Jason Sinclair
@jsinclair.bsky.social
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Another scandal they're walking straight into.
There’s a good chance the British Prime Minister’s main adviser on AI is an OpenAI shareholder - but the government refuses to say whether she is.
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November 11, 2025 at 9:33 AM
Another scandal they're walking straight into.
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If a self-identifying “left of centre” government with a parliamentary majority of more than a hundred seats won’t defend a vital public service institution you really have to ask why it’s in government at all.
The reaction to the Panorama edit has been nothing short of hysterical. Yes the BBC has some impartiality problems. But its biggest isn't the one you think.
New piece from me.
open.substack.com/pub/goodalla...
New piece from me.
open.substack.com/pub/goodalla...
The truth about impartiality at the BBC
And the hysteria of the current "crisis"
open.substack.com
November 11, 2025 at 9:08 AM
If a self-identifying “left of centre” government with a parliamentary majority of more than a hundred seats won’t defend a vital public service institution you really have to ask why it’s in government at all.
Mmmm... petrol casserole
Trump: "Food prices are way down. It's all coming down ... you're gonna be seeing very soon $2 gasoline."
November 10, 2025 at 9:02 PM
Mmmm... petrol casserole
Lovely stuff www.avclub.com/joyce-carol-...
November 10, 2025 at 8:43 PM
Lovely stuff www.avclub.com/joyce-carol-...
In which David Grossman gets both barrels and then has a grenade shoved into a bullet hole.
The reaction to the Panorama edit has been nothing short of hysterical. Yes the BBC has some impartiality problems. But its biggest isn't the one you think.
New piece from me.
open.substack.com/pub/goodalla...
New piece from me.
open.substack.com/pub/goodalla...
The truth about impartiality at the BBC
And the hysteria of the current "crisis"
open.substack.com
November 10, 2025 at 8:22 PM
In which David Grossman gets both barrels and then has a grenade shoved into a bullet hole.
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The Telegraph routinely spreads myths about a range of subjects - especially climate change.
It has been forced to publish over 100 corrections this year so far.
Yet it has the gall to lecture the BBC - and whip up a national panic - about journalistic standards
It has been forced to publish over 100 corrections this year so far.
Yet it has the gall to lecture the BBC - and whip up a national panic - about journalistic standards
The Telegraph’s Record of Climate Falsehoods
The Telegraph, which has accused the BBC of bias and a lack of editorial rigour, has been forced to amend a swathe of climate inaccuracies. The BBC’s director-general and CEO resigned this weekend aft...
www.desmog.com
November 10, 2025 at 7:42 PM
The Telegraph routinely spreads myths about a range of subjects - especially climate change.
It has been forced to publish over 100 corrections this year so far.
Yet it has the gall to lecture the BBC - and whip up a national panic - about journalistic standards
It has been forced to publish over 100 corrections this year so far.
Yet it has the gall to lecture the BBC - and whip up a national panic - about journalistic standards
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This is excellent. But most excellent of all is the part where Patten talks about "Mr Farage" and rhymes his name with 'manage'.
SUPERB and angrily unvarnished response, by former BBC chairman, Lord Patten.
"I don't think that we should allow ourselves to be bullied into thinking that the BBC is only any good, if it reflects the prejudice of the last person who shouted at it." ~AA
"I don't think that we should allow ourselves to be bullied into thinking that the BBC is only any good, if it reflects the prejudice of the last person who shouted at it." ~AA
November 10, 2025 at 6:53 PM
This is excellent. But most excellent of all is the part where Patten talks about "Mr Farage" and rhymes his name with 'manage'.
Never apologise, never explain (unless one of your DJs is a nonce)
November 10, 2025 at 6:47 PM
Never apologise, never explain (unless one of your DJs is a nonce)
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Samir Zitouni, the rail catering worker credited with saving multiple lives during the mass stabbing on a train on November 1st has woken in hospital and spoken to his wife for the first time
Train hero Samir Zitouni wakes in hospital and speaks to wife
The injured crew member is credited with saving multiple lives during a mass stabbing incident.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 10, 2025 at 4:20 PM
Samir Zitouni, the rail catering worker credited with saving multiple lives during the mass stabbing on a train on November 1st has woken in hospital and spoken to his wife for the first time
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Barely more than a week ago The Times published an interview with the wrong Bill De Blasio slagging off Mamdani. It is about a serious error as one can get. The editor of The Times has not resigned and there isn't a campaign for him to do so.
November 10, 2025 at 1:39 PM
Barely more than a week ago The Times published an interview with the wrong Bill De Blasio slagging off Mamdani. It is about a serious error as one can get. The editor of The Times has not resigned and there isn't a campaign for him to do so.
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This (lord help us) 37 year old sketch about perceived BBC bias from the peerless Saturday Night Fry. Contains a phrase I still use to this day:
"I'm going to take issue with everything you just said & I'm going to start taking issue...now."
youtu.be/3UEZnH1OvWs?...
"I'm going to take issue with everything you just said & I'm going to start taking issue...now."
youtu.be/3UEZnH1OvWs?...
Saturday Night Fry - 'BBC Bias' - BBC Radio 4 (07/05/88)
YouTube video by SOTCAA
youtu.be
November 10, 2025 at 12:05 PM
This (lord help us) 37 year old sketch about perceived BBC bias from the peerless Saturday Night Fry. Contains a phrase I still use to this day:
"I'm going to take issue with everything you just said & I'm going to start taking issue...now."
youtu.be/3UEZnH1OvWs?...
"I'm going to take issue with everything you just said & I'm going to start taking issue...now."
youtu.be/3UEZnH1OvWs?...
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Sack the editor of the New York Times every time it writes about boiled mutton.
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 11:39 AM
Sack the editor of the New York Times every time it writes about boiled mutton.
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So, I assume we’re going to demand that heads roll at Fox News for all the shit they chatted about Sadiq Khan? Is that how this works? #FuckBoris
November 9, 2025 at 10:15 PM
So, I assume we’re going to demand that heads roll at Fox News for all the shit they chatted about Sadiq Khan? Is that how this works? #FuckBoris
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The Telegraph being praised by a foreign autocrat for undermining the BBC.
November 9, 2025 at 9:40 PM
The Telegraph being praised by a foreign autocrat for undermining the BBC.
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Fair play Ed.
Ed Davey says BBC isn't perfect but "remains one of the few institutions standing between our British values and a populist, Trump-style takeover of our politics".
He says the resignations are a chance for BBC to rebuild trust and "not give in to the likes of Nigel Farage who want to destroy it"
He says the resignations are a chance for BBC to rebuild trust and "not give in to the likes of Nigel Farage who want to destroy it"
November 9, 2025 at 7:35 PM
Fair play Ed.
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November 9, 2025 at 1:01 PM
Sam ruling himself out of being the next Leeds United manager.
I can't imagine a job i'd like to do less. Managing an organisation held to a ludicrous standard by roaring idiots on a daily basis, while the main mediums it uses are all in decline and it's starved of resources.
November 9, 2025 at 6:39 PM
Sam ruling himself out of being the next Leeds United manager.
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I’d always wondered why no one had ever published a full, detailed map of the 1960s plan to turn London into a giant web of US-style urban motorways…. It turns even the politicians and designers didn’t make one at the time. It just didn’t exist. Until now.
Earlier this week I spoke to London Centric about the Ringways Map and all things unbuilt London - they’ve dedicated the whole of their latest edition to the story! substack.com/home/post/p-...
Would your home have been under a motorway?
"The most astonishing and destructive thing never to happen to London," says the man who has spent twenty years researching the first true map of the unbuilt Ringways.
substack.com
November 9, 2025 at 8:40 AM
I’d always wondered why no one had ever published a full, detailed map of the 1960s plan to turn London into a giant web of US-style urban motorways…. It turns even the politicians and designers didn’t make one at the time. It just didn’t exist. Until now.
This is a cracker, and the book is great (as is the film, of course)
Dave Itzkoff joins Sonny Bunch to discuss Paddy Chayefsky’s classic film, Network. Dave literally wrote the book on Network in his history of the film, Mad As Hell, and had lots to say about the making of the movie, the minds behind it, and its ongoing relevance to our daily lives.
The Eternal Relevance of 'Network'
I’m joined by Dave Itzkoff on this week’s episode to discuss Paddy Chayefsky’s classic film, Network. Dave literally wrote the book on Network in his history of the film, Mad As Hell (https://bookshop.org/p/books/mad-as-hell-the-making-of-network-and-the-fateful-vision-of-the-...
audioboom.com
November 9, 2025 at 12:02 AM
This is a cracker, and the book is great (as is the film, of course)
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Tech guys six months ago: haha yes we’re cutting all this WASTEFUL spending by eliminating medical research and USAID
Tech guys now: yes I think taxpayers will be excited to bailout my non consensual pornography machine
Tech guys now: yes I think taxpayers will be excited to bailout my non consensual pornography machine
November 8, 2025 at 11:02 PM
Tech guys six months ago: haha yes we’re cutting all this WASTEFUL spending by eliminating medical research and USAID
Tech guys now: yes I think taxpayers will be excited to bailout my non consensual pornography machine
Tech guys now: yes I think taxpayers will be excited to bailout my non consensual pornography machine
It's not even a good font. Entire timeline looks like a shelf of Paxo now.
November 8, 2025 at 11:27 PM
It's not even a good font. Entire timeline looks like a shelf of Paxo now.
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Part of me is glad Trump is now unconstrained, and is defacing and demeaning everything he touches.
It means that for the next three years we’ll have constant reminders not just of the need to defeat him, but also of the importance of ripping out Trumpism’s poisonous legacy and beginning anew.
It means that for the next three years we’ll have constant reminders not just of the need to defeat him, but also of the importance of ripping out Trumpism’s poisonous legacy and beginning anew.
November 8, 2025 at 10:55 PM
Part of me is glad Trump is now unconstrained, and is defacing and demeaning everything he touches.
It means that for the next three years we’ll have constant reminders not just of the need to defeat him, but also of the importance of ripping out Trumpism’s poisonous legacy and beginning anew.
It means that for the next three years we’ll have constant reminders not just of the need to defeat him, but also of the importance of ripping out Trumpism’s poisonous legacy and beginning anew.
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Doing this in anticipation of what, one might ask
“More and more cabinet members — Rubio, Miller, Noem — live on military bases now, & it's another parallel to Iraq, where the administration lived in the Green Zone. There’s something deeply unhealthy about a society where leaders are literally shut off from the communities that they govern.”
Don Moynihan on "Purge, Merge, and Surge"
"Instead of surging in Iraq, it’s happening here in American cities."
www.publicnotice.co
November 8, 2025 at 8:06 PM
Doing this in anticipation of what, one might ask