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Stephen 🔶🌹💚 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇬🇧 🇪🇺 🇺🇦
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Patrick Grant, fashion designer on Question Time telling it like it is.
#BritainIsBroken #BrexitHasFailed #ToriesDestroyedOurCountry #Brexit
youtu.be/DIOjkR03fw4
Patrick Grant on BBC Question Time
YouTube video by Stephen Ralph
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Fire Robbie Gibb and a handful of Tory cronies appointed by Johnson and the rest

That’s all it would take for the BBC to turn a corner and begin on the road to recovery.
Unlike the NHS, which surely needs much greater funding and assistance to maintain itself, the BBC could be 'fixed' in a matter of days or weeks. How many bad actors in high positions do you think would be needed to be fired and replaced with sensible, fair folk before the old Beeb would be back?
November 11, 2025 at 9:55 AM
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The same people were extremely quiet when ‘nobody’ resigned at Fox after paying Dominion Voting Systems a $787 million settlement in the voting machine company's defamation lawsuit after Fox repeatedly claimed their machines were rigged in the 2020 presidential election.
For all it’s faults it doesn’t have to fulfil a billionaire owners political agenda like GB News for example. While people like Trump and Farage launch very vocal attacks when it gets something wrong, it’s when it gets it’s reporting right that scares them the most.
"Despite ... having been led for the last five years by a close ally of the Tories, being overseen by committees of Tory appointees, and Turness's own efforts to skew news story selection to "win over" Reform supporters, the right in this country want to see the BBC destroyed."
November 11, 2025 at 9:57 AM
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November 11, 2025 at 9:33 AM
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Trump is a monster
November 11, 2025 at 9:34 AM
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⚡️The Saratov Refinery, JSC “Morskoy Neftyanoy Terminal” in Feodosia and a number of facilities in the Donetsk region were hit, - General Staff

🔥 Saratov Refinery. The enterprise produces more than 20 types of petroleum products - gasoline, fuel oil, diesel fuel, vacuum gas oil, technical sulfur.
November 11, 2025 at 9:35 AM
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Politico: "Veteran BBC presenter David Dimbleby told Channel 4 last night that it is “one of the most violent assaults on the BBC’s independence that I’ve seen in my lifetime,” while Playbook is told staff have been voicing “a lot of anger towards [right wing BBC board member] Robbie Gibb.”
November 11, 2025 at 9:35 AM
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If I had only 6 letters to describe Britain, they would be NHS-BBC.

Both have been under sustained attack by politicians for over decade.

And I would be dishonest if I didn’t point out the BBC has played a major role in attacking our NHS.

Nevertheless, both are utterly essential to our democracy.
November 11, 2025 at 9:37 AM
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While Trump is threatening to sue the BBC, a reminder...
November 11, 2025 at 9:37 AM
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The wheels of change turn slowly in British politics, but turn they do...
🚨 In the late 19th/early 20th century many people scoffed at the idea that Labour could replace the Liberals. But it can and does happen. Parties emerge and parties decline. Starmerism is currently killing the Labour party. It speaks to no one. It inspires no one. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
What happens if the Greens overtake Labour in the polls? All bets are off | Gaby Hinsliff
They may lack Labour’s party machine, but Zack Polanski’s burgeoning popularity could have seismic consequences for British politics, says Guardian columnist Gaby Hinsliff
www.theguardian.com
November 11, 2025 at 9:39 AM
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“The fall of Tim Davie is a victory for a cabal of toxic plotters with links to the BBC board—who designed and executed a coup—and the circular firing squad in the UK press”. @davidyelland.bsky.social

Good overview piece of the BBC's existential crisis by Daniel Thomas and @pickardje.bsky.social
BBC faces ‘existential’ threat after exit of top executives
Broadcaster’s deepest crisis in recent history comes amid fresh questions over its future role in British society
www.ft.com
November 11, 2025 at 9:39 AM
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The BBC is ours. It's ours to love. Ours to criticise. Ours to shout at when we feel in the mood.

And if Farage thinks that the way to win favour with voters is to stand around cheering as Trump takes down the BBC for $1 billion of personal enrichment then he's a bigger fool than anyone thought.
November 11, 2025 at 9:40 AM
"Things used to be so much better in the old days..." 😳
Leeds, 1954, photo by Marc Riboud.
November 11, 2025 at 9:46 AM
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Jasmine Crockett CALLS OUT Mike Johnson for defending Trump and his "pedophile friends"
#Trump
Jasmine Crockett CALLS OUT Mike Johnson for defending Trump and his "pedophile friends"
www.youtube.com
November 10, 2025 at 11:58 PM
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Paramount “said in a letter to shareholders it plans an additional 1,600 job cuts as part of a goal to achieve at least $3 billion in cost savings.”

@bloomberg.com $PSKY
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
November 11, 2025 at 12:04 AM
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Reminiscent of the scene in Gladiator 2 where the crowd at the Colloseum realizes that they're ruled over by corrupt, sadistic tyrants.
Trump getting booed at the Commanders game
November 10, 2025 at 11:57 PM
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Good video of the Saratov Oil Refinery having a small fire after drone sanctions were applied a short while ago.

And of course, all drones were intercepted*

* by the refinery itself. 🔥🔥🔥
November 10, 2025 at 11:57 PM
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if the poor starve to death we don’t have to put them into private concentration camps
—Stephen Goebbels Miller
November 10, 2025 at 11:58 PM
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BREAKING UPDATE amid Trump’s late-night pardon spree
#Trump
- YouTube
www.youtube.com
November 10, 2025 at 11:58 PM
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An absolutely essential read
The reaction to the Panorama edit has been nothing short of hysterical. Yes the BBC has some impartiality problems. But its biggest isn't the one you think.

New piece from me.

open.substack.com/pub/goodalla...
The truth about impartiality at the BBC
And the hysteria of the current "crisis"
open.substack.com
November 10, 2025 at 11:59 PM
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OMG the Cincinnati Children’s hospital Pastor speaks after being detained for 73 days by ICE and he is a legal U.S citizen & they knew it when they took him & they’ve known it for all 73 days! He said the there are a lot of people in there that are U.S citizens & no crimes ever! 🤬
November 10, 2025 at 9:43 PM
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The greatest fear of the oppressor is "An awakened, righteous, anger".
OMG the Cincinnati Children’s hospital Pastor speaks after being detained for 73 days by ICE and he is a legal U.S citizen & they knew it when they took him & they’ve known it for all 73 days! He said the there are a lot of people in there that are U.S citizens & no crimes ever! 🤬
November 11, 2025 at 12:00 AM
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The fourteen-year presidency of Michael D Higgins has officially ended #PresidentHiggins #MichaelD
November 11, 2025 at 12:00 AM
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🔥 Confirmed: BAVOVNA at Saratov oil refinery!
November 10, 2025 at 11:54 PM
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"There will be no downsides to Brexit... only considerable upsides"
Brexit reduced the UK’s GDP by between 6% and 8%. That is MASSIVE. #ProjectFear #wetoldyouso

www.nber.org/papers/w3445...
November 10, 2025 at 11:55 PM