Brianna was killed because she was trans.

This whole phones bad project is disgusting and insulting

Or my soul

As I said to Mike over there, if you really want your graduate program to be 27% Reform 15% Tory and 100% open to discussion of transphobia and ethnonationalism, you are going to end up hiring some very odd people.

The BBC has no pro-trans bias. The BBC is appalling on trans issues, just like the rest of the media.

"How many trans people have you seen on the BBC in the last 5 years?"

"How many trans kids/families have thanked you for getting the Tavistock closed down?"

"Name me one Olympic medal winning trans athlete"

Simple questions, all with the same answer, yet never asked.

I can say with confidence, having not even watched the BBC, that no trans person has been on this week. There are two reasons I can do this:

1. The BBC never has any trans people on to discuss trans people or our rights or anything.
2. If a trans person was on, we'd have heard about it very loudly.

We could have improved public housing and transport but instead we’re going to get a gen AI plagiarism machine that can also (fairly inaccurately) take notes from your teams meeting

Just out of interest, where are all the children that the Tavistock supposedly caused great harm to? Is there a huge cohort of people that are gratefully praising EM and her Newsnight mob that shut it all down on their behalf?

In the last decade, the BBC has legitimised climate change denialism, paved the way for Brexit, defended the coup that was prorogation, over-platformed Farage's Far Right projects, and is neutral on our abandonment of human rights norms.

What is this 'good' it supposedly does?

I think the combination of the dominance by the BBC of news, together with the levels of trust it enjoys, gives it a degree of influence which is unhealthy for it and for democracy. And it uses them to perpetuate a status quo-ism which is demonstrably failing the nation.

Personally I'd be pleased to see BBC News disappear entirely. To argue, as many do, that British politics or our news environment would be so much worse without the BBC you have to explain why British politics and news environment is so very bad with the BBC.

For me, the division is both unsurprising - public institutions are conservative; they lean towards power and the status quo - and revealing. Those who sit under the protective umbrella that institutions throw up are surprisingly incurious about what life is like for those who live outside it.