Capt'n G.
@unwelcomeguest.bsky.social
Labour, European, architecture/design/engineering, sustainability, just stop burning things!
Richmond Yorkshire.
Known to be unpleasant.
Richmond Yorkshire.
Known to be unpleasant.
These types of stories are going to soon be coming in, thick and fast!
In these times of rancour & division, it’s comforting to find things on which we can all agree: Kent County Council, for example, really does provide a perfect illustration of how well Reform would run the country. I agree with Nigel!
www.bbc.com/news/article...
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Kent fire authority 'in disarray' amid Reform UK video leak row
A firefighters union claims Reform UK suspending councillors is impacting the local fire authority.
www.bbc.com
November 11, 2025 at 4:59 PM
These types of stories are going to soon be coming in, thick and fast!
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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.
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This does feel like key information tbh. Wonder why budding tyrant Donald Trump would want to muzzle a trusted independent news source 🤔
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 9:14 AM
This does feel like key information tbh. Wonder why budding tyrant Donald Trump would want to muzzle a trusted independent news source 🤔
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The worst you can accuse Panorama of doing is making a misleading edit – and I’d dispute that! – to make *a point that was true*.
The programme aired without anyone seeing any issues with the edit. It was on iPlayer for a year without complaints. Donald Trump *did* incite Jan 6th.
The programme aired without anyone seeing any issues with the edit. It was on iPlayer for a year without complaints. Donald Trump *did* incite Jan 6th.
Tory culture spox demanding the BBC "grovel" to Trump is baffling. Who is this supposed to chime with?
Just a bizarre line that no one who doesn't use X would ever think.
Just a bizarre line that no one who doesn't use X would ever think.
November 11, 2025 at 8:54 AM
The worst you can accuse Panorama of doing is making a misleading edit – and I’d dispute that! – to make *a point that was true*.
The programme aired without anyone seeing any issues with the edit. It was on iPlayer for a year without complaints. Donald Trump *did* incite Jan 6th.
The programme aired without anyone seeing any issues with the edit. It was on iPlayer for a year without complaints. Donald Trump *did* incite Jan 6th.
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The CURRENT sitting MP for Clacton earns £511,000 as a presenter for GB News and took £281,000 as a brand ambassador for Direct Bullion.
So maybe sit this one out, you rancid herring.
So maybe sit this one out, you rancid herring.
November 10, 2025 at 5:44 PM
The CURRENT sitting MP for Clacton earns £511,000 as a presenter for GB News and took £281,000 as a brand ambassador for Direct Bullion.
So maybe sit this one out, you rancid herring.
So maybe sit this one out, you rancid herring.
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SUPERB and angrily unvarnished response, by former BBC chairman, Lord Patten.
"I don't think that we should allow ourselves to be bullied into thinking that the BBC is only any good, if it reflects the prejudice of the last person who shouted at it." ~AA
"I don't think that we should allow ourselves to be bullied into thinking that the BBC is only any good, if it reflects the prejudice of the last person who shouted at it." ~AA
November 10, 2025 at 6:40 PM
SUPERB and angrily unvarnished response, by former BBC chairman, Lord Patten.
"I don't think that we should allow ourselves to be bullied into thinking that the BBC is only any good, if it reflects the prejudice of the last person who shouted at it." ~AA
"I don't think that we should allow ourselves to be bullied into thinking that the BBC is only any good, if it reflects the prejudice of the last person who shouted at it." ~AA
🤔Confused.com
Well done to the 4% of Reform voters who think the BBC is too right-wing.
November 10, 2025 at 6:56 PM
🤔Confused.com
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The far-right is coming for everything - the BBC is just tip of the iceberg. Give it power and it will take control of the courts, the Electoral Commission, the universities, the school curriculum and all other organs of civic power. The aim is very simple: never losing power again.
November 10, 2025 at 10:25 AM
The far-right is coming for everything - the BBC is just tip of the iceberg. Give it power and it will take control of the courts, the Electoral Commission, the universities, the school curriculum and all other organs of civic power. The aim is very simple: never losing power again.
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The BBC - for all its flaws - remains the greatest news and broadcasting service in the world.
It is everything Donald Trump and his cabal of nasty little nobodies will never be and we need to defend it.
It is everything Donald Trump and his cabal of nasty little nobodies will never be and we need to defend it.
Donald Trump Slams 'Corrupt' BBC After Tim Davie Resigns Over Bias Row
www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/donald...
www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/donald...
Donald Trump Slams 'Corrupt' BBC After Tim Davie Resigns Over Bias Row
The US president said the corporation's behaviour was "a terrible thing for democracy".
www.huffingtonpost.co.uk
November 10, 2025 at 9:00 AM
The BBC - for all its flaws - remains the greatest news and broadcasting service in the world.
It is everything Donald Trump and his cabal of nasty little nobodies will never be and we need to defend it.
It is everything Donald Trump and his cabal of nasty little nobodies will never be and we need to defend it.
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Creating good jobs in *every* part of the country is how we get PIP/ESA claims down 👇
November 10, 2025 at 9:03 AM
Creating good jobs in *every* part of the country is how we get PIP/ESA claims down 👇
It was always obvious.
The Tories 'salted the electoral earth' with big cuts to national insurance knowing they were going to lose in 24,
The Tories 'salted the electoral earth' with big cuts to national insurance knowing they were going to lose in 24,
While going through the proofs for "The British General Election of 2024" (out very soon!) I came across this - Paul Johnson of the IFS's verdict on Labour's manifesto last year. Labour's current attempts to claim the need to break their tax pledges was impossible to forsee don't stack up
November 10, 2025 at 9:54 AM
It was always obvious.
The Tories 'salted the electoral earth' with big cuts to national insurance knowing they were going to lose in 24,
The Tories 'salted the electoral earth' with big cuts to national insurance knowing they were going to lose in 24,
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How the far-right wins in the UK, part 18,904: defeating Labour is far, far more important to the Greens than defeating Farage.
Green leader says Starmer is ‘not a man I would be willing to work with’
Green leader says Starmer is ‘not a man I would be willing to work with’
Green leader says Starmer is ‘not a man I would be willing to work with’
www.independent.co.uk
November 10, 2025 at 9:08 AM
How the far-right wins in the UK, part 18,904: defeating Labour is far, far more important to the Greens than defeating Farage.
Musk
Everything on our news agenda is being driven by a corrupted disinformation machine, run by a billionaire who sponsors Tommy Robinson and who keeps trying to foment civil war in the UK.
And incredibly our MPs & news providers stay there.
THAT is the problem. Not some bad editing choice on the BBC.
And incredibly our MPs & news providers stay there.
THAT is the problem. Not some bad editing choice on the BBC.
November 10, 2025 at 9:29 AM
Musk
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In 'How They Broke Britain', I do a pretty good job of detailing the depth & breadth of Tufton Street/Tory/Murdoch/Mail attempts to scupper the BBC, even as I castigate some presenters for going too easy on precisely the people who seek the Corporation's abolition. But I should have done more. 1/2
November 10, 2025 at 9:23 AM
In 'How They Broke Britain', I do a pretty good job of detailing the depth & breadth of Tufton Street/Tory/Murdoch/Mail attempts to scupper the BBC, even as I castigate some presenters for going too easy on precisely the people who seek the Corporation's abolition. But I should have done more. 1/2
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Robbie Gibb is the one that should be resigning from the #BBC. His personal bias is utterly blatant.
“That argument has been led by one board member Sir Robbie Gibb - a former BBC executive in charge of political programmes who became Prime Minister Theresa May’s Downing Street Director of Communications and one of those involved in the founding of GB News.”14/
November 10, 2025 at 7:24 AM
Robbie Gibb is the one that should be resigning from the #BBC. His personal bias is utterly blatant.
If you like Polanski, you're a fucking idiot!
I mean, come on. This is deeply unserious stuff.
Uh huh
November 9, 2025 at 6:39 PM
If you like Polanski, you're a fucking idiot!
One couple attache the scourge of English fascism to the same timeline.
Top Kremlin critic Mikhail Khodorkovsky told POLITICO he was confident he would one day return to a post-Putin Russia.
But, he warned, it would take decades longer for the country to free itself from the “imperialist-military narrative.”
🔗 www.politico.eu/article/russ...
But, he warned, it would take decades longer for the country to free itself from the “imperialist-military narrative.”
🔗 www.politico.eu/article/russ...
November 9, 2025 at 3:43 PM
One couple attache the scourge of English fascism to the same timeline.
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Many thanks, Paul
November 9, 2025 at 10:50 AM
Many thanks, Paul
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Thank you, Tim
As per, @andrewrawnsley.bsky.social nails it observer.co.uk/news/columni...
November 9, 2025 at 10:49 AM
Thank you, Tim
Bang on! Greens are the new far-right enablers.
EXCL: The Green party is offering “simple solutions to complex problems” and making “undeliverable” promises to voters ahead of next election, PM's chief secretary Darren Jones tells me 👇
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Greens’ ‘undeliverable’ promises will let voters down, says Labour minister
Exclusive: Darren Jones says Labour has to convince young people it is ‘modern party of the future’
www.theguardian.com
November 9, 2025 at 10:07 AM
Bang on! Greens are the new far-right enablers.
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How ever since Labour came to power, the British media has started to notice a whole series of problems they spent the previous 14 years completely ignoring
www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/the-great-...
www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/the-great-...
The 'Great Noticing' Era
Ever since Labour came to power, the British media has started to notice a whole series of problems they spent the previous 14 years completely ignoring
www.adambienkov.co.uk
November 8, 2025 at 12:23 PM
How ever since Labour came to power, the British media has started to notice a whole series of problems they spent the previous 14 years completely ignoring
www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/the-great-...
www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/the-great-...
Why do people vote for people like this old hag?
I just don't get it!
I just don't get it!
Has she gone yet?
Conservative Councillor says "young black males" are "flooding" the UK
Contacted by Byline, she defended her comments, saying “we cannot sustain the volume of.. black males” that “jeopardises [our] security"
Asked why their skin colour matters, she replied “because they are [black], aren’t they?"
Contacted by Byline, she defended her comments, saying “we cannot sustain the volume of.. black males” that “jeopardises [our] security"
Asked why their skin colour matters, she replied “because they are [black], aren’t they?"
November 6, 2025 at 9:03 AM
Why do people vote for people like this old hag?
I just don't get it!
I just don't get it!
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I recently made a burner account to search for material on X.
It’s not even subtle.
It’s not even subtle.
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 8:10 AM
I recently made a burner account to search for material on X.
It’s not even subtle.
It’s not even subtle.