Poppy Propaganda & the BBC Pile On Podcast Episode · The Trawl · 12/11/2025 · 41m

Firstly, welcome to all you lovely new listeners!

Secondly, a brand new Trawl episode is ready for your eager ears:

💥 Culture war poppy outrage
📺 BBC chaos - a coup from within?
🎖️ Veterans used for clicks

New jingles, sound effects & many WTFs…

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Nigel Farage Says Minimum Wage Should Be Cut for Young People The Reform leader said cutting the minimum wage for young people would boost business, as he attacked plans to raise taxes on the wealthy

Nigel Farage, who has so far registered a total of £280,500 for four hours a month as a "brand ambassador" for a company selling gold bars, thinks a £10 an hour minimum wage for young people is too high bylinetimes.com/2025/11/03/n...

A woman is killed by a man every 3 days in the UK...

78% are murdered by a partner/ex

Yet not once have I heard Reform talk about this

Not once have I heard them back measures to protect women’s safety

In fact, they voted against them...

New planning bill could jeopardise UK’s trade deal with EU, ambassador warns Exclusive: Proposed legislation removes EU-derived nature protections as government hopes to boost economic growth

So much for "boosting growth".
All this vandalism will do is leave us with devastated ecosystems, fewer green spaces, worse quality of life, while neither solving the housing crisis (because the problem IS NOT AND NEVER WAS "bats and newts") nor creating "growth".
www.theguardian.com/environment/...

The More Reform Talks, the More the Mask Slips. So I Say… Give Them the Limelight. And as Caerphilly showed, let more of the public see that the supposed groundswell of support for Reform is nothing but Farage’s cigarette smoke and mirrors.

This might be controversial…

But given that the more Reform talks, the more the mask slips

I say…

Give them the limelight.

Read my new piece below…

open.substack.com/pub/marinapu...

Green party reaches 100,000 members for first time after Polanski becomes leader Green party in England and Wales has had near-50% rise in membership since since Zack Polanski took over last month

Lower Bills.

Protect our NHS.

And invest in our communities.

Let's make hope normal again.

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

How immigration defined America – and still defines the UK Immigrants built America – Alice Mitchell’s The Golden Door reminds us why their resilience offers hope against today’s rising fear and bigotry

How immigration defined America – and still defines the UK yorkshirebylines.co.uk/society/how-...

Here's a better idea: every data centre you build, you build enough renewable energy to power it, and you supply the waste heat from your cooling system to power homes and businesses nearby. Simple. Common sense. And fair.

Big US tech company Nvidia saying they're gonna build data centres in the UK and we have to burn more gas to power them? Uh, no. British people shouldn't be paying higher bills and suffering accelerated climate change for your bottom line.

We need to talk about Kevin…sorry, AI A friend asked me about AI. It looks sleek, yet every query carries hidden costs: in power, people, and privacy. Grab your cuppa, let’s chat!

We need to talk about Kevin…sorry, AI

A friend asked me about AI. It looks sleek, yet every query carries hidden costs: in power, people, and privacy. Grab your cuppa, let’s chat!

By Philip O'Brien

@yorkshirebylines.co.uk

Free speech laws need to be reviewed after Linehan arrest, says Streeting The health secretary says ministers wanted police to focus on street crime rather than posts on social media.

Transphobe arrested: "we need to look at the laws, clearly something's not right"

80 year old vicars and disabled people carried off parliament square because they said genocide is bad: "these laws need to be tightened if anything"

Iconic moment at the Downton Abbey premiere

Wildfires in Europe: record burning in Spain and Portugal Wildfires have scorched southern Europe and new research suggests climate change played a major role.

In other news climate chaos keeps on increasing and the fossil fuel companies and nations casually carry on drilling for even more oil. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Elon Musk is applying for the licenses to sell both gas and electricity in the UK for domestic and business customers.
He’s not doing it to make money.

Stand with Ukraine!

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#DumpTrump
#Ukraine🇺🇦

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Article: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c4gerg74y71o

Article: https://eastangliabylines.co.uk/immigration/exclusive-inside-the-diss-hotel-a-refugees-view-of-the-anti-refugee-crowd-outside/

How BBC presents the anti-migrant hotel protests vs how we do at @bylinesnetwork.co.uk

BBC lead with a Reform UK voter saying "We are not happy with these men in this hotel because we fear for our children”

We tell of the refugee children inside the hotel terrified by chants of “send them out!”

Take Action: Stop Elon Musk's Energy Power Grab Change Minds → Change Politics

⚡️Do NOT let Musk get his hands on British utilities. He’s applied for a license to supply energy here.

✍️ Tell Ofgem what you think about that:

www.bestforbritain.org/petition-elo...

‘I’ve been spat on’: gender non-conforming women tell of toilet abuse in aftermath of supreme court ruling Support groups report that women and non-binary people are increasingly being challenged in toilets and changing facilities – but others call it scaremongering

Oh look, that thing everyone said would happen as a result of this ruling has started happening:

‘I’ve been spat on’: gender non-conforming women tell of toilet abuse in aftermath of supreme court ruling
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

So... What you're saying is.... I turn into a baby giraffe after a few too many drinks 🤔

"could it be that it's really all a load of nonsense and that free speech isn't under threat in the UK at all, as you've just demonstrated?"

Dear @teamlabouruk.bsky.social (and EHRC)

go fuck yourselves

signed, a gay woman who really doesn't care if someone is trans

“GPT-5 is the first time that it feels like talking to an expert in any topic — a Ph.D.-level expert,” OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said.

YouTube video by The New Statesman UK online safety age verification backlash | UK Politics | The New Statesman

You Asked Us: do politicians understand the internet?

We answered: basically no

If you want to hear my rant on the Online Safety Act and how on earth we got to this ridiculous place, download the latest New Statesman podcast or listen here

www.youtube.com/watch?v=dhDo...

If you own a Ring -
Take it down, put it in a sack, and drown it.
Then smash it with a hammer.
Then maybe mail it back to amazon, postage owed.

By supporting the expansion of Heathrow Airport and spreading outright lies about decarbonising flying, Labour has again capitulated to lobbyists.
This is its defining characteristic: doing whatever powerful lobbyists ask, regardless of the social, environmental and even political costs.

@greenparty.org.uk and @walesgreenparty.bsky.social members this is a really useful site to look at if you’re not sure how to vote in the internal elections: feministgreens.greenparty.org.uk/internal-ele...