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Donald Trump’s demand for a billion dollars from the BBC comes from a local Florida law firm. It was sent to the wrong address, and the writer didn’t know what ‘salacious’ really means: ‘Due to their salacious nature, the fabricated statements that were aired by the BBC…’

And journalists like Jeremy Bowen, Lyse Dousett et al, who are fearless and really know their stuff. And Bagpuss! Where would we be, who would we be without the things the BBC gave us ?

Bagpuss, Noggin the Nog, Play for Today, Monty Python, Coldiz, Top of the Pops, Dr Who, It's A Knockout, Not the 9 O clock News, Blackadder. Kate Adie & all the foreign/war correspondents. Jeremy Bowen. I would pay my licence fee just for Jeremy Bowen. He knows his stuff.

NHS staff who visit patients at home say St George’s flags can mean ‘no-go zones’ Black and Asian staff left feeling ‘deliberately intimidated’, according to chief executive of one NHS trust

“A sustained campaign of anti-migrant rhetoric is fuelling a growing cesspool of racism, including against international and ethnic minority nursing staff, without whom our health and care system would simply cease to function.”

How disgraceful.

www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

Yeah, I know. I was attempting a bit of smut in tribute to @sirmichaeltake.bsky.social

Lancashire’s Reform-run council plans to close care homes and day centres Questions about potential conflict of interest as council’s cabinet member for social care owns private care company

Meanwhile, in Reform's Lancashire CC, the councillor in charge of care homes, owns a private care home, and is closing council care homes. 👀

A resident’s son, a Reform party member, said any move would “kill” his mother. ~AA
#NeverThoughtTheLeopards

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Note that still in post at the BBC is Robbie Gibb, who helped set up GB News, and John McAndrew, formerly director of news and programmes at GB News.

And his poppy isn't red & shiny like the others. Looks rather shrivelled ....

"Seizing Brexit opportunities to deregulate" was mostly unspecified magic fairy pixie bullshit then, and it's not going to get any more realistic in the hands of a bunch of Reform clowns who don't know how anything works, don't care to learn and disdain anyone that might.

Hundreds of thousands of people, dead because of a decision made by the world's richest man

The reason I lose heart with BBC News is that the next layer down from the "top" is in many ways worse.

Kuenssberg, Mason, Watt, etc. have surrendered to the lazy journalism of repeating gossip. But people like Zeffman were *recruited* to do that and have never done (nor can they do) anything else.

Roses are nouns
Violets are, too
Gove is a pr*ck
That much is true

Don't get me started on split digraphs.

It starts before Y6. I've been in Y3 lessons where writing it taught in this way. It kills flow and imagination.

I mis read that as "Toady job." Works though.

9. Now this idea is being resuscitated once again. The city is cast by the new wave of fascists as a degenerate, crime-ridden arena, dominated by Muslims, immigrants and “alien” ideas such as feminism, antifa, anti-racism, trans rights, asylum, public transport and intellectualism.

8. Evil city / pure countryside is an example of what Jeremy Lent calls a “root metaphor”: an idea so deeply implanted in our minds that we don’t even recognise it as an idea.

Time to get your sport fix elsewhere.

@cmckinnellmp.bsky.social
@chionwurah.bsky.social

Reluctant to give Question Time any time - save for this:

Ettingermentum writes: “Actually what on earth is in those files bro.” The image from Courier Newsroom headline reads: “Rep-elect Adelita Grijalva is now the longest Rep-elect in history to not be sworn in. Mike Johnson still refuses to swear in Rep-elect Grijalva over fear of releasing the Epstein files.” The picture shows Grijalva in a red jacket beside Speaker Mike Johnson.

Swear her in. Release the Epstein Files.

Kemi Badenoch is absolutely right about this.

At the time she hacked Harriet Harman's emails it was an offence carrying a prison sentence of up to five years

@cmckinnellmp.bsky.social @chionwurah.bsky.social

He was barely trying.

Someone tell Danny Kruger. He denied all knowledge of Reform's Kent debacle on R4 this morning. Unchallenged by Nick Robinson.

Three further members of Reform’s “flagship” Kent council expelled for “dishonest and deceptive behaviour”

www.itv.com/news/meridia...

Also, he said he had stats to prove a racial imbalance in adverts. He wasn't asked about this. Who is counting? Why? How robust are the stats & what's their purpose? Who the heck cares? Does he really believe that the "woke liberati" control ad agencies? And why did Nick Robinson let it all slide?

A reminder that this is the same Rishi Sunak who when he was Prime Minister raised taxes to their highest level in more than 70 years

One further cruelty has not been spotted about the Conservative Mass Deportation bill proposed by Chris Philp, Katie Lam, Matt Vickers et al

Bill would block all people on the Syrian Vulnerable Persons Scheme of 2016-21 from ever getting ILR in Britain
+ revoke any past grants of ILR to those on it

What need we fear who knows it, when none can call our pow’r to accompt?