Jamie

This looks like an Emmerdale new cast member announcement created by a previous-generation LLM.

Objectivity, impartiality and balance are all *different things*, and the lazy tendency to treat them as synonyms, and to use partisan balance alone as a proxy for the others, is the root cause of a vast amount of nonsense.

Sky News just had Kelvin Mackenzie on, former editor of The Sun, one of the people at the centre of probably the most disgraceful front page in newspaper history, complaining about BBC journalists not being objective and 'fake news'. Astonishing. ~AA

Revealed: Brexit group covered up its targeting of right-wing extremists Brexit-backer Arron Banks repeatedly denied that Leave.EU appealed to National Front supporters - in a bid to get the BBC to drop an investigation

Robbie Gibb who cancelled a BBC investigation into Farage's Leave dot EU campaign shortly before the EU Ref

Arron Banks thanked him for it

"Robbie Gibb is being quite helpful and says he’s trying to hose it down."

- @channel4news.bsky.social in 2019

I’d like to see the BBC turn the tables and spend weeks hounding the newspapers over everything they get wrong. Let’s have the Today programme calling for editors of newspapers to be sacked every time they are forced to print a correction.

Huh? How do you do a "balancing" program when one candidate did an insurgency trying to overturn the election and the other...didn't?

Would Prescott have been satisfied with an hour of people telling BBC journalists why they didn't try and stoke a riot to overturn Trump's second win?

Cartoon by Stephen Collins for The Guardian. Script as follows: [scene is Winston Churchill in a bbc studio, giving his 'finest hour' speech] 1 CHURCHILL: The whole fury and might of the enemy must very soon be turned on us. 2 CHURCHILL: Hitler knows that he will have to break us in this Island or lose the war. 3 CHURCHILL: If we can stand up to him, all Europe may be free and the life of the world may move forward into broad, sun- BBC PRESENTER: Thank you prime minister 4 BBC PRESENTER: Mr hitler, your response? 5 HITLER [in the studio]: Vell zis is hysterical woke nonsense as usual from mr Churchill 6 HITLER: What we are proposing - CHURCHILL: Hang on 7 HITLER: Let me finish - what we are proposing eez a simple power-sharing arrangement - 8 CHURCHILL: What's he doing here BBC PRESENTER: It's important we hear both sides of the debate 9 CHURCHILL: This isn't a debate You don't debate fascists 10 HITLER: Oh here we go with ze Godwins law! 11 HITLER: Why must you people always compare ze things you don't like to 'fascists, Nazis, Hitler'... CHURCHILL: Because you are a fascist Nazi Hit- 12 HITLER [standing up, saluting]: RAUSS! BBC PRESENTER: *Please* Mr Churchill let him speak [ends]

Rudy press conference at 4 seasons total landscaping

HAPPY FOUR SEASONS TOTAL LANDSCAPING DAY TO ALL WHO CELEBRATE

Without DEI, we would only make merit-based hires, like the genius strategist who decided to pick a fight with his boss’s new young wife.

A: Taught my kids how socialism works. Let them trick or treat while I stayed home. Then took all their candy. Socialism 101. B: The socialism part is where the community came together and fed your kids for free. The capitalism part is where you made them do all the work and stole from them.

Stop. Policing. Poppies. That's. Not. What. Remembrance. Is. About.

X Post by Michael Adams, Kentucky Secretary of State: "We’re getting calls about polls being closed. They are closed because we do not have elections today. Kentucky votes next year. You cannot vote today in Kentucky for the mayor of New York City or the Governor of Virginia. Sorry."

What happens when you distill 2025 into a single social media post?

This.

This is what you get.

i prefer when folks wearing babies strapped to their chest face the baby forward so it looks like the parent is just an assistive device for a little wobbly tyrant

If you see something that doesn't look right, like a trunkless pair of legs and half buried head, speak to a member of staff or call British Transport Police on 61016.

The richest man in the world is an ignorant, demented racist provocateur. Who would have thought

We keep being told that the perpetrators of the Huntingdon abomination are "British-born". OK. So were the killers at Woolwich barracks, Southport, Tavistock Square, Westminster Bridge, Manchester arena, London Bridge etc etc. If you insist on denying that this has anything to do with immigration policy, I'm afraid you are not arguing in good faith.

Daniel Hannan was born in Peru.

The BBC has consistently platformed Matt Goodwin because of his racist views and the veneer of respectability brought by his past life as an academic.

▪️ If it's an immigrant...
"See!"

▪️ If it's not an immigrant, but they're not white (or don't have a white British name)...
"See! Next generation of immigrants!"

▪️ If it's a white guy with a British name...
"See! See what these immigrants made good peaceful people do?!"

Now its quite possible that they are in every sense British - but he did not give us their names"

Mr Habib quite obviously considers Axel Rudakbana less British than Ian Huntley or Ian Brady.

So does Mr Habib consider himself more British than Mr Yusuf - but less British than Mr Sunak?

Matt Goodwin’s stance on migration is pretty much indistinguishable from that of the BNP in the past 1990s and not a million miles from that of the NF in the 1970s.

The National Front used to do this in their newspapers in the 1970s. Don’t see the difference between them and a lot of the British right today.

It's incredible how quickly a man can make the journey from "Will of the People" to "Fuck these People".

Lords really are built different.

Minority representation on TV causes outrage There has been widespread support for prominent Reform MP Sarah Pochin after she complained about the over-representation of minorities on television. Said one angry viewer, "She's right. Every time you turn on the telly there's another Reform MP being interviewed by Laura Kuenssberg." She added, "I respect their way of life and their strange customs, but Reform MPs comprise only 0.7 percent of the House of Commons. Yet Nigel Farage is on Question Time more than Fiona Bruce." "I'm not prejudiced. Some of my best friends are swivel-eyed loons, but enough is enough. There are too many people with angry red faces on television.”

Gotta love Private Eye.
Always cuts through the crap.

This is beyond grotesque. Another young journalism who treats the lives of minorities as a game. I know plenty of people who still hang out with this guy – I can't respect that as a decision when he's publicly gloating about further stigmatising disabled people.

Kemi Badenoch is absolutely right about this.

At the time she hacked Harriet Harman's emails it was an offence carrying a prison sentence of up to five years

If I had the Chancellor of the Exchequer as a client, I'd hope to 1) notice that I had 2) make sure I didn't fuck anything up in case it led to bad publicity for me.

British Council ‘selling everything it can’ to survive Cultural body plans more job cuts, sale of assets and closure in 35 countries to stave off ‘financial peril’

Literally one of the greatest soft power brands on planet earth driven into the ground by successive British governments that embrace failure, decline and irrelevance.

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Donald Trump Confuses Dementia Screening for 'Very Hard' IQ Test as He Brags About Results People

This is probably the funniest headline of the year.

What an absolute disaster