Niall Machin

"Robbie Gibb should have no role in appointing the next Director General, and given the Royal Charter gives the government the power to remove him will the Prime Minister sack him now?" asks Ed Davey.

Starmer says he won't interfere in running the BBC

Ed Davey points out that the last Govt are responsible for the decline of impartiality at The BBC, & correctly highlights the presence of Robbie Gibb as one of the ongoing sources of the problem

Also calls out Farage for his role in egging on Trump

#PMQs
#PoliticsLive

3 turnip, 3 black rustic, 3 white point, red green carpet, vines rustic and Tachystola acroxantha. Not awful.

Surprising nobody, Russia is unable to launch its nuclear capable Oreshnik missile as it explodes mid launch like a Space X rocket.

What he said Part 3: 💯 🎯

14 degrees and dry here in Wilts. Bit breezy mind. Could be final trap for the year for me.

This little guy was off The Island on the east side. It drifted off towards the beaches with the incoming tide.

Apparently the BMDS were called and if it’s seen again it should be captured for rehabilitation.

St Ives Island. An ‘all-dayer’. 13 Leach’s Petrel, 2 Cory’s, 3 ESP, 2 Pomarine Skua, 1 Little Auk, 2 Puffin, 3 Little Gull, 8 Sootys & a Snow Bunting with 000’s Kitts, Auks etc. But the highlight was the Loggerhead Turtle off the NCI gully for a few mins. #cornwallbirding

Pic thanks to Adam H

Amazing

Oh, and while we're on the subject of Rupert Murdoch:

Toon Army have allegedly adopted Television’s ‘See No Evil’ track as frustration with the management mounts:
‘What I want
I want now
And it’s a whole lot more
Than Eddie Howe’
Seminal. Verlaine was a visionary etc

I remember ‘twitching’ convolvulus at Rocky Hills in ‘83. Fond memories of the log in Porthcressa with Mike Rogers (?) although split my head open pogoing to Hong Kong Garden there in ‘84

Oxfam Morningside, Edinburgh this morning.
#birdinglothian #birdingscotland #pwc2025

Had 40 moths of 10sp last night - 26 of which were white points, but Blair’s shoulder knot NFY, also diamond back etc #moths #wiltshire

@edwyncollins.bsky.social

"Nathan Gill isn’t some postscript to a minor episode of recent British history. He’s a key to understanding the scale and sophistication of the threat against us, a network of pro-Russian actors that stretches not only across the Atlantic but Europe too."

@carolecadwalla.bsky.social

Carole Cadwalladr was right and we’d be in a better world if more people had listened.

Immense- they were our local punk band in Stoke and this is one of their best!

Kudos to ⁦‪@mehdirhasan‬⁩.

Not only did he invite me on his show in 2018 to talk about my investigation into Farage’s funders (no UK channel ever did).

But he also asked a former colleague of Nathan Gill’s in the EU parliament whether UKIP had ever taken Russian bribes 🔥

Tommy Robinson says Elon Musk is paying his legal costs as trial begins Robinson allegedly failed to comply with officers who ‘became concerned’ by his behaviour at Channel Tunnel

If you continue to hold on to your X account..
If you continue to drive a Tesla...
If you continue using Starlink...

Remember who and what you’re supporting.
Elon Musk is paying Tommy Robinson’s legal costs.

Tommy Robinson says Elon Musk is paying his legal costs as trial begins

NEW: The British politician, his Russian intelligence handler & a Kremlin plot against the US & Ukraine.

My new piece about Nathan Gill and Nigel Farage for @thenerve_news in which we ask:

Why, even now, is no-one asking questions?

t.co/BUTtpK9C4S

Same day. Same plenary session. Same visit to Gill’s office. Same Farage, Same Gill, same wife of sanctioned pro Russian agent.

Six days after the first bribery charge

Nigel Farage on Russia Today.

Glad to see Nigel Farage has finally remembered Nathan Gill, former leader of Reform in Wales - found guilty of taking bribes from Russia.

Maybe he'll now remember how much he took from Putin's propaganda broadcaster Russia Today for all his TV appearances when he was a MEP?

How did it work with timings Paul, re boats and time on St.Agnes. Did you fly over?

Ever since I finished Question Time, Reform have massively been on the attack.

Including a rant from Richard Tice entirely designed to distract from Reform and Russia.

Everyone should know about Nathan Gill, the bribes from Russia and the link to Reform.

On #BBCQT - Fiona Bruce said that the audience and public didn't want to press Reform UK on their dodgy links to Russia.

I disagree.

RT if you agree it's in the public interest for Reform to explain about their links to Russian money and bribery!

Was trapping with Ian Machin and @loz9898.bsky.social up at North Landing, Flamborough on Sunday when we caught what looks like Flamborough’s 2nd and Yorks’ 7th L-album wainscot - apols for crap pic, didn’t appreciate it was so rare up north! #moths

Always a marvellous day when you catch a Merveille du Jour, also green brindled crescent NFY and The Sallow was an overdue macro lifer, 19 of 12 in BoA #moths #mothsmatter

Refreshing to see Green Party’s Zac Polanski telling it how it is in #BBCquestiontime proposing a wealth tax and slamming Israeli genocide in #gaza - and for once a caring audience in #Shrewsbury with British values of compassion and common sense challenging Reforms right wing division and hate

As a show of sincere commitment to Trump’s so called “Gaza Peace Deal,” Israel is continuing to bomb civilians through out the night.

You *really* should be by now but you don’t *actually* have to call them liars or racists, if it offends your commitment to now almost entirely redundant BBC principles of ‘objectivity’ & ‘ balance’. You just have to ask them again & again & again to justify their words & explain their exact meaning