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Well, this is quite a serious allegation. I do hope the BBC shows true impartiality and investigate whether or not some of its Board members are systemically biased. www.theguardian.com/media/2025/n...
BBC board member with Tory links ‘led charge’ in systemic bias claims, say insiders
Sources say Robbie Gibb amplified criticisms of Trump, Gaza and trans rights coverage, and had ‘a lot of oxygen in the room’
www.theguardian.com
November 11, 2025 at 7:34 AM
Well, this is quite a serious allegation. I do hope the BBC shows true impartiality and investigate whether or not some of its Board members are systemically biased. www.theguardian.com/media/2025/n...
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I do not understand the Labour government's reticence over defending the BBC and social media regulation. Their long-term survival basically depends on it. Their cowardice in the face of it may be the single thing they are most remembered for.
on.ft.com/3JVxC1Z via @FT
on.ft.com/3JVxC1Z via @FT
BBC faces ‘existential’ threat after exit of top executives
Broadcaster’s deepest crisis in recent history comes amid fresh questions over its future role in British society
on.ft.com
November 11, 2025 at 7:35 AM
I do not understand the Labour government's reticence over defending the BBC and social media regulation. Their long-term survival basically depends on it. Their cowardice in the face of it may be the single thing they are most remembered for.
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Costco is a really popular subject for business-success case studies but I feel like business guys kinda lose interest when the upshot of the study is like "just operate with scrupulous integrity in all facets and levels of your business for four decades" and not some easy-to-fix gimmick
“You can’t say people are our most important product and then treat them like shit.” - Jim Sinegal, co-founder of Costco
April 20, 2025 at 11:09 PM
Costco is a really popular subject for business-success case studies but I feel like business guys kinda lose interest when the upshot of the study is like "just operate with scrupulous integrity in all facets and levels of your business for four decades" and not some easy-to-fix gimmick
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i find every story about costco's brand strategy and overall approach completely fascinating.
Why Costco Went All in on Kirkland — and How It Paid Off | WSJ Case Study
YouTube video by The Wall Street Journal
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November 10, 2025 at 6:18 PM
i find every story about costco's brand strategy and overall approach completely fascinating.
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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?
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this is why Canadians complain about American politics so much btw
WASHINGTON (AP) — Canada has lost its measles elimination status because of continued spread, international health experts say.
November 10, 2025 at 5:05 PM
this is why Canadians complain about American politics so much btw
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No more noble British tradition than resigning over some nonsense everyone is only pretending to be angry about rather than all of the actually bad things you've done.
November 9, 2025 at 6:10 PM
No more noble British tradition than resigning over some nonsense everyone is only pretending to be angry about rather than all of the actually bad things you've done.
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I helped write this piece on something that I think is important.
Would appreciate you giving it a read, regardless of your viewpoint going in.
maryamnaz.substack.com/p/the-parado...
I helped write this piece on something that I think is important.
Would appreciate you giving it a read, regardless of your viewpoint going in.
maryamnaz.substack.com/p/the-parado...
The paradox of protection
A fast…strong…successful…woman? MUST BE A WITCH!!!!!!!!!
maryamnaz.substack.com
November 9, 2025 at 9:48 PM
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I helped write this piece on something that I think is important.
Would appreciate you giving it a read, regardless of your viewpoint going in.
maryamnaz.substack.com/p/the-parado...
I helped write this piece on something that I think is important.
Would appreciate you giving it a read, regardless of your viewpoint going in.
maryamnaz.substack.com/p/the-parado...
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Gary Lineker: "This is the mistake the BBC makes. The BBC tries to appease the people that hate the BBC, rather than worrying about the people that love the BBC."
April 22, 2025 at 7:35 AM
Gary Lineker: "This is the mistake the BBC makes. The BBC tries to appease the people that hate the BBC, rather than worrying about the people that love the BBC."
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inspired by this, I have done a free extract of this section of the book here. it is about understanding that *with all its problems* the BBC is as important for our intellectual health as the NHS is for our physical health:
naomialderman.substack.com/p/the-bbc-an...
naomialderman.substack.com/p/the-bbc-an...
November 10, 2025 at 7:52 AM
inspired by this, I have done a free extract of this section of the book here. it is about understanding that *with all its problems* the BBC is as important for our intellectual health as the NHS is for our physical health:
naomialderman.substack.com/p/the-bbc-an...
naomialderman.substack.com/p/the-bbc-an...
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Note that still in post at the BBC is Robbie Gibb, who helped set up GB News, and John McAndrew, formerly director of news and programmes at GB News.
November 10, 2025 at 5:56 AM
Note that still in post at the BBC is Robbie Gibb, who helped set up GB News, and John McAndrew, formerly director of news and programmes at GB News.
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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 …
So what I'm learning is that there are worse politicians than Kier Starmer. Which is impressive.
November 10, 2025 at 1:18 AM
So what I'm learning is that there are worse politicians than Kier Starmer. Which is impressive.
I forget who pointed out that the online subs have turned them into a right wing US newspaper reporting on the UK but it does explain how they've gone quite as made as they have.
At this point could somebody please tell me hie many people in the UK actually read the Telegraph, it feels like a relevant question.
Don’t think I saw a single post from Trump himself about the BBC over the whole week btw, let alone an actual comment. It was all from the White House press team, in response to queries from UK media. Not sure the President even knows what Panorama *is*.
November 9, 2025 at 8:51 PM
I forget who pointed out that the online subs have turned them into a right wing US newspaper reporting on the UK but it does explain how they've gone quite as made as they have.
A Labour gov with half a brain would use this as an opportunity to completely clear out the Tory appointees facilitating this (most obviously Gibb) and rebuild the institution. But that would require they recognise the bloody obvious and do something.
The BBC is facing a coordinated, politically motivated attack. With these resignations, it’s given in | Jane Martinson
The BBC is facing a coordinated, politically motivated attack. With these resignations, it’s given in | Jane Martinson
The corporation should have stood up to the Telegraph, Trump and the Tories. Now, its enemies know how little it takes for it to fold, says Jane Martinson, professor of financial journalism
www.theguardian.com
November 9, 2025 at 8:37 PM
A Labour gov with half a brain would use this as an opportunity to completely clear out the Tory appointees facilitating this (most obviously Gibb) and rebuild the institution. But that would require they recognise the bloody obvious and do something.
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The only fascist dictator these green and pleasant Islands have seen
November 9, 2025 at 3:26 PM
The only fascist dictator these green and pleasant Islands have seen
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November 2030: Tesla is fifteen circular funding deals in a trenchcoat.
It is cash-poor and on the verge of insolvency, but also, somehow, an $8.5 trillion company.
It is cash-poor and on the verge of insolvency, but also, somehow, an $8.5 trillion company.
November 7, 2025 at 12:58 AM
November 2030: Tesla is fifteen circular funding deals in a trenchcoat.
It is cash-poor and on the verge of insolvency, but also, somehow, an $8.5 trillion company.
It is cash-poor and on the verge of insolvency, but also, somehow, an $8.5 trillion company.
This. The entire thing is already a meme fraud and we live in a golden age of scams.
He doesn't get the cash if something finally bursts the unreality bubble around the stock. And at this point I have no idea how that happens.
He doesn't get the cash if something finally bursts the unreality bubble around the stock. And at this point I have no idea how that happens.
Registering my prediction: over the next 5 years, Tesla sales will continue to decline, and the Optimus robots will be a Cybertruck-scale nonstarter.
BUT.
The company will be a world-leading innovator in shady market manipulation and fraudulent accounting techniques. He’ll hit his fake targets.
BUT.
The company will be a world-leading innovator in shady market manipulation and fraudulent accounting techniques. He’ll hit his fake targets.
JUST IN: Tesla shareholders officially green light a pay package for Elon Musk that could make him the world's first trillionaire.
November 9, 2025 at 11:30 AM
This. The entire thing is already a meme fraud and we live in a golden age of scams.
He doesn't get the cash if something finally bursts the unreality bubble around the stock. And at this point I have no idea how that happens.
He doesn't get the cash if something finally bursts the unreality bubble around the stock. And at this point I have no idea how that happens.
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I found it- the most embarrassing poster’s chat
November 9, 2025 at 9:52 AM
I found it- the most embarrassing poster’s chat
The struggle(ball) is real.
November 9, 2025 at 11:19 AM
The struggle(ball) is real.
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If Watson had just kept his mouth shut for the last seventy years, he would have had sinecures and respect for life, and when he died everyone would have mourned. The Rosalind Franklin stuff would have been rather swept under the carpet.
November 9, 2025 at 11:13 AM
If Watson had just kept his mouth shut for the last seventy years, he would have had sinecures and respect for life, and when he died everyone would have mourned. The Rosalind Franklin stuff would have been rather swept under the carpet.
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pre-writing a devastating obituary for your enemy is god-tier hating of a kind you don’t often see anymore. renaissance haterism. beautiful stuff.
A Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death.
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
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Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
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James Watson, dead at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers
James Watson, the co-discoverer of the structure of DNA who died Thursday at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers.
www.statnews.com
November 9, 2025 at 12:55 AM
pre-writing a devastating obituary for your enemy is god-tier hating of a kind you don’t often see anymore. renaissance haterism. beautiful stuff.
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And politicians shrug and say "Something wrong with young people today. Mystery. Can't figure it out. Guess we'll have to bully them some more."
November 9, 2025 at 10:22 AM
And politicians shrug and say "Something wrong with young people today. Mystery. Can't figure it out. Guess we'll have to bully them some more."
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Well done to everyone who remembered to vote.
Once again the Restore Trust group were seen off.
Let's do it all again next year.
Once again the Restore Trust group were seen off.
Let's do it all again next year.
National Trust council elections saw a defeat for the Restore Trust campaign.
35k members voted to re-elect a slate of council candidates endorsed by the nominations committee
12k - 13.5k voted for candidates on Restore Trust slate
Non-slate candidated
www.nationaltrust.org.uk/who-we-are/a...
35k members voted to re-elect a slate of council candidates endorsed by the nominations committee
12k - 13.5k voted for candidates on Restore Trust slate
Non-slate candidated
www.nationaltrust.org.uk/who-we-are/a...
Voting results from the AGM
Read about the National Trust's 2025 Annual General Meeting and the results from the day.
www.nationaltrust.org.uk
November 9, 2025 at 9:32 AM
Well done to everyone who remembered to vote.
Once again the Restore Trust group were seen off.
Let's do it all again next year.
Once again the Restore Trust group were seen off.
Let's do it all again next year.
Fucks sake.
Govt scraps all electrification investment. Midland Main Line to stay forever diesel Leicester Nottingham Derby Sheffield. Hugely embarrassing and inexplicable
www.ft.com/content/5ecd...
www.ft.com/content/5ecd...
UK transport secretary says full electrification of railways ‘not affordable right now’
Heidi Alexander says focus will be on other projects such as HS2
www.ft.com
November 9, 2025 at 10:22 AM
Fucks sake.