Ben Dunnell
@bendunnell.bsky.social
Your mother’s in a care home and SHE’S BEEN DRUGGED? TO KEEP HER QUIET? FOR THE CONVENIENCE OF THE STAFF? (Personal account.)
I would like to hear repeats of the little items that used to appear on Radio Norfolk when I was a kid, in which a man from the County Council called Sid Woskett would read out the list of schools that had closed due to snow.
November 11, 2025 at 12:12 AM
I would like to hear repeats of the little items that used to appear on Radio Norfolk when I was a kid, in which a man from the County Council called Sid Woskett would read out the list of schools that had closed due to snow.
Not if the current government would rather suck up to Trump than defend the BBC.
November 10, 2025 at 11:55 PM
Not if the current government would rather suck up to Trump than defend the BBC.
Reposted by Ben Dunnell
From Manveen Rana - the BBC investigative reporter on the program
"Funnily enough Andy [Wigmore], the only time I ever experienced political interference in one of my investigations at the BBC, was when I was investigating you and Arron Banks
Your mate Robbie Gibb put a stop to a story we were running."
- former BBC investigative reporter Manveen Rana, 2022
Your mate Robbie Gibb put a stop to a story we were running."
- former BBC investigative reporter Manveen Rana, 2022
November 10, 2025 at 3:50 PM
From Manveen Rana - the BBC investigative reporter on the program
Reposted by Ben Dunnell
In the past, I've been quick to make lists of things the BBC does that make it 'the best of Britain' and all that. But that list is getting shorter, with every year that passes.
November 10, 2025 at 9:08 PM
In the past, I've been quick to make lists of things the BBC does that make it 'the best of Britain' and all that. But that list is getting shorter, with every year that passes.
Thinking about it, the BBC does have form in this respect. I was trying to think who it was who was told they couldn’t write a piece in the Guardian at a time when John Humphrys had a column in the Mail. Thought it might have been Anna Ford but it wasn’t.
November 10, 2025 at 9:03 PM
Thinking about it, the BBC does have form in this respect. I was trying to think who it was who was told they couldn’t write a piece in the Guardian at a time when John Humphrys had a column in the Mail. Thought it might have been Anna Ford but it wasn’t.
It’s a sign of completely addled brains. Like the sort of person who genuinely thinks Keir Starmer is a socialist.
November 10, 2025 at 8:52 PM
It’s a sign of completely addled brains. Like the sort of person who genuinely thinks Keir Starmer is a socialist.
Nor did I. They’d be better off with his namesake Loyd.
November 10, 2025 at 8:50 PM
Nor did I. They’d be better off with his namesake Loyd.
Superb and vital.
November 10, 2025 at 8:32 PM
Superb and vital.
One of my most fervent hopes for a Labour government was that it would create an atmosphere in which the BBC could get its confidence back. Instead the administration’s pathetic, craven equivocation has seen it diminish still further. It is utterly shameful. How Lisa Nandy can go on is beyond me.
November 10, 2025 at 8:29 PM
One of my most fervent hopes for a Labour government was that it would create an atmosphere in which the BBC could get its confidence back. Instead the administration’s pathetic, craven equivocation has seen it diminish still further. It is utterly shameful. How Lisa Nandy can go on is beyond me.