@writesbright.bsky.social
Investigative journalist, author, and Yorkshireman. DeSmog’s UK deputy editor.
Ofcom bears a not-so-insignificant responsibility for the blatantly racist rhetoric now treated as 'normal' on British TV
When a regulator simply shrugs at escalating hate we're all negatively impacted
And TalkTV.
It’s sickening that these platforms have been normalised in media circles when they’re giving airtime to such horrific opinions basically every single day
🔴 What Labour and the BBC have in common…
Their mutual naivety towards the feral right-wing media is causing them to make huge strategic mistakes.
📝 New post 👇🏻
Great analysis here from @writesbright.bsky.social
“There’s a strange symmetry between the Labour Party and the BBC at the moment. Namely, both are behaving with intense, self-destructive naivety towards the right-wing press”
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One of the most nauseating parts of right-wing discourse over the past few years has been their insistence that lockdowns a scam.
The Covid inquiry says that 23k people died because we locked down one week too late. God knows how many more would’ve died if the herd immunity crowd had got their way
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Brilliant analysis from @writesbright.bsky.social
Follow and subscribe to him if you don’t already
🔴 What Labour and the BBC have in common…
Their mutual naivety towards the feral right-wing media is causing them to make huge strategic mistakes.
📝 New post 👇🏻
This story about a Reform councillor in Northumberland has about three different massive stories in it.
He's accused of ripping off his constituents to the tune of £140k.
He owes his own council nearly £40k in unpaid tax.
His own council is suing him.
Funny how they never engage with the ones on the left they disagree with...
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Fresh from advising Morgan McSweeney last week, Labour peer Maurice Glasman addressed the annual conference of a pro-Reform group that has spread myths about the Covid vaccine and has claimed Starmer is "destroying Britain".
📝 New @desmog.com story 👇
Exclusive: ‘Deeply shocking’: Nigel Farage faces fresh claims of racism and antisemitism at school
Bafta-winning director among contemporaries urging contrition and apology from Reform UK leader, who denies the allegations
w/ Dan Boffey and @drblacklock.bsky.social
I suspect Glasman's spokesperson is Glasman, but who knows
18.11.2025 16:59 — 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Glasman's spox said he “regularly engages with people with whom he does not agree... He will continue to listen and debate on the work of renewing our country.”
I fail to see how rubbing shoulders with a bunch of cranks and conspiracy theorists will "renew" Britain, but maybe Morgan disagrees.
Fresh from advising Morgan McSweeney last week, Labour peer Maurice Glasman addressed the annual conference of a pro-Reform group that has spread myths about the Covid vaccine and has claimed Starmer is "destroying Britain".
📝 New @desmog.com story 👇
The ‘patriots’ who loathe Britain writesbright.substack.com/p/the-patrio...
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A few more details about Michael Prescott, the corporate lobbyist behind the “BBC bias” memo 👇🏻👇🏻
17.11.2025 10:53 — 👍 84 🔁 59 💬 2 📌 1Let's say for the sake of argument that his policies are "successful" (say in reducing the number of UK asylum applications).
Does he think the press will simply sit back and applaud him?
No chance. They'll just invent a new bogeyman – a new epidemic – that he's to blame for
Starmer’s anti-asylum policies show how utterly clueless he is about the right-wing media’s role in politics.
He’s trying to fix a “problem” contrived by Farage, GB News and The Telegraph. He’ll never win, because ultimately he’s fighting a ghost – he’s fighting something that doesn’t really exist
A few more details about Michael Prescott, the corporate lobbyist behind the “BBC bias” memo 👇🏻👇🏻
17.11.2025 10:53 — 👍 84 🔁 59 💬 2 📌 1
What had Precott to gain from his #bbcpanorama report ? Check this out from the excellent @writesbright.bsky.social
#r4today #gmb
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@writesbright.bsky.social on great form, here.
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Wild how GB News can spend years screaming about grooming gangs and demanding total transparency on child sexual abuse…but the moment Trump sits down with them, its all smiles
It doesn't count when it's rich white men, have I got that right?
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'They call it “Reform”, when what they mean is demolition.'
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15.11.2025 11:42 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Exceptional piece by Sam Bright 👏
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I'm absolutely bloody sick of self-appointed "patriots" claiming to adore Britain while trying to destroy our national institutions – including, this week, our world-revered public broadcaster.
📝 New rant 👇
The remarkable story we discussed this morning. (No paywall but do consider subscribing.) www.thenewworld.co.uk/james-ball-e...
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If I was the Labour government, I simply would not allow an oil industry supplier with 600+ fossil fuel clients to sponsor my pavilion at the world’s flagship climate summit.
📝 my new story out today in the latest Private Eye 👇🏻
