11, 2025 at 10:30 AM
New research carried out by Protect the Wild and Grantham Against Blood Sports has revealed that more than £1m in farming subsidies have been handed out to hunts since 2000.
protectthewild.substack.com/p/revealed-t...
protectthewild.substack.com/p/revealed-t...
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If a billionaire-owned media could convince people in the US to vote massively against their interests for a monster like Trump, it could do the same for a monster like Farage.
Unless all of us do everything we can, no matter how small, to make sure that doesn’t happen.
Unless all of us do everything we can, no matter how small, to make sure that doesn’t happen.
Horrifically he could be Prime Minister in around four years.
November 11, 2025 at 10:18 AM
If a billionaire-owned media could convince people in the US to vote massively against their interests for a monster like Trump, it could do the same for a monster like Farage.
Unless all of us do everything we can, no matter how small, to make sure that doesn’t happen.
Unless all of us do everything we can, no matter how small, to make sure that doesn’t happen.
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Today is St. Martin's Day, Old Halloween! 🍂
Marking the end of harvest/start of winter, it is a liminal time for bonfires, lantern processions, feasts and wine.
Welsh folklore tells us to watch out for eerie omens: owls hoot, meteors fall & the Cŵn Annwn (spectral hounds) roam.
Marking the end of harvest/start of winter, it is a liminal time for bonfires, lantern processions, feasts and wine.
Welsh folklore tells us to watch out for eerie omens: owls hoot, meteors fall & the Cŵn Annwn (spectral hounds) roam.
November 11, 2025 at 7:58 AM
Today is St. Martin's Day, Old Halloween! 🍂
Marking the end of harvest/start of winter, it is a liminal time for bonfires, lantern processions, feasts and wine.
Welsh folklore tells us to watch out for eerie omens: owls hoot, meteors fall & the Cŵn Annwn (spectral hounds) roam.
Marking the end of harvest/start of winter, it is a liminal time for bonfires, lantern processions, feasts and wine.
Welsh folklore tells us to watch out for eerie omens: owls hoot, meteors fall & the Cŵn Annwn (spectral hounds) roam.
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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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A brilliant example of what Lewis Goodall talks about when he argues why right-wing radicals keep winning. They don't play by the rules and simply don't care. Whereas the institutions they want to destroy do even when said rules are contorted to absurdity and are blatantly being used against them.
The founder of Newsmax was just on the Today programme pontificating about bias. Boy, the BBC loves to submit itself to flagellation.
November 11, 2025 at 8:45 AM
A brilliant example of what Lewis Goodall talks about when he argues why right-wing radicals keep winning. They don't play by the rules and simply don't care. Whereas the institutions they want to destroy do even when said rules are contorted to absurdity and are blatantly being used against them.
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Fucking hell ....
The founder of Newsmax was just on the Today programme pontificating about bias. Boy, the BBC loves to submit itself to flagellation.
November 11, 2025 at 9:05 AM
Fucking hell ....
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As I’ve seen this confused a few times, please note that Robin Gibb was a much-beloved member of the Bee Gees, whilst Robbie Gibb is the BBC board member who also, totally coincidentally, was editorial adviser in the set-up of GB News.
I know, Bee Gees, GBeebies, a bit confusing…
I know, Bee Gees, GBeebies, a bit confusing…
November 11, 2025 at 7:33 AM
As I’ve seen this confused a few times, please note that Robin Gibb was a much-beloved member of the Bee Gees, whilst Robbie Gibb is the BBC board member who also, totally coincidentally, was editorial adviser in the set-up of GB News.
I know, Bee Gees, GBeebies, a bit confusing…
I know, Bee Gees, GBeebies, a bit confusing…
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Well, this is quite a serious allegation. I do hope the BBC shows true impartiality and investigate whether or not some of its Board members are systemically biased. 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 7:34 AM
Well, this is quite a serious allegation. I do hope the BBC shows true impartiality and investigate whether or not some of its Board members are systemically biased. www.theguardian.com/media/2025/n...
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The "appropriate response" is to broadcast everything that Trump did and said on that appalling day for American democracy and then to tell this moron to sling his hook.
I might be wrong, but this stinks of Pharage involvement.
November 11, 2025 at 8:03 AM
The "appropriate response" is to broadcast everything that Trump did and said on that appalling day for American democracy and then to tell this moron to sling his hook.
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Whole fucking thing makes me sick to my stomach. An abject fucking liar, a man who lies as easily as he fucking breathes, threatening an organisation which strives for truthfulness. And plastic patriots like the Mail and Farage urging him on. Jackels.
November 11, 2025 at 7:24 AM
Whole fucking thing makes me sick to my stomach. An abject fucking liar, a man who lies as easily as he fucking breathes, threatening an organisation which strives for truthfulness. And plastic patriots like the Mail and Farage urging him on. Jackels.
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Journalist, "Farage accused the BBC of election interference"
Ed Davey, "The interference we've seen is from Farage's friend, Putin"
"We've seen Russian interference in the most appalling way"
Ed Davey, "The interference we've seen is from Farage's friend, Putin"
"We've seen Russian interference in the most appalling way"
November 10, 2025 at 10:40 PM
Journalist, "Farage accused the BBC of election interference"
Ed Davey, "The interference we've seen is from Farage's friend, Putin"
"We've seen Russian interference in the most appalling way"
Ed Davey, "The interference we've seen is from Farage's friend, Putin"
"We've seen Russian interference in the most appalling way"
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@bjennings90.bsky.social absolutely nails it. (www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...)
November 11, 2025 at 6:58 AM
@bjennings90.bsky.social absolutely nails it. (www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...)
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A radio programme like the Shipping Forecast but it’s called Bin Day and it just reads out every single council in the country’s bin schedule
November 10, 2025 at 11:53 PM
A radio programme like the Shipping Forecast but it’s called Bin Day and it just reads out every single council in the country’s bin schedule
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This is a genuinely intolerable reality…
November 10, 2025 at 11:01 PM
This is a genuinely intolerable reality…
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The BBC should meet Trump's demands in advance by announcing - soon - a programme in the Panorama slot, and advertising it across BBC networks. The programme would play Trump's 6 January 2021 speech in full, unedited and without comment.
news.sky.com/story/bbc-re...
#R4Today
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#R4Today
BBC latest: Trump threatens to sue corporation for $1bn if it misses deadline 'to comply' with three demands
Donald Trump has threatened to sue the BBC over an edit of his speech before the January 6 2021 riots. The corporation's chair has admitted the edit was an "error of judgement", and its director-gener...
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November 11, 2025 at 6:04 AM
The BBC should meet Trump's demands in advance by announcing - soon - a programme in the Panorama slot, and advertising it across BBC networks. The programme would play Trump's 6 January 2021 speech in full, unedited and without comment.
news.sky.com/story/bbc-re...
#R4Today
news.sky.com/story/bbc-re...
#R4Today
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SUPERB and angrily unvarnished response, by former BBC chairman, Lord Patten.
"I don't think that we should allow ourselves to be bullied into thinking that the BBC is only any good, if it reflects the prejudice of the last person who shouted at it." ~AA
"I don't think that we should allow ourselves to be bullied into thinking that the BBC is only any good, if it reflects the prejudice of the last person who shouted at it." ~AA
November 10, 2025 at 6:40 PM
SUPERB and angrily unvarnished response, by former BBC chairman, Lord Patten.
"I don't think that we should allow ourselves to be bullied into thinking that the BBC is only any good, if it reflects the prejudice of the last person who shouted at it." ~AA
"I don't think that we should allow ourselves to be bullied into thinking that the BBC is only any good, if it reflects the prejudice of the last person who shouted at it." ~AA
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NEW | if the BBC *is* biased, it’s not against the right…
Arsonists cosplaying as fire fighters: Why the right-wing war on the BBC is succeeding
brokenbottleboy.substack.com/p/arsonists-...
Arsonists cosplaying as fire fighters: Why the right-wing war on the BBC is succeeding
brokenbottleboy.substack.com/p/arsonists-...
Arsonists cosplaying as fire fighters: Why the right-wing war on the BBC is succeeding
The resignation of Tim Davie as BBC Director-General is the next stage in the corporation's collapse into cowardice.
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November 10, 2025 at 3:10 PM
NEW | if the BBC *is* biased, it’s not against the right…
Arsonists cosplaying as fire fighters: Why the right-wing war on the BBC is succeeding
brokenbottleboy.substack.com/p/arsonists-...
Arsonists cosplaying as fire fighters: Why the right-wing war on the BBC is succeeding
brokenbottleboy.substack.com/p/arsonists-...
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Call in the troops to solve the commercial real estate crisis in our swanky downtown cores
You can’t make this shit up, folks
You can’t make this shit up, folks
November 11, 2025 at 5:53 AM
Call in the troops to solve the commercial real estate crisis in our swanky downtown cores
You can’t make this shit up, folks
You can’t make this shit up, folks