@labcoatjoe.bsky.social
this has to be a joke. Right? Yes I am middle -class so I will pay £7,500 more to install a heat pump and move my heating to electricity which is 4 time the price of Gas. Happy days!
November 13, 2025 at 4:24 PM
this has to be a joke. Right? Yes I am middle -class so I will pay £7,500 more to install a heat pump and move my heating to electricity which is 4 time the price of Gas. Happy days!
Very interesting piece from @davidsonofaaron.bsky.social which suggests that despite his assertion of political neutrality it is just possible that Prescott is not 100% impartial. observer.co.uk/news/opinion...
The Prescott memo flunks the impartiality test | The Observer
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November 12, 2025 at 7:49 PM
Very interesting piece from @davidsonofaaron.bsky.social which suggests that despite his assertion of political neutrality it is just possible that Prescott is not 100% impartial. observer.co.uk/news/opinion...
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‘On a visit to the Newsnight office [Gibb] told staff that if they wanted to peddle their own agenda they should ‘get stuffed and leave’’
🔗 Alan Rusbridger on Robbie Gibb’s campaign to rewire the BBC
https://bit.ly/4qX4kRe
🔗 Alan Rusbridger on Robbie Gibb’s campaign to rewire the BBC
https://bit.ly/4qX4kRe
An inside job? Robbie Gibb's campaign to rewire the BBC | The Observer
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November 12, 2025 at 6:54 PM
‘On a visit to the Newsnight office [Gibb] told staff that if they wanted to peddle their own agenda they should ‘get stuffed and leave’’
🔗 Alan Rusbridger on Robbie Gibb’s campaign to rewire the BBC
https://bit.ly/4qX4kRe
🔗 Alan Rusbridger on Robbie Gibb’s campaign to rewire the BBC
https://bit.ly/4qX4kRe
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I mean, people don’t like inflation and they don’t like being insulted - this government has driven up inflation and insults its voters.
November 12, 2025 at 3:33 PM
I mean, people don’t like inflation and they don’t like being insulted - this government has driven up inflation and insults its voters.
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Where does is all lead to. Bluntly I think the McSweeney pivot has been a mistake. It assumes that Labour-curious voters in the marginals Labour needs to win are fundamentally different from Labour-curious voters elsewhere. And that social values are the key difference. 13/n
November 12, 2025 at 3:16 PM
Where does is all lead to. Bluntly I think the McSweeney pivot has been a mistake. It assumes that Labour-curious voters in the marginals Labour needs to win are fundamentally different from Labour-curious voters elsewhere. And that social values are the key difference. 13/n
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The PM's team take some heat off the BBC by setting fire to themselves
November 11, 2025 at 11:02 PM
The PM's team take some heat off the BBC by setting fire to themselves
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Russian state media are today alleging that a Bellingcat reporter was involved in an attempt to hijack a Russian fighter plane.
We would like to make clear that Bellingcat had absolutely no involvement in the alleged activities and the accusations towards us are entirely false.
We would like to make clear that Bellingcat had absolutely no involvement in the alleged activities and the accusations towards us are entirely false.
November 11, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Russian state media are today alleging that a Bellingcat reporter was involved in an attempt to hijack a Russian fighter plane.
We would like to make clear that Bellingcat had absolutely no involvement in the alleged activities and the accusations towards us are entirely false.
We would like to make clear that Bellingcat had absolutely no involvement in the alleged activities and the accusations towards us are entirely false.
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You know that time that a major British news organisation mistakenly sought out a random dude who happened to share a name with a former New York mayor in order to go after a left wing New York mayoral candidate? Did anyone resign?
November 10, 2025 at 10:19 PM
You know that time that a major British news organisation mistakenly sought out a random dude who happened to share a name with a former New York mayor in order to go after a left wing New York mayoral candidate? Did anyone resign?
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Congratulations in particular to @FondOfBeetles, @cathydevine56
, @runthinkwrite and all the other scientists over on the other twitter who have patiently being accumulating evidence and challenging the misinformation spread from activists.
x.com/FondOfBeetle...
, @runthinkwrite and all the other scientists over on the other twitter who have patiently being accumulating evidence and challenging the misinformation spread from activists.
x.com/FondOfBeetle...
Emma Hilton on X: "It only took: Eight years of notebooks of tracking stats. Six years after presenting my findings for the first time. @fairplaywomen @sharrond62 Five years after writing the first peer-reviewed paper that established an evidence base for policy making. @TLexercise @Scienceofsport" / X
It only took: Eight years of notebooks of tracking stats. Six years after presenting my findings for the first time. @fairplaywomen @sharrond62 Five years after writing the first peer-reviewed paper that established an evidence base for policy making. @TLexercise @Scienceofsport
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November 10, 2025 at 6:33 PM
Congratulations in particular to @FondOfBeetles, @cathydevine56
, @runthinkwrite and all the other scientists over on the other twitter who have patiently being accumulating evidence and challenging the misinformation spread from activists.
x.com/FondOfBeetle...
, @runthinkwrite and all the other scientists over on the other twitter who have patiently being accumulating evidence and challenging the misinformation spread from activists.
x.com/FondOfBeetle...
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One nice detail that can easily be lost in this graph - even right wingers trust the BBC more than the right wing tabloids
Here’s the same data, but with trust broken down by political views (circles are trust among people on the left, +s the right).
It’s not just that the BBC is widely consumed — it also has solid trust on both left & right, whereas trust in the biggest US media brands is hugely polarised.
It’s not just that the BBC is widely consumed — it also has solid trust on both left & right, whereas trust in the biggest US media brands is hugely polarised.
November 10, 2025 at 5:40 PM
One nice detail that can easily be lost in this graph - even right wingers trust the BBC more than the right wing tabloids
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The fact that the BBC has made serious culpable errors does not negate the point that there is a real and concerted right-wing media campaign to destroy it. Both points can be true at the same time and the campaign would not end even if the errors did.
November 10, 2025 at 1:08 PM
The fact that the BBC has made serious culpable errors does not negate the point that there is a real and concerted right-wing media campaign to destroy it. Both points can be true at the same time and the campaign would not end even if the errors did.
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An essential precondition for authoritarianism is the neutering of sources of real news.
November 10, 2025 at 8:41 AM
An essential precondition for authoritarianism is the neutering of sources of real news.
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This goes way beyond a lawyer acting unethically. If Milne knows the statements he's making are false (and it seems likely he does) then it's fraud.
November 7, 2025 at 9:39 AM
This goes way beyond a lawyer acting unethically. If Milne knows the statements he's making are false (and it seems likely he does) then it's fraud.
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Which one is more English?
November 6, 2025 at 11:58 AM
Which one is more English?
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Oh and also JD Vance's brother lost the Cincinnati mayor race.
November 5, 2025 at 8:01 AM
Oh and also JD Vance's brother lost the Cincinnati mayor race.
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Police have announced that a 32-year-old man who was arrested is now being treated as the only suspect for the train stabbing and the 35-year-old has been released with no further action
They say he was "reported in good faith" by witnesses but enquiries confirmed that he was not involved
They say he was "reported in good faith" by witnesses but enquiries confirmed that he was not involved
British Transport Police say that "at this stage there is nothing to suggest this is a terrorist incident" and they are still working to establish the full circumstances and motivation for the train attack
Of 11 injured people, 4 have been discharged and 2 remain in a life-threatening condition
Of 11 injured people, 4 have been discharged and 2 remain in a life-threatening condition
The investigation into the train stabbing in Cambridgeshire is being supported by Counter Terrorism Policing
The step is routine for violent incidents where the motivation is unclear, and police say they are working to understand the full circumstances of the attack
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/01/w...
The step is routine for violent incidents where the motivation is unclear, and police say they are working to understand the full circumstances of the attack
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/01/w...
November 2, 2025 at 6:26 PM
Police have announced that a 32-year-old man who was arrested is now being treated as the only suspect for the train stabbing and the 35-year-old has been released with no further action
They say he was "reported in good faith" by witnesses but enquiries confirmed that he was not involved
They say he was "reported in good faith" by witnesses but enquiries confirmed that he was not involved
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Even ignoring Nick Park, Holly Washington, Danny Boyle, Simon Beaufoy, Pete Postlethwaite etc it's sort of magnificent that the culture secretary hasn't noticed that Sally Wainwright has made "drama set within ten miles of Halifax" a standalone TV genre.
October 31, 2025 at 12:26 PM
Even ignoring Nick Park, Holly Washington, Danny Boyle, Simon Beaufoy, Pete Postlethwaite etc it's sort of magnificent that the culture secretary hasn't noticed that Sally Wainwright has made "drama set within ten miles of Halifax" a standalone TV genre.
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Their own report on their schemes suggests that landlords are largely oblivious I would say ("have not permeated greatly into their respective areas".....)
October 30, 2025 at 1:36 PM
Their own report on their schemes suggests that landlords are largely oblivious I would say ("have not permeated greatly into their respective areas".....)
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This episode raises big questions about how the UK's "hostile environment" is operating in an information-sharing sense. Who exactly is sharing data on flights booked (not flights taken)? The UK doesn't have exit monitoring, so who thought there was reliable data? www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
UK woman who booked Oslo flight but did not fly loses child benefit ‘because she emigrated’
Exclusive: HMRC told Lisa Morris-Almond there was no record of her return to UK, but she did not take the trip
www.theguardian.com
October 30, 2025 at 9:58 AM
This episode raises big questions about how the UK's "hostile environment" is operating in an information-sharing sense. Who exactly is sharing data on flights booked (not flights taken)? The UK doesn't have exit monitoring, so who thought there was reliable data? www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
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Literally one of the greatest soft power brands on planet earth driven into the ground by successive British governments that embrace failure, decline and irrelevance.
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British Council ‘selling everything it can’ to survive
Cultural body plans more job cuts, sale of assets and closure in 35 countries to stave off ‘financial peril’
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October 28, 2025 at 9:41 PM
Literally one of the greatest soft power brands on planet earth driven into the ground by successive British governments that embrace failure, decline and irrelevance.
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I have a very bad feeling about this...
October 27, 2025 at 4:51 PM
I have a very bad feeling about this...
Celia!! You know it's Jonathan #CelebrityTraitors
October 23, 2025 at 8:53 PM
Celia!! You know it's Jonathan #CelebrityTraitors