Dr Lisa Dunleavy

The real BBC bias story, narrated by Anna Ford

This perfectly encapsulates why we need the BBC

The letter the BBC could send back to Trump A proposal for a reply to his $1bn claim

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The letter the BBC could send back to Trump

A proposal for a reply to his $1bn claim

By me. Enjoy.

emptycity.substack.com/p/the-letter...

Shout out to Read Easy UK (charity I volunteer with) - help adults learn to read. Will take referrals from family/friends/yourself/councils - we want to help and you can learn to read. Fabulous group to be involved with.

Asylum seekers, housed in hotels in Manchester, are reaching out in their own words to address the concerns of the local community.

Please take a minute to read their letter, & share it with the people in your life who need to hear the truth about the people they are protesting.

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

Private Eye.

1 Nurse: It’s become a real problem in this area 2 Nurse: We’ve seen the whole community lost to addiction 3 Show a building sign posted: Westminster ‘X’ Addiction Clinic With various Westminster people or looking at their phones outside it Nurse: Ministers, Spads, Researchers… 4 Nurse: Most mornings we’ll get a call about someone acting strangely [Nurse on phone taking a call] Ok - we’ll be right over 5 Nurse: We just have a gentle chat [Nurses approach a minister –Robert Jenrick? - standing in the Palace of Westminster Minister: I understand your concerns… 6 Nurse: Are you OK love? Minister: Yes I’m just hearing legitimate concerns from real voters 7 Nurse: That’s a robot, a Nazi and a poorly-disguised Russian [Show that the people he is talking to are precisely these characters] Nurse 2: Give us your phone, love 8 Nurse: At the clinic we put them in a Grass-Touching Pod, with a real voter to talk to [We see them back at the clinic, holding the minister's head and pushing him into a glass isolation booth with a grass floor. And it is a baffled looking woman, on a chair, ready to talk to him.] 9 Minister: YOU MUST BE WORRIED ABOUT THE COMING CIVIL WAR [woman looks baffled] 10 woman: I just want a bus service Minister: LOOK AT MY FLAG [produces a St George's flag] [ends]

Recovering from being badly glutened (coeliac) and not managing to eat anything without severe pain, I’ve had huel for the last 3 weeks. It’s disgusting but kept me going until my gut could tolerate gf bread, then eggs and then v overcooked cauliflower cheese 🎉🎉 today cooked apple!! 🤞

Just to say that teachers do an incredibly difficult job, with all the right intentions, and can be the defining influence on a young person's life. They are the exact opposite of poisoners because good teaching provides the antidote to so many dangers

Free stickers suitable for flag-bearing lampposts. Send a large A4 envelope with a 1st class large stamp to me at Bragg Office, PO Box 6830 Bridport DT6 9BH and I’ll send you a sheet. #ReclaimtheFlag 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇬🇧

Fruit leather will work really well for plums and pears. Keeps forever that way. Never tried with quinces but worth a try? Otherwise cook and can in a pressure cooker and lasts for years if you’ve done it properly.

Amazing bit of 2019 footage this.

Frei doing a great job of trying to hold Farage to account as he and Nathan Gill go walkabout.

And I suspect Farage will come to regret his quip at the end about Russians if it does the rounds again.

Who would have thought.

Former Brexit Party MEP admits accepting bribes to shill for Russia Nathan Gill admitted eight counts of bribery between 2018 and 2019. He said he was tasked to make specific statements in return for money. #EuropeNews

UK media should be all over this but will they be?

Reform UK, formerly Brexit Party & UKIP have always been mouthpieces for the Kremlin. It’s just this one was paid & found out

Nathan Gill admitted 8 counts of bribery between 2018 & 2019. Tasked to make specific statements in return for money

Queen at Knebworth (last concert with Freddie) but since then the incredible Operation mincemeat (London and Broadway) - flown to NYC to see the OG cast (& understudies) 3 times now.

This must at least partly be due to the unwritten media rule that bad news is (almost always) bigger than good news

“My trans friends have brought nothing but joy, kindness and light to my life. Hearing so many of their journeys of pain, fear, loss and exclusion to get to where they are now, their authentic selves, and seeing how happy, fulfilled and full of hope they now are brings me much joy and respect for them.” #WhyWeSigned Image of a Black woman in pink workout gear.

Women from all walks of life are joining together to say: Not in Our Name. We are a diverse group — women of faith and none, women of colour, disabled women, queer women, working-class and professional women standing up in support of the trans+ community.

✍️ Sign our letter at change.org/nion_women

waka wake

Expect your mobile to go off 3pm Sunday! Be prepared for a test of the Govt's emergency alert system. Full info... www.moneysavingexpert.com/news/2025/09...

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I look forward to every media outlet that platformed Nigel Farage and Reform for the entire summer now giving us wall-to-wall coverage of Zack Polanski and The Greens.

I left school in the 1980s but covered Amritsar but that was it. My youngest (took GCSEs this summer not including history) and did a whole course on empire. Thought Empireland was one of the best books they’ve ever read.

BRITAIN BRACED FOR HUGE WAVE OF SHEFFIELD WEDNESDAY DEMONSTRATIONS THIS WEEKEND - ARMED FORCES INSTRUCTED TO PREPARE FOR DEPLOYMENT

Motherfucking wind farms…

Aaarrrhhh! @jonsopel1.bsky.social @newsagents.bsky.social pip is a benefit you get even if IN WORK!!! People on pip pay tax, they work, it’s a benefit to help pay the extra costs of disability. Minor issues don’t qualify you for anything. Even with major ones it’s seriously hard to get

I want to see non-disabled people shouting about the disability benefit cuts. If you spoke out about trans rights, abortion rights, or migrant rights in recent weeks? Good on you! If you aren’t doing the same for disabled people, ask yourself why.

Paging @alastaircampbell2.bsky.social and @rory-stewart.bsky.social after your discussion this week

Sign the Petition Not in our name: Women in support of the trans+ community

Zoe, have you seen this? Over 30k women saying GCs don’t speak for us. Fancy signing and sharing if you agree? www.change.org/p/not-in-our...

Dispatches from 1918 Radiolab · Episode

@anitaanand.bsky.social @willdalrymple.bsky.social love Empire and Yalta series was amazing. Hearing your comments on Versailles, thought of this incredible podcast you might enjoy

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I've reached the stage of my life where there's nobody left in my circle but top notch weirdos and honestly the company is so so good