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Sam Coleridge @samcoleridge.bsky.social · 7h

I agree, but that's not the situation is it? Licence fee funding is suffering the death of a thousand cuts, Robbie Gibb is highly influential and Conservative, a Google guy is in charge, with a love for AI and redundancies. Whatever the BBC was, it is no more; let's stop pretending, was my point.

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Sam Coleridge @samcoleridge.bsky.social · 7h

Organised by a fundraiser that doesn't fund raise (according to their accounts, anyway), with a trustee from Australia called Oh, who makes websites with names like Precious Bodily Fluids, no sorry, Precious Seed. NFNRN. find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/SC68...

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LORD'S WORK TRUST LIMITED overview - Find and update company information - GOV.UK

LORD'S WORK TRUST LIMITED - Free company information from Companies House including registered office address, filing history, accounts, annual return, officers, charges, business activity

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Sam Coleridge @samcoleridge.bsky.social · 8h

I think it's high time to flog the BBC to the Ellisons or whatever other madman that wants to buy it. This "Trust your dependable, impartial Beeb (not in fact anything of the sort)" stage is vomitmaking. We'll know where we are with 21.00 BBC1 "Laura Kuenssberg presents Squid Games from Ilford"

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Sam Coleridge @samcoleridge.bsky.social · 9h

A programme that “poisons the data” for bots sounds interesting, I wonder if it's open source?

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Sam Coleridge @samcoleridge.bsky.social · 9h

I'd like to think Major was being that dryly subtle; maybe he was, maybe he was tainted, for me, by association with rest of those ghastly quotees.

Sam Coleridge @samcoleridge.bsky.social · 9h

I reluctantly agree with your point but did Major (or any of them) really have to say anything at all? If you grit your teeth as a politician and lie for the Sake of the Greater Good it's one thing, to heap plaudits on a man who did very nasty things solely for the Sake of his Own Good, is another.

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Sam Coleridge @samcoleridge.bsky.social · 19h

"Oracle’s five-year CDS stands at over 200 basis points, compared with 40 basis points a year ago, after S&P Global Ratings downgraded its rating to BBB-, just one notch above speculative grade." thecorner.eu/financial-ma...

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Tech giants’ CDSs trigger warnings over AI debt | The Corner

The surge in CDSs is raising concerns about the sustainability of the current AI investment model, particularly given the high level of spending and the

Sam Coleridge @samcoleridge.bsky.social · 19h

For another 200 quid, you could indulge in the traditional British pastime of subtle, class based oneupmanship, and become a proud, slightly disdainful owner of the badge engineered Daimler variant, a "Sovereign".

Sam Coleridge @samcoleridge.bsky.social · 21h

"Epstein had approached Couturier for a high-paying project on Little Saint James Island, where he was asked to provide “decor and furniture appropriate for teenage girls, with pink furnishings and bunk beds”. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

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British billionaire warned Epstein was a ‘sexual deviant’ decades before FBI closed in on the abuser

Sir James Goldsmith’s links to Hilton Head, South Carolina, add to mystery of Jane Doe 4, who claimed she was abused by Epstein in the 1980s

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Sam Coleridge @samcoleridge.bsky.social · 21h

"I have looked through my records and find no record of previous contact with your organisation. Please refrain from contacting me again." added Excellence.

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Excellence says "Tyvm, pass."

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"A legal error" to blame in the LIBOR cases, according to the Supreme Court. 🤷‍♂️

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Look out for big name, big salary BBC rats jumping that sinking ship, as it founders on its final rocks.

Due to the wonders of privatisation, this now belongs to a Spanish corporation. Sold for £82m, which paid for 16 hours worth of 2015 National Debt interest. Also done under the Tory/Libdem Coalition, a sum slightly less than then deputy PM Clegg"s current nett "worth".

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For £82m, which paid for 16 hours worth of National Debt interest. Also done under the Tory/Libdem Coalition, a sum slightly less than then deputy PM Clegg"s current nett "worth".

I hope it works, a bit. Prefer a 20/20% Tory/Reform rw vote split to a 10/30%.

"Communist" China says “(The measures) ran counter to the laws of the market economy and the principle of fair competition”

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"A lawyer representing the Trump course wrote to local officials in September comparing the proposed retreat to Camp David, Windsor Castle in Britain and France's Elysee Palace, the Washington Post reported." 😐

'Lord Justice Edis said the Supreme Court had identified a legal error in Hayes’ trial that was “directly replicated” in the ex-Barclays bankers’ cases.' What legal error?

Sam Coleridge @samcoleridge.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Burghart, the epitome of the vessel, currently wandering around, emptying noise on any given subject bsky.app/profile/samc...

Sam Coleridge @samcoleridge.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

$6 for a small bag of meh, thanks Mark Cuban.

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Sam Coleridge @samcoleridge.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

My Dad had a series of XJ6 company cars, a badly underpowered 2.8, then 4.2's in which back seat passengers roasted over an overheating diff. They became Demolition Derby favourites in late life. That V12 engine was unremarkable, at best.

Sam Coleridge @samcoleridge.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

"Hello Mr. Duck, how can we help you today?"

"Companies House does not check the accuracy of the information filed"
at top of landing page

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Sam Coleridge @samcoleridge.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

One of the functions of his £72m "war chest", lawfare.

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Sam Coleridge @samcoleridge.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

The dying throes of the British car industry period. I drove an early V12, it was a horrid boat made of lead.

Sam Coleridge @samcoleridge.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Oh yes, "being a Master Of The Universe is a piece of cake, one minute I'm bored, fiddling about with a bit of stuff written by a guy called Satoshi, next I can predict the future" kinda guy.

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Sam Coleridge @samcoleridge.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

On an MG I played that game, then found out it turned off when you locked the car.

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Sam Coleridge @samcoleridge.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I love/not love when you turn off traction control, "driver prompts" etc. as part of the weening process from being a driver to a steerer and then, when you go back after stopping, everything's back to default. (no doubt, saveable individual driver profiles may be buried in there somewhere).

Sam Coleridge @samcoleridge.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Would be interesting to see how wire wheels would deal with ♾️ torque.

Sam Coleridge @samcoleridge.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Getting some stick here (not on 'here', irl) about my final quip. To be clear, the AI "journalism" I've seen is lorem ipsum lowest common denominator and I regard the Ellisons as pond life but cuddly old Aunty Beeb is dead as the proverbial parrot, rip, but could be a right cow behind the smile.

Sam Coleridge @samcoleridge.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

The #BBC continues to weaken the argument for a licence fee with drivel like this: a buzzword headline followed by text like cheap ice cream, studded with X and Linkedin vox pop, which took two business reporters to nail together. Roll on AI, flog it to the Ellisons www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

bbc.co.uk

Jaguar unveils new electric car after 'woke' ridicule

Two years after JLR relaunched Jaguar into a blizzard of controversy, it has launched its new EV.

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Sam Coleridge @samcoleridge.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

multiple trade wars... closest partners who?

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Sam Coleridge @samcoleridge.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Charlotte made me laugh with her pragmatism "Fair cop, guv, get your hands off me."