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· Nov 20
“Rape culture is a society that condones male aggression both emotionally and physically towards women. It’s a society that has made sexual remarks, sexual touching, to rape itself, a norm for all members of the community & inflicts fear into the hearts of all women everywhere they may go.” #r4today
What financial or reputational damage did that odious toad suffer? He won the election, so the Panorama prog clearly didn’t hurt him politically.
Financial damage? None. Google still gave $1 million to his 2025 inauguration fund—just like Microsoft, Boeing, Amazon, Meta, OpenAI, & Uber.
#r4today
Financial damage? None. Google still gave $1 million to his 2025 inauguration fund—just like Microsoft, Boeing, Amazon, Meta, OpenAI, & Uber.
#r4today
With his threat of a $1bn lawsuit against BBC, Trump’s assault on the media goes global
With his threat of a $1bn lawsuit against BBC, Trump’s assault on the media goes global
US president’s latest media target comes from across the pond as he continues to scrutinize coverage he does not like
www.theguardian.com
November 11, 2025 at 8:30 AM
What financial or reputational damage did that odious toad suffer? He won the election, so the Panorama prog clearly didn’t hurt him politically.
Financial damage? None. Google still gave $1 million to his 2025 inauguration fund—just like Microsoft, Boeing, Amazon, Meta, OpenAI, & Uber.
#r4today
Financial damage? None. Google still gave $1 million to his 2025 inauguration fund—just like Microsoft, Boeing, Amazon, Meta, OpenAI, & Uber.
#r4today
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What you’re witnessing is a populist assault on the BBC.
This is not an institutional scandal in any meaningful sense of the word. It is an attack on public service broadcasting.
iandunt.substack.com/p/extra-edit...
This is not an institutional scandal in any meaningful sense of the word. It is an attack on public service broadcasting.
iandunt.substack.com/p/extra-edit...
November 10, 2025 at 10:52 AM
What you’re witnessing is a populist assault on the BBC.
This is not an institutional scandal in any meaningful sense of the word. It is an attack on public service broadcasting.
iandunt.substack.com/p/extra-edit...
This is not an institutional scandal in any meaningful sense of the word. It is an attack on public service broadcasting.
iandunt.substack.com/p/extra-edit...
Constant complaints from journalists about social media, identity politics and transgender rights, are really just gatekeepers lamenting the loss of their power.
From politicians on the right, it’s a reaction to marginalised people's refusal to stay on the margins.
#r4today
From politicians on the right, it’s a reaction to marginalised people's refusal to stay on the margins.
#r4today
November 10, 2025 at 8:40 AM
Constant complaints from journalists about social media, identity politics and transgender rights, are really just gatekeepers lamenting the loss of their power.
From politicians on the right, it’s a reaction to marginalised people's refusal to stay on the margins.
#r4today
From politicians on the right, it’s a reaction to marginalised people's refusal to stay on the margins.
#r4today
Here are some pertinent examples of the BBC’s bias against Israel, as Charles Moore highlights.
Anyone who’s been paying attention over the past two years knows that this nuclear-armed state, with one of the world’s most advanced militaries, could certainly use more support from the BBC.
#r4today
Anyone who’s been paying attention over the past two years knows that this nuclear-armed state, with one of the world’s most advanced militaries, could certainly use more support from the BBC.
#r4today
November 10, 2025 at 8:07 AM
Here are some pertinent examples of the BBC’s bias against Israel, as Charles Moore highlights.
Anyone who’s been paying attention over the past two years knows that this nuclear-armed state, with one of the world’s most advanced militaries, could certainly use more support from the BBC.
#r4today
Anyone who’s been paying attention over the past two years knows that this nuclear-armed state, with one of the world’s most advanced militaries, could certainly use more support from the BBC.
#r4today
Anyone who listens to #r4today regularly will be familiar with the so-called “Metropolitan left position” that Charles Moore accuses the BBC of reflecting.
In fact, 6–9 a.m. is famously the peak slot for radical leftist politics—with Justin Webb and Nick Robinson at the helm.
In fact, 6–9 a.m. is famously the peak slot for radical leftist politics—with Justin Webb and Nick Robinson at the helm.
November 10, 2025 at 7:33 AM
Anyone who listens to #r4today regularly will be familiar with the so-called “Metropolitan left position” that Charles Moore accuses the BBC of reflecting.
In fact, 6–9 a.m. is famously the peak slot for radical leftist politics—with Justin Webb and Nick Robinson at the helm.
In fact, 6–9 a.m. is famously the peak slot for radical leftist politics—with Justin Webb and Nick Robinson at the helm.
Amol Rajan’s interview with Hanif Kureishi was really moving. Human beings are fragile and our bodies can become disabled easily.
That fragility should compel us to think about care and kinship in the way disability justice advocates have been urging us to do for decades.
#r4today
That fragility should compel us to think about care and kinship in the way disability justice advocates have been urging us to do for decades.
#r4today
November 8, 2025 at 9:12 AM
Amol Rajan’s interview with Hanif Kureishi was really moving. Human beings are fragile and our bodies can become disabled easily.
That fragility should compel us to think about care and kinship in the way disability justice advocates have been urging us to do for decades.
#r4today
That fragility should compel us to think about care and kinship in the way disability justice advocates have been urging us to do for decades.
#r4today
A bit rich for Michael Gove to blame the current dire state of this country on immigration, rather than the serial and abject incompetence and corruption of a government he happily served for over fourteen years.
Immigration didn’t wreck this country; Tory neoliberalism did.
#r4today
Immigration didn’t wreck this country; Tory neoliberalism did.
#r4today
November 7, 2025 at 8:48 AM
A bit rich for Michael Gove to blame the current dire state of this country on immigration, rather than the serial and abject incompetence and corruption of a government he happily served for over fourteen years.
Immigration didn’t wreck this country; Tory neoliberalism did.
#r4today
Immigration didn’t wreck this country; Tory neoliberalism did.
#r4today
Why does #r4today talk about Reform voters like they represent the majority of people in Britain?
Sure, some things are worse — but crime isn’t one of them.
Violent crime is way down: a third lower than ten yrs ago, and 75% lower than its 1975 peak.
All Tory commentators do is lie.
Sure, some things are worse — but crime isn’t one of them.
Violent crime is way down: a third lower than ten yrs ago, and 75% lower than its 1975 peak.
All Tory commentators do is lie.
November 7, 2025 at 8:33 AM
Why does #r4today talk about Reform voters like they represent the majority of people in Britain?
Sure, some things are worse — but crime isn’t one of them.
Violent crime is way down: a third lower than ten yrs ago, and 75% lower than its 1975 peak.
All Tory commentators do is lie.
Sure, some things are worse — but crime isn’t one of them.
Violent crime is way down: a third lower than ten yrs ago, and 75% lower than its 1975 peak.
All Tory commentators do is lie.
Amol Rajan is back to his favourite topic: Elon Musk’s wealth.
It’s honestly sickening to hear a journalist fawn over such grotesque wealth at a time when so many are struggling amid growing inequality.
Nobody needs trillions, those that think they do will never have enough.
#r4today
It’s honestly sickening to hear a journalist fawn over such grotesque wealth at a time when so many are struggling amid growing inequality.
Nobody needs trillions, those that think they do will never have enough.
#r4today
November 7, 2025 at 8:11 AM
Amol Rajan is back to his favourite topic: Elon Musk’s wealth.
It’s honestly sickening to hear a journalist fawn over such grotesque wealth at a time when so many are struggling amid growing inequality.
Nobody needs trillions, those that think they do will never have enough.
#r4today
It’s honestly sickening to hear a journalist fawn over such grotesque wealth at a time when so many are struggling amid growing inequality.
Nobody needs trillions, those that think they do will never have enough.
#r4today
Justin Webb’s interview with the Maccabi Tel Aviv CEO is a masterclass in how #r4today amplifies state propaganda to gaslight its listeners.
Jack Angelides lied — ten MTA fans were arrested in Amsterdam. His remarks about their behaviour, like Keir Starmer’s, is deliberate disinformation.
Jack Angelides lied — ten MTA fans were arrested in Amsterdam. His remarks about their behaviour, like Keir Starmer’s, is deliberate disinformation.
November 7, 2025 at 7:48 AM
Justin Webb’s interview with the Maccabi Tel Aviv CEO is a masterclass in how #r4today amplifies state propaganda to gaslight its listeners.
Jack Angelides lied — ten MTA fans were arrested in Amsterdam. His remarks about their behaviour, like Keir Starmer’s, is deliberate disinformation.
Jack Angelides lied — ten MTA fans were arrested in Amsterdam. His remarks about their behaviour, like Keir Starmer’s, is deliberate disinformation.
No, Amol, they’re not nostalgic for the 80s and 90s — they’re nostalgic for a time when there were fewer people who looked like you.
Your reluctance to acknowledge that reveals how the so-called “culture wars” is really a racist, nativist campaign of reactionary nostalgia.
#r4today
Your reluctance to acknowledge that reveals how the so-called “culture wars” is really a racist, nativist campaign of reactionary nostalgia.
#r4today
November 7, 2025 at 7:26 AM
No, Amol, they’re not nostalgic for the 80s and 90s — they’re nostalgic for a time when there were fewer people who looked like you.
Your reluctance to acknowledge that reveals how the so-called “culture wars” is really a racist, nativist campaign of reactionary nostalgia.
#r4today
Your reluctance to acknowledge that reveals how the so-called “culture wars” is really a racist, nativist campaign of reactionary nostalgia.
#r4today
How many reviews will it take b4 we admit the Met is institutionally racist?
White denial fuels racism. The Met has a toxic organisational culture of denial, concealment &scapegoating of those who speak out.
Rowley perfectly exemplifies the denial that allows racism to thrive in Britain.
#r4today
White denial fuels racism. The Met has a toxic organisational culture of denial, concealment &scapegoating of those who speak out.
Rowley perfectly exemplifies the denial that allows racism to thrive in Britain.
#r4today
November 7, 2025 at 7:01 AM
How many reviews will it take b4 we admit the Met is institutionally racist?
White denial fuels racism. The Met has a toxic organisational culture of denial, concealment &scapegoating of those who speak out.
Rowley perfectly exemplifies the denial that allows racism to thrive in Britain.
#r4today
White denial fuels racism. The Met has a toxic organisational culture of denial, concealment &scapegoating of those who speak out.
Rowley perfectly exemplifies the denial that allows racism to thrive in Britain.
#r4today
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Yesterday's PMQs shows the Tories are only concerned about mistaken releases of foreign prisoners.
They seem very relaxed about British frsudsters not serving their time.
#r4today
They seem very relaxed about British frsudsters not serving their time.
#r4today
November 6, 2025 at 6:57 AM
Yesterday's PMQs shows the Tories are only concerned about mistaken releases of foreign prisoners.
They seem very relaxed about British frsudsters not serving their time.
#r4today
They seem very relaxed about British frsudsters not serving their time.
#r4today
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The whole debate is racist and toxic, I despair that the Govt isn't prepared to call it out as such and the BBC's engaging so effusively with the toxicity
#R4Today
#R4Today
November 6, 2025 at 7:06 AM
The whole debate is racist and toxic, I despair that the Govt isn't prepared to call it out as such and the BBC's engaging so effusively with the toxicity
#R4Today
#R4Today
Robert Jenrick’s stance on early releases is nothing but hollow bluster — contrived outrage wrapped in layers of hypocrisy.
And listening to Emma ramble about a suit while supposedly addressing women’s safety is excruciating — moments like this make Mishal’s absence more keenly felt.
#r4today
And listening to Emma ramble about a suit while supposedly addressing women’s safety is excruciating — moments like this make Mishal’s absence more keenly felt.
#r4today
November 6, 2025 at 8:42 AM
Robert Jenrick’s stance on early releases is nothing but hollow bluster — contrived outrage wrapped in layers of hypocrisy.
And listening to Emma ramble about a suit while supposedly addressing women’s safety is excruciating — moments like this make Mishal’s absence more keenly felt.
#r4today
And listening to Emma ramble about a suit while supposedly addressing women’s safety is excruciating — moments like this make Mishal’s absence more keenly felt.
#r4today
David Olusoga:
“Our relationship with history is very often one where we expect to be told comforting stories about ourselves. We expect to be the victors. We expect to be the good guys. The narratives of the two world wars help reinforce that. Empire doesn’t give us that.”
#r4today
“Our relationship with history is very often one where we expect to be told comforting stories about ourselves. We expect to be the victors. We expect to be the good guys. The narratives of the two world wars help reinforce that. Empire doesn’t give us that.”
#r4today
November 6, 2025 at 7:58 AM
David Olusoga:
“Our relationship with history is very often one where we expect to be told comforting stories about ourselves. We expect to be the victors. We expect to be the good guys. The narratives of the two world wars help reinforce that. Empire doesn’t give us that.”
#r4today
“Our relationship with history is very often one where we expect to be told comforting stories about ourselves. We expect to be the victors. We expect to be the good guys. The narratives of the two world wars help reinforce that. Empire doesn’t give us that.”
#r4today
Robert Jenrick was happy to be part of a government that defunded every part of the criminal justice system, including prisons, and ignored years of warnings about the damage this would cause.
Any outrage he expresses about the state of prisons now comes years too late.
#r4today
Any outrage he expresses about the state of prisons now comes years too late.
#r4today
November 6, 2025 at 7:43 AM
Robert Jenrick was happy to be part of a government that defunded every part of the criminal justice system, including prisons, and ignored years of warnings about the damage this would cause.
Any outrage he expresses about the state of prisons now comes years too late.
#r4today
Any outrage he expresses about the state of prisons now comes years too late.
#r4today
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Earlier this year, I met a Croatian journalist who was in the US doing a piece on America’s politics and I asked her what surprised her. And she said, “What you all call the far left is just being normal.”
November 5, 2025 at 6:50 AM
“The culture of victimhood”
“People are coming to work looking for some kind of way in which they are a victim.”
Justin Webb dismisses accountablility as “a culture of victimhood”, reflecting a Conservative instinct to morally sympathise with perpetrators over those being harmed.
#r4today
“People are coming to work looking for some kind of way in which they are a victim.”
Justin Webb dismisses accountablility as “a culture of victimhood”, reflecting a Conservative instinct to morally sympathise with perpetrators over those being harmed.
#r4today
November 5, 2025 at 9:03 AM
“The culture of victimhood”
“People are coming to work looking for some kind of way in which they are a victim.”
Justin Webb dismisses accountablility as “a culture of victimhood”, reflecting a Conservative instinct to morally sympathise with perpetrators over those being harmed.
#r4today
“People are coming to work looking for some kind of way in which they are a victim.”
Justin Webb dismisses accountablility as “a culture of victimhood”, reflecting a Conservative instinct to morally sympathise with perpetrators over those being harmed.
#r4today
#r4today Mamdani is unflinching in his support for Palestinian rights, so to s/o like Emma - who equates anti-Zionism w/ anti-Semitism - that makes him ‘radical’.
“To brand anti-Zionism anti-Semitism literally promotes anti-Semitism, bc it holds Jews collectively responsible for Israel's outrages.”
“To brand anti-Zionism anti-Semitism literally promotes anti-Semitism, bc it holds Jews collectively responsible for Israel's outrages.”
November 5, 2025 at 8:37 AM
#r4today Mamdani is unflinching in his support for Palestinian rights, so to s/o like Emma - who equates anti-Zionism w/ anti-Semitism - that makes him ‘radical’.
“To brand anti-Zionism anti-Semitism literally promotes anti-Semitism, bc it holds Jews collectively responsible for Israel's outrages.”
“To brand anti-Zionism anti-Semitism literally promotes anti-Semitism, bc it holds Jews collectively responsible for Israel's outrages.”
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I live in London, and the mayoralty of New York City makes no practical difference to my life at all, but my goodness it’s been a while since I rooted for anyone as strongly as I’m rooting for Zohran Mamdani
November 4, 2025 at 8:09 PM
I live in London, and the mayoralty of New York City makes no practical difference to my life at all, but my goodness it’s been a while since I rooted for anyone as strongly as I’m rooting for Zohran Mamdani
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Mamdani: "New York will remain a city of immigrants, a city built by immigrants, powered by immigrants, and as of tonight, led by an immigrant."
November 5, 2025 at 4:40 AM
Mamdani: "New York will remain a city of immigrants, a city built by immigrants, powered by immigrants, and as of tonight, led by an immigrant."
#r4today Justin loves to talk about “identity issues” linked to the Democratic Party — but never those in the GOP.
White supremacy is also an identity politic.
Structures of dominance are also identity politics. Identity politics are only criticised when minorities complain about discrimination.
White supremacy is also an identity politic.
Structures of dominance are also identity politics. Identity politics are only criticised when minorities complain about discrimination.
November 5, 2025 at 7:53 AM
#r4today Justin loves to talk about “identity issues” linked to the Democratic Party — but never those in the GOP.
White supremacy is also an identity politic.
Structures of dominance are also identity politics. Identity politics are only criticised when minorities complain about discrimination.
White supremacy is also an identity politic.
Structures of dominance are also identity politics. Identity politics are only criticised when minorities complain about discrimination.