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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

2. Everything they do supports such interests, which pay their bills and give them platforms. All the culture wars, the grandstanding, the rhetoric about immigrants are designed both to conceal their real agenda and to shift blame onto scapegoats.

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

3. This is why the BBC has so assiduously promoted Farage, building him from the entirely marginal figure he was into a major political force, by giving him wall-to-wall access and coverage. Because it too, like almost all major institutions, bends like a reed to the demands of capital.

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Robert/Tony/c @robert111.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

I am just glad I am savvy enough never to have given my money to the BBC for decades

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Dottoressa Maggie @lesserspottedh.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

Can I add @skynewss.bsky.social as promoters of Farage and Co.

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The Lady Lucy 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺🇬🇱🇺🇦🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🐾🐕 @lucyarnold.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

That first sentence is the most accurate statement in the history of political commentary! 👏👏👏👏

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Gearóid O'Connor @goconnor.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

Sorry George, but your third point with (BBC) stretches credulity. If the BBC were dependent on sponsorship or corporate funding, maybe. But the fact that they are taxpayer funded should lesson any exposure to being influenced by capital. Perhaps you mean key people who decide which guests to book?

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

4. I don’t say that left and right have no meaning (generally, people who make this claim have recently moved to the far right). But the real political divide is between those who grovel to capital (a group extending all the way from Starmer to Farage) and those who seek to resist.

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Steve B @stevebasnett.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

#3. Such irony, given the 'unique' way the Beeb is funded. And this happened during a period when it was said, "You won't believe the amount of money sloshing around at the BBC."

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AdyBee 🐝 @adybee.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

Now the BBC is doing exactly the same with Musk , reporting his tweets as news items while their Political Editor Chris Mason tells us that Musk *has a point*. It’s truly beyond bizarre that at the same time Ros Atkins on the BBC is pointing out that most of what Musk says is misinformed nonsense.

Ros Atkins@rosatkins.bsky.social

Elon Musk has had a lot to say about the grooming gangs scandal. We looked at 24 hours on Musk's X timeline and found a range of false and misleading information being amplified. www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/...

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Ros Atkins on...24 hours on Elon Musk's X timeline

The BBC's Analysis editor, Ros Atkins, investigates Elon Musk's recent posts on X about grooming gangs - and looks at how one day unfolded on his timeline.

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