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The BBC is facing a coordinated, politically motivated attack. With these resignations, it has given in | Jane Martinson The corporation should have stood up to the Telegraph, Trump and the Tories. Now, its enemies know how little it takes for it to fold, says Jane Martinson, professor of financial journalism

The departure of Tim Davie and Deborah Turness means the BBC is leaderless when it needs leadership more than ever. Where are the people at the head of the BBC standing up for it?
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Michael Prescott was ‘“shocked” that after an hour-long Panorama documentary dealing with Trump and the January 6 insurgency, there was no “similar, balancing” programme about Kamala Harris.’

More read about the machinations between the BBC resignations, the more worrying it becomes

Flying at 8000 feet today News Captain says flying at 8000 feet (!) Newark to Savannah today instead of 34000 because of air traffic control restrictions. Everyone has to say seated including flight attendants. Never in my 40 years in flying has this happened … wondering what the view will be 😀

Things are fine.

Donald Trump's outriders handing Keir Starmer an early opportunity to Defarage BBC News coverage was not on my bingo card for 2025.

Glad that someone has finally taken responsibility for the appalling assault on democracy that was the Jan. 6 insurrection.

Slightly confused that it's the Director-General of the BBC, but what do I know?

Ex-Channel 5 head David Elstein says that "the idea there is a right-wing pile on the BBC is plain bonkers." Obviously he is living in a parallel universe not connected to the present-day #BBC and UK.

It’s ironic but predictable that the BBC duo -who tried so hard to please the right wing papers-are removed by the right wing papers.

Look forward to more grand declations about how Europeans must emulate an America whose government is in the sixth week of shutdown and now can't provide safe air travel

Imagine an EU-wide government shut down in its 6th week leading to serious disruption of air traffic. We would not hear the end of it in Anglophone media.

The Media Is Complicit in the Climate Confusion The vast majority of people want their governments to take climate action—but most wrongly think they’re in the minority. The media is partly to blame.

“The Media Is Complicit in the Climate Confusion: The vast majority of people want their governments to take climate action—but most wrongly think they’re in the minority. The media is partly to blame.”

Via @amywestervelt.bsky.social in @thenation.com

Why has @skynewsrss.bsky.social got right-wing shrill & Israeli state apologist Danny Cohen on punting his hard right ideological take as if he was someone neutral on the #BBC? Truly dire & partisan platforming by Sky News.

Since we’re in the mood for strict accuracy in broadcast news, worth noting that a rival channel had a pundit - unchallenged - say asylum seekers in hotels committed 44% of sexual offences in one county, seemingly because she cannot understand basic maths.

One of the guests partying at Mar-a-Lago was Nigel Farage, by the way. For my British followers.

9 November 1942 | A Polish man, Paweł Bacik, perished in #Auschwitz.

He was born on 14 January 1894 in Kozłowa Góra.
He was registered in the camp on 9 October 1942.
No. 67115.

He was 48 years old.

BBC director general Tim Davie and News CEO Deborah Turness resign over Trump documentary edit Davie says

This is absolutely nuts

Trump did incite the January 6 riot. Splicing a video to make that point is shoddy editorial but hardly a resignation event

When BBC is needed more than ever, Telegraph/Boris Johnson running the show

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OMG. The site is literally called the Dunning Kruger Times.

It blows my mind that there are real people who see a post like this and actually believe the whole “Christmas is being cancelled by Muslims” BS 🙄

Let’s have a quick look at what’s happening to Sheffield so you can put your Express reading uncle’s mind at ease!😆

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Not a moment too soon. Several years too late.

A mugshot registration photograph from Auschwitz. A man with a shaved head wearing a striped uniform photographed in three positions (profile and front with bare head and a photo with a slightly turned head with a hat on). The prisoner number is visible on a marking board on the left.

9 November 1912 | A Czech, Josef Petrucha, was born in Vesely nad Moravou. An upholsterer.

In #Auschwitz from 11 June 1942.
No. 39325
He perished in the camp on 9 August 1942.
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Video about the history of Auschwitz: https://youtu.be/Fxnl5HTygrs

Mind numbingly self-defeating. Might have hoped people understood short term savings vs long term costs, madness

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Once again decisions are taken by people who know the cost of something, but have no idea of the value.

CEO of Chartered Institute of Ecology and Environmental Management: "There is a very low level of ecological literacy being displayed by ministers. Nothing I have seen or heard gives me comfort that Rachel Reeves understands the importance of nature to economic and social wellbeing. Nothing."

Child benefit: HMRC to review thousands of suspended payments The tax body had used travel data to conclude that thousands of parents had left the country permanently but many say they just went on holiday.

When looking at ‘AI productivity savings’ in government they’d better also count having to revisit everything in a project, rather than filing this bit under some other ‘misc’ heading
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Anyway if we lived in a rational world the Telegraph would sack Allison Pearson for persistently promoting hatemongering claims like this and Ofcom would be clamping down on GB News.

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Sexual offences by nationality FOI Sexual offences by nationality Request Number 25/3692 Date of release 02/10/2025

One of the reasons why this claim is clearly untrue is that Dorset police HAD actually replied to an FOI only last month on the nationalities of those convicted of sex offences.

This showed only 8.2% of the cases (186 out of 2261) were by foreign nationals.

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Inside the Cover-up: How Prince Andrew was exposed Behind the headlines lies a deeper story of privilege, protection and a public kept in the dark

Would recommend this interview Andrew Mountbatten Windsor’s biographer Andrew Lownie gave to @petergeoghegan.bsky.social on how power and secrecy work in modern Britain.

Particularly interesting on the censoring of history and how the Prince was championed by Peter Mandelson and Tony Blair...

One of the greatest social media follows for anyone genuinely interested in practical law and policy is @mentalhealthcop.bsky.social.

Posts like this explain why.

I'm obliged for the nod.

The "Penrose Effect" seems to be a real thing - hypothesised in the 1930s and re-tested in the last decade or so:

Where you reduce your inpatient psychiatric provision, you'll see a correlated rise within 10yrs in prisons of seriously mentally ill prisoners.

These trans lies are grotesque. I’d rather be locked up than pay the licence fee The Daily Telegraph6 Nov 2025By Suzanne Moore THE BBC is under fire for its coverage of a “doctored” Donald Trump speech and the tendency of BBC Arabic to minimise Israeli suffering. On contentious subjects such as slavery, colonialism and the Irish famine, eminent academics claim there has been a rewriting of history. Such accusations of a lack of balance (or indeed a complete absence of debate on disputed issues) come as little surprise to me. For I have long watched as the BBC deliberately attempts to “gaslight” its audience on the complex issue of transgender rights. Gaslighting means the creation of a false narrative, and the manipulation of someone else’s perception of reality. On trans issues, by misinforming viewers or ignoring stories that did not fit its pro-trans agenda, this is exactly what the BBC has done. The leaked memo speaks of “unintended editorial bias”, but this is a very neutral way of describing what has been going on. Activists within the corporation ran the LGBT desk, which is used by all of the BBC’S news programmes. This small group of people were committed to “a pro-trans agenda” and “keeping other perspectives off air”.

Suzanne Moore, who would rather be locked up than pay her BBC licence fee because the BBC is too nice to trans people for her liking.