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One of those lefty types.
Remainer.
Retired rugby player with retired knees.
West Ham fan.
Darts player 🎯
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I remain genuinely gobsmacked that this wasn’t picked up more. The Alex Jones who *repeatedly accused grieving parents of making up their children’s murders*.
Anyway, “after the news we’ll be joined by Nigel Farage & definitely won’t be asking him about any of this…”
On US TV shows and podcasts from 2009-18, Farage discussed supposed plots by bankers to create a global government, citing Goldman Sachs, the Bilderberg group and George Soros as threats to democracy. Included six guest slots with the disgraced far-right US conspiracy theorist Alex Jones.
November 24, 2025 at 8:01 AM
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“Have they given up? Are they just deciding to build up herd immunity by watching us die? The government has given up, hasn’t it? They are throwing us into the slaughterhouse.”
It’s not hindsight - we knew this at the time @drrachelclarke.com writes:
observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
I’ll never forget the horror of the Covid wards | The Observer
observer.co.uk
November 23, 2025 at 10:02 AM
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The Telegraph’s BBC hypocrisy

Follow Sam Bright on Substack. He specialises in exposing dark money and the trends in the far right full of charlatans

open.substack.com/pub/writesbr...
The Telegraph’s BBC hypocrisy
A paper that knows a thing or two about editorial f*ck-ups...
open.substack.com
November 23, 2025 at 12:12 PM
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The Daily Mail has bought the Telegraph.

This is Lord Rothermere's (the owner of the Daily Mail) Grandfather chilling with Adolf Hitler after he had already declared himself lifetime dictator of Germany.
November 22, 2025 at 8:02 PM
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So the line is that he wasn't getting paid for any of this
November 22, 2025 at 5:33 PM
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Ed Davey is writing to all Labour MPs urging them to back a bill in favour of a customs union with the EU as the best way to boost growth and raise revenue. The Lib Dems hope to demonstrate support among pro-EU MPs for the idea of a new customs union.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Lib Dems to force vote on creating new customs union with EU
Ed Davey’s party believes the move is the best way to ‘turbocharge’ economy, rather than tax rises
www.theguardian.com
November 21, 2025 at 1:21 PM
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The real BBC bias story, narrated by Anna Ford
November 19, 2025 at 12:12 PM
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So proud of our flagship Kent Council, who cut wasteful spending by painting yellow lines outside a school that has been closed for nine years.
November 16, 2025 at 1:49 PM
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There were 93 homicides in London last year: population 9 million

In New York - population 8.5 million - there were
391.

London's homicide figure is 6 times lower than LA, 9 times lower than Miami, 17 times lower than Chicago.

And it's falling year on year despite the population increasing
November 16, 2025 at 5:28 PM
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Just some British patriots in Benidorm, taking over a street in Spain to shout in their own language about unwanted foreigners. It’s a blessing that they are too thick to understand irony.
November 14, 2025 at 6:05 PM
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Farage, Boris Johnson & Rees-Mogg apparently plotting assaults on UK democracy with Bannon, who was reporting back to Epstein. Nothing to see here, newspaper folk…
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Emails highlight Jeffrey Epstein and Steve Bannon relationship
New documents show the pair discussing travel arrangements and UK politics in messages from 2018.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 15, 2025 at 7:47 AM
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The Telegraph sides with Trump against the BBC and, so, the country.

Private Eye sums up its feeble-minded, fawning betrayal beautifully.
November 13, 2025 at 7:30 AM
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Robbie Gibb was appointed to the BBC Board by Boris Johnson, was an editorial advisor for GB News, and worked as Theresa May's Director of Comms.

He is not impartial or neutral. The government should remove him from the Board immediately to protect the BBC's independence.
November 11, 2025 at 1:00 PM
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It takes an obscene amount of hubris to lecture the BBC when you have The Telegraph’s record on truth-telling.

Some of the paper’s errors this year are so bad they’re almost laughable 👇🏻
The Telegraph’s BBC hypocrisy
A paper that knows a thing or two about editorial f*ck-ups...
writesbright.substack.com
November 10, 2025 at 7:48 PM
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Nearly two years ago, I wrote about the extraordinary influence of former Tory spin doctor Sir Robbie Gibb on the BBC. It's still a helpful backgrounder for what's going on now. New readers start here: www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/media/...
How the government captured the BBC
A right-wing cabal, largely unaccountable, is waging war on the principles that made our public broadcaster great. It must not succeed
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk
November 10, 2025 at 3:52 PM
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Also reminder of this

Robbie Gibb cancelled an investigation into Farage's Leave dot EU campaign shortly before the EU Ref

Arron Banks thanked him for it

"Robbie Gibb is being quite helpful and says he’s trying to hose it down."

cc @baghdaddi.bsky.social
"Funnily enough Andy [Wigmore], the only time I ever experienced political interference in one of my investigations at the BBC, was when I was investigating you and Arron Banks

Your mate Robbie Gibb put a stop to a story we were running."

- former BBC investigative reporter Manveen Rana, 2022
November 10, 2025 at 6:55 AM
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White House gloats over the resignations of Tim Davie and Deborah Turness, posting a meme on social media implying Trump’s influence toppled the BBC executives

The Guardian: The BBC is facing a coordinated, politically motivated attack.
Daily Telegraph Disinformation Check
This blog challenges statements made by The Daily Telegraph by quoting other sources and giving our own editorial view.
westenglandbylines.co.uk
November 10, 2025 at 10:35 AM
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This looks rather meaningful.
November 10, 2025 at 9:40 AM
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Headline from a serious and long working paper on the economic impact of Brexit. Possible that this has been feeding into OBR and HMT discussions?
November 10, 2025 at 9:33 AM
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James Cartlidge devotes his entire #PMQs stint to pressing David Lammy over whether any "asylum seeking offender" has been accidentally released from prison since Kebatu.

He did not ask whether any UK nationals, who account for 88% of offenders, have been accidentally released.
November 5, 2025 at 12:38 PM
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1/3

You may have heard @mrjamesob.bsky.social recommending an article on his show yesterday.

"Who Goes Nazi?" by renowned American journalist Dorothy Thompson, is a wonderful piece of writing. ⬇️

#DorothyThompson

youtu.be/ouK3fzCqCMc?...
Dorothy Thompson - Who Goes Nazi? (Her voice modelled on a genuine 1934 broadcast)
YouTube video by Quiet Majority
youtu.be
November 5, 2025 at 9:59 AM
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➡️ Resigned
Mark Whittington
Gaynor Jean-Louis
Wayne Titley
Donna Edmunds
Luke Shingler
Desmond Clarke
Andrew Kilburn
John Bailey
Sam Booth
David Maclean
Robert Bloom
Rowland O’Connor
Rob Parsonage
Christine Parsonage
November 5, 2025 at 10:18 AM
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A rail worker credited with saving multiple lives during a mass stabbing on a train has been named as Samir Zitouni.

The 48-year-old's actions on the Doncaster to London King's Cross service on Saturday evening were described as "nothing short of heroic
November 4, 2025 at 11:48 AM
Kemi Badenoch talking about "so much investment" into mental health.
Epic gaslighting from the leader of the party that decimated mental health provision, and who's MP's have recently been saying, basically, pull your socks up.
Liar.
November 2, 2025 at 9:57 AM