Becky Barnicoat

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UK rejects visa for girl left destitute in Jamaica by Hurricane Melissa Lati-Yana Brown’s parents had asked for application to be expedited so she could join them in UK after house ruined

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This makes sense to me

Every time a Labour minister carps on about immigration, a labour voter dies and is resurrected as a Reform voter

Is this logo in some way meant to summon the spirit of Leonardo Da Vinci?

I'm reminded of a line in The Twits by Roald Dahl.

If you are left-brained you see a threat to the future of our planet. If you are right-brained you see a chance to make a quick buck.

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“All episodes available now” is such a TV red flag. If you had a great show you’d eke it out, make us wait for it.
It’s got ‘just gonna dump this mediocre thing I made here, and move on’ energy.

As far as the political class is concerned, the BBC has always been Batman at the end of the Dark Knight. “We’ll hunt him. Because he can take it.”

Everyone thinks it’s biased according to their prejudices. Every government can show they’re intervening to fix this. And that works for all.

What you’re witnessing is a populist assault on the BBC.

This is not an institutional scandal in any meaningful sense of the word. It is an attack on public service broadcasting.

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The BBC hold powerful, corrupt people like Farage, Musk and Trump to account, of course they want to destroy it.

The fact that the BBC has made serious culpable errors does not negate the point that there is a real and concerted right-wing media campaign to destroy it. Both points can be true at the same time and the campaign would not end even if the errors did.

Brilliant

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* Jamie Smart @jamiesmart.bsky.social
* Karrie Fransman @karriefransman.bsky.social
* Kristyna Baczynski
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* Becky Barnicoat
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* Ria Grix
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* Warwick Johnson Cadwell
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Well played, Merriam-Webster!
Well played.

BREAKING: Our client Mario Guevara, an Emmy-winning journalist detained by ICE in retaliation for livestreaming law enforcement activity, will be deported tomorrow to El Salvador.

Mario and his family are being punished for his reporting. This cruelty is meant to stifle our free press.

I think this language of "crying racism" is generating "legitimate concerns" about tone at a time of a visible surge in real world racism, not just online racism, and big attempts to shift the boundaries on who is English, on how far remigration goes into settled migrants and UK-born minorities

Oh, wow, thank you for this.

A printed poem which reads: I hav for breakfast Weetabix I hav for lunch some meat I have for tea 2 sosajis and thats enuf to eat Peter Hazel, 5

On National Poetry Day, the greatest poem I have ever read

Farage, Trump, Musk: your boy Javier Milei just took one hell of a beating. Why so quiet? | Aditya Chakrabortty The wild politics and chainsaw made Argentina’s president an economic hero for the right. And now, with his nation’s finances in chaos: silence, writes Guardian columnist Aditya Chakrabortty

Argentina suffering the terrible consequences of propelling a viral, hard-right political disruptor to power.

"Milei’s true value lies in his demonstration of how the attention economy can propel the hard right into power."

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The idea that "the median voter will feel attacked" by challenging Reform over racism is certainly not shown by the data in this piece. It shows they may be indifferent. (It may mean a different important swing voter, who isn't the median voter)

It’s my party and I’ll cry if I want to! 😭

Morgan McSweeney happened to him – but the fact that he's let that happen to him is damning. "Morgan TOLD me to make flags, patriotism, and far-right apologism my brand, Miss".

Farage's massive over-exposure relies on him not really getting on with anything else. The bind is that any serious politician couldn't do this much publicity without sorely neglecting their actual job. So the least serious one gets the votes. I know it's obvious, but it's v depressing.

My timeline is packed with the same clip of Farage questioning the safety of Paracetamol. It's just
so easy for him to spread his message, sow discord and be in the forefront of everybody's minds. We all lap it up.

Extremely relatable 900-year-old poem 🧡

the law of brown-nosing

Whose eyes are the most evil? Or is it a draw?