Bash
@davidbashford.bsky.social
Tech and business. London and International. Always learning. All views my own.
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“Who has control over the algorithms that dictate what content goes onto people’s phones?”…We need to be effectively regulating those social media companies.”
🔴‘It’s Time for a Debate About Who Owns Our Media’ Says Leader of the UK’s Trade Union Movement
TUC General Secretary Paul Nowak warns that tech and media billionaires are threatening our democracy, as they campaign to destroy the BBC
bylinetimes.com/2025/11/14/i...
TUC General Secretary Paul Nowak warns that tech and media billionaires are threatening our democracy, as they campaign to destroy the BBC
bylinetimes.com/2025/11/14/i...
'It's Time for a Debate About Who Owns Our Media' Says Leader of the UK's Trade Union Movement
TUC General Secretary Paul Nowak warns that tech and media billionaires are threatening our democracy, as they campaign to destroy the BBC
bylinetimes.com
November 14, 2025 at 2:42 PM
“Who has control over the algorithms that dictate what content goes onto people’s phones?”…We need to be effectively regulating those social media companies.”
@zoesqwilliams.bsky.social A cynically unhelpful article on self-help books. Adler was profoundly unselfish as you concede in the small-print. Many books focus on a theme which some find helpful - it does not have to be the complete picture. Yours was a selfish article.
October 9, 2025 at 6:51 AM
@zoesqwilliams.bsky.social A cynically unhelpful article on self-help books. Adler was profoundly unselfish as you concede in the small-print. Many books focus on a theme which some find helpful - it does not have to be the complete picture. Yours was a selfish article.
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4. Failing to clear out the Tories’ highly political appointments to the BBC. They should be replaced immediately with independent people. Until that happens, it will remain a public relations outfit for the hard right and far right.
September 7, 2025 at 4:49 PM
4. Failing to clear out the Tories’ highly political appointments to the BBC. They should be replaced immediately with independent people. Until that happens, it will remain a public relations outfit for the hard right and far right.
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At least 15 Reform councillors have been suspended, expelled, or have quit since being elected earlier this year, with at least five facing criminal investigations, @bylinetimes.bsky.social can report
bylinetimes.com/2025/09/02/s...
bylinetimes.com/2025/09/02/s...
Sacked, Expelled, or in the Dock: All the Reform UK Councillors Nigel Farage Has Lost in Just Four Months
Party faces questions over candidate screening after string of resignations, expulsions and criminal investigations
bylinetimes.com
September 2, 2025 at 8:25 AM
At least 15 Reform councillors have been suspended, expelled, or have quit since being elected earlier this year, with at least five facing criminal investigations, @bylinetimes.bsky.social can report
bylinetimes.com/2025/09/02/s...
bylinetimes.com/2025/09/02/s...
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Can we please stop the relentless coverage/promotion of Reform , Farage , Tice etc. Stop the airtime and column inches , both news, editorial and opinion. They have nothing, have minimal Parliamentary presence, are a protest group devoid of policy.
August 31, 2025 at 11:41 AM
Can we please stop the relentless coverage/promotion of Reform , Farage , Tice etc. Stop the airtime and column inches , both news, editorial and opinion. They have nothing, have minimal Parliamentary presence, are a protest group devoid of policy.
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Is this news? I don’t think so.
It’s certainly not journalism.
It’s certainly not journalism.
August 31, 2025 at 12:19 PM
Is this news? I don’t think so.
It’s certainly not journalism.
It’s certainly not journalism.
www.theguardian.com/media/2025/j...
Regulate now! Not just/even Chinese are bad actors. UK media must be UK owned and paying tax in UK.
Regulate now! Not just/even Chinese are bad actors. UK media must be UK owned and paying tax in UK.
MPs call for inquiry into how RedBird Capital is funding £500m Telegraph deal
Exclusive: Cross-party group including peers warns of risk of ‘potential Chinese state influence’ in private equity firm
www.theguardian.com
June 12, 2025 at 6:21 AM
www.theguardian.com/media/2025/j...
Regulate now! Not just/even Chinese are bad actors. UK media must be UK owned and paying tax in UK.
Regulate now! Not just/even Chinese are bad actors. UK media must be UK owned and paying tax in UK.
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For example, @bylinetimes.bsky.social are not giving up on this one... 5 years in, and still digging. And still the Cabinet Office is trying to block them.
bylinetimes.com/2025/05/27/c...
bylinetimes.com/2025/05/27/c...
Matt Hancock and Three Conservative Peers Referred 60 Suppliers Onto the PPE COVID VIP Lane
Officials have told the COVID Inquiry that not all VIP suppliers have been 'recorded' and the true scale of its operation remains unknown
bylinetimes.com
May 27, 2025 at 4:14 PM
For example, @bylinetimes.bsky.social are not giving up on this one... 5 years in, and still digging. And still the Cabinet Office is trying to block them.
bylinetimes.com/2025/05/27/c...
bylinetimes.com/2025/05/27/c...
@radio4rne.bsky.social thanks for the promo for Reform. Not one critical question WTF!!! #BBCBias
May 27, 2025 at 4:35 PM
@radio4rne.bsky.social thanks for the promo for Reform. Not one critical question WTF!!! #BBCBias
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Hey British media,
It’s no surprise that if you give Farage the run of the place, he’ll start winning.
Time to do your actual jobs and start interrogating him on his Brexit shitshow, his funding, his Trumpiness, his idiotic manifesto, his real plans for the NHS… instead of drumrolling him into No.10
It’s no surprise that if you give Farage the run of the place, he’ll start winning.
Time to do your actual jobs and start interrogating him on his Brexit shitshow, his funding, his Trumpiness, his idiotic manifesto, his real plans for the NHS… instead of drumrolling him into No.10
May 4, 2025 at 7:41 AM
Hey British media,
It’s no surprise that if you give Farage the run of the place, he’ll start winning.
Time to do your actual jobs and start interrogating him on his Brexit shitshow, his funding, his Trumpiness, his idiotic manifesto, his real plans for the NHS… instead of drumrolling him into No.10
It’s no surprise that if you give Farage the run of the place, he’ll start winning.
Time to do your actual jobs and start interrogating him on his Brexit shitshow, his funding, his Trumpiness, his idiotic manifesto, his real plans for the NHS… instead of drumrolling him into No.10
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We're in London today with a big old bus to tell our Govt this country cannot afford cuts. Instead they should tax us, the super rich. A 2% wealth tax alone could raise up to £460mln a week. @Keir_starmer - invest in a fairer economy. Patriotic Millionaires say Tax Our Wealth
March 18, 2025 at 9:51 AM
We're in London today with a big old bus to tell our Govt this country cannot afford cuts. Instead they should tax us, the super rich. A 2% wealth tax alone could raise up to £460mln a week. @Keir_starmer - invest in a fairer economy. Patriotic Millionaires say Tax Our Wealth
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The U.K.’s planet-heating emissions are now the lowest since 1872, a time when Queen Victoria was on the throne, in the place where coal furnaces had fired the industrial revolution www.nationalobserver.com/2025/03/17/o...
A ray of British sunshine pierces the climate doom
The U.K.’s planet-heating emissions are now the lowest since 1872. That’s not a typo — we’re looking back to a time when Queen Victoria was on the throne, in the place where coal furnaces had fired th...
www.nationalobserver.com
March 17, 2025 at 1:28 PM
The U.K.’s planet-heating emissions are now the lowest since 1872, a time when Queen Victoria was on the throne, in the place where coal furnaces had fired the industrial revolution www.nationalobserver.com/2025/03/17/o...
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March 15, 2025 at 10:19 PM
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This is the difference Labour in power makes👇🏻
March 15, 2025 at 8:38 AM
This is the difference Labour in power makes👇🏻
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Trump's attacks on the Department of Education should remind us never to elect to high office anyone without a stake in society. We suffered the same in the UK from 2010, when people who used private healthcare and private schools ripped up public services.
March 12, 2025 at 6:59 AM
Trump's attacks on the Department of Education should remind us never to elect to high office anyone without a stake in society. We suffered the same in the UK from 2010, when people who used private healthcare and private schools ripped up public services.
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“In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Those affected receive a small apartment & counselling with no preconditions. 4 out of 5 people affected make their way back into a stable life. And all this is CHEAPER than accepting homelessness.”
Finland ends homelessness and provides shelter for all in need - scoop.me
In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Why? The country applies the "Housing First" concept agains homelessness.
thebetter.news
March 6, 2025 at 5:45 AM
“In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Those affected receive a small apartment & counselling with no preconditions. 4 out of 5 people affected make their way back into a stable life. And all this is CHEAPER than accepting homelessness.”
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NEW: A federal judge ruled that President Donald Trump violated federal law and exceeded his authority by firing the chair of a board that protects the rights of federal employees without reason. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
Federal Judge Says Trump Illegally Fired Chair of Federal Workers Protections Board
Read more here.
www.democracydocket.com
March 4, 2025 at 10:14 PM
NEW: A federal judge ruled that President Donald Trump violated federal law and exceeded his authority by firing the chair of a board that protects the rights of federal employees without reason. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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Hail to the thief. Using the money they stole from us by illegally cancelling government programs to pump cryptocurrency
All the worst people are winning
March 2, 2025 at 4:11 PM
Hail to the thief. Using the money they stole from us by illegally cancelling government programs to pump cryptocurrency
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Republicans are too chickenshit to hold town halls. Shocker.
Here’s an idea: Democrats, hold town halls in Republican districts.
Here’s an idea: Democrats, hold town halls in Republican districts.
February 26, 2025 at 8:55 PM
Republicans are too chickenshit to hold town halls. Shocker.
Here’s an idea: Democrats, hold town halls in Republican districts.
Here’s an idea: Democrats, hold town halls in Republican districts.
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The BBC is quite correct.
February 26, 2025 at 10:30 PM
The BBC is quite correct.
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I want to make it clear that no executive order can change federal law and every executive order trump has signed has expressly disclaimed the intent to. The screenshot is from the DEI EO. That’s before you get to courts actually blocking big parts of it. And yet the overcompliance is legion.
February 25, 2025 at 5:19 AM
I want to make it clear that no executive order can change federal law and every executive order trump has signed has expressly disclaimed the intent to. The screenshot is from the DEI EO. That’s before you get to courts actually blocking big parts of it. And yet the overcompliance is legion.