Chris Clipson @chrisclipson.bsky.social · 18hWow, impressive work! Glad to see you are using your retirement productively. I wouldn’t know where to begin with mine. 100 1
Reposted by Chris ClipsonDavid Osland @davidosland.bsky.social · 13/10/2026I keep reading that 'nobody should be forced to pay for the BBC'. Meanwhile, I'm forced to pay for the royal family, nuclear weapons, religiously-affiliated schools and the House of Lords. 11350114 350
Reposted by Chris ClipsonAdam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 10/10/2026The contrast between the utterly sycophantic coverage this week of Kemi Badenoch, whose party has a truly atrocious electoral record under her leadership, and the utterly dismissive coverage of the Greens, tells you everything you need to know about media bias in the UKadambienkov.co.ukWhy the Holborn and St Pancras By-Election Was a Good Result for the Green PartyThe dismissive coverage of Zack Polanski’s party obscures a far bigger truth about the rise of the left in British politics 891908557 1.9K
Reposted by Chris ClipsonPhil Harrison @mrpmharrison.bsky.social · 09/10/2026The WHOLE POINT of the BBC is that it doesn't have to be like this. It isn't Netflix. It shouldn't be a slave to AI or algorithms. It our last bastion against all that stuff. Matt Brittin already looks like a catastrophic appointment. 64811 48
Reposted by Chris ClipsonThe SNP @snp.org · 09/10/2026Every day, the SNP as the Scottish Government acts as a shield, protecting the people of Scotland from the worst fallout of Westminster’s short-sighted choices. www.snp.org/scotland-one-of-safest-…snp.orgScotland ‘one of safest places in world’, say BBC — Scottish National PartyThe evidence on justice is in, the results are clear, and the conclusion is inescapable: Scotland makes better decisions when Scotland decides for itself. 213181 131
Reposted by Chris ClipsonSathnam Sanghera @sathnam.bsky.social · 09/10/2026Dear tv and radio producers. Thankyou for the invitation. But, no, I do not want to appear on your show to defend the idea that I am English, after 50 years of living and working here, because the increasingly feral right want to turn this into a "debate" and you cannot see how you're being played 10752191146 5.2K
Chris Clipson @chrisclipson.bsky.social · 27/09/2026‘Is reading The Times’ collection of reactionary, prejudiced, unscientific claptrap really helping you?’ 000 0
Chris Clipson @chrisclipson.bsky.social · 27/09/2026The fact that someone so brain dead, so reactionary, so anti-intellectual, so prejudiced, so ignorant and so spiteful has a column to spout her bile tells you all you need to know about The Times these days. Horrible rag. 0100 10
Chris Clipson @chrisclipson.bsky.social · 23/09/2026He’s either a genocide-supporting racist, or he’s an utter moron 021 2
Reposted by Chris ClipsonDmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 20/09/2026I don't think we disdain the center-right enough. First, they rode nativist populist tigers to power to get their tax cuts and deregulation; Then, they lost control of their own parties to those tigers; Now, they sit in lucrative jobs as columnists writing about how it's all the left's fault. 433124789 3.1K
Reposted by Chris ClipsonLaura @justbrowsingthanks.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Everything good we have as a nation gets attacked. National Trust, RNLI, BBC news (unfortunately they succumbed) even the National Lottery for supporting causes that trigger racist thugs. It's meant to destabilise our democracy, it's deliberate and its funding has highly dubious origins. 3409 40
Reposted by Chris ClipsonJohn Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 18/09/2026What on earth is happening? 23733091337 3.3K
Reposted by Chris ClipsonIan Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 18/09/2026British journalism and polling are both utterly implicated in the Farage funding scandal iandunt.substack.com/p/british-jo... 561581563 1.6K
Reposted by Chris ClipsonDavid Osland @davidosland.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Erstwhile Labour leadership contender Owen Smith lobbies for Big Pharma, former shadow chancellor Chris Leslie heads the trade association for 4000% interest rate doorstep loan sharks. Now Lord Watson has signed up with Palantir. Such are the moral scruples of the Labour right. 1018887 188
Reposted by Chris ClipsonDani Garavelli @danigaravelli.bsky.social · 27/08/2026Visiting Srebrenica was one of the defining moments of my life. It’s a strange thing today to see all the celebrations over the death of Mladic while the world is still, largely, turning a blind eye to genocide. 37321 73
Reposted by Chris ClipsonGeorge Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 18/08/2026I've added my name to the open letter calling for a public inquiry into the tragic death of Professor Jason Arday. Will you join me? goodlaw.social/625453goodlaw.socialJason Arday: Demand a public inquiry now | Good Law ProjectCommission an immediate public inquiry into how to ensure a responsible press given its contribution to Dr Arday’s tragic death. 531231393 1.2K
Reposted by Chris ClipsonLee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 17/08/2026Everybody always points to the Telegraph but often The Times is as bad, if not worse. 710518 105
Reposted by Chris ClipsonZack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 16/08/2026It’s time we sorted out the press. Constant misinformation to protect their donors and fossil fuels is destroying lives and our planet. The Government must step up and stop being cowardly. 30545961235 4.6K
Chris Clipson @chrisclipson.bsky.social · 15/08/2026I think it’s *even worse* than that James; they *will* learn something: that they can lynch a black man in public and get away scot free 091 9
Reposted by Chris ClipsonGeorge Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 01/08/2026You could say the same about any public service, or anything at all of public interest. The demands of capital owners trounce all other considerations, degrade the service and transform it into something with an entirely different purpose. UEFA's succinct critique of capital should be framed. 15822149 822
Reposted by Chris ClipsonAdam Schwarz @adamjschwarz.bsky.social · 24/07/2026When the story of why humanity didn't stop climate change is written, it will feature front pages like this. Even as the skies blacken with climate change-induced wildfires, right wing media continue their relentless crusade against measures to tackle it. 23247442014 4.7K
Reposted by Chris ClipsonMatt Green @mattgreencomedy.com · 10/07/2026Anne Widdecombe was one of the first right wing politicians in the UK who the media tried to turn into a bit of a cuddly joke figure - a pernicious process that eventually produced Boris Johnson and the like - and across the world it’s given us Trump, Bolsonaro and many many others. 723736 237
Chris Clipson @chrisclipson.bsky.social · 18/06/2026Let’s hear our pols say it about Rothermere!! 010 1
Reposted by Chris ClipsonBridget Phillipson MP @bphillipsonmp.bsky.social · 16/06/2026The Gestapo marched hundreds of thousands of innocent people to their deaths. I've ended private schools' tax breaks to invest in state schools. No responsible leader makes vile comparisons like this. Kemi Badenoch is not fit to be Prime Minister. 1633141716 3.1K
Reposted by Chris ClipsonBill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 16/06/2026You could make the case that we didn’t need to kill over 100 Iranian schoolchildren, countless other innocent civilians, and 13 of our own service members, but why even bother 16428105 428
Reposted by Chris ClipsonAlan Lester @alanlester.bsky.social · 12/06/20261/3 We’re accustomed to a right wing press making editorial selections to spotlight immigrant criminality. But the @BBCNews now gives it resolutely disproportionate attention too. The effect is to distort reality and legitimise far right narratives. 820588 205
Reposted by Chris ClipsonDani Garavelli @danigaravelli.bsky.social · 10/06/2026They need to stop talking about legitimate concerns, start talking about racist thuggery; point out how net migration has fallen & small boats are a tiny %; explain our country can't function without migration; get serious about social media as a means to spread bile/organise riots. 2196 19
Reposted by Chris ClipsonDani Garavelli @danigaravelli.bsky.social · 10/06/2026“We have many migrants who make a deeply valuable contribution to our country, including in our healthcare & hospitality sectors. We don't want this to be used to divide people/fuel hostility." Why is it being left to affected families to say this while politicians talk about "legitimate concerns"? 47526 75
Reposted by Chris ClipsonGeorge Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 03/05/2026We must stand in solidarity with Jews being attacked by antisemitic criminals and terrorists: no ifs or buts. We must stand in solidarity with Palestinians being murdered by the Israeli government: no ifs or buts. These are not contradictory positions. They are consistent ones. 🧵1/5 8264381781 6.4K
Reposted by Chris ClipsonSarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 26/04/2026No. The big divide in Britain today is between the rich and the poor. Reform are on the side of the rich. Specifically, rich white English racists who hate the poor and the vulnerable and don’t think they deserve to have rights or public services or dignity. 71990331 990
Chris Clipson @chrisclipson.bsky.social · 30/04/2026Absolutely. Like all privatisations, designed to take power and money away from ‘customers’ (in this case students/parents) and shovel them to the already rich and powerful 010 1
Reposted by Chris ClipsonOwen Jones @owenjones.bsky.social · 30/04/2026Most Britons oppose antisemitism and the crimes committed by Israel. This is a level of moral consistency that our political and media elite appear incapable of possessing. 640787 407
Chris Clipson @chrisclipson.bsky.social · 30/04/2026What with that and the vast salaries paid to principals and senior staff now, it is no surprise that universities are suffering cuts and students are being left penniless. Quite an achievement to build a system where everything gets worse 110 1
Reposted by Chris ClipsonGeorge Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 27/04/2026Something shocking and out of the ordinary is happening in the UK. While in most comparable countries, healthy life expectancy is rising, here it is plunging steeply. Q. So what marks us out? A. 47 years of extreme neoliberalism, culminating in austerity. www.health.org.uk/reports-and-...health.org.uk 951868792 1.9K
Chris Clipson @chrisclipson.bsky.social · 23/04/2026www.owenjones.news/p/israel-is-...owenjones.newsIsrael is raping Palestinians with dogsThere are no limits to the depravity 000 0
Reposted by Chris ClipsonTrisha Elliott @trishaelliott.bsky.social · 23/04/2026More government action, please! 183 8
Chris Clipson @chrisclipson.bsky.social · 22/04/2026Lovely to hear ‘my’ @BBC pushing paranormal bollocks #Uncanny on one of the last sensible channels they produce, @BBC6Music 🙄. Going completely lowest common denominator won’t save you BBC, as it hasn’t your ‘news’ output. Heartbreaking. 000 0
Reposted by Chris ClipsonTristan Grayford @tristangrayford.scot · 20/04/2026It says something about the BBC that in the face of significant cuts and hard priority calls they chose to launch an in-depth undercover investigation into whether refugees are faking being gay. I think I'm far from alone thinking I'm not interested in funding people with those priorities. 620045 200
Chris Clipson @chrisclipson.bsky.social · 14/04/2026Ah, even as a confirmed BBC sceptic I wondered why that story was leading the @bbcnews this morning 010 1
Chris Clipson @chrisclipson.bsky.social · 05/04/2026Isn’t it even worse that they *did* understand all those things but carried on grifting off it anyway? And a lot of them still are 000 0
Reposted by Chris ClipsonPaul Carnahan @pacarnahan.bsky.social · 01/04/2026This week, Brexit finally killed our family business. We cleared out our warehouse, handed back the keys, paid the final bills and said goodbye to our last employee. What was once a thriving firm died a slow, sad death, all thanks to Farage, Johnson and the gullible idiots they conned. 1/18 14436951750 3.7K
Chris Clipson @chrisclipson.bsky.social · 29/03/2026Are you saying that James Orr *isn’t* a white nationalist?? 000 0
Reposted by Chris ClipsonAdam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 28/03/2026So it turns out the real scandal of the Gorton and Denton by-election was the willingness of media organisations to collude in Nigel Farage's attempt to undermine the result of a free and fair election www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/how-the-bb...adambienkov.co.ukHow the BBC and Daily Mail Spread Reform's ‘Family Voting’ LiesThe real scandal of the Gorton and Denton by-election was the willingness of media organisations to collude in Nigel Farage's attempt to undermine the result of a free and fair election 14037621490 3.8K
