David Lyall @davidlyall.bsky.social · 6hI asked why no mention of the critic and Spectator professors . Howarth and salem . You put the boot into arday 000
David Lyall @davidlyall.bsky.social · 6hYes you are . Why post an anti burnham article. You don't post many anti tory articles 000
David Lyall @davidlyall.bsky.social · 6hAndy Burnham has dinner with deranged us president Kemi has dinner with corrupt billionaires Chancellor of exchequer has Lords mayor dinner attended by corrupt city types,tax dodgers, Russian oligarchs, and gulf state representatives Fuck me tory boy is that your best line of attack on burnham. 100
David Lyall @davidlyall.bsky.social · 7hJack wind your tory head in . There were probably your tory politicians in the room Defund the tory gibbs bbc What about two critic right wing professors and contributers and paedophilia That's ok then Not a word from.the bbc and yourself 100
David Lyall @davidlyall.bsky.social · 7hSarah ditum , jk rowling , heien lewis, sonia sodha , guardian journalists, all right wing journalists went two footed on arday but james orr amd these two complete fucking silence. No wonder most people think most journos in this country are right wing corrupt racist fucks 010
David Lyall @davidlyall.bsky.social · 19hShe isn't the deluded one . It's right, wing pundits and journalists who haven't a clue . Also, there is something of an old style South american dictator about badenoch 000
David Lyall @davidlyall.bsky.social · 19hI do actually agree with the tories that nursery education and costs should be free for everyone 000
David Lyall @davidlyall.bsky.social · 19hYou cannot but I remember the right saying and still do credits should be mean tested 000
David Lyall @davidlyall.bsky.social · 21hCan I ask two questions 1. Salem case is sub judicy. I understand that, but howarth an Oxford don who is also involved in this shit .pleaded guilty and got a suspended sentence. Why isn't the press talking about this individual 2. Why did the arday coverage get more than the orr case 000
Reposted by David LyallMic Wright @brokenbottleboy.bsky.social · 21hMy column in this month’s Byline Times is part-obituary for my grandfather and part-comparison with Rupert Murdoch, who was born 6 months before him and is sadly still with us. You can subscribe to Byline Times for £3.75/ month. subscribe.bylinetimes.com 25912
David Lyall @davidlyall.bsky.social · 21hI dont like the word terf . Also what are you talking about labour 2024 100
David Lyall @davidlyall.bsky.social · 21hAre they not their columnists. I note you one of their alumni is associate editor at the new world . The only normal one is rifkind . The rest are ex lefties radicalised to the badenoch hard right 000
David Lyall @davidlyall.bsky.social · 21hThey have what most teams don't have and that is a balanced midfield 000
David Lyall @davidlyall.bsky.social · 23hNot really centre slightly right that do allow left wing views 110
David Lyall @davidlyall.bsky.social · 23hThey have been very quiet about other oxbridge professors such as salem, howarth, and orr. Not 300 articles on those people . But I suppose peodophilia and corruption is far less important than bragging about the marathons you do 000
David Lyall @davidlyall.bsky.social · 15/10/2026Ita not looney left to think the iran war was a shit storm , that its wrong for the US to threaten NATO allies, that public streaming of an execution is a dystopian running man nightmare , that supporting Ukraine is correct or saying malthusiam billionaires should not run the world 020
David Lyall @davidlyall.bsky.social · 15/10/2026suppose jk loves the ending of inheritance tax and cuts in taxes for the very rich 000
David Lyall @davidlyall.bsky.social · 15/10/2026What do they make you a social democrat . I didn't see many moderates at tommy robinson rallys or at the Conservative conferancd . Badrnoch has expelled all her decent pro European one nation tories. 020
David Lyall @davidlyall.bsky.social · 15/10/2026Well the Overton window has shifted then . Its not looney left to want social democracy , closer links to Europe,not attack immigrants not to see genocide. get people out poverty , not cut inheritance and taxes for the very rich . All badenoch ideas are hard right . Nothing to with the looney ledt 220
David Lyall @davidlyall.bsky.social · 15/10/2026She was . She is noe a badenoch tory . She has stated badenoch is the only politician she likes . She has been radicalised . Show me a statement or post that is remotely left of centre in the ast 3 years . She has supported posey parker who rants about migrants at tommy robinson rallys 230
David Lyall @davidlyall.bsky.social · 15/10/2026I thonk she us not just on trans but on isreal, trump , badenoch and many social issues She is the poster girl of the hard right in this country . Just read spiked , mail , telegraph, express, gb news , talk radio, reform and bard right tory mps 110
David Lyall @davidlyall.bsky.social · 15/10/2026Very quiet on orr, howarth, ans salem and the critic . Helen, like most conservatives, went hard on the harmless arday . Nothing from you lot on these scandals. 000
David Lyall @davidlyall.bsky.social · 15/10/2026Brilliant article . Badenoch is like corbyn she wants a hard right purity . Hence getting of moderate one nation tories 000
David Lyall @davidlyall.bsky.social · 14/10/2026Johnson or cleverly would be polling in the 30s.Her idea to get rid of one nation tories is ridiculous..For the tory party to win you need a broad church. Also the best Chancellor since the war clarke and best business secretary heseltine would be excluded from the oarty.Thatcher would not do that 010
David Lyall @davidlyall.bsky.social · 14/10/2026I think that people of the right think she is better than any lefty. Remember this is a conservative country . Also her approval ratings are very low compared to say johnson. I do think of the tories had either , 100
David Lyall @davidlyall.bsky.social · 14/10/2026Also howarth has pleaded guilty . Another right wing prof who writes for right wing rags . That is not sub judicial. Yet silence from.the free press vultures who went for arday 000
David Lyall @davidlyall.bsky.social · 14/10/2026On a unrelated topic Sarah ditum at the critic went hard on arday but silent on this prof.Same for sodha,lewis and many others who went two footed on arday . They have been very quiet on orr. So I expect the same on this issue. Same for journos at the spectator, mail, guardian and telegraph 100
David Lyall @davidlyall.bsky.social · 14/10/2026Maybe geoff, but that brings in my mistrust of pundits into play, and her personal appeal is just not apparent. Also, apart from politicos who actually watch PMQs . You dont hear did you see that stunning number 5 question last night.. 100
David Lyall @davidlyall.bsky.social · 14/10/2026I was actually agreeing with you and just making an aside 010
David Lyall @davidlyall.bsky.social · 14/10/2026She is stunningly bad, but for some reason, right-wing journalists such as sonia sodha think she is amazing . I just dont see it . I saw johnsons appeal but this kemi stuff .naaah 020
David Lyall @davidlyall.bsky.social · 14/10/2026She is aggressive , too scripted and predictable. She is really bad when off script . I just think compared to johnston or Cameron or even may, she and is so one dimensional 100
David Lyall @davidlyall.bsky.social · 14/10/2026The depiction of the muslim is pretty bad as well 100
David Lyall @davidlyall.bsky.social · 14/10/2026Sorry compared to the over scripted and always aggressive badenoch its a refreshing change. Yes he talks like a normal person 000
David Lyall @davidlyall.bsky.social · 14/10/2026I dont think badenoch is that good . She is always aggressive. Good orators mix it up with charm , humour and a bit of bite. 000
David Lyall @davidlyall.bsky.social · 14/10/2026Also critic , telegraph and Spectator journalists . On a unrelated topic Sarah ditum at the critic went hard on arday . Be interesting the response of ditum , sodha , lewis and many others who were went two footed on arday . They have been very quiet on orr. So I expect the same on this issue 021
David Lyall @davidlyall.bsky.social · 14/10/2026I wish they would get rid of the moral maze. Just a telegraph and spiked recruiting centre 020
David Lyall @davidlyall.bsky.social · 14/10/2026Stephen mangan politics might be involved in this review 000
David Lyall @davidlyall.bsky.social · 14/10/2026Also she went into politics because of homelessness. That she beat the greens . 030
David Lyall @davidlyall.bsky.social · 14/10/2026That column you think you were going to write . Please don't 000
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y grandfather, Gordon Briggs, died on 18 September 2026. He was two days away from turning 95.
On the day he was born, the Government abandoned the gold standard. The front page of the Observer didn't carry any headlines but was instead filled with adverts for holidays, hotels, and cruises: "This winter visit Gibraltar and Malta where British currency circulates!"
News moved slower then, but it got faster and faster every year that he lived.
Gordon was four when the BBC first broadcast a regular TV service from Alexandra Palace in London. It only went on air for two hours a day, and it wouldn't be until well after the war that the Briggs family owned a television.
My grandfather was seven when the Daily Telegraph's young foreign correspondent, Clare Hollingworth, broke the news of the German invasion of Poland after spotting "scores, if not hundreds, of tanks lined up ready to go [on the border]". The paper had no bylines then so her front-page scoop was credited to 'Our Own Correspondent' By the time the Daily Mail declared
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y grandfather, Gordon Briggs, died on 18 September 2026. He was two days away from turning 95.
On the day he was born, the Government abandoned the gold standard. The front page of the Observer didn't carry any headlines but was instead filled with adverts for holidays, hotels, and cruises: "This winter visit Gibraltar and Malta where British currency circulates!"
News moved slower then, but it got faster and faster every year that he lived.
Gordon was four when the BBC first broadcast a regular TV service from Alexandra Palace in London. It only went on air for two hours a day, and it wouldn't be until well after the war that the Briggs family owned a television.
My grandfather was seven when the Daily Telegraph's young foreign correspondent, Clare Hollingworth, broke the news of the German invasion of Poland after spotting "scores, if not hundreds, of tanks lined up ready to go [on the border]". The paper had no bylines then so her front-page scoop was credited to 'Our Own Correspondent'.
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