Jimena_76
@jimena1976.bsky.social
Essentially, a bookworm with a long love affair with cinema 🇪🇺🇪🇸🇬🇧
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EU tech law - EU Commission starts investigation of Google under Digital Markets Act, for downgrading publishers in search results - ec.europa.eu/commission/p...
Commission opens investigation into potential Digital Markets Act breach by Google in demoting media publishers\' content in search results
Today, the European Commission has formally launched proceedings to assess whether Google applies fair, reasonable and non-discriminatory conditions of access to publishers\' websites on Google Search...
ec.europa.eu
November 13, 2025 at 11:22 AM
EU tech law - EU Commission starts investigation of Google under Digital Markets Act, for downgrading publishers in search results - ec.europa.eu/commission/p...
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Yeah, this is a serious failing. Same as when Thatcher's pick, Marmaduke Hussey, forced out Alasdair Milne: hushed up, opaque, behind closed doors, secretive. This is a public body, using licence fee funds, operating according to the scrutiny of an elected government. It should be transparent.
Question are the BBC Board minutes in the public domain? Or is it just a summary? Wondering why other 'independent' institutions like the BoE Monetary Committee do put out reports & not the BBC @iandunt.bsky.social
@peterjukes.bsky.social
@hardeepmatharu.bsky.social
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November 10, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Yeah, this is a serious failing. Same as when Thatcher's pick, Marmaduke Hussey, forced out Alasdair Milne: hushed up, opaque, behind closed doors, secretive. This is a public body, using licence fee funds, operating according to the scrutiny of an elected government. It should be transparent.
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If you've ever needed a reason to rally behind the BBC then this is it.
November 10, 2025 at 4:09 PM
If you've ever needed a reason to rally behind the BBC then this is it.
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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
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.
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Should Gibb be sacked? yes, obviously. He's an abomination of basic journalistic standards. His GB News channel spreads conspiracy theory & disinformation. His Jewish Chronicle newspaper spreads invented stories. He is plainly trying to undermine the BBC so it's as bad as everything else he touches.
November 10, 2025 at 12:47 PM
Should Gibb be sacked? yes, obviously. He's an abomination of basic journalistic standards. His GB News channel spreads conspiracy theory & disinformation. His Jewish Chronicle newspaper spreads invented stories. He is plainly trying to undermine the BBC so it's as bad as everything else he touches.
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One of the greatest social media follows for anyone genuinely interested in practical law and policy is @mentalhealthcop.bsky.social.
Posts like this explain why.
Posts like this explain why.
I'm obliged for the nod.
The "Penrose Effect" seems to be a real thing - hypothesised in the 1930s and re-tested in the last decade or so:
Where you reduce your inpatient psychiatric provision, you'll see a correlated rise within 10yrs in prisons of seriously mentally ill prisoners.
The "Penrose Effect" seems to be a real thing - hypothesised in the 1930s and re-tested in the last decade or so:
Where you reduce your inpatient psychiatric provision, you'll see a correlated rise within 10yrs in prisons of seriously mentally ill prisoners.
November 9, 2025 at 1:22 PM
One of the greatest social media follows for anyone genuinely interested in practical law and policy is @mentalhealthcop.bsky.social.
Posts like this explain why.
Posts like this explain why.
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Beginning to understand misanthropy, to dream of a cabin in the woods, where I see nobody, know nothing, just chop wood, domesticate an amusing raccoon, fish by a stream trying to avoid bears, and keep a lookout for the mushroom cloud, so I can put on clean pants before I die, like my Mama wanted.
November 9, 2025 at 5:36 PM
Beginning to understand misanthropy, to dream of a cabin in the woods, where I see nobody, know nothing, just chop wood, domesticate an amusing raccoon, fish by a stream trying to avoid bears, and keep a lookout for the mushroom cloud, so I can put on clean pants before I die, like my Mama wanted.
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We've got Australian style points based immigration system and now we're getting a Danish style asylum system
We have thought of nothing and we're already out of ideas
We have thought of nothing and we're already out of ideas
Reports suggest that the UK plans to emulate Denmark's migration system
@kristinabsimonsen.bsky.social argues that "research from the country suggests that drawing lessons from the Danish migration policy should be done with caution and involves pitfalls for British politicians."
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@kristinabsimonsen.bsky.social argues that "research from the country suggests that drawing lessons from the Danish migration policy should be done with caution and involves pitfalls for British politicians."
🔗 bit.ly/3LA1UI4
Denmark’s migration policy – an example to follow? - UK in a changing Europe
Kristina Bakkær Simonsen explains why countries feel they have something to learn from Denmark's strict migration policy, but argues that there are many key pitfalls.
bit.ly
November 10, 2025 at 9:23 AM
We've got Australian style points based immigration system and now we're getting a Danish style asylum system
We have thought of nothing and we're already out of ideas
We have thought of nothing and we're already out of ideas
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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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The true mystery of the Louvre robbery now solved.
Wonderful piece.
Wonderful piece.
Loving today's news that the mysterious "fedora man" outside the Louvre heist was actually a 15-year-old museum visitor who dresses like a 1940s French detective all the time, just because. apnews.com/article/louv...
Fedora man unmasked: Meet the teen behind the Louvre mystery photo
Fifteen-year-old Pedro Elias Garzon Delvaux has become an internet sensation after an Associated Press photo captured him outside the Louvre on the day of a crown jewels heist.
apnews.com
November 9, 2025 at 5:43 PM
The true mystery of the Louvre robbery now solved.
Wonderful piece.
Wonderful piece.
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A good day to listen to our proud, joyous history of the BBC: One of the greatest British inventions of the 20th Century. An institution which, even at its worst, is far better than its detractors podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...
podcasts.apple.com
November 10, 2025 at 11:02 AM
A good day to listen to our proud, joyous history of the BBC: One of the greatest British inventions of the 20th Century. An institution which, even at its worst, is far better than its detractors podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...
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Not a moment too soon. Several years too late.
Political Editor New Statesman “SCOOP: Tim Davie is about to announce his resignation as Director General of the BBC, according to a person familiar with the matter.”
November 9, 2025 at 5:56 PM
Not a moment too soon. Several years too late.
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The BBC needs to recruit even more reactionary and biddable narrators of the national story if it wants to avoid accusations of bias.
November 9, 2025 at 7:04 PM
The BBC needs to recruit even more reactionary and biddable narrators of the national story if it wants to avoid accusations of bias.
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Dominic Cummings, in an earlier incarnation, ran a secretly-funded 'think tank' dedicated to attacking the Beeb while Robbie Gibb glided effortlessly from GBNews to the BBC & started lecturing staff on impartiality. Imagine (cos you'll have to) how the 'left-wing' equivalent would be reported.
November 10, 2025 at 9:23 AM
Dominic Cummings, in an earlier incarnation, ran a secretly-funded 'think tank' dedicated to attacking the Beeb while Robbie Gibb glided effortlessly from GBNews to the BBC & started lecturing staff on impartiality. Imagine (cos you'll have to) how the 'left-wing' equivalent would be reported.
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In 'How They Broke Britain', I do a pretty good job of detailing the depth & breadth of Tufton Street/Tory/Murdoch/Mail attempts to scupper the BBC, even as I castigate some presenters for going too easy on precisely the people who seek the Corporation's abolition. But I should have done more. 1/2
November 10, 2025 at 9:23 AM
In 'How They Broke Britain', I do a pretty good job of detailing the depth & breadth of Tufton Street/Tory/Murdoch/Mail attempts to scupper the BBC, even as I castigate some presenters for going too easy on precisely the people who seek the Corporation's abolition. But I should have done more. 1/2
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Meanwhile, in Reform's Lancashire CC, the councillor in charge of care homes, owns a private care home, and is closing council care homes. 👀
A resident’s son, a Reform party member, said any move would “kill” his mother. ~AA
#NeverThoughtTheLeopards
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
A resident’s son, a Reform party member, said any move would “kill” his mother. ~AA
#NeverThoughtTheLeopards
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Lancashire’s Reform-run council plans to close care homes and day centres
Questions about potential conflict of interest as council’s cabinet member for social care owns private care company
www.theguardian.com
November 10, 2025 at 10:08 AM
Meanwhile, in Reform's Lancashire CC, the councillor in charge of care homes, owns a private care home, and is closing council care homes. 👀
A resident’s son, a Reform party member, said any move would “kill” his mother. ~AA
#NeverThoughtTheLeopards
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
A resident’s son, a Reform party member, said any move would “kill” his mother. ~AA
#NeverThoughtTheLeopards
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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the BBC didn't even lose its director general over the *queen* back in 2007
November 9, 2025 at 8:31 PM
the BBC didn't even lose its director general over the *queen* back in 2007
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Blimey, it's all about him.
Yes, Nigel Farage made an actual promo video of his poppy performance in Walton-on-the-Naze today.
November 9, 2025 at 9:08 PM
Blimey, it's all about him.
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Depressing that the BBC has so little inherent institutional strength, it is kicked about so easily.
This is not good sign for our polity.
This is not good sign for our polity.
November 9, 2025 at 8:13 PM
Depressing that the BBC has so little inherent institutional strength, it is kicked about so easily.
This is not good sign for our polity.
This is not good sign for our polity.
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there is a public support for this at like 7% but if you ask Morgan McSweeney that's 70% because the focus groups told him so
A policy this expansive would certainly mean mass stripping of permanent residence status from people with ILR (including pensioners and parents of British children) on a scale far beyond anything any democracy has ever done before. There is no public support for such an extreme policy.
Via @sundersays.bsky.social the Conservatives' draft legislation - absolutely clear that it applies to (and is intended to apply to) legal permanent residents claiming state pension (on the basis of their contributions) or child benefit for British kids.
publications.parliament.uk/pa/bills/cbi...
publications.parliament.uk/pa/bills/cbi...
October 22, 2025 at 7:54 AM
there is a public support for this at like 7% but if you ask Morgan McSweeney that's 70% because the focus groups told him so
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What I would like y'all to at least *try* is say "But that's not what's the law" every once in a while when one of these fuckers open their mouths
October 22, 2025 at 8:10 AM
What I would like y'all to at least *try* is say "But that's not what's the law" every once in a while when one of these fuckers open their mouths
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and when a braindead Labour spokesperson says something along the lines of "We believe the right to stay here must not be automatic" literally NOT ONE OF YOU FUCKERS stand up and ask "Erm, have you *actually* looked at immigration rules on settlement?"
October 22, 2025 at 8:09 AM
and when a braindead Labour spokesperson says something along the lines of "We believe the right to stay here must not be automatic" literally NOT ONE OF YOU FUCKERS stand up and ask "Erm, have you *actually* looked at immigration rules on settlement?"
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the robert pestons, the laura kuenssbergs "sanewash" (I hate that phrase) the whole thing so the notoriously offline newspaper peruser thinks everything is fine and it's perfectly okay to propose deporting hundreds of thousands of people from their homes
literal brain worms country.
literal brain worms country.
October 22, 2025 at 8:07 AM
the robert pestons, the laura kuenssbergs "sanewash" (I hate that phrase) the whole thing so the notoriously offline newspaper peruser thinks everything is fine and it's perfectly okay to propose deporting hundreds of thousands of people from their homes
literal brain worms country.
literal brain worms country.
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this is why we have *insane* policy proposals from all four corners and journalists who are earnestly asking no follow-up questions because they think it's all business as usual and not
y'know
fascism writ large
y'know
fascism writ large
October 22, 2025 at 8:06 AM
this is why we have *insane* policy proposals from all four corners and journalists who are earnestly asking no follow-up questions because they think it's all business as usual and not
y'know
fascism writ large
y'know
fascism writ large
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the problem with our insane politics is that the "elites" (I'm just trying to somehow abbreviate the politics and media world of this country and I sadly resort to using stupid words like "elites") marinated their brains on fucking Twitter where everything is fascistic
that seeps out into reality
that seeps out into reality
there is a public support for this at like 7% but if you ask Morgan McSweeney that's 70% because the focus groups told him so
A policy this expansive would certainly mean mass stripping of permanent residence status from people with ILR (including pensioners and parents of British children) on a scale far beyond anything any democracy has ever done before. There is no public support for such an extreme policy.
October 22, 2025 at 8:05 AM
the problem with our insane politics is that the "elites" (I'm just trying to somehow abbreviate the politics and media world of this country and I sadly resort to using stupid words like "elites") marinated their brains on fucking Twitter where everything is fascistic
that seeps out into reality
that seeps out into reality