Richard Wild @richardwild.bsky.social · 7hIt makes even less sense for someone who doesn't pay the licence fee because they don't consume BBC content. 010
Richard Wild @richardwild.bsky.social · 7hThis makes no sense to me. I already pay the BBC licence fee, and I also pay for Netflix, YouTube, Amazon Prime. The government is proposing I pay tax to access the services I already pay for and give the money to the BBC which I also pay for. 110
Richard Wild @richardwild.bsky.social · 8hWe're not freeloading by watching YouTube, Netflix, Amazon Prime etc. We pay for those services. And if BBC content is being watched via YouTube, the platform already has mechanisms in place for enforcing copyrights and paying royalties. 000
Richard Wild @richardwild.bsky.social · 8hSo the government proposes to tax me for watching services I ALREADY PAY FOR and give that money to the fascist BBC? www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...independent.co.ukBBC licence fee to be extended with ‘YouTube tax’Exclusive: A government white paper set to be published before Christmas is expected to include plans to extend the licence fee to cover YouTube, Netflix, Amazon and Disney Plus 100
Richard Wild @richardwild.bsky.social · 8hThis is the stupidest thing I've seen in ages, and I've seen a lot of stupid things. 010
Richard Wild @richardwild.bsky.social · 15/10/2026Though some say the Lesser P'tagh theory is what led us to this place 030
Richard Wild @richardwild.bsky.social · 15/10/2026Vote for the p'tagh least likely to betray the Empire 110
Richard Wild @richardwild.bsky.social · 15/10/2026In my experience, the only solution to this problem is running out of M&Ms. 010
Richard Wild @richardwild.bsky.social · 15/10/2026You should always be willing to take one for the team, and by the team we mean them. 0170
Richard Wild @richardwild.bsky.social · 15/10/2026The first belgian bun is free, that's how they get you 000
Richard Wild @richardwild.bsky.social · 15/10/2026And if she really disagreed but her hands were tied, she had the opportunity to say so in 2024 and she didn't. 2152
Richard Wild @richardwild.bsky.social · 15/10/2026I have a sort of admiration for the lads' ability to pretend with a straight face they've just noticed that Reform are racist. I mentioned to my other half this morning that being racist is literally the whole point of Reform, and she concurred. 070
Richard Wild @richardwild.bsky.social · 15/10/2026I expect the main purpose of opinion polling is to prove that the public wants what the lads want. 230
Richard Wild @richardwild.bsky.social · 15/10/2026I do hope that at least some of them are privately embarrassed at the corner they've painted themselves into, and the bullshit they're obliged to defend on a daily basis. But one of the qualifications for public office these days seems to be utter shamelessness so maybe not. 🤷 260
Richard Wild @richardwild.bsky.social · 13/10/2026By liberals I mean centrists, of course. I don't know if there are any actual liberals left anywhere these days. 000
Richard Wild @richardwild.bsky.social · 13/10/2026Liberals blaming everything on Russia is an avoidance tactic; better that than accept that most of our problems are home grown, and that liberals wholeheartedly support the policies that got us here. 100
Richard Wild @richardwild.bsky.social · 13/10/2026It's like, the very second thing that comes to my mind when I think of her, after her vast ignorance, is her undisguised contempt for almost everybody. 120
Richard Wild @richardwild.bsky.social · 13/10/2026Although that might have been a reaction to Johnson whom nobody would describe as decent or forensic. Maybe we are forever doomed to having wholly inadequate PMs sold to us as the opposite of whatever shit we were forced to buy before. 010
Richard Wild @richardwild.bsky.social · 13/10/2026They had to describe Starmer as "decent", "forensic" and all that shit because they knew that even they could not spin him as "likeable", so score one for Kemi I suppose. 160
Richard Wild @richardwild.bsky.social · 13/10/2026Is very likeable? She thinks almost everybody is an idiot and is too stupid to understand that you're supposed to hide it. 2100
Richard Wild @richardwild.bsky.social · 13/10/2026If this was in the plot of a book I was reading, I would throw it away in disgust. 020
Richard Wild @richardwild.bsky.social · 13/10/2026That includes the Guardian, as you can see quite clearly here. 000
Richard Wild @richardwild.bsky.social · 13/10/2026If the press were remotely honest they would ask, what do you mean "stay the course"? We've been following it sixteen years, why expect it to work now? The real answer is that austerity has nothing to do with finances, and the press' job is to manufacture consent for it. 110
Richard Wild @richardwild.bsky.social · 13/10/2026It is, as you say, only different from the Mob in terms of vibe, but in substance it is just the same. In polite society the menace remains concealed until absolutely necessary. 010
Richard Wild @richardwild.bsky.social · 13/10/2026What they used to call the "right sort of chap". 110
Richard Wild @richardwild.bsky.social · 13/10/2026It's working, but it's not as effective as it used to be. 050
Richard Wild @richardwild.bsky.social · 13/10/2026static.klipy.comI Don't Even Know What To Say - Love & Hip Hop MiamiAlt: A woman looking speechless with the words "I don't even know what to say" captioned below 010
Richard Wild @richardwild.bsky.social · 13/10/2026I'm starting to think that maybe some people were lying. 240
Richard Wild @richardwild.bsky.social · 13/10/2026You'd think after sixteen years of this our finances ought to be pretty fucking repaired by now 2181
Richard Wild @richardwild.bsky.social · 13/10/2026It doesn't annoy me, but in Back To The Future (1985) Marty plays a cherry red Gibson ES-345 guitar that did not exist in 1955, it was first made in 1958. 180
Richard Wild @richardwild.bsky.social · 12/10/2026That's true, I didn't know it either, and if the Beeb hadn't censored it I probably still wouldn't. 030
Richard Wild @richardwild.bsky.social · 12/10/2026Absolutely, I didn't mean that it doesn't. This is true and the case for Brexit was still made entirely in bad faith. 100
Richard Wild @richardwild.bsky.social · 12/10/2026And notice how so many rich people want to own news outlets, despite almost all of them losing money hand over fist. Clearly making money is not the point here. 020
Richard Wild @richardwild.bsky.social · 11/10/2026I've long thought that if Russia did anything, it was but plant a seed in soil that we had made extremely fertile by two decades plus of anti-EU lies and bullshit from the press, and our politicians who found it convenient to scapegoat Brussels for their own failings. 1140
Richard Wild @richardwild.bsky.social · 11/10/2026You are quite correct. The plain fact is that democracy — or even good government — is completely impossible when public discourse is entirely in bad faith, which it is, because those in control of it are wholly untrustworthy. 020
Richard Wild @richardwild.bsky.social · 10/10/2026I wish I had some answers, but I want to thank you for asking the question. 000
Richard Wild @richardwild.bsky.social · 10/10/2026It's the commitment to the craft that I admire. 010
