R Phelps
@greygosling.bsky.social
Stronger In lead volunteer Tooting. #Rejoin
Donating to Ukraine since 2014.
Blue Wall destruction enjoyer
Donating to Ukraine since 2014.
Blue Wall destruction enjoyer
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Let us simply not check that figure after they stuck most of the BBC in the US behind a paywall a few months ago to increase revenue at the expense of British soft power and influence.
Nowhere in the hysterical pile-on against the BBC in the British press has anyone mentioned that BBC News now has 77 million viewers & listeners in the US and has established itself as the second most trusted news source there.
November 11, 2025 at 1:06 PM
Let us simply not check that figure after they stuck most of the BBC in the US behind a paywall a few months ago to increase revenue at the expense of British soft power and influence.
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What kind of board member does his best to magnify BBC’s exposure to financial and reputational harm for partisan political goals? Gibb is unfit to serve and should be forced out by ministers. No organization should have to accommodate wreckers. 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 9:30 AM
What kind of board member does his best to magnify BBC’s exposure to financial and reputational harm for partisan political goals? Gibb is unfit to serve and should be forced out by ministers. No organization should have to accommodate wreckers. www.theguardian.com/media/2025/n...
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A shut this abomination down
🔴GB News Calls For Trump's America to 'Save Britain’
GB News’ new show broadcast live from the US features non-stop praise for Donald Trump – with the channel’s co-owner begging ‘MAGA’ politicians to save the UK, reports @josiah.writes.news
www.bylinesupplement.com/p/gb-news-ca...
GB News’ new show broadcast live from the US features non-stop praise for Donald Trump – with the channel’s co-owner begging ‘MAGA’ politicians to save the UK, reports @josiah.writes.news
www.bylinesupplement.com/p/gb-news-ca...
GB News Calls For Trump's America to 'Save Britain’
GB News’ new show broadcast live from the US features non-stop praise for Donald Trump – with the channel’s co-owner begging ‘MAGA’ politicians to save the UK, reports Josiah Mortimer
www.bylinesupplement.com
November 11, 2025 at 6:21 AM
A shut this abomination down
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Treasonous human rights laws mean special forces now can’t even murder scads of civilians in a series of bloodcurdling war crimes and lie about what they’ve done while the government covers it up, without facing a lot of impertinent questions
November 11, 2025 at 4:40 AM
Treasonous human rights laws mean special forces now can’t even murder scads of civilians in a series of bloodcurdling war crimes and lie about what they’ve done while the government covers it up, without facing a lot of impertinent questions
Yes
The SNP First Minister John Swinney says Gibb is a clearly party political figure on the BBC board, saying this position is "untenable"
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...
Gibb position on BBC board ‘untenable’, says Swinney
The comments come amid a bias row at the broadcaster which has seen two of its top bosses resign.
www.independent.co.uk
November 10, 2025 at 11:32 PM
Yes
Horrible, depressing, disastrous. I don't know how reversing this as far as possible isn't front and centre of left politics.
Brexit reduced the UK’s GDP by between 6% and 8%. That is MASSIVE. #ProjectFear #wetoldyouso
www.nber.org/papers/w3445...
www.nber.org/papers/w3445...
November 10, 2025 at 10:02 PM
Horrible, depressing, disastrous. I don't know how reversing this as far as possible isn't front and centre of left politics.
Only a government with a death would keep Gibb on.
Should Gibb be sacked? yes, obviously. He's an abomination of basic journalistic standards. His GB News channel spreads conspiracy theory & disinformation. His Jewish Chronicle newspaper spreads invented stories. He is plainly trying to undermine the BBC so it's as bad as everything else he touches.
November 10, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Only a government with a death would keep Gibb on.
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Grimly depressing that someone so directly and obviously connected with the spread of misinformation has so far succeeded in pushing claims about 'bias' at the BBC -- and that you have to really work hard reading the news reports to extract this crucial piece of information.
Should Gibb be sacked? yes, obviously. He's an abomination of basic journalistic standards. His GB News channel spreads conspiracy theory & disinformation. His Jewish Chronicle newspaper spreads invented stories. He is plainly trying to undermine the BBC so it's as bad as everything else he touches.
November 10, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Grimly depressing that someone so directly and obviously connected with the spread of misinformation has so far succeeded in pushing claims about 'bias' at the BBC -- and that you have to really work hard reading the news reports to extract this crucial piece of information.
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A basic point is the accusation Lewis Goodall made that Gibb attempted to influence his reporting. You can think Lewis is a lefty so-and-so or whatever. Like anyone he is not the oracle. But that's his editor or producer's job to pull him up on that. Not someone Boris Johnson appointed to the board!
Robbie Gibb should quite simply not be in that role. He makes no pretence of his own bias. While he has power the BBC will continue to rot.
November 10, 2025 at 11:52 AM
A basic point is the accusation Lewis Goodall made that Gibb attempted to influence his reporting. You can think Lewis is a lefty so-and-so or whatever. Like anyone he is not the oracle. But that's his editor or producer's job to pull him up on that. Not someone Boris Johnson appointed to the board!
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Robbie Gibb once suggested that reporters should reflect if they were getting more retweets from one side than the other - a braindead analysis that ignores that fair and impartial reporting of education might get more Tory retweets than say, criminal justice.
Stephen really does have the best take on this. It’s not clear that the BBC Board or indeed the rest of the News team really understood the message of the previous reviews, which were about getting detail right. Instead they wanted to know what was ‘biased’ or not like they were blotting out stains.
The impossible dream some people on the British right are chasing is that you can have a BBC News operation that retreats from detail and expertise, that takes dictation from the government, but this will only create incompetence and failure when it suits you:
November 10, 2025 at 10:39 AM
Robbie Gibb once suggested that reporters should reflect if they were getting more retweets from one side than the other - a braindead analysis that ignores that fair and impartial reporting of education might get more Tory retweets than say, criminal justice.
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‘Gibb’s supporters say he is trying to save the BBC from itself; he was also heard last year to say that if he didn’t get his way, he would “blow the place up”.’
“a group of politically-appointed directors has forced the hand of Samir Shah,the chair, and the departure of the two most senior people in the organisation. Their resignations should be called out for what they are: political interference..”1/
The Observer view: political interference at the BBC | The Observer
observer.co.uk
November 10, 2025 at 10:29 AM
‘Gibb’s supporters say he is trying to save the BBC from itself; he was also heard last year to say that if he didn’t get his way, he would “blow the place up”.’
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Signs you might be a far right authoritarian party (#3260):
This list literally started in December 2020 as these very people & others tried to steal the election:
This list literally started in December 2020 as these very people & others tried to steal the election:
NEW: Donald Trump has pardoned a long list of allies in his bid to subvert the 2020 election including:
-Rudy Giuliani
-John Eastman
-Mark Meadows
-Sidney Powell
-Ken Chesebro
-Christina Bobb
-Kelli Ward
-Jenna Ellis
www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
-Rudy Giuliani
-John Eastman
-Mark Meadows
-Sidney Powell
-Ken Chesebro
-Christina Bobb
-Kelli Ward
-Jenna Ellis
www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
November 10, 2025 at 6:03 AM
Signs you might be a far right authoritarian party (#3260):
This list literally started in December 2020 as these very people & others tried to steal the election:
This list literally started in December 2020 as these very people & others tried to steal the election:
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French fishermen are sending fishing nets to Ukraine to protect against Russian drones
Fishermen from the coast of Brittany have created a organization,Kernic Solidarités,to aid Ukraine 🇺🇦.They have already sent 2shipments of horsehair fishing nets,totaling 280km in length,according to The Guardian
Fishermen from the coast of Brittany have created a organization,Kernic Solidarités,to aid Ukraine 🇺🇦.They have already sent 2shipments of horsehair fishing nets,totaling 280km in length,according to The Guardian
November 9, 2025 at 2:49 PM
French fishermen are sending fishing nets to Ukraine to protect against Russian drones
Fishermen from the coast of Brittany have created a organization,Kernic Solidarités,to aid Ukraine 🇺🇦.They have already sent 2shipments of horsehair fishing nets,totaling 280km in length,according to The Guardian
Fishermen from the coast of Brittany have created a organization,Kernic Solidarités,to aid Ukraine 🇺🇦.They have already sent 2shipments of horsehair fishing nets,totaling 280km in length,according to The Guardian
This is the way.
The resignations of Tim Davie and Deborah Turness must be an opportunity for the BBC to turn a new leaf, rebuild trust and resist those like Nigel Farage who want to destroy it
We must stand up for a strong, independent BBC, to stop Trump’s America becoming Farage's Britain.
We must stand up for a strong, independent BBC, to stop Trump’s America becoming Farage's Britain.
November 9, 2025 at 7:28 PM
This is the way.
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I'd like to stick up for the BBC DG in these circumstances. Yet it has badly lost its way and clearly needs a very different approach. Frustrating that it's for a substantively accurate even if editorially sloppy programme about Trump.
But time for change- and truth and courage.
But time for change- and truth and courage.
November 9, 2025 at 7:10 PM
I'd like to stick up for the BBC DG in these circumstances. Yet it has badly lost its way and clearly needs a very different approach. Frustrating that it's for a substantively accurate even if editorially sloppy programme about Trump.
But time for change- and truth and courage.
But time for change- and truth and courage.
This is such an opportunity for Labour to change the downward spiral the BBC has been in.
BBC News is a news organisation. It is there to do proper news not "represent the views of its viewers" - as funneled through right wing press/social media. If the next DG understands that it will be in a far better place.
November 9, 2025 at 7:25 PM
This is such an opportunity for Labour to change the downward spiral the BBC has been in.
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Alongside the British war dead, especially my own family members, this Remembrance Sunday I shall remember all American liberators but especially these African-American liberators.
1/ The US Government has quietly removed a memorial to Black soldiers who died in World War II from the Netherlands American Cemetery in Margraten, South Limburg. The move follows a complaint from the right-wing Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission. ⬇️
November 9, 2025 at 11:42 AM
Alongside the British war dead, especially my own family members, this Remembrance Sunday I shall remember all American liberators but especially these African-American liberators.
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1/ The US Government has quietly removed a memorial to Black soldiers who died in World War II from the Netherlands American Cemetery in Margraten, South Limburg. The move follows a complaint from the right-wing Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission. ⬇️
November 9, 2025 at 9:47 AM
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The attention the Tory party in the media and in the Commons are giving to this story is a reflection of just how far off the deep-end both have gone in recent times. Sure, they have a long-term vested interest in trying to undermine faith in the Beeb. But this is such a non-issue for most voters.
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...
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 7:51 AM
The attention the Tory party in the media and in the Commons are giving to this story is a reflection of just how far off the deep-end both have gone in recent times. Sure, they have a long-term vested interest in trying to undermine faith in the Beeb. But this is such a non-issue for most voters.
This is a dynamic that will play/is playing out in the UK, especially with the increase in the minimum wage.
Zohran’s win was, in part, an outcome of the growing PMC class consciousness, and I’m happy someone at the Times is noticing
Zohran Mamdani and the Revenge of the Struggling Yuppie
www.nytimes.com
November 8, 2025 at 8:17 PM
This is a dynamic that will play/is playing out in the UK, especially with the increase in the minimum wage.
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As I say in this @FT piece: “The issue is never the manifesto or its specifics per se. The issue is trust. It is: what is the point that the voter decides they can’t trust somebody.”
and
“People voted in 2024 for change, they didn’t vote for social democratic austerity.”
on.ft.com/47LNlsy
and
“People voted in 2024 for change, they didn’t vote for social democratic austerity.”
on.ft.com/47LNlsy
The politics of breaking manifesto promises
The history of politicians who go back on their words has lessons for Rachel Reeves as she mulls raising taxes
on.ft.com
November 8, 2025 at 3:41 PM
As I say in this @FT piece: “The issue is never the manifesto or its specifics per se. The issue is trust. It is: what is the point that the voter decides they can’t trust somebody.”
and
“People voted in 2024 for change, they didn’t vote for social democratic austerity.”
on.ft.com/47LNlsy
and
“People voted in 2024 for change, they didn’t vote for social democratic austerity.”
on.ft.com/47LNlsy
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I have decided to start posting on here more often as Twitter just does my head in. Who should I follow, do starter packs still exist, do people like sport and video games?
November 8, 2025 at 12:18 PM
I have decided to start posting on here more often as Twitter just does my head in. Who should I follow, do starter packs still exist, do people like sport and video games?
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Just your usual reminder that Britain's main emerging problem is that immigration is going to be far too low going forward, and it desperately needs radical plans to boost the numbers coming in by multiples.
In case you missed it yesterday, Britain's main upcoming problem will be that immigration will be far, far too low. Politics may have gone mad, but reality is an unforgiving thing. We need to start encouraging people in and paying them to stay.
ukandeu.ac.uk/the-coming-c...
ukandeu.ac.uk/the-coming-c...
The coming collapse in immigration to the United Kingdom - UK in a changing Europe
James Bowes analyses the fall in net migration to the UK as a result of government policies and explores some of the political and economic consequences.
ukandeu.ac.uk
November 8, 2025 at 10:39 AM
Just your usual reminder that Britain's main emerging problem is that immigration is going to be far too low going forward, and it desperately needs radical plans to boost the numbers coming in by multiples.
Well yes, but why didn't the media, or even experts interviewed by the media say this as clearly at the time?
"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 9:34 AM
Well yes, but why didn't the media, or even experts interviewed by the media say this as clearly at the time?
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In a first-of-its-kind trial in Ukraine, Russian soldier Dmitri Kurashov was convicted by a court of executing Ukrainian soldier Vitalii Hodniuk as he surrendered on the battlefield and sentenced to life imprisonment.
We mentioned the case in our FT investigative doc film below.
We mentioned the case in our FT investigative doc film below.
🚨NEW @financialtimes.com investigation reveals evidence that Russian executions of Ukrainian POWs are likely part of a systematic policy. And we uncover the identity of a Russian soldier likely involved in filming and carrying out the mass execution of 6 POWs.
📽️WATCH: www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Muw...
📽️WATCH: www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Muw...
'Film me!’: Russia's executions of Ukrainian POWs points to a policy | FT Film
YouTube video by Financial Times
www.youtube.com
November 7, 2025 at 12:54 PM
In a first-of-its-kind trial in Ukraine, Russian soldier Dmitri Kurashov was convicted by a court of executing Ukrainian soldier Vitalii Hodniuk as he surrendered on the battlefield and sentenced to life imprisonment.
We mentioned the case in our FT investigative doc film below.
We mentioned the case in our FT investigative doc film below.