@mikeinsdevon.bsky.social
Still trying to make sense of everything and avoid getting too confused!
Slightly unhinged, wide range of interests.
RIP Boo Boo 2009-2024
Slightly unhinged, wide range of interests.
RIP Boo Boo 2009-2024
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On the day of Kherson Liberation, do not forget.
Kherson is Ukraine.
Donetsk is Ukraine.
Luhansk is Ukraine.
Mariupol is Ukraine.
Crimea is Ukraine.
Kherson is Ukraine.
Donetsk is Ukraine.
Luhansk is Ukraine.
Mariupol is Ukraine.
Crimea is Ukraine.
November 11, 2025 at 5:50 PM
On the day of Kherson Liberation, do not forget.
Kherson is Ukraine.
Donetsk is Ukraine.
Luhansk is Ukraine.
Mariupol is Ukraine.
Crimea is Ukraine.
Kherson is Ukraine.
Donetsk is Ukraine.
Luhansk is Ukraine.
Mariupol is Ukraine.
Crimea is Ukraine.
Polldle
Guess the UK constituency based on polls and election results.
polldle.uk
November 11, 2025 at 5:09 PM
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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
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
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
Amazing how many British 'patriots' are spending their time telling our national broadcaster to prostrate itself before a hostile foreign leader
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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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Sky News just had Kelvin Mackenzie on, former editor of The Sun, one of the people at the centre of probably the most disgraceful front page in newspaper history, complaining about BBC journalists not being objective and 'fake news'. Astonishing. ~AA
November 10, 2025 at 10:53 AM
Sky News just had Kelvin Mackenzie on, former editor of The Sun, one of the people at the centre of probably the most disgraceful front page in newspaper history, complaining about BBC journalists not being objective and 'fake news'. Astonishing. ~AA
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If the BBC caves to Trump and hands over licence fee payers' cash to him, it will lose far more from non-renewals by licence fee payers than it would ever risk having to pay to Trump in court
November 10, 2025 at 5:17 PM
If the BBC caves to Trump and hands over licence fee payers' cash to him, it will lose far more from non-renewals by licence fee payers than it would ever risk having to pay to Trump in court
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"Despite ... having been led for the last five years by a close ally of the Tories, being overseen by committees of Tory appointees, and Turness's own efforts to skew news story selection to "win over" Reform supporters, the right in this country want to see the BBC destroyed."
The Right Wing War on the BBC
The resignations of Tim Davie, BBC Director General, and Deborah Turness, the corporation's Head of News was some unexpected Sunday news. Th...
averypublicsociologist.blogspot.com
November 10, 2025 at 8:49 AM
"Despite ... having been led for the last five years by a close ally of the Tories, being overseen by committees of Tory appointees, and Turness's own efforts to skew news story selection to "win over" Reform supporters, the right in this country want to see the BBC destroyed."
Trump now threatening to sue the BBC and somehow this is all I can think of
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q1xR...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q1xR...
Relax, Guy | South Park
YouTube video by South Park Studios
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November 10, 2025 at 2:22 PM
Trump now threatening to sue the BBC and somehow this is all I can think of
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q1xR...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q1xR...
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Who do the public trust? And how the 14% who vote Reform have contrasting views to most other people: low trust, except in GB News, which most other people don't trust
November 10, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Who do the public trust? And how the 14% who vote Reform have contrasting views to most other people: low trust, except in GB News, which most other people don't trust
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I'm really pleased they are gone, but Michael Prescott the man behind the 19 page report that started the ball rolling, is close friends with Gibb, who there are suggestions influenced his appointment as advisor to the BBC, and Gibb is still there. I hope Nandy wakes up and does her job.
November 10, 2025 at 11:50 AM
I'm really pleased they are gone, but Michael Prescott the man behind the 19 page report that started the ball rolling, is close friends with Gibb, who there are suggestions influenced his appointment as advisor to the BBC, and Gibb is still there. I hope Nandy wakes up and does her job.
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Incredible that Robbie Gibb - most influential person on BBC board by many accounts and from journalists I speak in BBC - was involved in setting up GB News.
GB News of course has breached Ofcom rules on *multiple* occasions - no sign of resignations though
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
GB News of course has breached Ofcom rules on *multiple* occasions - no sign of resignations though
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
‘Enforced veganism’: Ofcom lets GB News flout accuracy rules, say climate campaigners
Exclusive: Regulator has received 1,221 complaints about UK broadcasters since 2020 but found no breaches of its code
www.theguardian.com
November 10, 2025 at 8:25 AM
Incredible that Robbie Gibb - most influential person on BBC board by many accounts and from journalists I speak in BBC - was involved in setting up GB News.
GB News of course has breached Ofcom rules on *multiple* occasions - no sign of resignations though
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
GB News of course has breached Ofcom rules on *multiple* occasions - no sign of resignations though
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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So New York billionaires are going to flock to UK to escape wealth tax, says The Times despite The Times saying repeatedly that billionaires are fleeing Britain to escape wealth tax. It’s almost like they’re just making this shite up! 🤡 www.thetimes.com/uk/london/ar...
Rich New Yorkers eye London as Zohran Mamdani plots wealth tax
Estate agents have reported an increase in inquiries from affluent Americans considering a move across the Pond, but warn that Rachel Reeves’s budget may deter them
www.thetimes.com
November 10, 2025 at 10:36 AM
So New York billionaires are going to flock to UK to escape wealth tax, says The Times despite The Times saying repeatedly that billionaires are fleeing Britain to escape wealth tax. It’s almost like they’re just making this shite up! 🤡 www.thetimes.com/uk/london/ar...
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The Trump Administration is now pushing Brits to watch GB News instead of the BBC. The Far Right are trying to seize this moment of chaos in British media.
November 10, 2025 at 10:46 AM
The Trump Administration is now pushing Brits to watch GB News instead of the BBC. The Far Right are trying to seize this moment of chaos in British media.
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The fact that none of the 8 Dems are up for re-election in 2026 is a pretty good sign @schumer.senate.gov engineered the surrender
November 10, 2025 at 3:30 AM
The fact that none of the 8 Dems are up for re-election in 2026 is a pretty good sign @schumer.senate.gov engineered the surrender
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The BBC needs someone experienced enough to run a huge media org, and willing to take a job with no security. They need to know the BBC well enough to do the job, but not be an “insider”. They need to somehow be acceptable to a Lab government but also right-wing papers.
This person doesn’t exist.
This person doesn’t exist.
November 9, 2025 at 7:15 PM
The BBC needs someone experienced enough to run a huge media org, and willing to take a job with no security. They need to know the BBC well enough to do the job, but not be an “insider”. They need to somehow be acceptable to a Lab government but also right-wing papers.
This person doesn’t exist.
This person doesn’t exist.
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I think the opposite will happen. Robbie Gibb and his far-right Old Etonian board are still there. Expect a Farage/Trump sympathiser appointment.
November 9, 2025 at 6:52 PM
I think the opposite will happen. Robbie Gibb and his far-right Old Etonian board are still there. Expect a Farage/Trump sympathiser appointment.
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Firstly, let’s address the “Muslim run council” nonsense.
Leader of Sheffield Council is Tom Hunt.
Yes, there are a couple of Muslim people on the council. And then lots of non-Muslims too.
Ibby Ullah (in the OP) is not *The* councillor for Sheffield. That’s not how councils work🙄
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Leader of Sheffield Council is Tom Hunt.
Yes, there are a couple of Muslim people on the council. And then lots of non-Muslims too.
Ibby Ullah (in the OP) is not *The* councillor for Sheffield. That’s not how councils work🙄
2/15
November 8, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Firstly, let’s address the “Muslim run council” nonsense.
Leader of Sheffield Council is Tom Hunt.
Yes, there are a couple of Muslim people on the council. And then lots of non-Muslims too.
Ibby Ullah (in the OP) is not *The* councillor for Sheffield. That’s not how councils work🙄
2/15
Leader of Sheffield Council is Tom Hunt.
Yes, there are a couple of Muslim people on the council. And then lots of non-Muslims too.
Ibby Ullah (in the OP) is not *The* councillor for Sheffield. That’s not how councils work🙄
2/15
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Another very pertinent fact that I have not seen mentioned ANYWHERE: In 14 years of Tory rule we had 14 Prisons Ministers - six in a single year, at one point - and a total of 11 Justice Secretaries, including Grayling, Raab, and Truss. In 13 years of Labour it was three: Irvine, Falconer, Straw. 🤔
November 9, 2025 at 12:44 PM
Another very pertinent fact that I have not seen mentioned ANYWHERE: In 14 years of Tory rule we had 14 Prisons Ministers - six in a single year, at one point - and a total of 11 Justice Secretaries, including Grayling, Raab, and Truss. In 13 years of Labour it was three: Irvine, Falconer, Straw. 🤔
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Time to ban #FascX and Musk in the UK and the EU, its time the nazi and his far right-wing fascist PROPAGANDA MACHINE was SILENCED
We had this same debate when Russia Today was on freeview pumping hate and disinformation into people's homes.
But X is far, far, far worse and it's shocking that the plug hasn't been pulled and that the government and all other major parties remain there.
But X is far, far, far worse and it's shocking that the plug hasn't been pulled and that the government and all other major parties remain there.
November 7, 2025 at 8:19 PM
Time to ban #FascX and Musk in the UK and the EU, its time the nazi and his far right-wing fascist PROPAGANDA MACHINE was SILENCED
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Whenever Richard Tice posts about poppies, just remember that he and Oakeshott told you not to buy them last year.
November 7, 2025 at 9:28 AM
Whenever Richard Tice posts about poppies, just remember that he and Oakeshott told you not to buy them last year.
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It is a very good thing Tom Harris is no longer an MP. What a foul attitude to take to young people taking an interest in politics and the House of Commons making space to accommodate them, as any serious democracy should. "This lot"? A sublime encapsulation of the bitter ageism blighting politics.
The hatred the youth parliament gets is just so out of proportion. Can these people hear themselves. It’s creepy.
November 7, 2025 at 1:42 PM
It is a very good thing Tom Harris is no longer an MP. What a foul attitude to take to young people taking an interest in politics and the House of Commons making space to accommodate them, as any serious democracy should. "This lot"? A sublime encapsulation of the bitter ageism blighting politics.
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Don't be misled by the name, The Growth Commission is not a government advisory body. It's an 'independent' think tank, closely linked to the other Tufton Street organisation and with the same opaque funding. It's a right-wing free market advocacy group. It's been publishing reports since 2023.
November 6, 2025 at 10:38 AM
Don't be misled by the name, The Growth Commission is not a government advisory body. It's an 'independent' think tank, closely linked to the other Tufton Street organisation and with the same opaque funding. It's a right-wing free market advocacy group. It's been publishing reports since 2023.