BBC Director-General Tim Davie and its CEO of #BBCNews and Current Affairs, Deborah Turness, have resigned reports @financialtimes.com on.ft.com/3JTK2Ya

@deborahturness also heads up #BBCVerify, which ignored the @BBC’s own disinformation and is a bad-faith tool that should be shut down.

To those going on or supporting the #March4Palestine in London today:

“End the Genocide” they shout, again, and again, and again.

Yet they never define “genocide”, let alone explain how a genocide has taken place, or is taking place…

Read on @X:
x.com/Nico_Macdona...

Two minutes’ silence for the sailors, soldiers and airmen who fought for Victory in Europe, at our local war memorial in Margate.

Also for those who were injured or died in air-raids, and munitions factory disasters.

And those who helped the Dunkirk evacuation.

#VEDay80 #VEDay

“It is the duty of key leadership figures in the music industry to actively defend artistic freedom of expression” claim musos and artists who consider death threats to be ‘political views’, but never ‘actively defended’ one of theirs whose actual political views offend them.

The @FT can’t get over Brexit (on.ft.com/4jfFpUS)

On #TrumpTariffs, Kate Martin’s ‘advice to shell-shocked Americans from Britons skilled at navigating humiliation’ makes clear the humiliation was the polis doing two fingers to right-thinking middle-class London journos.

Follow #BennettInstitute for Public Policy (@bennettinstitute.cam.ac.uk) Annual Conference @churchillcol.bsky.social Cambridge, with sessions on Wicked Problems; Investment imperative; Rethinking work; Political disenchantment; and Misinformation. Keynote lecture by (@profsanderlinden.bsky.social)

Interesting episode of @Naom Alderman’s (@naomialderman.bsky.social) Human Intelligence show @BBCRadio4 on Travellers: Jean Rhys (www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...), hung on her novel Wide Sargasso Sea (www.goodreads.com/book/show/25...

@mariannaspringbbc.bsky.social What’s the #BBCVerify analysis of the documentary Gaza: How to Survive a Warzone (www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...)?

Verify’s analysis isn’t noted in the 27 February @BBCMediaCentre press release on the documentary (www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/...) bsky.app/profile/laur...

On UK Govt demanding access to Apple encrypted user data, on #BBCWatO former Twitter exec @brucedaisley.com argues:

‘The second-order effects of this… could be that, now we have entered a new presidential government in the US, we find that the US are quite sympathetic, “I want the same access”.’

‘Legacy media is in some trouble because people don’t trust us. For such a prominent media organisation… to have indulged in this kind of behaviour… is really damaging to the cause of journalism’ – Alan Rusbridger (https://buff.ly/40uzFhE) on #BBCPM on the Sun’s settlement with Prince Harry

The inauguration of Donald Trump as US president represents the electoral failure of modern Left-liberalism and Democratic politics.

It failed to honestly defend its positions to its critics, or advance its arguments in good faith in #Elections2024

We need a better opposition to Trump-Vance.

Great news that the Israeli Briton Emily Damari, a hostage held in Gaza since October 7th, ‘will be released by Hamas today as part of the ceasefire deal’ (t.co/f2BvpeWjMv) reports the Telegraph (@telegraphnews.bsky.social)

#ReleaseEmily #BringThemHomeNow #LetThemGoNow

In 1996, JavaScript made Web popups possible. We marvelled: This static page could change!

Today, sites/apps suffer “interface pollution”, with rollovers spawning ‘bubbles’ and controls.

But neither should designers hide UI controls under rollovers, as @OpenAI does in ChatGPT.

Transport journalist, former MP and Transport Under-Secretary Norman Baker on Julia Hartley-Brewer with show #TalkTV with Alex Phillips, on the increase in motoring offences, the irrationality of enforcing all the 20mph limits and allowing motorists to judge for themselves… https://buff.ly/41lj8yI

Journalist Nicole Lampert (@nicolelampert.bsky.social ) on the Peter Cardwell show #TalkTV reports on the attack by other pupils on those from the North London-based JFS Jewish mixed comprehensive school and notes that #Antisemitism in the UK ‘is entering a violent phase’ (https://buff.ly/3VeV1Om)

Even after a sobering loss in #Election2024 the Harris Fight Fund continues to promote unsubstantiated assertions about Trump seeking “fewer rights and freedoms”, “prosecuting political enemies” and “building a government full of sycophants”. Read on… https://buff.ly/4fSHQdY

Watching live: On the Precipice public meeting hosted by Our Fight (@OurFightUK) and British Friends of Israel on why standing for civilisation means standing with Israel, with Mick Hume and Allison Pearson

Venue in NW London not disclosed due to antisemitic threats

On the NCHI she’s accused of, Allison Pearson @JuliaHB1 #TalkTV notes:

‘Braverman wanted to scrap non-crime hate incidents and introduced statutory guidance… The police were supposed “to rein it in”… and not misuse these to blight people’s lives and restrict Free Speech but they have scaled it up.’

After the #Elections2024 shock, the #TwitterExit @Bluesky Threads @joinmastodon is the opposite of what the liberal-Left needs.

Which is to better understand everyday people. Or it will turn to political reaction.

And the profound debate will be @X, between those they deplore.