Would def be up for watching this

Not to sound like a stuck record, but '400 jobs to be lost in city as car plant/steel works/aerospace facility closes' would be treated somewhat differently, I suspect.

personal bugbear: I can get behind this only on the proviso that everyone is required to explicitly mention "percentage of what" each time they use one. Drives me loopy the amount of times random percentages are thrown around without context.

Title panel: CHRISTMAS… AT THE BBC. The Traitors Christmas Special: Who in the BBC Boardroom is trying to bring down the gaff from within? [Image: The Traitors scene with Claudia Winkleman looking like “ooh-er” while the BBC board sit at a table looking suspiciously at each other] Apologising To The People Who Want To Destroy Us At Christmas: A festive extravaganza of self-flagellation before our enemies [Image: A cozy fireside scene with Donald Trump, Nigel Farage and Kemi Badenoch standing, while at their feet lots of BBC employees are kneeling before them and begging for forgiveness]. Donald's Big Distraction: Heartwarming Julia Donaldson animation in which a dragon sues the BBC to draw his friends' attention onto something else [Image: Julia Donaldson’s ‘Zog’ with a Donald Trump wig, holding up a lawyer’s letter to show his dragon friends while trying to block their view of a pile of box files and computer drives some with ‘Epstein’ written on them]. The King's Speech: We let Nigel Farage tell you the BBC is left wing as if that's some kind of fact [Image: Nigel Farage as the King delivering his Christmas speech to camera]. A Ghost Story for Christmas: A venerable British institution is haunted by Boris Johnson's appointees [Image: A BBC studio with a window, outside in the dark snowy night a spectral apparition in the form of Robbie Gibb taps at the window and wails “I want to destroooy you”] Christmas Labour Inertia-Time: Keir Starmer and Lisa Nandy present four hours of total silence from under their desks [Image: Show them both under their desks holding up glasses of sherry] Rightward Drift Christmas Special: A bonanza of trust-corrosion with confected immigration panic and Reform coverage [Image: A computer and a smartphone in a cute snowy scene, both displaying the BBC News website with multiple headlines and LIVE feeds and and BREAKING NEWS stories headlined: “IMMIGRANTS? IMMIGRANTS? IMMIGRANTS? IMMIGRANTS!”] [Ends]

Christmas at the BBC

who have what the what.

This is very true and it affects authors too, because you know that every sentence you write could be taken apart aggressively and in bad faith.

Elmer??

I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture.

They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1

God it's so cool that so much of British and European nationalist politics has broadly been shaped by warehouse clickfarms rented by guys in South Asia running "how to make money from racist old people" workshops, and that this has had more influence on media and politics than any grassroots group

As many of you know, I do a lot of volunteer work with asylum seekers and refugees. One thing that’s going on is that Labour’s hostility towards migrants and the counterbattery from Tories and Reform is causing horrific fear and anxiety among vulnerable people who deserve our protection.

Don't be judgy… The Hangman (1928) with Colin Sell, Kennington Bioscope This was a Weimar surprise unearthed on 35mm from the BFI’s archives by the diligence of Tony Fletcher and given its first outing in man...

A rare 35mm Weimar treat unearthed by Tony Fletcher @BFI archive, starring Andrée Lafayette, Bernhard Goetzke and the multi-talented former Barcelona player Félix de Pomés!

Also new Fort Lee Blu-ray!

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TBH my ideal Covid Inquiry would have just to have been getting public health officials and Ministers from South Korea, Australia, and Japan and gone "we fucked up and you didn't, why was that?" and got it over and done with in three months.

Kennington Bioscope presents Silent Laughter Day » The Cinema Museum, London Kennington Bioscope presents a jam-packed day of special presentations, some rediscoveries and restorations and a few old favourites too.

SUNDAY 🚨🚨Silent Laughter Day » The Cinema Museum, London

Amazing programme of silent films at the Kennington Bioscope culminating in a re-premier of The Small Bachelor (1927) thought lost for *a century* with live NEIL BRAND! #silentfilm #extraordinary

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Quite the correction by the Telegraph. The publication in question is @freemovement.bsky.social

Mahmood/government should say explain *objective* of increasing time to settlement for 15 years for care workers who arrived 2022-24

Is it

A) to get them to leave? Why?
B) to save money? Then why not just restrict benefits?
C) to "encourage integration"? How? Will do opposite.

reality show called 'We Can Always Tell' where you drop terfs on an island and tell them that one of them is secretly trans. every episode they have to vote on who it is and obsessively transvestigate one another - her height! her forehead! she's suspiciously perfect, it's surgery! they are all cis

This country watched J6 happen and 4 years later they INVITED Trump back to the WH because they didn't want to vote for a black woman

gollum looking angry saying 'nooo the precious boosts our productivity, we just haven't figured out exactly how yet'

A photo of Barbara Castle outside of the House of Parliament- copyright belongs to the Parliamentary Archives.

This week is Road Safety Week & a chance to talk about Barbara Castle!

Barbara was Transport Minister for three years yet she was able to introduce the Breathalyzer, a proper integrated transport strategy & more!

This was done despite fierce opposition.

📸 Photo from the Parliamentary Achieve

Quantum politics | Robert Hutton | The Critic Magazine Kemi Badenoch opened her press conference on Tuesday with a revealing complaint. Labour, she said, were blaming Conservatives for the state of the country “long after they left office”.

Into the Quantum Realm: my SKETCH of Kemi Badenoch and Nigel Farage, to whom the rules of time and space don't apply.

this thread 💯

Paddington Bear reading a letter on a pad of paper in front of a circular window.

"The Home Office has re-assessed Peru and finds that it is no longer the deepest, or the darkest on our list. It is therefore safe for you to return, and we will compel you to do so within 1 week of receipt of this letter. Your marmalade sandwiches have been confiscated in lieu of your costs."

Labourism is a disease

The UK does not have an asylum problem. What it does have is a far-right problem. The govt is inventing the former to appease and deflect from the latter.

Asylum system in UK ‘out of control’ and dividing country, home secretary says Shabana Mahmood to unveil new proposals modelled on Denmark’s controversial system

Just another of those days when I hate this government
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A screenshot with a photograph of a light brown cat whose smooshed face has the effect of making him look grumpy. In the blurry distance is a drawing of this same cat, with a sadder expression. Under the photo, text reads: "Meet Gary, the cat who ended a friendship and cost $25,000 in legal fees" A calligraphic "I" (the logo of the Philadelphia Inquirer) is in the bottom right corner of the image.

Amazing, no notes, I do not desire to learn anything else about this story, for it would only detract from the perfection on this headline.

A week of chaos, cowardice and negligence Labour has managed to pack so much failure into a single week that it becomes hard to remember all the details.

A week of chaos, cowardice and negligence: Labour has managed to pack so many failures into a single five day period that it's becoming difficult to remember all the details iandunt.substack.com/p/a-week-of-...

How we do pensions and retirement income in this country is predicated on a few assumptions, one of which is that old people have minimal housing costs and/or security of tenure. It's not happening anymore, and will get worse.

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