Andy Norris
@aulusandy.bsky.social
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More than any time since the 1980s, perhaps ever, the BBC needs a journalistic warrior to lead it. Someone who can see the shape of a fight coming and work out how to win it and have the will to do so. Davie was never that guy. It can't be a hack from the queue. Maybe it should be a refugee from CBS
November 9, 2025 at 8:41 PM
More than any time since the 1980s, perhaps ever, the BBC needs a journalistic warrior to lead it. Someone who can see the shape of a fight coming and work out how to win it and have the will to do so. Davie was never that guy. It can't be a hack from the queue. Maybe it should be a refugee from CBS
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‘Thanks so much for joining us on what I know is a very busy day for you. Tell me, what is your vision for the BBC as the corporation’s new director-general?’
November 9, 2025 at 6:33 PM
‘Thanks so much for joining us on what I know is a very busy day for you. Tell me, what is your vision for the BBC as the corporation’s new director-general?’
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Its decision to leave the Tory appointees in post at the BBC is one of so many Labour have made that I can't begin to understand. Any guesses?
November 9, 2025 at 10:11 PM
Its decision to leave the Tory appointees in post at the BBC is one of so many Labour have made that I can't begin to understand. Any guesses?
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Johnson’s crony directors and client journalists should have been cleaned out of the BBC within the first year. Very disappointing that they weren’t. @bylinetimes.bsky.social
The BBC’s Road to Appeasement
As the BBC comes under growing criticism for its coverage of Reform, we republish Adam Bienkov and Patrick Howse's 2024 investigation into how the corporation's leadership became cowed by the right
www.bylinesupplement.com
November 9, 2025 at 1:55 PM
Johnson’s crony directors and client journalists should have been cleaned out of the BBC within the first year. Very disappointing that they weren’t. @bylinetimes.bsky.social
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“Even for Donald Trump, this was not normal. It was not normal for the UN General Assembly. It was not usual for any world leader, elected or not – dictators usually take decades to lose contact with reality in the way Trump appeared to have done today.”
Trump’s UN speech was unhinged even by his standards
Trump has made his own unreliability - and that of America - impossible to ignore or deny
inews.co.uk
September 23, 2025 at 5:24 PM
“Even for Donald Trump, this was not normal. It was not normal for the UN General Assembly. It was not usual for any world leader, elected or not – dictators usually take decades to lose contact with reality in the way Trump appeared to have done today.”
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Sadiq Khan bringing Sharia Law to London like
September 23, 2025 at 10:24 PM
Sadiq Khan bringing Sharia Law to London like
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The ultimate irony is that after trashing Biden, he celebrated that America was now respected around the world, no longer a laughing stock. He genuinely doesn’t see how absurd he sounds. His ego is so vast he cannot conceive that the world is laughing at him. 🧵
September 23, 2025 at 10:31 PM
The ultimate irony is that after trashing Biden, he celebrated that America was now respected around the world, no longer a laughing stock. He genuinely doesn’t see how absurd he sounds. His ego is so vast he cannot conceive that the world is laughing at him. 🧵
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Well, I made myself listen to Trump’s speech in full. While full of boasts, distortions, disgusting attacks on Biden, weird asides about the mayor of London, National Guard in DC, his MAGA hat, and unsubtle hints about wanting the peace prize - there WERE some hard uncomfortable points there too 🧵
Vain, stupid, bigoted, shallow, crass, ignorant, and so, so unqualified, in every way. America’s shame and humiliation on the world stage, for everyone to see. Russia, China, Iran etc must be quietly pinching themselves at this man’s sabotage of America; victims of oppression worldwide in despair.
Trump: "I'm really good at predicting things. During the campaign they had a hat -- a best-selling hat -- 'Trump was right about everything.' And I don't say that in a braggadocios way, but it's true. I've been right about everything."
September 23, 2025 at 10:31 PM
Well, I made myself listen to Trump’s speech in full. While full of boasts, distortions, disgusting attacks on Biden, weird asides about the mayor of London, National Guard in DC, his MAGA hat, and unsubtle hints about wanting the peace prize - there WERE some hard uncomfortable points there too 🧵
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And also on Friday, two Russian aircraft buzzed a Polish oil platform in the Baltic. I’m sensing a pattern. If NATO doesn’t make the Russians take them seriously, intrusions will grow more dangerous. They need to be told if they enter NATO airspace, they will be shot down - & we have to mean it.
Three Russian fighter jets violate Estonian airspace for 12 minutes news.err.ee/1609806336/t...
Three Russian fighter jets violate Estonian airspace for 12 minutes
On Friday morning, three Russian MiG-31 fighter jets entered Estonian airspace near Vaindloo Island without permission and remained there for nearly 12 minutes.
news.err.ee
September 19, 2025 at 6:54 PM
And also on Friday, two Russian aircraft buzzed a Polish oil platform in the Baltic. I’m sensing a pattern. If NATO doesn’t make the Russians take them seriously, intrusions will grow more dangerous. They need to be told if they enter NATO airspace, they will be shot down - & we have to mean it.
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Michael Eisner, who served as CEO of Disney for 21 years and acquired ABC while he was in charge, slams his successor Bob Iger for bending the knee.
September 19, 2025 at 6:42 PM
Michael Eisner, who served as CEO of Disney for 21 years and acquired ABC while he was in charge, slams his successor Bob Iger for bending the knee.
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I'm starting to think Putin could invade any country other than the big 4 in Europe and NATO Trump and the EU would do nothing except issue a strongly worded letter.
September 19, 2025 at 9:09 PM
I'm starting to think Putin could invade any country other than the big 4 in Europe and NATO Trump and the EU would do nothing except issue a strongly worded letter.
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These are people who know what they're talking about, first hand. No-one should count on Putin's Russia relinquishing its grip on occupied parts of Ukraine if the West now accepts Russian conquests 'de facto but not de jure' .
Op-ed from the foreign ministers of Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia, arguing that any territorial swaps with Russia won’t be temporary: “To entertain the idea of trading land for a fragile truce is to repeat the mistakes of the past — and to invite history’s darkest chapters to be repeated.”
Baltic states know Russian occupation is never temporary
Land swaps and de facto annexation in Ukraine won’t bring peace and could lead to decades of brutal subjugation
www.ft.com
August 13, 2025 at 6:13 PM
These are people who know what they're talking about, first hand. No-one should count on Putin's Russia relinquishing its grip on occupied parts of Ukraine if the West now accepts Russian conquests 'de facto but not de jure' .
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This is high level Justice Dept officials meeting with White House leaders about a massive cover up on an ongoing investigation.
August 6, 2025 at 10:53 PM
This is high level Justice Dept officials meeting with White House leaders about a massive cover up on an ongoing investigation.
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Now this is a master class 🔥
Indian News Anchor Epically Drags Trump For Demanding He Win The Nobel Peace Prize
A master class 🔥
www.comicsands.com
August 6, 2025 at 4:11 PM
Now this is a master class 🔥
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The financial economy is immersed in the kind of wild gambling we saw leading up to the 2008 financial crisis.
We’re seeing it all over again — this time with crypto, meme stocks, junk bonds, and investors pumping up shares of AI stocks without knowing what it is.
Be warned.
We’re seeing it all over again — this time with crypto, meme stocks, junk bonds, and investors pumping up shares of AI stocks without knowing what it is.
Be warned.
August 1, 2025 at 8:01 PM
The financial economy is immersed in the kind of wild gambling we saw leading up to the 2008 financial crisis.
We’re seeing it all over again — this time with crypto, meme stocks, junk bonds, and investors pumping up shares of AI stocks without knowing what it is.
Be warned.
We’re seeing it all over again — this time with crypto, meme stocks, junk bonds, and investors pumping up shares of AI stocks without knowing what it is.
Be warned.
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I want my freedom of movement back.
I want your freedom of movement back.
I want EU citizens' freedom of movement back.
And I'll happily take Schengen & the Euro to make that happen.
We won't get the great deal we had before, but whatever we accept will be better than what we have now. By a mile.
I want your freedom of movement back.
I want EU citizens' freedom of movement back.
And I'll happily take Schengen & the Euro to make that happen.
We won't get the great deal we had before, but whatever we accept will be better than what we have now. By a mile.
July 23, 2025 at 3:51 PM
I want my freedom of movement back.
I want your freedom of movement back.
I want EU citizens' freedom of movement back.
And I'll happily take Schengen & the Euro to make that happen.
We won't get the great deal we had before, but whatever we accept will be better than what we have now. By a mile.
I want your freedom of movement back.
I want EU citizens' freedom of movement back.
And I'll happily take Schengen & the Euro to make that happen.
We won't get the great deal we had before, but whatever we accept will be better than what we have now. By a mile.
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We’re experiencing a high volume of protests but your arrest is important to us, so please hold onto that banner and an officer will be along shortly.
Your arrest may be recorded for training purposes.
Your arrest may be recorded for training purposes.
July 23, 2025 at 8:52 AM
We’re experiencing a high volume of protests but your arrest is important to us, so please hold onto that banner and an officer will be along shortly.
Your arrest may be recorded for training purposes.
Your arrest may be recorded for training purposes.
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Because no one party can speak for the whole of Britain.
Because the value of our vote shouldn't depend on our postcode.
Because we want to be able to vote for what we truly believe in.
Because governments make better decisions when every voice is heard.
We need #PRnow
Because the value of our vote shouldn't depend on our postcode.
Because we want to be able to vote for what we truly believe in.
Because governments make better decisions when every voice is heard.
We need #PRnow
July 4, 2025 at 11:14 AM
Because no one party can speak for the whole of Britain.
Because the value of our vote shouldn't depend on our postcode.
Because we want to be able to vote for what we truly believe in.
Because governments make better decisions when every voice is heard.
We need #PRnow
Because the value of our vote shouldn't depend on our postcode.
Because we want to be able to vote for what we truly believe in.
Because governments make better decisions when every voice is heard.
We need #PRnow
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Spare a thought for the IDF today. They were out all day yesterday shooting innocent people trying to get bags of flour, and when they got home they had to find out the heartbreaking news that some people at Glastonbury don't like them. That cannot be good for your mental health.
June 29, 2025 at 10:13 AM
Spare a thought for the IDF today. They were out all day yesterday shooting innocent people trying to get bags of flour, and when they got home they had to find out the heartbreaking news that some people at Glastonbury don't like them. That cannot be good for your mental health.
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Bezos wedding guest takes us through her extravagant goodie bag from the wedding 💗
June 27, 2025 at 3:19 PM
Bezos wedding guest takes us through her extravagant goodie bag from the wedding 💗
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US intel: Iran’s highly enriched uranium “survived” & its centrifuges are “largely intact.”
Somehow that doesn’t sound the same as “fully obliterated.”
apnews.com/article/iran...
Somehow that doesn’t sound the same as “fully obliterated.”
apnews.com/article/iran...
Early US intelligence report suggests US strikes only set back Iran’s nuclear program by months
A new U.S. intelligence report finds that Iran’s nuclear program has been set back only a few months after U.S. strikes, not totally destroyed as President Donald Trump has said.
apnews.com
June 24, 2025 at 9:21 PM
US intel: Iran’s highly enriched uranium “survived” & its centrifuges are “largely intact.”
Somehow that doesn’t sound the same as “fully obliterated.”
apnews.com/article/iran...
Somehow that doesn’t sound the same as “fully obliterated.”
apnews.com/article/iran...
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"Sleeping with an enemy of every value you ever stood for is not just morally repugnant. It is very bad tactics. Untrustworthy people tend to betray you."
Exactly.
We know that the EU sticks to its agreements. We know Trump doesn't.
yorkshirebylines.co.uk/politics/the...
Exactly.
We know that the EU sticks to its agreements. We know Trump doesn't.
yorkshirebylines.co.uk/politics/the...
The freedom for oligarchs to lie
Is Starmer preparing to sell out Britain to the tech oligarchs?
yorkshirebylines.co.uk
April 23, 2025 at 8:11 PM
"Sleeping with an enemy of every value you ever stood for is not just morally repugnant. It is very bad tactics. Untrustworthy people tend to betray you."
Exactly.
We know that the EU sticks to its agreements. We know Trump doesn't.
yorkshirebylines.co.uk/politics/the...
Exactly.
We know that the EU sticks to its agreements. We know Trump doesn't.
yorkshirebylines.co.uk/politics/the...
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I love him I must marry him.
April 23, 2025 at 2:50 PM
I love him I must marry him.