Jeff Humm

This is one of the changes in the UK media landscape that should be more remarked on: the fact that being a very open, proud, outright racist is no longer a bar to being a pundit on some TV stations (in this case GBN and Talk TV).

New Sunderland-made Nissan LEAF qualifies for £3,750 discount under government’s EV grant in a boost for North East manufacturing Vs Rachel Reeves to curb high-end bike purchases in Cycle to Work scheme

Compare and contrast the Government language.

£3,750 EV grant on a £35k car: ‘helping families’.

Cycle to Work: ‘subsidising leisure’.

And yet cycling delivers TEN TIMES the impact of electric cars for reaching net zero. It’s almost like narrative, not data, is driving policy.

Trump is conspiring with Putin to sell out Ukraine – and the security of the whole of Europe along with it.

The Prime Minister must convene the Coalition of the Willing to stop this betrayal in its tracks.

U Boats flying swastikas used to sink your ships, which many at the time regarded as potentially divisive.

Treat carers with contempt, harm the social care sector, keep banging the Reform drum, and make a Labour catastrophe in May more likely / worse.
Bravo Starmer / Mahmood!
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Isokon: The brave new flats of Hampstead ALAN TYLER visits the Hampstead home of modernists, artists and spies.

"The presence of Soviet spooks in remarkable numbers is the most eyebrow raising aspect of the Isokon story. There are seven confirmed agents between 1934 and 1947, with twenty-five suspected sub-agents in residence or closely connected."
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Donald Trump is gunning for the BBC, and Farage is cheering him on. Want to know why? Follow the money…

Got to watch the recording, many years ago, with Zoe Ball.

Monday & Tuesday recorded Monday.

One small(!) point. The way the debate has been engaged in over the last decade, asylum seekers have been conflated with illegal immigrants, illegal immigrants conflated with legal immigrants, and immigrants conflated with all ethnic minorities, you can’t attack one group without attacking all.

#ChurchillsSpaniards
“We have the duty to tell the story of these soldiers & preserve their memory...this book isn’t only about Spanish fighters (against fascism), but...a part of the tradition, history & culture of the British army.” Out in paperback! #ContinuingtheFight

Have been thinking about “immigration has been tearing this country apart.” Surely I’m not the only person to think that it isn’t true, but inflamed rhetoric about immigration by politicians is what is tearing this country apart and so statements like that only makes it worse.

A common theme from Mahmood and her supporters in Parliament this evening is that the UK is divided or being torn apart, and while that is true, I find it utterly dispicable that they conclude that it is the refugees and not those stirring up hatred that are doing the dividing.

Mahmood claiming Britain is the 'destination of choice' - simply untrue.
'We will confiscate jewellery' - demented.
Trying to appear 'tougher' than Reform - vile & politically moronic.
Progressive people hate it.
Reform-tempted voters will still prefer Reform.
While Yaxley-Lennon cheers u on. FFS.

Labour now falling so deep into the anti-immigration hole that they're telling bare-faced lies we'd sooner associate with Reform or the Tories.

Punchy last question to Alex Norris on R4 by Nick Robinson: "You're sending a message to the rest of the population to look at those people with suspicion, to regard them as not welcome, as cheats, as illegals, as people who should be hounded out of their accommodation. Do you worry about that?"

Anti-imm right will share the Guardian article and decide Labour have a woke open borders policy; progressive left will share the Sun article and conclude Labour are thugs snatching jewelry from the desperate. Instead of persuading both sides the risk is you anger both and persuade no one.

Once again I must stress: If you think I defend the BBC because I've worked for it, you've completely misunderstood. I, and anyone else in this position, am defending the BBC *despite* the fact I've worked for it.

A post by Zarah Sultana of 'Your Party', that uses a generated image with the words 'Your Party, County Durham Launch', surrounded by nine simple, flat images of images in silhouette with single colour backgrounds, presumably intended to represent Durham, four of which are a man with a weirdly long pick-axe, one is a building, two are gantries of some kind – for a coal mine? – and one is some kind of floating lamp. I will expand on this in the thread.

Okay, I can't let this one go. I live in Ireland, not the UK, but the use of this image by a supposedly socialist party is so stupid and offensive, I'm going to get stuck in.

Let me explain to you why any experienced illustrator/designer could have stopped you making so many miserable mistakes. 1/

You come to Britain as a refugee, fleeing persecution & death, you fall in love, get married, have children, or start a business, buy a house, etc. 19 years later, the Home Office tells you the conflict in your country is over, go home, we’re deporting you. That’s the reality of Labour’s policy.

If you're cheering Trump on then you have no right to call yourself a patriot.

You absolute moron.

Not the first to make this point. But there is a tyrant in charge of another country who is accused of being heavily linked to a paedophile sex ring - and supposed ‘patriots’ in this country are passionately willing him to take down our national broadcaster. Madness.

Interesting to see so many great British patriots right now begging an American president to bankrupt one of Britain’s last remaining truly national institutions.

Indeed. The BBC is in my view one of Britain‘s most important institutions. It is imperfect.
Everything is.
You destroy it at your peril.
If ever there was a time to rally around something very British, it is now.
Just an outsider‘s opinion.

New map produced by RTVE, Spanish national TV, of the 6000 mass graves in Spain. In the last 25 years some 17,000 bodies of men, women and children have been exhumed out of the ~120,000 dumped in mass unmarked graves by the Franco regime.
www.rtve.es/noticias/fos...

No, it is a bit mind-boggling!
Fab casting.

Oh!
Off to Google...

YouTube video by Movieforia Classic Movies & Westerns Night and the City 1950 Film Noir Richard Widmark Gene Tierney

Can I recommend this 1950 film noir of 1930s London underworld?
Includes wrestling.
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Whatever it doesn’t take

You absolute fucking clowns.