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Alan Lester @alanlester.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

So that’s two of the “Raise the Colours” organisers now charged with violent crimes & a fifth of the 2024 race rioters with domestic abuse. Makes you wonder whether “innocent patriotism” & “protecting women & girls” are just covers for thuggish racism & misogyny?

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Postcard From The Past @pastpostcard.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

We had salad biscuits.

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Gail Myerscough @gailmyerscough.co.uk · 21/03/2026

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Sam Bright @writesbright.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

This is truly awful prose

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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

No other word has done more damage to the craft of writing in recent years than “content”. Even if you’re using the word “content” ironically, or as a cute little joke, don’t. When someone calls writing “content” they’re pissing on someone’s hard work & passion. “Content” is Technosatan’s henchword.

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 09/11/2025

This is unbelievable. Just a complete lack of belief in objectivity. And the BBC fucking caved to it

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 09/11/2025

The BBC's senior leadership resigning en masse over one dodgy edit in one programme, simply because the right wing press demands it, tells you everything you need to know about where the power really lies in that relationship

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Dorian Lynskey @dorianlynskey.bsky.social · 09/11/2025

That ambivalent feeling when someone you don't like resigns (yay) but for the wrong reason (gah) www.thetimes.com/article/b56c...

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Tim Davie quits as BBC director-general

The corporation has faced accusations of bias after broadcasting a doctored clip of a speech by President Trump

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Postcard From The Past @pastpostcard.bsky.social · 09/11/2025

I am still waiting for my photos but expect the developers are busy at this time of year. I will see what are in the sales later on this month, and ought to buy more underclothes, also a pressure cooker. On Sunday I broke one of my spotted plates. Do you like the post card.

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Dorian Lynskey @dorianlynskey.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

A great day for the golden rule of political analysis: when the right wins it is a resounding ideological victory that humiliates the left and when the left wins it is a precarious fluke that will surely end up humiliating the left. Conservatives are power’s landlords and the left merely tenants

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Benjamin McKean @blmckean.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

More coverage of OSU’s new restrictions on conference attendance: “These conferences are open forums for us to present our work, network and collaborate. Telling us that they’re going to regulate whether or not we can participate feels very stifling, prohibitive,” said @ohdearz.bsky.social

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Under Anti-DEI Pressure, Ohio State Limits Conference Funds

The Education Department recently criticized Ohio State University’s involvement with a nonprofit that encourages people from underrepresented backgrounds to pursue doctorates. Now, OSU is rethinking ...

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David Quantick @quantick.bsky.social · 09/10/2025

Watching the greatest documentary ever made (Deep Purple: Rock Family Trees) and noting rhat David Coverdale is a powerful cross between Alan Partridge and Tori Amos.

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Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

These wretched shops, which blight our city centres, capture so many of the causes of our malaise: tax dodging, contempt for social obligations, unfair competition for those who do the right thing & the candification of public space. Labour should go hard on this - and not just for the lost revenue

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Chris Dillow @chrisdillow.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

The great crime/achievement of BBC bosses is to give the impression that the only alternative to the old political parties is Farage. This matters, because what people want is shaped by what they perceive to be available.

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Mark O’Neill 🐻 @radiobeartime.com · 22/05/2025

I think it should not be beyond the wit of the BBC to employ a chief political correspondent with object permanence.

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Carl Gardner @carlgardner.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

This is how "This side says X, but the other side says Y" balance ends up distorting journalism. Instead of being based on the journalist's own independent, impartial analysis this question really just ventriloquises a partisan opposition stance and gives the impression the BBC fully agrees with it.

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Francis Hanly @franhan.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

Best magnolia - Golders hill park

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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

I wonder whether anyone at the Beeb has ever told Robbie Gibb, the Brexit-supporting board member knighted by his former boss Theresa May who polices the ‘impartiality’ of others, to piss off. Someone senior, whether on or off air staff, really needs to. This nonsense can’t continue.

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

This is an astonishingly ill-informed and amoral assessment for the political editor of the BBC to have reached, about someone spreading extremist conspiracy theories and using them to whip up hatred against elected politicians. I'd say I'm surprised, but sadly I'm not.

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Chris Terry-Enescu @cjterry.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

It's a tricky award this year for the Spectator really. You see, Keir Starmer took his party from one of its worst results of all time to a landslide majority. Ed Davey multiplied his party's seats by a factor of 9. Nigel Farage put his party on the map in a way it hadn't been before. Who to pick

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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

Kemi Badenoch at #PMQs: "We had a budget in March this year and tractors were not blockading the streets of Whitehall afterwards." Here are the tractors blockading the streets of Whitehall in March this year. They were protesting - you really couldn't make this up - Badenoch's trade policies. 😂

Reuters 25 March 2024: British farmers protest outside parliament over food imports. With picture of tractors blocking streets in Whitehall.

BBC 25 March 2024: In pictures: Moment tractor convoy reaches Parliament. With pictures of tractors blocking streets in Whitehall.

Telegraph 26 March 2024: Tractors bring rush-hour chaos to London as farmers stage protest. With picture of a digger outside parliament.

Euronews 26 March 2024: 'Slaughtered': UK farmers protest post-Brexit rules and trade deals. With picture of tractors blocking streets in Whitehall. The front one bears a placard: "No Farmers. No Food. No Future."

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

Always struggle to accept Jeremy Clarkson is a real person and not someone designed to embody everything than annoys me.

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

What I'd like to hear from farmers and those supporting them is an alternative proposal. It seems few are willing to defend billionaires buying up farmland to avoid tax but want to protect smaller farms. What's the best way to do that? Seems more useful than a protest.

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John Springford @johnspringford.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

You know who hasn't had this degree of media support for their financial interests? Disabled people, poor people with more than two kids, public sector workers (after all that clapping for the NHS). I'm not usually a 'blame the media' person but seriously - this is mad

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