Mike here, hello
@mikecornes.bsky.social
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LGBTQ+ community. he/him 💚
Culturally incoherent.
📍Manchester-ish, UK
LGBTQ+ community. he/him 💚
Culturally incoherent.
📍Manchester-ish, UK
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Just replied to a friend’s rant about benefits on facebook. Expecting a can of worms to be opened. Or for my comments to be deleted.
November 11, 2025 at 5:40 PM
Just replied to a friend’s rant about benefits on facebook. Expecting a can of worms to be opened. Or for my comments to be deleted.
Guy Goma nomination when?
November 11, 2025 at 12:20 PM
Guy Goma nomination when?
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NEW | if the BBC *is* biased, it’s not against the right…
Arsonists cosplaying as fire fighters: Why the right-wing war on the BBC is succeeding
brokenbottleboy.substack.com/p/arsonists-...
Arsonists cosplaying as fire fighters: Why the right-wing war on the BBC is succeeding
brokenbottleboy.substack.com/p/arsonists-...
Arsonists cosplaying as fire fighters: Why the right-wing war on the BBC is succeeding
The resignation of Tim Davie as BBC Director-General is the next stage in the corporation's collapse into cowardice.
brokenbottleboy.substack.com
November 10, 2025 at 3:10 PM
NEW | if the BBC *is* biased, it’s not against the right…
Arsonists cosplaying as fire fighters: Why the right-wing war on the BBC is succeeding
brokenbottleboy.substack.com/p/arsonists-...
Arsonists cosplaying as fire fighters: Why the right-wing war on the BBC is succeeding
brokenbottleboy.substack.com/p/arsonists-...
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Yes, "pregnant people" is inclusive language that describes pregnant cis women AS WELL AS trans men and nonbinary people, a lot of whom can get pregnant. But it also describes, like, 12-year-old girls who get pregnant. Do centrist pig-dogs think THEY are "women" too? Coz...bit of a red flag, that.
November 11, 2025 at 11:21 AM
Yes, "pregnant people" is inclusive language that describes pregnant cis women AS WELL AS trans men and nonbinary people, a lot of whom can get pregnant. But it also describes, like, 12-year-old girls who get pregnant. Do centrist pig-dogs think THEY are "women" too? Coz...bit of a red flag, that.
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So that’s 69% of people who DON’T think the BBC has a left-wing bias, then.
NB This newspaper believes that 52% is a sufficient crushing majority that everyone else should be silenced, mocked and shouted down for dissenting.
Spread the word.
NB This newspaper believes that 52% is a sufficient crushing majority that everyone else should be silenced, mocked and shouted down for dissenting.
Spread the word.
November 11, 2025 at 9:52 AM
So that’s 69% of people who DON’T think the BBC has a left-wing bias, then.
NB This newspaper believes that 52% is a sufficient crushing majority that everyone else should be silenced, mocked and shouted down for dissenting.
Spread the word.
NB This newspaper believes that 52% is a sufficient crushing majority that everyone else should be silenced, mocked and shouted down for dissenting.
Spread the word.
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For years, I’ve known that Maitlis was a key player in the institutional and orchestrated attacks on Trans+ youth
Now, emboldened and clearly unrepentant, she's flaunting her complicity
The world can now see her for who she is - someone willing to weaponise their power against the vulnerable
Now, emboldened and clearly unrepentant, she's flaunting her complicity
The world can now see her for who she is - someone willing to weaponise their power against the vulnerable
Emily Maitlis admitting she worked at the bbc to try and get healthcare for trans people shut down
November 10, 2025 at 10:28 PM
For years, I’ve known that Maitlis was a key player in the institutional and orchestrated attacks on Trans+ youth
Now, emboldened and clearly unrepentant, she's flaunting her complicity
The world can now see her for who she is - someone willing to weaponise their power against the vulnerable
Now, emboldened and clearly unrepentant, she's flaunting her complicity
The world can now see her for who she is - someone willing to weaponise their power against the vulnerable
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Elon Musk is a Fraud, a cuckoo as described by John Amaechi.
November 11, 2025 at 8:11 AM
Elon Musk is a Fraud, a cuckoo as described by John Amaechi.
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I reckon a reasonable test of someone’s patriotism might be if they want to see the end of an historic national institution that is trusted and respected worldwide because they don’t like everything that institution does.
November 11, 2025 at 7:14 AM
I reckon a reasonable test of someone’s patriotism might be if they want to see the end of an historic national institution that is trusted and respected worldwide because they don’t like everything that institution does.
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Whole fucking thing makes me sick to my stomach. An abject fucking liar, a man who lies as easily as he fucking breathes, threatening an organisation which strives for truthfulness. And plastic patriots like the Mail and Farage urging him on. Jackels.
November 11, 2025 at 7:24 AM
Whole fucking thing makes me sick to my stomach. An abject fucking liar, a man who lies as easily as he fucking breathes, threatening an organisation which strives for truthfulness. And plastic patriots like the Mail and Farage urging him on. Jackels.
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A reminder that this anti-trans panic is 100% bullshit and exactly none of our country’s problems are related to someone expressing their gender identity and everyone who isn’t a hate-filled weirdo knows it.
November 10, 2025 at 1:16 PM
A reminder that this anti-trans panic is 100% bullshit and exactly none of our country’s problems are related to someone expressing their gender identity and everyone who isn’t a hate-filled weirdo knows it.
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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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When Boris Johnson was Prime Minister one of his senior advisers confided to me that one of the only things in politics his boss actually cared about was “killing off the BBC”.
Five years on, and it is a campaign that appears to be finally coming to fruition.
bylinetimes.com/2025/11/10/t...
Five years on, and it is a campaign that appears to be finally coming to fruition.
bylinetimes.com/2025/11/10/t...
The BBC’s Attempts to Appease the 'Right-Wing Coup' Against It Are Now Seeding Its Own Destruction
By attempting to appease those forces seeking to destroy them, the BBC has helped trigger a crisis that now threatens its very future, argues Adam Bienkov
bylinetimes.com
November 10, 2025 at 12:49 PM
When Boris Johnson was Prime Minister one of his senior advisers confided to me that one of the only things in politics his boss actually cared about was “killing off the BBC”.
Five years on, and it is a campaign that appears to be finally coming to fruition.
bylinetimes.com/2025/11/10/t...
Five years on, and it is a campaign that appears to be finally coming to fruition.
bylinetimes.com/2025/11/10/t...
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im so fucking tired of america.
BREAKING | Donald Trump has threatened to sue the BBC
Outgoing BBC News boss hit backs at Trump over claim broadcaster ‘corrupt’: Live
www.independent.co.uk
November 10, 2025 at 1:52 PM
im so fucking tired of america.
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one mad thing about this bbc thing is Boris Johnson - B O R I S J O H N S O N - parping on about facts & quality journalism
November 10, 2025 at 1:38 PM
one mad thing about this bbc thing is Boris Johnson - B O R I S J O H N S O N - parping on about facts & quality journalism
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This Robbie Gibb?
Robbie Gibb who cancelled a BBC investigation into Farage's Leave dot EU campaign shortly before the EU Ref
Arron Banks thanked him for it
"Robbie Gibb is being quite helpful and says he’s trying to hose it down."
- @channel4news.bsky.social in 2019
Arron Banks thanked him for it
"Robbie Gibb is being quite helpful and says he’s trying to hose it down."
- @channel4news.bsky.social in 2019
Revealed: Brexit group covered up its targeting of right-wing extremists
Brexit-backer Arron Banks repeatedly denied that Leave.EU appealed to National Front supporters - in a bid to get the BBC to drop an investigation
www.channel4.com
November 10, 2025 at 7:46 AM
This Robbie Gibb?
So Tom Swarbrick is interviewing “business giants” this week to talk about what should be in the next budget. Because it only affects businesses and not people. Expect a lot of “lower tax on us” demands. Grim.
November 10, 2025 at 10:47 AM
So Tom Swarbrick is interviewing “business giants” this week to talk about what should be in the next budget. Because it only affects businesses and not people. Expect a lot of “lower tax on us” demands. Grim.
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Everything on our news agenda is being driven by a corrupted disinformation machine, run by a billionaire who sponsors Tommy Robinson and who keeps trying to foment civil war in the UK.
And incredibly our MPs & news providers stay there.
THAT is the problem. Not some bad editing choice on the BBC.
And incredibly our MPs & news providers stay there.
THAT is the problem. Not some bad editing choice on the BBC.
November 10, 2025 at 9:18 AM
Everything on our news agenda is being driven by a corrupted disinformation machine, run by a billionaire who sponsors Tommy Robinson and who keeps trying to foment civil war in the UK.
And incredibly our MPs & news providers stay there.
THAT is the problem. Not some bad editing choice on the BBC.
And incredibly our MPs & news providers stay there.
THAT is the problem. Not some bad editing choice on the BBC.
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So the Telegraph’s “BBC bias dossier” - supposedly written by ex-BBC adviser Michael Prescott - is being used to claim there’s a rogue LGBT+ unit “censoring” gender-critical voices inside the BBC.
Let’s look at what’s actually in it. Spoiler: it’s nothing but recycled transphobic talking points!
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Let’s look at what’s actually in it. Spoiler: it’s nothing but recycled transphobic talking points!
🧵
For reference - Here’s the Telegraph article with the Prescott memo complaining about the BBC published in FULL.
Obviously, it’s an archived link which circumvents their paywall - as there’s no way I’m gonna give that transphobic rag any clicks or coin! 😣
👉 archive.ph/mJIsB
Obviously, it’s an archived link which circumvents their paywall - as there’s no way I’m gonna give that transphobic rag any clicks or coin! 😣
👉 archive.ph/mJIsB
November 10, 2025 at 2:27 AM
So the Telegraph’s “BBC bias dossier” - supposedly written by ex-BBC adviser Michael Prescott - is being used to claim there’s a rogue LGBT+ unit “censoring” gender-critical voices inside the BBC.
Let’s look at what’s actually in it. Spoiler: it’s nothing but recycled transphobic talking points!
🧵
Let’s look at what’s actually in it. Spoiler: it’s nothing but recycled transphobic talking points!
🧵
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The Telegraph’s BBC “memo” isn’t evidence of anything except how far bad-faith actors will go to keep trans people’s existence a debate topic.
It’s not whistle-blowing. It’s a culture-war press release with the insidious intention of making BBC coverage even MORE transphobic than it currently is! 😖
It’s not whistle-blowing. It’s a culture-war press release with the insidious intention of making BBC coverage even MORE transphobic than it currently is! 😖
November 10, 2025 at 2:27 AM
The Telegraph’s BBC “memo” isn’t evidence of anything except how far bad-faith actors will go to keep trans people’s existence a debate topic.
It’s not whistle-blowing. It’s a culture-war press release with the insidious intention of making BBC coverage even MORE transphobic than it currently is! 😖
It’s not whistle-blowing. It’s a culture-war press release with the insidious intention of making BBC coverage even MORE transphobic than it currently is! 😖
Firstly, the booing.
Secondly, “I, and state your name…”.
Please air this unedited, BBC News.
Secondly, “I, and state your name…”.
Please air this unedited, BBC News.
November 9, 2025 at 11:14 PM
Firstly, the booing.
Secondly, “I, and state your name…”.
Please air this unedited, BBC News.
Secondly, “I, and state your name…”.
Please air this unedited, BBC News.
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For context, I was a co researcher on the first ever piece of research on kids in care who are LGBT, so I’m not just some randomer who wanted to chat…
I’m also care experienced and I am LGBT
Ridiculous the minister doesn’t want to hear from those who have both professional and lived experience
I’m also care experienced and I am LGBT
Ridiculous the minister doesn’t want to hear from those who have both professional and lived experience
Wrote to try and speak to the children’s minister to speak to him or his team about lgbt young people in care, as he’s the minister responsible for kids in care…
Deliberately didn’t stress the current situation for trans kids bc didnt want to put him off
But he isn’t interested in meeting anyway
Deliberately didn’t stress the current situation for trans kids bc didnt want to put him off
But he isn’t interested in meeting anyway
November 9, 2025 at 6:59 PM
For context, I was a co researcher on the first ever piece of research on kids in care who are LGBT, so I’m not just some randomer who wanted to chat…
I’m also care experienced and I am LGBT
Ridiculous the minister doesn’t want to hear from those who have both professional and lived experience
I’m also care experienced and I am LGBT
Ridiculous the minister doesn’t want to hear from those who have both professional and lived experience
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Billie Piper announced as the new BBC Director General but we've got to wait until next Christmas to find out why.
November 9, 2025 at 6:42 PM
Billie Piper announced as the new BBC Director General but we've got to wait until next Christmas to find out why.