Huw C. Davies
@huwcdavies.bsky.social
Lecturer Education Futures & Digital Education based at Edinburgh Futures Institute, University of Edinburgh. Own views.
Right wing accusations of BBC pro-trans bias based on claims such as this: independent production teams coordinating in secret to allow trans people to participate in quizzes that are broadcast on the same night.
November 11, 2025 at 10:57 AM
Right wing accusations of BBC pro-trans bias based on claims such as this: independent production teams coordinating in secret to allow trans people to participate in quizzes that are broadcast on the same night.
Interesting debate. I can’t see how Labour reconciles its growth ambitions & promised improvements in public services with throttling immigration. It needs to be honest with the electorate & say we can slash immigration but we will have to significantly increase income tax & forget about growth.
new episode (2/2) - i've argued giving ground on cultural issues is a horrible strategy
@prossertj.bsky.social thinks labour have it right
we debate
www.politicalphilosophypodcast.com/ukdebate
@prossertj.bsky.social thinks labour have it right
we debate
www.politicalphilosophypodcast.com/ukdebate
Should we compromise with the right on immigration?
A debate with Thomas Prosser
www.politicalphilosophypodcast.com
November 10, 2025 at 10:20 PM
Interesting debate. I can’t see how Labour reconciles its growth ambitions & promised improvements in public services with throttling immigration. It needs to be honest with the electorate & say we can slash immigration but we will have to significantly increase income tax & forget about growth.
The guy who subsidises the survival of GBNews and The Spectator doesn’t want the BBC to survive either. There is nothing can or should be doing to appease this lot - they believe Attenborough documentaries are biased towards the ‘green lobby’.
November 10, 2025 at 1:25 PM
The guy who subsidises the survival of GBNews and The Spectator doesn’t want the BBC to survive either. There is nothing can or should be doing to appease this lot - they believe Attenborough documentaries are biased towards the ‘green lobby’.
The irony of a Reform politician arguing an EU member working within the constraints of the EU has better control of its boarders than the UK.
"You, like Nigel Farage, are simply lying about what the ONS says."
I somewhat lost my patience with Reform Councillor Bill Piper here.. (from about 1h 27 min in)
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
I somewhat lost my patience with Reform Councillor Bill Piper here.. (from about 1h 27 min in)
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
Stephen Nolan - 08/11/2025 - BBC Sounds
The day's main news stories, topical debate and interviews.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 10, 2025 at 11:58 AM
The irony of a Reform politician arguing an EU member working within the constraints of the EU has better control of its boarders than the UK.
A new student society for students who hate universities, and everyone in them, and still went to one for some reason.
November 10, 2025 at 11:38 AM
A new student society for students who hate universities, and everyone in them, and still went to one for some reason.
Imagine the intensity of the backlash if the BBC had booked a political scientist who suggested Trump’s behaviour on Jan 6th was ‘closer to fascism than populism’. Trump would be livid and would want him sacked.
4 years ago Goodwin was calling what he now stands for fascism. He should be asked to explain why on every mainstream show he’s invited on.
November 9, 2025 at 10:21 PM
Imagine the intensity of the backlash if the BBC had booked a political scientist who suggested Trump’s behaviour on Jan 6th was ‘closer to fascism than populism’. Trump would be livid and would want him sacked.
A MAGA company owning our defence infrastructure doesn’t seem prudent or ethical.
November 7, 2025 at 6:15 PM
A MAGA company owning our defence infrastructure doesn’t seem prudent or ethical.
FFS, the Alliance of Responsible Citizenship's climate denialist pseudo-expert is getting money from Bill Gates now to flood the zone with more shit.
Bill Gates Gave $3.5M to Think Tank Run by Climate Crisis Denier Bjorn Lomborg
By @rtakver.bsky.social @desmog.com
www.desmog.com/2025/11/05/b...
By @rtakver.bsky.social @desmog.com
www.desmog.com/2025/11/05/b...
Bill Gates Gave $3.5M to Think Tank Run by Climate Crisis Denier Bjorn Lomborg
Tax records reveal that the billionaire’s foundation has donated for years to Lomborg’s Copenhagen Consensus Center.
www.desmog.com
November 7, 2025 at 11:01 AM
FFS, the Alliance of Responsible Citizenship's climate denialist pseudo-expert is getting money from Bill Gates now to flood the zone with more shit.
I’ve yet to find a use for AI that doesn’t produce a poor substitute for what I could’ve done with more time available. I feel like it’s my fault rather than the limitations of the technology. Which is a successful outcome for this form of capitalism.
November 7, 2025 at 9:42 AM
I’ve yet to find a use for AI that doesn’t produce a poor substitute for what I could’ve done with more time available. I feel like it’s my fault rather than the limitations of the technology. Which is a successful outcome for this form of capitalism.
Educators are being made to feel inadequate for not realising AI’s potential. They must submit, adapt, augment themselves, and become ‘AI literate’ or risk obsolescence.
This is what supposed "educationalists" are currently raking in money for suggesting we force-feed to millions of students at a stressful time in their young lives.
I wanted ChatGPT to help me. So why did it advise me how to kill myself?
ChatGPT wrote a woman a suicide note and another AI chatbot role-played sexual acts with children, BBC finds.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 7, 2025 at 9:34 AM
Educators are being made to feel inadequate for not realising AI’s potential. They must submit, adapt, augment themselves, and become ‘AI literate’ or risk obsolescence.
Reposted by Huw C. Davies
This is what supposed "educationalists" are currently raking in money for suggesting we force-feed to millions of students at a stressful time in their young lives.
I wanted ChatGPT to help me. So why did it advise me how to kill myself?
ChatGPT wrote a woman a suicide note and another AI chatbot role-played sexual acts with children, BBC finds.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 7, 2025 at 9:06 AM
This is what supposed "educationalists" are currently raking in money for suggesting we force-feed to millions of students at a stressful time in their young lives.
Absolute mystery.
November 6, 2025 at 7:06 PM
Absolute mystery.
Reposted by Huw C. Davies
The level of online radicalisation going on is far beyond what most people realise.
November 6, 2025 at 12:08 PM
The level of online radicalisation going on is far beyond what most people realise.
Just saw a guy in Edinburgh with a typical X bio on his shirt - 'IF THIS FLAG OFFENDS YOU I'LL HELP YOU PACK' under a Union Jack. I think this is what theorists mean by the post-digital.
November 6, 2025 at 10:44 AM
Just saw a guy in Edinburgh with a typical X bio on his shirt - 'IF THIS FLAG OFFENDS YOU I'LL HELP YOU PACK' under a Union Jack. I think this is what theorists mean by the post-digital.
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There's also a piece I've written to go with this. You can read it for free, here: www.tom-cox.com/what-will-li...
November 5, 2025 at 9:40 AM
There's also a piece I've written to go with this. You can read it for free, here: www.tom-cox.com/what-will-li...
Reposted by Huw C. Davies
A great day for the golden rule of political analysis: when the right wins it is a resounding ideological victory that humiliates the left and when the left wins it is a precarious fluke that will surely end up humiliating the left. Conservatives are power’s landlords and the left merely tenants
November 5, 2025 at 10:35 AM
A great day for the golden rule of political analysis: when the right wins it is a resounding ideological victory that humiliates the left and when the left wins it is a precarious fluke that will surely end up humiliating the left. Conservatives are power’s landlords and the left merely tenants
Lots of great points in this. This assessment of radical/hard/populist/far right chimes with my article on ARC. Regressive neoliberalism - a smaller state that only serves the interests of the in-group. Failed regressive ideas repackaged as radical thinking.
geoffmulgan.substack.com/p/hollowed-o...
geoffmulgan.substack.com/p/hollowed-o...
November 5, 2025 at 10:55 AM
Lots of great points in this. This assessment of radical/hard/populist/far right chimes with my article on ARC. Regressive neoliberalism - a smaller state that only serves the interests of the in-group. Failed regressive ideas repackaged as radical thinking.
geoffmulgan.substack.com/p/hollowed-o...
geoffmulgan.substack.com/p/hollowed-o...
If Reform won it would be an opportunity for Marshall to kill the BBC. He sees it through the lens of conspiracy theorists who were radicalised during the pandemic - as state propaganda. There is nothing the BBC can do to appease positions that aren’t reality based.
November 4, 2025 at 7:38 PM
If Reform won it would be an opportunity for Marshall to kill the BBC. He sees it through the lens of conspiracy theorists who were radicalised during the pandemic - as state propaganda. There is nothing the BBC can do to appease positions that aren’t reality based.
What are the chances Panorama will do a similar investigation into Paul Marshall’s network? www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...
Panorama - Trump and the Tech Titans
Silicon Valley’s original disruptors didn’t just change technology - they rewired politics. Panorama investigates the 'PayPal Mafia' and their influence on Donald Trump’s rise to the White House.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 4, 2025 at 7:28 PM
What are the chances Panorama will do a similar investigation into Paul Marshall’s network? www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...
Excellent deep dive into the mess the BBC is in: podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/p...
Dr Tom Mills: The BBC, Billionaires, & the Battle for Media Power
Podcast Episode · Peter York's Culture Wars House Party · 03/11/2025 · 1h 11m
podcasts.apple.com
November 4, 2025 at 7:24 PM
Excellent deep dive into the mess the BBC is in: podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/p...
Wondering how this 43% can look back on the last 15 years and think we need more austerity. Are these people who don’t use public services?
If you had to choose, which do you think is the best approach for improving the public finances?
Tax increases: 31%
Spending cuts: 43%
yougov.co.uk/topics/polit...
Tax increases: 31%
Spending cuts: 43%
yougov.co.uk/topics/polit...
November 4, 2025 at 4:53 PM
Wondering how this 43% can look back on the last 15 years and think we need more austerity. Are these people who don’t use public services?
The owners of the UK’s pro fossil fuel, anti immigrant and anti trans propaganda channel are based in the UAE. It’s broadcasting to the world that Britain is a hell hole that can only be saved by Reform. Yet, it’s licensed to broadcast as a news channel the equivalent of the BBC.
The UAE where hugging in public can get you arrested, where human rights barely exist, where foreign workers are routinely abused, where critics of the regime routinely disappear, where an Indian nanny was shot by firing squad in March & where marital rape is not a criminal offence but being gay is.
November 3, 2025 at 10:01 AM
The owners of the UK’s pro fossil fuel, anti immigrant and anti trans propaganda channel are based in the UAE. It’s broadcasting to the world that Britain is a hell hole that can only be saved by Reform. Yet, it’s licensed to broadcast as a news channel the equivalent of the BBC.
A lot of other high profile X accounts have joined in this attack on a member of the public who merely said filling out all the PIP forms was so difficult only people with genuine cause would persevere. This is why the #BBCQT production team shouldn’t book bad faith actors. They have a duty of care.
A new low, even by Goodwin's increasingly awful standards. Anxiety (no scare quotes are needed) takes many forms. And using his social media bully pulpit to punch down is despicable.
November 2, 2025 at 8:55 PM
A lot of other high profile X accounts have joined in this attack on a member of the public who merely said filling out all the PIP forms was so difficult only people with genuine cause would persevere. This is why the #BBCQT production team shouldn’t book bad faith actors. They have a duty of care.
This is indistinguishable from the C19th racism used to justify colonialism. What does ‘visibly inferior’ mean?For ‘liberal ruling class’ see Lisa Nandy and various Northerners in the QT audience selected to represent a cross section of the public.
November 2, 2025 at 6:22 PM
This is indistinguishable from the C19th racism used to justify colonialism. What does ‘visibly inferior’ mean?For ‘liberal ruling class’ see Lisa Nandy and various Northerners in the QT audience selected to represent a cross section of the public.
Apart from a few angry posts on here, why will this be cost free? Where’s the stigma gone? Was it ever a genuine one? Have social norms or the rules changed? This is far from the first time he’s written or said something like this and he’ll be on the BBC again soon.
He’s not really trying to hide it. It’s open, unapologetic racism; let’s be plain about it.
November 2, 2025 at 3:38 PM
Apart from a few angry posts on here, why will this be cost free? Where’s the stigma gone? Was it ever a genuine one? Have social norms or the rules changed? This is far from the first time he’s written or said something like this and he’ll be on the BBC again soon.