Jordan
@jordanpfot.bsky.social
South African in Scotland. Will probably post about politics/movies/tennis/rugby/gay nonsense.
https://letterboxd.com/JordanP/
https://letterboxd.com/JordanP/
Why didn’t he depict the BBC as an animal? Why would hyenas be hunting three blocks? 🤔
@bjennings90.bsky.social absolutely nails it. (www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...)
November 11, 2025 at 8:23 AM
Why didn’t he depict the BBC as an animal? Why would hyenas be hunting three blocks? 🤔
Why is the Newsagents podcast set so vile looking
November 10, 2025 at 11:15 PM
Why is the Newsagents podcast set so vile looking
This inability to justify oneself in the grownup language of trade-offs and strategy - instead communicating solely through vague principle waffle - just makes you seem dishonest. If Reeves truly thought this, why has she kept the cap in place all this time?
NEW: Rachel Reeves signals she intends to remove the two-child cap *in full*
"I don't think a child should be penalised because they're in a bigger family through no fault of their own," she tells BBC.
"I don't think a child should be penalised because they're in a bigger family through no fault of their own," she tells BBC.
November 10, 2025 at 3:40 PM
This inability to justify oneself in the grownup language of trade-offs and strategy - instead communicating solely through vague principle waffle - just makes you seem dishonest. If Reeves truly thought this, why has she kept the cap in place all this time?
not The Times doing mpreg cartoons.............we cannot let the other side of Bluesky find this
although she's not purely alone in that the Times cartoon today is this incomprehensible piece of shit which, after much contemplation, i finally realised was just transphobia
November 10, 2025 at 3:00 PM
not The Times doing mpreg cartoons.............we cannot let the other side of Bluesky find this
It's so funny that Your Party are using the vape colours for their youth wing posts.
Uk political parties keep trying to do youth branches, it's amazing. No matter how many times it ends in horrifying disaster
November 10, 2025 at 2:24 PM
It's so funny that Your Party are using the vape colours for their youth wing posts.
Insufficient rigour, rather than ideological capture, seems to be to be the correct frame through which to view the BBC's failings. Inviting Sex Matters onto Woman's Hour isn't bad because they're a GC org....it's bad because they don't know what they're talking about!
www.ft.com/content/676c...
www.ft.com/content/676c...
To fix the BBC, focus on competence and cash
Corporation fails to learn from criticism, while politicians have consciously reduced its scope for quality journalism
www.ft.com
November 10, 2025 at 1:52 PM
Insufficient rigour, rather than ideological capture, seems to be to be the correct frame through which to view the BBC's failings. Inviting Sex Matters onto Woman's Hour isn't bad because they're a GC org....it's bad because they don't know what they're talking about!
www.ft.com/content/676c...
www.ft.com/content/676c...
Spoiler alert: the GNU parties will not smooth out their foreign policy differences.
www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2025...
www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2025...
GNU parties will meet to smooth out foreign policy differences: Steenhuisen
The Democratic Alliance will push for South Africa’s foreign policy to be ‘genuinely non-aligned’ and not ‘ideological’, says the party’s leader.
www.dailymaverick.co.za
November 10, 2025 at 1:08 PM
Spoiler alert: the GNU parties will not smooth out their foreign policy differences.
www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2025...
www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2025...
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The two child cap is a test of the government’s seriousness: if you are serious about child poverty, you lift it, and if you are serious about not wasting money, you don’t fritter away cash on dumb things like vouchers to try and manage the PLP.
If the government chooses to keep the 2 child limit and spend money on vouchers and parenting programmes instead, child poverty will rise and this will be a conscious and deliberate political choice in defiance of all the evidence
Scrapping the cap entirely is both good policy *and* good politics.
Half measures will "save" some money short-term, but will piss *everybody* off and still leave very large numbers of children suffering from a policy designed to make them poorer.
inews.co.uk/news/politic...
Half measures will "save" some money short-term, but will piss *everybody* off and still leave very large numbers of children suffering from a policy designed to make them poorer.
inews.co.uk/news/politic...
November 10, 2025 at 12:59 PM
The two child cap is a test of the government’s seriousness: if you are serious about child poverty, you lift it, and if you are serious about not wasting money, you don’t fritter away cash on dumb things like vouchers to try and manage the PLP.
The ANC Youth League is 14-35!
The Yorp idea of opening it for 14-year-olds also seems hair-raisingly ill thought out. I don't want my earnest 14-year-old hanging out with a 21-year-old!
November 10, 2025 at 12:36 PM
The ANC Youth League is 14-35!
Okay enough BBC chat, let’s do an oldie. Fairytale of New York……homophobic?
November 10, 2025 at 9:59 AM
Okay enough BBC chat, let’s do an oldie. Fairytale of New York……homophobic?
I don’t actually think the BBC, for all its issues, has been captured by anti-trans ideology. Their coverage of the issue hasn’t been perfect but there is a reason they’re so hated by the gender critical crowd.
November 10, 2025 at 9:15 AM
I don’t actually think the BBC, for all its issues, has been captured by anti-trans ideology. Their coverage of the issue hasn’t been perfect but there is a reason they’re so hated by the gender critical crowd.
make one of those gays obsessed with East Enders the Director General of the BBC
November 9, 2025 at 9:56 PM
make one of those gays obsessed with East Enders the Director General of the BBC
She uses the word "impartiality" here, but what Sonia Sodha wants from the BBC Director General isn't impartiality at all.
November 9, 2025 at 7:05 PM
She uses the word "impartiality" here, but what Sonia Sodha wants from the BBC Director General isn't impartiality at all.
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Welcome to the BBC, Bari Weiss
November 9, 2025 at 6:35 PM
Welcome to the BBC, Bari Weiss
I know for a fact that some of you soft left divas were in the Insane Town Posse during the Labour leadership race and at least one of you must have Lisa Nandy on WhatsApp.......please, intervene! Make her make the right choice!
November 9, 2025 at 6:23 PM
I know for a fact that some of you soft left divas were in the Insane Town Posse during the Labour leadership race and at least one of you must have Lisa Nandy on WhatsApp.......please, intervene! Make her make the right choice!
It is bad that the director of the BBC has resigned over a scandal people only cared about because the mentally unwell President of the United States became fixated with it, and it then went viral on the website controlled by the world's richest man.
November 9, 2025 at 6:09 PM
It is bad that the director of the BBC has resigned over a scandal people only cared about because the mentally unwell President of the United States became fixated with it, and it then went viral on the website controlled by the world's richest man.
(Marginally) more people think REFORM would be best at handling the economy than think Labour would? Keir Starmer, my dear, if you don’t do something, and quick.
After Liz Truss's mini-budget, just 15 per cent of people felt the Tories were the best party at handling the economy
Today, the equivalent figure for Labour is 12 per cent
www.thetimes.com/article/470f...
Today, the equivalent figure for Labour is 12 per cent
www.thetimes.com/article/470f...
November 9, 2025 at 5:34 PM
(Marginally) more people think REFORM would be best at handling the economy than think Labour would? Keir Starmer, my dear, if you don’t do something, and quick.
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My theory about Joyce Carol Oates is that all her bad posts are her charging up like Godzilla's spines until she lets loose with a radioactive blast that leaves the world's richest Nazi a pile of ash
November 9, 2025 at 2:31 PM
My theory about Joyce Carol Oates is that all her bad posts are her charging up like Godzilla's spines until she lets loose with a radioactive blast that leaves the world's richest Nazi a pile of ash
Very good example of how AI saves time for some people by dramatically increasing the time having to be spent by others.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
AI-powered nimbyism could grind UK planning system to a halt, experts warn
Tools that help people scan applications and find grounds for objection have potential to hit government’s housebuilding plans
www.theguardian.com
November 9, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Very good example of how AI saves time for some people by dramatically increasing the time having to be spent by others.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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The BBC should have values more similar to my own not because my values are good or correct but because lefty lib people like me are huge idiots who love the concept of the bbc and alienating us leave it with no defenders
November 9, 2025 at 10:06 AM
The BBC should have values more similar to my own not because my values are good or correct but because lefty lib people like me are huge idiots who love the concept of the bbc and alienating us leave it with no defenders
Obviously right to criticise it when it makes mistakes but the BBC is broadly very good and British people don’t realise how lucky they are to have it.
November 9, 2025 at 9:45 AM
Obviously right to criticise it when it makes mistakes but the BBC is broadly very good and British people don’t realise how lucky they are to have it.
Why is the culture brief so dour and miserable? They could do some really fun stuff there!
Been speaking to Lisa Nandy for my Sunday show this morning
Had lots to say…join us from 10 @lbc.co.uk
Had lots to say…join us from 10 @lbc.co.uk
November 9, 2025 at 9:13 AM
Why is the culture brief so dour and miserable? They could do some really fun stuff there!