Dr Paula Gazzard

What you’re witnessing is a populist assault on the BBC.

This is not an institutional scandal in any meaningful sense of the word. It is an attack on public service broadcasting.

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Why people can't smell an absolutely reeking rat is extremely perplexing

From the David community on Reddit: HOA snitches got a homemade tree fort torn down Posted by Artistic-Wolverine-6 - 1,312 votes and 208 comments

WTF is wrong with people? Entitled tossers wanting to rule the world and governments just encourage them instead of telling them to get a life www.reddit.com/r/David/s/YJ...

BBC chair apologises for 'error of judgement' over Trump speech edit in documentary BBC Chair Samir Shah on Monday apologised for an "error of judgment" in editing a speech by U.S. President Donald Trump in a Panorama documentary, following the resignations of BBC's boss and head of ...

I've previously heard the whole speech, edited or not an obvious call to insurrection with plausible deniability from a chancer. There comes a limit to grovelling to foreign dictators, surely?

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Save NHS dentistry now! I just signed the 38 Degrees petition calling on the Government to properly fund NHS dentistry. Millions of us are still struggling to access affordable dental care, so now the Government needs to stu...

Millions of us are still struggling to access affordable NHS dental care. I’ve signed 38 Degrees’ petition demanding Keir Starmer properly funds NHS dentistry now, will you join me? you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/fu...

Totally! Important to get out of a doomed/saved binary, and work out what we can do practically to make the world as livable as we can for everyone and everything

Thinking you're not already doomed makes not being doomed much more likely! And I think this holds for politics as much as nature. Every little helps! www.thegef.org/newsroom/pre...

The Absurd Prosecution of a Man Who Posted a Charlie Kirk Meme Larry Bushart Jr. posted trolling memes on a Facebook thread about a vigil for Kirk. He’s been in a Tennessee jail ever since.

After all that ranting from Vance about UK free speech... theintercept.com/2025/10/23/c...

The cleavage shot no UK tabloid will print Want to understand how deeply weird the British press is on the subject of Russian interference? I have a bikini shot to show you...

It's actually about Russian interference in uk demacracy... open.substack.com/pub/broligar...

USA Republicans did nothing to control MAGA because MAGA was electorally successful. Ditto Johnson in the UK. Yes, Starmer, you can't govern if you can't get elected but you also can't govern if you have subordinated your party to lawless authoritarian voters and nerd reich think tank funders

Great reasons to live alone: I can sniffle through sentimental dramas with no one being mean to me about it 🤣

It's when you try to get rid of a coloniser that they get really nasty - the techbros are the new East India company

Brazil Has a New Digital Spending Habit. Now It’s a Trump Target.

Tired: Trump is punishing Brazil because they sentenced his pal Bolsonaro for attempting a coup
Wired: Trump is punishing Brazil because their useful central bank payment system is squeezing out PayPal
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/29/w...

Brits need to understand that Farage and the Reform Party are funded by the same people and this is their agenda. My heart goes out to the fear and suffering in the USA and I quake in my boots because they're systematically targeting UK next...

Neurodissidence Network | Meetup This group is associated with the neurodissidence network blog: http://neurodissidence.org.uk/It's a space by and for autistic and neurodivergent people. We're left-leaning, and see neurodissidence ve...

Subject for this month's Neurodissidence Network discussion: Is autistic experience universalisable? We'll be meeting online Thurs 2 October 7-9pm - link will be posted to our Signal group or you can sign up at www.meetup.com/neurodisside...

A hand-drawn image of a spaceship resembling the USS Enterprise from Star Trek. The ship is labeled “USS MOTHERfucker” and has “S.S. REAPER” written on its side. It is firing a yellow laser beam at another spacecraft, which is exploding in red, orange, and yellow. Text below the image reads, “BOLDLY Fucking Your Shit Up.” The drawing is done with colored pencils or crayons in a rough, childlike style with crude humor.

pew pew pew bitch

FFS don't pander to far right, it only encourages them

Pay attention to the media organisations who will report on Trump declaring antifa - which does not exist - as a terrorist organisation without explicitly saying what antifa stands for every time.

They’d have to report that Trump is effectively declaring anti-fascism as an enemy ideology.

And if you're not from that class you'd better learn to adapt to its attitudes pretty fast or you're not going anywhere

ffs things you never thought could happen here

It's so refreshing to hear a party leader telling people the true reason why they are struggling, rather than blaming it on the Ukraine war, or immigrants, or any of the other lies the leaders of other parties tell to convince the public not to change the system.

Bravo @zackpolanski.bsky.social!

News Presidential visit Magas next project is to fix 'broken Britain'

Musk is one of those pushing for regime change. There were plenty of points where British and US politics have been out of sync and it was fine - Blair and Bush. But in the Maga movement, there is something else: Maga wants to export Maga. In Nigel Farage, it has someone who positions himself as "first friend"

What follows the pageantry, then, is a test of nerve. Washington's Anglophiles are not content to cheer Britain from the stands; they want to rewrite its rulebook and cast Westminster as the next front in their domestic struggle. The test for Sir Keir Starmer is whether he can welcome the friendship without importing the fight.

Quite incredible this is even being discussed.
Quoting Charlie Kirk and Musk’s plans for us. And traitorous Farage as their way in.
All those moronic Brexiters calling for ‘control’ and ‘sovereignty’, now happy to be kicked around by American fascists.
It’s horrific and it must not happen.
(Times)

In May we wrote to DPC Commissioners Des Hogan and Dale Sutherland to say

"Should a significant national security incident now occur as a result of RTB data we will be obliged to make this correspondence public and clarify where responsibility lies."

That day has arrived.

UK Bars Israel From London Defense Expo Over New Gaza Offensive The UK barred Israeli administration officials from attending a flagship defense exhibition in London because of its military offensive in Gaza, a move that further frayed relations between the two governments.

Little and late but something at least...
UK Bars Israel From London Defense Expo Over New Gaza Offensive

https://ground.news/article/uk-blocks-israeli-officials-from-its-biggest-defence-show_cafd4f?utm_source=mobile-app&utm_medium=newsroom-share

Australia accuses Iran of organizing antisemitic attacks and expels ambassador Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese accused Iran of directing at least two antisemitic attacks in Australia and said the country is expelling the Iranian ambassador on Tuesday.

Bloody 'ell!
Australia accuses Iran of organizing antisemitic attacks and expels ambassador

https://ground.news/article/iran-directed-antisemitic-attacks-in-australia-pm-albanese-says_a769bc?utm_source=mobile-app&utm_medium=newsroom-share

Yo nobody can say 'I wish ill' but I can get told 'enjoy the camps'? Wtf is this candy ass bullshit, mods?

Police ordered to consider revealing ethnicity of suspects Police should consider disclosing the ethnicity and nationality of suspects when they are charged in high-profile and sensitive cases, new national guidance says. Coming into force today, it says there must be a policing reason to release the information, such as where there are high levels of disinformation, if it will improve public safety, or if it is significantly in the public interest.

Hmmm more pandering to racism <sigh>
Police ordered to consider revealing ethnicity of suspects

https://ground.news/article/police-ordered-to-consider-revealing-ethnicity-of-suspects?utm_source=mobile-app&utm_medium=newsroom-share

Xi Says China, Brazil Can Model 'Self-Reliance' for Global South China's President Xi Jinping told his Brazilian counterpart on Tuesday (Aug 12) the two countries could set an example of "self-reliance" for emerging powers, as trade and geopolitical challenges mount.

Xi Says China, Brazil Can Model 'Self-Reliance' for Global South

https://ground.news/article/xi-says-china-brazil-can-model-self-reliance-for-global-south_a5ce21?utm_source=mobile-app&utm_medium=newsroom-share

India’s opposition parties protest against a controversial electoral roll revision India ’s opposition parties held a protest Monday calling for the rollback of a controversial revision of the voter list in one of the country’s poorest states, where key elections are scheduled in November, and warning it could lead to voter disenfranchisement.

I see Modi is making India great again:
India’s opposition parties protest against a controversial electoral roll revision

https://ground.news/article/indias-opposition-parties-protest-against-a-controversial-electoral-roll-revision?utm_source=mobile-app&utm_medium=newsroom-share

Norway Wealth Fund Divests from Several Israeli Companies, Plans Further Sales over Gaza War Norway's $2 trillion sovereign wealth fund, the world's largest, said on Tuesday it expects to divest from more Israeli companies as part of its ongoing review of investments in the country over the situation in Gaza and the West Bank.

Norway Wealth Fund Divests from Several Israeli Companies, Plans Further Sales over Gaza War

https://ground.news/article/norways-sovereign-wealth-fund-sells-its-shares-in-11-israeli-companies?utm_source=mobile-app&utm_medium=newsroom-share