Roibeárd Meillear
@beaniebob.bsky.social
Accidental Anarchist. Retired journalist and NUJ Life member but still a union activist. Garage artist just for the joy of it. Stout drinker again just for the joy of it. Ex-rugby union player. For my sins in a past/current life still a ManU fan.
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Both Samir Shah and Robbie Gibb should be fired from the BBC, in fact the entire BBC Board should be fired.
And replaced with an elected board voted by the people of the UK.
Because there is nothing British about the US Billionaire bootlicking sham we have now.
And replaced with an elected board voted by the people of the UK.
Because there is nothing British about the US Billionaire bootlicking sham we have now.
November 25, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Both Samir Shah and Robbie Gibb should be fired from the BBC, in fact the entire BBC Board should be fired.
And replaced with an elected board voted by the people of the UK.
Because there is nothing British about the US Billionaire bootlicking sham we have now.
And replaced with an elected board voted by the people of the UK.
Because there is nothing British about the US Billionaire bootlicking sham we have now.
Good to see action being taken against the loyalist paramilitaries who run these sleazy operations in Antrim and Newtownabbey. For many years local newspapers have highlighted how criminal loyalists have run brothels all over the two boroughs.
www.antrimguardian.co.uk/news/2025/11...
www.antrimguardian.co.uk/news/2025/11...
MLA requests meeting with senior police after historic abuse claims
SOUTH Antrim DUP MLA Trevor Clarke is requesting an urgent meeting with senior representatives of the PSNI to establish whether there is any evidence of ongoing grooming gang activity in the borough. ...
www.antrimguardian.co.uk
November 25, 2025 at 5:26 PM
Good to see action being taken against the loyalist paramilitaries who run these sleazy operations in Antrim and Newtownabbey. For many years local newspapers have highlighted how criminal loyalists have run brothels all over the two boroughs.
www.antrimguardian.co.uk/news/2025/11...
www.antrimguardian.co.uk/news/2025/11...
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How Farage feels about Putin: in his own words | LBC
YouTube video by LBC
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November 25, 2025 at 1:16 PM
A very strange choice
🔴Michael Gove Made Orwell Prize Judge Despite Record of Attacking Journalists and Dodging Scrutiny
Critics say “Orwell would have enjoyed the irony” of the former Conservative minister’s appointment
bylinetimes.com/2025/11/25/m...
Critics say “Orwell would have enjoyed the irony” of the former Conservative minister’s appointment
bylinetimes.com/2025/11/25/m...
Michael Gove Made Orwell Prize Judge Despite Record of Attacking Journalists and Dodging Scrutiny
Critics say "Orwell would have enjoyed the irony" of the former Conservative minister's appointment
bylinetimes.com
November 25, 2025 at 1:11 PM
A very strange choice
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Yeah you think the Middle East is full of White people.
November 24, 2025 at 11:28 PM
Yeah you think the Middle East is full of White people.
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CIDRAP: 'Long COVID takes $1 trillion global economic toll each year, analysis suggests'
"The economic modelling and management strategies for other chronic post-viral syndromes or debilitating conditions (e.g., ME/CFS..) can provide valuable insights.."
www.cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/lon...
"The economic modelling and management strategies for other chronic post-viral syndromes or debilitating conditions (e.g., ME/CFS..) can provide valuable insights.."
www.cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/lon...
Long COVID takes $1 trillion global economic toll each year, analysis suggests
www.cidrap.umn.edu
November 24, 2025 at 9:43 PM
CIDRAP: 'Long COVID takes $1 trillion global economic toll each year, analysis suggests'
"The economic modelling and management strategies for other chronic post-viral syndromes or debilitating conditions (e.g., ME/CFS..) can provide valuable insights.."
www.cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/lon...
"The economic modelling and management strategies for other chronic post-viral syndromes or debilitating conditions (e.g., ME/CFS..) can provide valuable insights.."
www.cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/lon...
Am I reading this right. A news organisation calling for the GB to withdraw from the ECHR but using it themselves to seek a judgement over an earlier court’s findings. If so? The hypocrisy is feckin blinding. The mantra is: ‘’Don’t do as we do, do as we say.’’
hudoc.echr.coe.int/eng?fbclid=I...
hudoc.echr.coe.int/eng?fbclid=I...
HUDOC - European Court of Human Rights
The HUDOC database provides access to the case-law of the Court (Grand Chamber, Chamber and Committee judgments and decisions, communicated cases, advisory opinions and legal summaries from the Case-L...
hudoc.echr.coe.int
November 25, 2025 at 11:42 AM
Am I reading this right. A news organisation calling for the GB to withdraw from the ECHR but using it themselves to seek a judgement over an earlier court’s findings. If so? The hypocrisy is feckin blinding. The mantra is: ‘’Don’t do as we do, do as we say.’’
hudoc.echr.coe.int/eng?fbclid=I...
hudoc.echr.coe.int/eng?fbclid=I...
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I share this with respect for the many excellent journalists at the BBC.
And with the hope that transparency helps strengthen, not weaken, our democratic culture. /5
And with the hope that transparency helps strengthen, not weaken, our democratic culture. /5
November 25, 2025 at 9:26 AM
I share this with respect for the many excellent journalists at the BBC.
And with the hope that transparency helps strengthen, not weaken, our democratic culture. /5
And with the hope that transparency helps strengthen, not weaken, our democratic culture. /5
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It’s especially ironic because the lecture is exactly about the ‘paralyzing cowardice’ of today’s elites.
About universities, corporations and media networks bending the knee to authoritarianism. /4
About universities, corporations and media networks bending the knee to authoritarianism. /4
November 25, 2025 at 9:26 AM
It’s especially ironic because the lecture is exactly about the ‘paralyzing cowardice’ of today’s elites.
About universities, corporations and media networks bending the knee to authoritarianism. /4
About universities, corporations and media networks bending the knee to authoritarianism. /4
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This has happened against my wishes, and I’m genuinely dismayed by it.
Not because people can’t disagree with my words, but because self-censorship driven by fear (Trump threatening to sue the BBC) should concern all of us. /3
Not because people can’t disagree with my words, but because self-censorship driven by fear (Trump threatening to sue the BBC) should concern all of us. /3
November 25, 2025 at 9:26 AM
This has happened against my wishes, and I’m genuinely dismayed by it.
Not because people can’t disagree with my words, but because self-censorship driven by fear (Trump threatening to sue the BBC) should concern all of us. /3
Not because people can’t disagree with my words, but because self-censorship driven by fear (Trump threatening to sue the BBC) should concern all of us. /3
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This sentence was taken out of a lecture they commissioned, reviewed through the full editorial process, and recorded four weeks ago in front of 500 people in the BBC Radio Theatre.
I was told the decision came from the highest levels within the BBC. /2
I was told the decision came from the highest levels within the BBC. /2
November 25, 2025 at 9:26 AM
This sentence was taken out of a lecture they commissioned, reviewed through the full editorial process, and recorded four weeks ago in front of 500 people in the BBC Radio Theatre.
I was told the decision came from the highest levels within the BBC. /2
I was told the decision came from the highest levels within the BBC. /2
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I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture.
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
November 25, 2025 at 9:26 AM
I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture.
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
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I’m still enjoying how MAGA Twitter will never live down that they’re all troll farms from Russia and Bangladesh. The whole MAGA ‘movement’ has been fake bullshit from top to bottom from the very beginning.
Musk Accidentally Proves Most MAGA Accounts On Twitter Live In Russia
Whoops!
www.thegodpodcast.com
November 25, 2025 at 1:16 AM
I’m still enjoying how MAGA Twitter will never live down that they’re all troll farms from Russia and Bangladesh. The whole MAGA ‘movement’ has been fake bullshit from top to bottom from the very beginning.
Call him out every time: He's a fascist
Reform’s ‘Trumpian’ legal threats hint at more aggressive approach to media
Ultimatums sent to publications appear to intensify as Nigel Farage’s party rises in polls
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Reform’s ‘Trumpian’ legal threats hint at more aggressive approach to media
Ultimatums sent to publications appear to intensify as Nigel Farage’s party rises in polls
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Reform’s ‘Trumpian’ legal threats hint at more aggressive approach to media
Ultimatums sent to publications appear to intensify as Nigel Farage’s party rises in polls
www.theguardian.com
November 25, 2025 at 9:32 AM
Call him out every time: He's a fascist
Reform’s ‘Trumpian’ legal threats hint at more aggressive approach to media
Ultimatums sent to publications appear to intensify as Nigel Farage’s party rises in polls
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Reform’s ‘Trumpian’ legal threats hint at more aggressive approach to media
Ultimatums sent to publications appear to intensify as Nigel Farage’s party rises in polls
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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My attendance record in the European Parliament was the 4th worst out of 751 MEPs, yet I managed to turn up to vote AGAINST plans to tackle Russian misinformation.
Thankfully this is of no interest to the media.
Thankfully this is of no interest to the media.
November 24, 2025 at 9:20 PM
My attendance record in the European Parliament was the 4th worst out of 751 MEPs, yet I managed to turn up to vote AGAINST plans to tackle Russian misinformation.
Thankfully this is of no interest to the media.
Thankfully this is of no interest to the media.
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We've enrolled more than 700 participants (of 1,000 planned) in 3 weeks to a randomized trial for treatment of #LongCovid
Founder and director of the Scripps Research Translational Institute, @erictopol.bsky.social, and Julia Moore Vogel, co–principal investigator of the Long COVID Treatment Trial, were featured in @wired.com, sharing insights on a nationwide study testing GLP-1s for long COVID.
Weight-Loss Drug Zepbound Is Being Tested as a Treatment for Long Covid
GLP-1s are being studied for a wide range of conditions. Now, scientists will test whether their anti-inflammatory properties can help alleviate symptoms of long Covid.
ow.ly
November 23, 2025 at 7:09 PM
We've enrolled more than 700 participants (of 1,000 planned) in 3 weeks to a randomized trial for treatment of #LongCovid
NEW: After it turned out that about 2/3 of Twitter's MAGA and far-right accounts are based in Russia, Nigeria, India, Bangladesh and other non-Americas, Musk has now SHUT DOWN the location feature. 🤣
November 24, 2025 at 12:31 PM
NEW: After it turned out that about 2/3 of Twitter's MAGA and far-right accounts are based in Russia, Nigeria, India, Bangladesh and other non-Americas, Musk has now SHUT DOWN the location feature. 🤣
Nigel Farage’s ‘Project 2029’: The Pro-Trump Lobbyist Pushing His Agenda Into the UK
bylinetimes.com/2025/11/24/n...
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Nigel Farage's 'Project 2029': The Pro-Trump Lobbyist Pushing His Agenda Into the UK
A Trump-aligned anti-abortion lobbyist who hosted Nigel Farage's meeting with a 6 January rioter in Florida has been funding and advising the Reform leader while pushing Project 2025’s hard-right agen...
bylinetimes.com
November 24, 2025 at 12:28 PM
Nigel Farage’s ‘Project 2029’: The Pro-Trump Lobbyist Pushing His Agenda Into the UK
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Very proud of former Reform MP, James McMurdock. Who better to stand up for women and girls than a man sent to prison for repeatedly kicking his girlfriend?
November 23, 2025 at 10:21 AM
Very proud of former Reform MP, James McMurdock. Who better to stand up for women and girls than a man sent to prison for repeatedly kicking his girlfriend?
Racists cryiing in their pisspots and private group chats as another 'white' local Northern Irish male charged with alleged sex offence in Lurgan.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Lurgan: Man charged with sexual assault refused bail
Dean Martin with an address in Wood Lane, Lurgan spoke only to confirm he understood the charges against him.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 22, 2025 at 1:36 PM
Racists cryiing in their pisspots and private group chats as another 'white' local Northern Irish male charged with alleged sex offence in Lurgan.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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BBC News - Former Reform in Wales leader Nathan Gill jailed for pro-Russian bribery.
Now can we take a closer look at Farage? Everything he's said and done just coincidentally mirrors Putin's agenda. He also, of course, used to do work for Russia Today.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Now can we take a closer look at Farage? Everything he's said and done just coincidentally mirrors Putin's agenda. He also, of course, used to do work for Russia Today.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Former Reform in Wales leader Nathan Gill jailed for pro-Russian bribery
Nathan Gill, 52, is sentenced to 10 and a half years in prison after admitting taking bribes while an MEP.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 22, 2025 at 8:11 AM
BBC News - Former Reform in Wales leader Nathan Gill jailed for pro-Russian bribery.
Now can we take a closer look at Farage? Everything he's said and done just coincidentally mirrors Putin's agenda. He also, of course, used to do work for Russia Today.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Now can we take a closer look at Farage? Everything he's said and done just coincidentally mirrors Putin's agenda. He also, of course, used to do work for Russia Today.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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This young man has it exactly right.
November 21, 2025 at 11:30 PM
This young man has it exactly right.
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📷 Farage meeting the wife of Oleg Voloshyn, who bribed Nathan Gill
📷 Farage meeting the Russian Ambassador in 2013
📷 #Farage on RT (17 appearances, 2010-2014)
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Source links @ faragewatch.media/nigel-farage-patriot-or-puppet/
From the forthcoming issue 1 of #Faragewatch: faragewatch.media/about
📷 Farage meeting the Russian Ambassador in 2013
📷 #Farage on RT (17 appearances, 2010-2014)
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Source links @ faragewatch.media/nigel-farage-patriot-or-puppet/
From the forthcoming issue 1 of #Faragewatch: faragewatch.media/about
November 20, 2025 at 5:26 PM
📷 Farage meeting the wife of Oleg Voloshyn, who bribed Nathan Gill
📷 Farage meeting the Russian Ambassador in 2013
📷 #Farage on RT (17 appearances, 2010-2014)
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Source links @ faragewatch.media/nigel-farage-patriot-or-puppet/
From the forthcoming issue 1 of #Faragewatch: faragewatch.media/about
📷 Farage meeting the Russian Ambassador in 2013
📷 #Farage on RT (17 appearances, 2010-2014)
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Source links @ faragewatch.media/nigel-farage-patriot-or-puppet/
From the forthcoming issue 1 of #Faragewatch: faragewatch.media/about
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A Venezuela invasion won’t affect fentanyl or cocaine because the country isn’t a producer. An invasion is to open their oil market to American oil billionaires
Bessent: "If something happens down in Venezuela, we could really see oil prices go down even more."
November 21, 2025 at 1:59 PM
A Venezuela invasion won’t affect fentanyl or cocaine because the country isn’t a producer. An invasion is to open their oil market to American oil billionaires