Sean Madden
@seanmadd.bsky.social
PhD Candidate at Birmingham Law School. PGTA. TWAIL, Postcolonialism, Human Rights, Climate Change, and Global Agribusiness. Warwick LLM. Eco-Socialist. Vegan🌱. Books, music, travel, AVFC. He/him.
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Let's stop pretending that the billionaire media, endlessly attacking the BBC, has the slightest interest in balance, impartiality and accuracy. They won't be happy until the BBC is more rightwing than Vlad the Impaler. And then it still won't be enough.
November 11, 2025 at 8:01 AM
Let's stop pretending that the billionaire media, endlessly attacking the BBC, has the slightest interest in balance, impartiality and accuracy. They won't be happy until the BBC is more rightwing than Vlad the Impaler. And then it still won't be enough.
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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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Once every 20 years or so, the director-general of the BBC is forced to resign for being insufficiently rightwing. Alastair Milne in 1987. Greg Dyke in 2004. Tim Davie in 2025. The great irony is that the BBC was in all cases profoundly biased towards established power. But just not biased enough …
November 10, 2025 at 5:44 AM
Once every 20 years or so, the director-general of the BBC is forced to resign for being insufficiently rightwing. Alastair Milne in 1987. Greg Dyke in 2004. Tim Davie in 2025. The great irony is that the BBC was in all cases profoundly biased towards established power. But just not biased enough …
Bias against the right is a resigning matter for the Director-General. Bias against the left is BBC News policy.
November 9, 2025 at 6:38 PM
Bias against the right is a resigning matter for the Director-General. Bias against the left is BBC News policy.
Unelected commissioners mandating the ideologically-motivated, illiterate sale of hundreds of millions of pounds worth of civic assets, for a Section 114 order erroneously issued, responsibility for which shouldn't lie with the public anyway.
What's happening in Birmingham is a national scandal.
What's happening in Birmingham is a national scandal.
Find out what's gone - and what could be next to go - in today's story:
www.birminghamdispatch.co.uk/revealed-the...
www.birminghamdispatch.co.uk/revealed-the...
Revealed: The 1,000 assets flogged off by Birmingham’s bankrupt council
The city's green spaces could be the next to go
www.birminghamdispatch.co.uk
November 6, 2025 at 10:48 AM
Unelected commissioners mandating the ideologically-motivated, illiterate sale of hundreds of millions of pounds worth of civic assets, for a Section 114 order erroneously issued, responsibility for which shouldn't lie with the public anyway.
What's happening in Birmingham is a national scandal.
What's happening in Birmingham is a national scandal.
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Remember this, whenever someone says "alternative proteins - yuck!"
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Beef, pork, chicken: the world loves cheap meat. If people knew what really goes in it, that love affair would be over | Devi Sridhar
Antibiotic use in farming is now rampant. How meat is produced in China may mean the drugs you need here won’t work, says Prof Devi Sridhar, chair of global public health at the University of Edinburg...
www.theguardian.com
October 21, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Remember this, whenever someone says "alternative proteins - yuck!"
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
This entire situation is deeply perturbing for a number of reasons, but not least because: despite the order focusing on a small number of football hooligans, both media and government seem determined to provoke unnecessary fear amongst Jewish communities, and incite hostility towards Muslims. Why?
Sky are absolutely determined to push the antisemitism line regardless of the reality of the situation.
Sky News is platforming a guy who says he's from a Jewish Aston Villa supporters group, but it turns out that the guy a) isn't Jewish, b) the group doesn't exist, and c) he works for the right wing Henry Jackson Society, whose website says he 'specialises in disinformation'. Well, quite.
October 19, 2025 at 7:03 AM
This entire situation is deeply perturbing for a number of reasons, but not least because: despite the order focusing on a small number of football hooligans, both media and government seem determined to provoke unnecessary fear amongst Jewish communities, and incite hostility towards Muslims. Why?
Sky are absolutely determined to push the antisemitism line regardless of the reality of the situation.
Sky News is platforming a guy who says he's from a Jewish Aston Villa supporters group, but it turns out that the guy a) isn't Jewish, b) the group doesn't exist, and c) he works for the right wing Henry Jackson Society, whose website says he 'specialises in disinformation'. Well, quite.
October 19, 2025 at 6:13 AM
Sky are absolutely determined to push the antisemitism line regardless of the reality of the situation.
The criminal justice system is just one of our crumbling, underfunded public services, and in a city whose council is starved of funding and unable to provide essential amenities, the Home Office is willing to pour in money in order to accommodate a group of football hooligans?
Just beyond bizarre.
Just beyond bizarre.
The UK Government is expecting West Midlands Police to lay out what additional resources could allow them to police the game safely, with both #AVFC & Maccabi Tel Aviv fans. The Safety Advisory Group meeting is expected to take place early next week.
www.nytimes.com/athletic/672...
www.nytimes.com/athletic/672...
Police ordered to review decision to ban Maccabi Tel Aviv fans from Aston Villa game
The review of the decision is set to take place on Friday, with a decision expected on the same day.
www.nytimes.com
October 18, 2025 at 12:06 PM
The criminal justice system is just one of our crumbling, underfunded public services, and in a city whose council is starved of funding and unable to provide essential amenities, the Home Office is willing to pour in money in order to accommodate a group of football hooligans?
Just beyond bizarre.
Just beyond bizarre.
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Show up for Stirchley.
October 18, 2025 at 5:03 AM
Show up for Stirchley.
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A bleak dystopia where Sharia law predominates, while economic and cultural divisions mean that the different communities live parallel, segregated lives.
Oh, wait, that’s Dubai …
Oh, wait, that’s Dubai …
October 18, 2025 at 8:24 AM
A bleak dystopia where Sharia law predominates, while economic and cultural divisions mean that the different communities live parallel, segregated lives.
Oh, wait, that’s Dubai …
Oh, wait, that’s Dubai …
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It's apparently perfectly fine for senior political journalists to call for the deportation of British Muslim politicians now, with zero consequences
October 18, 2025 at 8:10 AM
It's apparently perfectly fine for senior political journalists to call for the deportation of British Muslim politicians now, with zero consequences
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Green Party Deputy Leader, @mothinali.bsky.social, has responded ...
October 17, 2025 at 10:49 AM
Green Party Deputy Leader, @mothinali.bsky.social, has responded ...
National politicians falling over themselves to demand a group of racist, violent fans be permitted to attend a football match, despite crowd safety concerns, is nothing short of deranged. The willingness to conflate this small group with all Jews is again apparently fine and not at all antisemitic.
October 17, 2025 at 10:17 AM
National politicians falling over themselves to demand a group of racist, violent fans be permitted to attend a football match, despite crowd safety concerns, is nothing short of deranged. The willingness to conflate this small group with all Jews is again apparently fine and not at all antisemitic.
BBC balance is having Zach Polanski on Question Time, but only on the proviso that 3/5 of the panel are ardent right-wingers.
October 9, 2025 at 9:58 AM
BBC balance is having Zach Polanski on Question Time, but only on the proviso that 3/5 of the panel are ardent right-wingers.
Whilst even a penny goes to shareholders, bills shouldn't be increasing. Privatised water - like all utilities - is a scandal, and the regulator isn't fit for purpose.
October 9, 2025 at 6:48 AM
Whilst even a penny goes to shareholders, bills shouldn't be increasing. Privatised water - like all utilities - is a scandal, and the regulator isn't fit for purpose.
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Poor old Kemi has a problem. She doesn’t want arts subjects learned, because then people would understand how she’s talking bollocks. She doesn’t want sciences or mathematics studied, because then people would understand she’s talking bollocks. She doesn’t want law studied… 1/2
October 8, 2025 at 10:04 AM
Poor old Kemi has a problem. She doesn’t want arts subjects learned, because then people would understand how she’s talking bollocks. She doesn’t want sciences or mathematics studied, because then people would understand she’s talking bollocks. She doesn’t want law studied… 1/2
So the Conservatives want to get rid of degrees in sociology, anthropology, and anything that involves a critical evaluation of written language. What does this tell us about them, and anyone else committed to dismantling higher education?
October 8, 2025 at 1:54 PM
So the Conservatives want to get rid of degrees in sociology, anthropology, and anything that involves a critical evaluation of written language. What does this tell us about them, and anyone else committed to dismantling higher education?
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Not a single Greta hater could do what she has done, face what she's faced, bear abuse and humiliation at the hands of the most psychotic and genocidal army. They haven't an ounce of her bravery and that's what drives them crazy. Free Greta, free Palestine🇵🇸
October 4, 2025 at 10:33 PM
Not a single Greta hater could do what she has done, face what she's faced, bear abuse and humiliation at the hands of the most psychotic and genocidal army. They haven't an ounce of her bravery and that's what drives them crazy. Free Greta, free Palestine🇵🇸
Absolutely absurd. Are we expected to believe they'd be allowed to continue if they were JSO activists, or anyone else on the left engaging in peaceful protest?
Flags went up in Stirchley a few days ago & were taken down by local residents the same evening.
The men returned with a cherry picker and coned off parts of the road with police accompanying them as they put up new flags along the High Street.
Residents who object have been met with verbal abuse.
The men returned with a cherry picker and coned off parts of the road with police accompanying them as they put up new flags along the High Street.
Residents who object have been met with verbal abuse.
October 4, 2025 at 10:57 AM
Absolutely absurd. Are we expected to believe they'd be allowed to continue if they were JSO activists, or anyone else on the left engaging in peaceful protest?
The timing of the latest attack on plant-based foods in the EU isn't a coincidence. EAT-Lancet again shows the environmental devastation caused by animal-heavy diets, and the industry have accelerated their campaign of dis-and-misinformation. It's time for the green movement to tackle this head-on.
“For the past 2 decades, scientists have…landed on the same takeaways—esp. that rich countries must shift their diets to be more plant-based. But that message has, with few exceptions, failed to incite action by governments and food companies, or even the environmental movement itself.” #EatLancet
The rich must eat less meat
Scientists say rich countries need to eat a lot less meat. Will the environmental movement finally listen?
www.vox.com
October 4, 2025 at 7:39 AM
The timing of the latest attack on plant-based foods in the EU isn't a coincidence. EAT-Lancet again shows the environmental devastation caused by animal-heavy diets, and the industry have accelerated their campaign of dis-and-misinformation. It's time for the green movement to tackle this head-on.
Animal agriculture acutely aware it's days are numbered, and bastions of neoliberalism are only too happy to prop them up.
The EU Parliament committee proposes banning plant-based foods from using “meaty” labels like “steak” or “burger.” 🌱🚫🥩
👉 Learn more: https://veganfta.com/articles/2025/09/12/eu-parliament-committee-endorses-ban-of-meaty-terms-for-plant-based-foods/
#plantbased #veganfood #plantbasedfood #vegan
👉 Learn more: https://veganfta.com/articles/2025/09/12/eu-parliament-committee-endorses-ban-of-meaty-terms-for-plant-based-foods/
#plantbased #veganfood #plantbasedfood #vegan
October 3, 2025 at 6:16 PM
Animal agriculture acutely aware it's days are numbered, and bastions of neoliberalism are only too happy to prop them up.
To use yesterday's horror as an attempt to repress anti-genocide protest is not only a grotesque, opportunistic instrumentalisation of tragedy for political gain, but, in its conflation of Israel and the Jewish community, itself antisemitic.
October 3, 2025 at 1:37 PM
To use yesterday's horror as an attempt to repress anti-genocide protest is not only a grotesque, opportunistic instrumentalisation of tragedy for political gain, but, in its conflation of Israel and the Jewish community, itself antisemitic.
Choosing to tackle the far right by interfering with judicial independence is a stupid and dangerous path to tread. It won't lessen the threat of Reform, but it will further embolden them and others attacking the ECHR.
October 1, 2025 at 8:01 AM
Choosing to tackle the far right by interfering with judicial independence is a stupid and dangerous path to tread. It won't lessen the threat of Reform, but it will further embolden them and others attacking the ECHR.