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"In the beginning the universe was created. This made a lot of people very unhappy and has widely been regarded as a bad move."
- HHG2tG
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Trump takes his assault on the rule of law global.

www.cnn.com/2025/11/12/m...
November 12, 2025 at 7:39 PM
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Reporter: Why are white house officials then meeting with Rep. Boebert in an effort to try to get her to not sign this petition calling for the release of the files?

Leavitt: Doesn't it show transparency that members of the trump administration are willing to brief members of congress?
November 12, 2025 at 6:47 PM
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President Trump is pressuring two House GOP members to remove their names from the discharge petition that would force the U.S. House of Representatives to vote on legislation requiring the DOJ to release all unclassified files and records related to Jeffrey Epstein’s investigations and his network.
November 12, 2025 at 6:34 PM
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17,000 employment and support allowance (ESA) claimants have, so far, had their legacy benefits claim ended after failing to migrate to universal credit (UC), according to official statistics released by the DWP. That figure is set to rise to over 26,00 by the time the process is complete.
17,000 ESA claimants fail UC migration, so far
Get the benefits you're entitled to: help with personal independence payment (PIP), universal credit (UC), employment and support allowance (ESA),disability living allowance (DLA). Claims, assessments...
www.benefitsandwork.co.uk
November 12, 2025 at 6:52 PM
"Please, sir? Could you give us some guidelines on how to distinguish between the fake religious affiliations and the real religious affiliations?"
Hegseth: "We don't need to be a military of beardos anymore. Do you know how many troops claim to be Nordic Pagan? No, suddenly it's become this real fake religious affiliation inside the Pentagon where troops came to be Nordic Pagan so they can grow a beard and nobody challenges them on it."
November 12, 2025 at 5:46 PM
Coincidentally, the first ❄️ of the year had appeared on my weather forecast for next week.
Farage says he's "boycotting the BBC" all the time.

Here he is last year.

Normally lasts until the next invitation comes.
November 12, 2025 at 2:18 PM
Pretty extraordinary to watch back the contemporary BBC reporting of Jan 6. What an amazing job. It's as ridiculous as it is outrageous that they're under any level of threat. Trust.

youtube.com/watch?v=UXR_...
Chaos in Washington as Trump supporters storm Capitol and force lockdown of Congress - BBC News
YouTube video by BBC News
youtube.com
November 11, 2025 at 9:41 PM
"I ask you to judge me by the enemies I have made."
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
That renowned and respected lover of truth and journalistic integrity.... THE KREMLIN.... has stepped up to defend Trump in his battle against the BBC.

SO that's Farage, Netanyahu, Putin, and Boris Johnson...
November 11, 2025 at 8:29 PM
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Dear Britain:

Your polls look very "European" and NOW would be a really really really really really really really good time to switch to PR.

➡️ RFM: 26% | 170 (+74)
🟥 LAB: 19% | 124 (-110)
🟦 CON: 18% | 118 (-38)
🟩 GRN: 15% | 98 (+55)
🟧 LDM: 14% | 91 (+10)
🟨 SNP: 3% | 19 (+2)
🔲 PLC: 2% | 12 (+7)
November 11, 2025 at 6:52 PM
OMG 👀

One BILLION dollars... Please.
November 11, 2025 at 7:54 PM
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7,261 elderly/vulnerable people in care homes given ‘notice to quit’.

Major reason: "revenge evictions’. people “threatened with eviction as a result of raising a complaint"

Care homes are mostly in the private sector, owned by corporations and private equity, profit margins of up to 40%.
Revealed: Thousands of elderly people evicted from care homes every year
Thousands of elderly and vulnerable people have received eviction notices from their care homes in the last year, the Big Issue has found.
www.bigissue.com
November 11, 2025 at 7:43 AM
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Barely mentioned but that now notorious Trump Panorama *wasn’t made by the BBC*

It was an indie production (as so much is)

Even if was BBC, head of news or DG would wouldn’t have been involved in edits
November 11, 2025 at 5:45 PM
Some things never change.
November 11, 2025 at 9:36 AM
So, it's come to this.

(Any resemblance to bears real or imagined is entirely coincidental and unintentional.)
November 11, 2025 at 9:34 AM
I'm looking forward to news reports that don't try to sane wash everything or that avoid calling out falsehoods out of some sense of decorum.

"You want the truth? You can't handle the truth!"
November 11, 2025 at 8:58 AM
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Trump's January 6th speech analysed by the BBC: it is an anti-democratic speech, telling a crowd lies about a stolen election; it calls for people to "fight like hell" & calls for "peaceful and patriotic" protest (against the legitimate winner of a democratic election)
www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-u...
Capitol riots: Did Trump's words at rally incite violence?
Donald Trump was accused of inciting violence that left five people dead. So what did the president say?
www.bbc.co.uk
November 10, 2025 at 10:07 PM
If you frequently publicly describe news organisations as fake news I'm not sure what complaint you can raise if they say something that isn't true.

It's not like if an untruth was published on a service literally called Truth Social.
November 10, 2025 at 8:23 PM
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Incredible that Robbie Gibb - most influential person on BBC board by many accounts and from journalists I speak in BBC - was involved in setting up GB News.

GB News of course has breached Ofcom rules on *multiple* occasions - no sign of resignations though

www.theguardian.com/environment/...
‘Enforced veganism’: Ofcom lets GB News flout accuracy rules, say climate campaigners
Exclusive: Regulator has received 1,221 complaints about UK broadcasters since 2020 but found no breaches of its code
www.theguardian.com
November 10, 2025 at 8:25 AM
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It’s easy to see why Trump wants to destroy the world’s number one news source. We can’t let him.

The BBC belongs to all of us here in the UK.

The Prime Minister and leaders from across the political spectrum should be united in telling Trump to keep his hands off it.
November 9, 2025 at 9:45 PM
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UPDATE: NSO just hired former Trump ambassador to Israel.

They're trying to push Pegasus spyware to 🇺🇸America.

Your rights and freedoms are in danger.

NSO Group is no friend to the US & has spent years undermining our security & values 1/
November 9, 2025 at 10:05 PM
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The resignations of Tim Davie and Deborah Turness must be an opportunity for the BBC to turn a new leaf, rebuild trust and resist those like Nigel Farage who want to destroy it

We must stand up for a strong, independent BBC, to stop Trump’s America becoming Farage's Britain.
November 9, 2025 at 6:45 PM
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The BBC is apologising for its Panorama edit. It shouldn’t. First, the narrative is true: Donald Trump *did* incite the Capitol riot. Second, the apology won’t appease those attacking it. So why not at least stand for something?

Wrote this on it earlier this week:
inews.co.uk/news/world/b...
The BBC was right about the Capitol riots. In a sane world, Trump would be in jail
The US President faced impeachment over the violence, and in a world where Republicans had more courage, he would have been found guilty
inews.co.uk
November 9, 2025 at 7:05 AM
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It’s not at all clear to me how the BBC can do any kind of serious journalism if its top two bosses can be forced to quit over such an obviously confected scandal. There is no substantive error here. How can the BBC report on Trump, or Farage, or anyone else, in these circumstances?
November 9, 2025 at 7:30 PM
I'm just saying.

It's a pretty big coincidence that the DG is out at the same moment CW is at a loose end. Clever. Very clever.
November 9, 2025 at 7:34 PM
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This is absolutely nuts

Trump did incite the January 6 riot. Splicing a video to make that point is shoddy editorial but hardly a resignation event

When BBC is needed more than ever, Telegraph/Boris Johnson running the show

www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cd...
BBC director general Tim Davie and News CEO Deborah Turness resign over Trump documentary edit
Davie says
www.bbc.co.uk
November 9, 2025 at 6:12 PM