Gareth Davies @garethtbij.bsky.social · 09/10/2026Not to mention the story itself is pure filler, framing him as a local resident who happens to write for the Mail, including reaction quotes from [checks notes] the X account for the Sunday Sport. Christ. 110
Gareth Davies @garethtbij.bsky.social · 09/10/2026Have I missed an SEO trend that might explain why the Oxford Mail stated Boris Johnson's age in the headline, intro and picture caption of this story? 200
Gareth Davies @garethtbij.bsky.social · 09/10/2026Execution TV, a new nadir for the most morally bankrupt democracy on the planet www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...theguardian.comPentagon says execution of Fort Hood shooter will be livestreamedNidal Hasan, army psychiatrist who killed 13 people, will be executed by firing squad on 3 December 020
Gareth Davies @garethtbij.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Now that's what I call a player. I still remember his brilliant display in a 3-0 win at home to City in 2009 120
Gareth Davies @garethtbij.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Precious moments lost like tears in the rainstatic.klipy.comBlade Runner: Rutger Hauer's Tears in RainALT: Blade Runner: Rutger Hauer's Tears in Rain 240
Gareth Davies @garethtbij.bsky.social · 08/10/2026We're redocorating the house for the first time in almost ten years and I'm finding myself strangely nostalgic about the marks and damage that's being repaired. Like the time my daughter threw her Weetabix at the wall, or when my son had a nuclear meltdown and scratched the paintwork on the stairs 211
Reposted by Gareth DaviesLuiza Jarovsky, PhD @luizajarovsky.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Norwegian humor is on another level. Here's how the Norwegian Consumer Council explained @doctorow.pluralistic.net's concept of 'enshittification': 7563295
Reposted by Gareth DaviesPress Gazette @pressgazette.co.uk · 08/10/2026BBC director general Matt Brittin has reportedly faced accusations that more junior, frontline staff are being laid off instead of those from the “very bloated” senior ranks www.theguardian.com/media/2026/o...theguardian.comBBC boss faces barrage of staff criticism over job cuts in junior ranksMatt Brittin fields questions on whether ‘bloated’ senior ranks are being spared and lays out iPlayer overhaul 052
Reposted by Gareth DaviesFrankie Goodway @fgoodway.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Always fun when @garethtbij.bsky.social gets sassy 111
Gareth Davies @garethtbij.bsky.social · 08/10/2026More than five years on, a question mark still hangs over scandal-hit council's accounts New by me for @tbij.bsky.socialthebureauinvestigates.comQuestion mark hangs over Thurrock’s accounts five years onMore than 1,800 days after an objection was submitted, auditors still can’t say whether the authority’s accounts were lawful 011
Gareth Davies @garethtbij.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Slap on the wrist for Tonda Eckert from the FA over 'spygate'. Very fortunate, especially given the club's initial reaction to the allegations 200
Gareth Davies @garethtbij.bsky.social · 06/10/2026“Coufal can’t do anything about it” He could not smash the ball into his own net with no one around him, for a start 140
Gareth Davies @garethtbij.bsky.social · 06/10/2026New ‘child-focused court’ allows abusive father access to his children @hansummers.bsky.social on a judgment that raises questions about the priorities of a 'groundbreaking' new court modelthebureauinvestigates.com‘Child-focused court’ allows abusive father access to his childrenA decision made by under new court model was challenged for the first time at court of appeal – and upheld 010
Gareth Davies @garethtbij.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Think I’ve listened to more podcasts on the City scandal than any other subject in the last year 120
Gareth Davies @garethtbij.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Steffen Iversen was one of my favourite players growing up 150
Gareth Davies @garethtbij.bsky.social · 06/10/2026That was reported by the Echo as recently as last year. Now the paper has a very different stance, allowing Bartlett to rail against the "vigilante" label and boast that police are jealous that his group his showing them up. 020
Gareth Davies @garethtbij.bsky.social · 06/10/2026The article quotes co-founder Gary Bartlett. Bartlett once created a Facebook group called Taking Back Our Country, and posted a photo of a gun facing the coast with the caption: "I've had permission for my business venture. I'll be placing these along the south coast at 250m intervals.” 230
Gareth Davies @garethtbij.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Maybe if they're not receiving enough donations, they should take the hint - they clearly don't have the public's support. 120
Gareth Davies @garethtbij.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Their fundraising page says all money goes to stuff like radios and uniforms, yet somehow they're facing an existential financial crisis. It doesn't add up. 300
Gareth Davies @garethtbij.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Not only has the Bournemouth Echo agreed to give over regular column inches to vigilante group 'Safeguard Community Force', they're now promoting a financial appeal for the group, reporting that they're "at risk of closure ahead of winter"bournemouthecho.co.ukSOS: Bournemouth volunteer street patrol group faces closure without donationsSafeguard Community Support warns it could close before winter without public donations, as the Bournemouth volunteer patrol group launches an urgent SOS funding appeal. 332
Reposted by Gareth DaviesSamantha Asumadu @samanthaasumadu.substack.com · 06/10/2026A rather more honest Jeffrey Archer obituary by @brokenbottleboy.bsky.social I kept coming back to Coghlan: "You're a liar. He's a liar and he knows it. He's even putting his wife through it. I've got nothing he's got money. I can't even go back to work" brokenbottleboy.substack.com/p/here-lies-...brokenbottleboy.substack.comHere lies Jeffrey ArcherThe death of one of Britain’s most infamous liars brings back memories of Monica Coghlan. 28747
Gareth Davies @garethtbij.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Got to respect the French. Hard to imagine Brits protesting in such numbers, and with such strength of feeling, over lack of investment in education, even though we'd be justified in doing so 090
Gareth Davies @garethtbij.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Yep. I watched him a few times when Holstein Keil got promoted to the Bundesliga 010
Gareth Davies @garethtbij.bsky.social · 05/10/2026I imagine ‘flatten PDF’ has never been clicked with more spite 150
Gareth Davies @garethtbij.bsky.social · 05/10/2026My older cousin suggested that I (then age six) watch Stephen King’s ‘It’ with him 150
Gareth Davies @garethtbij.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Won’t someone think of the (Croatian) children?static.klipy.comHelen Lovejoy: Won't Somebody Please Think Of The ChildrenALT: Helen Lovejoy: Won't Somebody Please Think Of The Children 010
Gareth Davies @garethtbij.bsky.social · 01/10/2026The ‘irrefutable body of evidence’ stuff is nonsense. Whatever evidence they had was put to the independent commission. What possible benefit would there be in holding anything back? This stuff is just the explanation they concocted after the fact, which has been dismissed 110
Gareth Davies @garethtbij.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Thing is, they would already have argued this and it’s been roundly rejected. The appeal isn’t a do-over. It will be on whether process has been followed, the rules applied, etc.bbc.co.ukMan City appeal: Club will argue sponsorship deals came from Abu Dhabi governmentManchester City's appeal against the Premier League's verdict hinges on the club's claim that its sponsorship deals came from the Abu Dhabi government. 150
Gareth Davies @garethtbij.bsky.social · 30/09/2026He couldn’t handle being left on the bench for one match. He truly is the absolute worst 380
Gareth Davies @garethtbij.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Huge news. I'd given up hope of it even getting to this stagetheguardian.comGrenfell fire police investigators hand files on 20 firms and 54 people to CPSMet calls move ‘milestone’ moment that paves way for ‘very best possible evidence for charging decisions’ 0104
Gareth Davies @garethtbij.bsky.social · 30/09/2026As prophesied by The Barnet Graph of Doom (2011)theguardian.comSixteen English councils spend more than 80% of core funding on social careCouncils collectively spent record 71.9% of core spending on adult and children’s care last year, analysis shows 020
Gareth Davies @garethtbij.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Imagine thinking it was appropriate to rant about a journalist during a live interview, and then announce that the council has a nickname for him. Wtf 130
Gareth Davies @garethtbij.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Solidarity with Local Democracy Reporter Eddie Bisknell who has become the latest journalist to be 'banned' by a Reform-led council, this time in Derbyshire. On this occasion a senior Reform councillor took the bizarre step of announcing the ban during an interview on BBC Radio Derby!derbytelegraph.co.ukDerbyshire County Council bans Derbyshire Live’s Local Democracy ReporterWe utterly reject false accusations about our journalism and urge the council to lift this ban immediately 185
Gareth Davies @garethtbij.bsky.social · 30/09/2026That's fair enough, I should have said 'some' fans 010
Gareth Davies @garethtbij.bsky.social · 30/09/2026That's fair enough, I should have said 'some' fans 110
Gareth Davies @garethtbij.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Events in Dover earlier this month were viewed as an alarming escalation in far right intimidation in the UK. For women's groups, whose cause many of those men claim to champion, such menacing tactics have become a part of everyday life. New by @everebecca.bsky.social for @tbij.bsky.socialthebureauinvestigates.com‘Fear is part of our life now’: women’s groups thrown into disarray…Anti-immigration protestors are disrupting services aimed at those they claim to protect 152
Gareth Davies @garethtbij.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Their fans lap this stuff up though. Very Trumpian 240
Gareth Davies @garethtbij.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Forty-minute documentary about Waterloo presented by Sean Bean? Now that's soldiering! www.youtube.com/watch?v=ng6R...youtube.comSean Bean Explores The Battle That Defeated Napoleon | FULL DOCUMENTARYYouTube video by The War Room 271
Gareth Davies @garethtbij.bsky.social · 29/09/2026That appears to include providing false evidence to the Commission 200
Reposted by Gareth DaviesMartin Calladine @uglygame.bsky.social · 29/09/2026I would encourage everybody to read the document. Despite some redactions, it's not long or complex. And it is extremely damning. From the moment they bought the club, City's owners implemented a scheme to cheat on a massive scale. resources.premierleague.pulselive.com/premierleagu...resources.premierleague.pulselive.com 34913
Gareth Davies @garethtbij.bsky.social · 29/09/2026This is the biggest scandal in PL history. Nothing else comes close. The integrity of almost a decade of football (and arguably every year since) is shattered. Nothing should be off the table in terms of repercussions, and that's before we get to the clubs (and players?) who should sue 050
Gareth Davies @garethtbij.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Man City conspired to artificially inflate the club's revenues, and reduce costs, by more than *£900m*, and they did so in order to appear to comply with the Premier League's financial rules. This was systematic cheating on a breathtaking scale that undoubtedly provided huge sporting advantage 173