Carl Mairs

Good to be on the same page. Thank you 😁

I wasn't arguing. I think things get misunderstood when trying to fit everything in a small box. I fully agree with you. Impartiality went straight out of the window the minute they put reform on every QT panel and opened every news programme with reform stories.

The message talks about due impartiality as the reason for their coverage of reform.

I was briefed on the intelligence last week.

Iran posed no imminent threat of attack to the United States. Iran was not close to building a deliverable nuclear weapon. The negotiations Israel scuttled with their strikes held the potential for success.

Why allegations of BBC bias on Israel are becoming hard to reconcile The BBC is criticised—from both sides—for its reporting on Israel. A kind of groupthink is setting in that means there is no room for new narratives

Another important column by @arusbridger.bsky.social 👇👇

Our Royal Charter requires us to reflect and represent all the communities of the UK, and our Editorial Guidelines require that we must take account of the different political parties with electoral support to achieve due impartiality. In complying with this, we need to take steps to reflect those communities. Reform is a relatively new party and we know that their voters trust the BBC less and as such we should take steps to address this as part of our ongoing commitment to reflect and represent the voters, whether this is in our news coverage or in other content across the BBC. We hope this addresses your concerns and we appreciate your feedback about this. All complaints are sent to senior management and we have included your points in our overnight report. These reports are among the most widely read sources of feedback within the BBC and ensures that your concerns have been seen.

Response received from the BBC regarding my complaint about the biased amount of exposure they are giving reform... Might as well not have bothered.

Picture showing a post from X of an old stone tablet with cuniform carving. The post says "WOW: 2780 year old israelite tablet finally translated to reveal it's message: 'Persia is only weeks away from developing a nuclear weapon ' "

It was when JK Rowling said that the Cass Review was a peer review itself and that's why it didn't need to be peer reviewed I realised she's an idiot.

Anyway, here's a peer review of Cass.

Guess what it finds?

It's not a "mass casualty event"... It's the murder of innocent, unarmed, and starving civilians, who are desperate for food, by the terrorist, apartheid state of Israel. All with the support of the US, UK and EU. Language matters.

First he drops the (very important) documents, then he forgets the UK hasn’t been part of the European Union for over four years. 164 million Americans are eligible to be president, and this bonehead is the best you could do, Republicans?

Wow. This is certainly worth 17 minutes of your time. And when you watch it, think about what Farridge and his lot are now doing, or trying to do, with the Local Authorities they won recently.

Also... Close the loopholes that allow the wealthy to avoid paying tax. No point in wealth taxes if the wealthy can avoid paying them, like they already do with other taxes. Closing those loopholes could raise tens of billions without raising taxes at all.

Anything from 'Beautiful South' but "Big Coin" has to do it for me...

"Big coin that you toss for heads or tails
Big coin that you let slip down the drain
Big coin didn't find where it landed
Big coin, big coin"

I know people love them but I just don't get it at all.

If anybody is wondering why the British especially are laughing so hard at the US Army "marching", this below is Monty Python being both extremely silly and taking the piss.

Notice how much effort they've still put into getting it exactly right.

Iran's arsenal is huge enough to completely wipe out Israel in a single day. Israel's provocation could backfire on them in a big way. Iran has avoided conflict with Israel so far, but how long will that continue ? If I was Israeli I'd be doing everything in my power to return to my home country.

Complaint to BBC I read this report: https://bylinetimes.com/2025/06/09/bbc-news-tim-davie-robbie-gibb-reform-voters-nigel-farage-trust/ Firstly... Is it true ? I have been constantly horrified at your platforming of this despicable far right group and have noticed an increasingly, very strong, bias towards them. I have paid my licence fee for over 4 decades, despite the recent constant platforming of this hate group, however, if this report is true, I will no longer support the BBC and will be looking for a refund of my licence fee. I shall look forward to your response.

Sent this morning...

Sanctioned because of something they said. Where's the sanctions that are due for what they've actually done ? I do wonder if things would be different if our Prime Minister wasn't a zionist.

Sad but true ☹️

Ah... Bluetooth has been a major bugbear on many distros... You have my sympathy on that one... I suppose you've purged bluez, installed bluez and then installed blueman on top ? Proprietary Broadcom drivers can be problematic too. I hope you get it sorted. Once you do, it will be worth it.

I'm really surprised you're having trouble with it. I installed mint on my wife's old MacBook air that was whirring noisily every time she used it. It's given it a new life instead of disposing of it. Definitely worth keeping on with it. It does get easier as you learn.

I use Linux Mint. It's very user friendly. A lot of Linux distros can be troublesome but that distro just works, straight out of the box. It's worth a go if you ever decide to give Linux a try again.

I think you're right. They're so hate-filled.

After the way Israel has behaved since 1948 I've come to the conclusion that a single state would be the only decent solution. Send all the Israelis back to their own countries and give Palestine back to the Palestinians.

With you on that one Grant.

He's already scraped all the data he needs, and you can bet his team have installed back doors into all government systems. He's not exactly stepping away, he's hunkering down and finding the best use for those back doors.

Well done ! I rang my doctors at 0801 on Monday morning to be told "you are number... 41... in the queue" 😂

Johnson put a border in the Irish Sea, sold out the fishing industry, all SMEs trading with the EU, our farmers, universities, musicians, young people, scientists, all of us…
And now he sits in the mess he made throwing insults at those who are clearing up after him.
What a monumental piece of shit.

This has been boiling up inside me for some days.
We are all “strangers”. Until we become friends.
Some of us have “foreigners” in our recent ancestry.
Some of us have immediate descendants of “foreign strangers” who fought for this country in both “World Wars”.
You are a stranger.
So am I.