Monty Dodge
@montyofdodgington.bsky.social
Music, Gardening, some sports. Radio, Comedy, Politics, NHS, Health. Manchester UK
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This feels like a reasonable time to share an article from The Telegraph from 2023, which certainly makes it seem that Matt Hancock knew that I was interviewed to appear on BBC Question Time (how?) and seemed to attempt to intervene to prevent my appearance.
Should politicians…
Should politicians…
November 11, 2025 at 9:36 AM
This feels like a reasonable time to share an article from The Telegraph from 2023, which certainly makes it seem that Matt Hancock knew that I was interviewed to appear on BBC Question Time (how?) and seemed to attempt to intervene to prevent my appearance.
Should politicians…
Should politicians…
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The far right fuckers can piss off with their flag hijacking.
The St George cross belongs to everyone in England regardless of an individuals skin colour and their religious, family or other ethical beliefs and culture. NOT YOU.
White supremacy using a national symbol needs stamping on. Immediately.
The St George cross belongs to everyone in England regardless of an individuals skin colour and their religious, family or other ethical beliefs and culture. NOT YOU.
White supremacy using a national symbol needs stamping on. Immediately.
NHS staff who visit patients at home say St George’s flags can mean ‘no-go zones’
Black and Asian staff left feeling ‘deliberately intimidated’, according to chief executive of one NHS trust
www.theguardian.com
November 11, 2025 at 9:36 AM
The far right fuckers can piss off with their flag hijacking.
The St George cross belongs to everyone in England regardless of an individuals skin colour and their religious, family or other ethical beliefs and culture. NOT YOU.
White supremacy using a national symbol needs stamping on. Immediately.
The St George cross belongs to everyone in England regardless of an individuals skin colour and their religious, family or other ethical beliefs and culture. NOT YOU.
White supremacy using a national symbol needs stamping on. Immediately.
WTF?
November 11, 2025 at 7:22 AM
WTF?
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The sh** bags who are trying to take down the BBC are the same deranged sh** bags who are trying to take down the NHS!
Isn't that right Mr Farage?
#ReformUK #RepublicanParty
Isn't that right Mr Farage?
#ReformUK #RepublicanParty
November 10, 2025 at 10:35 PM
The sh** bags who are trying to take down the BBC are the same deranged sh** bags who are trying to take down the NHS!
Isn't that right Mr Farage?
#ReformUK #RepublicanParty
Isn't that right Mr Farage?
#ReformUK #RepublicanParty
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He said: "Prices are down under Trump.'
Me: "It is quite literally false. There's not a single way you can interpret a word that the man's saying..as being remotely reflective of either what we're seeing in data from all across the country or in people's everyday lives."
Me: "It is quite literally false. There's not a single way you can interpret a word that the man's saying..as being remotely reflective of either what we're seeing in data from all across the country or in people's everyday lives."
November 10, 2025 at 5:46 PM
He said: "Prices are down under Trump.'
Me: "It is quite literally false. There's not a single way you can interpret a word that the man's saying..as being remotely reflective of either what we're seeing in data from all across the country or in people's everyday lives."
Me: "It is quite literally false. There's not a single way you can interpret a word that the man's saying..as being remotely reflective of either what we're seeing in data from all across the country or in people's everyday lives."
Having less money in your pocket isn't controlling high prices! You're being lied to!
November 11, 2025 at 6:01 AM
Having less money in your pocket isn't controlling high prices! You're being lied to!
If there is a cost of living crises, it was created by the rich with no consequences. Stop kicking the poor while they're down!
November 11, 2025 at 5:30 AM
If there is a cost of living crises, it was created by the rich with no consequences. Stop kicking the poor while they're down!
Get a f***ing life!..
Don't ever submit to shits like this or you'll become owned and probably dead by you're 50.
‘Four-day weeks don’t work – we work 9am to 9pm six days a week’ share.google/YVXMD6Jirac4...
Don't ever submit to shits like this or you'll become owned and probably dead by you're 50.
‘Four-day weeks don’t work – we work 9am to 9pm six days a week’ share.google/YVXMD6Jirac4...
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November 11, 2025 at 4:44 AM
Get a f***ing life!..
Don't ever submit to shits like this or you'll become owned and probably dead by you're 50.
‘Four-day weeks don’t work – we work 9am to 9pm six days a week’ share.google/YVXMD6Jirac4...
Don't ever submit to shits like this or you'll become owned and probably dead by you're 50.
‘Four-day weeks don’t work – we work 9am to 9pm six days a week’ share.google/YVXMD6Jirac4...
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And if he thinks that's bad, just wait until his nurse points out Channel 4’s entirety factual documentary "Trump vs The Truth: Over 100 False President Claims Debunked".
Let King Donald the Mad sue.
From my days on the news desk, truth - if not Truth Social - is an absolute defence against defamation
It was a bad edit, but no court in the land would find that he didn’t encourage January 6th.
Publish and be damned!
From my days on the news desk, truth - if not Truth Social - is an absolute defence against defamation
It was a bad edit, but no court in the land would find that he didn’t encourage January 6th.
Publish and be damned!
November 10, 2025 at 11:19 PM
And if he thinks that's bad, just wait until his nurse points out Channel 4’s entirety factual documentary "Trump vs The Truth: Over 100 False President Claims Debunked".
Who remembers?
November 11, 2025 at 3:43 AM
Who remembers?
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You might have thought Question Time was biased.
But you never realised how much.
UKIP never even had a single MP.
But you never realised how much.
UKIP never even had a single MP.
November 10, 2025 at 7:51 PM
You might have thought Question Time was biased.
But you never realised how much.
UKIP never even had a single MP.
But you never realised how much.
UKIP never even had a single MP.
The sh** bags who are trying to take down the BBC are the same deranged sh** bags who are trying to take down the NHS!
Isn't that right Mr Farage?
#ReformUK #RepublicanParty
Isn't that right Mr Farage?
#ReformUK #RepublicanParty
November 10, 2025 at 10:35 PM
The sh** bags who are trying to take down the BBC are the same deranged sh** bags who are trying to take down the NHS!
Isn't that right Mr Farage?
#ReformUK #RepublicanParty
Isn't that right Mr Farage?
#ReformUK #RepublicanParty
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Should the BBC licence fee be axed?
The BBC's Director General has stepped down following an impartiality row.
Do you resent having to pay over £170 a year to help keep the corporation going?
Or is the BBC still worth every penny in your eyes?
The BBC's Director General has stepped down following an impartiality row.
Do you resent having to pay over £170 a year to help keep the corporation going?
Or is the BBC still worth every penny in your eyes?
November 10, 2025 at 11:29 AM
Should the BBC licence fee be axed?
The BBC's Director General has stepped down following an impartiality row.
Do you resent having to pay over £170 a year to help keep the corporation going?
Or is the BBC still worth every penny in your eyes?
The BBC's Director General has stepped down following an impartiality row.
Do you resent having to pay over £170 a year to help keep the corporation going?
Or is the BBC still worth every penny in your eyes?
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This accidentally turned into a short thread. Bit of a rage-thread I'm afraid. Please read to the end if you can. Thanks
Once every 20 years or so, the director-general of the BBC is forced to resign for being insufficiently rightwing. Alastair Milne in 1987. Greg Dyke in 2004. Tim Davie in 2025. The great irony is that the BBC was in all cases profoundly biased towards established power. But just not biased enough …
November 10, 2025 at 6:16 AM
This accidentally turned into a short thread. Bit of a rage-thread I'm afraid. Please read to the end if you can. Thanks
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Want to know why the prisons system seems to be suddenly falling apart?
Well, it's not sudden. It's just suddenly being REPORTED. This rot was a deliberate policy choice, and I kept the receipts. Because I'm not the BBC.
(A note on what Tories did to cause this, from The Decade In Tory)
Well, it's not sudden. It's just suddenly being REPORTED. This rot was a deliberate policy choice, and I kept the receipts. Because I'm not the BBC.
(A note on what Tories did to cause this, from The Decade In Tory)
November 10, 2025 at 9:56 AM
Want to know why the prisons system seems to be suddenly falling apart?
Well, it's not sudden. It's just suddenly being REPORTED. This rot was a deliberate policy choice, and I kept the receipts. Because I'm not the BBC.
(A note on what Tories did to cause this, from The Decade In Tory)
Well, it's not sudden. It's just suddenly being REPORTED. This rot was a deliberate policy choice, and I kept the receipts. Because I'm not the BBC.
(A note on what Tories did to cause this, from The Decade In Tory)
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Incredible that Robbie Gibb - most influential person on BBC board by many accounts and from journalists I speak in BBC - was involved in setting up GB News.
GB News of course has breached Ofcom rules on *multiple* occasions - no sign of resignations though
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
GB News of course has breached Ofcom rules on *multiple* occasions - no sign of resignations though
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
‘Enforced veganism’: Ofcom lets GB News flout accuracy rules, say climate campaigners
Exclusive: Regulator has received 1,221 complaints about UK broadcasters since 2020 but found no breaches of its code
www.theguardian.com
November 10, 2025 at 8:25 AM
Incredible that Robbie Gibb - most influential person on BBC board by many accounts and from journalists I speak in BBC - was involved in setting up GB News.
GB News of course has breached Ofcom rules on *multiple* occasions - no sign of resignations though
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
GB News of course has breached Ofcom rules on *multiple* occasions - no sign of resignations though
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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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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New - Louise Haigh and Vicky Foxcroft are reviving the Tribune group to do organising in the PLP along the soft left. Key figure in the welfare rebellion are formalising their organising power ahead of the Budget.
(yes this is one for the nerds)
Story here - www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
(yes this is one for the nerds)
Story here - www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Labour MPs revive ‘desperately needed’ soft left group to take on Reform
Exclusive: Tribune hopes over 100 MPs join group led by Vicky Foxcroft and former cabinet minister Louise Haigh
www.theguardian.com
November 6, 2025 at 3:21 PM
New - Louise Haigh and Vicky Foxcroft are reviving the Tribune group to do organising in the PLP along the soft left. Key figure in the welfare rebellion are formalising their organising power ahead of the Budget.
(yes this is one for the nerds)
Story here - www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
(yes this is one for the nerds)
Story here - www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Solar’s price drop is astonishing: panels are now 98% cheaper than when I first analyzed them in 2004.
Today, building a fence with solar can be cheaper than using wood.
Today, building a fence with solar can be cheaper than using wood.
November 10, 2025 at 8:10 AM
Solar’s price drop is astonishing: panels are now 98% cheaper than when I first analyzed them in 2004.
Today, building a fence with solar can be cheaper than using wood.
Today, building a fence with solar can be cheaper than using wood.
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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
Where was the outrage with this crap?..
BBC One - Panorama, Is Labour Anti-Semitic? share.google/kj5JWVQCQvZ7...
BBC One - Panorama, Is Labour Anti-Semitic? share.google/kj5JWVQCQvZ7...
BBC One - Panorama, Is Labour Anti-Semitic?
Panorama goes inside the anti-Semitism crisis gripping Jeremy Corbyn's Labour Party.
share.google
November 10, 2025 at 6:30 AM
Where was the outrage with this crap?..
BBC One - Panorama, Is Labour Anti-Semitic? share.google/kj5JWVQCQvZ7...
BBC One - Panorama, Is Labour Anti-Semitic? share.google/kj5JWVQCQvZ7...
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If there is 'no money' and the richest are richer than ever, and getting richer faster than ever.
There is only one solution.
And it ain't cuts for Disabled People and pensioners.
There is only one solution.
And it ain't cuts for Disabled People and pensioners.
November 9, 2025 at 4:02 PM
If there is 'no money' and the richest are richer than ever, and getting richer faster than ever.
There is only one solution.
And it ain't cuts for Disabled People and pensioners.
There is only one solution.
And it ain't cuts for Disabled People and pensioners.
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30 years ago Spitting Image dared to broadcast the truth about Israel.
Now no one dares.
Now no one dares.
November 9, 2025 at 5:56 PM
30 years ago Spitting Image dared to broadcast the truth about Israel.
Now no one dares.
Now no one dares.
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Tonight was a very bad night.
November 10, 2025 at 3:09 AM
Tonight was a very bad night.
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BREAKING: Trump’s ICE bans Christians and all people from praying “in front of or inside” the Broadview ICE facility.
So, forced prayer in school is good, but volunteer prayer for the prisoner is banned.
This is what white nationalist Christianity looks like. This is Trump’s fascist America. Smh.
So, forced prayer in school is good, but volunteer prayer for the prisoner is banned.
This is what white nationalist Christianity looks like. This is Trump’s fascist America. Smh.
November 9, 2025 at 5:28 AM
BREAKING: Trump’s ICE bans Christians and all people from praying “in front of or inside” the Broadview ICE facility.
So, forced prayer in school is good, but volunteer prayer for the prisoner is banned.
This is what white nationalist Christianity looks like. This is Trump’s fascist America. Smh.
So, forced prayer in school is good, but volunteer prayer for the prisoner is banned.
This is what white nationalist Christianity looks like. This is Trump’s fascist America. Smh.