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Zachary 🇪🇺
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He/him | 27 | Autistic | Dyspraxic | Member of Leeds for Europe | Pro-EU 🇪🇺 | Pro-HS2 | #BlackLivesMatter | #NHSPay15 | #SlavaUkraini 🇺🇦 | #freePalestine 🇵🇸 | Talyllyn Railway Volunteer
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“Ofcom has decided, exceptionally, to withdraw the 11 decisions and to consider afresh whether your complaints raise potentially substantive issues under the Broadcasting Code which warrant investigation by Ofcom.”
https://goodlaw.social/s9av
TalkTV: Ofcom bows to pressure | Good Law Project
We said we’d sue over Ofcom’s decision to dismiss 22,000 complaints about transphobia on TalkTV – now the regulator has caved.
goodlaw.social
November 29, 2025 at 7:51 PM
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The Conservative Party's leader in London, Susan Hall, just shared this Islamophobic disinformation about Sadiq Khan, after it was posted on X by a racist troll
November 28, 2025 at 9:49 AM
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this is abhorrent
At least 160,000 people have been granted refugee status over the past five years. It now seems they are intended to be caught by the Government’s plans to make refugees wait up to 20 years for settlement - even for those just months away from ILR

www.thetimes.com/article/6f83...
November 24, 2025 at 2:45 PM
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He lived until 1980. A "misunderstood victim and hero" in his own mind to the end, and when he died, the obituaries in some quarters were downright gushing.

A truly appalling human being.
#OnThisDay 1943: wonderfully acidic Zec cartoon on the news that the British fascist leader, Oswald Mosley, was being released from prison on the grounds of ill-health...
November 19, 2025 at 9:45 AM
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In 2020 Keir Starmer and Alf Dubs urged the then Conservative Government to restore their commitment to family reunion for child refugees, saying there was a “moral argument” to protect desperately vulnerable young people.

Five years later Dubs condemns Starmer for doing the complete opposite
November 18, 2025 at 10:49 AM
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Lads, come on, look at who’s in favour and who isn’t and ask whose fucking side you want to be on. It’s not hard. The
November 18, 2025 at 9:54 AM
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2015 Shabana Mahmood really needs to have a word with 2025 Shabana Mahmood
November 16, 2025 at 8:14 PM
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Reading about the rapid collapse of Eastern European governments in 1989 as completely rotten and corrupt leaderships disintegrated when people realised fear was all that was holding them up. Apropos of nothing.
November 12, 2025 at 10:42 PM
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They should apologise, re-edit the program to clarify the speech was edited but also emphasise the congressional reports finding that

"... the central cause of January 6th was one man, former President Donald Trump"

Then rescreen the show on BBC america to correct any misunderstanding
November 12, 2025 at 8:04 AM
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The problem is precisely that it is normal. That's the really gutting thing about it.
Like, it's not great, but pretty sure there's been about 10 years of chaotic briefing from government insiders of the day...
November 12, 2025 at 9:47 AM
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He also lobbies for U.S. Big Tech companies that have donated millions to Trump
'BBC Bias' Memo Was Authored by Lobbyist Tied to Pro-Trump Tech Giants
The leaked memo that fuelled Trump’s attack on the BBC was written by a lobbyist at a firm paid by US tech giants tied to the President
bylinetimes.com
November 11, 2025 at 2:40 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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Newsmax being the company that paid two libel settlements for its false pro-Trump claims about the 2020 election - www.pbs.org/newshour/pol...
November 11, 2025 at 8:42 AM
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The "appropriate response" is to broadcast everything that Trump did and said on that appalling day for American democracy and then to tell this moron to sling his hook.
I might be wrong, but this stinks of Pharage involvement.
November 11, 2025 at 8:03 AM
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Oh look. There really are "no go areas" in England.

And they're marked by St George's flags

www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
NHS staff who visit patients at home say St George’s flags can mean ‘no-go zones’
Black and Asian staff left feeling ‘deliberately intimidated’, according to chief executive of one NHS trust
www.theguardian.com
November 11, 2025 at 8:00 AM
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It takes an obscene amount of hubris to lecture the BBC when you have The Telegraph’s record on truth-telling.

Some of the paper’s errors this year are so bad they’re almost laughable 👇🏻
The Telegraph’s BBC hypocrisy
A paper that knows a thing or two about editorial f*ck-ups...
writesbright.substack.com
November 10, 2025 at 7:48 PM
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November 10, 2025 at 8:02 PM
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When Boris Johnson was Prime Minister one of his senior advisers confided to me that one of the only things in politics his boss actually cared about was “killing off the BBC”.

Five years on, and it is a campaign that appears to be finally coming to fruition.

bylinetimes.com/2025/11/10/t...
The BBC’s Attempts to Appease the 'Right-Wing Coup' Against It Are Now Seeding Its Own Destruction
By attempting to appease those forces seeking to destroy them, the BBC has helped trigger a crisis that now threatens its very future, argues Adam Bienkov
bylinetimes.com
November 10, 2025 at 12:49 PM
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🎯 Davey is spot on. "We can have criticism of the BBC, but within that, we need to recognise how valuable an institution it is [and how] precious to our country. And that's one of the reasons why people like President Trump and Nigel Farage, want to undermine the BBC." 👏🏽~AA
November 10, 2025 at 2:35 PM
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Absolutely right. I criticise BBC News, because we need it to be as good as we know it can be. People like Farage criticise the BBC, because they work for its competitors and don't want it to exist.
🎯 Davey is spot on. "We can have criticism of the BBC, but within that, we need to recognise how valuable an institution it is [and how] precious to our country. And that's one of the reasons why people like President Trump and Nigel Farage, want to undermine the BBC." 👏🏽~AA
November 10, 2025 at 2:42 PM
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25 paragraphs before the Guardian gets to the truth, which even then it can't bring itself to have a position on (www.theguardian.com/media/2025/n...).
November 9, 2025 at 9:54 PM
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Not that anyone will learn a single thing from this, but let it serve as yet another example of the futility of trying to appease right-wing extremists. No matter how much you try to meet them halfway, they will still paint you as insufficiently servile to their ideology.
November 9, 2025 at 9:07 PM
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This is unbelievable. Just a complete lack of belief in objectivity. And the BBC fucking caved to it
Michael Prescott was ‘“shocked” that after an hour-long Panorama documentary dealing with Trump and the January 6 insurgency, there was no “similar, balancing” programme about Kamala Harris.’

More read about the machinations between the BBC resignations, the more worrying it becomes
The departure of Tim Davie and Deborah Turness means the BBC is leaderless when it needs leadership more than ever. Where are the people at the head of the BBC standing up for it?
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
November 9, 2025 at 9:44 PM
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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-...
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