JournoDoc
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UK tabloid hack with psych PhD: linktr.ee/jamesalananslow
Think I'm leaving Bluesky for a bit. It's probably my bad, but I feel I'm speaking into a void.
November 23, 2025 at 8:37 AM
Think I'm leaving Bluesky for a bit. It's probably my bad, but I feel I'm speaking into a void.
Looks like they were reading my posts. It should be ushered in.
DMGT should now be allowed to buy the Telegraph. They are a natural fit who, frankly, deserve each other. And, in this age of media behemoths and dwindling newspaper sales, they do not comprise a dangerous monopoly.
November 22, 2025 at 9:13 AM
Looks like they were reading my posts. It should be ushered in.
open.spotify.com/track/2x91iJ... Alexa, play some bebop👌
Freddie Freeloader (feat. John Coltrane, Cannonball Adderley, Wynton Kelly & Paul Chambers)
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November 19, 2025 at 2:08 PM
open.spotify.com/track/2x91iJ... Alexa, play some bebop👌
pressgazette.co.uk/news/kelvin-... Shock horror! Two journo giants who both influenced my career and enraged people in different ways.
Kelvin MacKenzie praises 'decent Guardian journalism' and says he was 'duped' over hacking
Former Sun editor speaks out over News of the World hacking cover up for first time.
pressgazette.co.uk
November 19, 2025 at 1:54 PM
pressgazette.co.uk/news/kelvin-... Shock horror! Two journo giants who both influenced my career and enraged people in different ways.
Performative uproar because Chancellor won't be hiking basic income tax rate after all (apparently). But new uproar because she may be freezing tax bands, thus 'raising taxes'. She & Starmer should stop responding to provocateurs, forget 2029 and keep delivering on wages, mortgages, migration & NHS.
November 19, 2025 at 1:29 PM
Performative uproar because Chancellor won't be hiking basic income tax rate after all (apparently). But new uproar because she may be freezing tax bands, thus 'raising taxes'. She & Starmer should stop responding to provocateurs, forget 2029 and keep delivering on wages, mortgages, migration & NHS.
Am not sure Burnham would win Norwich South. But I think Clive Lewis would. So better all round if he stays.
@pronouncedalva.bsky.social Magical thinking applied to replacing Starmer by voices I respect. If unlikely 81 Labour MPs publically call for contest: Streeting won constituency by 500 votes so too big a risk. Rayner & non-MP Burnham would scare too many horses to win for Lab. Mahmood? Don't think so
November 19, 2025 at 12:55 PM
Am not sure Burnham would win Norwich South. But I think Clive Lewis would. So better all round if he stays.
@pronouncedalva.bsky.social Magical thinking applied to replacing Starmer by voices I respect. If unlikely 81 Labour MPs publically call for contest: Streeting won constituency by 500 votes so too big a risk. Rayner & non-MP Burnham would scare too many horses to win for Lab. Mahmood? Don't think so
November 19, 2025 at 11:46 AM
@pronouncedalva.bsky.social Magical thinking applied to replacing Starmer by voices I respect. If unlikely 81 Labour MPs publically call for contest: Streeting won constituency by 500 votes so too big a risk. Rayner & non-MP Burnham would scare too many horses to win for Lab. Mahmood? Don't think so
..and now we're in panic mode!!
Everybody's talking about it now it's diving. Says a lot about this country and its media.
..and again on November 11. It will hit 10,000 before Xmas. But it gets hardly any attention in mainstream reportage.
November 18, 2025 at 10:01 AM
..and now we're in panic mode!!
Everybody's talking about it now it's diving. Says a lot about this country and its media.
..and again on November 11. It will hit 10,000 before Xmas. But it gets hardly any attention in mainstream reportage.
FTSE 100 breaking records again in 'broken Britain'. 9,787 close and 9,800 intraday.
November 17, 2025 at 4:52 PM
Everybody's talking about it now it's diving. Says a lot about this country and its media.
DMGT should now be allowed to buy the Telegraph. They are a natural fit who, frankly, deserve each other. And, in this age of media behemoths and dwindling newspaper sales, they do not comprise a dangerous monopoly.
November 14, 2025 at 9:25 PM
DMGT should now be allowed to buy the Telegraph. They are a natural fit who, frankly, deserve each other. And, in this age of media behemoths and dwindling newspaper sales, they do not comprise a dangerous monopoly.
Why do 'serious' UK political journalists perpetuate absurd tabloid narratives? Anyone who thinks an MP who scraped in by 500 votes last year can be PM needs their head examined by a resident doctor. Risk of party having its leader lose their seat is too big to allow Streeting to take on that role.
November 14, 2025 at 9:57 AM
Why do 'serious' UK political journalists perpetuate absurd tabloid narratives? Anyone who thinks an MP who scraped in by 500 votes last year can be PM needs their head examined by a resident doctor. Risk of party having its leader lose their seat is too big to allow Streeting to take on that role.
As I was saying to @mrjamesob.bsky.social et al..
*Deep breath* Reeves won't raise basic income tax rate. Maybe higher rates, which Labour explicitly ruled out. I also think that, as a pensioner with a property rental, I may have to pay NI on that income as well as tax which, despite disinformation, is already as high as if it were 'earned' income.
November 14, 2025 at 5:59 AM
As I was saying to @mrjamesob.bsky.social et al..
..and again on November 11. It will hit 10,000 before Xmas. But it gets hardly any attention in mainstream reportage.
FTSE 100 breaking records again in 'broken Britain'. 9,787 close and 9,800 intraday.
November 12, 2025 at 6:29 AM
..and again on November 11. It will hit 10,000 before Xmas. But it gets hardly any attention in mainstream reportage.
FTSE 100 breaking records again in 'broken Britain'. 9,787 close and 9,800 intraday.
November 10, 2025 at 8:31 PM
FTSE 100 breaking records again in 'broken Britain'. 9,787 close and 9,800 intraday.
It's arrived! Been after this book for ages
November 10, 2025 at 3:50 PM
It's arrived! Been after this book for ages
If Reeves is slammed for lifting two-child cap the question that will be be put to Farage and Badenoch remorselessly is: will you rescind it?
November 10, 2025 at 3:12 PM
If Reeves is slammed for lifting two-child cap the question that will be be put to Farage and Badenoch remorselessly is: will you rescind it?
BREAKING: Reeves hints at complete lifting of two-child benefit cap.
November 10, 2025 at 3:02 PM
BREAKING: Reeves hints at complete lifting of two-child benefit cap.
Je suis un president, get me out of here 😂
November 10, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Je suis un president, get me out of here 😂
BREAKING: Trump threatens to sue BBC.
November 10, 2025 at 1:41 PM
BREAKING: Trump threatens to sue BBC.
*Deep breath* Reeves won't raise basic income tax rate. Maybe higher rates, which Labour explicitly ruled out. I also think that, as a pensioner with a property rental, I may have to pay NI on that income as well as tax which, despite disinformation, is already as high as if it were 'earned' income.
November 10, 2025 at 11:32 AM
*Deep breath* Reeves won't raise basic income tax rate. Maybe higher rates, which Labour explicitly ruled out. I also think that, as a pensioner with a property rental, I may have to pay NI on that income as well as tax which, despite disinformation, is already as high as if it were 'earned' income.
Strewth. Laura Kuenssberg really clutching at straws during interview with Lisa Nandy. Notions of impartrial journalism exposed as nonsense. As they were last century 🙄
November 9, 2025 at 2:33 PM
Strewth. Laura Kuenssberg really clutching at straws during interview with Lisa Nandy. Notions of impartrial journalism exposed as nonsense. As they were last century 🙄
The idea of Boris Johnson calling anyone else 'ridiculous and arrogant' beggars belief..
November 9, 2025 at 8:10 AM
The idea of Boris Johnson calling anyone else 'ridiculous and arrogant' beggars belief..
I thoroughly dislike the Daily Mail and the Daily Telegraph. But they clearly belong together. I suspect that will be their final destinatination, whatever happens to the current ballsachingly protracted sale of the Torygraph to an opaque financial entity.
November 7, 2025 at 10:06 AM
I thoroughly dislike the Daily Mail and the Daily Telegraph. But they clearly belong together. I suspect that will be their final destinatination, whatever happens to the current ballsachingly protracted sale of the Torygraph to an opaque financial entity.
Well-paid, middle-class, middle-aged gobs on sticks whose professional success was virtually guaranteed by their Russell Group graduations should bloody well check their privilege before positing that working-class youngsters have no need to go to university to learn how to think critically. Grrr. 😠
November 4, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Well-paid, middle-class, middle-aged gobs on sticks whose professional success was virtually guaranteed by their Russell Group graduations should bloody well check their privilege before positing that working-class youngsters have no need to go to university to learn how to think critically. Grrr. 😠
She said she was aiming at those people who don't usually engage in politics. Well this won't land for them then, will it?
Why did Reeves give pre-Budget speech today? Added no new information.Tax rises were already a given. Didn't really provide new context. Won't change hostile press she'll get. I can only assume it was a message for the markets. But that's normaly done in coded language through specialised channels.⁉️
November 4, 2025 at 2:46 PM
She said she was aiming at those people who don't usually engage in politics. Well this won't land for them then, will it?