Jane Reynolds
janebert.bsky.social
Jane Reynolds
@janebert.bsky.social
Retired yoga teacher, passionate European. Old. Never ever voted Tory. Married Wales.
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November 10, 2025 at 8:02 PM
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Samir Zitouni, born in Algeria, is a HERO!

Reform UK stooges like Zia Yusuf and Matt Goodwin used the story of his sacrifice in the Huntingdon Train attack, to promote racism against people like Sam.

They are SCUM. Britain needs more Sams.
Train attack HERO Samir Zitouni was born in Algeria!
YouTube video by Femi - F Politics!
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November 5, 2025 at 1:23 PM
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But that is not enough. No.10 should never have been in a position to install Gibb in the first place. It shouldn't control the board membership, the DG appointment, or the purse strings. What's required is genuine independence for the BBC.
November 10, 2025 at 12:50 PM
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I do slightly wonder how prepared Robbie Gibb was for this to now become Robbie Gibb week rather than Tim Davie week.
November 10, 2025 at 11:38 AM
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The BBC is the latest part of ‘the public realm’ to feel the wrath of the right.

The playbook is wearyingly similar.

Underfund them. Hold them (piously) to the highest standards. Pillory them for all errors. And then co-opt, or neuter, them. 1/2
November 10, 2025 at 8:32 AM
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The BBC's depressing lack of inherent institutional strength

The BBC needs to be a robust, independent institution

By me

Substack emptycity.substack.com/p/the-bbcs-d...

Personal blog davidallengreen.com/2025/11/the-...
The BBC's depressing lack of of inherent institutional strength
The BBC needs to be a robust, independent institution
emptycity.substack.com
November 10, 2025 at 11:11 AM
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Michael Prescott and Sir Robbie Gibb both bailed out of journalism years ago, and enjoy lucrative careers in corporate PR. And now they are the arbiters of BBC editorial standards. Go figure www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/media/...
The BBC has bigger impartiality problems than its coverage of Trump
It is the BBC’s entire governance structure–rather than individual stories–that should cause most concern
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk
November 8, 2025 at 7:59 AM
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I don't really care WHY they've gone. I do care very much that there's now a possibility for the fightback against the swivel-eyed followers of the frog-faced shitweasel.
November 9, 2025 at 7:01 PM
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Two great alternatives:
November 7, 2025 at 7:16 PM
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Laurence Fox is never again going to be able to threaten to sue anybody for calling him, an increasingly overt racist, racist
November 8, 2025 at 12:32 AM
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This will impact EVERYONE.

Combined with other anti-protest measures proposed like bans on face coverings, the Crime & Policing Bill will see the right to protest in the UK stripped to the bone.

Protest is fundamental to democracy. We must protect it.
www.libertyhumanrights.org.uk/issue/govern...
Government's repeat protest restrictions worse than feared - Liberty
www.libertyhumanrights.org.uk
November 6, 2025 at 11:39 AM
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Vital piece of investigative reporting from Sky. They've uncovered the X algorithm which feeds users extremist right wing material from the moment they join the site. It is a far-right radicalisation engine, by design.

news.sky.com/story/the-x-...
Elon Musk is boosting the British right - and this shows how
Elon Musk is boosting the British right - and this shows how
news.sky.com
November 6, 2025 at 7:23 AM
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Someone who loves New York, it’s extraordinary diversity & energy is its new Mayor
Someone who loves London, it’s extraordinary diversity & energy is its Mayor
Both overcame racist & anti-Muslim campaigns agst them fuelled by the very rich & privileged
Congrats to #ZohranMamdani
November 5, 2025 at 8:53 AM
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NO MORE KINGS by Will Lloyd

Why we should abolish the monarchy.
October 29, 2025 at 9:48 AM
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Nigel Farage again today calling for the UK to leave the ECHR

The European Convention on Human Rights PROTECTS US ALL

WE MUST PROTECT IT, NOT LEAVE IT
“The European Convention on Human Rights protects us all. The rights within it are the reason why families devastated by disasters like Hillsborough could demand justice, why victims of abuse can seek safety, & why disabled people are treated with dignity in care

youtu.be/ceukUFLBrFo?...
🚨UK will leave the ECHR if Tories win next election Kemi Badenoch has announced
YouTube video by Peter Stefanovic
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October 29, 2025 at 2:33 PM
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Quite.
"The idea of deporting people with settled status is disgusting, and anyone proposing it should be immediately drummed out of polite society. Breaking promises made in good faith to our friends and neighbours is racist, extremist and immoral."

I'm basically shouting at the sky here, but still.
It’s racist, it’s extremist and it’s immoral
The right is still calling for deportations, and the government is still being cowardly about it. Also: London’s first green belt; some notes on a shark; and some news, on my next book.
jonn.substack.com
October 22, 2025 at 2:13 PM
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The Conservative immigration proposals cannot be allowed to stand without a profound and widespread statement of moral condemnation inews.co.uk/opinion/tori...
October 22, 2025 at 4:05 PM
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People who have come to the United Kingdom legally, played by the rules and made it their home do not need to “go home”. This is their home.

I've written to Kemi Badenoch to give her the chance to reject these divisive calls from her frontbencher Katie Lam.
October 22, 2025 at 8:32 AM
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The draft legislation is crackers. It would fail immediately if we stayed in the ECHR but it disappears the human rights act. if passed after that it would involve mandatory loss of ILR for up to 400,000 people + refusal of 2-3 million others, though without no credible means to identify or remove
Here Lam explicitly sets out her proposal - which is official Conservative Party policy - to deport long-standing legal permanent residents who have *ever* claimed any benefit, including the state pension or child benefit (even if the child is British), or who earn less than £39K.
October 22, 2025 at 5:17 AM
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Not sure what’s worse, Katie Lam’s comments or the fact that we can’t get Labour to criticise them …

www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/a-brea...
'A Breach Of Human Decency': James O'Brien Savages Tory Frontbencher's Immigration Comments
Shadow Home Office minister Katie Lam said some immigrants living legally in the UK should be deported to leave the country more "culturally coherent".
www.huffingtonpost.co.uk
October 20, 2025 at 8:18 PM
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"I hear very few people are gonna be there" -- Donald Trump, 10/15/25
October 18, 2025 at 10:54 PM
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Every single struggle against oppression has featured actions like this. And every single, solitary time the oppressed has triumphed in the end @katmabu.bsky.social
This morning, I was hit in the face by a baton.

I’m going to have a pretty gnarly bruise but we need to remember why this is happening: Trump and ICE are rounding up our neighbors, treating them as subhuman, and shipping them off to labor camps in foreign countries. It has to end.
October 18, 2025 at 1:00 AM
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Why can I remember no Labour politician making this point, this well?

Everybody except the Greens seems to think the best way to fight Reform is to agree with Farage about everything.

This, right here, is brilliant. And genuinely patriotic. And so, so true.
October 16, 2025 at 7:14 PM
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Dear Britain,

I am a wanker.
October 10, 2025 at 11:29 PM
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We're at the Cheltenham Festival next week doing Conspiracyland: How paranoid fantasies took over politics. Come along www.cheltenhamfestivals.org/events/consp...
Conspiracyland | Cheltenham Festivals
No longer fringe beliefs, conspiracy theories have taken over our political sphere. What makes people believe in them and how do we counter them before it’
www.cheltenhamfestivals.org
October 8, 2025 at 3:18 PM