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Should Gibb be sacked? yes, obviously. He's an abomination of basic journalistic standards. His GB News channel spreads conspiracy theory & disinformation. His Jewish Chronicle newspaper spreads invented stories. He is plainly trying to undermine the BBC so it's as bad as everything else he touches.

Anybody who had a vision to bring American levels of political, cultural and social polarisation to Britain - whether their motive was clicks or cash, ideology, boredom or anything else - would make it their top strategic priority to abolish the BBC, or to damage and diminish it at the very least

The Observer view: political interference at the BBC | The Observer

4/ Robbie Gibb was heard last year to say that if he didn’t get his way with the BBC, he would “blow the place up”.

Someone has certainly blown the place up very effectively.
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Letters: I'd be happy to pay a bit more tax if it fixed the country

Many people would be happy to pay more tax to fix the mess the Tories left behind. One reader explains why.

I thought my insides were falling out – what I didn't expect after childbirth Pelvic organ prolapse affects around one in 12 mothers, but many people have never even heard of it.

I thought my insides were falling out – what I didn't expect after childbirth

🚨Trump’s team is plotting to declare a fake "national emergency" to hijack elections.

One operative says they can “take steps without Congress” and mandate state election rules.

Independent, state-run elections are the last firewall between democracy and authoritarian rule.

Sunrise and bird song in the Yorkshiredales

‘Nine-jobs Nigel’ Farage denies not declaring extra earni... Roles outside Parliament make Reform leader the highest-earning MP, but register of interests has not been updated since end of May

Exclusive: Nigel Farage has not updated his register since May, despite continuing to present his GB News show, record Cameo videos and being a verified X user

Qus are now being asked about the non-registration of his shareholding in GB parent co All Perspectives

observer.co.uk/news/politic...

Leaving the ECHR is just another "cause" that right-wing lunatics can latch onto.

It's Brexit 2.

And like the original most people backing, it don't understand it, don't really believe in what they
are doing and do not care one jot what havoc it causes.

Meltdown on "Truth" Social in 5... 4... 3... 2...

Criticism of the BBC for the undue prominence it’s giving to Reform seems to be the only criticism of the BBC it won’t amplify. Funny that. 🤔

Incredibly, Kemi Badenoch believes that supporting far right racists who, lest we forget, want mass deportation of all immigrants (especially black and brown ones), will mean they will be happy to vote for a party led by a black woman who was raised in Nigeria.

I mean, it's a strategy, I suppose.

Fulfilled a long term wish and visited Sissinghurst today

EPSTEIN: 200 pages in that birthday book…some entries from family.
Some from his schooldays. But others are more revealing.
Eg “A collection of limericks written by his art advisor, Stuart Pivar, for example, notes that Epstein, “though up to no good/whenever he could/has avoided the penitentiary.”

Funny how this keeps happening?

Of course the Queen was Remain. You don’t sustain a hereditary monarchy by randomly pulling pins out of grenades for the lols at the urging of a cluster of snake oil chancers.

🎉IT’S PUBLICATION DAY!🎉

My first legal thriller, #TheCutThroatTrial!

The mutilated body of an old man is found in the street. Three teenagers nearby, caked in his blood.

Each points the finger at the others.

Each has his own story.

Available NOW in the links below 👇

“A neighbour told this newspaper that he shouted the word ‘n*****’ at her repeatedly, said he would set the far-right English Defence League on her and told her there’d be ‘black body bags’

So not “just” racial slurs - death threats too.

Why Nigel Farage’s ‘fag packet’ migrant deportation plans don’t add up Nigel Farage claims he would deport 600,000 asylum seekers in the first term of a Reform government and ramp up detentions of those who come here illegally. But the numbers don’t quite add up, as…

Leaving the ECHR would unravel the Good Friday Agreement, destabilise devolution, and wreck our EU security deal. It would strip Britain of influence and safety. This reckless move must be stopped.

Left: Conservative Shadow Transport Secretary Richard Holden says Angela Rayner owning two homes is a "huge property portfolio"

Right: That time Conservative MP Jeremy Hunt bought 7 flats from Conservative donor Nicolas James Roach, who donated £5k to the Conservatives and £50k to Jeremy Hunt

Claim : "UK nursing home taken over to house migrants in Sheffield."

Fact Check: It's a Private Nursing Home that has been CLOSED and EMPTY for several YEARS because it failed standards.

All The Bigots Have Are Serial Lies.

The same administration that complains about free speech "restrictions" in the UK also wants to "terminate" broadcasting it disagrees with in the USA

Opinion | The John Bolton search should be a wake-up call to every American This escalation in the use of law enforcement to target political opposition marks a dangerous new front for American authoritarianism.

The John Bolton search should be a wake-up call to every American

This escalation in the use of law enforcement to target political opposition marks a dangerous new front for American authoritarianism.

Nigel Farage and Reform have consistently voted against the Employment Rights Bill which introduces key worker protections like statutory sick pay from day one and a ban on zero-hours contracts - is that a party you would want to trust with your human rights?

Stringer is a Brexiteer.

Self-damaging stupidity is what Brexiteers do.

New sail-backed dinosaur species unearthed on the Isle of Wight | Natural History Museum The name of Istiorachis macarthurae honours the sailor Dame Ellen MacArthur.

Meet the newest named dinosaur - Istiorachis macarthurae!

This relative of Iguanodon lived over 120 million years ago on the Isle of Wight and had a large sail along its back.

Find out about this new species 👇
www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/new...

A cuppa and homemade apple cake, made with homegrown apples. Perfect in the garden

He’s doing it again.

Cosplaying Reform is a validation of Reform.

They think you are stupid. They think you will believe that a party came into government and decided for no reason to release loads of prisoners. They won’t tell you what the previous party did to engineer this crisis. Treating their readers with contempt.

Karl: The transformation has been gradual and unmistakable.

By February, some golden urns on the mantle.

April, gold adornments appear on the walls.

By July, it's gold everywhere.

Just this week more scaffolding popped up, even more new gold trim appeared.