"Now Mr Bond, how would you like a proper job? "

"Scripts were sometimes written with a view not solely to their impartiality or truth, but the management of perception of impartiality from one side of the spectrum."

Says it all.

This. The distribution has a fat and poisonous tail. Most people are "live and let live" but it's purely passive.

He certainly killed a lot of people.

*subverted

"I" haven't suffered the court system in the UK. And I'm not a malignant narcissist, to the best of my knowledge. Trump isn't playing by your rules.

The BBC has assets in the US. And people.

I have been trying to avoid this conclusion, as angry as this all makes me, but it's fucking undeniable at this point that in Esther Ghey's view the real tragedy of Brianna's life is that she was trans at all, which made her a target. Her advocacy smacks of railing against "social contagion".

"Revealed to have misled?" Bollocks. The edit might have been a journalistic faux pas, but it was not misleading. A year ago this wasn't even controversial.

Oh fuck. You're right.

In the last decade, the BBC has legitimised climate change denialism, paved the way for Brexit, defended the coup that was prorogation, over-platformed Farage's Far Right projects, and is neutral on our abandonment of human rights norms.

What is this 'good' it supposedly does?

Personally I'd be pleased to see BBC News disappear entirely. To argue, as many do, that British politics or our news environment would be so much worse without the BBC you have to explain why British politics and news environment is so very bad with the BBC.

Perhaps they were thinking of Luxembourg? In which case it's more like walk for an hour 🙂

Correction: turns out she's an out-and-out TERF, and has been since at least 2019. I just haven't been paying attention. Apologies for the inaccuracy.