The same Nigel Farage who once addressed a rally held by the German far-right political party Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) at Spandau Citadel, hosted by Beatrix von Storch, the granddaughter of Hitler’s finance minister?

The Fagash Führer‘s tacky video is an insult to our war dead.

Lest we forget

What IS shocking is the disinformation hellsite that is X and the frankly appalling GB News which for reasons known only to OFCOM is allowed to keep using "news" in its title.

What Rosalind Franklin truly contributed to the discovery of DNA’s structure Franklin was no victim in how the DNA double helix was solved. An overlooked letter and an unpublished news article, both written in 1953, reveal that she was an equal player.

If I see one more stupid Rosalind Franklin take I'm going to lose my mind. Thank god for @matthewcobb.bsky.social and @nccomfort.bsky.social. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

A national newspaper journalist went on a British TV channel to claim police stats showed asylum-seekers committed 44% of sex crimes in Dorset.

This shocking claim was treated as fact by the channel which promoted the clip on social media where it was amplified by AI.

Except... it's bollocks.

Our parents and grandparents fought against fascism, they thought with commonwealth troops, to make a better more tolerant world. How dare Farage try to seize Remembrance Day for exactly the opposite propaganda.

This is in such incredibly bad taste.

Asked for a few comments by @michaelkeohan.bsky.social as I arrived at County Hall this morning.

I said Kent faces a budget crisis, a care crisis and now a political instability crisis under Reform.

Emily Maitlis says ‘active Tory party agent’ shaping BBC news output Former Newsnight presenter says former No 10 communications chief Sir Robbie Gibb on board acting as ‘arbiter of impartiality’

Long overdue we need Robbie Gibbs to join them and maybe the BBC can go back to being a more impartial BBC and attract the many good people and programmes back. www.theguardian.com/media/2022/a...

BBC accepts "mistake" in editing out laughter from Johnson video - LabourList The BBC has said that “a mistake on our part” was made after being criticised for editing a…

Oddly no such furore over these pro Right edits by the BBC. labourlist.org/2019/11/bbc-...

Sooner the better

He should be the starter to a big clearout. Robbie Gibbs next course.

And a relatively low cost matter; stop dumbing down Radio 3.

Bring back Lost Masterpieces !

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.

The BBC's senior leadership resigning en masse over one dodgy edit in one programme, simply because the right wing press demands it, tells you everything you need to know about where the power really lies in that relationship

If only! But the non-journalists always seem to survive

Kuenssberg and Mason must resign as well.

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

They can preside over anti Labour/SNP any other left party and the right wing supporting director general finally resigns over a Trump issue.

lol

HMRC trial of child benefit crackdown wrongly suspected fraud in 46% of cases Exclusive: Almost half of families flagged as emigrants based on Home Office travel data were still living in UK

EXCL: Home Office travel records used in controversial anti-fraud crackdown were so flawed that almost half of families initially flagged as emigrated still lived in UK - Luke Butterly &
@lisaocarroll.bsky.social

www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

Our country is controlled by the dark forces of the far right, whether that be MAGA Trump, Reform UK Ltd, Musk or Tufton Street.

They are all linked.

The BBC debacle and subsequent resignations just proves this so completely.

I don't think we should settle for this.

It's NOT ENOUGH.

We need the Chair of the BBC Board and other Board members to go as well.

They were happy with the Director General for so long when we could all see he was unsuitable.

So why should they stay in position?

Obscene behaviour by US

Reform-run council criticised over plans to close care homes and day centres Questions have also been raised about a conflict of interest, as Reform’s adult social care cabinet member owns a private care company

Questions have also been raised about a conflict of interest, as Reform’s adult social care cabinet member owns a private care company

So we must not settle for these resignations.

It is not good enough. These resignations are just a symptom of the problems at the BBC.

Those problems will not get fixed until we get considerable changes in the make up of the Board and in the wider senior roles across the BBC.

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.

Reminder that The Times ran two false stories last week (one made-up nonsense nicked from the Mail, another an interview with ther ex-mayor who wasn't) , both of which had to be withdrawn. No editors resigned.

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...

Beyond a disappointment- what does she actually do?

Who else thinks Lisa Nandy has been a disappointment in government?