Use Of Weapons
@use0fweap0ns.bsky.social
Everybody knows the war is over.
Everybody knows the good guys lost.
Everybody knows the good guys lost.
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I just want to reiterate, if you are using the front page of national newspapers to say how the media are biased against you, the standing assumption is that you are acting in bad faith. Remarkably, being silent is a key component of being silenced.
November 11, 2025 at 12:16 PM
I just want to reiterate, if you are using the front page of national newspapers to say how the media are biased against you, the standing assumption is that you are acting in bad faith. Remarkably, being silent is a key component of being silenced.
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Style it out. Bond walks into Ms office. "Bond? I thought you were dead!". "Well, so do a lot of people." Move on to the crisis plot and never mention it again.
November 11, 2025 at 10:40 AM
Style it out. Bond walks into Ms office. "Bond? I thought you were dead!". "Well, so do a lot of people." Move on to the crisis plot and never mention it again.
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British people famously love to see British institutions and British people abasing themselves before the Yanks.
No, wait…
No, wait…
November 11, 2025 at 9:54 AM
British people famously love to see British institutions and British people abasing themselves before the Yanks.
No, wait…
No, wait…
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There is, after all, the risk of a dangerous precedent here. The BBC will often offend foreign leaders - some worse than Trump. Sometimes it will make factual mistakes in reporting on them. Yield to Trump now, and who next?
November 11, 2025 at 7:45 AM
There is, after all, the risk of a dangerous precedent here. The BBC will often offend foreign leaders - some worse than Trump. Sometimes it will make factual mistakes in reporting on them. Yield to Trump now, and who next?
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So at the moment, despite @joshuarozenberg.bsky.social’s piece, I wonder whether a better BBC response would be the Arkell v Pressdram one. proftomcrick.com/2014/04/29/a...
Arkell v Pressdram [1971]
In April 1971, Private Eye carried the story of how James Arkell, a retail credit manager, had dispensed with the services of two bailiffs who were on bail on charges of conspiracy to create a publ…
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November 11, 2025 at 7:31 AM
So at the moment, despite @joshuarozenberg.bsky.social’s piece, I wonder whether a better BBC response would be the Arkell v Pressdram one. proftomcrick.com/2014/04/29/a...