Honest Dave

Once every 20 years or so, the director-general of the BBC is forced to resign for being insufficiently rightwing. Alastair Milne in 1987. Greg Dyke in 2004. Tim Davie in 2025. The great irony is that the BBC was in all cases profoundly biased towards established power. But just not biased enough …

A social media post by Karoline Leavitt (The White House Press Secretary) showing two news headlines side-by-side. The left headline, under a caption that reads "Shot" reads: "Trump goes to war with 'fake news' BBC," and the right headline under a caption that reads "Chaser" reads: "Tim Davie resigns as BBC director general over Trump documentary edit."

I had my disagreements with the BBC under Tim Davie but he was a decent man doing a difficult job.

To see Trump's White House claiming credit for his downfall and attacking the BBC should worry us all.

If, as several people are suggesting this morning, the DG and News CEO were prevented from issuing an apology re Panorama last week by the board, it seems extremely urgent that the chair of the board clarify what happened

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Agreed, Alan has nailed it

Revealed: Brexit group covered up its targeting of right-wing extremists Brexit-backer Arron Banks repeatedly denied that Leave.EU appealed to National Front supporters - in a bid to get the BBC to drop an investigation

Robbie Gibb who cancelled a BBC investigation into Farage's Leave dot EU campaign shortly before the EU Ref

Arron Banks thanked him for it

"Robbie Gibb is being quite helpful and says he’s trying to hose it down."

- @channel4news.bsky.social in 2019

They don't just hate the journalism: they hate everything else about the BBC, not least that it is all things to all people.

"All people" is anathema to the Right. They'd put a contract out on David Attenborough if they had to.

'Nigel Farage exposes himself as Thatcher knock-off with spending cut plans' Kevin Maguire issues a warning to anyone in the working class community who are considering voting for Nigel Farage and his Reform UK party, saying they will "hammer you"

“All the flags in England cannot conceal the unpleasant, repulsive nastiness and lunacy at the core of Reform. As Reform’s tax hikes and mismanagement in councils from Kent to Durham confirm, the party couldn’t run a bath.”
www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...

Reform UK are trying to bring back Maria Caulfield as a candidate.

She’s a failed Tory Minister. Let’s not forget scandals she was involved in:

It blows my mind that there are real people who see a post like this and actually believe the whole “Christmas is being cancelled by Muslims” BS 🙄

Let’s have a quick look at what’s happening to Sheffield so you can put your Express reading uncle’s mind at ease!😆

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Any such cut is completely wrong

Plant importers say border delays in Kent could drive up prices and stop deliveries from EU Traders report long waits at Sevington inspection post and claim trees and shrubs are repeatedly being damaged

Labour’s reset with the EU may solve this boring, costly nightmare for British businesses.
But EU-phobic Farage and Tories say they would rip that agreement up again.
What an utterly childish response to the damage they’ve done.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Chris Packham on the political shift on climate change: “It’s no secret that the fossil fuel companies are funding Reform and The Conservatives - that’s a fact. These people are either denying something extremely dangerous or they’re puppet-ing it for their paymasters”

#bbclaurak

Anyone remember the time Boris Johnson turned up looking like a bag of rubbish and laid the wreath upside down. And the next time the ƁBC showed the footage, it showed a completely different ceremony and him laying a different wreath? When people noticed and complained, they said it was a mistake.

Quentin Willson dies: Jeremy Clarkson and James May pay tribute to former Top Gear host The presenter and campaigner was described by his family as a "true national treasure" and "consumer champion".

He described himself as "the dancing equivalent of a JCB" when he took part in Strictly Come Dancing, but he was an excellent motoring journalist. RIP.

BBC News - Former Top Gear presenter Quentin Willson dies aged 68
www.bbc.com/news/article...

I’d love to see the scale on this graph

A deep commitment to anti-wokeness

Ireland's FA passes vote seeking UEFA ban on Israel competing in European competitions The FAI poll, carried by 74 votes to seven, accuses Israel's FA of failing to stamp out racism and allowing Israeli clubs to play in occupied Palestinian territories and echoes similar calls by Turkis...

Let's see how the FA reacts to this...

news.sky.com/story/irelan...

Oh, but blue passports are surely worth it? Sovrenty, innit! Has anybody asked frogface what his "policy" would be to fix the situation? Sell more to Ru551a?! But then our MSM are not there to search for truth, or to make things better, they are there to provide a soap box for self-serving cnuts🤬

If Starmer did one thing that would have redeemed his entire mandate it would have been to legislate on Leveson and sort out the malign UK press and its billionaire owners.

He had the majority and the time to do it ....

Oddly this point is never highlighted....

Yep, that's about sums it up.

#Grifter #Farage & #DeFormUK

Ban politicians hosting shows on UK news channels I just signed the campaign calling to save ban politicians hosting shows on UK news channels

I just signed the campaign calling to ban politicians hosting shows on UK news channels. act.38degrees.org.uk/act/ban-poli...

Why the f*** does he need to be told?

Aren’t they all? This is how Tories and Reform really think. Convinced of their own superiority and right to power, they’re quick to be sneering, racist and bitter when they fail. Always blaming. Never taking responsibility. Or feeling any shame. Cummings is nothing. But god he’s furious about that.

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Never forget what Thatcher did to this country.

This poster appeared at a bus stop near Tesla's flagship London store overnight… 👏🏼