MsAlliance
@msalliance.me
Gita Bapat. Culturally incoherent. Frequently perky. Largely Beckenham, also NW Norfolk. Volunteer. Candidate. She/her. Sings, blogs, loves dogs. And biscuits. Not dog biscuits.🔶💚✊🏽🐸
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Autumn in the country
I've been round and about recently and regular readers of my blog will know that I post a lot of mushroom pictures at this time of year. I find it fsacinating how the fruiting bodies appear overnight;...
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Good morning
#DavidsMonthOfMusic
November Connections
Day 12 Connection: Berlin
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November Connections
Day 12 Connection: Berlin
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November 12, 2025 at 9:34 AM
Good morning
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November Connections
Day 12 Connection: Berlin
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November Connections
Day 12 Connection: Berlin
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Superb evening in the best of LunDun: Zedel and Ronnie’s, seeing the wonderful Count Basie Orchestra and the astounding Gunhild Carling.
At no time was I mugged or robbed or stabbed or bombed. Was not subject to Sharia law. Had a ruddy good time with friends.
At no time was I mugged or robbed or stabbed or bombed. Was not subject to Sharia law. Had a ruddy good time with friends.
November 12, 2025 at 12:46 AM
Superb evening in the best of LunDun: Zedel and Ronnie’s, seeing the wonderful Count Basie Orchestra and the astounding Gunhild Carling.
At no time was I mugged or robbed or stabbed or bombed. Was not subject to Sharia law. Had a ruddy good time with friends.
At no time was I mugged or robbed or stabbed or bombed. Was not subject to Sharia law. Had a ruddy good time with friends.
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If BBC News was a hotbed of left-wing wokery producing *systemically* biased coverage Jeremy Corbyn may well have been elected Prime Minister in 2019.
It’s not. He wasn’t.
And we got Boris Johnson instead.
It’s not. He wasn’t.
And we got Boris Johnson instead.
November 11, 2025 at 7:49 PM
If BBC News was a hotbed of left-wing wokery producing *systemically* biased coverage Jeremy Corbyn may well have been elected Prime Minister in 2019.
It’s not. He wasn’t.
And we got Boris Johnson instead.
It’s not. He wasn’t.
And we got Boris Johnson instead.
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On immigration, Roy Jenkins observed: 'Where in the world is there a university which could preserve its fame, or a cultural centre which would keep its eminence...if it were to turn inward...? To live apart, for a person, a city or a country, is to lead a life of declining intellectual stimulation'
November 11, 2025 at 3:17 PM
On immigration, Roy Jenkins observed: 'Where in the world is there a university which could preserve its fame, or a cultural centre which would keep its eminence...if it were to turn inward...? To live apart, for a person, a city or a country, is to lead a life of declining intellectual stimulation'
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As I’ve seen this confused a few times, please note that Robin Gibb was a much-beloved member of the Bee Gees, whilst Robbie Gibb is the BBC board member who also, totally coincidentally, was editorial adviser in the set-up of GB News.
I know, Bee Gees, GBeebies, a bit confusing…
I know, Bee Gees, GBeebies, a bit confusing…
November 11, 2025 at 7:33 AM
As I’ve seen this confused a few times, please note that Robin Gibb was a much-beloved member of the Bee Gees, whilst Robbie Gibb is the BBC board member who also, totally coincidentally, was editorial adviser in the set-up of GB News.
I know, Bee Gees, GBeebies, a bit confusing…
I know, Bee Gees, GBeebies, a bit confusing…
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This is the most deranged situation. We are literally being kicked about by fake-newsers threatening to bankrupt our own public service broadcaster, to shield an insurrectionist from a reality that he can’t accept.
November 11, 2025 at 8:51 AM
This is the most deranged situation. We are literally being kicked about by fake-newsers threatening to bankrupt our own public service broadcaster, to shield an insurrectionist from a reality that he can’t accept.
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Nice to see the Guardian finally getting round to reporting on what we've been saying long term, particularly since the riots. Can we have our country back now please.
November 11, 2025 at 8:16 AM
Nice to see the Guardian finally getting round to reporting on what we've been saying long term, particularly since the riots. Can we have our country back now please.
Good evening
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November Connections
Day 11 Connection: Kander & Ebb
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November Connections
Day 11 Connection: Kander & Ebb
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November 11, 2025 at 9:26 AM
Good evening
#DavidsMonthOfMusic
November Connections
Day 11 Connection: Kander & Ebb
music.apple.com/gb/album/mei...
#DavidsMonthOfMusic
November Connections
Day 11 Connection: Kander & Ebb
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A brilliant example of what Lewis Goodall talks about when he argues why right-wing radicals keep winning. They don't play by the rules and simply don't care. Whereas the institutions they want to destroy do even when said rules are contorted to absurdity and are blatantly being used against them.
The founder of Newsmax was just on the Today programme pontificating about bias. Boy, the BBC loves to submit itself to flagellation.
November 11, 2025 at 8:45 AM
A brilliant example of what Lewis Goodall talks about when he argues why right-wing radicals keep winning. They don't play by the rules and simply don't care. Whereas the institutions they want to destroy do even when said rules are contorted to absurdity and are blatantly being used against them.
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A radio programme like the Shipping Forecast but it’s called Bin Day and it just reads out every single council in the country’s bin schedule
November 10, 2025 at 11:53 PM
A radio programme like the Shipping Forecast but it’s called Bin Day and it just reads out every single council in the country’s bin schedule
Good morning!
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November Connections
Day 10 Connection: Chicago
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November Connections
Day 10 Connection: Chicago
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November 10, 2025 at 10:49 AM
Good morning!
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November Connections
Day 10 Connection: Chicago
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November Connections
Day 10 Connection: Chicago
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HKers fought because we had to. Otherwise it would be giving up, giving in, accepting the cruelties inflicted on the city as right and fair. And none of it is right or fair. "Don't persist only when you have hope. Persist so that there can be hope."
Source: TG, Anon (Nov 2019)
Source: TG, Anon (Nov 2019)
November 10, 2024 at 2:37 AM
HKers fought because we had to. Otherwise it would be giving up, giving in, accepting the cruelties inflicted on the city as right and fair. And none of it is right or fair. "Don't persist only when you have hope. Persist so that there can be hope."
Source: TG, Anon (Nov 2019)
Source: TG, Anon (Nov 2019)
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So I made this video 4 years ago - and somehow things have got worse since then… youtu.be/bJnT2yL66Kw?...
Interview for a senior role at BBC News
YouTube video by Matt Green Comedy
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November 9, 2025 at 7:22 PM
So I made this video 4 years ago - and somehow things have got worse since then… youtu.be/bJnT2yL66Kw?...
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the right winger who was appointed to lead the BBC in the hope of appeasing right wingers has been driven out by right wingers for not appeasing right wingers enough and the BBC has the chance to do the funniest thing ever
November 9, 2025 at 6:38 PM
the right winger who was appointed to lead the BBC in the hope of appeasing right wingers has been driven out by right wingers for not appeasing right wingers enough and the BBC has the chance to do the funniest thing ever
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November 9, 2025 at 1:01 PM
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ultimately you cannot appease people whose purpose in life is to destroy you bsky.app/profile/drje...
One can’t help but suspect that the Telegraph is going to be disappointed by whoever is appointed if they are to the left of Attila the Hun.
November 9, 2025 at 6:49 PM
ultimately you cannot appease people whose purpose in life is to destroy you bsky.app/profile/drje...
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There‘s only one person who can be Director General of the BBC
a man in a suit and tie with ahhaaa written on the screen
ALT: a man in a suit and tie with ahhaaa written on the screen
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November 9, 2025 at 7:30 PM
There‘s only one person who can be Director General of the BBC
Good evening
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November Connections
Day 9 Connection: Brass
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November Connections
Day 9 Connection: Brass
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November 9, 2025 at 7:17 PM
Good evening
#DavidsMonthOfMusic
November Connections
Day 9 Connection: Brass
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November Connections
Day 9 Connection: Brass
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Is it all finished then? Can I take Fergs out for his evening walk without him being scared?
November 8, 2025 at 10:28 PM
Is it all finished then? Can I take Fergs out for his evening walk without him being scared?
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So another year to wait for the 2nd #RiotWomen series?
November 8, 2025 at 10:22 PM
So another year to wait for the 2nd #RiotWomen series?
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“Over the past year British media organisations have started noticing things that they spent 14 years ignoring & ignoring things that they spent 14 years noticing…In the last year of the Conservative Government alone, 115 prisoners were released in error…”
www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/the-great-...
www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/the-great-...
The 'Great Noticing' Era
Ever since Labour came to power, the British media has started to notice a whole series of problems they spent the previous 14 years completely ignoring
www.adambienkov.co.uk
November 8, 2025 at 7:17 PM
“Over the past year British media organisations have started noticing things that they spent 14 years ignoring & ignoring things that they spent 14 years noticing…In the last year of the Conservative Government alone, 115 prisoners were released in error…”
www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/the-great-...
www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/the-great-...
Good evening (better late than never)
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November Connections
Day 8 Connection: 5/4 time
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November Connections
Day 8 Connection: 5/4 time
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November 8, 2025 at 6:35 PM
Good evening (better late than never)
#DavidsMonthOfMusic
November Connections
Day 8 Connection: 5/4 time
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zy5F...
#DavidsMonthOfMusic
November Connections
Day 8 Connection: 5/4 time
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zy5F...
Woken up by so many noisy LHR planes before 6am grrr.
November 8, 2025 at 7:19 AM
Woken up by so many noisy LHR planes before 6am grrr.