40% of americans identify as independents (they are mostly full of shit about this, but they do)

also a (hoped for) big audience for all of this stuff are people who will have been maybe 10-years-old when bond "died"

most americans who love bbc news love it from an hour of radio bbc world service they hear in the morning on some of our public radio stations. which, whatever its flaws, is more serious international coverage than you get anywhere in the US. but it isn't "the bbc"

yes

and a real reboot, not a 'reboot but actually a series of remakes'

“You’re just throwing the general public to the wolves of GB News, Talk TV, Rebel Media and Joe Rogan.” It sounds to me like you don’t have much faith in the likes of Emily Maitlis, Jon Sopel and James O’Brien to secure the perimeter. That’s interesting. You should interrogate that.

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.

Emily did such a marvellous job at rescuing all the transgender people. Why isn't there a queue of grateful transgender people thanking her for all of her efforts?

The arrogance and entitlement of people like Maitlis who take away people's autonomy to make decisions for themselves makes me sick.