Stephenfaherty
@nadaecho.bsky.social
Reposted by Stephenfaherty
Jeremy Bowen really is an outstanding broadcaster. He's a reminder that public service broadcasting can be objective and impartial without needing to be balanced - indeed that balance makes objectivity impossible. I imagine they'll get rid of him soon.
January 8, 2026 at 8:20 AM
Jeremy Bowen really is an outstanding broadcaster. He's a reminder that public service broadcasting can be objective and impartial without needing to be balanced - indeed that balance makes objectivity impossible. I imagine they'll get rid of him soon.
Reposted by Stephenfaherty
Radio 6 is a tribute to all that is best at the BBC. It is inform, educate and entertain in musical form: Utter loveliness. And then they periodically allow the news department to mutilate it with these context-free anti-asylum bulletins, reminding you of all that's worst about the BBC.
Radcliffe and Maconie on BBC 6 music is one of my favourite things
Having it interrupted by breathless news bulletin telling me ‘government has banned taxis for asylum seekers’ *really isn’t*
New lines like ‘Home Office spent £1k over weekend on taxis’ would struggle to make a local newspaper
Having it interrupted by breathless news bulletin telling me ‘government has banned taxis for asylum seekers’ *really isn’t*
New lines like ‘Home Office spent £1k over weekend on taxis’ would struggle to make a local newspaper
November 29, 2025 at 9:01 AM
Radio 6 is a tribute to all that is best at the BBC. It is inform, educate and entertain in musical form: Utter loveliness. And then they periodically allow the news department to mutilate it with these context-free anti-asylum bulletins, reminding you of all that's worst about the BBC.
Reposted by Stephenfaherty
When did journalism change? When I did my journalism postgrad, we were taught to ensure the opening sentence summarised the key info.
Today's online 'news' writers must've been taught to ‘hide the key info until paragraph 14!' so people must tediously scroll through copious ads
Today's online 'news' writers must've been taught to ‘hide the key info until paragraph 14!' so people must tediously scroll through copious ads
May 19, 2025 at 5:45 PM
When did journalism change? When I did my journalism postgrad, we were taught to ensure the opening sentence summarised the key info.
Today's online 'news' writers must've been taught to ‘hide the key info until paragraph 14!' so people must tediously scroll through copious ads
Today's online 'news' writers must've been taught to ‘hide the key info until paragraph 14!' so people must tediously scroll through copious ads
Reposted by Stephenfaherty
The people behind Brexit are the same politicians now using immigrants as scapegoats to win power and divide our country. They trashed our economy and they’ve trashed our politics - don’t let them do it all over again.
May 14, 2025 at 8:19 AM
The people behind Brexit are the same politicians now using immigrants as scapegoats to win power and divide our country. They trashed our economy and they’ve trashed our politics - don’t let them do it all over again.
Reposted by Stephenfaherty
Air pollution has dropped significantly in #Paris in the last 15 years as a result of a deliberate strategy. Mayor @annehidalgo.bsky.social’s leadership has traded car space for green space, safe bike space, kid space.. and traded pollution for people.
Good trade.
Good trade.
April 10, 2025 at 12:17 AM
Air pollution has dropped significantly in #Paris in the last 15 years as a result of a deliberate strategy. Mayor @annehidalgo.bsky.social’s leadership has traded car space for green space, safe bike space, kid space.. and traded pollution for people.
Good trade.
Good trade.
Reposted by Stephenfaherty
Tariffs on → Markets crashed → Super-rich buy in.
Tariffs off → Markets rally → Super-rich even richer.
We used to have a word for this: Criminal.
🎥 TheMainWonk
Tariffs off → Markets rally → Super-rich even richer.
We used to have a word for this: Criminal.
🎥 TheMainWonk
April 11, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Tariffs on → Markets crashed → Super-rich buy in.
Tariffs off → Markets rally → Super-rich even richer.
We used to have a word for this: Criminal.
🎥 TheMainWonk
Tariffs off → Markets rally → Super-rich even richer.
We used to have a word for this: Criminal.
🎥 TheMainWonk
Reposted by Stephenfaherty
Those trying to understand the tariffs as economic policy are dangerously naive.
No, the tariffs are a tool to collapse our democracy. A means to compel loyalty from every business that will need to petition Trump for relief.
1/ A 🧵 to explain his plan and how we fight back.
No, the tariffs are a tool to collapse our democracy. A means to compel loyalty from every business that will need to petition Trump for relief.
1/ A 🧵 to explain his plan and how we fight back.
April 3, 2025 at 3:29 AM
Those trying to understand the tariffs as economic policy are dangerously naive.
No, the tariffs are a tool to collapse our democracy. A means to compel loyalty from every business that will need to petition Trump for relief.
1/ A 🧵 to explain his plan and how we fight back.
No, the tariffs are a tool to collapse our democracy. A means to compel loyalty from every business that will need to petition Trump for relief.
1/ A 🧵 to explain his plan and how we fight back.
Reposted by Stephenfaherty
The UK exports £360bn of goods to the EU, on which we now struggle with big non tariff barriers, compared to £60bn to the US. Imagine looking at this sh1tshow and thinking it vindicates Brexit in any way.
April 3, 2025 at 6:59 AM
The UK exports £360bn of goods to the EU, on which we now struggle with big non tariff barriers, compared to £60bn to the US. Imagine looking at this sh1tshow and thinking it vindicates Brexit in any way.
Reposted by Stephenfaherty
It’s impossible to explain to someone how utterly boring Sunday mornings were for a tween child in the 70s. If your family didn’t go to church and the weather was bad you had a choice of farming programmes (nasal bot treatments anyone), Ed Stewart on the radio or fighting your siblings.
March 6, 2025 at 5:19 PM
It’s impossible to explain to someone how utterly boring Sunday mornings were for a tween child in the 70s. If your family didn’t go to church and the weather was bad you had a choice of farming programmes (nasal bot treatments anyone), Ed Stewart on the radio or fighting your siblings.
Reposted by Stephenfaherty
@privateeyenews.bsky.social on top form as usual this issue.
March 5, 2025 at 7:10 PM
@privateeyenews.bsky.social on top form as usual this issue.
Reposted by Stephenfaherty
Absolutely @deborahmeaden.bsky.social 👏
March 1, 2025 at 9:29 PM
Absolutely @deborahmeaden.bsky.social 👏
Reposted by Stephenfaherty
The scenes in the Oval Office today will shame the US for decades. They’ll never be forgotten.
A world leader, fighting for his country against the 21st century’s Nazis, came to the US and was attacked & abused by a gangster regime siding with the fascist invaders.
A historic disgrace.
A world leader, fighting for his country against the 21st century’s Nazis, came to the US and was attacked & abused by a gangster regime siding with the fascist invaders.
A historic disgrace.
February 28, 2025 at 6:11 PM
The scenes in the Oval Office today will shame the US for decades. They’ll never be forgotten.
A world leader, fighting for his country against the 21st century’s Nazis, came to the US and was attacked & abused by a gangster regime siding with the fascist invaders.
A historic disgrace.
A world leader, fighting for his country against the 21st century’s Nazis, came to the US and was attacked & abused by a gangster regime siding with the fascist invaders.
A historic disgrace.
Reposted by Stephenfaherty
#OnThisDay in 1982, the European Court of Human Rights ruled that using corporal punishment in UK schools, against parents’ wishes, was not OK.
The practice was subsequently banned, benefitting generations of British children.
🔗 www.coe.int/en/web/impac...
#ECHR
The practice was subsequently banned, benefitting generations of British children.
🔗 www.coe.int/en/web/impac...
#ECHR
Teachers stop hitting children after Scottish mums complain to Strasbourg - Impact of the European Convention on Human Rights - www.coe.int
<p>Grace Campbell and Jane Cosans sent their children to state schools which continued to allow the use of corporal punishment. The two mothers complained to the European court, which found that this ...
www.coe.int
February 25, 2025 at 9:28 AM
#OnThisDay in 1982, the European Court of Human Rights ruled that using corporal punishment in UK schools, against parents’ wishes, was not OK.
The practice was subsequently banned, benefitting generations of British children.
🔗 www.coe.int/en/web/impac...
#ECHR
The practice was subsequently banned, benefitting generations of British children.
🔗 www.coe.int/en/web/impac...
#ECHR
Reposted by Stephenfaherty
Reposted by Stephenfaherty
Rare Good News: 80% Of Germans Not Fascists
Rare Good News: 80% Of Germans Not Fascists
INITIAL EXIT polls from German media indicate only 1 in 5 German voters think a Fourth Reich is a really good idea, WWN understands.
The far-right AfD, a party so extreme they even give France's Mari...
waterfordwhispersnews.com
February 24, 2025 at 12:09 PM
Rare Good News: 80% Of Germans Not Fascists
Reposted by Stephenfaherty
The first thing all European governments should do is get off X, get off starlink and start investing in our own technologies and infrastructure.
February 22, 2025 at 11:06 AM
The first thing all European governments should do is get off X, get off starlink and start investing in our own technologies and infrastructure.
Reposted by Stephenfaherty
At the end of the day, it's very simple. Trump and his oligarch friends want to cut programs that working class people rely on, and give huge tax breaks to the very rich
February 20, 2025 at 9:57 AM
At the end of the day, it's very simple. Trump and his oligarch friends want to cut programs that working class people rely on, and give huge tax breaks to the very rich
Reposted by Stephenfaherty
Reposted by Stephenfaherty
Just when you think Donald Trump cannot sink lower or be more shameful, today he's blaming Ukraine for the war and calling Zelinsky a dictator, when he knows perfectly well that Putin's constant re-elections are put-up jobs.
February 19, 2025 at 5:09 PM
Just when you think Donald Trump cannot sink lower or be more shameful, today he's blaming Ukraine for the war and calling Zelinsky a dictator, when he knows perfectly well that Putin's constant re-elections are put-up jobs.
Reposted by Stephenfaherty
Pretty disturbed by some of the Kremlin framing on the Trump talks being bought by parts of the media worldwide. It’s as if the genesis of the war is entirely forgotten. This isn’t a conflict which needs mediation. It was an unprovoked act of aggression. It could end tomorrow if Putin just withdrew.
February 18, 2025 at 12:11 PM
Pretty disturbed by some of the Kremlin framing on the Trump talks being bought by parts of the media worldwide. It’s as if the genesis of the war is entirely forgotten. This isn’t a conflict which needs mediation. It was an unprovoked act of aggression. It could end tomorrow if Putin just withdrew.
Reposted by Stephenfaherty
Ed Davey has backed Keir Starmer’s plan to deploy British troops as part of a Ukraine peacekeeping mission, and accuses Reform of being ‘Trump bootlickers’
February 17, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Ed Davey has backed Keir Starmer’s plan to deploy British troops as part of a Ukraine peacekeeping mission, and accuses Reform of being ‘Trump bootlickers’
Reposted by Stephenfaherty
I visited Auschwitz many years ago. The thing that made me weep and still does was the cabinet full of women’s hair shorn off to sell before they were murdered. Remember them every day not just today @AuschwitzMuseum
January 27, 2025 at 8:31 PM
I visited Auschwitz many years ago. The thing that made me weep and still does was the cabinet full of women’s hair shorn off to sell before they were murdered. Remember them every day not just today @AuschwitzMuseum
Reposted by Stephenfaherty
Absolute genius
⚠️ BREAKING: What Is Causing Extreme Weather?
👇🏻 Please watch this latest #BrokenNews report, then share.
youtu.be/_X2p9dMsNFY?...
👇🏻 Please watch this latest #BrokenNews report, then share.
youtu.be/_X2p9dMsNFY?...
What Is Causing Extreme Weather? - #BrokenNews
YouTube video by Larry & Paul
youtu.be
January 24, 2025 at 10:07 AM
Absolute genius
Reposted by Stephenfaherty
Reposted by Stephenfaherty
This is important & necessary. I’d add only that a) It’s clear many of the political & media figures deliberately ignoring these facts are playing with the sort of fire we saw on our streets this summer & b) Laura Kuenssberg’s failure to point this out to Farage was an appalling dereliction of duty.
Some people in recent days have alleged a ‘cover-up’ over the grooming & rape of hundreds of young girls in predominantly northern UK towns, leading to calls for a ‘national’ public inquiry into child sexual exploitation
FWIW here’s a non-exhaustive list of inquiries into #CSE in last 12 yrs…
FWIW here’s a non-exhaustive list of inquiries into #CSE in last 12 yrs…
January 5, 2025 at 2:20 PM
This is important & necessary. I’d add only that a) It’s clear many of the political & media figures deliberately ignoring these facts are playing with the sort of fire we saw on our streets this summer & b) Laura Kuenssberg’s failure to point this out to Farage was an appalling dereliction of duty.