Jon Loveridge
@jonloveridge.bsky.social
Optimistic but pragmatic. Data & Analytics enjoyer. Derby County and Bromsgrove Sporting supporter
This is very good - it also makes an obvious point, but one that does need stating clearly and repeatedly - the notion that Trump cares about journalistic accuracy or integrity is obviously, laughably absurd. The media and it’s reporting is something he seeks to manipulate, nothing else
The first step towards saving our precious BBC: remove Robbie Gibb from the board | Ed Davey
The first step towards saving our precious BBC: remove Robbie Gibb from the board | Ed Davey
The BBC belongs to all of us, and it is under attack as never before. The government must defend it from its enemies, within and without, says Liberal Democrat leader Ed Davey
www.theguardian.com
November 10, 2025 at 6:45 PM
This is very good - it also makes an obvious point, but one that does need stating clearly and repeatedly - the notion that Trump cares about journalistic accuracy or integrity is obviously, laughably absurd. The media and it’s reporting is something he seeks to manipulate, nothing else
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The fact that the BBC has made serious culpable errors does not negate the point that there is a real and concerted right-wing media campaign to destroy it. Both points can be true at the same time and the campaign would not end even if the errors did.
November 10, 2025 at 1:08 PM
The fact that the BBC has made serious culpable errors does not negate the point that there is a real and concerted right-wing media campaign to destroy it. Both points can be true at the same time and the campaign would not end even if the errors did.
Trumps speech & actions on January 6th were unlike anything anyone has seen before. He didn’t concede, he was aggressive. He still refuses to accept the result of that election even now. He knew what the emotions were of his base. A lot of this seems to have been forgotten due to some clunky editing
’This has been turned into something much bigger, very deliberately.’
After dissecting Trump’s original 2021 speech, @mrjamesob.bsky.social and caller Al conclude that the BBC’s edit is not the 'heinous misrepresentation’ it’s made out to be.
After dissecting Trump’s original 2021 speech, @mrjamesob.bsky.social and caller Al conclude that the BBC’s edit is not the 'heinous misrepresentation’ it’s made out to be.
November 10, 2025 at 11:25 AM
Trumps speech & actions on January 6th were unlike anything anyone has seen before. He didn’t concede, he was aggressive. He still refuses to accept the result of that election even now. He knew what the emotions were of his base. A lot of this seems to have been forgotten due to some clunky editing
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So make no mistake, this is a coordinated assault on one of the cornerstones of British civic life from people who want to weaken our democracy. Sadly, the BBC is so cowed it will actively abet them in its own destruction.
November 10, 2025 at 9:53 AM
So make no mistake, this is a coordinated assault on one of the cornerstones of British civic life from people who want to weaken our democracy. Sadly, the BBC is so cowed it will actively abet them in its own destruction.
Precisely this. Outside of being openly mocked, no one, and absolutely no one on the right, is calling for anything like what is happening at the BBC for the Murdoch owned, Gallagher edited Times. Can’t think why
The BBC will fuck things up from time to time. Lots of major news organisations do; just look at The Times having to memoryhole several fake news stories in a matter of weeks.
No one is calling for the abolition of The Times, however.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
No one is calling for the abolition of The Times, however.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
UK newspaper editor calls Bill de Blasio fake interview blunder ‘humiliating’
A Times associate editor reportedly addressed situation in an email to staff, saying: ‘We should have been on our guard’
www.theguardian.com
November 10, 2025 at 10:07 AM
Precisely this. Outside of being openly mocked, no one, and absolutely no one on the right, is calling for anything like what is happening at the BBC for the Murdoch owned, Gallagher edited Times. Can’t think why
The significant negative consequences of Brexit. Meanwhile, Reform lead the polls 🙃
Headline from a serious and long working paper on the economic impact of Brexit. Possible that this has been feeding into OBR and HMT discussions?
November 10, 2025 at 9:54 AM
The significant negative consequences of Brexit. Meanwhile, Reform lead the polls 🙃
Both the football teams I follow are in good form. It’s a very odd feeling after many years of pretty lacklustre stuff!! Following football is actually fun when it’s a lot less attritional #DCFC #BromsgroveSporting
November 9, 2025 at 11:34 PM
Both the football teams I follow are in good form. It’s a very odd feeling after many years of pretty lacklustre stuff!! Following football is actually fun when it’s a lot less attritional #DCFC #BromsgroveSporting
I don’t particularly care about the individuals involved, but it’s incredibly sad to see what the BBC, and especially its news output, has become. While it carries on trying to appease people that fundamentally hate it, eventually it will run out of supporters
November 9, 2025 at 8:55 PM
I don’t particularly care about the individuals involved, but it’s incredibly sad to see what the BBC, and especially its news output, has become. While it carries on trying to appease people that fundamentally hate it, eventually it will run out of supporters
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The BBC's senior leadership resigning en masse over one dodgy edit in one programme, simply because the right wing press demands it, tells you everything you need to know about where the power really lies in that relationship
November 9, 2025 at 8:04 PM
The BBC's senior leadership resigning en masse over one dodgy edit in one programme, simply because the right wing press demands it, tells you everything you need to know about where the power really lies in that relationship
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the right winger who was appointed to lead the BBC in the hope of appeasing right wingers has been driven out by right wingers for not appeasing right wingers enough and the BBC has the chance to do the funniest thing ever
November 9, 2025 at 6:38 PM
the right winger who was appointed to lead the BBC in the hope of appeasing right wingers has been driven out by right wingers for not appeasing right wingers enough and the BBC has the chance to do the funniest thing ever
Exactly this - of course it is on the current government to fix things. But to pretend what we see with prisons - and any other failing govt responsibility - has just magically happened in the last 18 months as opposed to the last 15 years is obviously false
It's obviously absurd to blame David Lammy for the mess the system is in when he's been there a few months and the last government drove it into a wall.
But it's this government who need to figure out some solutions.
But it's this government who need to figure out some solutions.
November 9, 2025 at 8:53 AM
Exactly this - of course it is on the current government to fix things. But to pretend what we see with prisons - and any other failing govt responsibility - has just magically happened in the last 18 months as opposed to the last 15 years is obviously false
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Along with the meatpacking rant, further evidence Trump has clocked the cost-of-living issue but has no idea what to do about it. I guess cutting tariffs is out of the question.
(NB I reckon that despite tariffs, inflationary risks from services are probably bigger than those from goods.)
(NB I reckon that despite tariffs, inflationary risks from services are probably bigger than those from goods.)
November 8, 2025 at 9:03 PM
Along with the meatpacking rant, further evidence Trump has clocked the cost-of-living issue but has no idea what to do about it. I guess cutting tariffs is out of the question.
(NB I reckon that despite tariffs, inflationary risks from services are probably bigger than those from goods.)
(NB I reckon that despite tariffs, inflationary risks from services are probably bigger than those from goods.)
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Lowe doesn't need the money but the 'thrill' of engagment can be just as corrupting as the love of cash & if engagement/cash increase according to the extremity of the opinions expressed then you need integrity to resist the temptation to become ever more offensive. This is what Musk has engineered.
Human trafficking.
Rupert Lowe makes more money from using Elon Musk’s website than any other MP.
There is money to be made from mass deportations and talking about mass deportations.
Rupert Lowe makes more money from using Elon Musk’s website than any other MP.
There is money to be made from mass deportations and talking about mass deportations.
November 7, 2025 at 9:16 AM
Lowe doesn't need the money but the 'thrill' of engagment can be just as corrupting as the love of cash & if engagement/cash increase according to the extremity of the opinions expressed then you need integrity to resist the temptation to become ever more offensive. This is what Musk has engineered.
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Without DEI, we would only make merit-based hires, like the genius strategist who decided to pick a fight with his boss’s new young wife.
Dominic Cummings has this racialised take on David Lammy
There is an increasingly prevalent kneejerk online rightwing trait to call the presence of any black or Asian person a diversity hire
There is an increasingly prevalent kneejerk online rightwing trait to call the presence of any black or Asian person a diversity hire
November 6, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Without DEI, we would only make merit-based hires, like the genius strategist who decided to pick a fight with his boss’s new young wife.
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These days, believers in free trade are generally found on the Left and Centre. The Right is now intellectually incoherent on this front.
Frost looks ready to embody this incoherence – someone who actively damaged free trade but then heads up a free trade think tank.
Frost looks ready to embody this incoherence – someone who actively damaged free trade but then heads up a free trade think tank.
November 6, 2025 at 8:25 PM
These days, believers in free trade are generally found on the Left and Centre. The Right is now intellectually incoherent on this front.
Frost looks ready to embody this incoherence – someone who actively damaged free trade but then heads up a free trade think tank.
Frost looks ready to embody this incoherence – someone who actively damaged free trade but then heads up a free trade think tank.
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FIFA awarding a "peace prize" to Trump would be so absolutely on-brand, a truly genius innovation.
November 5, 2025 at 8:30 PM
FIFA awarding a "peace prize" to Trump would be so absolutely on-brand, a truly genius innovation.
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Scumbags
November 5, 2025 at 7:59 PM
Scumbags
Yet again - like with the economy, or immigration, or the NHS, or Brexit - it’s just another opportunistic political football where all MPs are encouraged to deceive or dodge scrutiny. Our way of doing politics is so broken
There were 115 prisoners mistakenly released in the final year of the last Conservative Government alone.
Interesting that it only becomes a major national scandal the second these releases can be blamed on a Labour government
Interesting that it only becomes a major national scandal the second these releases can be blamed on a Labour government
November 5, 2025 at 1:35 PM
Yet again - like with the economy, or immigration, or the NHS, or Brexit - it’s just another opportunistic political football where all MPs are encouraged to deceive or dodge scrutiny. Our way of doing politics is so broken
Labour will rightly be criticised for breaking a commitment not to increase certain taxes, but it is worth remembering the scale of the Conservative & Reform tax cut promises at the last GE
'Everyone has lied to us about taxes'
YouTube video by LBC
youtube.com
November 5, 2025 at 12:46 PM
Labour will rightly be criticised for breaking a commitment not to increase certain taxes, but it is worth remembering the scale of the Conservative & Reform tax cut promises at the last GE
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Boy, sure doesn't SEEM like wall to wall coverage of Mamdani dragged down Democratic turn out or juiced opposition in other races... 🤔🤔
Maybe the reactionary pundit class are fucking idiots?
Maybe the reactionary pundit class are fucking idiots?
November 5, 2025 at 9:12 AM
Boy, sure doesn't SEEM like wall to wall coverage of Mamdani dragged down Democratic turn out or juiced opposition in other races... 🤔🤔
Maybe the reactionary pundit class are fucking idiots?
Maybe the reactionary pundit class are fucking idiots?
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Economic policy is one thing Nigel Farage can’t crib from the Donald Trump playbook | Rafael Behr
Economic policy is one thing Nigel Farage can’t crib from the Donald Trump playbook | Rafael Behr
The Maga model, based on the US’s exorbitant market privileges, can’t be imported to Britain. That’s going to be a problem for Reform UK, says Guardian columnist Rafael Behr
www.theguardian.com
November 5, 2025 at 7:43 AM
Economic policy is one thing Nigel Farage can’t crib from the Donald Trump playbook | Rafael Behr
People who are relatively well off move to the Middle East so they don’t have to pay tax, an option certainly not open to everyone. I don’t understand how this comparison, given Dubai is 85% immigrant, doesn’t have a notable welfare state, is really relevant. It’s apples vs oranges
‘Are taxes really going towards benefitting the people who live here?’
Rio Ferdinand explains why Brits like him have left the UK for Dubai.
Rio Ferdinand explains why Brits like him have left the UK for Dubai.
November 4, 2025 at 4:14 PM
People who are relatively well off move to the Middle East so they don’t have to pay tax, an option certainly not open to everyone. I don’t understand how this comparison, given Dubai is 85% immigrant, doesn’t have a notable welfare state, is really relevant. It’s apples vs oranges
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Notable in today's YouGov that the centre/left bloc - Lab/Green/LD/SNP are on 54%. With Reform/Tories on 43%. That's the biggest differential in a long time.
I think useful to track blocs given instability between parties at the moment.
I think useful to track blocs given instability between parties at the moment.
November 4, 2025 at 10:23 AM
Notable in today's YouGov that the centre/left bloc - Lab/Green/LD/SNP are on 54%. With Reform/Tories on 43%. That's the biggest differential in a long time.
I think useful to track blocs given instability between parties at the moment.
I think useful to track blocs given instability between parties at the moment.
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I’m sure Matt Goodwin will be along shortly to tell us all whether LNER Customer Service Host Samir Zitouni counts as British or not. news.sky.com/story/train-...
Train company LNER 'extremely proud' of rail worker in critical condition after mass stabbing as family call him 'hero'
The "extraordinary bravery" of the LNER worker who intervened during the train mass stabbing attack on Saturday has been hailed by his company.
news.sky.com
November 4, 2025 at 10:59 AM
I’m sure Matt Goodwin will be along shortly to tell us all whether LNER Customer Service Host Samir Zitouni counts as British or not. news.sky.com/story/train-...
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‘Let’s call an arsonist an arsonist.’
@mrjamesob.bsky.social asks why it’s taken Labour until now to challenge the ‘ignorance and dishonesty’ of those who ‘championed Brexit’ and now want to ‘move on’.
@mrjamesob.bsky.social asks why it’s taken Labour until now to challenge the ‘ignorance and dishonesty’ of those who ‘championed Brexit’ and now want to ‘move on’.
November 4, 2025 at 11:27 AM
‘Let’s call an arsonist an arsonist.’
@mrjamesob.bsky.social asks why it’s taken Labour until now to challenge the ‘ignorance and dishonesty’ of those who ‘championed Brexit’ and now want to ‘move on’.
@mrjamesob.bsky.social asks why it’s taken Labour until now to challenge the ‘ignorance and dishonesty’ of those who ‘championed Brexit’ and now want to ‘move on’.