David Hallett
@hallett.social
Tech Founder CEO at http://sme.software - FRSA MIoD MBCS - Liberté, égalité, fraternité - London Plymouth Geneva https://www.linkedin.com/in/hallettdavid/
If you see someone wearing this, point and laugh. If you know someone wearing this, have a word. If you buy one yourself, seek therapy.
Apple has built its reputation on cutting-edge devices and sleek design, but the company’s latest product is decidedly more low-tech. https://cnn.it/3JJCl71
November 13, 2025 at 7:17 PM
If you see someone wearing this, point and laugh. If you know someone wearing this, have a word. If you buy one yourself, seek therapy.
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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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I DEMAND Panorama IMMEDIATELY produces a documentary showing Kamala Harris not instigating a violent riot, not sexually assaulting anyone, or getting fined for denying it, or being found guilty of business fraud, or f*cking a porn star AND accepting the result of an election.
You know. For balance.
You know. For balance.
November 9, 2025 at 10:21 PM
I DEMAND Panorama IMMEDIATELY produces a documentary showing Kamala Harris not instigating a violent riot, not sexually assaulting anyone, or getting fined for denying it, or being found guilty of business fraud, or f*cking a porn star AND accepting the result of an election.
You know. For balance.
You know. For balance.
I won't be lamenting his departure, but... Left wing bias? C'mon. Blatantly pro Tory for years, and now blatantly pro Reform. Mad.
www.theguardian.com/media/2025/n...
www.theguardian.com/media/2025/n...
Tim Davie resigns as BBC director general after accusations of ‘serious and systemic’ bias in coverage
Davie says departure is ‘my own decision’, while head of news also quits, as BBC prepares to apologise for editing of a Trump speech
www.theguardian.com
November 9, 2025 at 8:23 PM
I won't be lamenting his departure, but... Left wing bias? C'mon. Blatantly pro Tory for years, and now blatantly pro Reform. Mad.
www.theguardian.com/media/2025/n...
www.theguardian.com/media/2025/n...
With blatant right wing bias, how can it also have left wing bias? Which is it? Both?
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Boris Johnson trying to undermine BBC leadership, insiders fear after leak
Director general under pressure after release of memo criticising reporting on Trump, trans rights and Gaza
www.theguardian.com
November 7, 2025 at 6:55 PM
With blatant right wing bias, how can it also have left wing bias? Which is it? Both?
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
What this tells expats in the UK is... Don't leave. Ever.
Welcome to your new (forever) home.
Sad.
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
Welcome to your new (forever) home.
Sad.
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
Woman with stage 4 cancer has welfare benefit stopped after falling ill abroad
Ana Paula Cabral’s universal credit payments were abruptly ended by DWP when she failed to return from Portugal trip
www.theguardian.com
November 6, 2025 at 4:27 PM
What this tells expats in the UK is... Don't leave. Ever.
Welcome to your new (forever) home.
Sad.
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
Welcome to your new (forever) home.
Sad.
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
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Elon Musk is deliberately using his platform to poison our politics and divide our country.
It's time for the government to wake up to the threat he poses to our democracy.
It's time for the government to wake up to the threat he poses to our democracy.
November 6, 2025 at 12:38 PM
Elon Musk is deliberately using his platform to poison our politics and divide our country.
It's time for the government to wake up to the threat he poses to our democracy.
It's time for the government to wake up to the threat he poses to our democracy.
Reposted by David Hallett
Get your colleagues and friends off it, folks.
must-read analysis of how Musk's twitter is drenching new users with right-wing propaganda
news.sky.com/story/the-x-...
news.sky.com/story/the-x-...
Elon Musk is boosting the British right - and this shows how
Elon Musk is boosting the British right - and this shows how
news.sky.com
November 6, 2025 at 11:22 AM
Get your colleagues and friends off it, folks.
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X effect: How Elon Musk is boosting the British right
X effect: How Elon Musk is boosting the British right
Sky's Tom Cheshire explains how Elon Musk's X is boosting the British right.
news.sky.com
November 6, 2025 at 4:38 AM
X effect: How Elon Musk is boosting the British right
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The Empire created Britain’s wealth.
Yet I can’t remember it ever being mentioned in history at school.
It means many people have no idea why they see the mix of people they the do around them.
Ignorance of history plays into the hands of fhe far-right.
Yet I can’t remember it ever being mentioned in history at school.
It means many people have no idea why they see the mix of people they the do around them.
Ignorance of history plays into the hands of fhe far-right.
November 3, 2025 at 10:15 AM
The Empire created Britain’s wealth.
Yet I can’t remember it ever being mentioned in history at school.
It means many people have no idea why they see the mix of people they the do around them.
Ignorance of history plays into the hands of fhe far-right.
Yet I can’t remember it ever being mentioned in history at school.
It means many people have no idea why they see the mix of people they the do around them.
Ignorance of history plays into the hands of fhe far-right.
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If you're a National Trust member, it's that time of year again: Midnight tonight is the deadline. It's a shame people have to keep doing this to keep a toehold on historical truth in this country, but here we are. Voting link: www.nationaltrust.org.uk/who-we-are/a...
![[Scene is the entrance cabin to a NATIONAL TRUST PROPERTY AND GARDENS]
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NATIONAL TRUST EMPLOYEE [inside cabin]:
Hello there
2
[A young family - two parents two kids - have arrived at the front desk].
DAD:
Hi - do you have an activity trail, for the kids?
3
NT EMPLOYEE:
Of course – you’re just in time for the Autumn Gammon Trail!
4
MUM:
That sounds fun, doesn’t it kids?
5
NT EMPLOYEE [handing an activity sheet and pencils to the kids]:
Every autumn, the Reform Trust gammons flock back to the National Trust for the AGM. Just follow the trail round the grounds, and see how many you can spot!
6
NT EMPLOYEE [hearing something in the gardens]:
Listen - that's their call
[Calls emanating from the landscape]:
tut-tut
woke-woke
7
NT EMPLOYEE [showing the family an apparently empty fenced enclosure with some bushes in]:
They are extremely sensitive and fragile...
But you can bring them out of hiding if you put a little sign down mentioning slavery.
8
KIDS [pointing]:
There they are!
[Some little red faced PEOPLE wearing Barbour jackets and gilets emerge cautiously from the bushes. They are creeping towards a TINY SIGN in the middle of the enclosure].
[Little people noises]:
woke-woke
tut-tut
woke-woke
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[Close-up of the TINY SIGN - we can read that it says]:
Slavery had a bit to do with building this massive house.
[Noises from the little people again as they inspect the tiny sign]:
tut-tut
woke-woke
10
MUM [pointing]:
What's that one doing there?
NT EMPLOYEE:
Oh, that's so sweet…
11
[We see that one of the people is sat on a rock, with a little laptop open on a tree stump, and they are furiously typing away].
NT EMPLOYEE:
I think he's writing a column for the Daily Telegraph…
12
[We see close up to the little person’s screen, it is a word document reading]:
Are National Trust scones secretly WOKE?
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October 31, 2025 at 9:02 AM
If you're a National Trust member, it's that time of year again: Midnight tonight is the deadline. It's a shame people have to keep doing this to keep a toehold on historical truth in this country, but here we are. Voting link: www.nationaltrust.org.uk/who-we-are/a...
So she expressed it badly, but her point was correct? They'll be shooting for the disabled next.
I'm guessing they don't watch Strictly?
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
I'm guessing they don't watch Strictly?
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Nigel Farage defends MP’s complaint about TV adverts as ‘ugly’ but not ‘deliberately’ racist
Reform MP Sarah Pochin said seeing adverts of black or Asian people ‘drives me mad’
www.theguardian.com
October 27, 2025 at 7:36 PM
So she expressed it badly, but her point was correct? They'll be shooting for the disabled next.
I'm guessing they don't watch Strictly?
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
I'm guessing they don't watch Strictly?
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
I am outraged. I've just seen a TV advert featuring a child. Children are over represented on TV. You already can't avoid them just walking down the road. They're everywhere! Somone should introduce a bill to get them off my TV!
October 26, 2025 at 10:54 PM
I am outraged. I've just seen a TV advert featuring a child. Children are over represented on TV. You already can't avoid them just walking down the road. They're everywhere! Somone should introduce a bill to get them off my TV!
I used to staunchly defend the BBC. I don't recognise them as journalists any more. Pathetic.
BBC did not clarify the Philp policy much: failed to ask any of the key questions
- One reading "we have updated our policy at conference" is that the Conservative Party is ditching large parts of the May deportation bill
- Another reading "we would apply that retrospectively" is it stands
- One reading "we have updated our policy at conference" is that the Conservative Party is ditching large parts of the May deportation bill
- Another reading "we would apply that retrospectively" is it stands
October 26, 2025 at 2:26 PM
I used to staunchly defend the BBC. I don't recognise them as journalists any more. Pathetic.
"... Labour’s official remarks from the party chair, Anna Turley, who on Saturday night condemned Pochin’s remarks and said Reform were “more interested in dividing our country than uniting it”, but stopped short of calling the comments racist."
It's racist! Fight back!
It's racist! Fight back!
October 26, 2025 at 2:23 PM
"... Labour’s official remarks from the party chair, Anna Turley, who on Saturday night condemned Pochin’s remarks and said Reform were “more interested in dividing our country than uniting it”, but stopped short of calling the comments racist."
It's racist! Fight back!
It's racist! Fight back!
Same
I used to defend the BBC’s coverage until fairly recently. Election night 2024 was probably the point at which I snapped and could no longer avoid facing what it had become.
Nothing on the BBC Radio news this morning. Nothing I could find on their website. This is an MP from the party whose lead in the opinion polls normally ensures them wall-to-wall coverage. She spouts racist nonsense for which even she feels obliged to apologise. What on earth are they playing at?
October 26, 2025 at 1:29 PM
Same
Oh dear, free speech hurting? Diddums. There, there, all better now. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Farage criticises ‘disgraceful’ rhetoric after alleged attack on Reform council leader
George Finch, 19, says he was called a ‘racist’ and ‘fascist’ during incident in Warwickshire on Friday
www.theguardian.com
October 13, 2025 at 7:50 PM
Oh dear, free speech hurting? Diddums. There, there, all better now. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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She was arrested for holding a sign reading:
“I do not support the proscription of Palestine Action”
How that would warrant arrest is very unclear. I wonder if the police here even understand the boundaries of the bizarre law they’ve been forced to enforce.
“I do not support the proscription of Palestine Action”
How that would warrant arrest is very unclear. I wonder if the police here even understand the boundaries of the bizarre law they’ve been forced to enforce.
October 5, 2025 at 9:40 PM
She was arrested for holding a sign reading:
“I do not support the proscription of Palestine Action”
How that would warrant arrest is very unclear. I wonder if the police here even understand the boundaries of the bizarre law they’ve been forced to enforce.
“I do not support the proscription of Palestine Action”
How that would warrant arrest is very unclear. I wonder if the police here even understand the boundaries of the bizarre law they’ve been forced to enforce.
October 6, 2025 at 8:34 AM
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Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.
October 5, 2025 at 9:08 AM
Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.
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It tells you everything you need to know about British politics that the only people who have ever had to apologise for Nigel Farage's long history of racism are the people who dare to call it what it actually is
www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/nigel-fara...
www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/nigel-fara...
Nigel Farage Is a Racist
The media is refusing to state the most bleedingly obvious facts about a man whose entire career has been devoted to pursuing a racist political agenda
www.adambienkov.co.uk
October 4, 2025 at 11:42 AM
It tells you everything you need to know about British politics that the only people who have ever had to apologise for Nigel Farage's long history of racism are the people who dare to call it what it actually is
www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/nigel-fara...
www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/nigel-fara...
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Poor Nigel Farage doesn’t like being called an ‘enemy’, he thinks it’s inciteful language.
He might want to tell Nigel Farage that.
He might want to tell Nigel Farage that.
September 28, 2025 at 5:36 AM
Poor Nigel Farage doesn’t like being called an ‘enemy’, he thinks it’s inciteful language.
He might want to tell Nigel Farage that.
He might want to tell Nigel Farage that.
Reform: "Our streets are burning, our economy is in tatters, the "different" people are the cause of all our problems, let's klick them all out, let's make them unwelcome"...
Gov Response: "Well actually, one of the numbers you used is wrong."
FFS
For the love of God, grow a pair and FIGHT BACK!
Gov Response: "Well actually, one of the numbers you used is wrong."
FFS
For the love of God, grow a pair and FIGHT BACK!
September 22, 2025 at 9:48 PM
Reform: "Our streets are burning, our economy is in tatters, the "different" people are the cause of all our problems, let's klick them all out, let's make them unwelcome"...
Gov Response: "Well actually, one of the numbers you used is wrong."
FFS
For the love of God, grow a pair and FIGHT BACK!
Gov Response: "Well actually, one of the numbers you used is wrong."
FFS
For the love of God, grow a pair and FIGHT BACK!
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I have defended the BBC again and again.
No more.
No more.
For 56 minutes Sky News and BBC News interrupted everything else and carried a Reform UK feed live, uninterrupted, unchallenged. The stream spluttered, froze, pixelated - dozens of times - still they stuck with it. FOR ONE HOUR.
This is an editorial choice. No other party gets this coverage. ~AA
This is an editorial choice. No other party gets this coverage. ~AA
September 22, 2025 at 11:05 AM
I have defended the BBC again and again.
No more.
No more.