James Connelly

Given that the BBC endlessly gives platforms to lobbyists from the dark money junktanks without revealing their interests, shouldn't we be seeing such apologies every day?

Better still, how about not doing it? If they want to appear, we should know on whose behalf they are speaking.

Second platform open at Newquay with branch line ready for Mid Cornwall Metro - Rail UK Second platform open at Newquay with branch line ready for Mid Cornwall Metro - Stations

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ZOOM conference call users. When asked a question you are not prepared for, open your mouth and then 'freeze. Your colleagues will simply assume you have a bad network connection. Wait until the agenda has moved on to another topic before 'unfreezing' yourself. Make sure you are not sitting with your back to a window when doing this, in case a vehicle drives past while you are 'frozen' Don, Newbury

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Toby Young to Address Orbán-Backed Group on UK ‘Censorship’ Conservative peer and right-wing commentator Toby Young is due to deliver a talk tomorrow (25 November) at the in-house think tank of Hungarian autocrat Viktor Orbán. Young is being interviewed by Mat...

Toby Young, self-appointed king of free speech, is speaking in Hungary tomorrow about UK “censorship”.

He’ll be addressing a group funded by Viktor Orbán’s autocratic regime, which has seized control of the country’s media, judiciary, and routinely harasses its critics

Farage logic.

Ben Jennings is bang on the money, again.

#COP30 is joke.

The #ClimateCrisis is already here, and we're arguing about taking even more fossil fuels out of the ground, and pretending that the halfhearted action we've taken so far is going to save our kids from suffering on burning planet.

FOR FUCK'S SAKE.

Yeah, why tax global planet killing companies when you can just raise income tax on "hard working people" instead.

#Budget25 #Reeves #ClimateCrisis #GlobalHeating


#FossilFuels

Do we really think tinkering with rules about ILR etc will fundamentally change the incentives of those risking their lives, and those of their kids in dinghies? And is legitimising racism by seeing it as a logical reaction to policy failure really takes basis on which to proceed?

Reminder.

BBC On Gaza-Israel: One Story, Double Standards - Centre For Media Monitoring

Actual analysis of the BBC’s coverage of Gaza is devastating for Prescott and the right wing attacks on the BBC. Ratio of Israeli-Palestinian deaths: 1 /34. Ratio of coverage of those deaths: 19 / 1.

cfmm.org.uk/bbc-on-gaza-...

Putin’s Plot Against ‘Great’ Britain – And How He Got Away With It Peter Jukes tracks Vladimir Putin’s long war against the West and the allies he has found in the pro-Brexit establishment in the plot to derail Britain

As Trump and Putin work to crush Ukraine and destabilise Europe and Farage’s ally gets sentenced to 10yrs for taking Russian bribes, it’s a good time to revisit this excellent report on how the British rightwing has betrayed us all.
Brexit was their weapon of choice.
bylinetimes.com/2022/03/08/p...

Climate COP30 in Brazil fails to secure new pledges to cut fossil fuels • 22 November 2025

Good. I'm glad this is the headline. This is the real story. Thank you to the BBC.

The Confidence Trick That Put Boris Johnson Into Power Is Now Being Used on Nigel Farage The same people who convinced the British public to back a catastrophic Boris Johnson premiership are now pulling the same trick again with Nigel Farage

The same people who convinced the British public to back a catastrophic Boris Johnson premiership are now pulling the same trick again with Nigel Farage

www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/the-confid...

Donate to Minsters Rail Campaign, organized by Peter Hemmerman The Minsters Rail Campaign are trying to restore a rail link from Beverley to York joining the … Peter Hemmerman needs your support for Minsters Rail Campaign

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Donate to Minsters Rail Campaign, organized by Peter Hemmerman The Minsters Rail Campaign are trying to restore a rail link from Beverley to York joining the … Peter Hemmerman needs your support for Minsters Rail Campaign

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We know that’s not true!

Plans for Leeds Bradford Airport parkway station still no closer to fruition It's been nine years since plans for a new station were first announced.

www.railmagazine.com/news/plans-f...

Northern outlines plan to grow passenger journeys by 30 million in five years Northern unveils '30 by 30' plan to increase the number of journeys made on its trains.

www.railmagazine.com/news/norther...

Plans to house asylum seekers in Crowborough army camp explained The latest Home Office figures state that 540 men will be housed at the army camp in Crowborough.

Far right activists descending on my area to demonise people seeking asylum is a far greater threat to locals than single men being housed in a barracks because the same far right activists don’t want them in hotels.

Your Questions: Asylum plans in Crowborough www.bbc.com/news/article...

Climate change is now warming the deepest parts of the Arctic Ocean While it is well known that climate change is heating the world's oceans, it was thought that the deep sea was safe from its effects—until now. Researchers have discovered that a rapidly warming part ...

🌊 Climate change is now warming the deepest parts of the Arctic Ocean

phys.org/news/2025-11...

Before the midterms of 1866, President Andrew Johnson called his congressional opponents traitors and said they should be hanged.

Voters were so profoundly moved by his words... that they gave his opponents a supermajority in Congress, and the nation got the Fourteenth Amendment.

Goldfinch #birds

Noem at odds with Trump-appointed panel over future of FEMA Instead of further shrinking and dismantling FEMA, the FEMA Review Council wants to make it more independent.

Breaking news: A panel appointed by President Trump to review whether to eliminate the Federal Emergency Management Agency has instead concluded that the agency should be more powerful and autonomous.

‘Half the tree of life’: ecologists’ horror as nature reserves are emptied of insects A new point in history has been reached, entomologists say, as climate-led species’ collapse moves up the food chain even in supposedly protected regions free of pesticides

To be welcomed but we have a bigger problem. And it’s everywhere…

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

YouTube video by Lincoln Center for Applied Ethics Aldo Leopold and Environmental Stewardship | Dr. Roberta Millstein Lecture

Inspired by Aldo Leopold’s land ethic, Dr. Roberta Millstein reexamines this philosophy in light of contemporary ecology, sharing new interpretations of interdependence, land health, & the “biotic community,” offering a fresh take on how these ideas can guide modern conservation & restoration policy

New line passenger forecasts 'should be based on previous successes' Campaign for Better Transport says forecasts should better reflect the success of routes such as the Elizabeth, Dartmoor and Northumberland lines.

www.railmagazine.com/news/passeng...

We must copy Denmark Social Democrats' hardline anti-asylum measures in order to win back voters' trust, says Shabana Mahmood.

Meanwhile in Denmark:

This one of the most powerful critiques of Mahmood's plans on asylum and immigration. Even if you have read many others, you should read this from @tanjabueltmann.net

Christopher Bertram | ‘Core Protection’ Refugeehood is not supposed to be like this. The ideal envisaged by the Refugee Convention is that refugee status should...

Me at the LRB blog on the atrocious refugee policy of Mahmood and Starmer

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