Julia

SUPERB and angrily unvarnished response, by former BBC chairman, Lord Patten.

"I don't think that we should allow ourselves to be bullied into thinking that the BBC is only any good, if it reflects the prejudice of the last person who shouted at it." ~AA

Donald Trump Preparing To Sue BBC For £1 Billion Over Panorama Speech Row The US president has sent a letter to the corporation threatening legal action.

Just wtf is this?

I can’t think of many more unifying causes than standing up for the BBC against this absurd threat from Trump.

And Farage will be on his side, snivelling along like the school-bully-errand-boy that he is. Traitorous little bastard.

www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/donald...

Seeing so many posts about who “Starmer and Nandy” will appoint as director general. Easy mistake but the government does not appoint the director general! The BBC board, whose members are appointed for rolling terms by the culture secretary, appoints the director general.

Be clear, the American far right are coming for British democracy.

Depressing that the BBC has so little inherent institutional strength, it is kicked about so easily.

This is not good sign for our polity.

all that time Davie attempted to placate the right & here we are, showing how they’ll never be happy

The resignations of Tim Davie and Deborah Turness must be an opportunity for the BBC to turn a new leaf, rebuild trust and resist those like Nigel Farage who want to destroy it

We must stand up for a strong, independent BBC, to stop Trump’s America becoming Farage's Britain.

A big win for people more outraged by a silly edit at the BBC than by a man impeached by Congress for literally inciting an insurrection being back in the White House. Pathetic.

The BBC's senior leadership resigning en masse over one dodgy edit in one programme, simply because the right wing press demands it, tells you everything you need to know about where the power really lies in that relationship

Ask people what changes were most significant during the 1960s and you usually hear about the counterculture and the sexual revolution. In reality the major change for many families was getting an indoor toilet.

“In the last year of the Conservative Government alone, 115 prisoners were released in error, including a series of serious offenders.

“At no point did this fact ever make the front pages of British newspapers, or lead news bulletins on the BBC.”

The wrongful release of prisoners happened 800 times under the Tories.

The media bias and lack of reference to any past is just hideous.

A reminder that the Lib Dems have continuously campaigned for:
👩‍👩‍👦‍👦 Scrap the Two child Benefit Cap
🧓Keep Triple Lock Pension
❄️Keep Winter Fuel Payments
🤰Free school meals
🇪🇺Closer ties with EU
🗳Fair votes/ PR
🌎Climate action/Net Zero
🇵🇸Ceasefire in Gaza/Two state solution
🇺🇸Stand up to Trump
#LibDems🔶

Chris Mason is what happens when a Hospital Radio DJ, whose sole qualification appears to be a sort of soporific inoffensiveness, is somehow promoted to BBC Politics Editor - a position that demands unflinching insight, objectivity, and sharpness. It's like a puddle trying to be the ocean.

The online baying mob shouting "Vote Reform" after Saturday's train stabbing attack may wish to note that not a single Reform MP has turned up for the Home Secretary's statement on the incident.

The driver "managed to contact the control centre at Network Rail and get the train diverted onto the slow line", Calder says. "That was absolutely crucial because this train was scheduled to be travelling through Huntingdon station on the tracks with no platform at 125mph." "It didn't stop in the middle of nowhere, which would have been very difficult." Calder thinks this was handled in the "safest possible way" thanks to the "incredible professionalism from the driver and the police". Train drivers are trained on how to take appropriate action, he adds,

Next time someone tells you that train drivers "just push buttons" show them this from the BBC

Farage’s plan to scrap ILR would be blocked in the courts, lawyers say Exclusive: Tory former solicitor general and justice secretary warns plan ‘runs counter to our British values’

Farage makes up policy without either sense or detail. It’s all about him and his need to stay in the public eye and is always full of holes, deporting people who’ve lived and worked here for 5 years is a non starter.

www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...

Imagine if other Epstein associates were stripped of their titles and evicted from their homes for their activities. Or if the media even cared enough about them to investigate.

Nice to see that the rest of the world will now join our radio show in referring to him as Andrew Windsor.

Ah delightful.
Danny Kruger on #r4today telling us that Pochin ‘clearly meant something else’. I don’t think so Danny.
‘It’s concern about DEI!’ - also no.
‘Nigel has concluded she’s not racist, so she’s not’ - v much not how it works.
Insulting to all of us that they churn out this ugly nonsense.

But Reform *is* a racist party. She is what they are. They are what she is. I don’t want them bullshitting us with insincere apologies. What they are needs to be publicly acknowledged and voters have to face up to their own racism in supporting them.

Brexit or no, they can be no defence against further spending cuts when public services have already been so decimated by 14 years of Tory abuse.
Tax the wealthy.

Boris Johnson says he takes full responsibilities for the mistakes during covid

- how? Has he been fined? Prosecuted? Or a wrist slap?

Tackling the cost of living crisis goes hand in hand with tackling the climate crisis.

We need food security, insulated homes, and cheap renewable energy.

Millions in households in England and Wales are stuck in the red, says charity Citizens Advice says 4 million people spending more on essentials than they earn amid ever-increasing bills

4m people in England & Wales spend more on essentials than they earn.

580,000 have £50 left at the end of the month.

Result of low wages/benefits, austerity, unchecked profiteering.

1% have more wealth than 70% of the population combined.

Poverty is a political choice.

The BBC and others citing reform being top of the polls being the reason they give them so much airtime would be more believable if they had not also given so much to UKIP, Brexit party, etc despite them never being in this position

Donating directly to political parties is so YESTERDAY when you can directly control the news and the organisations that are fed into the news cycle.

Paul Marshall (money man, Brexit backer, GB News - with Legatum Institute Holdings- , Spectator and Unherd and so much more);

Johnson, Gove, Cummings for all their supposed strategic brilliance never made Farage wear any of the political costs of Brexit. Which is why he and Reform have emerged strengthened…

In terms of political strategy, Labour have absolutely failed to tie Reform to Brexit... or indeed to Donald Trump.