PWCoghlan
@pwc50.bsky.social
Old school bits, bytes and (r)aging optimist...
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Boris Johnson says the idea that criticism of the BBC is being organised by the right is ‘complete and utter bollocks’, which makes me think there might be something in it.
November 11, 2025 at 2:33 PM
Boris Johnson says the idea that criticism of the BBC is being organised by the right is ‘complete and utter bollocks’, which makes me think there might be something in it.
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I'm not sure if others have noticed this, but interesting that one of the Prescott criticisms of the BBC is based on those of the 'History Reclaimed' group, which is also associated with the 'Restore Trust' group's attacks on & so far unsuccessful attempts to take control of the National Trust. 1/3
November 11, 2025 at 3:19 PM
I'm not sure if others have noticed this, but interesting that one of the Prescott criticisms of the BBC is based on those of the 'History Reclaimed' group, which is also associated with the 'Restore Trust' group's attacks on & so far unsuccessful attempts to take control of the National Trust. 1/3
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Oh look. There really are "no go areas" in England.
And they're marked by St George's flags
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
And they're marked by St George's flags
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
NHS staff who visit patients at home say St George’s flags can mean ‘no-go zones’
Black and Asian staff left feeling ‘deliberately intimidated’, according to chief executive of one NHS trust
www.theguardian.com
November 11, 2025 at 8:00 AM
Oh look. There really are "no go areas" in England.
And they're marked by St George's flags
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
And they're marked by St George's flags
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
First Prize 🏆 in this week's Pedantry Notes, goes to Shetland Stitch Club’s Helen Barwick; no contest as she asks @channel4tv.bsky.social to apologise for Game of Wool’s misrepresentation of Fair Isle knitting share.google/X4UUWe1wxWG2...
LETTER: ‘You’ve misrepresented an entire culture’ - Open letter calls for TV show to apologise for its “blatant disregard” of Fair Isle knitting
Shetland Stitch Club’s Helen Barwick has asked Channel 4 to apologise for “misrepresenting an entire culture” in Game of Wool: Britain’s Best Knitter
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November 10, 2025 at 3:52 PM
First Prize 🏆 in this week's Pedantry Notes, goes to Shetland Stitch Club’s Helen Barwick; no contest as she asks @channel4tv.bsky.social to apologise for Game of Wool’s misrepresentation of Fair Isle knitting share.google/X4UUWe1wxWG2...
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The departure of Tim Davie and Deborah Turness means the BBC is leaderless when it needs leadership more than ever. Where are the people at the head of the BBC standing up for it?
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
The BBC is facing a coordinated, politically motivated attack. With these resignations, it has given in | Jane Martinson
The corporation should have stood up to the Telegraph, Trump and the Tories. Now, its enemies know how little it takes for it to fold, says Jane Martinson, professor of financial journalism
www.theguardian.com
November 9, 2025 at 9:04 PM
The departure of Tim Davie and Deborah Turness means the BBC is leaderless when it needs leadership more than ever. Where are the people at the head of the BBC standing up for it?
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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The online baying mob shouting "Vote Reform" after Saturday's train stabbing attack may wish to note that not a single Reform MP has turned up for the Home Secretary's statement on the incident.
November 3, 2025 at 5:39 PM
The online baying mob shouting "Vote Reform" after Saturday's train stabbing attack may wish to note that not a single Reform MP has turned up for the Home Secretary's statement on the incident.
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‘I think we were so desperate to get out of the EU that at the time we basically came up with a very bad deal.’
Former Tory Brexit minister David Jones, who has since defected to Reform UK
#Traitors
Former Tory Brexit minister David Jones, who has since defected to Reform UK
#Traitors
November 1, 2025 at 6:56 AM
‘I think we were so desperate to get out of the EU that at the time we basically came up with a very bad deal.’
Former Tory Brexit minister David Jones, who has since defected to Reform UK
#Traitors
Former Tory Brexit minister David Jones, who has since defected to Reform UK
#Traitors
I was wondering, on reading your informative item in @theipaper.com, if Virgin's plans might include reopening the Waterloo international terminal which was a terrific location for everyone in the south & south west of England to get to mainland Europe? St Pancras is already jammed🫤
@jonworth.eu
@jonworth.eu
November 1, 2025 at 10:24 AM
I was wondering, on reading your informative item in @theipaper.com, if Virgin's plans might include reopening the Waterloo international terminal which was a terrific location for everyone in the south & south west of England to get to mainland Europe? St Pancras is already jammed🫤
@jonworth.eu
@jonworth.eu
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🚨🚨Very welcome new French landmark legislation was approved yesterday introducing the concept of consent in the legal definition of #rape following the shocking #GisèlePelicot trial last year. 🧵 www.politico.eu/article/fran...
France moves to define all nonconsensual sex as rape after Pelicot trial
The trial of Gisèle Pélicot’s rapists accelerated the debate on consent in France.
www.politico.eu
October 30, 2025 at 4:44 PM
🚨🚨Very welcome new French landmark legislation was approved yesterday introducing the concept of consent in the legal definition of #rape following the shocking #GisèlePelicot trial last year. 🧵 www.politico.eu/article/fran...
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Farage: epic grifter
October 27, 2025 at 12:45 PM
Farage: epic grifter
1.3 million homes in England - 5% of the total - had damp problems in one or more rooms in 2023-4, according to government figures released earlier this year
Yet these two state funded freeloaders are demanding to be housed in separate stately homes worth £millions 😒
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Yet these two state funded freeloaders are demanding to be housed in separate stately homes worth £millions 😒
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Prince Andrew: Where could he end up if he leaves his Windsor mansion?
Prince Andrew's links with Jeffrey Epstein have prompted calls for him to be removed from his mansion.
www.bbc.com
October 27, 2025 at 4:11 PM
1.3 million homes in England - 5% of the total - had damp problems in one or more rooms in 2023-4, according to government figures released earlier this year
Yet these two state funded freeloaders are demanding to be housed in separate stately homes worth £millions 😒
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Yet these two state funded freeloaders are demanding to be housed in separate stately homes worth £millions 😒
www.bbc.com/news/article...
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October 24, 2025 at 10:35 AM
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Gift link.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/23/o...
I’d also encourage people to listen to this
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www.nytimes.com/2025/10/23/o...
I’d also encourage people to listen to this
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Opinion | What Happened in Gaza Might Be Even Worse Than We Think
www.nytimes.com
October 25, 2025 at 6:59 AM
Gift link.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/23/o...
I’d also encourage people to listen to this
podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/23/o...
I’d also encourage people to listen to this
podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...
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The actual regime that these people are hankering after is Dubai: a small elite of citizens, most immigrants to be transient, insecure and all immigrants to be second-class. In reality they would hate the world they would create and would find ever-more ridiculous scapegoats for their failure.
October 22, 2025 at 10:09 AM
The actual regime that these people are hankering after is Dubai: a small elite of citizens, most immigrants to be transient, insecure and all immigrants to be second-class. In reality they would hate the world they would create and would find ever-more ridiculous scapegoats for their failure.
News from the long grass where Shaggy is innocent, ok...
#covid
BBC News - Children paid 'huge price' for others in Covid, Boris Johnson says - BBC News
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
#covid
BBC News - Children paid 'huge price' for others in Covid, Boris Johnson says - BBC News
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Children paid 'huge price' for others in Covid, Boris Johnson says
The former PM says lockdown rules
www.bbc.co.uk
October 21, 2025 at 4:01 PM
News from the long grass where Shaggy is innocent, ok...
#covid
BBC News - Children paid 'huge price' for others in Covid, Boris Johnson says - BBC News
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
#covid
BBC News - Children paid 'huge price' for others in Covid, Boris Johnson says - BBC News
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Management by #refuk witch hunt what (else) could possibly go wrong for Kent CC & its residents?
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Reform council leader says she has launched hunt for ‘cowards’ behind leaked video
Linden Kemkaran told fellow Kent councillors those who disagreed with decisions would have to ‘suck it up’
www.theguardian.com
October 20, 2025 at 8:34 AM
Management by #refuk witch hunt what (else) could possibly go wrong for Kent CC & its residents?
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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I hope everyone finally sees that Trump is, and has always been Putin’s little bitch.
October 19, 2025 at 9:35 PM
I hope everyone finally sees that Trump is, and has always been Putin’s little bitch.
TACO flavoured treachery...
Moscow’s unrestrained delight after Zelenskiy appears to leave Washington empty-handed
Moscow’s unrestrained delight after Zelenskiy appears to leave Washington empty-handed
Always doubts that US president would enable Ukraine to acquire Tomahawk long-range cruise missiles
www.irishtimes.com
October 19, 2025 at 2:30 PM
TACO flavoured treachery...
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My 14-year-old self would never have guessed that, in 50 years' time, all the world's music would be available at the click of a button, you'd navigate the globe by carrying a tiny computer around in your pocket, and the US President would post a video of himself shitting over American citizens.
October 19, 2025 at 9:34 AM
My 14-year-old self would never have guessed that, in 50 years' time, all the world's music would be available at the click of a button, you'd navigate the globe by carrying a tiny computer around in your pocket, and the US President would post a video of himself shitting over American citizens.
This #KCC disaster for #refuk won’t come as a surprise to many & this comment by LD opposition leader sums it up perfectly
“It reveals Reform administration to be taking decisions & making plans based on party advantage rather than interests of the public”
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
“It reveals Reform administration to be taking decisions & making plans based on party advantage rather than interests of the public”
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
‘Suck it up’: leaked video exposes bitter infighting at Reform UK’s flagship Kent council
Exclusive: Footage reveals Kent leader berating councillors amid rows over budgets and bullying claims
www.theguardian.com
October 19, 2025 at 7:46 AM
This #KCC disaster for #refuk won’t come as a surprise to many & this comment by LD opposition leader sums it up perfectly
“It reveals Reform administration to be taking decisions & making plans based on party advantage rather than interests of the public”
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
“It reveals Reform administration to be taking decisions & making plans based on party advantage rather than interests of the public”
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Coincidentally, one of those "forgotten" minutae in these days of short attention spans, is that the only country which continued to support apartheid South Africa, was Israel
Who'd have thunk it?
Who'd have thunk it?
Just as we reached the correct conclusion that we should economically, culturally and politically withdraw our support of apartheid South Africa, we are overdue in reaching the same conclusion about Israel, writes Mhairi Black ✍️
Read here: tinyurl.com/4uy26z68
Read here: tinyurl.com/4uy26z68
October 18, 2025 at 10:24 AM
Coincidentally, one of those "forgotten" minutae in these days of short attention spans, is that the only country which continued to support apartheid South Africa, was Israel
Who'd have thunk it?
Who'd have thunk it?
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Fighting for the rights of violent football hooligans is a strange hill to die on.
October 18, 2025 at 7:49 AM
Fighting for the rights of violent football hooligans is a strange hill to die on.
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Reform candidate visibly squirms as he's confronted by a local family in Caerphilly.
👏 "We've lived here all our lives. And I have never felt so unwelcome in my own hometown as I do since your party came into Caerphilly."
"With all the rhetoric that you bring in, I have to say to my sons, please don't go there. Please don't do this."
"I blame you for that."
"With all the rhetoric that you bring in, I have to say to my sons, please don't go there. Please don't do this."
"I blame you for that."
October 16, 2025 at 11:13 AM
Reform candidate visibly squirms as he's confronted by a local family in Caerphilly.