So Turness and Davie out but Gibb and Shah remain. Fear for the BBC because the right wing ideologues are trying to capture it entirely
09.11.2025 19:25 β π 208 π 82 π¬ 16 π 4@moyragrant.bsky.social
UK, politics anorak, author and teacher.
So Turness and Davie out but Gibb and Shah remain. Fear for the BBC because the right wing ideologues are trying to capture it entirely
09.11.2025 19:25 β π 208 π 82 π¬ 16 π 4'BBC director general Tim Davie and News CEO Deborah Turness resign' - for all the wrong reasons, of course.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cd...
Yep.
09.11.2025 15:41 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Trevor Philips, "Prime Minister Keir Starmer is coming back from #COP30 having refused to put money into the tropical forest fund on the grounds that we can't afford it. He's right, isn't he?"
Zack Polanski, "No, it's outrageous. When it comes to climate, we have to look at the cost of inaction"
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09.11.2025 13:18 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Trevor Philips, "You don't want a rise in income tax?"
Zack Polanski, "No, people are tired and exhausted"
"How can you take from the hardest working people with extra tax, while allowing multimillionaires and billionaires to continue to not paying CGT?"
Trevor Philips, "What is the implication of the white poppy?"
Zack Polanski, "The white poppy began after WWI, mainly from women's groups, who talked about peace and antifascism"
"So on the same day we remember the fallen, it's also about looking to the future and saying, we want a world of peace"
Kristi Noem ordered ICE to purchase ten Spirit Airlines jets for deportations. Two problems: Spirit doesnβt own the planes, and they donβt have engines. Has there ever been a more incompetent administration?
www.the-independent.com/news/world/a...
The wrongful release of prisoners happened 800 times under the Tories.
The media bias and lack of reference to any past is just hideous.
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09.11.2025 04:11 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0This has been debunked. The pope did not say it.
fullfact.org/world/pope-l...
I got mine last month.
09.11.2025 03:26 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Article says βthis is "absolutely the most important year" to get vaccinated. However, this year's vaccine is not a perfect match to the mutated virus. The biggest benefits are lessening the severity of the disease rather than stopping you getting ill or slowing the spread of the virus.β
09.11.2025 03:26 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Ooh, getting fancy now!π
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'A seasonal flu virus suddenly mutated in the summer; it appears to evade some of our immunity; has kick-started a flu season more than a month early and is a type of flu that history suggests is more severe.'
Get the jab!
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
I'm this old!π
08.11.2025 16:13 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0'Shabana Mahmood will model some of her new measures on the Danish system - seen as one of the toughest in Europe. Officials have been looking at Denmark's tighter rules on family reunion and restricting most refugees to a temporary stay in the country.'
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
London has joined the Swimmable Rivers Alliance.
Our rivers have been neglected and damaged for far too long, with shameful levels of pollution harming our waterways. Iβm determined to clean them up.
Well - not for the first time.
08.11.2025 05:18 β π 7 π 4 π¬ 1 π 1From the UK, I used to admire the US constitution. Now I think that if efficient governance can be blocked by a single benighted cultist like Mike Johnson, it's just damn silly.π’
08.11.2025 04:36 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Tell me more about βSleepy Joe.β
07.11.2025 21:55 β π 24302 π 8043 π¬ 955 π 444Ladies and Gentlemen, may I present Karma?
07.11.2025 21:27 β π 30612 π 7824 π¬ 1262 π 468Why are ICE agents being paid during the shutdown, but not air traffic controllers? π€¨
08.11.2025 00:05 β π 26178 π 8255 π¬ 1276 π 559Is he holding a rifle? What's going on?!
07.11.2025 20:40 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0The Sociopath-In-Chief couldn't be bothered to even turn his head in the direction of a man in the midst of a medical emergency who collapsed in his office. Completely incapable of empathy, the EPSTEIN Files can't be released soon enough.
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Reform council accused of "selling off the family silver" as it plans to close down five council-run care homes and day centres
leftfootforward.org/2025/11/refo...
When you're a sociopath and get angry that someone else's medical emergency, just four feet away, drew focus from your gloating and you forget which lie you were on.
06.11.2025 18:45 β π 14387 π 3979 π¬ 943 π 273RFK Jr's response to someone collapsing nearby him was to haul ass out of the room as quickly as possible
06.11.2025 17:45 β π 26098 π 7746 π¬ 3350 π 1578In the UK, jury deliberations are strictly confidential. Is that not the case in the USA? And if it is the case, why are you seeking to breach it?
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