Jonathan Portes
@jdportes.bsky.social
Professor of Economics and Public Policy, King's College London; Senior Fellow, UK in a Changing Europe. Immigration, economics, public policy. Personal views only; usual disclaimers apply.
Books: Immigration (Sage), Capitalism (Quercus)
Books: Immigration (Sage), Capitalism (Quercus)
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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...
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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 👇🏻
It's frustrating if -either because of my own inarticulacy or because of the presenter's bias/incompetence - I fail to make the key points clearly. However I was pretty happy with this one.
November 10, 2025 at 9:51 AM
It's frustrating if -either because of my own inarticulacy or because of the presenter's bias/incompetence - I fail to make the key points clearly. However I was pretty happy with this one.
I think that's slightly unfair on Nolan -yes, he did do a bit of that, but he absolutely skewered him on the "5 star hotel" nonsense which I felt more than made up for it.
November 10, 2025 at 8:40 AM
I think that's slightly unfair on Nolan -yes, he did do a bit of that, but he absolutely skewered him on the "5 star hotel" nonsense which I felt more than made up for it.