Simon Fraser 🏴🇪🇺💙🔶
@esseph63.bsky.social
Former (m)ad man, historian, writer and dog-walker. Londoner. Degrees from Oxford and Kingston. Scot, European, social democrat. Usually with the underdog. Quite worried about a lot of things.
Maybe the BBC should sue the Telegraph for $1-5 billion?
November 16, 2025 at 1:21 PM
Maybe the BBC should sue the Telegraph for $1-5 billion?
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Immigration is NOT tearing this country apart.
Politicians like Farage and Mahmodo are tearing it apart by their divisive rhetoric and dishonest framing of the known facts behind immigration.
I despise them for it.
Now 10 years here isn’t long enough. It has to be 20 years.
What a disgrace.
Politicians like Farage and Mahmodo are tearing it apart by their divisive rhetoric and dishonest framing of the known facts behind immigration.
I despise them for it.
Now 10 years here isn’t long enough. It has to be 20 years.
What a disgrace.
November 16, 2025 at 1:02 PM
Immigration is NOT tearing this country apart.
Politicians like Farage and Mahmodo are tearing it apart by their divisive rhetoric and dishonest framing of the known facts behind immigration.
I despise them for it.
Now 10 years here isn’t long enough. It has to be 20 years.
What a disgrace.
Politicians like Farage and Mahmodo are tearing it apart by their divisive rhetoric and dishonest framing of the known facts behind immigration.
I despise them for it.
Now 10 years here isn’t long enough. It has to be 20 years.
What a disgrace.
How big was the Danish empire at its height, compared with the British? How much of the world did it subjugate? Asking for a ladder-pulling Home Secretary.
November 16, 2025 at 1:10 PM
How big was the Danish empire at its height, compared with the British? How much of the world did it subjugate? Asking for a ladder-pulling Home Secretary.
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I thought we voted the tories out in the last election? Could've sworn it.
Shabana Mahmood plans to extend the period refugees have to wait for permanent residence in the UK to 20 years, during which time their status will be under repeated review
November 15, 2025 at 11:57 PM
I thought we voted the tories out in the last election? Could've sworn it.
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To suggest that having lived a life so grim that even an English tribunal will grant you asylum, and to have somehow managed to get here at great risk to life, is a "golden ticket" is absolutely fucking contemptible. Shame on this so-called Labour Party.
November 15, 2025 at 11:47 PM
To suggest that having lived a life so grim that even an English tribunal will grant you asylum, and to have somehow managed to get here at great risk to life, is a "golden ticket" is absolutely fucking contemptible. Shame on this so-called Labour Party.
Mahmood and Starmer can take their 20-year asylum limbo and shove it where the sun doesn’t shine.
Vote green or Lib Dem, people.
Vote green or Lib Dem, people.
November 16, 2025 at 11:42 AM
Mahmood and Starmer can take their 20-year asylum limbo and shove it where the sun doesn’t shine.
Vote green or Lib Dem, people.
Vote green or Lib Dem, people.
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Shabana Mahmood has morphed into Priti Patel.
November 16, 2025 at 10:29 AM
Shabana Mahmood has morphed into Priti Patel.
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A staged stunt for political gain.
November 15, 2025 at 5:43 PM
A staged stunt for political gain.
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This is an excellent point. I feel the same way about eg the BBC’s platforming of Farage and other quasi-fascists. They are being shown to people so that the ridiculousness of their ideas becomes more visible.
Trouble is this only works with an educated and engaged audience.
Trouble is this only works with an educated and engaged audience.
If people can’t see that this piece is dripping with acid then I honestly do not know what to make of it.
Olivia Nuzzi got sent in to do a profile but it turned out she wanted to fuck the subject so we sent in Jacob Bernstein to profile her and it turns out he also wants to fuck the subject
November 15, 2025 at 1:58 AM
This is an excellent point. I feel the same way about eg the BBC’s platforming of Farage and other quasi-fascists. They are being shown to people so that the ridiculousness of their ideas becomes more visible.
Trouble is this only works with an educated and engaged audience.
Trouble is this only works with an educated and engaged audience.
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how did i go so long not knowing we were literally teaching people to read wrong. i knew something wasn't right but jesus christ www.apmreports.org/episode/2019...
How a flawed idea is teaching millions of kids to be poor readers
For decades, schools have taught children the strategies of struggling readers, using a theory about reading that cognitive scientists have repeatedly debunked. And many teachers and parents don't kno...
www.apmreports.org
November 11, 2025 at 6:18 PM
how did i go so long not knowing we were literally teaching people to read wrong. i knew something wasn't right but jesus christ www.apmreports.org/episode/2019...
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Ladies and gentlemen, Sir Robbie Gibb, the BBC Board Member with the impartiality remit
November 11, 2025 at 7:46 PM
Ladies and gentlemen, Sir Robbie Gibb, the BBC Board Member with the impartiality remit
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Why is the only resignation-worthy issue at the BBC one which succinctly but slightly lazily told a basically accurate story about the right? Can we count the number of times "misleading editing" misrepresented the left?
November 11, 2025 at 9:51 AM
Why is the only resignation-worthy issue at the BBC one which succinctly but slightly lazily told a basically accurate story about the right? Can we count the number of times "misleading editing" misrepresented the left?
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The official investigation into the January 6 riots concluded Trump “summoned the mob, assembled the mob, and lit the flame of this attack" in an effort to halt the peaceful transfer of power.
No billion dollar lawsuit can change reality.
The BBC should call this convicted criminal’s bluff.
No billion dollar lawsuit can change reality.
The BBC should call this convicted criminal’s bluff.
November 11, 2025 at 12:59 PM
The official investigation into the January 6 riots concluded Trump “summoned the mob, assembled the mob, and lit the flame of this attack" in an effort to halt the peaceful transfer of power.
No billion dollar lawsuit can change reality.
The BBC should call this convicted criminal’s bluff.
No billion dollar lawsuit can change reality.
The BBC should call this convicted criminal’s bluff.
What can possibly be the first, I wonder? NPR?
Nowhere in the hysterical pile-on against the BBC in the British press has anyone mentioned that BBC News now has 77 million viewers & listeners in the US and has established itself as the second most trusted news source there.
November 11, 2025 at 11:44 AM
What can possibly be the first, I wonder? NPR?
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It takes an obscene amount of hubris to lecture the BBC when you have The Telegraph’s record on truth-telling.
Some of the paper’s errors this year are so bad they’re almost laughable 👇🏻
Some of the paper’s errors this year are so bad they’re almost laughable 👇🏻
The Telegraph’s BBC hypocrisy
A paper that knows a thing or two about editorial f*ck-ups...
writesbright.substack.com
November 10, 2025 at 7:48 PM
It takes an obscene amount of hubris to lecture the BBC when you have The Telegraph’s record on truth-telling.
Some of the paper’s errors this year are so bad they’re almost laughable 👇🏻
Some of the paper’s errors this year are so bad they’re almost laughable 👇🏻
Long, coruscating, brilliant Lewis Goodall on the dangers of thinking that you have no biases.
The reaction to the Panorama edit has been nothing short of hysterical. Yes the BBC has some impartiality problems. But its biggest isn't the one you think.
New piece from me.
open.substack.com/pub/goodalla...
New piece from me.
open.substack.com/pub/goodalla...
The truth about impartiality at the BBC
And the hysteria of the current "crisis"
open.substack.com
November 10, 2025 at 7:44 PM
Long, coruscating, brilliant Lewis Goodall on the dangers of thinking that you have no biases.
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SUPERB and angrily unvarnished response, by former BBC chairman, Lord Patten.
"I don't think that we should allow ourselves to be bullied into thinking that the BBC is only any good, if it reflects the prejudice of the last person who shouted at it." ~AA
"I don't think that we should allow ourselves to be bullied into thinking that the BBC is only any good, if it reflects the prejudice of the last person who shouted at it." ~AA
November 10, 2025 at 6:40 PM
SUPERB and angrily unvarnished response, by former BBC chairman, Lord Patten.
"I don't think that we should allow ourselves to be bullied into thinking that the BBC is only any good, if it reflects the prejudice of the last person who shouted at it." ~AA
"I don't think that we should allow ourselves to be bullied into thinking that the BBC is only any good, if it reflects the prejudice of the last person who shouted at it." ~AA
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Remember when Tim Davie cancelled 2 popular comedy shows, Mock the Week and the Mash Report, because they were too "biased"
"Comedians react as BBC boss 'threatens to axe left-wing comedy shows'"
From the Metro in 2020
"Comedians react as BBC boss 'threatens to axe left-wing comedy shows'"
From the Metro in 2020
Comedians react as BBC boss 'threatens to axe left-wing comedy shows'
Mr Davie reportedly plans to make things less biased.
metro.co.uk
November 10, 2025 at 3:09 PM
Remember when Tim Davie cancelled 2 popular comedy shows, Mock the Week and the Mash Report, because they were too "biased"
"Comedians react as BBC boss 'threatens to axe left-wing comedy shows'"
From the Metro in 2020
"Comedians react as BBC boss 'threatens to axe left-wing comedy shows'"
From the Metro in 2020
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No one resigned here...
November 10, 2025 at 2:17 PM
No one resigned here...
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This piece is as good as people say it is. Read it to appreciate that writing isn't just about content, but style. AI can't do this.
Maybe Don’t Talk to the New York Times About Zohran Mamdani
It’s remarkable, the people you’ll hear from. Teach for even a little while at an expensive institution—the term they tend to prefer is “elite”—and odds are that eventually someone who was a studen…
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November 9, 2025 at 11:10 AM
This piece is as good as people say it is. Read it to appreciate that writing isn't just about content, but style. AI can't do this.
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I see James Watson died. So it's time for a science joke.
"What did Watson and Crick discover?"
"Rosalind Franklin's notes."
Good joke.
"What did Watson and Crick discover?"
"Rosalind Franklin's notes."
Good joke.
November 8, 2025 at 12:34 AM
I see James Watson died. So it's time for a science joke.
"What did Watson and Crick discover?"
"Rosalind Franklin's notes."
Good joke.
"What did Watson and Crick discover?"
"Rosalind Franklin's notes."
Good joke.
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They really stuck the landing on this one.
New York millionaires: threatening to flee the city since 2009
November 7, 2025 at 10:05 PM
They really stuck the landing on this one.
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@bbcnewsnight.bsky.social
When are bbc in-depth going to do a feature on what a UK government led by the Lib Dem’s would really look like?
When are bbc in-depth going to do a feature on what a UK government led by the Lib Dem’s would really look like?
November 6, 2025 at 1:04 PM
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When are bbc in-depth going to do a feature on what a UK government led by the Lib Dem’s would really look like?
When are bbc in-depth going to do a feature on what a UK government led by the Lib Dem’s would really look like?
Getting more than a bit meta here.
Just as a general point, watching the when prophecy fail study being demonstrated to be false (in some way) and then watch people double down on cognitive dissonance is kind of art
November 6, 2025 at 3:36 PM
Getting more than a bit meta here.