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Mary Corcoran
@marycorcoran.bsky.social
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Economic Migrant from beyond the pale. ‘Elitist’: I function from the neck up. Book reader (& writer). The day job is Criminologist, but I’m really a student of justice.

‘Ar scáth a chéile a mhaireann na daoine’: The people live in each other’s shadows. .. more

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Mary Corcoran @marycorcoran.bsky.social · Mar 7
TweedleDumb & TweedleSly
#streetart

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Mary Corcoran @marycorcoran.bsky.social · 12h
Tax-dodging, debt-ridden, bucket-shop rag sold to private equity holders with dodgy autocratic owners @telegraphnews.bsky.social

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Mary Corcoran @marycorcoran.bsky.social · 12h
Fight.

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Mary Corcoran @marycorcoran.bsky.social · 14h
So the entire BBC, comprising thousands of specialist staff, are culpable because of one slimeball appointee. Right.

Reposted by Leigh Sparks, Lesley A. Hall, Mary Corcoran , and 2 more

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Steve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · 14h
Two paragraphs from the article, pointing out Telegraph hypocrisy

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Mary Corcoran @marycorcoran.bsky.social · 15h
3 more years of this to go, Warwickshire.

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Mary Corcoran @marycorcoran.bsky.social · 15h
Didn’t even get to the place where Grayling blew up the probation service and then moved to Hutchinson Ports ltd, which pays £2 grand weekly for his ‘advice’. May they all rot…

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Mary Corcoran @marycorcoran.bsky.social · 17h
Turn it back on his camp followers!

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Mary Corcoran @marycorcoran.bsky.social · 17h
Because Starmer is guilty of everything, don’t you know?

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Mary Corcoran @marycorcoran.bsky.social · 17h
Mmm, let’s see.

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Mary Corcoran @marycorcoran.bsky.social · 17h
The @telegraphnews.bsky.social has overstepped. Brits might be disgruntled with their public institutions, but it’s ’our’ BBC. Paying out to President Bone Spurs for hurty feelings will generate much resentment & it will land on those who orchestrated this. No-one likes a creep.

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Mary Corcoran @marycorcoran.bsky.social · 17h
The day will come, hopefully sooner, when supporters of Deform will deny their shameful betrayal of Britain. Seems like the flagshaggers are the greatest traitors. #GBnews #FashFans

GB News Calls For Trump's America to 'Save Britain’
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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
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Mary Corcoran @marycorcoran.bsky.social · 17h
May their names be obliterated from memory.

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Mary Corcoran @marycorcoran.bsky.social · 17h
This👇🏾👇👇🏼
dorianlynskey.bsky.social Dorian Lynskey @dorianlynskey.bsky.social · 17h
I fear we are seeing in the UK what has become abundantly clear in the US: for all their power and privilege, elites and institutions are absolute cowards in the face of right-wing authoritarianism. Weak, weak, weak, as Tony Blair once said

Reposted by Mary Corcoran

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Paul Park @pauljunhyuk.bsky.social · 17h
And it’s one thing to be a coward in the face of your own suddenly authoritarian government who’s very able and willing to punch you if you look funny. It’s another to be one about a foreign government who can mostly only affect you tangentially and is already wrecking your investments.

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Mary Corcoran @marycorcoran.bsky.social · 17h
Pimps will pimp and lobbyists will lobby. Michael Prescott, author of the ‘report’ on bias in BBC has form as right wing grifter.

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goodlawproject.org Jolyon Maugham KC @goodlawproject.org · 18h
It would be funny, if it wasn't tragic, reading this from four years ago about the 'independent' expert who wrote the report into purported leftwing bias at the BBC. It's just embarrassingly amateur - but it works because the Government is awol. www.theguardian.com/media/2021/n...
Lobbyist at firm with close ties to Tories will help select Ofcom chair
Appointment of Michael Prescott as interviewer follows move to give Paul Dacre chance to reapply
www.theguardian.com

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Dorian Lynskey @dorianlynskey.bsky.social · 17h
I fear we are seeing in the UK what has become abundantly clear in the US: for all their power and privilege, elites and institutions are absolute cowards in the face of right-wing authoritarianism. Weak, weak, weak, as Tony Blair once said

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Mary Corcoran @marycorcoran.bsky.social · 17h
Sorry, but I don’t understand. This guy is voting to keepin holding out on the shutdown until MAGA give way on the health care issue. What’s wrong with that?

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Mary Corcoran @marycorcoran.bsky.social · 17h
British don’t like attacks on their public institutions. They won’t stand for paying Bonespurs for hurty feelings. How are #mail #Torygraph #Bozo the grifter going to spin this one? ☝🏽

www.theguardian.com/media/live/2...
Donald Trump threatens BBC with $1bn lawsuit as chair says speech edit was ‘error of judgment’ – latest updates
BBC chair Samir Shah apologises for way in which speech from US president was edited as corporation’s two most senior executives resign
www.theguardian.com

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Mary Corcoran @marycorcoran.bsky.social · 17h
The British public do not like their public institutions being threatened. Trump got 2 scalps (unnecessarily). President Hurty-Feelings can have his day in Court. British taxpayer won’t like coughing up. Trump’s mates - who orchestrated this - have to answer.

www.theguardian.com/media/live/2...
Donald Trump threatens BBC with $1bn lawsuit as chair says speech edit was ‘error of judgment’ – latest updates
BBC chair Samir Shah apologises for way in which speech from US president was edited as corporation’s two most senior executives resign
www.theguardian.com

Reposted by Peter Holmes, Mary Corcoran

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Jolyon Maugham KC @goodlawproject.org · 18h
It would be funny, if it wasn't tragic, reading this from four years ago about the 'independent' expert who wrote the report into purported leftwing bias at the BBC. It's just embarrassingly amateur - but it works because the Government is awol. www.theguardian.com/media/2021/n...
Lobbyist at firm with close ties to Tories will help select Ofcom chair
Appointment of Michael Prescott as interviewer follows move to give Paul Dacre chance to reapply
www.theguardian.com

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Mary Corcoran @marycorcoran.bsky.social · 18h
All the wah-wah about #bbc.
What about the yellow press hacks and their editorial pimps at the Sun, Times, Express, Mail & Telegraph? All called for the sacking of Tory appointees in BBC. The rightist revolution is eating its children. Yum yum!😋

Reposted by Mary Corcoran

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D. Earl Stephens @dearlstephens.bsky.social · 18h
📌I can't stop banging this drum: Democrats had a spectacular Tuesday at the polls, the wind at their backs, and basically punched themselves and their voters in the face five days later.

This is political malpractice at best, and out and out brazen capitulation to their billionaire donors at worst.

Reposted by Mary Corcoran

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The Bear @bearlypolitics.co.uk · 20h
Hmmmm…

Suspiciouser and suspiciouser.
Trump threatens legal action in letter to BBC BBC News has learned that President Donald Trump has sent a letter to the BBC threatening legal action. The BBC has confirmed it has received the letter and will respond in due course.

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Mary Corcoran @marycorcoran.bsky.social · 21h
Where’s the condemnation of the domestic anti-democratic & anti-U.K. forces ie Johnson, Telegraph, Mail?

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Mary Corcoran @marycorcoran.bsky.social · 21h
Hang on. In some places, Starmer has not given in and here, you’re intimating thatUK Gov has. Which is it? Where’s the condemnation of the domestic anti-democratic & anti-U.K. forces ie Johnson, Telegraph, Mail?

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Mary Corcoran @marycorcoran.bsky.social · 21h
Good, Starmer should stick up for the BBC. HuffPost mischief making.

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Ed Davey @eddavey.libdems.org.uk · 22h
I’ve written to Keir Starmer, Kemi Badenoch and Nigel Farage urging them to condemn Donald Trump’s attack on the BBC.

The BBC belongs to Britain, not Trump. We must defend it together.

Reposted by Mary Corcoran

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Dave @daveacoley.bsky.social · 23h
He should escort a severely autistic kid on a 5-mile walk to school one morning.
The little arse hole will soon learn what the real world is like.

Reposted by Mary Corcoran

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Jay Zedbee @jayzedbee.bsky.social · 1d
There are essentially 2 kinds of people who like the bbc, people who want painting of horses type stuff and dumb left liberals like me. What the bbc does is chase a guy who basically hates both of these type of people and completely undermines the case for itself

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John Simpson @johnsimpsonnews.bsky.social · 1d
Tim Davie was one of the best D-Gs the BBC has had, and Deborah Turness was a brilliant head of news. Only the BBC’s enemies could possibly be glad they’ve resigned. We’ve now got a real fight on our hands to defend public service broadcasting, because that’s under threat too.