Mic Wright

Again, we’ve gone from the claim that a shop assistant who might have been trans politely asked a mother and daughter whether they needed any help to a vision of a predator lurking around the lingerie section trying to force bra fittings on terrified teens. This story boils down to someone being unhappy about the existence of trans people and effectively wanting Marks & Spencer to commit to not employing trans people in its stores.

Yes.

I think it’s worse this side of the Atlantic.

This is a really helpful analysis of what happens when the media doesn't verify basic facts like whether the person at the center of a supposed controversy is actually trans.

It will now become a settled ‘fact’ that gets repeated over and over again.

It’s Good, Except It Sucks: Kraven The Hunter With Mic Wright Mic Wright joins Tim Worthington for a chat about Sergei Kravinoff just sort of sitting and waiting until his adversaries’ CGI deteriorates in Kraven The Hunter.

NEW! Kraven The Hunter isn't in fairness a badly made movie, but it is pretty much unwatchably boring. So can myself and Mic Wright (@brokenbottleboy.bsky.social) find anything to say about it *at all*? Did we even make it tight the way through? Find out here...

timworthington.org/2025/07/27/i...

The Telegraph's M&S trans shop assistant tall tale turned into a malicious game of telephone... Who needs proof when you got vibes?

On how a story mutates as it spreads across the British media…

The Telegraph's M&S trans shop assistant tall tale turned into a malicious game of telephone...

brokenbottleboy.substack.com/p/the-telegr...

I had missed this. Thanks for the heads up.

I did too but it’s not quite the term now!

Yes, bang on.

The Telegraph's M&S trans shop assistant tall tale turned into a malicious game of telephone... Who needs proof when you got vibes?

On how a story mutates as it spreads across the British media…

The Telegraph's M&S trans shop assistant tall tale turned into a malicious game of telephone...

brokenbottleboy.substack.com/p/the-telegr...

Ditto!

I saw. David is in my circle too! It’s very nice.

Exactly.

Exactly.

And reading the M&S apology that it sent in the first instance it really seems like a boiler plate response.

And that’s if it was a trans employee at all. The only suggestion that M&S says they are seems to come from the anonymous mother.

It’s so blatantly distorted.

It’s a single sourced story from an anonymous complainant about an event that allegedly happened in March. Of course, that it’s now been picked up by JK Rowling gives it a lot more heat.

There is such a malicious game of telephone being played with the Telegraph’s M&S ‘trans’ shop assistant story. It’s gone from the anonymous complaint claiming the person was trans because they were tall to versions — notably in The Sun — falsely suggesting the person offered a bra fitting.

Isabel Oakeshott's long distance neighbourhood watch How much should you believe a column on crime in the UK from a woman who decamped to Dubai?

NEW | On the Daily Telegraph and the Right’s vibe-based approach to talking about crime…

ISABEL OAKESHOTT’S LONG DISTANCE NEIGHBOURHOOD WATCH

How much should you believe a column on crime in the UK from a woman who decamped to Dubai?

brokenbottleboy.substack.com/p/isabel-oak...

Yes, it’s rhetorical.

Given Oakeshott would normally try to present Reform as being 'the voice of the people', I think it's interesting that she is still trying to set up some plausible deniability with “justice seekers” without any party political affiliations"

Isabel Oakeshott's long distance neighbourhood watch How much should you believe a column on crime in the UK from a woman who decamped to Dubai?

NEW | On the Daily Telegraph and the Right’s vibe-based approach to talking about crime…

ISABEL OAKESHOTT’S LONG DISTANCE NEIGHBOURHOOD WATCH

How much should you believe a column on crime in the UK from a woman who decamped to Dubai?

brokenbottleboy.substack.com/p/isabel-oak...

Watching this after reading the chapter on interviews in @brokenbottleboy.bsky.social's book you see it in a different way.

Here Mick Mulvaney goes through pretty much the entire list of evasive/combative approaches for an interviewee facing awkward questions.

So many!

YouTube video by zorelis diaz Adventures of Pete and Pete, The S1E13 Hard Day's Pete

Here’s my favourite episode of my favourite show when I was a kid — The Adventures of Pete & Pete, Series 1 Episode 13 ‘A Hard Day’s Pete’. youtu.be/-wKh6siqIPc?...

YouTube video by SKTheCrusader Why are journalists and politicians only speaking out on Palestine now? and some other frustrations

Just some thoughts and frustrations on the recent shift in the way Palestine has been spoken about in the press/by politicians. Not comprehensive and a little bit of me just ranting, but I needed to get some of this off my chest. youtu.be/ICxTsR9IrYc

Starmer is the kind of guy who’d watch someone choke to death because the polls said Reform voters think the Heimlich manoeuvre sounds both German AND French

Reform Splurged £1.3m on Right-Wing Newspaper Adverts During Election Nigel Farage’s Reform UK paid almost £1.3 million to conservative publications during the 2024 general election campaign. The right-wing populist party, which frequently claims to be a victim of media...

🔴 NEW - Reform paid almost £1.3 million to right-wing newspapers during the 2024 general election campaign - roughly 25% of its total budget.

📝 @desmog.com scoop with @adambarnett.bsky.social 👇

In their story?