wizardpug.bsky.social
@wizardpug.bsky.social
Retired to Portugal.
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Transport Police say a woman was sprayed with suspected pepper spray, subjected to racial abuse and assaulted during family day out. The American couple are liable to be deporte.
November 11, 2025 at 2:41 PM
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Fun (or not so fun) fact - the author of the “BBC bias” memo is a lobbyist for the American Pharmaceutical Group.

U.S. pharma companies recently threatened to abandon the UK unless the NHS pays more for its medicines.

They also donated millions to Trump’s campaign and inauguration
November 11, 2025 at 2:36 PM
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Time for our quarterly update, and we’re starting with good news!

Coal generation in Spain 🇪🇸 has dropped 97% since the early 2000s, making up just 1% of the country’s power mix so far this year. The payoff? Cleaner air and 95% drop in emissions from coal power in ten years.
November 11, 2025 at 8:41 AM
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Robbie Gibb was appointed to the BBC Board by Boris Johnson, was an editorial advisor for GB News, and worked as Theresa May's Director of Comms.

He is not impartial or neutral. The government should remove him from the Board immediately to protect the BBC's independence.
November 11, 2025 at 1:00 PM
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The finale of the great TV comedy show Blackadder goes Forth.
Back then I didn't expect one of the funniest programmes ever to end with a scene that makes me cry every time I see it.
Every single time.
November 11, 2025 at 12:33 PM
Love this. Absolutely love it.
November 10, 2025 at 10:31 PM
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Love this photo of Tom and @louisejameson.bsky.social

What an iconic duo
November 10, 2025 at 9:17 PM
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Farage should be pushed to disown Ant Middleton for this.
"I wouldn't expect someone like Adil Ray to understand...I'd love to have grabbed Adil Ray by the scruff of the neck & thrown him back to 1944... on the beaches of Normandy... and also for him to look to his left and his right and realise they look nothing like him."

www.youtube.com/watch?v=xkng...
'Grab Adil Ray By The Scruff Of The Neck' Says Former UK Special Forces Officer Ant Middleton
YouTube video by TalkTV
www.youtube.com
November 10, 2025 at 9:30 PM
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Incredible that Robbie Gibb - most influential person on BBC board by many accounts and from journalists I speak in BBC - was involved in setting up GB News.

GB News of course has breached Ofcom rules on *multiple* occasions - no sign of resignations though

www.theguardian.com/environment/...
‘Enforced veganism’: Ofcom lets GB News flout accuracy rules, say climate campaigners
Exclusive: Regulator has received 1,221 complaints about UK broadcasters since 2020 but found no breaches of its code
www.theguardian.com
November 10, 2025 at 8:25 AM
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Sky News just had Kelvin Mackenzie on, former editor of The Sun, one of the people at the centre of probably the most disgraceful front page in newspaper history, complaining about BBC journalists not being objective and 'fake news'. Astonishing. ~AA
November 10, 2025 at 10:53 AM
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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
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I wonder when he will start suing news outlets for describing his barefaced lies about the 2020 election as barefaced lies…
November 10, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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Should Gibb be sacked? yes, obviously. He's an abomination of basic journalistic standards. His GB News channel spreads conspiracy theory & disinformation. His Jewish Chronicle newspaper spreads invented stories. He is plainly trying to undermine the BBC so it's as bad as everything else he touches.
November 10, 2025 at 12:47 PM
Very sad news.
Quentin Willson (23 July 1957 – 8 November 2025) R.I.P
November 9, 2025 at 8:56 AM
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God bless you Patricia, Prunella and Pauline 😇🙏 Three of our finest 🎭
November 8, 2025 at 8:23 AM
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That WW2 veteran who says that winning the war "wasn't worth it" for the state we are now in is just plain wrong.

Naziism was an evil that caused the deaths of millions and the systematic murder of millions more. Defeating it was necessary.

We need to stop treating every old person as a holy sage.
November 7, 2025 at 5:03 PM
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When you’re at work and someone collapses but it’s 4:59 pm.
November 6, 2025 at 11:26 PM
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The Economist going all-in on phrenology and race science like it is 1930 again.
What an amazing time to be alive.
November 6, 2025 at 11:57 PM
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And that's important, because she was a working scientist with agency of her own and she collaborated willingly with so much more of that work than is usually mentioned.

Both by Watson AND his critics.

Franklin was a great scientist. Don't sell her short.
November 7, 2025 at 8:42 PM
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Raising a glass for Rosalind Franklin tonight. James Watson absolutely did her dirty.

But beware...
November 7, 2025 at 8:42 PM
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What an awful man. Great local journalism by the Tribune.
“It broke my heart, that was my savings towards a new car,” one woman who paid Milne tens of thousands of pounds told us. “He has just wiped me out.”

Who is Andrew Milne - the solicitor sending "very aggressive" letters to Sheffield homeowners?

www.sheffieldtribune.co.uk/a-london-law...
A London lawyer bought hundreds of Sheffield freeholds. Then the ‘very aggressive’ letters arrived
Exclusive: The Tribune can reveal that Andrew Milne has threatened leaseholders with high court action. It ‘broke my heart’ one woman says
www.sheffieldtribune.co.uk
November 7, 2025 at 7:32 AM
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Anybody got archive copies of the Mail, Telegraph, Sun, Express, BBC and Sky News outrage about the 672 prisoners released in error between March 2013-March 2023 and the 115 in the Tories last year in office, they must be out there somewhere.
November 6, 2025 at 12:38 PM
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After working remotely for 15 years you would think that I would not hate working off of a laptop screen as much as I do.
a man in a red shirt is holding a piece of paper in front of a green board .
ALT: a man in a red shirt is holding a piece of paper in front of a green board .
media.tenor.com
November 7, 2025 at 3:45 PM