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I've always felt that Johnson and Farage put self-interest over the national interest - hence their dallying with Putin and his oligarchs. But directly colluding with a foreign government to take down the BBC feels like an act of supreme treachery

If we're talking about bias, why do BBC politics programmes, from Politics Live to the Laura Kuennsberg Show, still always begin with a look at the newspaper front pages, which are overwhelmingly biased in one direction. Helps frame the entire news agenda and debate in their favour

Robbie Gibb was appointed to the BBC Board by Boris Johnson, was an editorial advisor for GB News, and worked as Theresa May's Director of Comms.

He is not impartial or neutral. The government should remove him from the Board immediately to protect the BBC's independence.

The first step towards saving our precious BBC: remove Robbie Gibb from the board | Ed Davey The BBC belongs to all of us, and it is under attack as never before. The government must defend it from its enemies, within and without, says Liberal Democrat leader Ed Davey

As Ed Davey says, it's worth remembering this: 'Johnson’s pick for BBC chair, Richard Sharp resigned two years ago over his links to a secret loan of up to £800,000 to… Boris Johnson.'
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

You can be assured that tendentious memo by Michael Prescott, and the co-ordinated combination of the Telegraph, Mail, Boris Johnson, Nigel Farage and the White House means that the BBC hit job has been long in the planning, and has some insider help

Trump wants to destroy the BBC and take our money. And Nigel Farage is egging him on.

All true patriots should tell them both: hands off our BBC.

BBC faces ‘existential’ threat after exit of top executives Broadcaster’s deepest crisis in recent history comes amid fresh questions over its future role in British society

I do not understand the Labour government's reticence over defending the BBC and social media regulation. Their long-term survival basically depends on it. Their cowardice in the face of it may be the single thing they are most remembered for.

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Reform Council To Double Tax On Second Homes Despite Nigel Farage Calling The Idea 'Madness' A Reform-led council is planning to double council tax on second homes six months after party leader Nigel Farage denounced such policies as “madne...

Another case of Reform saying one thing then doing the other:

A Reform-led council is planning to double council tax on second homes six months after party leader Nigel Farage denounced such policies as “madness” and “extortion”

By me, for Politics Home www.politicshome.com/news/article...

Trump and his cronies have the BBC in their sights. Leaders can’t stay silent while one of our great institutions is attacked.

We must defend its independence, end political appointments, and remove Robbie Gibb from the Board.

It’s not at all clear to me how the BBC can do any kind of serious journalism if its top two bosses can be forced to quit over such an obviously confected scandal. There is no substantive error here. How can the BBC report on Trump, or Farage, or anyone else, in these circumstances?

While going through the proofs for "The British General Election of 2024" (out very soon!) I came across this - Paul Johnson of the IFS's verdict on Labour's manifesto last year. Labour's current attempts to claim the need to break their tax pledges was impossible to forsee don't stack up

If you want to sustain your carefully-cultivated fury at the stupid Panorama edit then don’t, whatever you do, read or listen to Trump’s speech in its entirety…

On Remembrance Sunday, we come together to honour all who served our country and gave their lives for our freedoms. Their sacrifice will never be forgotten.

We remember those who fell, and those who came home forever changed by their service.

A social media post by Karoline Leavitt (The White House Press Secretary) showing two news headlines side-by-side. The left headline, under a caption that reads "Shot" reads: "Trump goes to war with 'fake news' BBC," and the right headline under a caption that reads "Chaser" reads: "Tim Davie resigns as BBC director general over Trump documentary edit."

I had my disagreements with the BBC under Tim Davie but he was a decent man doing a difficult job.

To see Trump's White House claiming credit for his downfall and attacking the BBC should worry us all.

Truth Social post from Donald J. Trump: The TOP people in the BBC, including TIM DAVIE, the BOSS, are all quitting/FIRED, because they were caught “doctoring” my very good (PERFECT!) speech of January 6th. Thank you to The Telegraph for exposing these Corrupt “Journalists.” These are very dishonest people who tried to step on the scales of a Presidential Election. On top of everything else, they are from a Foreign Country, one that many consider our Number One Ally. What a terrible thing for Democracy!

It’s easy to see why Trump wants to destroy the world’s number one news source. We can’t let him.

The BBC belongs to all of us here in the UK.

The Prime Minister and leaders from across the political spectrum should be united in telling Trump to keep his hands off it.

We are so far through the looking glass that the man who tried to overthrow an election becomes president, the people who attacked the Capitol are turned into martyrs, & it's the BBC that gets punished - cheered on by the worst news outlets in the UK & the two most dishonest politicians of our age.

This is in such incredibly bad taste.

And respect to you and yours, too. You are a person of integrity.

I agree. I went to church this morning but didn’t wear a poppy. I noticed a young friend wearing a small white poppy, which was his way of making the point.

Honourable politicians must not remain silent.

“Increasingly, it is unmistakably cowardice – Britain’s minorities are being left to live in fear so that politicians can avoid a little discomfort. Those who oppose the UK’s emboldened far right need to speak out, and risk their own necks.”

First the flag. Now the poppy A sombre display of remembrance is being weaponised and policed by nationalists

app.thenewworld.co.uk/story/144614...
“Britain won its wars, the second world war especially, thanks to troops from across its empire. And yet people who dismiss this fact as somehow ‘woke’, or to be airily dismissed, feel comfortable embracing the poppy as somehow close to their cause.”

A disturbing thread 🧵 about the racism of the US far right.

A body that calls itself the Heritage Foundation is determined to erase history.

Remember who they are: the obscenely rich, corrupt, climate-change denying fossil fuel lobby that funds Trump and pushes the junk science of herd immunity.

Plant importers say border delays in Kent could drive up prices and stop deliveries from EU Traders report long waits at Sevington inspection post and claim trees and shrubs are repeatedly being damaged

Labour’s reset with the EU may solve this boring, costly nightmare for British businesses.
But EU-phobic Farage and Tories say they would rip that agreement up again.
What an utterly childish response to the damage they’ve done.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

If any Labour MPs are reading (go on, you know you want to), as someone trying to hire six new Oxford professors in AI / experiments / big data / all the stuff you say you want, I would really appreciate knowing if new hires can, you know, stay in the country they move to... current policy is chaos

Visiting PM says UK paying price for Brexit with dig at Nigel Farage 'theatrics' Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama referenced 'Brexit boats' and said leaving the EU had made Britons more depressed as he took a veiled swipe at Nigel Farage

“You left Europe because you wanted less boats, and you have more boats. You left Europe because you wanted more investment. You have less investment. You left Europe because you wanted more happiness. Now you are depressed." Albanian PM
www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...

Max Hegarty, who is studying aerospace engineering, said the proposals also affect students on other courses. He has taken modules in German, and said this enabled him to do an internship in Germany. "So much of our European engineering is based in Germany," he said. "While a lot of people are willing to learn English, not returning that effort to them is not great for that collaboration, for that international co-operation that we need. "Cutting funding for modern languages courses serves only to paralyse our growth as a country."

Such a key point about cutting back on language provision - it’s not good for science and it’s not good for growth
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

If they breach the election manifesto on tax, why don’t they breach it on the EU single market as well?

The single market will help increase productivity and the economy and maybe they don’t have to raise so much tax in the first place.

In under 30 seconds, these two say everything we need to know about unity and being English/British. Courtesy of @tuc.org.uk

“Don’t let hate divide us.”

#unity #togetherwethrive #hopenothate #strongertogether

“These days we see few photos of Mr Farage in bawling good humour with his fist round a pint.

He is more often pictured with that expression of an aggrieved platypus, having to explain why yet another of his party’s policies has – as our Scottish friends would put it – ‘gone doon the cludgie’.”

Me sowing a poll-based economic policy: ha ha f#%^ yes.
Me reaping an austerity budget one year in: well this f-ing sucks, what the f#%^?