Rob Massam 🔸
@rmassam.bsky.social
Former Export Sales now retired. LibDems supporter actively engaged in UK issues and challenges. #FBPE Tactical voter in 2024; actively campaigning for return to EU located in the UK of course
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The letter the BBC could send back to Trump
A proposal for a reply to his $1bn claim
By me. Enjoy.
emptycity.substack.com/p/the-letter...
The letter the BBC could send back to Trump
A proposal for a reply to his $1bn claim
By me. Enjoy.
emptycity.substack.com/p/the-letter...
The letter the BBC could send back to Trump
A proposal for a reply to his $1bn claim
emptycity.substack.com
November 12, 2025 at 12:00 PM
NEW
The letter the BBC could send back to Trump
A proposal for a reply to his $1bn claim
By me. Enjoy.
emptycity.substack.com/p/the-letter...
The letter the BBC could send back to Trump
A proposal for a reply to his $1bn claim
By me. Enjoy.
emptycity.substack.com/p/the-letter...
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Trump desperately pressuring Republicans who signed the Epstein petition before Grijalva signs it at 4:10 PM when it will then be too late to stop it.
November 12, 2025 at 5:57 PM
Trump desperately pressuring Republicans who signed the Epstein petition before Grijalva signs it at 4:10 PM when it will then be too late to stop it.
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Oh man, he was working from the inside to bring Epstein down! OF COURSE!
White House says ‘unnamed victim’ Trump ‘spent hours’ with was Virginia Giuffre, accusing Democrats of ‘fake narrative’ – live
www.theguardian.com/us-news/live...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/live...
White House says ‘unnamed victim’ Trump ‘spent hours’ with was Virginia Giuffre, accusing Democrats of ‘fake narrative’ – live
Spokesperson says Giuffre repeatedly said Trump was not involved in any wrongdoing as she accuses Democrats of trying to ‘smear’ president
www.theguardian.com
November 12, 2025 at 5:58 PM
Oh man, he was working from the inside to bring Epstein down! OF COURSE!
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State sponsored terrorism
Israeli settlers torch factories and farmland in massive West Bank arson raid
Army-backed settler attacks soar to record levels, with over 2,350 incidents recorded in October alone
www.middleeasteye.net
November 12, 2025 at 2:24 PM
State sponsored terrorism
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A message for Sir Keir Starmer:
You brought this all on yourself.
And you have no one else to blame.
You brought this all on yourself.
And you have no one else to blame.
November 12, 2025 at 5:58 PM
A message for Sir Keir Starmer:
You brought this all on yourself.
And you have no one else to blame.
You brought this all on yourself.
And you have no one else to blame.
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Keep in mind these are exactly the people who organised the biggest vaccination programme in British history during the pandemic too.
It's incredible that the story in the headlines today, about Wes Streeting is not that he has finally agreed with the treasury how he is going to sack tens of thousands of nurses at massive expense to the NHS.
news.sky.com/story/thousa...
news.sky.com/story/thousa...
Thousands of NHS staff to be made redundant after funding agreed
The government says the jobs will go in order to slash "unnecessary bureaucracy" and ensure taxpayers' money is being "spent wisely".
news.sky.com
November 12, 2025 at 1:52 PM
Keep in mind these are exactly the people who organised the biggest vaccination programme in British history during the pandemic too.
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PRIVACY UNDER ATTACK
Government plans to introduce digital ID, ramp up facial recognition tech, and weaken encryption services threaten us all.
Help us fight back: https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/protect-our-privacy
Government plans to introduce digital ID, ramp up facial recognition tech, and weaken encryption services threaten us all.
Help us fight back: https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/protect-our-privacy
November 12, 2025 at 6:00 PM
PRIVACY UNDER ATTACK
Government plans to introduce digital ID, ramp up facial recognition tech, and weaken encryption services threaten us all.
Help us fight back: https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/protect-our-privacy
Government plans to introduce digital ID, ramp up facial recognition tech, and weaken encryption services threaten us all.
Help us fight back: https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/protect-our-privacy
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Part 2 & 3
One, ex-Sunday Times political editor turned lobbyist Michael Prescott, had worked at PR firm Hanover. While at the BBC, Prescott raised internal concerns about editorial standards - but after leaving this summer, he went to his old media contacts with a list of the BBC’s failings.
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One, ex-Sunday Times political editor turned lobbyist Michael Prescott, had worked at PR firm Hanover. While at the BBC, Prescott raised internal concerns about editorial standards - but after leaving this summer, he went to his old media contacts with a list of the BBC’s failings.
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So in the end, the man who Davie (ironically considered a Tory) appointed in 2022 to stop the next crisis ended up causing his demise.
Full story in the new Private Eye, out now.
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Full story in the new Private Eye, out now.
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November 12, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Part 2 & 3
One, ex-Sunday Times political editor turned lobbyist Michael Prescott, had worked at PR firm Hanover. While at the BBC, Prescott raised internal concerns about editorial standards - but after leaving this summer, he went to his old media contacts with a list of the BBC’s failings.
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One, ex-Sunday Times political editor turned lobbyist Michael Prescott, had worked at PR firm Hanover. While at the BBC, Prescott raised internal concerns about editorial standards - but after leaving this summer, he went to his old media contacts with a list of the BBC’s failings.
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Congratulations to the geniuses in Number 10 for finally opening up a goal so large that even Kemi Badenoch couldn't avoid putting the ball into it
November 12, 2025 at 12:11 PM
Congratulations to the geniuses in Number 10 for finally opening up a goal so large that even Kemi Badenoch couldn't avoid putting the ball into it
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Starmer is a weak puppet of US Lobbyists. Follow where all the money has gone ,dodgy Freeports. Black hole. Let's not forget the contracts dolled out to Palantir for NHS and Police and AI centres. US Property Developers now in the UK property market , no coincidence. We are being asset stripped.
Sir Ed as ever the voice of reason at #PMQs and as always the PM ducks the question.
November 12, 2025 at 12:29 PM
Starmer is a weak puppet of US Lobbyists. Follow where all the money has gone ,dodgy Freeports. Black hole. Let's not forget the contracts dolled out to Palantir for NHS and Police and AI centres. US Property Developers now in the UK property market , no coincidence. We are being asset stripped.
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That's where tax payers money has gone , and on Freeports too, three are 80%owned by Black Rock. Tax payers money is going to private companies who run the Freeports where big corporates get tax relief and pay no tax. That's why there is a 40 billion black hole. Starmer and Reeves must go!!!!
In an interview about Palantir's creeping involvement in the British state and the NHS, I told @prospectmagazine.co.uk: “Its business is death and destruction. This is not an organisation you want running the democratic jewel of the postwar period.”
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/dem...
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/dem...
How Palantir infiltrated the state
At a moment of national emergency, the government handed our data to Peter Thiel’s controversial company
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk
November 12, 2025 at 12:33 PM
That's where tax payers money has gone , and on Freeports too, three are 80%owned by Black Rock. Tax payers money is going to private companies who run the Freeports where big corporates get tax relief and pay no tax. That's why there is a 40 billion black hole. Starmer and Reeves must go!!!!
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It all went to Palantir and Black Rock.
Funny how there's no extra money for winter planning, but when it comes to sacking frontline clinical staff (yes, you did read that right - it's not JUST admin) they can suddenly find the cash.
Oh, and we ALREADY have 100,000 vacancies.
Utter, utter madness.
www.lbc.co.uk/article/nhs-...
Oh, and we ALREADY have 100,000 vacancies.
Utter, utter madness.
www.lbc.co.uk/article/nhs-...
Thousands of NHS staff face redundancy after £1 billion cost package approved | LBC
The reforms will slash “unnecessary bureaucracy” and raise £1 billion a year by the end of the Parliament to improve services for patients, according to the Department of Health.
www.lbc.co.uk
November 12, 2025 at 12:34 PM
It all went to Palantir and Black Rock.
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A load of damning Epstein-Trump emails have been released by House Democrats. Some here⬇️
November 12, 2025 at 2:03 PM
A load of damning Epstein-Trump emails have been released by House Democrats. Some here⬇️
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Nigel Farage is defending the gambling industry now.
£16bn it made in profit in 2024.
Most of it taken from less than 2 million people.
It shouldn't be taxed he says, because they bring such joy and bring people together.
£16bn it made in profit in 2024.
Most of it taken from less than 2 million people.
It shouldn't be taxed he says, because they bring such joy and bring people together.
November 12, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Nigel Farage is defending the gambling industry now.
£16bn it made in profit in 2024.
Most of it taken from less than 2 million people.
It shouldn't be taxed he says, because they bring such joy and bring people together.
£16bn it made in profit in 2024.
Most of it taken from less than 2 million people.
It shouldn't be taxed he says, because they bring such joy and bring people together.
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Reform's first member of the Senedd in Wales (having defected from the Conservatives) has accepted a two week suspension, after using a racial slur against Chinese people in a ("no chinky spies for me") in a WhatsApp group message with staff.
Report
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Report
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November 12, 2025 at 5:36 PM
Reform's first member of the Senedd in Wales (having defected from the Conservatives) has accepted a two week suspension, after using a racial slur against Chinese people in a ("no chinky spies for me") in a WhatsApp group message with staff.
Report
laiddocuments.senedd.wales/cr-ld17553-e...
Report
laiddocuments.senedd.wales/cr-ld17553-e...
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UK in denial over hostage-taking by foreign states, says Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe
UK in denial over hostage-taking by foreign states, says Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe
Zaghari-Ratcliffe, who spent six years in Iranian jail, says ministers have failed to fulfil vow to appoint special envoy to combat problem
The UK government is in denial about the extent of hostage-taking by foreign states and has failed to fulfil its promise to appoint a special envoy to combat the problem, Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe has said.
Zaghari-Ratcliffe, who was kept in an Iranian jail for six years on bogus espionage charges until her release in March 2022, was speaking at a conference dedicated to eradicating the growing international practice of hostage-taking. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
November 12, 2025 at 5:31 PM
UK in denial over hostage-taking by foreign states, says Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe
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Defend the BBC before it’s gone – an open letter
The BBC isn’t perfect – but it’s ours. If we don’t defend it now, we may lose a cornerstone of British democracy
By Dr Russell Jackson
@docrussjackson.bsky.social @bylinetimes.bsky.social
The BBC isn’t perfect – but it’s ours. If we don’t defend it now, we may lose a cornerstone of British democracy
By Dr Russell Jackson
@docrussjackson.bsky.social @bylinetimes.bsky.social
Defend the BBC before it’s gone – an open letter
The BBC isn’t perfect – but it’s ours. If we don’t defend it now, we may lose a cornerstone of British democracy
yorkshirebylines.co.uk
November 12, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Defend the BBC before it’s gone – an open letter
The BBC isn’t perfect – but it’s ours. If we don’t defend it now, we may lose a cornerstone of British democracy
By Dr Russell Jackson
@docrussjackson.bsky.social @bylinetimes.bsky.social
The BBC isn’t perfect – but it’s ours. If we don’t defend it now, we may lose a cornerstone of British democracy
By Dr Russell Jackson
@docrussjackson.bsky.social @bylinetimes.bsky.social
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"Robbie Gibb should have no role in appointing the next Director General, and given the Royal Charter gives the government the power to remove him will the Prime Minister sack him now?" asks Ed Davey.
Starmer says he won't interfere in running the BBC
Starmer says he won't interfere in running the BBC
November 12, 2025 at 12:17 PM
"Robbie Gibb should have no role in appointing the next Director General, and given the Royal Charter gives the government the power to remove him will the Prime Minister sack him now?" asks Ed Davey.
Starmer says he won't interfere in running the BBC
Starmer says he won't interfere in running the BBC
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Maxwell’s intimate knowledge of Trump and Epstein’s activities could explain why she’s been kept in such cushy, low-security holdings. trib.al/ILS6K5r
She knows the president of the United States spent “hours” at Epstein’s house with one of his victims—and he has the power to make her a free woman.
She knows the president of the United States spent “hours” at Epstein’s house with one of his victims—and he has the power to make her a free woman.
New Epstein Emails Expose Ghislaine Maxwell’s Big Lie to Trump DOJ
Jeffrey Epstein’s accomplice lied to the Department of Justice about what Donald Trump did.
trib.al
November 12, 2025 at 5:37 PM
Maxwell’s intimate knowledge of Trump and Epstein’s activities could explain why she’s been kept in such cushy, low-security holdings. trib.al/ILS6K5r
She knows the president of the United States spent “hours” at Epstein’s house with one of his victims—and he has the power to make her a free woman.
She knows the president of the United States spent “hours” at Epstein’s house with one of his victims—and he has the power to make her a free woman.
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Reform MS facing suspension without pay for bringing Senedd into disrepute
nation.cymru/news/reform-...
nation.cymru/news/reform-...
Reform MS facing suspension without pay for bringing Senedd into disrepute
Emily Price Reform’s only Senedd Member is facing suspension from the Welsh Parliament for two weeks without pay following an investigation into her conduct. Laura Anne Jones was investigated by the...
nation.cymru
November 12, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Reform MS facing suspension without pay for bringing Senedd into disrepute
nation.cymru/news/reform-...
nation.cymru/news/reform-...
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The committee appoints the advisor, so it depends on who controls the committee. It’s clear that Samir Shah hasn’t been controlling anything much so that leaves Gibb.
November 12, 2025 at 3:40 PM
The committee appoints the advisor, so it depends on who controls the committee. It’s clear that Samir Shah hasn’t been controlling anything much so that leaves Gibb.
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I was being facetious- of course it seems very planned.
November 11, 2025 at 9:39 PM
I was being facetious- of course it seems very planned.
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There are also overt links to the Legatum Institute. And yet we are expected to consider Prescott’s memo as objective and impartial. My arse.
November 12, 2025 at 12:32 PM
There are also overt links to the Legatum Institute. And yet we are expected to consider Prescott’s memo as objective and impartial. My arse.
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“Trump & Brexit are not 2 different things. They‘re the same thing. Same companies. Same data. Same Facebook. Same Russians. Same Cambridge Analytica. Same Robert Mercer. Same Steve Bannon. Same Breitbart. Same Alexander Nix. Same Donald Trump. Same Farage” Carole Cadwalladr 👇
November 11, 2025 at 5:17 PM
“Trump & Brexit are not 2 different things. They‘re the same thing. Same companies. Same data. Same Facebook. Same Russians. Same Cambridge Analytica. Same Robert Mercer. Same Steve Bannon. Same Breitbart. Same Alexander Nix. Same Donald Trump. Same Farage” Carole Cadwalladr 👇
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This kind of thing, btw, is one of the reasons I think it's right to use the (admittedly ugly) word 'Brexitism': there are multiple recurring threads linking Brexit to post-Brexit politics/ culture wars. So many things which aren't about Brexit per se are in/directly connected to it. 3/3
November 11, 2025 at 3:19 PM
This kind of thing, btw, is one of the reasons I think it's right to use the (admittedly ugly) word 'Brexitism': there are multiple recurring threads linking Brexit to post-Brexit politics/ culture wars. So many things which aren't about Brexit per se are in/directly connected to it. 3/3