Don (Dhómhnall) Canning

I’m so glad you’ve arrived in what hopefully will be your home for the rest of you’re very long days (& long nights 😏)

Today is our 10th anniversary living in Scotland - we were two 24 & 26 year-old babies, with two suitcases, barely any savings and only each other. But Scotland embraced us, this country felt like home from the moment I first breathed it in, and it still feels like a dream to call Scotland home 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

BBC impartiality: A full list of all the British MEPs who appeared on BBC Question Time.

Astonishing video, worth watching in full.

Sweet

#resist #revolt #reclaim

As Scots that the BBC is inherently bias towards the SNP & the Indy movement in general. We have suffered from their pro Westminster Propaganda for years. Back in 2013, A year before our IndyRef Whitehall mobilised the Beeb to rally against us with lies, Pure unadulterated lies.
Did heads roll? No.

Casual reminder that the myth of “pulling yourself up by your bootstraps” is a cruel hoax designed to convince poor people from all walks of life that the injustices they face are a result of their own actions, rather than an oppressive system rigged against them.

Gary Lineker: "This is the mistake the BBC makes. The BBC tries to appease the people that hate the BBC, rather than worrying about the people that love the BBC."

FACT OF THE DAY. 10 November 1871. Journalist Henry Stanley greeted a missing Scottish explorer in Central Africa with the words: “Dr. Livingstone, I presume?” Livingstone was out of contact for 6 years. Stanley was sent to find him by New York Herald. They met on the shore of Lake Tanganyika.

Note that still in post at the BBC is Robbie Gibb, who helped set up GB News, and John McAndrew, formerly director of news and programmes at GB News.

dean withers (@deanwithrs) on Threads Holy Sh*t. This is brutal. I’ve never seen him get booed this much. Americans are turning against Trump, and they’re letting him know.

Things going a little bit Caucescau for the dimestore dictator...

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@thesnpmedia.bsky.social Hello ScotGov this is a good idea!

YouTube video by London Calling documentary LONDON CALLING: BBC bias during the 2014 Scottish independence referendum

BBC director resigns over corporation skewing news, you say? Bitter laughs from Scotland.
youtu.be/TXQYuLUAbyw

Detail from the BBC's 23/24 Annual Report, showing that that arts output was cut, more than other genres.

Page from an Ofcom report showing that in 2023 the BBC significantly missed its Ofcom target of new arts and music programmes.

Tips for the next DG:

1 - Don't stake your future on impartiality. Perfect impartiality is impossible. Focus on accuracy and accountability. Let journalists and producers do their job. If they get it badly wrong, sack them.

2 - Reverse the deliberate, prolonged cut to arts programming.

I’m surprised Davie has resigned over that Panorama edit (seems like a bit of a nothingburger to me) but I’m glad he’s gone. On his watch the BBC simply gave up the ghost on factual documentary TV, and decided the best way to serve its audience was to patronise it.
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See what’s happening. A Trumpist US media company has taken over Channel 5. Another US company is gunning for ITV. Our social media is saturated by Musk’s calls for civil war in the UK. The BBC is the last thing standing, and Trump/Johnson are trying to bring it down

Maybe dont employ ex Tories as your CEO and you might not end up with dreadful political editors and hopefully the country will stop voting in horrendous PMs.

Boris Johnson and Brexit should have never happened if the BBC had good political editors.

@bbcnewsnight.bsky.social

Day 313 of #365DaysOfSmiles
Baby swan feeds the fish!

Be like Finland, and have no 'poorly educated '

#education #understanding #criticalthinking #trumplovesthepoorlyeducated

New blue plaque for London's Flagship Tesla Store

#boycotttesla #boycottX #muskisafascist

We Need to Talk About Michael Gove and Crony Covid Contracts Gove claims he had no “active role” in the procurement of Covid PPE during the pandemic, yet evidence suggests he was involved in multiple VIP deals worth over £1billion, reports Russell Scott

Michael Gove and the Billion £ VIP Lane for Covid pppe contracts

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Dear Reforms & Tories

I remember.

My grandfathers fought in WW1, one was injured at the Somme.
My father and his brothers fought in WW2. My dad helped liberate Italy.

Today's Reform and Conservative parties embody the very things they were fighting against.

So, kindly go fuck yourselves.

“In the last year of the Conservative Government alone, 115 prisoners were released in error, including a series of serious offenders.

“At no point did this fact ever make the front pages of British newspapers, or lead news bulletins on the BBC.”

📌 Reality settling in for GOP ‼️

Yes indeed • Actually MOST

of you ~ shall go

to prison 💯🐥

The wrongful release of prisoners happened 800 times under the Tories.

The media bias and lack of reference to any past is just hideous.

James Watson made some tremendous contributions to science, and expressed many grotesque views, which were racist, sexist and ignorant. These are all well documented.

Farage, who was paid £189,000 in January to promote gold bullion in his spare time, is currently wanging on about how out of touch the Labour frontbench is. Ok

Eight child abusers were jailed today.
8 child sexual predators who had been operating in areas such as Gravesend, Gillingham, Swanley, & Margate jailed for a combined 100 years.
This managed not to be the top story on repeat for BBC, itv or sky News.

I wonder why.
#bbcbias #itvbias #skybias

Outside Tesla's flagship London store
##boycotttesla
#muskisaafascist

Aberdeen's Stuart Kennedy with Burt Lancaster at the Gleneagles Hotel in 1982. Pic: Donald Stewart