George Hotchkiss @hotchkiss13.bsky.social · 10hLBC and LG is another presenter having a go at Zack P post by election. Mass media not addressing Reform having come 4th because it’s the Greens who threaten the establishment. 020
George Hotchkiss @hotchkiss13.bsky.social · 11hRadio 4 just did a piece on diesel costs and the tax take. I’m shocked, shocked I say that there was no mention of profit margins of oil companies. 030
George Hotchkiss @hotchkiss13.bsky.social · 10/10/2026AM on LBC is having a real go at Zack P - are the greens hard left? It’s been endless from the MSM who haven’t had much to say about reform 4th in the by election. Who are the party willing to challenge the establishment? 030
George Hotchkiss @hotchkiss13.bsky.social · 10/10/2026Caller to LBC who wants to give married couples (male/female) who have children huge tax exemptions and cheaper mortgages. I’m not sure where to start with that bigotry. 020
George Hotchkiss @hotchkiss13.bsky.social · 10/10/2026LBC and yet another does ZP need to go post by election. Reference to Zionist decision. Reform came 4th in the election I’ve not noted the media asking if NF needs to go. 000
George Hotchkiss @hotchkiss13.bsky.social · 09/10/2026I’ve only caught bits of news but the media seem to be giving it Zack should stand re the by-election results and very little on Reform were 4th. Who’s the establishment most scared of? 010
George Hotchkiss @hotchkiss13.bsky.social · 09/10/2026Discussion on radio 5 around the Greens take on Zionism. What I’ve not heard is a clear argument as to why Zionism isn’t racism - there’s a lot of no it isn’t - and a bit of god gave us this land. 100
George Hotchkiss @hotchkiss13.bsky.social · 09/10/2026Tom Watson being questioned gently on Palantir on Today. Criticism of the company, he says are from the mob. Not challenged. The next critic of Palantir is cut short. 131
George Hotchkiss @hotchkiss13.bsky.social · 08/10/2026I put on LBC and SF is having a real go at people who marched yesterday. Suggests marches are organised by foreign powers - with no evidence whatsoever. Her pro zionist stance really isn’t journalism. I wonder is Sangita is listening. 040
George Hotchkiss @hotchkiss13.bsky.social · 08/10/2026RSB talking about google maps noting fuel costs at petrol stations. This’ll bring down costs is stated with spectacular naivety. Again there’s no mention of profit margins. 000
George Hotchkiss @hotchkiss13.bsky.social · 07/10/2026KB speech on LBC. It’s not really a speech it’s a collection of questionable statement with pauses for applause - applause with limited enthusiasm? It got better when she slagged of Labour, then Reform. 000
George Hotchkiss @hotchkiss13.bsky.social · 05/10/2026LBC and JOB is arguing that Zionism isn’t racism. That’s arguable at a theoretical level in practice it’s taking land from other people which is the apotheosis of claimed supremacy. 052
George Hotchkiss @hotchkiss13.bsky.social · 05/10/2026SAS on radio Scotland claiming the SNP are keeping 100k children out of poverty the figure isn’t challenged or justified. First class filibustering. Tried to justify JSs lies to the SG chamber on pensions. 000
George Hotchkiss @hotchkiss13.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Guy on LBC saying AB has brought Labour back to being Labour. AB is marginally less neoliberal and authoritarian than KS - can we remain critical and alert please? 040
George Hotchkiss @hotchkiss13.bsky.social · 04/10/2026So AB has got everyone talking about a tweak to the triple lock - possible at some point. A distraction from the current cost of greed crisis and how undertaxed the wealthy are? 001
George Hotchkiss @hotchkiss13.bsky.social · 03/10/2026MR on LBC on diesel prices - he seems determined not to mention profit margins of oil companies. Yes it’s Trumps war but let’s not pretend it’s not an exploited market. 010
George Hotchkiss @hotchkiss13.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Tory( NT?) on Today criticising Labour early release scheme and is allowed to do so with very little challenge dispite the fact that the Tories created the current prison crisis. 011
George Hotchkiss @hotchkiss13.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Today giving it large on there was a plan to attack Nigel F so his £5m bung (for security?) is fine …. Richard T to follow. The bbc as an agent of the hard right. 020
George Hotchkiss @hotchkiss13.bsky.social · 02/10/2026RSB do a piece on diesel prices and the international situation. There’s no mention of profit levels being made, government is presented as largely powerless. Not great journalism. 020
George Hotchkiss @hotchkiss13.bsky.social · 01/10/2026I put on LBC and SF ( who yesterday refuted the idea that there’s genocide in Gaza) now has a spokesperson on from the Israeli government on saying the recent plane incident was occasioned by a man who supports radical Islam. Still job survival post Sangita. 000
George Hotchkiss @hotchkiss13.bsky.social · 01/10/2026BMA Dr on radio Scotland being highly critical of proposed SNHS restructuring and making sense. The chances of these voiced being listened to by the SG is negligible. 010
George Hotchkiss @hotchkiss13.bsky.social · 01/10/2026So the huge restructuring of the SNHS is out for consultation and the BMA think it’s a really bad idea. The term consultation needs clarification. 000
George Hotchkiss @hotchkiss13.bsky.social · 30/09/2026I want back to LBC later and SF was content to condemn the men from Cornell uni accused of rape as if guilty so innocent until proved is applied selectively. 000
George Hotchkiss @hotchkiss13.bsky.social · 30/09/2026I put on LBC and SF is rejecting the idea that there’s a genocide in Gaza because she claims the courts haven’t decided. By the time that happens will Gaza no longer exists. Meantime the MSM buys Israel time to land-grab and slaughter. 040
George Hotchkiss @hotchkiss13.bsky.social · 30/09/2026I put on LBC to listen to analysis of the AB speech by JOB. James is doing hero worship and gushing about how wonderful AB is. A bit of this is fine but it’s tedious listening to a centrist having a wet dream. 000
George Hotchkiss @hotchkiss13.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Today doing coverage of energy costs in the UK. There’s a sub theme of slagging off net zero. So far nothing on fuel poverty no consideration of profit margins of providers. Were I still teaching critical thinking I’d use this to help students analyse biased. 042
George Hotchkiss @hotchkiss13.bsky.social · 30/09/2026As most of us consider yesterday’s AB speech Today does weapons grade snide with added condescension. Then they bring on a care home owner clearly keen to defend profits. ( I’m no AB fan - I like impartial journalism) 121
George Hotchkiss @hotchkiss13.bsky.social · 29/09/2026If AB does away with the triple lock in return for free personal care within social care I loose the protection of the triple lock and, being Scottish, gain nothing. 000
George Hotchkiss @hotchkiss13.bsky.social · 29/09/2026If anyone is wondering about the triple lock being ditched is a good idea - LBC is selling it hard which makes me very suspicious. There’s very little mention of what safeguards will be built in. 141
George Hotchkiss @hotchkiss13.bsky.social · 29/09/2026LBC and JOB is ridiculing any concerns about the suggested removal of the triple lock. Rather like he ridiculed concerns about mandatory ID cards. He misses the idea that even if you trust the current lot the next lot may well use additional control to ruin lives further. 010
George Hotchkiss @hotchkiss13.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Sharon Graham on Today on don’t make pensioners poorer. Challenging interview illustrating that these can be done. Very different from the cosy chat Today give the right. Compounding poverty of the poor presented as a difficult choice. 000
George Hotchkiss @hotchkiss13.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Jaywick in NFs constituency is one of the poorest postcodes in the UK. Why do the media never ask Nigel what he’s done for this area? 210
George Hotchkiss @hotchkiss13.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Douglas A on radio Scotland filibustering an interview. Journalists need to get better at dealing with these deeply dishonest politicians who treat accountability with contempt. 010
George Hotchkiss @hotchkiss13.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Tice (multi millionaire) on LBC saying that under Reform (not happening) a person from overseas who has worked for the nhs and paid tax for twenty years would not receive support if they develop a disability. He seemed rather proud of the brutality. 132
George Hotchkiss @hotchkiss13.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Broadcasting House have Angela R on to tell her she’s copying Tory policy (she’s not) then it’s a challenging interview. Very different treatment from the grovelling the bbc do re the right. (PS I’m no AR fan , I want actual journalism) 010
George Hotchkiss @hotchkiss13.bsky.social · 26/09/2026I put on Today who referred to AI then said super intelligence as DT wants us to call it. I’d wondered if reform HQ guided Today but perhaps it’s the White House. 010
George Hotchkiss @hotchkiss13.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Scottish news, we have an SNP government and the SNP control Glasgow City Council who plan to fire and rehire 23,000+ staff. All very P&O. It’s appalling any SNP supporters want to justify this? 182
George Hotchkiss @hotchkiss13.bsky.social · 25/09/2026I thought Today just managed to present the activities of Daniel Thomas in sympathetic terms. No mention of there being rescue worker on the boat he slashed. He’s revered to as an activist on the bbc site. Today(from the hard right) 021
George Hotchkiss @hotchkiss13.bsky.social · 24/09/2026If the Tory argument is that work must pay, why do they always resist increases in the minimum wage? 020
George Hotchkiss @hotchkiss13.bsky.social · 24/09/2026So I hear the plan is to review PIP for pensioners then there’s a person on LBC saying PIP needs stopped to get people into work ( pensioners?). It’s all about making the digital workhouse more brutal to generate cheap labour. 030
George Hotchkiss @hotchkiss13.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Guy on radio Scotland from GB Energy not clearly answering questions on the organisation and its role. 1000 jobs promised currently recruiting at 2 a week. Highly skilled filibustering. 110
George Hotchkiss @hotchkiss13.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Today gleefully present the Tory proposal to pay benefits in tokens and facilitate the Tory line by HW. HW seems desperate to define unemployed as sub citizens. HW had oversight of care re Covid thousands died. 020
George Hotchkiss @hotchkiss13.bsky.social · 24/09/2026I’d have thought education or possibly health were the best illustrations of the vast gap between Scottish government policy and street reality. Wrong. Escalating drug deaths sees the SG promising more of the same failure. It’s abysmal and self serving. 000
George Hotchkiss @hotchkiss13.bsky.social · 23/09/2026LBC and SG giving it Trump is right on the Chagos islands? By right I think she means does DT have the ability to wreck a UK deal. Honesty would be nice. 120
George Hotchkiss @hotchkiss13.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Another rise on drug deaths in Scotland. I await the SG explanation as to why this is Westminster’s fault or better still what the SG intends to do to address this. 000
George Hotchkiss @hotchkiss13.bsky.social · 23/09/2026LBC TS doing a trailer on world oil prices need to be protected from the Houthi - rather pro war pro Saudi blame anyone for a situation Trump caused. 000
George Hotchkiss @hotchkiss13.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Diplomat on radio Scotland saying the Trump UN speech went ok and Trump behaved reasonably well. Part of the problem is the extent to which the international community accept a president devoid of morality. 030
George Hotchkiss @hotchkiss13.bsky.social · 22/09/2026There’s a book to be written on Trumps UN speech. What he said Fact check what he said Context of the situation/history Analysis of what he was trying to achieve in each section re the US people, his base, the international community. 030
George Hotchkiss @hotchkiss13.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Trump at the UN telling us all how wonderful he is and how the world leaders worship him. It screams weakness only measurable on the Richter scale. 011
George Hotchkiss @hotchkiss13.bsky.social · 22/09/2026More on the news re Jim Rat- cliffe on doing business in the UK. Please always introduce him as tax exile. 000