Thomas I-G
@thomasig.bsky.social
Incoherent views expressed are my own
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He/Him 🏴🏳️🌈
Слава Україні🇺🇦
My substack: Notes and Rambles
https://open.substack.com/pub/notesandrambles?r=1ix0um&utm_medium=ios
My photo alt: @afilmphotographer
https://bsky.app/profile/afilmphotographer.bsky.social
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Kremlin propaganda: "Britain is our Anglo-Saxon arch enemy and they are controlling Ukraine and trying to steal our MiGs!"
The UK: *the British state paralysed over a six second edited clip on the BBC*
The UK: *the British state paralysed over a six second edited clip on the BBC*
Russia’s FSB claims it thwarted a Ukrainian intel op, allegedly backed by “British handlers”, to hijack a MiG-31 with a Kinzhal missile and provoke NATO by flying it toward Romania’s Constanța airbase. Supposedly, $3 million was offered via personal bank transfer.
Another cartoonish FSB story.
Another cartoonish FSB story.
November 11, 2025 at 8:21 AM
Kremlin propaganda: "Britain is our Anglo-Saxon arch enemy and they are controlling Ukraine and trying to steal our MiGs!"
The UK: *the British state paralysed over a six second edited clip on the BBC*
The UK: *the British state paralysed over a six second edited clip on the BBC*
RIP Ronin Hanshirō
Breaking News: Tatsuya Nakadai, the Japanese film star known for “Ran” and other classic movies, has died at 92.
Tatsuya Nakadai, Japanese Star Known for ‘Ran’ and Other Classics, Dies at 92
He was a fixture of postwar Japanese cinema and starred in films by Akira Kurosawa and other directors of that era.
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November 11, 2025 at 7:47 AM
RIP Ronin Hanshirō
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The best thread on the Edmund Fitzgerald you'll read.
#OTD in Weather History, 48 years ago, on November 10, 1975, the ore freighter SS EDMUND FITZGERALD was lost with all hands in a severe storm on Lake Superior.
She is perhaps the best known shipwreck on the Great Lakes, and today we remember her loss. 1/
She is perhaps the best known shipwreck on the Great Lakes, and today we remember her loss. 1/
November 11, 2025 at 7:24 AM
The best thread on the Edmund Fitzgerald you'll read.
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No! My can of worms, they're everywhere!
Could someone explain to me what is meant when a British person refers to "the middle class" ? Like, in the US, as I hear it, it basically just means a person who makes a certain amount of money, not too far below and not wildly above the median. Seems like a complex concept when UK writers use it?
November 10, 2025 at 10:00 PM
No! My can of worms, they're everywhere!
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Trump Threatens To Sue BBC Over Misleading Edit Of ‘The Vicar Of Dibley’ https://theonion.com/trump-threatens-to-sue-bbc-over-misleading-edit-of-the-vicar-of-dibley/
November 10, 2025 at 8:30 PM
Trump Threatens To Sue BBC Over Misleading Edit Of ‘The Vicar Of Dibley’ https://theonion.com/trump-threatens-to-sue-bbc-over-misleading-edit-of-the-vicar-of-dibley/
Who could have possibly foreseen etc etc
Your Party row erupts over hundreds of thousands of pounds in donations
Your Party row erupts over hundreds of thousands of pounds in donations
Corbyn and Sultana clash comes after months of fighting between the pair both jostling to be leader of populist left
The feud between Jeremy Corbyn and Zarah Sultana over the future of a left wing party took another twist as the two camps argued publicly over hundreds of thousands of pounds in donations.
Sultana on Monday offered to transfer £600,000 from a company which the party’s founders set up earlier this year, only to be rebuffed by allies of Corbyn who accused her of playing “political games” with supporters’ money. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
November 10, 2025 at 8:21 PM
Who could have possibly foreseen etc etc
The far-right coming up with these new abhorrent racist phrases - yet I just still call them cunts.
November 10, 2025 at 7:13 PM
The far-right coming up with these new abhorrent racist phrases - yet I just still call them cunts.
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Thank fuck for that.
NEW: Rachel Reeves signals she intends to remove the two-child cap *in full*
"I don't think a child should be penalised because they're in a bigger family through no fault of their own," she tells BBC.
"I don't think a child should be penalised because they're in a bigger family through no fault of their own," she tells BBC.
November 10, 2025 at 4:11 PM
Thank fuck for that.
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The fact that the BBC has made serious culpable errors does not negate the point that there is a real and concerted right-wing media campaign to destroy it. Both points can be true at the same time and the campaign would not end even if the errors did.
November 10, 2025 at 1:08 PM
The fact that the BBC has made serious culpable errors does not negate the point that there is a real and concerted right-wing media campaign to destroy it. Both points can be true at the same time and the campaign would not end even if the errors did.
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I do like how, in the bit of Prescott's memo where he criticises the BBC for editing together different parts of Trump's speech, his own quote of "what Trump actually said" is... edited together from different parts of his speech.
November 10, 2025 at 9:45 AM
I do like how, in the bit of Prescott's memo where he criticises the BBC for editing together different parts of Trump's speech, his own quote of "what Trump actually said" is... edited together from different parts of his speech.
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Maybe Keir should demand the heads of major US news networks any time they imply Britain is on the brink of civil war or that we live under sharia law. Or does it not work both ways?
November 10, 2025 at 11:29 AM
Maybe Keir should demand the heads of major US news networks any time they imply Britain is on the brink of civil war or that we live under sharia law. Or does it not work both ways?
Penny for the thoughts of the Baron of Chipping Norton.
November 10, 2025 at 10:01 AM
Penny for the thoughts of the Baron of Chipping Norton.
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The key is to raise taxes enough to actually be able to do something with it, beyond placating the OBR and bond markets
Breaking the tax pledge is the right call...and politically sulphurous. Reeves must argue, far more forcefully, that taxes are *the* essential downpayment we all pay for a fairer society.
Patrick Diamond and I wrote for @renewaljournal.bsky.social. Key points in 🧵 👇
renewal.org.uk/blog/if-labo...
Patrick Diamond and I wrote for @renewaljournal.bsky.social. Key points in 🧵 👇
renewal.org.uk/blog/if-labo...
If Labour want a fairer society, they must argue for it
Labour must make the political argument: taxes are the critical downpayment we all pay to live in a fairer society.
It now seems all but certain that direct taxes will rise in the forthcoming Budget...
renewal.org.uk
November 10, 2025 at 8:20 AM
The key is to raise taxes enough to actually be able to do something with it, beyond placating the OBR and bond markets
On this: it's incredibly damaging to its credibility that Trump not only personally lambasted the BBC, but stated people should watch the channel which the board member reportedly at the centre of this crisis himself started.
I've said it before, but it does seem counterintuitive that you can start a rival, highly partisan far-right news channel and within months join the BBC board of directors.
November 10, 2025 at 9:09 AM
On this: it's incredibly damaging to its credibility that Trump not only personally lambasted the BBC, but stated people should watch the channel which the board member reportedly at the centre of this crisis himself started.
I've said it before, but it does seem counterintuitive that you can start a rival, highly partisan far-right news channel and within months join the BBC board of directors.
November 10, 2025 at 8:22 AM
I've said it before, but it does seem counterintuitive that you can start a rival, highly partisan far-right news channel and within months join the BBC board of directors.
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The Today Programme.
November 10, 2025 at 8:06 AM
The Today Programme.
One of those days...
November 10, 2025 at 7:10 AM
One of those days...
An embarrassing situation for all involved.
The idea of the BBC being so easily swayed by US & Telegraph pressure in such a public manner is a much bigger existential crisis than any badly edited (but accurate) clip.
The idea of the BBC being so easily swayed by US & Telegraph pressure in such a public manner is a much bigger existential crisis than any badly edited (but accurate) clip.
Karoline Leavitt: ‘@BBCNews is dying because they are anti-Trump Fake News.
Everyone should watch @GBNEWS!’
Everyone should watch @GBNEWS!’
November 9, 2025 at 9:14 PM
An embarrassing situation for all involved.
The idea of the BBC being so easily swayed by US & Telegraph pressure in such a public manner is a much bigger existential crisis than any badly edited (but accurate) clip.
The idea of the BBC being so easily swayed by US & Telegraph pressure in such a public manner is a much bigger existential crisis than any badly edited (but accurate) clip.
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Seeing so many posts about who “Starmer and Nandy” will appoint as director general. Easy mistake but the government does not appoint the director general! The BBC board, whose members are appointed for rolling terms by the culture secretary, appoints the director general.
November 9, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Seeing so many posts about who “Starmer and Nandy” will appoint as director general. Easy mistake but the government does not appoint the director general! The BBC board, whose members are appointed for rolling terms by the culture secretary, appoints the director general.
What's the Venn diagram look like of those who shout about 'independent sovereignty' and those egging on the US to pressure the sacking of the BBC DG, because I bet it looks like one circle.
Be clear, the American far right are coming for British democracy.
November 9, 2025 at 8:56 PM
What's the Venn diagram look like of those who shout about 'independent sovereignty' and those egging on the US to pressure the sacking of the BBC DG, because I bet it looks like one circle.
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I’m surprised Davie has resigned over that Panorama edit (seems like a bit of a nothingburger to me) but I’m glad he’s gone. On his watch the BBC simply gave up the ghost on factual documentary TV, and decided the best way to serve its audience was to patronise it.
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November 9, 2025 at 8:51 PM
I’m surprised Davie has resigned over that Panorama edit (seems like a bit of a nothingburger to me) but I’m glad he’s gone. On his watch the BBC simply gave up the ghost on factual documentary TV, and decided the best way to serve its audience was to patronise it.
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Truly, we are on the stupidest of timelines.
November 9, 2025 at 7:39 PM
Truly, we are on the stupidest of timelines.