William Ham Bevan
@hambevan.bsky.social
Writer, editor, placeholder
Fantom flinger of FLONG: https://www.flong.wales
Fantom flinger of FLONG: https://www.flong.wales
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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 7:22 PM
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...
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the right winger who was appointed to lead the BBC in the hope of appeasing right wingers has been driven out by right wingers for not appeasing right wingers enough and the BBC has the chance to do the funniest thing ever
November 9, 2025 at 6:38 PM
the right winger who was appointed to lead the BBC in the hope of appeasing right wingers has been driven out by right wingers for not appeasing right wingers enough and the BBC has the chance to do the funniest thing ever
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This morning, Sunday, Radio 4's religiously inclined cousin to the Today programme casually revealed the 1970s post boy charged with handling the rats in formaldehyde that the Boomtown Rats wanted to distribute across the US as a publicity stunt is now Pope Leo XIV. I'm sure I didn't dream this.
November 9, 2025 at 9:54 AM
This morning, Sunday, Radio 4's religiously inclined cousin to the Today programme casually revealed the 1970s post boy charged with handling the rats in formaldehyde that the Boomtown Rats wanted to distribute across the US as a publicity stunt is now Pope Leo XIV. I'm sure I didn't dream this.
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While ostensibly about one academic’s experiences with the NYT, the central point about the sheer, relentless march of, “critics say”, false-balance journalism should be read and understood by anyone involved in or just interested in the news.
November 9, 2025 at 10:16 AM
While ostensibly about one academic’s experiences with the NYT, the central point about the sheer, relentless march of, “critics say”, false-balance journalism should be read and understood by anyone involved in or just interested in the news.
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WAC wrong-headedness
(that's the BBC Written Archives Centre)
I've brought together the key links for the campaign against the changes which now make independent and exploratory research at WAC impossible - and why this matters.
www.illuminationsmedia.co.uk/wac-wrong-he...
(that's the BBC Written Archives Centre)
I've brought together the key links for the campaign against the changes which now make independent and exploratory research at WAC impossible - and why this matters.
www.illuminationsmedia.co.uk/wac-wrong-he...
WAC wrong-headedness - Illuminations
John Wyver writes: Some of you will know that I have been very involved over the past months with attempts to reverse the wrong-headed changes to access at the BBC Written Archives Centre (above, with...
www.illuminationsmedia.co.uk
November 7, 2025 at 4:36 PM
WAC wrong-headedness
(that's the BBC Written Archives Centre)
I've brought together the key links for the campaign against the changes which now make independent and exploratory research at WAC impossible - and why this matters.
www.illuminationsmedia.co.uk/wac-wrong-he...
(that's the BBC Written Archives Centre)
I've brought together the key links for the campaign against the changes which now make independent and exploratory research at WAC impossible - and why this matters.
www.illuminationsmedia.co.uk/wac-wrong-he...
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We’ve made this investigation free to read because so many people in Sheffield are affected by this story.
Our journalists have been knocking on doors for weeks and we’ve had to employ lawyers because of the legal threats made against us.
We can only do this kind of journalism with your support.
Our journalists have been knocking on doors for weeks and we’ve had to employ lawyers because of the legal threats made against us.
We can only do this kind of journalism with your support.
“It broke my heart, that was my savings towards a new car,” one woman who paid Milne tens of thousands of pounds told us. “He has just wiped me out.”
Who is Andrew Milne - the solicitor sending "very aggressive" letters to Sheffield homeowners?
www.sheffieldtribune.co.uk/a-london-law...
Who is Andrew Milne - the solicitor sending "very aggressive" letters to Sheffield homeowners?
www.sheffieldtribune.co.uk/a-london-law...
A London lawyer bought hundreds of Sheffield freeholds. Then the ‘very aggressive’ letters arrived
Exclusive: The Tribune can reveal that Andrew Milne has threatened leaseholders with high court action. It ‘broke my heart’ one woman says
www.sheffieldtribune.co.uk
November 6, 2025 at 7:54 PM
We’ve made this investigation free to read because so many people in Sheffield are affected by this story.
Our journalists have been knocking on doors for weeks and we’ve had to employ lawyers because of the legal threats made against us.
We can only do this kind of journalism with your support.
Our journalists have been knocking on doors for weeks and we’ve had to employ lawyers because of the legal threats made against us.
We can only do this kind of journalism with your support.
Was on a freelance shift at FHM magazine on the morning of 9/11, following it all on the PB board. When I gasped and said "Another plane has hit the second tower", their online editor yelled "Fuck off - that's just Popbitch bollocks".
Thank god the Popbitch board of that afternoon is lost to eternity. Between them and the IRN website that was our only source of news at work. A somewhat eclectic mix.....
In Love Actually, it says that no one on the planes on 9/11 sent messages of hate only messages of love, but I like to think at least one person phoned and told their boss to blow a goat.
November 6, 2025 at 3:19 PM
Was on a freelance shift at FHM magazine on the morning of 9/11, following it all on the PB board. When I gasped and said "Another plane has hit the second tower", their online editor yelled "Fuck off - that's just Popbitch bollocks".
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ive been saying this for years but the last thing i need is to hear more points of fucking view. points of view is how we got into this fucking mess. we need like a 99% reduction in points of fucking view. oh you've got an opinion about stuff do you? stick it up your ass dingus
November 3, 2025 at 7:45 PM
ive been saying this for years but the last thing i need is to hear more points of fucking view. points of view is how we got into this fucking mess. we need like a 99% reduction in points of fucking view. oh you've got an opinion about stuff do you? stick it up your ass dingus
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#FirstLastAnything, my music-based textcast is back next Sunday to hopefully cheer up the dark mornings and offer an alternative to 'current affairs'. Meantime, why not scroll down and sample the archive of 31 conversations I've had with some very special guests here: firstlastanything.co.uk/about/
November 1, 2025 at 11:35 AM
#FirstLastAnything, my music-based textcast is back next Sunday to hopefully cheer up the dark mornings and offer an alternative to 'current affairs'. Meantime, why not scroll down and sample the archive of 31 conversations I've had with some very special guests here: firstlastanything.co.uk/about/
Leafing through this weekend's South Wales Evening Post, and there's a most unfortunate clock-up in Mal Pope's column.
October 26, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Leafing through this weekend's South Wales Evening Post, and there's a most unfortunate clock-up in Mal Pope's column.
Lent my copy of Enya's Watermark to my dad because he liked to listen to it in the car, and never got it back. To be fair, he was more concerned about his Rover 800 getting nicked and burnt out. #totp
October 24, 2025 at 7:52 PM
Lent my copy of Enya's Watermark to my dad because he liked to listen to it in the car, and never got it back. To be fair, he was more concerned about his Rover 800 getting nicked and burnt out. #totp
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Celebrating the 44th anniversary of the greatest advert ever broadcast #girlsboysmusicnoise
October 24, 2025 at 6:50 AM
Celebrating the 44th anniversary of the greatest advert ever broadcast #girlsboysmusicnoise
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Did my annual 'sending shit through the post' duty today. I also heard that a friend had died of cancer. So I commend you to take all the tests for this horrible disease, even if you're a bit embarrassed. Me, not so much.
October 18, 2025 at 8:36 PM
Did my annual 'sending shit through the post' duty today. I also heard that a friend had died of cancer. So I commend you to take all the tests for this horrible disease, even if you're a bit embarrassed. Me, not so much.
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Folks will be quick to ridicule people who do this, but it can’t be separated from the media hype and ai boosters telling us the tech is a magic answer wizard that knows all and sees all.
Two People Almost Drown After Asking ChatGPT When Low Tide Was
The owner of a restaurant in South Wales potentially saved the lives of two swimmers, who ventured out after asking ChatGPT for tide times.
futurism.com
October 18, 2025 at 7:14 PM
Folks will be quick to ridicule people who do this, but it can’t be separated from the media hype and ai boosters telling us the tech is a magic answer wizard that knows all and sees all.
Hell's bells, I'd almost turn for Nettles in a brown leather jacket.
'All the girls will want to grab Nettles'. Bergerac previewed in the Daily Mirror (18th October 1981).
October 18, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Hell's bells, I'd almost turn for Nettles in a brown leather jacket.
I'm old enough to remember when the Express parted company with Robert Kilroy-Silk over something far, far lower down the bigotry scale than this. And it was considered a right-wing paper then.
October 18, 2025 at 10:52 AM
I'm old enough to remember when the Express parted company with Robert Kilroy-Silk over something far, far lower down the bigotry scale than this. And it was considered a right-wing paper then.
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Broke: Abolish DEI
Bespoke: Abolish Opus Dei
Bespoke: Abolish Opus Dei
BREAKING: Pope Leo XIV is set to effectively disband Opus Dei in the coming weeks.
This would be the most sweeping internal reform of his pontificate — and a dramatic continuation of Pope Francis’s legacy.
This would be the most sweeping internal reform of his pontificate — and a dramatic continuation of Pope Francis’s legacy.
NEW: Pope Leo Set To Break Up Opus Dei
If Pope Leo does indeed approves a plan that effectively dissolves Opus Dei’s structure, it would be the most significant internal action of his short pontificate to date.
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October 17, 2025 at 11:00 AM
Broke: Abolish DEI
Bespoke: Abolish Opus Dei
Bespoke: Abolish Opus Dei