Medazzanick
@medazzanick.bsky.social
Plant-based humanist, environmentalist, ex-lexicographer. Love Bowie, suede, NIИ, Duran Duran, LFC, Kurt Vonnegut, and Oxford commas. So it goes.
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A blatant Reform lie:
"Nigel Farage never said he wanted to cut council tax": Danny Kruger, Reform MP, #bbcqt, 13 Nov 2025.
"We fight for lower council tax": Nigel Farage, May 2025 local elections.
"Nigel Farage never said he wanted to cut council tax": Danny Kruger, Reform MP, #bbcqt, 13 Nov 2025.
"We fight for lower council tax": Nigel Farage, May 2025 local elections.
November 13, 2025 at 11:42 PM
A blatant Reform lie:
"Nigel Farage never said he wanted to cut council tax": Danny Kruger, Reform MP, #bbcqt, 13 Nov 2025.
"We fight for lower council tax": Nigel Farage, May 2025 local elections.
"Nigel Farage never said he wanted to cut council tax": Danny Kruger, Reform MP, #bbcqt, 13 Nov 2025.
"We fight for lower council tax": Nigel Farage, May 2025 local elections.
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Have written for the New Statesman about why, if he will not accept an apology, the BBC should welcome a Trump lawsuit. They should show guts and fight it because impartially matters and if they don't, they will have tacitly accepted a rewritten history.
www.newstatesman.com/politics/med...
www.newstatesman.com/politics/med...
Trump's attack can rescue the BBC
The BBC should use the threat of legal action to strike a blow for press freedom
www.newstatesman.com
November 13, 2025 at 2:26 PM
Have written for the New Statesman about why, if he will not accept an apology, the BBC should welcome a Trump lawsuit. They should show guts and fight it because impartially matters and if they don't, they will have tacitly accepted a rewritten history.
www.newstatesman.com/politics/med...
www.newstatesman.com/politics/med...
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Boy do I wish I could have a chat with all the naysayers when I posited that Epstein was a dirt factory for Putin. How many times have we asked "what does Putin have on Trump?" www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
Jeffrey Epstein claims he gave Russians insight into Trump
Newly released emails show the late convicted sex offender’s extensive network of foreign contacts, whom he corresponded with about Trump’s policy decisions.
www.politico.com
November 12, 2025 at 9:21 PM
Boy do I wish I could have a chat with all the naysayers when I posited that Epstein was a dirt factory for Putin. How many times have we asked "what does Putin have on Trump?" www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
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Maybe Keir should demand the heads of major US news networks any time they imply Britain is on the brink of civil war or that we live under sharia law. Or does it not work both ways?
November 10, 2025 at 11:29 AM
Maybe Keir should demand the heads of major US news networks any time they imply Britain is on the brink of civil war or that we live under sharia law. Or does it not work both ways?
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The Telegraph routinely spreads myths about a range of subjects - especially climate change.
It has been forced to publish over 100 corrections this year so far.
Yet it has the gall to lecture the BBC - and whip up a national panic - about journalistic standards
It has been forced to publish over 100 corrections this year so far.
Yet it has the gall to lecture the BBC - and whip up a national panic - about journalistic standards
The Telegraph’s Record of Climate Falsehoods
The Telegraph, which has accused the BBC of bias and a lack of editorial rigour, has been forced to amend a swathe of climate inaccuracies. The BBC’s director-general and CEO resigned this weekend aft...
www.desmog.com
November 10, 2025 at 7:42 PM
The Telegraph routinely spreads myths about a range of subjects - especially climate change.
It has been forced to publish over 100 corrections this year so far.
Yet it has the gall to lecture the BBC - and whip up a national panic - about journalistic standards
It has been forced to publish over 100 corrections this year so far.
Yet it has the gall to lecture the BBC - and whip up a national panic - about journalistic standards
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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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Sky News just had Kelvin Mackenzie on, former editor of The Sun, one of the people at the centre of probably the most disgraceful front page in newspaper history, complaining about BBC journalists not being objective and 'fake news'. Astonishing. ~AA
November 10, 2025 at 10:53 AM
Sky News just had Kelvin Mackenzie on, former editor of The Sun, one of the people at the centre of probably the most disgraceful front page in newspaper history, complaining about BBC journalists not being objective and 'fake news'. Astonishing. ~AA
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This is unbelievable. Just a complete lack of belief in objectivity. And the BBC fucking caved to it
Michael Prescott was ‘“shocked” that after an hour-long Panorama documentary dealing with Trump and the January 6 insurgency, there was no “similar, balancing” programme about Kamala Harris.’
More read about the machinations between the BBC resignations, the more worrying it becomes
More read about the machinations between the BBC resignations, the more worrying it becomes
The departure of Tim Davie and Deborah Turness means the BBC is leaderless when it needs leadership more than ever. Where are the people at the head of the BBC standing up for it?
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
November 9, 2025 at 9:44 PM
This is unbelievable. Just a complete lack of belief in objectivity. And the BBC fucking caved to it
I feel a visceral disgust every time the number of small boat crossings are reported on the BBC News. Nigel Farage caused them to happen. Nigel Farage stirs up the hatred for these often desperate people. And the implication is that it is a reason to vote for the NF party.
November 8, 2025 at 7:37 PM
I feel a visceral disgust every time the number of small boat crossings are reported on the BBC News. Nigel Farage caused them to happen. Nigel Farage stirs up the hatred for these often desperate people. And the implication is that it is a reason to vote for the NF party.
Really enjoyed Bugonia. This scene really tickled me, I imagine quite a few of us have pretty much heard this word for word IRL. youtu.be/_12xKVATz28
BUGONIA - "The 5:30 Thing" Official Clip
YouTube video by Focus Features
youtu.be
November 6, 2025 at 11:01 AM
Really enjoyed Bugonia. This scene really tickled me, I imagine quite a few of us have pretty much heard this word for word IRL. youtu.be/_12xKVATz28
I do think we have to acknowledge that there is a slight difference between ‘took letting agents advice at face value’ and ‘got drunk in Italy with the son of a KGB spy without telling anyone’.
October 31, 2025 at 12:17 AM
I do think we have to acknowledge that there is a slight difference between ‘took letting agents advice at face value’ and ‘got drunk in Italy with the son of a KGB spy without telling anyone’.
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About a tenth of relationships in the UK are mixed race.
X seems full of people who think they are the only relationships in TV advertising. This suggests people filter out the ones featuring white families, and then trigger themselves into anger if a mixed race couple appear.
X seems full of people who think they are the only relationships in TV advertising. This suggests people filter out the ones featuring white families, and then trigger themselves into anger if a mixed race couple appear.
October 26, 2025 at 10:43 PM
About a tenth of relationships in the UK are mixed race.
X seems full of people who think they are the only relationships in TV advertising. This suggests people filter out the ones featuring white families, and then trigger themselves into anger if a mixed race couple appear.
X seems full of people who think they are the only relationships in TV advertising. This suggests people filter out the ones featuring white families, and then trigger themselves into anger if a mixed race couple appear.
Does that potential root cause rhyme with 'Madimir Lutin' by any chance?
October 20, 2025 at 9:48 AM
Does that potential root cause rhyme with 'Madimir Lutin' by any chance?
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👏 "We've lived here all our lives. And I have never felt so unwelcome in my own hometown as I do since your party came into Caerphilly."
"With all the rhetoric that you bring in, I have to say to my sons, please don't go there. Please don't do this."
"I blame you for that."
"With all the rhetoric that you bring in, I have to say to my sons, please don't go there. Please don't do this."
"I blame you for that."
October 16, 2025 at 10:40 AM
👏 "We've lived here all our lives. And I have never felt so unwelcome in my own hometown as I do since your party came into Caerphilly."
"With all the rhetoric that you bring in, I have to say to my sons, please don't go there. Please don't do this."
"I blame you for that."
"With all the rhetoric that you bring in, I have to say to my sons, please don't go there. Please don't do this."
"I blame you for that."
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Facts…
The polar opposite of what drives most media coverage of the issue.
The polar opposite of what drives most media coverage of the issue.
There is no need for a moral panic about the UK's welfare system.
Far from perfect but recent discourse is nuts
Spending is controlled, not spiralling
Worklessness is near record lows
My column www.ft.com/content/ee67...
Far from perfect but recent discourse is nuts
Spending is controlled, not spiralling
Worklessness is near record lows
My column www.ft.com/content/ee67...
October 15, 2025 at 6:06 PM
Facts…
The polar opposite of what drives most media coverage of the issue.
The polar opposite of what drives most media coverage of the issue.
There's a paper thin difference between these 1970s policies of the NF and Reform and the Tories today. Although I can't imagine Reform wanting to get tough with property specutlators, especially those rich enough to buy their boyfriend a house in Clacton. wienerholocaustlibrary.org/exhibition/c...
Crisis of Britishness? Immigration, Race and Nation in Modern Britain - The Wiener Holocaust Library
The idea that British identity and culture is threatened by non-white migration has pervaded contemporary British history. This exhibition highlights far-right nationalist rhetoric and the anti-fascis...
wienerholocaustlibrary.org
October 10, 2025 at 8:48 AM
There's a paper thin difference between these 1970s policies of the NF and Reform and the Tories today. Although I can't imagine Reform wanting to get tough with property specutlators, especially those rich enough to buy their boyfriend a house in Clacton. wienerholocaustlibrary.org/exhibition/c...
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Some good news.
London is meeting legal limits for toxic NO2 pollution for the first time – almost 200 years earlier than predicted – following the Mayor’s "world leading air pollution policies," City Hall announces.
The Ultra Low Emissions Zone - and similar policies - really do work.
London is meeting legal limits for toxic NO2 pollution for the first time – almost 200 years earlier than predicted – following the Mayor’s "world leading air pollution policies," City Hall announces.
The Ultra Low Emissions Zone - and similar policies - really do work.
September 30, 2025 at 7:39 PM
Some good news.
London is meeting legal limits for toxic NO2 pollution for the first time – almost 200 years earlier than predicted – following the Mayor’s "world leading air pollution policies," City Hall announces.
The Ultra Low Emissions Zone - and similar policies - really do work.
London is meeting legal limits for toxic NO2 pollution for the first time – almost 200 years earlier than predicted – following the Mayor’s "world leading air pollution policies," City Hall announces.
The Ultra Low Emissions Zone - and similar policies - really do work.
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Leaving the ECHR would allow the State Pension, the Minimum Wage, Sick Pay, Maternity Pay, Paid Holiday and working hour limits to all be abolished.
They would make hundreds of billions from this.
That is what they want.
They would make hundreds of billions from this.
That is what they want.
September 29, 2025 at 10:09 PM
Leaving the ECHR would allow the State Pension, the Minimum Wage, Sick Pay, Maternity Pay, Paid Holiday and working hour limits to all be abolished.
They would make hundreds of billions from this.
That is what they want.
They would make hundreds of billions from this.
That is what they want.
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“The ECHR isn’t Brussels meddling. It’s the foundation that protects you from your own government.” 👏👏👏
Leaving the ECHR won’t “Take Back Control” – it will hand your rights to politicians
The myths are seductive, the reality is very different – without the ECHR your freedoms rest on whichever Home Secretary wakes up grumpy
eastangliabylines.co.uk
September 25, 2025 at 9:49 PM
“The ECHR isn’t Brussels meddling. It’s the foundation that protects you from your own government.” 👏👏👏
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Farage wanting to kick people out of the country because they migrated here made me angry and made me think about which best of British people and things wouldn't have happened were it not for the brilliance of immigration to the UK.
September 24, 2025 at 4:39 PM
Farage wanting to kick people out of the country because they migrated here made me angry and made me think about which best of British people and things wouldn't have happened were it not for the brilliance of immigration to the UK.
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This was not, of course, the case made by the Leave side - who dismissed any arguments about the potential negative impact of Brexit as "Project Fear".
There will be no downside to Brexit, only a considerable upside"
David Davis MP, 10th October 2016.
19th September 2025.
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...
David Davis MP, 10th October 2016.
19th September 2025.
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...
Sir James Dyson says Brexit was worth it – even if it’s made people poorer
Britain’s fourth-wealthiest man has argued it is better to be ‘independent’ than tied to the EU
www.independent.co.uk
September 20, 2025 at 10:23 AM
This was not, of course, the case made by the Leave side - who dismissed any arguments about the potential negative impact of Brexit as "Project Fear".
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I love London so much. So much.
Did you know that London has the lowest level of ethnic violence of any city of comparable size in the world?
Multiculturalism has in fact worked here. They just don’t want it to be true because we happen to have a Muslim mayor.
Did you know that London has the lowest level of ethnic violence of any city of comparable size in the world?
Multiculturalism has in fact worked here. They just don’t want it to be true because we happen to have a Muslim mayor.
September 17, 2025 at 7:50 AM
I love London so much. So much.
Did you know that London has the lowest level of ethnic violence of any city of comparable size in the world?
Multiculturalism has in fact worked here. They just don’t want it to be true because we happen to have a Muslim mayor.
Did you know that London has the lowest level of ethnic violence of any city of comparable size in the world?
Multiculturalism has in fact worked here. They just don’t want it to be true because we happen to have a Muslim mayor.
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[me, a journalist who spends all day every day on a social media app where the discovery algorithm is personally controlled by its owner, captain birdseye] you know, a lot of people are talking about fish fingers, we should probably cover that
September 16, 2025 at 7:25 AM
[me, a journalist who spends all day every day on a social media app where the discovery algorithm is personally controlled by its owner, captain birdseye] you know, a lot of people are talking about fish fingers, we should probably cover that