Reposted by Kathy O'DonnellPhil Harrison @mrpmharrison.bsky.social · 5hThe WHOLE POINT of the BBC is that it doesn't have to be like this. It isn't Netflix. It shouldn't be a slave to AI or algorithms. It our last bastion against all that stuff. Matt Brittin already looks like a catastrophic appointment. 64110
Kathy O'Donnell @kathyodonnell.bsky.social · 5hIs there anything that says 'the country is in the hands of fascists' quite so much as a public execution? 1240690
Reposted by Kathy O'DonnellRDCK98 @comradekenobi.bsky.social · 8hNice little nugget of horror buried in there 28529196
Kathy O'Donnell @kathyodonnell.bsky.social · 8hFive dogs walking off-lead together yesterday. All of them exhausted afterwards from playing, chasing and sniffing, arguing paddling and making friends. Next time we should have seven. 040
Kathy O'Donnell @kathyodonnell.bsky.social · 21hThat's quite a moment. I'm happy for you. We'll done. 120
Reposted by Kathy O'DonnellMic Wright @brokenbottleboy.bsky.social · 08/10/2026There’s something very on the nose about the BBC cutting two shows with ‘thinking’ in the title. The odd and interesting things are being killed. Meanwhile, in the shallows of BBC Sounds, some absolute shit is being commissioned. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...bbc.co.ukBBC to cut raft of Radio 4 programmes including You and YoursThe corporation said it would be investing in a new consumer programme, while announcing more cuts. 75613
Reposted by Kathy O'DonnellByline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · 08/10/2026🟡 From This Month’s Magazine Jason Arday and the Story Behind the Story of the Times’ ‘Impossible Data’ The newspaper of record failed to distinguish between corrections and retractions in the work of the late Cambridge University academic, fuelling the media firestorm that engulfed him.subscribe.bylinetimes.comJason Arday and the Story Behind the Story of the Times’ ‘Impossible Data’The newspaper of record failed to distinguish between corrections and retractions in the work of the late Cambridge University academic, fuelling the media firestorm that engulfed him. 25019
Kathy O'Donnell @kathyodonnell.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Not electric, but I just clip the car to his harness and tell him there's a cat on the wall at home. Very economical. 110
Kathy O'Donnell @kathyodonnell.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Ach, I like them. You had me at dilettante. 210
Kathy O'Donnell @kathyodonnell.bsky.social · 08/10/2026If I'd been this age in the 70s I'd probably have been complaining the latest model didn't have running boards. 110
Reposted by Kathy O'DonnellLee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 08/10/2026You probably think this is a touch of hyperbole. If you do, that just tells me not only are you not paying attention, you are actively ignoring all the trans people this has happened to. This is life in the UK as a trans person in 2026. 8996310
Kathy O'Donnell @kathyodonnell.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Undoubtedly it is and perhaps I'm far removed from the likely buyer. But I'd like some curves, please. And a bit smaller. And easy to repair. And you shouldn't have to be a finance twit to own one. 010
Reposted by Kathy O'DonnellNicolas Chinardet @zefrog.eu · 08/10/2026Just heard the BBC is going to ditch a number of Radio 4 programmes, including Thinking Allowed. This is supposedly a money-saving measure, but that programme is just one bloke talking to one or two guests. The most basic format. How expensive can that be?! 383
Kathy O'Donnell @kathyodonnell.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Epically stupid decision. Thinking Allowed is a gem. Perhaps Laurie has had enough? 110
Kathy O'Donnell @kathyodonnell.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Crikey, the new Jaguar is super fugly. Huge, pretty much impossible to see out of, a nightmare on potholed roads and a ding in the rear quarter will cost you the most complex and expensive panel they've ever built. 1000 unusable BHP. Awful! I'll stick to my 40-year-old Renault 4. 130
Kathy O'Donnell @kathyodonnell.bsky.social · 08/10/2026And it should be noted that the 'violence' of these protests is very much exaggerated in much of the reporting. 000
Reposted by Kathy O'DonnellNeil Mackay @neilmackay.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Why can’t we be more like the French? In France, young people are punching up at those in power demanding better education not decline and more cuts In Britain, middle-aged masked men with criminal records for domestic abuse punch down an at anyone who isn’t white In @heraldscotland.bsky.socialheraldscotland.comWhat French student protests reveal about Britain's broken political systemIn France, even children can see that the political system needs to be rebuilt from the ground up. In Britain, we seem incapable of understanding that truth, Neil Mackay says. 32459125
Reposted by Kathy O'DonnellPaul Hebden @paulhebden.bsky.social · 07/10/2026The media constantly lie about billionaire classes and their apparent flight from the UK. Great piece of work here by @taxwatch.bsky.social www.taxwatchuk.org/how-many-tim...taxwatchuk.orgHow many times can you move to Monaco?Dozens of news reports are claiming that property billionaire David Reuben, number two on the UK’s Rich List, moved from London to Monaco “this summer”, pushed out by the government’s tax changes and ... 121
Reposted by Kathy O'DonnellCNN @cnn.com · 07/10/2026Danish artist Jens Galschiøt unveiled a sculpture depicting a naked US President Donald Trump surrounded by golf equipment. It was unveiled on the grounds of the European Parliament building in Strasbourg. 50937347
Reposted by Kathy O'DonnellAdam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 07/10/2026From the new Private Eye 562721982
Reposted by Kathy O'DonnellKathy O'Donnell @kathyodonnell.bsky.social · 07/10/2026"Strong smell of marmalade. Weird." 021
Reposted by Kathy O'DonnellMic Wright @brokenbottleboy.bsky.social · 07/10/2026“We are the no nonsense party,” says Badenoch, a woman who has never met an online bandwagon she wouldn’t immediately jump on. 822532
Kathy O'Donnell @kathyodonnell.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Unless it's the miserable, destructive, life destroying nonsense of Jeffrey Archer, in which case it is "colourful". NB: no conservative will give a toss about this hypocrisy because it is an us-versus-them mindset in which no crime or depravity is really wrong if it is at the expense of 'them'. 0184
Reposted by Kathy O'DonnellPeter Walker @peterwalker99.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Long tribute from Kemi Badenoch in her conference speech to Jeffrey Archer, complete with round of applause. The world is a "less colourful" place without him, she says, which is one way to describe a serial fraudster, fantasist and liar who wrecked several lives in the process. 27746210
Kathy O'Donnell @kathyodonnell.bsky.social · 07/10/2026And it says everything about the ethical and moral void that is conservatism. 0331
Reposted by Kathy O'DonnellDuncan Hothersall @dhothersall.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Matthew Shepard would be 49 years old today. But on this day 28 years ago he was beaten, tortured, tied to a fence and left to die by two young men whose violence was founded on homophobia. The attitudes and beliefs which fed their hate are still with us today. Don't ever let Matthew be forgotten. 27115
Reposted by Kathy O'DonnellMic Wright @brokenbottleboy.bsky.social · 06/10/2026NEW | A corrective to the obituaries… HERE LIES JEFFREY ARCHER The death of one of Britain’s most infamous liars brings back memories of Monica Coghlan. 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. 27340147
Reposted by Kathy O'DonnellOtto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Archer came and spoke to my school in the 1980s. Charm personified. Bragged at length about his many achievements and then... something bizarre happened. 1/3 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...bbc.co.ukJeffrey Archer obituaryPolitician and best-selling author whose career was mired in scandal and disgrace. 29450142
Kathy O'Donnell @kathyodonnell.bsky.social · 06/10/2026brokenbottleboy.substack.com/p/here-lies-... Jeffrey Archer was a lying scumbag. Eventually, some of his lies caught up with him, but not before he ruined lives. Now his rancid reputation is being laundered. But not here.brokenbottleboy.substack.comHere lies Jeffrey ArcherThe death of one of Britain’s most infamous liars brings back memories of Monica Coghlan. 030
Reposted by Kathy O'DonnellLisa Godson @lisagdub.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Jeffrey Archer dead - letter from the English Collective of Prostitutes following his conviction for perjury and a few months after Monica Coughlan's death 311959
Kathy O'Donnell @kathyodonnell.bsky.social · 05/10/2026When you've known people who were there at the liberation, seen their anguish and fury when the spoke about what they witnessed, it feels very present. Belsen is a byword for mass murder and unspeakable cruelty. The only people with the right to joke about it were the survivors. 011
Reposted by Kathy O'DonnellByline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · 02/10/2026"Picking on Byline Times sends a message to other political journalists: Be careful. Don't be too critical. We can do the same to you." @adambienkov.bsky.social speaks to LBC's @mrjamesob.bsky.social about Byline Times' ban from Conservative Party Conference. 24551207
Kathy O'Donnell @kathyodonnell.bsky.social · 05/10/2026The Camberwick Green musical box. Tinking music, a mechanical iris slowly opening on darkness and not knowing what would emerge - Windy Miller or Cthulhu? 010
Reposted by Kathy O'DonnellForbes @forbes.com · 05/10/2026Russian officials said a researcher working at the Irkutsk Anti-Plague Research Institute in Siberia died after contracting “pneumonia of unknown etiology.”forbes.comRussian Plague Lab Researcher Dies As Nearly 200 Monitored—Here’s What We KnowRussian officials said a researcher working at the Irkutsk Anti-Plague Research Institute in Siberia died after contracting “pneumonia of unknown etiology.” 76702410
Kathy O'Donnell @kathyodonnell.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Somebody here made the observation that far too many podcast are two men of similar privilege acting as if everything they say is hilarious. Yesterday I tried a history/comedy podcast where they thought riffing on 'Belsen' was comedy gold. Made me feel sick. WTF is wrong with them? 250
Reposted by Kathy O'DonnellHolly Brigstocke @hollybrigstocke.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Yet another reason for a modern written constitution so fundamentals cannot be changed by a power tripping govt on the basis of them having a mood swing and wanting to take short-cuts. The fact jury trial was even being threatened and they tried to undermine jury nullification is a gross overreach. 2278
Reposted by Kathy O'DonnellDani Garavelli @danigaravelli.bsky.social · 04/10/2026"We are now almost as far from the Troubles as the Troubles lasted. But the wounds caused by 30 years of sectarian violence run simultaneously deep & close to the surface & are easily reinfected by bad faith actors with malign agendas." My column on Drumcree. www.heraldscotland.com/politics/vie...heraldscotland.comI saw Drumcree burn in 1999. What’s happening in Portadown now worries me as muchDani Garavelli on why the latest Drumcree dispute in Northern Ireland raises fresh concerns about anti-immigration division, extremism and community relations. 0218
Reposted by Kathy O'DonnellGuy Shrubsole @guyshrubsole.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Revealed: Government quietly dropped plan to prepare England for wildfires I discovered via an FOI request that DEFRA’s commitment in the National Adaptation Programme to run a “wildfire risk programme” since 2023 “was not brought into effect”. #ClimateCrisis www.theguardian.com/world/2026/o...theguardian.comRevealed: Government quietly dropped plan to prepare England for wildfiresFOI request shows wildfire risk scheme scrapped, as data highlights many fire services lack proper protective gear 18348190
Reposted by Kathy O'DonnellWill Sebag-Montefiore @wsebag.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Is Suella Braverman English? 🍞 1333476
Kathy O'Donnell @kathyodonnell.bsky.social · 04/10/2026It's a very good point. If you're a government keen to issue new licences for oil and gas extraction and cancelling plans to protect against wildfires, then you're not governing for the people, you're representing vested interests. And people can see that. 0103
Reposted by Kathy O'DonnellCaroline Litman @alicemydaughter.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Every cis person needs to read and understand this.These decisions aren’t taken lightly. Our Labour government is effectively making political refugees of trans ppl and their families who flee and seek safety overseas. It’s shameful. They can stick their dignity and respect where the sun don’t shine 822574
Reposted by Kathy O'DonnellChris Scott (he/him) @chrisdonia.bsky.social · 03/10/2026At this point, if they had the resources, we'd be seeing a massive exodus of trans people from the UK. But most don't, so they're trapped in a country that's becoming steadily more hostile every day. How are we* allowing this to happen? *we = the media and politicians, who we vote for or enable 03011
Kathy O'Donnell @kathyodonnell.bsky.social · 03/10/2026I agree. I urge Andy Burnham and Bridget Phillipson to acknowledge the horrific reality of what they are doing to trans people like this child and her family and reverse course immediately. 020
Kathy O'Donnell @kathyodonnell.bsky.social · 03/10/2026As FierceMum makes clear, their family has the middle-class privilege that allows them to escape, even though it has cost them pretty much everything. Most families with trans kids or trans people DON'T have the means to find a way out, or have responsibilities that mean they cannot leave. 051