Sue Cook
@suefc.bsky.social
Retired head, who’s passionate about the need to work towards securing a better future for young people and the need to tackle child abuse and poverty. NSPCC volunteer, enthusiastic gardener and cook. Also, an avid reader with wide ranging tastes in music.
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Why the BBC should not counter-claim against Trump, whatever he calls them, unless as a last resort.
A counter-claim here would be a last resort. The objective should be to extract BBC from litigation, not tie it in more messily and expensively.
A counterclaim would give Trump all the rights of a defendant as well as a plaintiff.
Would be a nightmare, given his litigation game playing.
A counterclaim would give Trump all the rights of a defendant as well as a plaintiff.
Would be a nightmare, given his litigation game playing.
November 15, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Why the BBC should not counter-claim against Trump, whatever he calls them, unless as a last resort.
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November 14, 2025 at 5:09 PM
Please take a look at Gail’s fantastic merchandise. If you’re into brutal but beautiful architecture, vinyl records, gorgeous seasonal cards and wrapping paper, slipmats, t-shirts, cushions, and much, MUCH more, you’re in for a treat.
It’s critical that we support independent businesses. Please. ♥️
It’s critical that we support independent businesses. Please. ♥️
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“Thank you for your attention to this matter”
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...
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 12:08 PM
“Thank you for your attention to this matter”
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Why can't the BBC just be more impartial towards President Trump, like GB News, says Nigel Farage.
GB News:
GB News:
November 10, 2025 at 9:26 PM
Why can't the BBC just be more impartial towards President Trump, like GB News, says Nigel Farage.
GB News:
GB News:
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The utter preposterousness of this interview. A media figure talking about BBC bias while describing the president as his "friend". A child could see trough it.
It’s already started - the BBC allows Newsmax boss to opine about bias, suggest some of the Jan 6 mob were merely innocent tourists visiting Congress, without pushback
November 11, 2025 at 8:39 AM
The utter preposterousness of this interview. A media figure talking about BBC bias while describing the president as his "friend". A child could see trough it.
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Joshua refers to the BBC having a “choice between saying sorry and paying $1 billion”. There is also the option of doing neither and defending any claim, wherever it’s brought
Will President Trump sue the BBC for $1 billion? As the US president no doubt intended, it’s a figure that appears in almost every front-page newspaper headline today.
rozenberg.substack.com/p/will-trump...
rozenberg.substack.com/p/will-trump...
Will Trump sue?
Not if the BBC makes sufficient amends this week
rozenberg.substack.com
November 11, 2025 at 7:14 AM
Joshua refers to the BBC having a “choice between saying sorry and paying $1 billion”. There is also the option of doing neither and defending any claim, wherever it’s brought
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this is my favourite comment of the day on an FT story
November 9, 2025 at 7:45 PM
this is my favourite comment of the day on an FT story
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After a fourth successive heavy annual defeat for Restore Trust, we should (but won't) have Telegraph reporters descending on the scone-eaters at historic properties to ask why they weren't in touch
This is an assymetry between the liberal left and the culture warriors of the metropolitan right
This is an assymetry between the liberal left and the culture warriors of the metropolitan right
November 9, 2025 at 4:34 PM
After a fourth successive heavy annual defeat for Restore Trust, we should (but won't) have Telegraph reporters descending on the scone-eaters at historic properties to ask why they weren't in touch
This is an assymetry between the liberal left and the culture warriors of the metropolitan right
This is an assymetry between the liberal left and the culture warriors of the metropolitan right
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Since we’re in the mood for strict accuracy in broadcast news, worth noting that a rival channel had a pundit - unchallenged - say asylum seekers in hotels committed 44% of sexual offences in one county, seemingly because she cannot understand basic maths.
A national newspaper journalist went on a British TV channel to claim police stats showed asylum-seekers committed 44% of sex crimes in Dorset.
This shocking claim was treated as fact by the channel which promoted the clip on social media where it was amplified by AI.
Except... it's bollocks.
This shocking claim was treated as fact by the channel which promoted the clip on social media where it was amplified by AI.
Except... it's bollocks.
November 9, 2025 at 7:08 PM
Since we’re in the mood for strict accuracy in broadcast news, worth noting that a rival channel had a pundit - unchallenged - say asylum seekers in hotels committed 44% of sexual offences in one county, seemingly because she cannot understand basic maths.
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7. To close, here's some music for remembrance that deserves to be better known.
It's a setting of "In Flanders Field", by my friend, the composer David Allen. Sung here by the Oxford choir, the Arcadians. www.youtube.com/watch?v=qN6n...
It's a setting of "In Flanders Field", by my friend, the composer David Allen. Sung here by the Oxford choir, the Arcadians. www.youtube.com/watch?v=qN6n...
In Flanders Fields - David Allen
YouTube video by David Allen
www.youtube.com
November 10, 2024 at 6:10 PM
7. To close, here's some music for remembrance that deserves to be better known.
It's a setting of "In Flanders Field", by my friend, the composer David Allen. Sung here by the Oxford choir, the Arcadians. www.youtube.com/watch?v=qN6n...
It's a setting of "In Flanders Field", by my friend, the composer David Allen. Sung here by the Oxford choir, the Arcadians. www.youtube.com/watch?v=qN6n...
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Vital piece of investigative reporting from Sky. They've uncovered the X algorithm which feeds users extremist right wing material from the moment they join the site. It is a far-right radicalisation engine, by design.
news.sky.com/story/the-x-...
news.sky.com/story/the-x-...
Elon Musk is boosting the British right - and this shows how
Elon Musk is boosting the British right - and this shows how
news.sky.com
November 6, 2025 at 7:23 AM
Vital piece of investigative reporting from Sky. They've uncovered the X algorithm which feeds users extremist right wing material from the moment they join the site. It is a far-right radicalisation engine, by design.
news.sky.com/story/the-x-...
news.sky.com/story/the-x-...
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Mone firm owes £39 million in back taxes www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Mone-linked firm PPE Medpro owes £39m in tax
Administrator's report shows firm owes £39m to HMRC on top of £148m owed to Department of Health
www.bbc.co.uk
November 5, 2025 at 9:55 PM
Mone firm owes £39 million in back taxes www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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If parties want credit for telling hard truths, they need to tell them when they're genuinely hard.
If Labour had told the truth about taxes & the costs of Brexit before the election, its majority would be smaller.
But it would have more real power & the public would put more faith in its judgment
If Labour had told the truth about taxes & the costs of Brexit before the election, its majority would be smaller.
But it would have more real power & the public would put more faith in its judgment
She is telling an accurate story of recent history - the triple punch of austerity, Brexit and covid. It's spot on. But it is terribly strange to say it now in government when you were not prepared to say it in opposition.
November 4, 2025 at 9:49 AM
If parties want credit for telling hard truths, they need to tell them when they're genuinely hard.
If Labour had told the truth about taxes & the costs of Brexit before the election, its majority would be smaller.
But it would have more real power & the public would put more faith in its judgment
If Labour had told the truth about taxes & the costs of Brexit before the election, its majority would be smaller.
But it would have more real power & the public would put more faith in its judgment
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What is the relationship between government, parliament and the monarchy?
Our latest explainer takes a closer look at the monarch's powers and role in relation to parliament and the legislative process, and whether parliament can remove royal titles
www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk/explainer/mo...
Our latest explainer takes a closer look at the monarch's powers and role in relation to parliament and the legislative process, and whether parliament can remove royal titles
www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk/explainer/mo...
The monarch, royal family and parliament | Institute for Government
What is the relationship between government, parliament and the monarchy?
www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk
October 31, 2025 at 1:11 PM
What is the relationship between government, parliament and the monarchy?
Our latest explainer takes a closer look at the monarch's powers and role in relation to parliament and the legislative process, and whether parliament can remove royal titles
www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk/explainer/mo...
Our latest explainer takes a closer look at the monarch's powers and role in relation to parliament and the legislative process, and whether parliament can remove royal titles
www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk/explainer/mo...
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Not sure why this was kind of buried in the Guardian story
Kent leader Kemkaran "failed to ensure that her register of interests listed the fact that her husband is the director of digital transformation at East Kent’s health authority"
It's a criminal offence to knowingly omit relevant interests.
Kent leader Kemkaran "failed to ensure that her register of interests listed the fact that her husband is the director of digital transformation at East Kent’s health authority"
It's a criminal offence to knowingly omit relevant interests.
Factionalism, farce and chaos dog Reform UK in the garden of England
All is not well in Kent for Nigel Farage’s party as the recent video of an incendiary meeting suggests
www.theguardian.com
October 28, 2025 at 12:28 PM
Not sure why this was kind of buried in the Guardian story
Kent leader Kemkaran "failed to ensure that her register of interests listed the fact that her husband is the director of digital transformation at East Kent’s health authority"
It's a criminal offence to knowingly omit relevant interests.
Kent leader Kemkaran "failed to ensure that her register of interests listed the fact that her husband is the director of digital transformation at East Kent’s health authority"
It's a criminal offence to knowingly omit relevant interests.
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@libdems.org.uk smash Reform in yet another by-election 🍾🥳✊🏼✊🏼
Hmmm but why isn’t it on BBC & Sky News/MSM considering they report whenever Farage & Reform win anything.. even if it’s a raffle
It’s like they’re Reform’s PR team 🤔
Sky has at least 2 reports in Reeves talk about flog a dead horse🙄 🤷🏼♂️
Hmmm but why isn’t it on BBC & Sky News/MSM considering they report whenever Farage & Reform win anything.. even if it’s a raffle
It’s like they’re Reform’s PR team 🤔
Sky has at least 2 reports in Reeves talk about flog a dead horse🙄 🤷🏼♂️
Fantastic result in Bromsgrove, congratulations to Sam Ammar and the local team!
Across the country, it’s the Liberal Democrats who are taking the fight to Reform and winning 💪
Across the country, it’s the Liberal Democrats who are taking the fight to Reform and winning 💪
Bromsgrove South (Worcestershire) Council By-Election Result:
🔶 LDM: 51.9% (+20.3)
➡️ RFM: 33.4% (-1.5)
🌳 CON: 11.3% (-5.8)
🌹 LAB: 3.4% (-4.1)
No GRN (-5.5) or Ind (-3.4) as previous.
Liberal Democrat GAIN from Reform.
Changes w/ 2025.
🔶 LDM: 51.9% (+20.3)
➡️ RFM: 33.4% (-1.5)
🌳 CON: 11.3% (-5.8)
🌹 LAB: 3.4% (-4.1)
No GRN (-5.5) or Ind (-3.4) as previous.
Liberal Democrat GAIN from Reform.
Changes w/ 2025.
October 31, 2025 at 9:17 AM
@libdems.org.uk smash Reform in yet another by-election 🍾🥳✊🏼✊🏼
Hmmm but why isn’t it on BBC & Sky News/MSM considering they report whenever Farage & Reform win anything.. even if it’s a raffle
It’s like they’re Reform’s PR team 🤔
Sky has at least 2 reports in Reeves talk about flog a dead horse🙄 🤷🏼♂️
Hmmm but why isn’t it on BBC & Sky News/MSM considering they report whenever Farage & Reform win anything.. even if it’s a raffle
It’s like they’re Reform’s PR team 🤔
Sky has at least 2 reports in Reeves talk about flog a dead horse🙄 🤷🏼♂️
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"Moment GB News guest thrown off air after..."
Quoting facts
Quoting facts
A broadly accurate account of my GB News interview with Martin Daubney 😉
“I’ve corrected you on this before, Martin, so let me do it again.” After he cited figures, Martin revealed they were out of time – and was forced to abruptly cut off the interview.
www.express.co.uk/showbiz/tv-r...
“I’ve corrected you on this before, Martin, so let me do it again.” After he cited figures, Martin revealed they were out of time – and was forced to abruptly cut off the interview.
www.express.co.uk/showbiz/tv-r...
Moment GB News guest thrown off air after fierce immigration clash
GB News presenter Martin Daubney was forced to cut off an interview after clashing with Jonathan Portes over immigration
www.express.co.uk
October 29, 2025 at 10:57 AM
"Moment GB News guest thrown off air after..."
Quoting facts
Quoting facts
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Conservatives have today ditched their Mass Deportation Bill, 5 months after Chris Philip tabled it in the Commons, but a week after it was dubbed the Idi Amin Tribute Act, as it proposed Deportations of settled & legal migrants on a scale never seen since 1972 & never proposed in a democracy before
October 29, 2025 at 6:20 PM
Conservatives have today ditched their Mass Deportation Bill, 5 months after Chris Philip tabled it in the Commons, but a week after it was dubbed the Idi Amin Tribute Act, as it proposed Deportations of settled & legal migrants on a scale never seen since 1972 & never proposed in a democracy before
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It is an utter failure from the BBC that it isn't clear whether the Conservatives are keeping their mass deportation policy.
BBC did not clarify the Philp policy much: failed to ask any of the key questions
- One reading "we have updated our policy at conference" is that the Conservative Party is ditching large parts of the May deportation bill
- Another reading "we would apply that retrospectively" is it stands
- One reading "we have updated our policy at conference" is that the Conservative Party is ditching large parts of the May deportation bill
- Another reading "we would apply that retrospectively" is it stands
October 26, 2025 at 2:14 PM
It is an utter failure from the BBC that it isn't clear whether the Conservatives are keeping their mass deportation policy.
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What is the point of our national broadcaster if it can't get the official Opposition to answer questions like this?
A real failure that a 6 minute BBC interview with the Shadow Home Secretary has simply failed to clarify
- whether the Bill in the Commons stands, or has been dropped?
- whether threat of removal to those currently with ILR stands, or dropping retrospective deportations of 430,000 people
- whether the Bill in the Commons stands, or has been dropped?
- whether threat of removal to those currently with ILR stands, or dropping retrospective deportations of 430,000 people
October 26, 2025 at 2:19 PM
What is the point of our national broadcaster if it can't get the official Opposition to answer questions like this?
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Well yes he’s the nominal defendant but it’s not as if he’s being sued (or suing) in his personal capacity. Legal actions against the government do survive changes of administration.
(David Davis sued the government in opposition then became a minister)
(David Davis sued the government in opposition then became a minister)
Quite the story: www.politicshome.com/news/article...
The Attorney General Is A Defendant In A Torture Claim From A Libyan Military Commander That He Drafted
Exclusive: Lord Hermer is a defendant in a civil suit he drafted and represented until weeks before the 2024 election, which implicates the previou...
www.politicshome.com
October 25, 2025 at 6:44 PM
Well yes he’s the nominal defendant but it’s not as if he’s being sued (or suing) in his personal capacity. Legal actions against the government do survive changes of administration.
(David Davis sued the government in opposition then became a minister)
(David Davis sued the government in opposition then became a minister)
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"Unfortunately it's not in our strategic interests to say the racist part out loud" is quite the advice.
October 25, 2025 at 8:21 PM
"Unfortunately it's not in our strategic interests to say the racist part out loud" is quite the advice.
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New* trigger for racists just dropped: Advertising While Black
*I know it's not really new, but AFAIK it's new for an actual MP to go 🦇💩 about it
*I know it's not really new, but AFAIK it's new for an actual MP to go 🦇💩 about it
The quotes in this are so fucking bad I had to check several times it wasn’t a deep fake
www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...
www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...
Reform UK MP says seeing adverts 'full of Black people' drives her 'mad'
Sarah Pochin was responding to a question about whether her party will do anything about the 'representation of demographics in TV adverts', and claimed white people were 'demonised'
www.mirror.co.uk
October 25, 2025 at 7:37 PM
New* trigger for racists just dropped: Advertising While Black
*I know it's not really new, but AFAIK it's new for an actual MP to go 🦇💩 about it
*I know it's not really new, but AFAIK it's new for an actual MP to go 🦇💩 about it
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If Pochin doesn't lose the whip - and she should - then Farage's party will be happy to have a racist on its benches.
www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...
www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...
Reform UK MP says seeing adverts 'full of Black people' drives her 'mad'
Sarah Pochin was responding to a question about whether her party will do anything about the 'representation of demographics in TV adverts', and claimed white people were 'demonised'
www.mirror.co.uk
October 25, 2025 at 5:55 PM
If Pochin doesn't lose the whip - and she should - then Farage's party will be happy to have a racist on its benches.
www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...
www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...