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Robert Smith
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Corporate Finance Editor at the Financial Times.

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November 11, 2025 at 12:23 AM
Yeah fair, fair.
November 11, 2025 at 12:05 AM
Yeah I'm, sure, it's Trump. But was it even broadcast there? And isn't the "actual malice" threshold quite a high bar to clear?
November 10, 2025 at 11:41 PM
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November 10, 2025 at 12:20 PM
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November 10, 2025 at 11:59 AM
it may be pitched that way, but it's a shadow of its former self precisely due to the pressure from the wreckers

bsky.app/profile/bond...
It wasn't great, but I'd say it's probably a mistake borne out of an under-pressure BBC de-funding investigative work and degrading the standards at Panorama, while at the same time dumbing down the output. Trying to do more with less will always lead to mistakes.
November 10, 2025 at 11:51 AM
"Gibb’s supporters say he is trying to save the BBC from itself; he was also heard last year to say that if he didn’t get his way, he would 'blow the place up'"

observer.co.uk/opinion-and-...
The Observer view: political interference at the BBC | The Observer
observer.co.uk
November 10, 2025 at 11:37 AM
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November 10, 2025 at 11:35 AM
It wasn't great, but I'd say it's probably a mistake borne out of an under-pressure BBC de-funding investigative work and degrading the standards at Panorama, while at the same time dumbing down the output. Trying to do more with less will always lead to mistakes.
November 10, 2025 at 11:04 AM
being "impartial and beyond reproach" 100% of the time is impossible. mistakes will always be made. it's about how you respond to them. The Times just memoryholed a story without even an editor's note explaining what had happened. In contrast, the BBC rakes over its mistakes in its own news coverage
November 10, 2025 at 11:01 AM
😂
November 10, 2025 at 10:36 AM
This is very good from @stephenkb.bsky.social. It’s a pattern we’ve seen across our public institutions; the wreckers push them degrade their service and then use the consequences of that as evidence for the need to privatise them.

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November 10, 2025 at 10:01 AM
So make no mistake, this is a coordinated assault on one of the cornerstones of British civic life from people who want to weaken our democracy. Sadly, the BBC is so cowed it will actively abet them in its own destruction.
November 10, 2025 at 9:53 AM
Shame!
November 7, 2025 at 5:54 PM
Did the legitimacy of office chair sale and leasebacks come up at all?

www.ft.com/content/b492...
Utah’s First Brands whale even leased the office furniture
A non-bank lender with the motto ‘been there, leased that’ finds out
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November 7, 2025 at 5:53 PM
Ha yes I understood the subtext. Good luck claiming on those very real receivables, Katsumi!
November 7, 2025 at 5:30 PM
oh!
November 7, 2025 at 1:35 PM