FT editorial is right to ask questions about governance and the Board at the BBC
on.ft.com/3WQmPJr

The BBC’s core problem is that, like the NHS, it models the benefits and virtues of a not-for-profit public service in a world of rapacious corporate greed and unstinting right-wing hostility to the idea of the public good www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/w...

Reform UK won control of Durham County Council in May, hoping to cut council tax...

...they now contemplate a significant increase in that tax.

This seems like good news... www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...

This from Dr. Martin Luther King's
Daughter.......

Public expressions of Nazism in Germany are strictly criminal offenses.Germany has laws to prevent the return of a dictatorship and protect human dignity.Public Display of Symbols: Section 86a of the German Criminal Code outlaws the public display of Swastika

IN THE US IT IS ENCOURAGED BY THE GOPS

Schiff: "The president -- 'I'm going out to play golf.' One thing that is so shocking to me is that they're appealing to the Supreme Court for the right to cut off food from people. Who does that? Who works so hard to cut food from people who need it right now? The cruelty is part of the policy."

Plaid Cymru’s Caerphilly victory overshadowed by UK broadcasters’ obsession with Reform UK and Labour

nation.cymru/news/plaid-c...

Reminder: no one is safe until everyone is safe.

#PublicHealth is a global issue

www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...

Will the media make much of this? I don’t think so.

Majority of people not proud of post-Brexit Britain, new survey reveals

www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...

Remember: There is nothing natural or inevitable about extreme inequality; it’s the result of an economic system that values wealth and power over human dignity and justice.

It doesn't have to be this way.

Fairly obviously sticking vulnerable people seeking asylum into camps is messed up.
There is something darkly comic though about this government claiming that it is okay, despite camps costing more than hotels, because it "reduces tensions", when it clearly doesn't.
www.bbc.com/news/article...

“Respect was invented to cover the empty place where love should be.”
— Leo Tolstoy

Britain is more tolerant than many other countries

Fantastic photo

Mindless, senseless racist violence.

I always find it interesting how the story changes when a lawyer gets to court. They can say anything they want outside of court without accountability but the rules are vastly different in court where you can get seriously penalized for lying.

Conversations with five Trump voters – part of a group of 20 whom Reuters has interviewed monthly since February – show that while the shutdown has disrupted their lives, it has not diminished their[good} opinion of the president's performance.
Cognitive dissonance prevails.

😂

Joni Mitchell 🙏#BOTD

"I have an aversion to being mislabeled. Here's a label I'd accept: I'm an 'individual.' I'm someone who can't follow and doesn't want to lead."

Joni Mitchell

Harry Truman: If it benefits all the people, they call it socialism.

A stock dip comes after Reuters reported Meta estimated a chunk of revenue would come from running fraudulent ads.