Mike Shevdon
@shevdon.bsky.social
Contemporary Fiction Writer, Archer, Cook, Ukulele Player, Collector of Curiosities, Spinner of Stories, Renewable Energy, DIY Refurbisher, Undiagnosed Neurodivergent
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Nowhere in the hysterical pile-on against the BBC in the British press has anyone mentioned that BBC News now has 77 million viewers & listeners in the US and has established itself as the second most trusted news source there.
November 11, 2025 at 8:37 AM
Nowhere in the hysterical pile-on against the BBC in the British press has anyone mentioned that BBC News now has 77 million viewers & listeners in the US and has established itself as the second most trusted news source there.
This is perfect…
BBC Under Attack: Pot and Kettle Special
The new Private Eye is out now.
The new Private Eye is out now.
November 12, 2025 at 8:20 AM
This is perfect…
For those who are trying to understand the position of the Democrats in the US Senate, try picturing the Charlie Brown cartoon with Lucy holding the football ready for Charlie Brown to kick…
November 10, 2025 at 9:14 AM
For those who are trying to understand the position of the Democrats in the US Senate, try picturing the Charlie Brown cartoon with Lucy holding the football ready for Charlie Brown to kick…
Let me get this straight.
GB News is accusing the BBC of bias?
GB News is accusing the BBC of bias?
November 10, 2025 at 8:28 AM
Let me get this straight.
GB News is accusing the BBC of bias?
GB News is accusing the BBC of bias?
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Yes
BBC News is a news organisation. It is there to do proper news not "represent the views of its viewers" - as funneled through right wing press/social media. If the next DG understands that it will be in a far better place.
November 9, 2025 at 6:58 PM
Yes
Prison, is what needs to happen.
Gobsmacking
November 8, 2025 at 2:37 PM
Prison, is what needs to happen.
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Remember the time Obama personally caught a fainting woman during his speech — rather than just blankly staring like a sociopath?
Character isn't something you tell people about.
It's something you live.
Character isn't something you tell people about.
It's something you live.
November 7, 2025 at 12:25 AM
Remember the time Obama personally caught a fainting woman during his speech — rather than just blankly staring like a sociopath?
Character isn't something you tell people about.
It's something you live.
Character isn't something you tell people about.
It's something you live.
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New impartiality study: Contrasting media coverage of the Caerphilly by-election in Wales with UK-wide news: how did broadcasters balance parties and leaders? Thread 1/10 www.enhancingimpartiality.com/blog/caerphi...
Contrasting media coverage of the Caerphilly by-election in Wales with UK-wide news: how did broadcasters balance parties and leaders? — Researching the impartiality of political news
In UK-wide media, the Caerphilly by-election result was framed around Reform UK’s defeat, the terminal decline of Labour in Wales, and the implications for Keir Starmer’s UK government in Westminster....
www.enhancingimpartiality.com
November 6, 2025 at 4:04 PM
New impartiality study: Contrasting media coverage of the Caerphilly by-election in Wales with UK-wide news: how did broadcasters balance parties and leaders? Thread 1/10 www.enhancingimpartiality.com/blog/caerphi...
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Who are the flag-raisers? This would be funny if it wasn’t so sinister:
www.sheffieldtribune.co.uk/the-men-who-...
www.sheffieldtribune.co.uk/the-men-who-...
The men who raised the flags
Nigel Farage says this summer’s movement was led by ‘ordinary people’ expressing their patriotism. That’s not what we found
www.sheffieldtribune.co.uk
November 1, 2025 at 10:01 AM
Who are the flag-raisers? This would be funny if it wasn’t so sinister:
www.sheffieldtribune.co.uk/the-men-who-...
www.sheffieldtribune.co.uk/the-men-who-...
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Whenever the talk turns to taxing the rich, the Reform or Tory always says that the rich will leave. BBCQT last night. They need reminding that their Brexit caused over 440 firms in the financial sector alone to move to the EU taking up to £1.3 trillion in assets with them, plus the jobs.
October 31, 2025 at 8:02 AM
Whenever the talk turns to taxing the rich, the Reform or Tory always says that the rich will leave. BBCQT last night. They need reminding that their Brexit caused over 440 firms in the financial sector alone to move to the EU taking up to £1.3 trillion in assets with them, plus the jobs.
“Spending cuts are easy“
The last government cut spending and it failed. So they cut spending again, and again, and again. It all failed.
Why can politicians not see that this doesn’t work? Efficiency savings are just more cuts. Cuts don’t work. Put it on your wall where you can see it.
The last government cut spending and it failed. So they cut spending again, and again, and again. It all failed.
Why can politicians not see that this doesn’t work? Efficiency savings are just more cuts. Cuts don’t work. Put it on your wall where you can see it.
I keep being told spending cuts are easy. Honest proposals such as those recently outlined by Policy Exchange show they are not
My column www.ft.com/content/f086...
My column www.ft.com/content/f086...
October 30, 2025 at 9:13 AM
“Spending cuts are easy“
The last government cut spending and it failed. So they cut spending again, and again, and again. It all failed.
Why can politicians not see that this doesn’t work? Efficiency savings are just more cuts. Cuts don’t work. Put it on your wall where you can see it.
The last government cut spending and it failed. So they cut spending again, and again, and again. It all failed.
Why can politicians not see that this doesn’t work? Efficiency savings are just more cuts. Cuts don’t work. Put it on your wall where you can see it.
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Nigel Farage is wrong about the European Convention on Human Rights. goodlaw.social/v3qy
Nigel Farage is wrong about the European Convention on Human Rights | Good Law Project
The Reform leader is unveiling legislation to leave the ECHR. His arguments are wrong – and that move would be a disaster.
goodlaw.social
October 29, 2025 at 1:04 PM
Nigel Farage is wrong about the European Convention on Human Rights. goodlaw.social/v3qy
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Good to see @dailymail.co.uk @thetimes.com and @telegraphnews.bsky.social all delete their articles - sad the lies went up in the first place
Totally untrue garbage from @thetimes.com & @dailymail.co.uk today - smear dressed up as journalism. Some facts:
- There is no “£900 desk”
- my constituency office has Ikea desks/chairs
- we significantly underspent the new MPs allowance to set up an office
www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...
- There is no “£900 desk”
- my constituency office has Ikea desks/chairs
- we significantly underspent the new MPs allowance to set up an office
www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...
Treasury minister leading budget plans spent £900 on desk
Torsten Bell, who is working with Rachel Reeves to fill a £30 billion hole in finances, also used his parliamentary expenses to claim £600 for three chairs
www.thetimes.com
October 27, 2025 at 4:55 PM
Good to see @dailymail.co.uk @thetimes.com and @telegraphnews.bsky.social all delete their articles - sad the lies went up in the first place
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"For the government it’s quite mad to keep using X. It’s active participation in its own destruction and against its own interests. I cannot fathom the logic of doing it. It would be like a Reform government communicating entirely through the Guardian comments section." 👏 @samfr.bsky.social
October 27, 2025 at 6:37 PM
"For the government it’s quite mad to keep using X. It’s active participation in its own destruction and against its own interests. I cannot fathom the logic of doing it. It would be like a Reform government communicating entirely through the Guardian comments section." 👏 @samfr.bsky.social
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I am so tired of 24 hour news about small boats. I simply don’t care how many migrants arrive in the UK any more. No matter how many, they’ll never be as big a threat to British values, our way of life, or indeed women‘s safety, as the bigots who make yelling about migrants their entire personality.
October 27, 2025 at 9:28 PM
I am so tired of 24 hour news about small boats. I simply don’t care how many migrants arrive in the UK any more. No matter how many, they’ll never be as big a threat to British values, our way of life, or indeed women‘s safety, as the bigots who make yelling about migrants their entire personality.
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Record heat persists in the Gulf of Guinea:
MINIMUM temperature on the Senegalese coast has been at unprecedented levels for MONTHS
St Louis and Dakar with frequent mins 27/28C (even 29C): never happened anyhing like this.
Record hot October night also at Wa,Ghana: Min 25.5C yesterday
MINIMUM temperature on the Senegalese coast has been at unprecedented levels for MONTHS
St Louis and Dakar with frequent mins 27/28C (even 29C): never happened anyhing like this.
Record hot October night also at Wa,Ghana: Min 25.5C yesterday
October 27, 2025 at 10:49 AM
Record heat persists in the Gulf of Guinea:
MINIMUM temperature on the Senegalese coast has been at unprecedented levels for MONTHS
St Louis and Dakar with frequent mins 27/28C (even 29C): never happened anyhing like this.
Record hot October night also at Wa,Ghana: Min 25.5C yesterday
MINIMUM temperature on the Senegalese coast has been at unprecedented levels for MONTHS
St Louis and Dakar with frequent mins 27/28C (even 29C): never happened anyhing like this.
Record hot October night also at Wa,Ghana: Min 25.5C yesterday
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Fentanyl and coke are the new “weapons of mass destruction” lie. It’s Iraq all over again, folks. It’s always about controlling the oil.
October 27, 2025 at 10:30 PM
Fentanyl and coke are the new “weapons of mass destruction” lie. It’s Iraq all over again, folks. It’s always about controlling the oil.
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Back in the 80s the GOP saw in the evangelical church an entity historically designed for their ultimate purposes: Power.
Church structure does the following:
1. Emphasizes obedience
2. Punishes “rebellion”.
3. Centers “truth” in a few leaders.
4. Makes ideology more important than individuals.
Church structure does the following:
1. Emphasizes obedience
2. Punishes “rebellion”.
3. Centers “truth” in a few leaders.
4. Makes ideology more important than individuals.
October 24, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Back in the 80s the GOP saw in the evangelical church an entity historically designed for their ultimate purposes: Power.
Church structure does the following:
1. Emphasizes obedience
2. Punishes “rebellion”.
3. Centers “truth” in a few leaders.
4. Makes ideology more important than individuals.
Church structure does the following:
1. Emphasizes obedience
2. Punishes “rebellion”.
3. Centers “truth” in a few leaders.
4. Makes ideology more important than individuals.
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A very offline cousin sent this to fam group chat. This story is breaking containment.
October 24, 2025 at 11:36 PM
A very offline cousin sent this to fam group chat. This story is breaking containment.
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Why does everyone keep calling it “The Epstein Ballroom?” Please stop repeating “The Epstein Ballroom” because it is not called “The Epstein Ballroom!” Don’t tell the news that it’s called “The Epstein Ballroom” and please don’t repost this!!!!!
October 22, 2025 at 10:33 PM
Why does everyone keep calling it “The Epstein Ballroom?” Please stop repeating “The Epstein Ballroom” because it is not called “The Epstein Ballroom!” Don’t tell the news that it’s called “The Epstein Ballroom” and please don’t repost this!!!!!
How can a tool which takes all the previous answers to a question and homogenises them into one answer, solve a maths problem (or six) that’s never been solved?
Answer: it can’t. They lied.
Answer: it can’t. They lied.
October 21, 2025 at 8:22 AM
How can a tool which takes all the previous answers to a question and homogenises them into one answer, solve a maths problem (or six) that’s never been solved?
Answer: it can’t. They lied.
Answer: it can’t. They lied.
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Looks as if Chat GPT OpenAI have an honesty problem.
Or maybe it’s an ignorance problem.
Or maybe it’s an ignorance problem.
An OpenAI executive said GPT-5 found solutions to 10 "previously unsolved" math problems when in reality all it did was find online references to places where people had already solved them
techcrunch.com/2025/10/19/o...
techcrunch.com/2025/10/19/o...
OpenAI’s ‘embarrassing’ math | TechCrunch
No, GPT-5 did not solve a bunch of previously unsolved math problems.
techcrunch.com
October 21, 2025 at 8:11 AM
Looks as if Chat GPT OpenAI have an honesty problem.
Or maybe it’s an ignorance problem.
Or maybe it’s an ignorance problem.
Shopping online has become awful. You can’t look at what you want to buy without something popping up to offer a voucher, mailing list, loyalty club, free gifts, etc.
It’s like having a sales assistant continually stand between you and the shelves you’re trying to buy from.
It’s like having a sales assistant continually stand between you and the shelves you’re trying to buy from.
October 19, 2025 at 9:46 AM
Shopping online has become awful. You can’t look at what you want to buy without something popping up to offer a voucher, mailing list, loyalty club, free gifts, etc.
It’s like having a sales assistant continually stand between you and the shelves you’re trying to buy from.
It’s like having a sales assistant continually stand between you and the shelves you’re trying to buy from.
@bbcnewsnight.bsky.social there is nothing about this on your website. Normally we can’t keep you away from stories about Farage. Why the silence?
The thing I'm "stunned" about is why this isn't the biggest domestic news item on every flipping platform
bylinetimes.com/2025/10/11/s...
bylinetimes.com/2025/10/11/s...
'Stunned?' Farage's Admission He Knew Nathan Gill but Not His Kremlin Associates Does Not Stand Up to Scrutiny
Insiders have told Byline Times it is 'inconceivable' the Reform Leader did not know about his close aide's pro Russian statements
bylinetimes.com
October 12, 2025 at 9:41 AM
@bbcnewsnight.bsky.social there is nothing about this on your website. Normally we can’t keep you away from stories about Farage. Why the silence?