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In 2025 alone, The Telegraph was forced to publish over 100 corrections, clarifications, and formal regulatory apologies, significantly more than the 33 corrections the BBC was forced to make, despite the BBC's larger output.

Who's getting fired at the Telegraph then?

To allow the BBC to be defunded, decayed & ultimately destroyed by right wing ideologues is to finally submit to a society based on callousness & selfishness, and an end to what we have claimed for generations to be true British values.

We must fight for it.

If there is a national institution that reflects, represents, and encompasses the shared social and cultural values of the UK, it is not the royal family, it is the BBC.

Ultimately that's why the Tories hate it, because it is a bulwark against selfish individualism.

It is also a near-unmatched internationally recognised and trusted (perhaps more so than in the UK) brand, the UK’s largest cultural export, and a driver of investment in the UK.

But, yeah, the patriots with their little flags want it gone.

The BBC employ roughly twice as many people as the UK fishing industry. You'd think people would question Farage's patriotism and intentions wanting it shut down.

The BBC News website now have a live, minute-by-minute blog on this.

Then, when 100k+ people turn up for Yaxley-Lennon's riot, everyone rings their hands and wails: "HOW COULD THIS HAVE HAPPENED?"

Remember all the media attention when 50-70 prisoners a year were released in error under the Tories? Yeah, me neither. This is not new so why is it only making headlines now?

*From 2010 through roughly 2023, the number of prisoners released in error was around 50 to 70 per year*

I often wondered how this photo could happen. How did they find so many seemingly 'regular' people willing to sign up to be concentration camp guards and commit atrocities (and apparently enjoy their job). Now I know.

I'd rather it was bubonic plague and festering boils, but yes, cholesterol would do.

And yet - nothing about this is on the BBC main app.

It’s hidden under Welsh news.

Nothing in the Daily Mail, Express, The Sun, The Times.

Seems like Farage’s opinions on everything make front page news EXCEPT when one of his guys admits to taking Russian bribes….🤷🏼‍♀️

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Careful, this might give RFK ideas. It would fit right in with MAHA and MAGA Aryan ideology.

Twenty Lessons, read by John Lithgow Key selections from On Tyranny, for viewing and sharing

Here is my best guidance, rendered beautifully by the great John Lithgow. I first published these lessons nearly nine years ago, in late 2016. They open the twenty chapters of "On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century."
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Something has gone terribly wrong when you know that if he were alive today Hitler would be receiving state visits and unfettered media coverage.
If you don’t take a stand when it counts then don’t you dare claim you’re outraged when they come for you.

I choose dignity and plain decency over the trade pragmatism leading to us fake fawning over a fascistic tyrant. Unlike the ridiculous "sovereignty" of Brexit, that is my patriotism and a hit worth taking every time.

Privately educated still have ‘vice-like grip’ on most powerful UK jobs Those in top roles are five times as likely to have been to private school than general population, study finds

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

It's never been a level playing field.

Do not obey in advance, this is the first lesson of Timothy Snyder's "On Tyranny". American media is falling at the first hurdle. Subjugation of the media is almost complete. America is lost unless it can stand up to this tyrant before it's too late.

First Stephen Colbert, now Jimmy Kimmel. This is Fascism 101. Every opposing voice is being silenced.

Jimmy Kimmel taken off air over Charlie Kirk comments The late-night host said on Monday that Trump's allies were "doing everything they can to score political points from" Kirk's death.

BBC News - Jimmy Kimmel taken off air over Charlie Kirk comments
www.bbc.com/news/article...

First Colbert, now Kimmel. This is Fascism 101.

I feel nothing but shame and disgust at my nation's flag being turned into a weapon and a threat.

An increasingly dictatorial president is deploying the military and police against their enemies, and is using ‘emergency’ powers across the board.

This is a common phenomenon, the world over.

If you think it is somehow different because it is the US, then you have fallen for exceptionalism.

'Anywhere But Here': How Britain's Anti-Migrant Media Consensus Is Crowding Out the Truth Britain's longstanding traditions of tolerance and compassion are being suppressed in favour of a media-driven campaign of anti-migrant hate

The real 'two tier' divide in British politics is between the wife of a Conservative councillor calling for refugees to be burnt alive, being treated as a brave 'political prisoner', and the protestors calling for the end of mass starvation and genocide, being treated as domestic terrorists

Be brilliant if a few guys lead Trump into a house promising him
the Nobel Peace Prize only for him to enter an empty room “Oh no…”

Palestine Action ban protest: half of those arrested were 60 or over, data shows Total of 532 arrests at London protest on Saturday, most for displaying placards or signs in support of proscribed group

532 arrested. Was this not true then? Did they tell fibs?:

The Met Police had said about 500 to 600 people were in Parliament Square when the protest began, but that "many were onlookers, media or people not holding placards in support of Palestine Action"

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

My family knows my funeral wishes, but they also have my full blessing to do whatever makes things easiest for them. Their comfort is what matters most, and I completely trust their decisions.

Farage is an absent MP, earning a fortune from side grifts. His ‘party’ is in hock to fossil fuel donors. He’s pro Trump, pro austerity (DOGE) and his ‘policies’ are nothing more than ugly populist hogwash that have done real damage to our country.
Would that be so hard to point out #bbclaurak?

Having just watched a report on the increasing number of people turning to AI agents for relationship advice, we can't be far away (if not already there) from a significant slice of voters asking ChatGPT/Grok/Siri/Whatever to tell them for whom they should vote. Take a moment to think about that.

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Well that's good to know.

The image provides a concise summary of the Skydance Media Acquisition of Paramount Global (including CBS). Here's a breakdown of the key information presented: Acquiring Entity: Skydance Media, led by David Ellison. Target Entity: Paramount Global, which includes CBS. Deal Structure: The process involves Skydance first acquiring National Amusements, which is Paramount's controlling shareholder, and then merging with Paramount Global. Deal Valuation: The deal is valued at around $8 billion. Regulatory Requirement: The transaction is subject to regulatory approval, specifically from the Federal Communications Commission (FCC).

Funny old thing, that