Perpetual Despair
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Perpetual Despair
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· Apr 21
“Power is of two kinds. One is obtained by the fear of punishment and the other by acts of love. Power based on love is a thousand times more effective and permanent then the one derived from fear of punishment.”
Mahatma Gandhi
Mahatma Gandhi
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I fear we are seeing in the UK what has become abundantly clear in the US: for all their power and privilege, elites and institutions are absolute cowards in the face of right-wing authoritarianism. Weak, weak, weak, as Tony Blair once said
November 10, 2025 at 4:26 PM
I fear we are seeing in the UK what has become abundantly clear in the US: for all their power and privilege, elites and institutions are absolute cowards in the face of right-wing authoritarianism. Weak, weak, weak, as Tony Blair once said
It’s been dark and grey all day. The news has been depressing but sky god wants you to know that even when things are at their darkest, the sky can still go woke and get rid of all that evilness 🌈
November 10, 2025 at 3:41 PM
It’s been dark and grey all day. The news has been depressing but sky god wants you to know that even when things are at their darkest, the sky can still go woke and get rid of all that evilness 🌈
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Thank f**k for that. Honestly the way the US is right now I was convinced the Supreme Court would take the case and overturn same sex marriage. A little bit of good news, with the caveat of "for now".
apnews.com/article/supr...
apnews.com/article/supr...
Supreme Court rejects call to overturn its decision legalizing same-sex marriage nationwide
The Supreme Court has rejected a call to overturn its landmark decision that legalized same-sex marriage nationwide.
apnews.com
November 10, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Thank f**k for that. Honestly the way the US is right now I was convinced the Supreme Court would take the case and overturn same sex marriage. A little bit of good news, with the caveat of "for now".
apnews.com/article/supr...
apnews.com/article/supr...
Next stop: Olympic organisers will introduce weak women tests to ensure none of them are “too strong”
Olympics organisers moving towards blanket ban on transgender women from women's sport
Olympics organisers moving towards blanket ban on transgender women from women's sport
The International Olympic Committee is moving towards a blanket ban on transgender women from women's sport, Sky News understands.
news.sky.com
November 10, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Next stop: Olympic organisers will introduce weak women tests to ensure none of them are “too strong”
That state visit was really worth it now our state broadcaster is facing legal action from said state visitor.
What sort of world are we allowing to take shape?!
What sort of world are we allowing to take shape?!
November 10, 2025 at 2:31 PM
That state visit was really worth it now our state broadcaster is facing legal action from said state visitor.
What sort of world are we allowing to take shape?!
What sort of world are we allowing to take shape?!
Should read:
Farage says small business owners who thought Brexit would cut regulation have been betrayed - by charlatans like himself who spearheaded their betrayal.
Fixed it.
Farage says small business owners who thought Brexit would cut regulation have been betrayed - by charlatans like himself who spearheaded their betrayal.
Fixed it.
November 10, 2025 at 1:25 PM
Should read:
Farage says small business owners who thought Brexit would cut regulation have been betrayed - by charlatans like himself who spearheaded their betrayal.
Fixed it.
Farage says small business owners who thought Brexit would cut regulation have been betrayed - by charlatans like himself who spearheaded their betrayal.
Fixed it.
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If you have a doubt the MAGA attack on the BBC is not co-ordinated, read what GB News owner told the US
“We need you to come and save us. To rescue us … You are making America great again… We need to make Britain great again”
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“We need you to come and save us. To rescue us … You are making America great again… We need to make Britain great again”
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‘America Must Save Britain’ – Byline Times Digital / Print Edition
GB News’ new programme broadcast live from Washington DC features climate denial, vaccine misinformation, and non-stop praise for Donald Trump – with the channel’s co-owner telling ‘MAGA’ politicians ...
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November 10, 2025 at 11:27 AM
If you have a doubt the MAGA attack on the BBC is not co-ordinated, read what GB News owner told the US
“We need you to come and save us. To rescue us … You are making America great again… We need to make Britain great again”
subscribe.bylinetimes.com/edition/79/a...
“We need you to come and save us. To rescue us … You are making America great again… We need to make Britain great again”
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What you’re witnessing is a populist assault on the BBC.
This is not an institutional scandal in any meaningful sense of the word. It is an attack on public service broadcasting.
iandunt.substack.com/p/extra-edit...
This is not an institutional scandal in any meaningful sense of the word. It is an attack on public service broadcasting.
iandunt.substack.com/p/extra-edit...
November 10, 2025 at 10:52 AM
What you’re witnessing is a populist assault on the BBC.
This is not an institutional scandal in any meaningful sense of the word. It is an attack on public service broadcasting.
iandunt.substack.com/p/extra-edit...
This is not an institutional scandal in any meaningful sense of the word. It is an attack on public service broadcasting.
iandunt.substack.com/p/extra-edit...
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You can be assured that tendentious memo by Michael Prescott, and the co-ordinated combination of the Telegraph, Mail, Boris Johnson, Nigel Farage and the White House means that the BBC hit job has been long in the planning, and has some insider help
November 10, 2025 at 11:10 AM
You can be assured that tendentious memo by Michael Prescott, and the co-ordinated combination of the Telegraph, Mail, Boris Johnson, Nigel Farage and the White House means that the BBC hit job has been long in the planning, and has some insider help
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I don't think this is hyperbole btw.
Things are spinning out pretty badly across multiple nations, obviously including the US, at a time when the stakes have never been higher. Twitter and elite whatsapps clearly key drivers.
Things are spinning out pretty badly across multiple nations, obviously including the US, at a time when the stakes have never been higher. Twitter and elite whatsapps clearly key drivers.
twitter being bought and turned into a propaganda machine for fascism, which is directly pumped into every journalist in the world's brain, is one of the worst things to happen in the last few years. we might not survive it.
I'm guessing the BBC 'scandal' has been big on X this week as this was the first I had heard of it...
November 10, 2025 at 8:41 AM
I don't think this is hyperbole btw.
Things are spinning out pretty badly across multiple nations, obviously including the US, at a time when the stakes have never been higher. Twitter and elite whatsapps clearly key drivers.
Things are spinning out pretty badly across multiple nations, obviously including the US, at a time when the stakes have never been higher. Twitter and elite whatsapps clearly key drivers.
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The BBC is tearing itself apart to appease publications and politicians who want to see it die.
An absolutely kamikaze approach to running a media organisation. I can't see it ending well.
An absolutely kamikaze approach to running a media organisation. I can't see it ending well.
November 9, 2025 at 9:55 PM
The BBC is tearing itself apart to appease publications and politicians who want to see it die.
An absolutely kamikaze approach to running a media organisation. I can't see it ending well.
An absolutely kamikaze approach to running a media organisation. I can't see it ending well.
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How the BBC kowtowed to Boris Johnson. Amazing that, even though we now know what a corrupt, mendacious, useless Prime Minister Johnson was, the BBC are kowtowing to him again
🚨 The BBC’s Road to Appeasement
As the BBC comes under growing criticism for its coverage of Reform, we republish @adambienkov.bsky.social and @baghdaddi.bsky.social’s 2024 investigation into how the corporation's leadership became cowed by the right
www.bylinesupplement.com/p/the-bbcs-r...
As the BBC comes under growing criticism for its coverage of Reform, we republish @adambienkov.bsky.social and @baghdaddi.bsky.social’s 2024 investigation into how the corporation's leadership became cowed by the right
www.bylinesupplement.com/p/the-bbcs-r...
The BBC’s Road to Appeasement
As the BBC comes under growing criticism for its coverage of Reform, we republish Adam Bienkov and Patrick Howse's 2024 investigation into how the corporation's leadership became cowed by the right
www.bylinesupplement.com
November 9, 2025 at 11:36 PM
How the BBC kowtowed to Boris Johnson. Amazing that, even though we now know what a corrupt, mendacious, useless Prime Minister Johnson was, the BBC are kowtowing to him again
A timeline of rogues who want to destroy democracy in the UK because it serves their personal agendas.
It’s terrifying how this has happened.
www.theguardian.com/media/2025/n...
It’s terrifying how this has happened.
www.theguardian.com/media/2025/n...
BBC bias row: how a week of hostile headlines from rightwing media led to resignations
Rightwing media have published a series of attacks on the corporation after a memo from a former BBC adviser critical of its output
www.theguardian.com
November 9, 2025 at 9:19 PM
A timeline of rogues who want to destroy democracy in the UK because it serves their personal agendas.
It’s terrifying how this has happened.
www.theguardian.com/media/2025/n...
It’s terrifying how this has happened.
www.theguardian.com/media/2025/n...
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Be clear, the American far right are coming for British democracy.
November 9, 2025 at 8:45 PM
Be clear, the American far right are coming for British democracy.
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The BBC's senior leadership resigning en masse over one dodgy edit in one programme, simply because the right wing press demands it, tells you everything you need to know about where the power really lies in that relationship
November 9, 2025 at 8:04 PM
The BBC's senior leadership resigning en masse over one dodgy edit in one programme, simply because the right wing press demands it, tells you everything you need to know about where the power really lies in that relationship
I wonder if Paul Marshall is up to anything regarding the BBC and all the noise the last few days
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archive.ph
November 9, 2025 at 8:03 PM
I wonder if Paul Marshall is up to anything regarding the BBC and all the noise the last few days
archive.ph/2025.10.16-1...
archive.ph/2025.10.16-1...
Comcast in talks to buy ITV?
Heads rolling at the highest levels of the BBC?
Seems like something is very amiss with the biggest media outlets in the UK and they seem to have links to the US
Heads rolling at the highest levels of the BBC?
Seems like something is very amiss with the biggest media outlets in the UK and they seem to have links to the US
November 9, 2025 at 7:01 PM
Comcast in talks to buy ITV?
Heads rolling at the highest levels of the BBC?
Seems like something is very amiss with the biggest media outlets in the UK and they seem to have links to the US
Heads rolling at the highest levels of the BBC?
Seems like something is very amiss with the biggest media outlets in the UK and they seem to have links to the US
What on earth is going on when the far right have managed to have heads roll at the BBC?! I swear to god this is about something bigger. It can’t be anything other than some sort of takeover
This is absolutely nuts
Trump did incite the January 6 riot. Splicing a video to make that point is shoddy editorial but hardly a resignation event
When BBC is needed more than ever, Telegraph/Boris Johnson running the show
www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cd...
Trump did incite the January 6 riot. Splicing a video to make that point is shoddy editorial but hardly a resignation event
When BBC is needed more than ever, Telegraph/Boris Johnson running the show
www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cd...
BBC director general Tim Davie and News CEO Deborah Turness resign over Trump documentary edit
Davie says
www.bbc.co.uk
November 9, 2025 at 6:22 PM
What on earth is going on when the far right have managed to have heads roll at the BBC?! I swear to god this is about something bigger. It can’t be anything other than some sort of takeover
How quickly we do as we’re told following pressure from actual fascists. Blimey. Zero backbone
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...
BBC to apologise over edited Trump speech after backlash
The broadcaster has been accused of ‘completely misleading’ its viewers, according to a leaked memo
www.independent.co.uk
November 9, 2025 at 11:29 AM
How quickly we do as we’re told following pressure from actual fascists. Blimey. Zero backbone
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...
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It blows my mind that there are real people who see a post like this and actually believe the whole “Christmas is being cancelled by Muslims” BS 🙄
Let’s have a quick look at what’s happening to Sheffield so you can put your Express reading uncle’s mind at ease!😆
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Let’s have a quick look at what’s happening to Sheffield so you can put your Express reading uncle’s mind at ease!😆
1/15
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November 8, 2025 at 3:58 PM
It blows my mind that there are real people who see a post like this and actually believe the whole “Christmas is being cancelled by Muslims” BS 🙄
Let’s have a quick look at what’s happening to Sheffield so you can put your Express reading uncle’s mind at ease!😆
1/15
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Let’s have a quick look at what’s happening to Sheffield so you can put your Express reading uncle’s mind at ease!😆
1/15
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Despicable behaviour from despicable people who think Sikh women aren’t British. Once again showing how invisible the British empire’s legacy is in the UK.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
‘The fear is real’: how Midlands attacks have changed Sikh women’s daily lives
Many women are afraid to go out, particularly on their own, after religiously aggravated rapes and assaults
www.theguardian.com
November 9, 2025 at 8:02 AM
Despicable behaviour from despicable people who think Sikh women aren’t British. Once again showing how invisible the British empire’s legacy is in the UK.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
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All those people who think they can dodge the effects of the climate crisis because they live in a nice developed country are about to get punched in the face. It’s coming in hard everywhere.
England facing drastic measures due to extreme drought next year
Government and water companies are devising emergency plans for worst water shortage in decades
www.theguardian.com
November 8, 2025 at 9:04 PM
All those people who think they can dodge the effects of the climate crisis because they live in a nice developed country are about to get punched in the face. It’s coming in hard everywhere.