Dominic Minghella
@dminghella.bsky.social
Screenwriter / Producer / Showrunner / Writer, Creator of TV series eg ITV's Doc Martin / Political, Charity & Business Strategy & Comms /
www.minghella.com/about
www.minghella.com/about
Crazy few days. First the BBC eats its own legs, then the Government eats its own legs.
November 12, 2025 at 10:01 PM
Crazy few days. First the BBC eats its own legs, then the Government eats its own legs.
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Conservative Shadow Culture Secretary Nigel Huddleston tells GB News that the BBC should "grovel" to Trump.
Amazing how many British 'patriots' are spending their time telling our national broadcaster to prostrate itself before a hostile foreign leader
Amazing how many British 'patriots' are spending their time telling our national broadcaster to prostrate itself before a hostile foreign leader
November 11, 2025 at 11:21 AM
Conservative Shadow Culture Secretary Nigel Huddleston tells GB News that the BBC should "grovel" to Trump.
Amazing how many British 'patriots' are spending their time telling our national broadcaster to prostrate itself before a hostile foreign leader
Amazing how many British 'patriots' are spending their time telling our national broadcaster to prostrate itself before a hostile foreign leader
Great piece. Just has "Tim Davie has legitimised the critique which has toppled him," so the BBC has appeased the very forces now ranged against it.
The reaction to the Panorama edit has been nothing short of hysterical. Yes the BBC has some impartiality problems. But its biggest isn't the one you think.
New piece from me.
open.substack.com/pub/goodalla...
New piece from me.
open.substack.com/pub/goodalla...
The truth about impartiality at the BBC
And the hysteria of the current "crisis"
open.substack.com
November 11, 2025 at 3:55 PM
Great piece. Just has "Tim Davie has legitimised the critique which has toppled him," so the BBC has appeased the very forces now ranged against it.
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Trump's White House & fawning hacks here don't really care about the 0.001% that the BBC gets wrong. They care about all the stuff it gets right.
November 11, 2025 at 9:54 AM
Trump's White House & fawning hacks here don't really care about the 0.001% that the BBC gets wrong. They care about all the stuff it gets right.
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The improvement in the employment rate of non-EU migrants to the UK over the past 15 years is remarkable, especially since the pandemic.
www.ons.gov.uk/employmentan...
www.ons.gov.uk/employmentan...
November 11, 2025 at 8:09 AM
The improvement in the employment rate of non-EU migrants to the UK over the past 15 years is remarkable, especially since the pandemic.
www.ons.gov.uk/employmentan...
www.ons.gov.uk/employmentan...
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If we're talking about bias, why do BBC politics programmes, from Politics Live to the Laura Kuennsberg Show, still always begin with a look at the newspaper front pages, which are overwhelmingly biased in one direction. Helps frame the entire news agenda and debate in their favour
November 11, 2025 at 1:09 PM
If we're talking about bias, why do BBC politics programmes, from Politics Live to the Laura Kuennsberg Show, still always begin with a look at the newspaper front pages, which are overwhelmingly biased in one direction. Helps frame the entire news agenda and debate in their favour
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Newsagents’ deep dive into BBC situ is v level headed and wide ranging. Two things clear: Gibb should be nowhere near the BBC, and BBC general policy for bringing in people like that in a never ending charade to prove themselves not too lefty is weak, and clearly pointless.
November 11, 2025 at 11:15 AM
Newsagents’ deep dive into BBC situ is v level headed and wide ranging. Two things clear: Gibb should be nowhere near the BBC, and BBC general policy for bringing in people like that in a never ending charade to prove themselves not too lefty is weak, and clearly pointless.
Then and now. My Dad, Edward Minghella, during the War at Aldershot Barracks, and the other day in Ryde.
(Army photo enhanced by Jim Sheridan.)
(Army photo enhanced by Jim Sheridan.)
November 11, 2025 at 1:11 PM
Then and now. My Dad, Edward Minghella, during the War at Aldershot Barracks, and the other day in Ryde.
(Army photo enhanced by Jim Sheridan.)
(Army photo enhanced by Jim Sheridan.)
What do you call it when a British MP takes direct calls from a foreign leader to conspire against the BBC, our national broadcaster?
November 10, 2025 at 6:38 PM
What do you call it when a British MP takes direct calls from a foreign leader to conspire against the BBC, our national broadcaster?
After Eurythmics, Annie Lennox worried that she wouldn't be able to write songs on her own. She sat down to try, and produced Why in ten minutes.
I don't know why I spends weeks, months, years trying to create stuff. It turns me inside f88king out.
I don't know why I spends weeks, months, years trying to create stuff. It turns me inside f88king out.
November 8, 2025 at 8:35 AM
After Eurythmics, Annie Lennox worried that she wouldn't be able to write songs on her own. She sat down to try, and produced Why in ten minutes.
I don't know why I spends weeks, months, years trying to create stuff. It turns me inside f88king out.
I don't know why I spends weeks, months, years trying to create stuff. It turns me inside f88king out.
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It took just 8 minutes for thieves to steal the Napoleonic-era crown jewels from the Louvre. There weren't enough cameras and the ones there were there were facing the wrong way.
Could a 50-year-old maths problem have foiled the heist?
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www.bbc.com/news/art...
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Could a 50-year-old maths problem have foiled the heist?
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Where are the Louvre jewels now and can France get them back?
Experts warn that whilst the criminals may yet be caught, the gemstones they stole may never be recovered.
www.bbc.com
November 1, 2025 at 8:02 AM
It took just 8 minutes for thieves to steal the Napoleonic-era crown jewels from the Louvre. There weren't enough cameras and the ones there were there were facing the wrong way.
Could a 50-year-old maths problem have foiled the heist?
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www.bbc.com/news/art...
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Could a 50-year-old maths problem have foiled the heist?
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www.bbc.com/news/art...
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I heard once about some young folk who went to hear John Martyn at the Fairfield Halls. Driving home after the gig they saw someone at the bus stop with a guitar case. It was John. They offered him a lift, and he ended up going back to theirs and smoking and playing half the night.
October 31, 2025 at 6:11 PM
I heard once about some young folk who went to hear John Martyn at the Fairfield Halls. Driving home after the gig they saw someone at the bus stop with a guitar case. It was John. They offered him a lift, and he ended up going back to theirs and smoking and playing half the night.
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“A neighbour told this newspaper that he shouted the word ‘n*****’ at her repeatedly, said he would set the far-right English Defence League on her and told her there’d be ‘black body bags’
So not “just” racial slurs - death threats too.
So not “just” racial slurs - death threats too.
Perhaps rather than endlessly promoting Mr Farage, the national media could highlight what his local councillors are doing - as demonstrated here by @northantstelegraph.bsky.social
www.northantstelegraph.co.uk/news/people/...
www.northantstelegraph.co.uk/news/people/...
Corby Reform councillor resigns over serious racism allegations
Reform councillor Robert Bloom, who has been in his North Northamptonshire Council post for just 117 days, has resigned after a neighbour alleged he used appalling racial slurs toward her family.
www.northantstelegraph.co.uk
August 28, 2025 at 8:08 AM
“A neighbour told this newspaper that he shouted the word ‘n*****’ at her repeatedly, said he would set the far-right English Defence League on her and told her there’d be ‘black body bags’
So not “just” racial slurs - death threats too.
So not “just” racial slurs - death threats too.
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Tinderbox Britain: How conservatives ended up praying for violence iandunt.substack.com/p/tinderbox-...
August 15, 2025 at 8:59 AM
Tinderbox Britain: How conservatives ended up praying for violence iandunt.substack.com/p/tinderbox-...
Three years since the luminous Edana Minghella left us, and it might as well be three minutes, for the shock we are still reeling in.
July 11, 2025 at 8:28 AM
Three years since the luminous Edana Minghella left us, and it might as well be three minutes, for the shock we are still reeling in.
Nobody brings car history to life like Peter Grimsdale. Here he is in 'launch mode' last night with his latest literary model, Superveloce: how a country with no industrial revolution, hampered by poverty, took the 20th Century automotive world by storm.
Great Father's Day present!
Great Father's Day present!
June 13, 2025 at 3:22 PM
Nobody brings car history to life like Peter Grimsdale. Here he is in 'launch mode' last night with his latest literary model, Superveloce: how a country with no industrial revolution, hampered by poverty, took the 20th Century automotive world by storm.
Great Father's Day present!
Great Father's Day present!
Is this an apology?
June 5, 2025 at 6:13 PM
Is this an apology?
Talk of an 'island of strangers' only serves to promote an island of xenophobes.
May 12, 2025 at 11:51 AM
Talk of an 'island of strangers' only serves to promote an island of xenophobes.
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Not much point having power if you use it to further the agenda of your opponents…
The Brexit mindset is a dull-witted and dangerous dead end. Beyond time to make the case for a more grown up, prosperous and cooperative relationship with our European neighbours.
(Letter, Times)
The Brexit mindset is a dull-witted and dangerous dead end. Beyond time to make the case for a more grown up, prosperous and cooperative relationship with our European neighbours.
(Letter, Times)
May 9, 2025 at 7:19 AM
Not much point having power if you use it to further the agenda of your opponents…
The Brexit mindset is a dull-witted and dangerous dead end. Beyond time to make the case for a more grown up, prosperous and cooperative relationship with our European neighbours.
(Letter, Times)
The Brexit mindset is a dull-witted and dangerous dead end. Beyond time to make the case for a more grown up, prosperous and cooperative relationship with our European neighbours.
(Letter, Times)
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Welcome to Brexitland, US, in which waywardness is described as "strategic uncertainty", restrictions on trade boost performance and self harm is lauded....
Spoiler, it does not end happily
www.ft.com/content/342d...
Spoiler, it does not end happily
www.ft.com/content/342d...
May 1, 2025 at 9:18 AM
Welcome to Brexitland, US, in which waywardness is described as "strategic uncertainty", restrictions on trade boost performance and self harm is lauded....
Spoiler, it does not end happily
www.ft.com/content/342d...
Spoiler, it does not end happily
www.ft.com/content/342d...
Wait. Tariffs are beautiful. But it's 'hostile' to itemise them?
April 29, 2025 at 5:31 PM
Wait. Tariffs are beautiful. But it's 'hostile' to itemise them?
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What a legacy, eh? Created the grim conditions in which this toxic, insidious parasite could thrive and grow. A canker on the body politic.
“With Brexit, Farage helped embed the poor growth and state dysfunction that are even now providing fuel for his return.Britain has already spent one decade struggling to get by in the world Farage created. It can ill afford a second”
Ffs. How much failure can we take?
economist.com/leaders/2025...
Ffs. How much failure can we take?
economist.com/leaders/2025...
The man Britain cannot ignore
Nigel Farage’s return means a new, more volatile era in British politics
economist.com
April 26, 2025 at 10:54 AM
What a legacy, eh? Created the grim conditions in which this toxic, insidious parasite could thrive and grow. A canker on the body politic.
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Raskin: So on the logic of this arrest of Judge Dugan, all of the people in the trump administration who participated in defying that order by Judge Boasberg themselves, could be arrested for interfering with a legal proceeding and perhaps other criminal charges like kidnaping..
April 26, 2025 at 1:38 AM
Raskin: So on the logic of this arrest of Judge Dugan, all of the people in the trump administration who participated in defying that order by Judge Boasberg themselves, could be arrested for interfering with a legal proceeding and perhaps other criminal charges like kidnaping..
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We've reached the "as long as Jesus came here legally" part of the evangelical's descent into darkness.
This is both hilarious and disturbing.
This is both hilarious and disturbing.
April 25, 2025 at 1:13 PM
We've reached the "as long as Jesus came here legally" part of the evangelical's descent into darkness.
This is both hilarious and disturbing.
This is both hilarious and disturbing.
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Excellent thread.
Are Muslims really banning dogs in parks? 🤔
Let’s look at this perfect example of how rage baiting works, and how disinformation spreads, sticks, and fuels division, even years after being debunked…
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Let’s look at this perfect example of how rage baiting works, and how disinformation spreads, sticks, and fuels division, even years after being debunked…
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April 14, 2025 at 8:16 AM
Excellent thread.