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This is a really appalling editorial error on BBC Question Time
"Apparently one in three children don't speak English as a first language, why does this matter?"
Chair says "have English as a second language"
Caption changes the meaning entirely
"Don't speak fluent English"
"Apparently one in three children don't speak English as a first language, why does this matter?"
Chair says "have English as a second language"
Caption changes the meaning entirely
"Don't speak fluent English"
December 11, 2025 at 11:11 PM
This is a really appalling editorial error on BBC Question Time
"Apparently one in three children don't speak English as a first language, why does this matter?"
Chair says "have English as a second language"
Caption changes the meaning entirely
"Don't speak fluent English"
"Apparently one in three children don't speak English as a first language, why does this matter?"
Chair says "have English as a second language"
Caption changes the meaning entirely
"Don't speak fluent English"
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That’s now 22 ex-Tory MPs in the Reform ranks.
The same names and faces that broke your public services - now under Nigel Farage’s umbrella.
The same names and faces that broke your public services - now under Nigel Farage’s umbrella.
December 11, 2025 at 12:11 PM
That’s now 22 ex-Tory MPs in the Reform ranks.
The same names and faces that broke your public services - now under Nigel Farage’s umbrella.
The same names and faces that broke your public services - now under Nigel Farage’s umbrella.
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This week Ian digs into the man and myth of Che along with the origins of Castro’s Cuba
New episode out! @dorianlynskey.bsky.social and @iandunt.bsky.social discuss revolutionary icon Che Guevara.
Listen / watch ➡️ linktr.ee/originstoryp...
Listen / watch ➡️ linktr.ee/originstoryp...
December 10, 2025 at 11:12 AM
This week Ian digs into the man and myth of Che along with the origins of Castro’s Cuba
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TIL about a memorial ceremony in Iceland in 2019 to mark the end of a glacier, changing the place name from Okjökull to Ok (jökull = glacier). Uncompromising wording on the bronze plaque:
"This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".
"This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".
December 7, 2025 at 5:17 PM
TIL about a memorial ceremony in Iceland in 2019 to mark the end of a glacier, changing the place name from Okjökull to Ok (jökull = glacier). Uncompromising wording on the bronze plaque:
"This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".
"This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".
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Ffs - had just enough hope half an hour ago to be coaxed out of bed to turn the cricket on. And now I'm too awake to go back to sleep and annoyed.
December 7, 2025 at 7:56 AM
Ffs - had just enough hope half an hour ago to be coaxed out of bed to turn the cricket on. And now I'm too awake to go back to sleep and annoyed.
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Anyone noticed how UK media is a lot less obsessed with Farage’s alleged antisemitism than Corbyn’s alleged antisemitism?
Odd that.
Odd that.
December 6, 2025 at 9:23 AM
Anyone noticed how UK media is a lot less obsessed with Farage’s alleged antisemitism than Corbyn’s alleged antisemitism?
Odd that.
Odd that.
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PFI was a massive drain on public services.
This government is trying something "similar" – but we've seen NOTHING that suggests they've learned from past mistakes.
Labour voters didn't vote for backdoor privatisation. They voted for insourcing.
We're furious. 😤
👉 bit.ly/Why-PFI-Aban...
This government is trying something "similar" – but we've seen NOTHING that suggests they've learned from past mistakes.
Labour voters didn't vote for backdoor privatisation. They voted for insourcing.
We're furious. 😤
👉 bit.ly/Why-PFI-Aban...
December 5, 2025 at 12:26 PM
PFI was a massive drain on public services.
This government is trying something "similar" – but we've seen NOTHING that suggests they've learned from past mistakes.
Labour voters didn't vote for backdoor privatisation. They voted for insourcing.
We're furious. 😤
👉 bit.ly/Why-PFI-Aban...
This government is trying something "similar" – but we've seen NOTHING that suggests they've learned from past mistakes.
Labour voters didn't vote for backdoor privatisation. They voted for insourcing.
We're furious. 😤
👉 bit.ly/Why-PFI-Aban...
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This is wonderful and also true.
The analogies you draw, the thoughts you suddely have, the roads you pursue, the structures you comprehend, simply because a piece of art or theatre shakes you up and makes you think differently.
The analogies you draw, the thoughts you suddely have, the roads you pursue, the structures you comprehend, simply because a piece of art or theatre shakes you up and makes you think differently.
December 2, 2025 at 7:09 PM
This is wonderful and also true.
The analogies you draw, the thoughts you suddely have, the roads you pursue, the structures you comprehend, simply because a piece of art or theatre shakes you up and makes you think differently.
The analogies you draw, the thoughts you suddely have, the roads you pursue, the structures you comprehend, simply because a piece of art or theatre shakes you up and makes you think differently.
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I hope someone draws this wonderful story about Tom Stoppard's Arcadia and the power of the arts to help us see things differently, to the attention of our Education Secretary. Do read it, it will lift your spirits.
December 2, 2025 at 10:59 AM
I hope someone draws this wonderful story about Tom Stoppard's Arcadia and the power of the arts to help us see things differently, to the attention of our Education Secretary. Do read it, it will lift your spirits.
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For all the focus on its supposed “left wing bias”, the BBC’s heavy coverage of Rachel Reeves Budget "lies" shows how its political coverage is still largely led by the right-wing press
bylinetimes.com/2025/12/01/r...
bylinetimes.com/2025/12/01/r...
Rachel Reeves and the Daily Mailification of the BBC
For all the focus on its supposed "left wing bias", the BBC's heavy coverage of Conservative allegations of dishonesty against Rachel Reeves shows how its political coverage is still largely led by th...
bylinetimes.com
December 1, 2025 at 11:20 AM
For all the focus on its supposed “left wing bias”, the BBC’s heavy coverage of Rachel Reeves Budget "lies" shows how its political coverage is still largely led by the right-wing press
bylinetimes.com/2025/12/01/r...
bylinetimes.com/2025/12/01/r...
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“The BBC continues to be really stupid, I think, and there’s no cure for stupidity.”
Salman Rushdie criticises the BBC’s self-censorship in a Reith lecture, saying it hands ammunition to those who want to take down public broadcasting.
@jonsopel1.bsky.social | @lewisgoodall.com
Salman Rushdie criticises the BBC’s self-censorship in a Reith lecture, saying it hands ammunition to those who want to take down public broadcasting.
@jonsopel1.bsky.social | @lewisgoodall.com
November 28, 2025 at 2:52 PM
“The BBC continues to be really stupid, I think, and there’s no cure for stupidity.”
Salman Rushdie criticises the BBC’s self-censorship in a Reith lecture, saying it hands ammunition to those who want to take down public broadcasting.
@jonsopel1.bsky.social | @lewisgoodall.com
Salman Rushdie criticises the BBC’s self-censorship in a Reith lecture, saying it hands ammunition to those who want to take down public broadcasting.
@jonsopel1.bsky.social | @lewisgoodall.com
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Lovely write-up of This Slavery for @tribunemagazine.bsky.social - written with affection and admiration for Ethel Carnie Holdsworth and the Lancashire that made her possible
Thank you @traveloguer.bsky.social @selfmadehero.bsky.social
www.tribunemag.co.uk/2025/11/reco...
Thank you @traveloguer.bsky.social @selfmadehero.bsky.social
www.tribunemag.co.uk/2025/11/reco...
Recovering Ethel Holdsworth
A new cinematic graphic novel should finally bring one of England’s most overlooked working-class socialist writers to a wide audience.
www.tribunemag.co.uk
November 28, 2025 at 8:51 AM
Lovely write-up of This Slavery for @tribunemagazine.bsky.social - written with affection and admiration for Ethel Carnie Holdsworth and the Lancashire that made her possible
Thank you @traveloguer.bsky.social @selfmadehero.bsky.social
www.tribunemag.co.uk/2025/11/reco...
Thank you @traveloguer.bsky.social @selfmadehero.bsky.social
www.tribunemag.co.uk/2025/11/reco...
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As political scandals go, a grubby backroom deal to, errrr, lift 450,000 children out of poverty is at least a novel one.
Headline on The World at One just now:
"Sir Keir Starmer has denied putting the Labour Party before the country by ending the two-child benefit cap".
Can we please go back to reporting the actual news, not someone's partisan take on it?
"Sir Keir Starmer has denied putting the Labour Party before the country by ending the two-child benefit cap".
Can we please go back to reporting the actual news, not someone's partisan take on it?
November 27, 2025 at 1:30 PM
As political scandals go, a grubby backroom deal to, errrr, lift 450,000 children out of poverty is at least a novel one.
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Plus sides to today: Two-child benefit scrapped. Largely progressive tax implications. Good market reaction. No big spending cuts. Nightmare prospect of cutting funding to net zero etc avoided. It's a left-wing budget. Those who say there's no difference between Labour and Tories are bananas.
November 26, 2025 at 5:51 PM
Plus sides to today: Two-child benefit scrapped. Largely progressive tax implications. Good market reaction. No big spending cuts. Nightmare prospect of cutting funding to net zero etc avoided. It's a left-wing budget. Those who say there's no difference between Labour and Tories are bananas.
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The X platform now has a new tool that promotes scrutiny about the origin of X accounts.
I've noticed lately that more trolls are invading Bsky. This same feature that X has so members can check an account's country of origin would be super helpful to weed out the bad guys from causing harm here.
I've noticed lately that more trolls are invading Bsky. This same feature that X has so members can check an account's country of origin would be super helpful to weed out the bad guys from causing harm here.
November 26, 2025 at 3:06 PM
The X platform now has a new tool that promotes scrutiny about the origin of X accounts.
I've noticed lately that more trolls are invading Bsky. This same feature that X has so members can check an account's country of origin would be super helpful to weed out the bad guys from causing harm here.
I've noticed lately that more trolls are invading Bsky. This same feature that X has so members can check an account's country of origin would be super helpful to weed out the bad guys from causing harm here.
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the price of populism
"By 2025, Brexit had reduced UK GDP by 6% to 8%, with the impact accumulating gradually over time. We estimate that investment was reduced by between 12% and 18%, employment by 3% to 4% and productivity by 3% to 4%"
Read the Stanford report:
siepr.stanford.edu/publications...
Read the Stanford report:
siepr.stanford.edu/publications...
The Economic Impact of Brexit
Other
siepr.stanford.edu
November 25, 2025 at 7:43 PM
the price of populism
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This is exactly what you do
With presidents who coup
With presidents who coup
Brazil's former President Jair Bolsonaro must begin serving his 27-year prison sentence for plotting an attempted coup, Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes has ruled. https://cnn.it/4p1dgDV
November 25, 2025 at 9:01 PM
This is exactly what you do
With presidents who coup
With presidents who coup
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Three more school contemporaries who claim to have witnessed Nigel Farage’s alleged teenage racism have rejected the Reform UK leader’s suggestion that it was “banter”, describing it as targeted, persistent and nasty.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Three more ex-pupils at school with Nigel Farage reject ‘banter’ claims
Exclusive: Dulwich college contemporaries ‘rubbish’ Reform UK leader’s suggestion alleged racist taunts not intended to hurt
www.theguardian.com
November 25, 2025 at 9:13 PM
Three more school contemporaries who claim to have witnessed Nigel Farage’s alleged teenage racism have rejected the Reform UK leader’s suggestion that it was “banter”, describing it as targeted, persistent and nasty.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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That famous left-wing bias again
I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture.
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
November 25, 2025 at 10:03 AM
That famous left-wing bias again
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Why does a massive US private healthcare company own 2 NHS PFI projects?🚨🚨🚨
November 24, 2025 at 9:27 AM
Why does a massive US private healthcare company own 2 NHS PFI projects?🚨🚨🚨
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With more than 80 parliamentarians I have signed this letter calling on the Government to stop Israeli settler violence & displacement of Palestinians in communities like Umm al-Khair.
The UK has a duty to uphold international law and protect those facing persecution.
caabu.org/news/news/80...
The UK has a duty to uphold international law and protect those facing persecution.
caabu.org/news/news/80...
80 Parliamentarians demand UK government act to stop Israel's settler violence and forced dispossession of Palestinians in communities like Umm al Khair
Over 80 UK Parliamentarians have written to the Foreign Secretary Rt Hon. Yvette Cooper on the escalating settler violence, systematic depravation and threat of mass demolitions and forcible transfer…
caabu.org
November 22, 2025 at 8:00 AM
With more than 80 parliamentarians I have signed this letter calling on the Government to stop Israeli settler violence & displacement of Palestinians in communities like Umm al-Khair.
The UK has a duty to uphold international law and protect those facing persecution.
caabu.org/news/news/80...
The UK has a duty to uphold international law and protect those facing persecution.
caabu.org/news/news/80...
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Dominic Cummings' rudeness and scruffiness was seen as evidence he was a genius.
The reality is he's just rude and scruffy.
#CovidInquiry
The reality is he's just rude and scruffy.
#CovidInquiry
November 20, 2025 at 8:44 PM
Dominic Cummings' rudeness and scruffiness was seen as evidence he was a genius.
The reality is he's just rude and scruffy.
#CovidInquiry
The reality is he's just rude and scruffy.
#CovidInquiry
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Have been thinking about “immigration has been tearing this country apart.” Surely I’m not the only person to think that it isn’t true, but inflamed rhetoric about immigration by politicians is what is tearing this country apart and so statements like that only makes it worse.
November 18, 2025 at 6:37 AM
Have been thinking about “immigration has been tearing this country apart.” Surely I’m not the only person to think that it isn’t true, but inflamed rhetoric about immigration by politicians is what is tearing this country apart and so statements like that only makes it worse.