Paul Blinkhorn
@paulblinkhorn.bsky.social
Grumpy Old Archaeologist/Time Team Pot Monkey/Beer Drinker/Biker/Green Socialist/Gardener/Bird Feeder/Pond botherer. Meetings Secretary and Tea-Boy for the Merseyside chapter of Antifa. SaintsRL/LiverpoolFC/ChicagoWhiteSox
This one seems very pertinent again. That BBC impartiality in action...
November 11, 2025 at 6:44 PM
This one seems very pertinent again. That BBC impartiality in action...
"Baffled archaeologists not actually baffled" news #ancientbluesky #archaeology
Researchers baffled by 1,300-year-old Orkney remains: Were the Picts not wiped out?
A new archaeological study from Orkney has challenged long-held assumptions about one of Scotland’s most mysterious races – the Picts.
www.heraldscotland.com
November 11, 2025 at 5:01 PM
"Baffled archaeologists not actually baffled" news #ancientbluesky #archaeology
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If we're talking about bias, why do BBC politics programmes, from Politics Live to the Laura Kuennsberg Show, still always begin with a look at the newspaper front pages, which are overwhelmingly biased in one direction. Helps frame the entire news agenda and debate in their favour
November 11, 2025 at 1:09 PM
If we're talking about bias, why do BBC politics programmes, from Politics Live to the Laura Kuennsberg Show, still always begin with a look at the newspaper front pages, which are overwhelmingly biased in one direction. Helps frame the entire news agenda and debate in their favour
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🚨The @college-de-france.fr just canceled a conference on Palestinien history organized by one of its faculty.
Absolute shame on them for caving in to Zionist bullies and, thereby, betraying the values of academic freedom they claim to uphold 1/
Absolute shame on them for caving in to Zionist bullies and, thereby, betraying the values of academic freedom they claim to uphold 1/
⚡️📄 Lettre au Collège de France suite à la censure de l’événement « La Palestine et l’Europe ».
Nous proposons d’accueillir ce colloque dans l’enceinte de l’Assemblée nationale et de le placer ainsi sous le patronnage de la représentation nationale.
Nous proposons d’accueillir ce colloque dans l’enceinte de l’Assemblée nationale et de le placer ainsi sous le patronnage de la représentation nationale.
November 10, 2025 at 5:04 PM
🚨The @college-de-france.fr just canceled a conference on Palestinien history organized by one of its faculty.
Absolute shame on them for caving in to Zionist bullies and, thereby, betraying the values of academic freedom they claim to uphold 1/
Absolute shame on them for caving in to Zionist bullies and, thereby, betraying the values of academic freedom they claim to uphold 1/
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@stopfundinghate.bsky.social
Just caught this on @lbc.co.uk news.
Glad I did as I certainly won't be using Checkatrade ever again
Just caught this on @lbc.co.uk news.
Glad I did as I certainly won't be using Checkatrade ever again
November 10, 2025 at 2:24 PM
@stopfundinghate.bsky.social
Just caught this on @lbc.co.uk news.
Glad I did as I certainly won't be using Checkatrade ever again
Just caught this on @lbc.co.uk news.
Glad I did as I certainly won't be using Checkatrade ever again
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Maybe Guardian could report on this?
www.middleeasteye.net/news/maccabi...
www.middleeasteye.net/news/maccabi...
Maccabi Haifa fans attack Palestinian restaurant goers after match ends in draw
Several injured after Israeli football fans attack Palestinians dining at a restaurant with knives, sticks and bottles
www.middleeasteye.net
November 11, 2025 at 10:36 AM
Maybe Guardian could report on this?
www.middleeasteye.net/news/maccabi...
www.middleeasteye.net/news/maccabi...
To everyone on SM wondering why Starmer hasn't cleared out all the far-right headcases like Gibb on the BBC board: It's because Keith's mission is to keep the left well away from power + maintain the status quo until the CON/REF arm-wrestle is sorted + the winner can take power. Hope this helps.
November 11, 2025 at 10:07 AM
To everyone on SM wondering why Starmer hasn't cleared out all the far-right headcases like Gibb on the BBC board: It's because Keith's mission is to keep the left well away from power + maintain the status quo until the CON/REF arm-wrestle is sorted + the winner can take power. Hope this helps.
BBC impartiality: A full list of all the British MEPs who appeared on BBC Question Time.
November 11, 2025 at 12:11 AM
BBC impartiality: A full list of all the British MEPs who appeared on BBC Question Time.
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#OtD 10 Nov 1984 1000 people protested in Rugby, England, against the local council removing LGBT+ people from their equal opportunities policy. The Sun tabloid supported the "brave" Tory council for confronting the "sick nonsense" of LGBT+ rights stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8236...
November 10, 2025 at 8:40 PM
#OtD 10 Nov 1984 1000 people protested in Rugby, England, against the local council removing LGBT+ people from their equal opportunities policy. The Sun tabloid supported the "brave" Tory council for confronting the "sick nonsense" of LGBT+ rights stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8236...
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AI chatbots could help stop prisoner release errors, says justice minister
AI chatbots could help stop prisoner release errors, says justice minister
HMP Wandsworth gets ‘green light’ to use AI after team sent in to find ‘quick fixes’ after spate of mistakes
Artificial intelligence chatbots could be used to stop prisoners from being mistakenly released from jail, a justice minister told the House of Lords on Monday.
Lord Timpson said HMP Wandsworth had been given the “green light” to use artificial intelligence (AI) after a specialised team was sent in to find “some quick fixes”. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
November 10, 2025 at 7:33 PM
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'Three-quarters of people support a wealth tax – yet none of the establishment parties will touch it. So parts of the media close ranks when the vast wealth of their owners and the policies of their friends in Westminster come under threat.'
Every personal attack.
Every attempt to distract or to divide.
It energises, strengthens and empowers our movement.
Lower bills. Tax billionaires. Join us.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Every attempt to distract or to divide.
It energises, strengthens and empowers our movement.
Lower bills. Tax billionaires. Join us.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
The right can mock my teeth all it wants – it shows the Greens have struck a nerve | Zack Polanski
As a politician, I expect opposition and debate. But when it centres on personal insults, not policies, something else is going on, says the leader of the Green party, Zack Polanski
www.theguardian.com
November 10, 2025 at 3:29 PM
'Three-quarters of people support a wealth tax – yet none of the establishment parties will touch it. So parts of the media close ranks when the vast wealth of their owners and the policies of their friends in Westminster come under threat.'
Who better for the BBC to get to talk about journalistic standards than the man responsible for the S*n front page blaming Liverpool fans for the Hillsborough disaster?
November 10, 2025 at 1:39 PM
Who better for the BBC to get to talk about journalistic standards than the man responsible for the S*n front page blaming Liverpool fans for the Hillsborough disaster?
Up until now, there have been 17 director-generals of the BBC. 13 of them went to public school. Overall, 7% of the population went to public school. It's a club. You're not in it, peasant.
Director-General of the BBC - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
November 10, 2025 at 1:17 PM
Up until now, there have been 17 director-generals of the BBC. 13 of them went to public school. Overall, 7% of the population went to public school. It's a club. You're not in it, peasant.
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BREAKING: At least two Palestinians, including a child, have been killed in an Israeli drone attack east of Gaza's Khan Younis, Al Jazeera’s team on the ground and Wafa are reporting.
🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/8wt2nx
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November 10, 2025 at 10:03 AM
BREAKING: At least two Palestinians, including a child, have been killed in an Israeli drone attack east of Gaza's Khan Younis, Al Jazeera’s team on the ground and Wafa are reporting.
🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/8wt2nx
🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/8wt2nx
Remember: Don't call them Nazis because it hurts their feelings
Palestinian woman Umm Zuhri Shweiki was forcibly expelled from her home in occupied East Jerusalem by Israeli forces, who seized and emptied her house before handing it to Israeli settlers.
November 10, 2025 at 11:02 AM
Remember: Don't call them Nazis because it hurts their feelings
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See also: Kier Starmer.
Gary Lineker: "This is the mistake the BBC makes. The BBC tries to appease the people that hate the BBC, rather than worrying about the people that love the BBC."
November 10, 2025 at 10:12 AM
See also: Kier Starmer.
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"[name of someone famous and vaguely progressive with a snappy turn of phrase] should run for Director General of the BBC!" like that's how it works and like they won't shove in some absolute nazi who loves rich people and hates trans women and Palestinians just like before but even more this time.
November 10, 2025 at 10:32 AM
"[name of someone famous and vaguely progressive with a snappy turn of phrase] should run for Director General of the BBC!" like that's how it works and like they won't shove in some absolute nazi who loves rich people and hates trans women and Palestinians just like before but even more this time.
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Note that still in post at the BBC is Robbie Gibb, who helped set up GB News, and John McAndrew, formerly director of news and programmes at GB News.
November 10, 2025 at 5:56 AM
Note that still in post at the BBC is Robbie Gibb, who helped set up GB News, and John McAndrew, formerly director of news and programmes at GB News.
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There’s a lot of appeasing of bullies going on at the moment. People should know better, not only because of history, but also because of their experience in the playground. Unless of course the appeasers *were* the bullies in the playground or, more likely, their cowardly sidekicks.
November 10, 2025 at 8:43 AM
There’s a lot of appeasing of bullies going on at the moment. People should know better, not only because of history, but also because of their experience in the playground. Unless of course the appeasers *were* the bullies in the playground or, more likely, their cowardly sidekicks.
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This country would be one step closer to being better if we banned the sale of fireworks and disposable barbecues in supermarkets.
November 9, 2025 at 10:55 PM
This country would be one step closer to being better if we banned the sale of fireworks and disposable barbecues in supermarkets.
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Shitler Youth gobshite 'Young Bob' is a journalist in much the way that a gerbil is a wardrobe.
November 9, 2025 at 12:11 PM
Shitler Youth gobshite 'Young Bob' is a journalist in much the way that a gerbil is a wardrobe.
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The BBC's senior leadership resigning en masse over one dodgy edit in one programme, simply because the right wing press demands it, tells you everything you need to know about where the power really lies in that relationship
November 9, 2025 at 8:04 PM
The BBC's senior leadership resigning en masse over one dodgy edit in one programme, simply because the right wing press demands it, tells you everything you need to know about where the power really lies in that relationship
First pic of the emerging favourite to replace Tim Davie as DG of the BBC
November 9, 2025 at 7:29 PM
First pic of the emerging favourite to replace Tim Davie as DG of the BBC
Quite right too. It's like when Laura Kuenssberg resigned after she edited footage of Jeremy Corbyn so that he was giving an answer to an entirely different question. Oh, did I say "resigned"? Sorry, I meant "got promoted", because that's BBC impartiality, right there.
November 9, 2025 at 7:21 PM
Quite right too. It's like when Laura Kuenssberg resigned after she edited footage of Jeremy Corbyn so that he was giving an answer to an entirely different question. Oh, did I say "resigned"? Sorry, I meant "got promoted", because that's BBC impartiality, right there.