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Still surprised at how far to the right Labour has moved, and how racism is now a core part of its output. Keir Starmer was once a human rights lawyer, or at least that’s what he tells us…..
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Early morning charging in Manchester (not raining)
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Ladies and gentlemen, Sir Robbie Gibb, the BBC Board Member with the impartiality remit
November 11, 2025 at 7:46 PM
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Fun (or not so fun) fact - the author of the “BBC bias” memo is a lobbyist for the American Pharmaceutical Group.

U.S. pharma companies recently threatened to abandon the UK unless the NHS pays more for its medicines.

They also donated millions to Trump’s campaign and inauguration
November 11, 2025 at 2:36 PM
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Paperwork blunder by UK bookmaker reveals possible illegal offshore operation
Gambling Commission may launch inquiry after finding potentially incriminating evidence hidden in documents, sources say
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
Paperwork blunder by UK bookmaker reveals possible illegal offshore operation
Gambling Commission may launch inquiry after finding potentially incriminating evidence hidden in documents, sources say
www.theguardian.com
November 11, 2025 at 4:29 PM
I see Kier Starmer’s latest move to encourage ev take up involves making them much more expensive to run. Truly a man owned by the oil industry #ev

www.whatcar.com/news/pay-per...
Confirmed: Pay-per-mile tax to be announced for EV drivers in this month's Budget
A new pay-per-mile tax for electric car drivers will be announced in this month’s Budget in an attempt to offset fuel duty losses
www.whatcar.com
November 11, 2025 at 1:33 PM
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New post from me, for UK folks only, on how you need to start preparing for Apple to switch off Advanced Data Protection and the end-to-end encryption of the data you store on it. Like I said, UK only. #SunlitUplands
heatherburns.tech/2025/11/10/t...
Time to start de-Appling – Hi, I'm Heather Burns
heatherburns.tech
November 10, 2025 at 1:18 PM
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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.
November 11, 2025 at 10:08 AM
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Conservative Shadow Culture Secretary Nigel Huddleston tells GB News that the BBC should "grovel" to Trump.

Amazing how many British 'patriots' are spending their time telling our national broadcaster to prostrate itself before a hostile foreign leader
November 11, 2025 at 11:21 AM
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I don’t think “knobhead” can encompass a man who will have killed more people than Pol Pot by the time this era is done.
November 11, 2025 at 9:54 AM
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Leicestershire County Council has announced it is to pay consultants £30m to carry out a cost cutting review.

They said it would be £1.4m.

They lied.

They said Reform DOGE would do all this.

They lied.

You can’t trust Reform UK.
November 11, 2025 at 9:44 AM
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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
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The BBC is in crisis in the same way that GB News would be if you put Owen Jones on the board armed with a veto and plenty of coffee.
November 11, 2025 at 7:48 AM
Labour have friends, just not the ordinary people expecting clean water. Labour prefer their very own rich friends…..
Yorkshire Water flouted director pay rules, secretly handed £660k bonus through offshore parent company.

Regulator OFWAT says that is OK, govt quiet.

Law is just a paper tiger. Abuses continue. Customers fleeced.

Let customers vote on exec pay.
archive.ph/9rYlp
Ofwat says off-shore payments to Yorkshire Water boss do not flout bonus ban
Campaigners have slammed Ofwat after the water regulator found that the undisclosed off-shore payment of £660,000 to Yorkshire Water boss Nicola Shaw did not flout the Government’s bonus ban rule.
www.yorkshirepost.co.uk
November 11, 2025 at 8:46 AM
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This is Lord Rothermere the owner of the Daily Mail.

He lives in a massive mansion in the English countryside, but he pays no tax here because he identifies as French.

While the Daily Mail is registered in Bermuda and pays no tax anywhere.

That is his ‘Patriotism’.
December 30, 2024 at 6:26 PM
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🚨Exclusive: BBC and Guardian editors held secret meetings with Israel's former army chief one month after the Gaza bombing began.

The meetings were seen by Israel as a key avenue for promoting the brutal onslaught in Gaza.
www.declassifieduk.org/bbc-guardian...
BBC and Guardian editors held private meetings with Israeli General
Exclusive: Former IDF chief of staff met with Britain’s top journalists to promote Israel’s war on Gaza, it can be revealed.
www.declassifieduk.org
November 10, 2025 at 2:58 PM
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Trump to FAA workers: “The beatings will continue until morale improves.” The irony is, most are retiring, so good luck finding replacements.
November 10, 2025 at 7:31 PM
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Honestly, I did NOT have "punching the air and going HELL YES to Chris Patten" on my bingo card today. But what he says is SO rarely said and needed saying SO badly!

"How shall we treat Mr Farage's concerns? Shall we hail Brexit a tremendous success? Something that has cost the country billions?"
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
November 10, 2025 at 6:47 PM
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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
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If you have a doubt the MAGA attack on the BBC is not co-ordinated, read what GB News owner told the US

“We need you to come and save us. To rescue us … You are making America great again… We need to make Britain great again”

subscribe.bylinetimes.com/edition/79/a...
‘America Must Save Britain’ – Byline Times Digital / Print Edition
GB News’ new programme broadcast live from Washington DC features climate denial, vaccine misinformation, and non-stop praise for Donald Trump – with the channel’s co-owner telling ‘MAGA’ politicians ...
subscribe.bylinetimes.com
November 10, 2025 at 11:27 AM
Reform want to make money, for themselves only, everyone else will get nothing from Reform.
Meanwhile, in Reform's Lancashire CC, the councillor in charge of care homes, owns a private care home, and is closing council care homes. 👀

A resident’s son, a Reform party member, said any move would “kill” his mother. ~AA
#NeverThoughtTheLeopards

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Lancashire’s Reform-run council plans to close care homes and day centres
Questions about potential conflict of interest as council’s cabinet member for social care owns private care company
www.theguardian.com
November 10, 2025 at 11:42 AM
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“a group of politically-appointed directors has forced the hand of Samir Shah,the chair, and the departure of the two most senior people in the organisation. Their resignations should be called out for what they are: political interference..”1/
The Observer view: political interference at the BBC | The Observer
observer.co.uk
November 10, 2025 at 10:22 AM
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From the very beginning the proscription looked more like a political move and a move to curb protest rather than anything else.
As with most things, Labour have handled it badly and they have come out of it looking like the bad guys, like Tories
Terror definition too broad, Starmer to be told.

New advice could undermine the Palestine Action proscription

🖊️ Ethan Croft
Terror definition too broad, Starmer to be told
New advice could undermine the Palestine Action ban
www.newstatesman.com
November 10, 2025 at 8:54 AM
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The corruption never ends
November 10, 2025 at 4:54 AM
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In the best tradition of Swift, Henry skirts the edges of believability so masterfully that you feel obliged to check it's actually satire.
NEW - D-Day Veteran Removed From Remembrance Parade After Forgetting His Poppy

Full story here:

mrhenrymorris.substack.com/p/d-day-vete...
November 9, 2025 at 9:44 AM