Anarchy Goose
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It's a lovely morning and I am a horrible goose. She/her. Trans. I write things other people would like banned over at: archiveofourown.org/users/AnarchyGo… I also have a blog: pwnao.blogspot.com Minors DNI
![1920–1922: The birth of British broadcasting
Britain's first live public broadcast was made from the factory of Marconi Company in Chelmsford in June 1920. It was sponsored by the Daily Mail's Alfred Harmsworth, 1st Viscount Northcliffe and featured the famous Australian soprano Dame Nellie Melba. The Melba broadcast caught the people's imagination and marked a turning point in the British public's attitude to radio.[14]: 47 However, this public enthusiasm was not shared in official circles where such broadcasts were held to interfere with important military and civil communications. By late 1920, the pressure from these quarters and uneasiness among the staff of the licensing authority, the General Post Office (GPO), was sufficient to lead to a ban on further Chelmsford broadcasts.[14]: 50
But by 1922 the GPO had received nearly 100 broadcast licence requests[15]: 110 and moved to rescind its ban in the wake of a petition by 63 wireless societies with over 3,000 members.[14]: 50–97 Anxious to avoid the same chaotic expansion experienced in the United States, the GPO proposed that it would issue a single broadcasting licence to a company jointly owned by a consortium of leading wireless receiver manufacturers, to be known as the British Broadcasting Company Ltd, which was formed on 18 October 1922.[16] John Reith, a Scottish Calvinist, was appointed its general manager in December 1922 a few weeks after the company made its first official broadcast.[15]: 110 L. Stanton Jefferies was its first director of music.[17] The company was to be financed by a royalty on the sale of BBC wireless receiving sets from approved domestic manufacturers.[18] To this day, the BBC aims to follow the Reithian directive to "inform, educate and entertain".[19]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ferg4n5m47vdkeqp46dradym/bafkreih32kfmak5vgdrwslsnmbi4xwf76w6erc2fyeo4bnknabw3vwamwu)
![Sexual coercion allegations
In June 2020, several women (including musician Meredith Yayanos, artist Zoetica Ebb, and photographer Jhayne Holmes) publicly accused Ellis of sexual coercion and manipulation, in having engaged in simultaneous relationships with several of them without the others' knowledge.[126][127][128] The Daily Beast reported that "by 19 June, over 60 women had joined a group organized by Holmes, all of them accusing Ellis of a largely consistent pattern of behavior".[128] The Guardian later reported that "roughly 100 women have come forward, while 33 of them have composed written statements, supported by emails and text messages, which have been seen by The Guardian".[129] These testimonials were posted together on a website, SoManyofUs.com, in July 2020 and contain allegations of "manipulation, gaslighting, coercion, and other forms of emotional abuse" attributed to Ellis.[129][130]
Ellis responded, writing that he had not considered that others would see him as having "a position of power and privilege", and adding: “I have hurt many people that I had no intention of hurting. I am culpable. I take responsibility for my mistakes. I will do better and for that, I apologize."[127][131] DC Comics subsequently announced a two-page story written by Ellis would not be included in an upcoming anthology, at his request.[132][133][130] Ellis ended his long-running email newsletter, which he had published under various titles since 1995.[134]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ferg4n5m47vdkeqp46dradym/bafkreidruvsxbrdkn5o3qk6a7hb3zmfktaw3z2q5ksd3m7cwwxuwncskd4)
![n mid-July 2020, an article in The Guardian reported "Ellis responded to these accounts with self-pity and what seemed to be genuine contrition. [...] Ellis insists that the problem was relationship trouble, 'not predatory behaviour', but concedes that '[t]here is a differing of perception here, and I've been listening to it'. He said he was going to try therapy on the advice of friends".[129] The Hollywood Reporter later reported Ellis would not be returning to Castlevania for subsequent seasons and that a planned Batman comic would no longer be moving forward.[135]
In June 2021, a week after Ben Templesmith announced he would be collaborating with Ellis for new issues of Fell, Image Comics announced they would not be publishing the series following negative reaction from within the industry.[136] An update on SoManyofUs.com informed that Ellis reached out to the site’s managers to say he was willing to engage in conversation or mediation.[137] Ellis reactivated his dormant website to inform subscribers about this development.
In an update in January 2022, SoManyofUs.com reported that their members have been in a mediated dialogue with Ellis since August 2021 and that they were making progress in what was described as “a guided transformative justice process”.[138] In February 2022, Ellis relaunched his newsletter, in which he linked to the SoManyofUs.com update and website.[139] On January 19, 2023, SoManyOfUs.com once again updated the site, alleging that Ellis "took none of the steps we hoped he would", and also stating "we do not anticipate our involvement in any progress he might make in the future."[140]
Announced in August 2026, Image Comics has begun working with Ellis.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ferg4n5m47vdkeqp46dradym/bafkreiekjfb56hdoeyds342vcqnnkowwcoa65ae4fojzaelushqni4axiu)
![Rowling once defended the book in a 2000 BBC Radio 4 interview, stating that it makes her cry every time she finishes it.
She said the book had a ‘plot that could have been the most worthless pornography becomes, in [author Vladimir] Nabokov’s hands, a great and tragic love story.’](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ferg4n5m47vdkeqp46dradym/bafkreied2m7vx5emii2jjof3dphpt5cbn3e4wx26iz5f2klhr5xdtqsxyq)
![meme from Russian documentary - first panel shows Lenin on a flag 'What would Vladimir Ilyich [Lenin] have done in this situation?
Second panel shows the most exhausted-looking soldier in the world saying 'The kind Vladimir Ilyich would have shot everybody here.'](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ferg4n5m47vdkeqp46dradym/bafkreihh2gwpq2imjajrnzhdgdhrrolt47ct65xc7te2hgx24rw42jmuey)
![In May 2015 oil was discovered in Isobel deep by a consortium of oil companies including Falkland Oil & Gas, Premier Oil, and Rockhopper Oil & Gas.[56][57][58] In 2023, Rockhopper (working with Tel Aviv-listed Navitas Petroleum) indicated that it had been presented with a new development plan for its Sea Lion project that aimed to cut costs and proceed in phases. It was stated that: "If realized, the new plan—with a total price tag of $2.2 billion—could lead to 80,000 barrels per day of production (up to 100,000 b/d at peak) via a leased floating production, storage and offloading unit". A final investment decision was targeted for early 2024, though it experienced delays.[59]
A public consultation on the project took place in the summer of 2024 and was reported to have garnered widespread support from Falkland Islanders. Since Britain's newly elected Labour Government banned similar oil projects in the United Kingdom, this created the prospect for a potential conflict between the Falkland Islands' government and the British government. Nevertheless, the authority to approve oil development around the islands was said to rest solely with the Falkland Islands' government.[60] In November 2024, the Falklands' government Executive Council indicated that, while the public consultation process had been successfully concluded, "some matters" related to the Environmental Impact Statement required "further discussion" and that any development and production program would need to be considered separately by the Executive Council](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ferg4n5m47vdkeqp46dradym/bafkreib53jyxqiybk6c7uaz3nkg26hwxum7qqnsszcpmoyoiwws2pgebci)
