Gren Nation
@anafurn.bsky.social
Brighton, UK. BHAFC supporter, Deadhead and woke snowflake.
Joyce Carol Oates sums up Elon Musk perfectly.
November 11, 2025 at 8:39 AM
Joyce Carol Oates sums up Elon Musk perfectly.
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Anybody who had a vision to bring American levels of political, cultural and social polarisation to Britain - whether their motive was clicks or cash, ideology, boredom or anything else - would make it their top strategic priority to abolish the BBC, or to damage and diminish it at the very least
Quick thread on the BBC and the political and societal significance of recent developments:
One of the main reasons the UK has historically been so much less polarised than the US, is that Britain has a shared source of information, consumed and trusted by most people regardless of their politics.
One of the main reasons the UK has historically been so much less polarised than the US, is that Britain has a shared source of information, consumed and trusted by most people regardless of their politics.
November 10, 2025 at 8:41 PM
Anybody who had a vision to bring American levels of political, cultural and social polarisation to Britain - whether their motive was clicks or cash, ideology, boredom or anything else - would make it their top strategic priority to abolish the BBC, or to damage and diminish it at the very least
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🇪🇺 The EU is the world's largest trader in services with 22.8% of global services trade.
🇬🇧 The UK used to be the services capital of the EU before Brexit.
🇪🇺 Rejoining the EU would allow us to sell services freely across the EU via the Single Market and globally via the Customs Union.
#RejoinEU 🇬🇧🇪🇺
🇬🇧 The UK used to be the services capital of the EU before Brexit.
🇪🇺 Rejoining the EU would allow us to sell services freely across the EU via the Single Market and globally via the Customs Union.
#RejoinEU 🇬🇧🇪🇺
November 10, 2025 at 1:36 PM
🇪🇺 The EU is the world's largest trader in services with 22.8% of global services trade.
🇬🇧 The UK used to be the services capital of the EU before Brexit.
🇪🇺 Rejoining the EU would allow us to sell services freely across the EU via the Single Market and globally via the Customs Union.
#RejoinEU 🇬🇧🇪🇺
🇬🇧 The UK used to be the services capital of the EU before Brexit.
🇪🇺 Rejoining the EU would allow us to sell services freely across the EU via the Single Market and globally via the Customs Union.
#RejoinEU 🇬🇧🇪🇺
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The other fact that people are ignoring is that Prescott is not some random chap plucked out of obscurity to do an 'independent' report. He's part of the campaign from the start.
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 1:36 PM
The other fact that people are ignoring is that Prescott is not some random chap plucked out of obscurity to do an 'independent' report. He's part of the campaign from the start.
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What you’re witnessing is a populist assault on the BBC.
This is not an institutional scandal in any meaningful sense of the word. It is an attack on public service broadcasting.
iandunt.substack.com/p/extra-edit...
This is not an institutional scandal in any meaningful sense of the word. It is an attack on public service broadcasting.
iandunt.substack.com/p/extra-edit...
November 10, 2025 at 10:52 AM
What you’re witnessing is a populist assault on the BBC.
This is not an institutional scandal in any meaningful sense of the word. It is an attack on public service broadcasting.
iandunt.substack.com/p/extra-edit...
This is not an institutional scandal in any meaningful sense of the word. It is an attack on public service broadcasting.
iandunt.substack.com/p/extra-edit...
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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
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
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Surprised how indignant a lot of people are about Davie’s resignation, given how relentlessly the BBC is criticised on here.
I don’t say the BBC should be beyond criticism. Far from it. But it’s not just the right that’s been steadily undermining it.
I don’t say the BBC should be beyond criticism. Far from it. But it’s not just the right that’s been steadily undermining it.
November 9, 2025 at 10:22 PM
Surprised how indignant a lot of people are about Davie’s resignation, given how relentlessly the BBC is criticised on here.
I don’t say the BBC should be beyond criticism. Far from it. But it’s not just the right that’s been steadily undermining it.
I don’t say the BBC should be beyond criticism. Far from it. But it’s not just the right that’s been steadily undermining it.
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The BBC's senior leadership resigning en masse over one dodgy edit in one programme, simply because the right wing press demands it, tells you everything you need to know about where the power really lies in that relationship
November 9, 2025 at 8:04 PM
The BBC's senior leadership resigning en masse over one dodgy edit in one programme, simply because the right wing press demands it, tells you everything you need to know about where the power really lies in that relationship
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If you want to sustain your carefully-cultivated fury at the stupid Panorama edit then don’t, whatever you do, read or listen to Trump’s speech in its entirety…
November 10, 2025 at 7:47 AM
If you want to sustain your carefully-cultivated fury at the stupid Panorama edit then don’t, whatever you do, read or listen to Trump’s speech in its entirety…
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See what’s happening. A Trumpist US media company has taken over Channel 5. Another US company is gunning for ITV. Our social media is saturated by Musk’s calls for civil war in the UK. The BBC is the last thing standing, and Trump/Johnson are trying to bring it down
November 9, 2025 at 11:59 PM
See what’s happening. A Trumpist US media company has taken over Channel 5. Another US company is gunning for ITV. Our social media is saturated by Musk’s calls for civil war in the UK. The BBC is the last thing standing, and Trump/Johnson are trying to bring it down
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It’s ironic but predictable that the BBC duo -who tried so hard to please the right wing papers-are removed by the right wing papers.
November 9, 2025 at 6:46 PM
It’s ironic but predictable that the BBC duo -who tried so hard to please the right wing papers-are removed by the right wing papers.
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Gary Lineker for DG
November 9, 2025 at 7:21 PM
Gary Lineker for DG
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The BBC is apologising for its Panorama edit. It shouldn’t. First, the narrative is true: Donald Trump *did* incite the Capitol riot. Second, the apology won’t appease those attacking it. So why not at least stand for something?
Wrote this on it earlier this week:
inews.co.uk/news/world/b...
Wrote this on it earlier this week:
inews.co.uk/news/world/b...
The BBC was right about the Capitol riots. In a sane world, Trump would be in jail
The US President faced impeachment over the violence, and in a world where Republicans had more courage, he would have been found guilty
inews.co.uk
November 9, 2025 at 7:05 AM
The BBC is apologising for its Panorama edit. It shouldn’t. First, the narrative is true: Donald Trump *did* incite the Capitol riot. Second, the apology won’t appease those attacking it. So why not at least stand for something?
Wrote this on it earlier this week:
inews.co.uk/news/world/b...
Wrote this on it earlier this week:
inews.co.uk/news/world/b...
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How the Grateful Dead’s “Wall of Sound”–a Monster, 600-Speaker Sound System–Changed Rock Concerts & Live Music Forever
How the Grateful Dead’s “Wall of Sound”–a Monster, 600-Speaker Sound System–Changed Rock Concerts & Live Music Forever
San Francisco’s Winterland Ballroom when Grateful Dead drummer Mickey Hart walked on the stage and found the band’s sound engineer Owsley “Bear” Stanley standing in front of “a solid wall of over 600 ...
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November 7, 2025 at 9:11 PM
How the Grateful Dead’s “Wall of Sound”–a Monster, 600-Speaker Sound System–Changed Rock Concerts & Live Music Forever
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🚨NEW EPISODE🚨 Welcome back to Origin Story season eight: The Story of Socialism. This week, in the year of its 125th anniversary, @iandunt.bsky.social and @dorianlynskey.bsky.social begin the tale of the UK Labour Party, from Keir Hardie to Keir Starmer 👉 linktr.ee/originstoryp...
#labour #podcast
#labour #podcast
November 5, 2025 at 9:08 AM
🚨NEW EPISODE🚨 Welcome back to Origin Story season eight: The Story of Socialism. This week, in the year of its 125th anniversary, @iandunt.bsky.social and @dorianlynskey.bsky.social begin the tale of the UK Labour Party, from Keir Hardie to Keir Starmer 👉 linktr.ee/originstoryp...
#labour #podcast
#labour #podcast
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First Man to Monetise Hate Gets Trillion-Dollar Payday
In the most exciting development of late-stage capitalism since $12 bottles of artisanal water, doughy fear-harvester Elon Musk has been rewarded with one trillion dollars.
Click for more!
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In the most exciting development of late-stage capitalism since $12 bottles of artisanal water, doughy fear-harvester Elon Musk has been rewarded with one trillion dollars.
Click for more!
open.substack.com/pub/mrhenrym...
First Man to Monetise Hate Gets Trillion-Dollar Payday
In the most exciting development of late-stage capitalism since $12 bottles of artisanal water, doughy fear-harvester Elon Musk has been rewarded with one trillion dollars.
open.substack.com
November 7, 2025 at 2:02 PM
First Man to Monetise Hate Gets Trillion-Dollar Payday
In the most exciting development of late-stage capitalism since $12 bottles of artisanal water, doughy fear-harvester Elon Musk has been rewarded with one trillion dollars.
Click for more!
open.substack.com/pub/mrhenrym...
In the most exciting development of late-stage capitalism since $12 bottles of artisanal water, doughy fear-harvester Elon Musk has been rewarded with one trillion dollars.
Click for more!
open.substack.com/pub/mrhenrym...
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“The public are crystal clear - including a third of his own supporters - that leaving the EU has been a failure - cite the economic fallout and blame Farage for the pain. His poor judgement disqualifies him from being trusted with the economy.” 2/2 ~AA
www.bestforbritain.org/farage_s_bre...
www.bestforbritain.org/farage_s_bre...
Farage’s Brexit wrecked economy and public know he’s to blame
Campaigners have warned that Reform UK leader Nigel Farage "wants to take more risks with people's financial security" after he gave a speech setting out new economic policies.
www.bestforbritain.org
November 3, 2025 at 2:55 PM
“The public are crystal clear - including a third of his own supporters - that leaving the EU has been a failure - cite the economic fallout and blame Farage for the pain. His poor judgement disqualifies him from being trusted with the economy.” 2/2 ~AA
www.bestforbritain.org/farage_s_bre...
www.bestforbritain.org/farage_s_bre...
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Is there a prominent Brexiter left who hasn’t torn off their mask to reveal the rancid racism beneath? Boris Johnson’s chief fluffer accusing anyone else of being over-promoted is peak process. The bitterness of insanely privileged men with empty souls knows no bounds.
For anyone still tempted to take Dominic Cummings at all seriously, he's now an advocate of Donald Trump-style open racism.
November 6, 2025 at 6:34 PM
Is there a prominent Brexiter left who hasn’t torn off their mask to reveal the rancid racism beneath? Boris Johnson’s chief fluffer accusing anyone else of being over-promoted is peak process. The bitterness of insanely privileged men with empty souls knows no bounds.
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Wherever Farage sets his foot, you find fraud.
Court convicts two donors for illegally diverting £100k to Eurosceptic think tank run by Nigel Farage's girlfriend.
November 6, 2025 at 12:01 AM
Wherever Farage sets his foot, you find fraud.
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Condolences to Justin Webb at this difficult time
My new DAB radio is amazing. Can actually hear Justin Webb sobbing in the background as news of the Democrats' election success is read out.
#r4today
#r4today
November 5, 2025 at 9:07 AM
Condolences to Justin Webb at this difficult time
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AOC, "Elon Musk is not a scientist, he is not an engineer. He is a billionaire conman with a lot of money"
Can you imagine any Labour MP saying this?
Can you imagine any Labour MP saying this?
November 4, 2025 at 8:41 PM
AOC, "Elon Musk is not a scientist, he is not an engineer. He is a billionaire conman with a lot of money"
Can you imagine any Labour MP saying this?
Can you imagine any Labour MP saying this?
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All power and a full recovery to Samir Zitouni, the absolute best of us.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Train hero who saved passengers during attack named
The rail worker credited with saving multiple lives is named as Samir Zitouni.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 4, 2025 at 11:51 AM
All power and a full recovery to Samir Zitouni, the absolute best of us.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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FAO Matt Goodwin and all the other racist filth who tried to exploit this incident
November 4, 2025 at 12:38 PM
FAO Matt Goodwin and all the other racist filth who tried to exploit this incident