Simon Charles
@simoncmy.bsky.social
UK, Liberal, Spurs. 80s kid so Gen something or other.
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The BBC problem in a nutshell: they got so tangled up and flagellating on the issue of 'balance' that they over-represented the fringe extremists (which is what Reform still are, fringe and extremists) and unbalanced itself.
November 10, 2025 at 8:28 AM
The BBC problem in a nutshell: they got so tangled up and flagellating on the issue of 'balance' that they over-represented the fringe extremists (which is what Reform still are, fringe and extremists) and unbalanced itself.
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A national newspaper journalist went on a British TV channel to claim police stats showed asylum-seekers committed 44% of sex crimes in Dorset.
This shocking claim was treated as fact by the channel which promoted the clip on social media where it was amplified by AI.
Except... it's bollocks.
This shocking claim was treated as fact by the channel which promoted the clip on social media where it was amplified by AI.
Except... it's bollocks.
November 8, 2025 at 8:39 AM
A national newspaper journalist went on a British TV channel to claim police stats showed asylum-seekers committed 44% of sex crimes in Dorset.
This shocking claim was treated as fact by the channel which promoted the clip on social media where it was amplified by AI.
Except... it's bollocks.
This shocking claim was treated as fact by the channel which promoted the clip on social media where it was amplified by AI.
Except... it's bollocks.
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Ticket sales for the Washington National Opera have collapsed since Trump took over the Kennedy center
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Washington National Opera may move out of Kennedy Center due to Trump ‘takeover’
Ticket sales at about 40% unsold compared with before president made himself chair of US performing arts center
www.theguardian.com
November 8, 2025 at 1:57 PM
Ticket sales for the Washington National Opera have collapsed since Trump took over the Kennedy center
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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"World's first potential trillionaire has killed 600,000 people, including 400,000 children" is the only headline that anyone should ever read about Elon Musk
One analytical model shows that, as of November 5th, the dismantling of U.S.A.I.D. has already caused the deaths of 600,000 people, two-thirds of them children. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/jUzNSc
The Shutdown of U.S.A.I.D. Has Already Killed Hundreds of Thousands
The short documentary “Rovina’s Choice” tells the story of what goes when aid goes.
newyorkermag.visitlink.me
November 7, 2025 at 1:33 AM
"World's first potential trillionaire has killed 600,000 people, including 400,000 children" is the only headline that anyone should ever read about Elon Musk
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One analytical model shows that, as of November 5th, the dismantling of U.S.A.I.D. has already caused the deaths of 600,000 people, two-thirds of them children. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/jUzNSc
The Shutdown of U.S.A.I.D. Has Already Killed Hundreds of Thousands
The short documentary “Rovina’s Choice” tells the story of what goes when aid goes.
newyorkermag.visitlink.me
November 6, 2025 at 9:00 PM
One analytical model shows that, as of November 5th, the dismantling of U.S.A.I.D. has already caused the deaths of 600,000 people, two-thirds of them children. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/jUzNSc
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Appalled to hear that the so-called "Trump insurrection", for which the House of Representatives voted to impeach him in January 2021, was actually a hoax created by a BBC documentary made in 2024 and transmitted back in time by woke scientists and the deep state
“The BBC didn’t get January 6 wrong. It should be brave enough to say so. Whoever wrote the internal report seen by The Telegraph is either malign or mistaken. The way it has been weaponised to attack the BBC shows the folly of trying to appease Team Trump, or to negotiate with them in good faith.”
The BBC was right about the Capitol riots. In a sane world, Trump would be in jail
Trump faced impeachment over the riots, and in a world where Republicans had more courage, he would have been found guilty
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November 4, 2025 at 4:07 PM
Appalled to hear that the so-called "Trump insurrection", for which the House of Representatives voted to impeach him in January 2021, was actually a hoax created by a BBC documentary made in 2024 and transmitted back in time by woke scientists and the deep state
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There has been entirely too little scrutiny about the fact the American Starmerism media elites have been advocating for has been a political disaster for UK Labour.
We have a contemporary blueprint for how they want Dems to govern!
We have a contemporary blueprint for how they want Dems to govern!
if you start from the view that there's a policy compromise you can make that will calm people down, you can end up supporting some very authoritarian stuff very quickly
uk labour was elected 18 months ago on a pledge to make trans peoples lives easier, now they're implementing a bathroom ban
uk labour was elected 18 months ago on a pledge to make trans peoples lives easier, now they're implementing a bathroom ban
November 5, 2025 at 5:33 PM
There has been entirely too little scrutiny about the fact the American Starmerism media elites have been advocating for has been a political disaster for UK Labour.
We have a contemporary blueprint for how they want Dems to govern!
We have a contemporary blueprint for how they want Dems to govern!
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Tonight's even more proof the mainstream reporters who are still on Twitter are suffering from a brain problem akin Havana Syndrome that is preventing them from accurately doing their jobs. They are being cooked alive by a snuff-focused apartheid algorithm.
November 5, 2025 at 3:27 AM
Tonight's even more proof the mainstream reporters who are still on Twitter are suffering from a brain problem akin Havana Syndrome that is preventing them from accurately doing their jobs. They are being cooked alive by a snuff-focused apartheid algorithm.
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Today’s Big 45
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November 4, 2025 at 7:03 AM
Today’s Big 45
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Nigel Farage, whose party recently put a teenager with zero work experience of any kind, in charge of running an entire county, is currently giving a speech railing against "unqualified" politicians being put in charge of Government departments
November 3, 2025 at 11:24 AM
Nigel Farage, whose party recently put a teenager with zero work experience of any kind, in charge of running an entire county, is currently giving a speech railing against "unqualified" politicians being put in charge of Government departments
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Nigel Farage, whose own adviser was convicted of fraud after admitting to advertising money laundering services on the dark web, is now complaining about banks having to implement "money laundering directives"
November 3, 2025 at 11:28 AM
Nigel Farage, whose own adviser was convicted of fraud after admitting to advertising money laundering services on the dark web, is now complaining about banks having to implement "money laundering directives"
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There is perpetual hand wringing and recrimination about leftist elitism towards right wingers. But I never hear anything about extreme and hateful elitism towards those the right deems beneath them. Look at what they're saying about snap recipients right now. They're seething with rage.
I know this reinforces a narrative about condescending leftists calling all conservatives bigots but I'm sorry, every form of data — anecdotes, polling and public statements by conservatives — indicate that these are the main drivers.
It's a doomed quest to keep looking for good underneath evil.
It's a doomed quest to keep looking for good underneath evil.
October 31, 2025 at 11:56 PM
There is perpetual hand wringing and recrimination about leftist elitism towards right wingers. But I never hear anything about extreme and hateful elitism towards those the right deems beneath them. Look at what they're saying about snap recipients right now. They're seething with rage.
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We forced the Charity Commission to investigate the climate change denying Global Warming Policy Foundation and the Liz Truss aligned Institute for Economic Affairs and now we've raised a complaint about the hate propagandising of the Policy Exchange Foundation. goodlaw.social/xixz
Policy Exchange’s transphobic campaigning breaches charity law | Good Law Project
Policy Exchange, a rightwing think-tank set up for the “non-partisan advancement of education of the public” has been flagrantly breaching its objects and charity law. We’ve made a formal complaint to...
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October 30, 2025 at 8:21 AM
We forced the Charity Commission to investigate the climate change denying Global Warming Policy Foundation and the Liz Truss aligned Institute for Economic Affairs and now we've raised a complaint about the hate propagandising of the Policy Exchange Foundation. goodlaw.social/xixz
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Karoline Leavitt officially announced the "Launch of a large-scale investigation to find the people behind 'No Kings.'"
I've saved her some time.
I've saved her some time.
October 29, 2025 at 4:54 AM
Karoline Leavitt officially announced the "Launch of a large-scale investigation to find the people behind 'No Kings.'"
I've saved her some time.
I've saved her some time.
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"To say 'Zelenskyy is no friend of the working class' is an insulting, facile distraction from the fact that Sultana refuses to support the Ukrainian people’s fight for existence."
Proper cold fury and moral clarity from @paulmason.bsky.social on Sultana.
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Proper cold fury and moral clarity from @paulmason.bsky.social on Sultana.
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Coventry South needs a by-election soon
Zarah Sultana has no mandate for disarming the people of Britain and betraying Ukraine
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October 28, 2025 at 3:06 PM
"To say 'Zelenskyy is no friend of the working class' is an insulting, facile distraction from the fact that Sultana refuses to support the Ukrainian people’s fight for existence."
Proper cold fury and moral clarity from @paulmason.bsky.social on Sultana.
open.substack.com/pub/htsf/p/c...
Proper cold fury and moral clarity from @paulmason.bsky.social on Sultana.
open.substack.com/pub/htsf/p/c...
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This is what tolerance of anti-migrant political rhetoric leads to. A surge in racial abuse against nurses and care workers. www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
Racist incidents against UK nurses surge by 55%
Royal College of Nursing calls on government to stop using anti-migrant rhetoric, which it says emboldens racist behaviour
www.theguardian.com
October 27, 2025 at 8:53 AM
This is what tolerance of anti-migrant political rhetoric leads to. A surge in racial abuse against nurses and care workers. www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
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Good to see the country moving on from identity politics
I made an image of all the art posted by US DOL on X since approximately Labor Day
October 26, 2025 at 3:17 PM
Good to see the country moving on from identity politics
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Nothing on the BBC Radio news this morning. Nothing I could find on their website. This is an MP from the party whose lead in the opinion polls normally ensures them wall-to-wall coverage. She spouts racist nonsense for which even she feels obliged to apologise. What on earth are they playing at?
Reform’s Sarah Pochin forced to apologise after claiming adverts 'full of black people' drive her 'mad’ | LBC
The Runcorn and Helsby MP was responding to a viewer live on air who complained about the demographics of advertising.
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October 26, 2025 at 6:57 AM
Nothing on the BBC Radio news this morning. Nothing I could find on their website. This is an MP from the party whose lead in the opinion polls normally ensures them wall-to-wall coverage. She spouts racist nonsense for which even she feels obliged to apologise. What on earth are they playing at?
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Sadly, we no longer live in a functioning democracy.
October 25, 2025 at 2:53 PM
Sadly, we no longer live in a functioning democracy.
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Truly astonishing, the things people will say out loud in the year of our lord 2025
Reform UK MP Sarah Pochin, “It drives me mad seeing adverts full of black people, full of Asian people, full of anything other than white"
Followed by that time Sarah Pochin said, "My kids say: mum, you're such a moron" 👀
Followed by that time Sarah Pochin said, "My kids say: mum, you're such a moron" 👀
October 25, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Truly astonishing, the things people will say out loud in the year of our lord 2025
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approximately seven million people were out in the streets protesting last week. these people need to grow a spine. www.ft.com/content/1377...
Ed Luce watching democracy die in the United States of America
October 24, 2025 at 1:47 PM
approximately seven million people were out in the streets protesting last week. these people need to grow a spine. www.ft.com/content/1377...
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Up so early that Bluesky is still British
October 24, 2025 at 10:44 AM
Up so early that Bluesky is still British
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Westminster journos reporting from the by-election where reform came second
October 24, 2025 at 11:16 AM
Westminster journos reporting from the by-election where reform came second
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This is the asymmetry in our politics and media. If this was the other way around, Biden had pardoned someone then charged with trying to kill Trump, it would be the biggest story in America and every Republican commentator, congressman, news outlet, would be screaming about it in unison.
Pardoned Capitol rioter charged with threatening to kill Hakeem Jeffries at NYC event this week
A pardoned Capitol rioter was arrested last weekend for allegedly threatening to kill the top House Democrat.
www.cbsnews.com
October 21, 2025 at 1:56 PM
This is the asymmetry in our politics and media. If this was the other way around, Biden had pardoned someone then charged with trying to kill Trump, it would be the biggest story in America and every Republican commentator, congressman, news outlet, would be screaming about it in unison.
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If only there was some visual metaphor for what the current incumbent at the White House was doing to the great office of President.
October 21, 2025 at 2:44 PM
If only there was some visual metaphor for what the current incumbent at the White House was doing to the great office of President.