Matthew Blakeway

Karen Leavitt should apply for Sergei Lavrov's job. She'd fit right in.

That's what everyone says!

He's alive? Or is this archive footage?

As someone who has worked with large datasets, I know that faking data without being detectable is extremely hard. So it comes as no surprise that faking truth is very difficult as well.

Show me a religion that preaches rules for smearing and clickbait?

She is The Deep State. She just doesn’t know it yet.

Real journalism is too expensive to fit the business model.

We all underestimate the degree to which we rely upon others calling out our bullshit to regulate our moral compass. People are shy to do this to the powerful, so their moral compass becomes disregulated, and they have no way of knowing this.

I agree with your second paragraph. The question is whether you can call it a debate when one side speaks propaganda and doesn’t listen.

He’s debating? My understanding of debating is that you examine facts and data, and listen to the opinions of others.

I didn’t know there was a debate about vaccine safety in the US. Thanks for letting me know.

Mine’s been zero for a couple of years

Matthew Goodwin is clenching his lips together which, in body-language terms, is what people do when they’re trying to cover up for guilt.

An hour and forty minutes! Given the time for necessary greeting, that’s twenty minutes of substance.

C’mon! At least we got rid of Isobel Oakshot

Real Democrats lose elections. That’s why nobody should listen to these yesterday people.

The path would be to change the constitution

He speaks in complete sentences! Is he allowed to do that?

Most people who rely on print news, just buy 1 or 2 papers, all from their own country. You’re reading Al Jazzera online. They’re also on YouTube and Bluesky

That approach limits you to few sources. If those sources are biased (as most were on Gaza) then your news is skewed. Diversifying your sources is like diversifying your investment portfolio.

Consider the economics for the BBC or The Times of keeping a journalist in Syria, Ukraine or Gaza. They rely upon freelancers because they cannot risk sending employees to such high-risk places. Once you know who the freelancer is, the BBC is just the middleman. Follow the freelancer on YouTube.

Im not saying YouTube is better than the BBC. I’m saying that yesterday’s BBC is better than today’s BBC. And the margin is quite large. The BBC’s coverage of Ukraine and Gaza is poor. If you are selective of who you follow, you can fill that void with YouTube, whilst filtering out its junk.

He’s a slow learner

It was MY BBC until Boris Johnson started appointing political hacks to run it. At that point, it was Boris Johnson’s BBC. My trust in it has steeply declined.

“Reality caught up with him” implies that he is running faster than reality 🤔

They’re weary, poor things!

AI machine learning steals the copyright material of creatives without remuneration or legal accountability. As an economist, you will understand that if a product can be taken without payment, it has no value. AI has destroyed the value of human creativity and this will lead to societal collapse

Mark Rutte looks like a parent trying to persuade a toddler to eat their vegetables.

I'm relieved to know that I would not be appealing to the lovely lady on the bottom right

Grammar police: "they're"
Correct grammar is always a key indicator of who to take seriously.