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…be able to behave like this, regarding the BBC?

I never appeared on Question Time, by the way.
www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/06...

This feels like a reasonable time to share an article from The Telegraph from 2023, which certainly makes it seem that Matt Hancock knew that I was interviewed to appear on BBC Question Time (how?) and seemed to attempt to intervene to prevent my appearance.

Should politicians…

Reform Council To Double Tax On Second Homes Despite Nigel Farage Calling The Idea 'Madness' A Reform-led council is planning to double council tax on second homes six months after party leader Nigel Farage denounced such policies as “madne...

Another case of Reform saying one thing then doing the other:

A Reform-led council is planning to double council tax on second homes six months after party leader Nigel Farage denounced such policies as “madness” and “extortion”

By me, for Politics Home www.politicshome.com/news/article...

County Durham residents fear higher bills as Reform UK plans council tax changes Reform UK won control of Durham County Council in May, hoping to cut council tax; they now contemplate a significant increase in that tax

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

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

Saudi regime executes another child offender for attending protests Amnesty said that the execution of Abdullah was just one of a long line of executions

The Saudi regime has executed Abdullah al-Derazi, under 18 at the time of his alleged crimes, linked to him attending demonstrations against the regime.

In August, the Saudis had executed Jabal Labbad, also arrested as a minor, in his case for attending demonstrations and funerals.

Leicestershire County Council has announced it is to pay consultants £30m to carry out a cost cutting review.

They said it would be £1.4m.

They lied.

They said Reform DOGE would do all this.

They lied.

You can’t trust Reform UK.

Many years ago I did a cultural awareness course and rule one was this: You can criticise your own country and you can do it as much as you like. But when someone else does it, you remember all the things you actually love about it and - it's enraging.

When your nan can't watch Cash in the Attic. When Traitors has gone. When GB News replaces Newsnight. When Antiques Roadshow and Strictly Come Dancing disappear from the box - all so that Donald Trump can sit on some fuck off gold throne and mock Britain - d'ya think people will be happier?

The BBC is ours. It's ours to love. Ours to criticise. Ours to shout at when we feel in the mood.

And if Farage thinks that the way to win favour with voters is to stand around cheering as Trump takes down the BBC for $1 billion of personal enrichment then he's a bigger fool than anyone thought.

Politico: "Veteran BBC presenter David Dimbleby told Channel 4 last night that it is “one of the most violent assaults on the BBC’s independence that I’ve seen in my lifetime,” while Playbook is told staff have been voicing “a lot of anger towards [right wing BBC board member] Robbie Gibb.”

Trump was found as a matter of fact (unchallenged on appeal) by a US court to be an insurrectionist

James O'Brien's analysis of BBC Trump controversy perfectly sums up madness of it all James O'Brien has perfectly summed up the madness at the heart of the controversy over the BBC's editing of a Donald Trump speech in a Panorama programme.

www.thelondoneconomic.com/politics/jam...

Trump's White House & fawning hacks here don't really care about the 0.001% that the BBC gets wrong. They care about all the stuff it gets right.

Sex Testing Rules Harm Women Athletes Women track and field athletes will be subjected to tight surveillance based on gender stereotypes under a new set of global regulations, the latest in a series of arbitrary and increasingly restricti...

The paper also refers to 'gender eligibility' tests for women athletes, whilst failing to mention that such 'sex testing' has been flagged by researchers and human rights activists as being "based on arbitrary definitions of femininity and racial stereotypes."

www.hrw.org/news/2023/03...

Today's Express published transphobic pieces littered with hate and misinformation, where they:
🟣 Conflate transgender people with intersex people.
🟣 Centre 2 female Olympic gold-medallist boxers, even though they're not trans.

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Teesworks scandal: a dark tale of public wealth lost and private gain Teesworks - a story that reads like a screenplay for a dark political drama

"This entire saga has a smell hanging over it. The people of Teesside, Hartlepool and Darlington are no fools. That smell will not go away until there is a full, transparent and independent inquiry."

PM call with His Highness Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, President of the United Arab Emirates: 10 November 2025 This morning the Prime Minister spoke to His Highness Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, President of the United Arab Emirates.

Keir Starmer spoke yesterday to the UAE president "pushing all parties to cease hostilities" in Sudan.

Britain has exported over £417m worth of arms to the UAE in the past 3 years, some of which items are now showing up in Sudan's devastating war.

www.gov.uk/government/n...

Remembrance: 75 years of the ECHR The European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) celebrates its 75th birthday this month – like all elders, it has a lifetime of wisdom to share

Remembrance: 75 years of the ECHR

The European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) celebrates its 75th birthday this month – like all elders, it has a lifetime of wisdom to share

By Dr Pam Jarvis

@drpam.bsky.social

bsky.app/profile/byli...

Why can't the BBC just be more impartial towards President Trump, like GB News, says Nigel Farage.

GB News:

“Even where survivors have strong evidence, the system rewards defendants who can outspend, out-delay, or out-threaten them. Part 36 offers — the settlement tools routinely used by corporate lawyers — can bankrupt a claimant who dares to reject a lowball offer and fight on.”

If you care about the BBC, stand up and defend it: this could be the beginning of the end | Polly Toynbee Replacing the TV licence with a means-tested alternative may help disarm the right of one of its most effective weapons, says Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee

The BBC is an incredible publicly owned institution that everyone in this country should be proud of 📺

It is "by miles the most watched, listened to and read of all platforms in the UK" and "most trusted, at 60%"

Excellent piece @pollytoynbee.bsky.social

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

The Panorama edit was poor journalism, not sure how it happened (more than 15 yo when I worked there we all had to go on a course because someone made the Queen look grumpy about something in the wrong order). But of all of it, this is the only piece I’ve read that properly nails the issue…

You can be assured that tendentious memo by Michael Prescott, and the co-ordinated combination of the Telegraph, Mail, Boris Johnson, Nigel Farage and the White House means that the BBC hit job has been long in the planning, and has some insider help

📸 War crimes fugitive Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu, second right, in his office in Jerusalem with President Trump's son-in-law, Jared Kushner, second left, on Monday. [Haim Tzach / GPO]

The Grand Ball Room no one asked for...

I mean, what kind of legal action would this be exactly? Defamation? I would truly love to see it. 'They made it look like I instigated a coup during my very well recorded coup attempt.'

Mind you, Richard Tice would have lost when he threatened to sue the BBC for calling Reform Far Right. But still the BBC caved: it's strong with the weak and weak with the strong.