James Alan Anslow @journodoc.bsky.social · 19/09/2026No words: news.sky.com/story/robert...news.sky.comRobert F Kennedy Jr tells anti-vaccine activists they have a 'friend in the White House'The US health secretary was speaking at a conference of the Children's Health Defense, a group that Mr Kennedy used to chair. 010
James Alan Anslow @journodoc.bsky.social · 18/09/2026@mrjamesob.bsky.social Regarding part of today's monologue: trickstertrade.substack.com/p/journalist...trickstertrade.substack.comJournalists and the F wordShould we stop semantically tiptoeing when reporting what is staring us in the face? 000
James Alan Anslow @journodoc.bsky.social · 15/09/2026How ironic that Reform UK is defending donations from two immigrants. You couldn't make it up etc. 010
James Alan Anslow @journodoc.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Why do journalists not report that Scotland and Northern Ireland MPs killed the England and Wales assisted dying bill? Northern Ireland MPs voted against it by 9-0 and Scotland's by 28-14 - a combined net opposition of 23 votes, exceeding the bill’s 16-vote defeat. 021
James Alan Anslow @journodoc.bsky.social · 11/09/2026Assisted dying bill dies. Another example of England's failure to progress. Depressing. 020
James Alan Anslow @journodoc.bsky.social · 11/09/2026Characteristically rational. I share his bewilderment. > www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...theguardian.comIs Burnham trying to appease Trump? Or Reform? What other reason is there for these North Sea oil plans? | George MonbiotClimate catastrophe is on our doorstep – yet Labour’s impending approval of further drilling will bring more pain for negligible gains, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot 010
James Alan Anslow @journodoc.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Hospitality whingers already moaning about England's proposed 'tourist tax'. Scotland, Wales and most of Europe already have similar. And regional mayors would be able to set level. English exceptionalism rears its head yet again #GripeBritain 000
James Alan Anslow @journodoc.bsky.social · 10/09/2026The brilliant Natalie Haynes pours all her intellectual and emotional intelligence into her commentary on Euripides' Medea www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...bbc.co.ukNatalie Haynes Stands Up for the Classics - Series 12 - Medea - BBC SoundsNatalie tells the tragic story of Euripides' Medea to a rapt audience at the Hay Festival. 010
James Alan Anslow @journodoc.bsky.social · 10/09/2026@news.sky.com You should make it clear your Defence Insider app is not available on Android. 000
James Alan Anslow @journodoc.bsky.social · 10/09/2026I see the fascists are targeting the RNLI now. Shameful. Don't vote for their parties. 110
James Alan Anslow @journodoc.bsky.social · 09/09/2026This strange guy is intellectually bankrupt. He expects us to take his conversations with proven grifter 30p Lee seriously and still appears to idolise Nigel Farage. He will soon be as forgotten as Brexit Hard Man Steve Baker > Commentator Tim Montgomerie quits Reform following suspension.bbc.co.ukTim Montgomerie quits Reform following suspensionThe political commentator, who defected from the Tories 18 months ago, was suspended from Reform UK last month. 000
James Alan Anslow @journodoc.bsky.social · 08/09/2026UK Government should have waited until after Israel's general election a mere seven weeks away before making its announcement on trade with the West Bank. This new Labour leadership has once again put party interests ahead of the greater good. 310
James Alan Anslow @journodoc.bsky.social · 08/09/2026I know it makes good copy but I really don't care about Prince George's first day at Eton. Maybe it's because I think the Restoration was Britain's greatest mistake, even beating Brexit. 000
James Alan Anslow @journodoc.bsky.social · 08/09/2026trickstertrade.substack.com/p/journalist...trickstertrade.substack.comJournalists and the F wordShould we stop semantically tiptoeing when reporting what is staring us in the face? 000
James Alan Anslow @journodoc.bsky.social · 07/09/2026What a rubbish country the UK is. It can't make anything happen. Unitary councils, digital ID, assisted dying, axing House of Lords and stopping well-off people like me getting winter fuel allowance were all obvious must-haves..until they weren't. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...bbc.co.ukPlans for major overhaul of councils haltedProposals to merge smaller councils to form larger authorities have been paused or withdrawn in a number of areas. 110
James Alan Anslow @journodoc.bsky.social · 06/09/2026Elephant in the room for UK Labour government is it cannot credibly advocate stability when it blew up a leadership founded on the second biggest Parliamentary majority since WW2. My hunch is that will never be matched. People will soon ask why Labour panicked three years out from a general election 110
James Alan Anslow @journodoc.bsky.social · 05/09/2026Black shirts. We've seen them before > www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...theguardian.com 010
James Alan Anslow @journodoc.bsky.social · 01/09/2026Various Labour politicians have today been invited to suggest what the party will most remember Sir Keir Starmer for. It's shameful but unsurprising that I heard none reply: 'Getting us elected.' 110
James Alan Anslow @journodoc.bsky.social · 01/09/2026Starmer announced he was stepping down as an MP just a couple of hours before his successor addressed the Commons for the first time as PM. I don't blame him. He was stitched up by Burnham and accomplices since appointed Chancellor, Defence Secretary, de facto deputy PM and a minister in the Lords. 100
James Alan Anslow @journodoc.bsky.social · 01/09/2026Has Kemi Badenoch just appointed her successor in Tom Tugendhat? 110
James Alan Anslow @journodoc.bsky.social · 28/08/2026@mrjamesob.bsky.social Iceland has its EU vote tomorrow (Aug 29). Recent poll showed 51.3% support and 48.7 oppose. Where have we seen that before? 🤔 100
Reposted by James Alan AnslowJason Wilson @jasonaw.bsky.social · 26/08/2026Since I filed this story the same cvompany, Piro Inc, has launched a new site along similar lines called IsraelFact israelfact.comisraelfact.comIsraelFactIsrael’s official record: what Israel’s own bodies publish, with the issuing body, the date and the method attached. 0267
Reposted by James Alan AnslowJason Wilson @jasonaw.bsky.social · 26/08/2026New from me today - lobbyists employed by Israel have published voluminous material under the banner of a non-existent thinktank in an apparent attempt to game the information people get from AI chatbots www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...theguardian.comFake US thinktank set up and funded by Israel sought to game AI for propagandaIn effort to prime chatbots to make pro-Israel arguments the site published 124 reports, over 560,000 words in nine days, Guardian analysis shows 9424214
James Alan Anslow @journodoc.bsky.social · 29/03/2026Who knew? Thanks Will Hutton in the surprisingly (to me) still excellent Observer. Another example of Government's poor storytelling. Journalists still allow to go unchallenged the false narrative that the UK should be drilling more of 'our' oil out of the North Sea. IT IS NOT OURS. It's the markets 000
James Alan Anslow @journodoc.bsky.social · 27/03/2026So tired hearing privileged parents guilting three-job mums and dads about the length of time they let their kids spend on screens #moralpanic 000
James Alan Anslow @journodoc.bsky.social · 24/03/2026Iran war: Who is behind mystery oil bet? Could this kind of detail shine a light on corruption at the heart of US government? 🤔 news.sky.com/video/share-...news.sky.comIran war: Who is behind mystery oil bet?Just 15 minutes before Donald Trump's Truth Social post, there was an odd peak of market activity – did some know what he was about to say? 010
James Alan Anslow @journodoc.bsky.social · 24/03/2026www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...theguardian.comPete Songi on Donald Trump’s changing stances towards Iran – cartoonThe US president’s conflicting announcements about Iran, his Nato allies and Keir Starmer make his actions very hard to predict 000
Reposted by James Alan AnslowYouGov @yougov.co.uk · 24/03/2026Latest YouGov Westminster voting intention, 22-23 March 2026 Reform UK: 23% (-2 from 15-16 Mar) Labour: 19% (+2) Greens: 18% (-1) Conservatives: 17% (=) Lib Dems: 13% (-1) yougov.com/en-gb/articl... 97226
James Alan Anslow @journodoc.bsky.social · 23/03/2026Bomb 'just for fun' and bomb 'our hearts out'. Are we in 25th Amendment territory yet? I'm not sure I'm joking #drstrangelove 020
James Alan Anslow @journodoc.bsky.social · 22/03/2026Whay do I still watch Laura Kuenssberg put pointless 'gotcha' questions to Government ministers? 120
James Alan Anslow @journodoc.bsky.social · 17/03/2026Disappointed by top UK journalists who fail to challenge interviewees claiming an increase in North Sea oil production would lower families' bills or strengthen our energy security. Not so. Oil's sold on global market and households would still pay international prices. Not biased to point that out. 022
James Alan Anslow @journodoc.bsky.social · 17/03/2026Extraordinary solution to UK's economic ills posited by The Sun's Trevor Kavanagh: 'Some subsidies - free prescriptions, free bus and rail travel, winter fuel allowance, triple-lock pensions, unfunded state pensions - will have to go.' Neither Nige nor that title's leader writers have gone that far. 101
James Alan Anslow @journodoc.bsky.social · 04/03/2026Starmer no Churchill? Well, Trump is definitely no FDR. Only a few months ago this draft-dodger besmirched the UK's fallen servicemen and women. Shame on those voices in the British media who are taking his side over their own government's. 041
James Alan Anslow @journodoc.bsky.social · 02/03/2026Anybody who reckons that any of the proposed replacements for Sir Keir Starmer - inside or outside the Labour Party - would do half as good a job of steering the UK through the current geopolitical crisis is kidding themselves. 140
James Alan Anslow @journodoc.bsky.social · 18/02/2026@mrjamesob.bsky.social Please do not call reported changes to Starmer proposals to equalise minimum wage for youngsters 'a u-turn'. It is a sensible adjustment in the light of emerging facts. No shame in it, as there wasn't in so many misreported Labour adjustments. 241
James Alan Anslow @journodoc.bsky.social · 17/02/2026Great book. I've listened to it four times. It's accessible and authoritative. Hard trick to pull off. 000
James Alan Anslow @journodoc.bsky.social · 17/02/2026@mrjamesob.bsky.social Once again the Government has allowed a fase narrative to dominate news. Starmer had not 'prevented local election', he allowed councils to postpone them. Tory-run Suffolk County Council will now spend millions on May elections knowing it will be abolished next year. Madness. 062
James Alan Anslow @journodoc.bsky.social · 16/02/2026Great analysis by superb multilingual journalist Katya Adler: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...bbc.co.ukTrump's new world order is real and Europe is having to adjust fastEuropean nations are asking whether traditional alliances can suffice, or whether they should be diversifying 010
James Alan Anslow @journodoc.bsky.social · 11/02/2026open.substack.com/pub/jamesala...open.substack.comA life of their ownWhy running news stories generate a runaway narrative 010
James Alan Anslow @journodoc.bsky.social · 03/02/2026So exactly who is a journalist? open.substack.com/pub/jamesala...open.substack.comSo exactly who is a journalist?Why definition can impair function 010
James Alan Anslow @journodoc.bsky.social · 31/01/2026Looks like Manchester's Gorton and Denton Parliamentary by-election on February 26 could be a closer three-way split than most shouty commentators would have us think 🤔 000
James Alan Anslow @journodoc.bsky.social · 29/01/2026Polly back on track. I disagreed with her last piece about Keir www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...theguardian.comLabour’s new welfare changes are practical and compassionate – so why not loudly say so? | Polly ToynbeeUniversal credit to rise faster than inflation, benefit hurdles eased, extra help for children and young people … I bet you had no idea, says Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee 000
James Alan Anslow @journodoc.bsky.social · 19/11/2025pressgazette.co.uk/news/kelvin-... Shock horror! Two journo giants who both influenced my career and enraged people in different ways.pressgazette.co.ukKelvin MacKenzie praises 'decent Guardian journalism' and says he was 'duped' over hackingFormer Sun editor speaks out over News of the World hacking cover up for first time. 010
James Alan Anslow @journodoc.bsky.social · 14/11/2025DMGT should now be allowed to buy the Telegraph. They are a natural fit who, frankly, deserve each other. And, in this age of media behemoths and dwindling newspaper sales, they do not comprise a dangerous monopoly. 010
James Alan Anslow @journodoc.bsky.social · 14/11/2025As I was saying to @mrjamesob.bsky.social et al.. 000
James Alan Anslow @journodoc.bsky.social · 12/11/2025..and again on November 11. It will hit 10,000 before Xmas. But it gets hardly any attention in mainstream reportage. 000
James Alan Anslow @journodoc.bsky.social · 10/11/2025FTSE 100 breaking records again in 'broken Britain'. 9,787 close and 9,800 intraday. 000
James Alan Anslow @journodoc.bsky.social · 10/11/2025If Reeves is slammed for lifting two-child cap the question that will be be put to Farage and Badenoch remorselessly is: will you rescind it? 000
