Don McGowan

No Holds Barred Pod A weekly look at the world of politics, life and everything. Join Sal and Don as they dissect the week’s news and biggest stories. With regular featured guest appearances and lots more to come. We w...

Good morning.

Episode 10 is out [bit late 😬].

Take a listen as Sal and Don discussed the start of a super important campaign to try to bring the media's Overton window back to reality.

We also have a bit of a chat with Gary Trowsdale — which was great.

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No matter how many name changes Reform pull on Companies House, We all know that Farage is the controlling factor.

It will never change.

Watch the full video on YouTube: youtu.be/Ryi9rO5E7CY

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No Holds Barred Pod A weekly look at the world of politics, life and everything. Join Sal and Don as they dissect the week’s news and biggest stories. With regular featured guest appearances and lots more to come. We w...

No Holds Barred EP08 is now available.

We've got two parts this week. I know … right!

Too much stuff happened last night for us not to record an extra bit today.

Go to YouTube now, or catch us on all pod apps.

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YouTube video by No Holds Barred Pod No Holds Barred Ep 02

Delighted with our 2nd episode of #NoHoldsBarredPod with @donmcgowan.bsky.social and #RighteousRant from @esherukweku.bsky.social

News & #DisabilityBenefits chat with facts & laughs!

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Im delighted to announce that @donmcgowan.bsky.social & I are teaming up for a no holds barred, all conversations welcome, podcast.

Any name suggestions are greatly appreciated✊️✌️💞

I did another Data Deep Dive.

Shall I just go ahead and call them Don's Data Deep Dives? Seems likely to happen!

Anyways, it's a long post about Rupert Lowe and his artificial engagement boosting. Link below, but image attached also.

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Thanks mate. Much appreciated.

How the Media and Musk Are Boosting Nigel Farage’s Reform UK Well Beyond Its Size Analysis of media mentions on Elon Musk's X reveals that established news organisations are helping to boost Nigel Farage's party well out of proportion to its number of MPs

A little article by me on the disproportionate media coverage of Reform across our social media news. Thanks to @bylinetimes.bsky.social for publishing.

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So I did a bit of a data exercise on Twitter/X using X Pro. I wanted to see how our media outlets reported the various political parties, particularly, Reform.

Data was run over a month 10th Jan - 10th Feb. It's ... interesting.

PDF is available on request.

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Welcome to Twitter where you are free to be a nazi, but not free to criticise Reform.

Thanks.

I will do that later. See how it goes.

I think loads of people have tagged in the Speaker and the Standards committee.

They seem to have impunity.

I’m going to write an official complaint later.

It’s just so bizarre. Nazi accounts - fine. Criticise a Reform MP for encouraging murder - Twitter jail.

He should be spoken to and asked to remove it. It’s so disgusting.

Lovely day on Twitter when you call out a sitting MP for posting a picture of a noose and your account gets mass reported and then locked.

Obviously the original post is still up due to the army of Reform bots opposing the community note.

Here you go. I made it into a blog post on my website!

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I will make a link outside of twitter tomorrow and send you it.

Thank you. 😀

Thanks. Yeah, it’s such a Bannon/Trump play but without the requisite support.

I want to post this here to garner some reaction and feedback.

Apologies to anyone who has to go there to read it but I find the twitter article features useful. One of the few things left there.

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No one could have seen this coming, Peter.

Cracking headache since before dawn today.

Tonight’s activity: bowling with the Scouts.

Fml. 🤦‍♂️

A lot of fakes, pornbots and crypto scammers today.

The word is out. What a shame.

Remember when nobody knew who Alex Burghart was?

Tomorrow.

Well I see it didn’t take long for the pornbots to find the nice place.

Inevitable I guess but not great.

Thought for the day:

Musk's life goal was to own X Corp; a dominating single lettered behemoth of a company. He spent $44B on his dream, and bought Twitter, a thriving social media platform.

Now he's killed X stone dead, lost his money ... and everyone still calls it Twitter.

Happy Wednesday. 😀

Coming to any photo opportunity at any time you’ll have ‘em

The new Tory B*llox Band

From left to right

Close my Companies while they owe HMRC Philps
Claim Anything I Can McVey
How Did I End Up As A Minister Atkins
And band leader …
KemiKaze BadEnough

Brilliant. 👏

This changes nothing.

Lawyers have been instructed if you even dare to say there is snow in Gloucestershire.

Two tier justice some might say. 😆

There is no parity between a true cause and a good, old fashioned, right-wing witch hunt.