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The CURRENT sitting MP for Clacton earns £511,000 as a presenter for GB News and took £281,000 as a brand ambassador for Direct Bullion.
So maybe sit this one out, you rancid herring.
So maybe sit this one out, you rancid herring.
November 10, 2025 at 5:44 PM
The CURRENT sitting MP for Clacton earns £511,000 as a presenter for GB News and took £281,000 as a brand ambassador for Direct Bullion.
So maybe sit this one out, you rancid herring.
So maybe sit this one out, you rancid herring.
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My story on GB News in this month's print edition of @bylinetimes.bsky.social is now online:
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
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
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
substack.com
November 10, 2025 at 5:19 PM
My story on GB News in this month's print edition of @bylinetimes.bsky.social is now online:
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
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
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‘Starmer hopes lifting the 2-child cap will cheer up his unhappy MPs’
Not lift families out of poverty
Not help the poor and vulnerable
Not improve people’s lives
CHEER UP HIS UNHAPPY MPS
Not lift families out of poverty
Not help the poor and vulnerable
Not improve people’s lives
CHEER UP HIS UNHAPPY MPS
In September, HuffPost UK revealed Starmer had decided the 2-child benefit cap must go.
One MP says: “It’s a recognition that we need to show some kind of progressive inclination, and presumably to try and cool the leadership talk.”
www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/amp/entry/st...
One MP says: “It’s a recognition that we need to show some kind of progressive inclination, and presumably to try and cool the leadership talk.”
www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/amp/entry/st...
Starmer Hopes Lifting The 2-Child Benefit Cap Will Cheer Up His Unhappy MPs. But Is It Too Late?
The prime minister is being urged by his allies to use his Labour conference speech to "draw a line" over recent controversies.
www.huffingtonpost.co.uk
November 11, 2025 at 11:47 AM
‘Starmer hopes lifting the 2-child cap will cheer up his unhappy MPs’
Not lift families out of poverty
Not help the poor and vulnerable
Not improve people’s lives
CHEER UP HIS UNHAPPY MPS
Not lift families out of poverty
Not help the poor and vulnerable
Not improve people’s lives
CHEER UP HIS UNHAPPY MPS
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Time for more ‘resignations’ or more specifically sackings.
Note that still in post at the BBC is Robbie Gibb, who helped set up GB News, and John McAndrew, formerly director of news and programmes at GB News.
November 10, 2025 at 5:12 PM
Time for more ‘resignations’ or more specifically sackings.
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BBC Trump row: Pro-Israel bias over Gaza is the real scandal - https://www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/bbc-trump-row-gaza-genocide-whitewashing-israel-bias
BBC Trump row: Pro-Israel bias over Gaza is the real scandal
The corporation stands at a crossroads. Down one path lies self-censorship and hollow apologies; down the other lies the public it was built to serve
www.middleeasteye.net
November 10, 2025 at 5:15 PM
BBC Trump row: Pro-Israel bias over Gaza is the real scandal - https://www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/bbc-trump-row-gaza-genocide-whitewashing-israel-bias
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You may have missed this gem yesterday. From which we learn that:
1. Betting shops are really good for the mental health of isolated people.
2. Most drug-takers are not a problem.
3. Kids put tuppence in slot machines in the hope of getting rich.
4. Farage probably has a gambling industry donor.
1. Betting shops are really good for the mental health of isolated people.
2. Most drug-takers are not a problem.
3. Kids put tuppence in slot machines in the hope of getting rich.
4. Farage probably has a gambling industry donor.
November 11, 2025 at 10:08 AM
You may have missed this gem yesterday. From which we learn that:
1. Betting shops are really good for the mental health of isolated people.
2. Most drug-takers are not a problem.
3. Kids put tuppence in slot machines in the hope of getting rich.
4. Farage probably has a gambling industry donor.
1. Betting shops are really good for the mental health of isolated people.
2. Most drug-takers are not a problem.
3. Kids put tuppence in slot machines in the hope of getting rich.
4. Farage probably has a gambling industry donor.
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Great to see people catching up on Sir Robbie Gibb's role in setting up GB News - five years after @nafeez.bsky.social explained on @bylinetimes.bsky.social
November 10, 2025 at 4:19 PM
Great to see people catching up on Sir Robbie Gibb's role in setting up GB News - five years after @nafeez.bsky.social explained on @bylinetimes.bsky.social
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RMT demands end to outsourcing on publicly owned Northern Trains ahead of Manchester day of action
Rail union, RMT is stepping up its national campaign to end outsourcing across the railway with a day of action to put pressure on Northern in Manchester on Wednesday 19 November.
rmtunion.org/3JDmVBb
Rail union, RMT is stepping up its national campaign to end outsourcing across the railway with a day of action to put pressure on Northern in Manchester on Wednesday 19 November.
rmtunion.org/3JDmVBb
RMT demands end to outsourcing on publicly owned Northern Trains ahead of Manchester day of action
Rail union, RMT is stepping up its national campaign to end outsourcing across the railway with a day of action to put pressure on Northern in Manchester on Wednesday 19 November.
rmtunion.org
November 11, 2025 at 10:16 AM
RMT demands end to outsourcing on publicly owned Northern Trains ahead of Manchester day of action
Rail union, RMT is stepping up its national campaign to end outsourcing across the railway with a day of action to put pressure on Northern in Manchester on Wednesday 19 November.
rmtunion.org/3JDmVBb
Rail union, RMT is stepping up its national campaign to end outsourcing across the railway with a day of action to put pressure on Northern in Manchester on Wednesday 19 November.
rmtunion.org/3JDmVBb
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Politico: "Veteran BBC presenter David Dimbleby told Channel 4 last night that it is “one of the most violent assaults on the BBC’s independence that I’ve seen in my lifetime,” while Playbook is told staff have been voicing “a lot of anger towards [right wing BBC board member] Robbie Gibb.”
November 11, 2025 at 9:35 AM
Politico: "Veteran BBC presenter David Dimbleby told Channel 4 last night that it is “one of the most violent assaults on the BBC’s independence that I’ve seen in my lifetime,” while Playbook is told staff have been voicing “a lot of anger towards [right wing BBC board member] Robbie Gibb.”
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Musician Sam Fender has donated his £25,000 Mercury Prize winnings to the Music Venues Trust, to support its work securing the future of grassroots venues around the UK.
Fender: “I wouldn’t be doing what I am today if it wasn’t for all the gigs I played [at small venues] when I was starting out."
Fender: “I wouldn’t be doing what I am today if it wasn’t for all the gigs I played [at small venues] when I was starting out."
November 11, 2025 at 10:18 AM
Musician Sam Fender has donated his £25,000 Mercury Prize winnings to the Music Venues Trust, to support its work securing the future of grassroots venues around the UK.
Fender: “I wouldn’t be doing what I am today if it wasn’t for all the gigs I played [at small venues] when I was starting out."
Fender: “I wouldn’t be doing what I am today if it wasn’t for all the gigs I played [at small venues] when I was starting out."
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Huge congratulations to Terror for winning the War on Terror ♥️
November 11, 2025 at 9:49 AM
Huge congratulations to Terror for winning the War on Terror ♥️
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The BBC’s core problem is that, like the NHS, it models the benefits and virtues of a not-for-profit public service in a world of rapacious corporate greed and unstinting right-wing hostility to the idea of the public good www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/w...
Why the BBC Is Facing Its Gravest Crisis in Decades
www.nytimes.com
November 10, 2025 at 11:25 PM
The BBC’s core problem is that, like the NHS, it models the benefits and virtues of a not-for-profit public service in a world of rapacious corporate greed and unstinting right-wing hostility to the idea of the public good www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/w...
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The greatest instrument of soft power this country has ever had. The turning of its natural allies against it through the charge list you lay out has been a deliberate act by Tory appointees determined to bring it down and replace it with billionaire owned and controlled media.
November 11, 2025 at 9:54 AM
The greatest instrument of soft power this country has ever had. The turning of its natural allies against it through the charge list you lay out has been a deliberate act by Tory appointees determined to bring it down and replace it with billionaire owned and controlled media.
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And their worst crime of all, covering up the UKs participation in a genocide.
The thing is, this current drama works in their favour because they get to pretend they're biased in the opposite direction, and the vast majority of viewers will believe it.
The thing is, this current drama works in their favour because they get to pretend they're biased in the opposite direction, and the vast majority of viewers will believe it.
November 11, 2025 at 9:10 AM
And their worst crime of all, covering up the UKs participation in a genocide.
The thing is, this current drama works in their favour because they get to pretend they're biased in the opposite direction, and the vast majority of viewers will believe it.
The thing is, this current drama works in their favour because they get to pretend they're biased in the opposite direction, and the vast majority of viewers will believe it.
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To all those asserting 'but how much worse would things be without BBC News'...
In the last decade, the BBC has legitimised climate change denialism, paved the way for Brexit, defended the coup that was prorogation, over-platformed Farage's Far Right projects, and is neutral on our abandonment of human rights norms.
What is this 'good' it supposedly does?
What is this 'good' it supposedly does?
November 11, 2025 at 10:15 AM
To all those asserting 'but how much worse would things be without BBC News'...
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Welsh Green leader Anthony Slaughter used his conference speech on Saturday to say Greens in the Senedd would ‘improve people’s lives’ & the country must make the most of a ‘once in a generation’ chance to elect a new Govt
"We need a Govt that won’t bow down to landowners, landlords & corporations"
"We need a Govt that won’t bow down to landowners, landlords & corporations"
November 10, 2025 at 9:26 AM
Welsh Green leader Anthony Slaughter used his conference speech on Saturday to say Greens in the Senedd would ‘improve people’s lives’ & the country must make the most of a ‘once in a generation’ chance to elect a new Govt
"We need a Govt that won’t bow down to landowners, landlords & corporations"
"We need a Govt that won’t bow down to landowners, landlords & corporations"
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If the Media and its owners don't pay tax in the UK they shouldn't be able to print anything in the UK.
"And yeah we don't want the Americans owning our Media, get them out."
"And yeah we don't want the Americans owning our Media, get them out."
November 10, 2025 at 11:32 PM
If the Media and its owners don't pay tax in the UK they shouldn't be able to print anything in the UK.
"And yeah we don't want the Americans owning our Media, get them out."
"And yeah we don't want the Americans owning our Media, get them out."
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Absolutely this.
Maybe Keir should demand the heads of major US news networks any time they imply Britain is on the brink of civil war or that we live under sharia law. Or does it not work both ways?
November 10, 2025 at 2:04 PM
Absolutely this.
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Well we should look at x which has explicitly called for political violence in the UK.
November 10, 2025 at 11:47 AM
Well we should look at x which has explicitly called for political violence in the UK.
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Or just ban x as a terrorist organisation.
November 10, 2025 at 11:49 AM
Or just ban x as a terrorist organisation.
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Maybe Keir should demand the heads of major US news networks any time they imply Britain is on the brink of civil war or that we live under sharia law. Or does it not work both ways?
November 10, 2025 at 11:29 AM
Maybe Keir should demand the heads of major US news networks any time they imply Britain is on the brink of civil war or that we live under sharia law. Or does it not work both ways?
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‼️ Mexico's first woman president, Claudia Sheinbaum, just announced she's pressing charges after being groped in the street:
“If they do this to the president, what happens to all the women in our country?”
“If they do this to the president, what happens to all the women in our country?”
November 10, 2025 at 4:21 PM
‼️ Mexico's first woman president, Claudia Sheinbaum, just announced she's pressing charges after being groped in the street:
“If they do this to the president, what happens to all the women in our country?”
“If they do this to the president, what happens to all the women in our country?”
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Am remembering when a senior BBC News bod told me how they coded into their visual imagery criticisms of Jeremy Corbyn. But sure, it has a Left wing bias. waitingfortax.com/2018/03/19/t...
November 11, 2025 at 9:22 AM
Am remembering when a senior BBC News bod told me how they coded into their visual imagery criticisms of Jeremy Corbyn. But sure, it has a Left wing bias. waitingfortax.com/2018/03/19/t...
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"I've never heard a president booed this loudly in my life."
November 11, 2025 at 8:51 AM
"I've never heard a president booed this loudly in my life."
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Pigs might fly! The owners of all those other media organisations are having wet dreams about getting a big slice of the BBC
November 10, 2025 at 6:12 PM
Pigs might fly! The owners of all those other media organisations are having wet dreams about getting a big slice of the BBC