@yorkshirelass1.bsky.social
Retired, pro EU, never voted Conservative.
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I understand the pressures on the BBC, but Radio 4's coverage of the Minneapolis shooting is an example of "bad balance".
It's all "the Trump regime says she was a terrorist, but Democrats say it was murder".
The BBC has the footage. It doesn't have to treat truth and falsehood as equally valid.
It's all "the Trump regime says she was a terrorist, but Democrats say it was murder".
The BBC has the footage. It doesn't have to treat truth and falsehood as equally valid.
January 8, 2026 at 8:38 AM
I understand the pressures on the BBC, but Radio 4's coverage of the Minneapolis shooting is an example of "bad balance".
It's all "the Trump regime says she was a terrorist, but Democrats say it was murder".
The BBC has the footage. It doesn't have to treat truth and falsehood as equally valid.
It's all "the Trump regime says she was a terrorist, but Democrats say it was murder".
The BBC has the footage. It doesn't have to treat truth and falsehood as equally valid.
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Masterclass on Rejoining the EU and Brexit destruction ... Sat 22 Nov. ONLINE and accessible globally. FREE to attend. Get yours here.
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Free Tickets – Brexit RIP : A state of the nation report on progress towards rejoining the EU, with Peter Cook – Zoom
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November 15, 2025 at 6:47 AM
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It's not the first time Reform UK councillors have been caught failing to properly declare their financial interests, as I covered in my On the Ground column for @bylinetimes.bsky.social this month in print...
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November 13, 2025 at 12:44 PM
It's not the first time Reform UK councillors have been caught failing to properly declare their financial interests, as I covered in my On the Ground column for @bylinetimes.bsky.social this month in print...
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Is AI behind the recent growth in cyberattacks? And if so, is AI the threat to our future that could bring down all the systems on which we now depend, rather than being the great hope for growth that so many claim it to be? www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/09...
Is AI going to kill society as we know it?
As the FT and many others in the media are noting today, the chaos resulting from a cyberattack on JLR - the Jaguar Land Rover car company - is ongoing. The company has now, in fact, been shut down fo...
www.taxresearch.org.uk
September 24, 2025 at 7:12 AM
Is AI behind the recent growth in cyberattacks? And if so, is AI the threat to our future that could bring down all the systems on which we now depend, rather than being the great hope for growth that so many claim it to be? www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/09...
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Just to be clear:
- Paracetamol does not cause autism.
- Sadiq Khan is not introducing Sharia law in the UK
- We do not have a massive free speech problem here.
- Britain is not on the verge of civil war.
These are not controversial subjects or contested, they're just not true.
- Paracetamol does not cause autism.
- Sadiq Khan is not introducing Sharia law in the UK
- We do not have a massive free speech problem here.
- Britain is not on the verge of civil war.
These are not controversial subjects or contested, they're just not true.
September 23, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Just to be clear:
- Paracetamol does not cause autism.
- Sadiq Khan is not introducing Sharia law in the UK
- We do not have a massive free speech problem here.
- Britain is not on the verge of civil war.
These are not controversial subjects or contested, they're just not true.
- Paracetamol does not cause autism.
- Sadiq Khan is not introducing Sharia law in the UK
- We do not have a massive free speech problem here.
- Britain is not on the verge of civil war.
These are not controversial subjects or contested, they're just not true.
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“The UK government should offer discount visas to US cancer scientists who have had their research cancelled by the Trump administration, Sir Ed Davey will say.”
Shouldn’t just be restricted to cancer scientists either.
Shouldn’t just be restricted to cancer scientists either.
Ed Davey urges US cancer scientists to come to UK
The Lib Dem leader will use his party conference speech to attack Donald Trump's "anti-science agenda".
www.bbc.co.uk
September 23, 2025 at 6:15 AM
“The UK government should offer discount visas to US cancer scientists who have had their research cancelled by the Trump administration, Sir Ed Davey will say.”
Shouldn’t just be restricted to cancer scientists either.
Shouldn’t just be restricted to cancer scientists either.
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Wow.
Useful reminder from Peter Kellner on the problems we refuse to acknowledge are getting better, and the politics of hopelessness that this breeds
open.substack.com/pub/kellnerp...
open.substack.com/pub/kellnerp...
September 23, 2025 at 7:38 AM
Wow.
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Picked up some Lib Dem stats at conference. Some of these surprised me (especially given media coverage):
1. The Liberal Democrats now control more councils than the Conservative Party
2. In May's local elections in England, the LDs elected more councillors than either Labour or the Tories.
(1/x)
1. The Liberal Democrats now control more councils than the Conservative Party
2. In May's local elections in England, the LDs elected more councillors than either Labour or the Tories.
(1/x)
September 23, 2025 at 6:55 AM
Picked up some Lib Dem stats at conference. Some of these surprised me (especially given media coverage):
1. The Liberal Democrats now control more councils than the Conservative Party
2. In May's local elections in England, the LDs elected more councillors than either Labour or the Tories.
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1. The Liberal Democrats now control more councils than the Conservative Party
2. In May's local elections in England, the LDs elected more councillors than either Labour or the Tories.
(1/x)
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@mrjamesob.bsky.social you should totally have Prince Harry on your shows especially now that the next Invictus games is coming to the UK!
He and a few vets would be lovely guests
He and a few vets would be lovely guests
September 11, 2025 at 8:26 AM
@mrjamesob.bsky.social you should totally have Prince Harry on your shows especially now that the next Invictus games is coming to the UK!
He and a few vets would be lovely guests
He and a few vets would be lovely guests
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I agree. Can you have a word with him?
September 11, 2025 at 8:45 AM
I agree. Can you have a word with him?
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One way to understand the awfulness of what Trump is doing is to imagine FDR trying to ‘negotiate a ceasefire’ with Hitler in 1942 but with Churchill completely excluded. tinyurl.com/4rrn2mkx
James O'Brien Daily
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August 14, 2025 at 4:19 PM
One way to understand the awfulness of what Trump is doing is to imagine FDR trying to ‘negotiate a ceasefire’ with Hitler in 1942 but with Churchill completely excluded. tinyurl.com/4rrn2mkx
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Ed Davey making the same point right here.
July 16, 2025 at 11:37 AM
Ed Davey making the same point right here.
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Water mess: £85 billion down & rivers full of sewage.
Lionesses to stop taking the knee…
tinyurl.com/4rrn2mkx
Lionesses to stop taking the knee…
tinyurl.com/4rrn2mkx
James O'Brien Daily
Daily News Podcast · Updated daily · Welcome to the best bits of James O'Brien's LBC phone-in show.
Listen back to all the highlights in a 60-minute bite sized chunk of his show with new episodes ever...
tinyurl.com
July 21, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Water mess: £85 billion down & rivers full of sewage.
Lionesses to stop taking the knee…
tinyurl.com/4rrn2mkx
Lionesses to stop taking the knee…
tinyurl.com/4rrn2mkx
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Well if this doesn’t call bullshit on the whole thing.
July 17, 2025 at 10:11 PM
Well if this doesn’t call bullshit on the whole thing.
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As 🇬🇧 @mrjamesob.bsky.social rightly points out — that Netanyahu’s attack on Iran is likely an attempt to shift the focus away from the (ongoing) carnage in Gaza is not discussed enough.
June 18, 2025 at 3:32 PM
As 🇬🇧 @mrjamesob.bsky.social rightly points out — that Netanyahu’s attack on Iran is likely an attempt to shift the focus away from the (ongoing) carnage in Gaza is not discussed enough.
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Starting a war in order to divert political and diplomatic attention away from a genocide. Doesn't get much worse than this.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...
Strikes on Iran ease pressure on Israel to end starvation in Gaza
Critics of war will be more reluctant to press for its end while missiles from Tehran are killing people in Tel Aviv
www.theguardian.com
June 14, 2025 at 9:06 PM
Starting a war in order to divert political and diplomatic attention away from a genocide. Doesn't get much worse than this.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...
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✍️ Bylines Network citizen journalism: a new hope?
The Bylines Network brings fact-checked, edited citizen journalism to a world drowning in spin, fake news, and unchecked power
By Dr Pam Jarvis
@drpam.bsky.social
The Bylines Network brings fact-checked, edited citizen journalism to a world drowning in spin, fake news, and unchecked power
By Dr Pam Jarvis
@drpam.bsky.social
Bylines Network citizen journalism: a new hope?
The Bylines Network brings fact-checked, edited citizen journalism to a world drowning in spin, fake news, and unchecked power
yorkshirebylines.co.uk
June 15, 2025 at 7:05 AM
✍️ Bylines Network citizen journalism: a new hope?
The Bylines Network brings fact-checked, edited citizen journalism to a world drowning in spin, fake news, and unchecked power
By Dr Pam Jarvis
@drpam.bsky.social
The Bylines Network brings fact-checked, edited citizen journalism to a world drowning in spin, fake news, and unchecked power
By Dr Pam Jarvis
@drpam.bsky.social
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June 15, 2025 at 5:59 AM
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‘Millionaire Exodus’ the UK Millionaire-Owned Media Told You About Never Actually Happened.
9,500 millionaires reported to be leaving the UK in 2024 represented 0.3% of the UK’s 3.06m millionaires.
Fake stories create panics, want people/govts to be slaves of the rich.
Tax the rich.
9,500 millionaires reported to be leaving the UK in 2024 represented 0.3% of the UK’s 3.06m millionaires.
Fake stories create panics, want people/govts to be slaves of the rich.
Tax the rich.
The 'Millionaire Exodus' the UK Media Told You About Never Actually Happened
The equivalent of 30 stories a day were published about an exodus of wealthy people that a new study finds was "non existent"
bylinetimes.com
June 12, 2025 at 8:45 AM
‘Millionaire Exodus’ the UK Millionaire-Owned Media Told You About Never Actually Happened.
9,500 millionaires reported to be leaving the UK in 2024 represented 0.3% of the UK’s 3.06m millionaires.
Fake stories create panics, want people/govts to be slaves of the rich.
Tax the rich.
9,500 millionaires reported to be leaving the UK in 2024 represented 0.3% of the UK’s 3.06m millionaires.
Fake stories create panics, want people/govts to be slaves of the rich.
Tax the rich.
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As the gullible simpletons go looking for conspiracies about what happened in Liverpool, a quick throwback to one of last year's best-sellers! We'll happily print a fresh one for anyone who wants one with free UK delivery here >>>
May 27, 2025 at 7:52 PM
As the gullible simpletons go looking for conspiracies about what happened in Liverpool, a quick throwback to one of last year's best-sellers! We'll happily print a fresh one for anyone who wants one with free UK delivery here >>>
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If I had to write ‘How They Broke Britain’ all over again, Nick Clegg would get at least a chapter. An agent of immeasurable harm.
May 27, 2025 at 8:28 PM
If I had to write ‘How They Broke Britain’ all over again, Nick Clegg would get at least a chapter. An agent of immeasurable harm.
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"What I don’t need, yeah, is: thank you Steve, for all you did on Brexit, right, here’s how to apply for a mid-ranking job in a corporate, because as soon as they Google "Brexit Hard Man Steve Baker", they know who I am and they don’t want me"
May 28, 2025 at 2:09 PM
"What I don’t need, yeah, is: thank you Steve, for all you did on Brexit, right, here’s how to apply for a mid-ranking job in a corporate, because as soon as they Google "Brexit Hard Man Steve Baker", they know who I am and they don’t want me"
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Indeed I did. He missed the Brexit reset debate & had his trotters up in Nice last week despite the scheduled recess being this week. I predicted that a lucrative US trip would turn out to be the reason. Call me Nostradamus.
@mrjamesob.bsky.social seem to remember you saying he would be off to the US after his early holiday
May 29, 2025 at 1:42 PM
Indeed I did. He missed the Brexit reset debate & had his trotters up in Nice last week despite the scheduled recess being this week. I predicted that a lucrative US trip would turn out to be the reason. Call me Nostradamus.
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The far right will, of course, treat the Paul Doyle case very differently from one where the accused is darker-skinned or foreign or both. The rest of us must not. That’s kind of the point.
May 30, 2025 at 6:39 AM
The far right will, of course, treat the Paul Doyle case very differently from one where the accused is darker-skinned or foreign or both. The rest of us must not. That’s kind of the point.