Well, it would indeed have been welcome to see it acknowledged, even if briefly, yes. Maybe part of a probable joint BBC/Disney Plus compliance agenda to smooth over anything notably controversial? It'd be interesting to get the writer's take on this... RTD got some things through in specials/s.1.

Well, DW is bound to be inconsistent in conveying geopolitical realities. Part of its modus operandi, sometimes, is to depict Utopian visions of what could be, rather than what is...

I loved the Lagos barber shop one, found many passable enough & several nearer the end poor fare: it's okay for me to disagree with myself about a particular DW series, let alone with other people! Difference of views is inevitable & interesting. We need a discussion mentality over a 'debate' one!

Also some pointed remarks made about the push towards authoritarian regimes. He won't be happy😆

It’s like living in a castle with holes in the walls, an open gate or weak foundations.

These don’t matter if no one attacks you, but once they do, you might wish you’d patched the defences while you had the chance.
8/11

The only countries in Europe who are NOT in the EHCR are Belarus and Russia - those are the people we will be aligning ourselves with.

I'm imagining a take on Remembrance of the Daleks where Nazis Ratcliffe and Smith are the goodies, and the "My father, he was a cane cutter..." speech is to be totally ignored.

Sylvester McCoy protests on the streets against Trump fascism - and always was & is strongly anti-Tory - so the logical thing is apparently to attend a Tory conference while wearing his jumper... For some people it's also surface style without an iota of understanding of substance.

Studio Voltaire was running Dennis Potter's last interview on a loop in a tiny empty gallery this afternoon.

I hadn't watched it all since it was broadcast in 94 and oh god, he could see it all coming: tech lords, societal fracture, the arts crisis, the diminished BBC.

The elimination of USAID is a moral atrocity and all involved made a choice to enable, and then lie about, ending the lives of some of the most vulnerable people in the world.

Just to be clear, an English degree - learning to critically assess texts - is actually one of the most dangerous for people such as Badenoch.

An educated population, able to bring hundreds of years of context to statements in a dawning age of AI slop and attention-seeking dishonesty is also vital.

I see that most of the "OMG Javier Milei has performed an economic miracle in Argentina OMG I Heart Maggie" crowd - predictably, since it did the same with Lis Truss - has switched to "tEh PrObLeM iS MiLEi wOz NoT fRee mArKet eNouGh".

How many times must these utter fools fail before they get it?

They're distancing themselves because they know their names will practically be mud in ten years.

“You described Reform and other parties across Europe today as among the 'right wing equivalents of the fascists in the 1930s'. Why?”

“Because that’s what they are”

@vicderbyshire.bsky.social asks Lord Heseltine about remarks he made at Conservative Party Conference.

#Newsnight

Enjoying albums by Cate Le Bon, Lucrecia Dalt, Jens Lekman, Doja Cat, JADE, Kelly Moran, Jeff Tweedy, The Divine Comedy & Say She She: 2025 music's final quarter is proving really strong so far!

Chaos, Confusion, and Conspiracies: Inside a Facebook Group for RFK Jr’s Autism ‘Cure’

read @davidgilbert.bsky.social's latest:

AI pushers talk about it "augmenting" capacity, but that ignores human nature. Why walk or bike, when you can drive? It's easier, so most of us do, but you get fat & lazy. AI will do the same to a lot of people's brains, I fear. Via @financialtimes.com piece on AI habits
ig.ft.com/ai-personal-...

[16] This is the English version of Trump’s ‘inner cities’ & ‘no go areas’ racist dog whistles - combined with Trump’s ‘fake news’ accusations.

In a functioning liberal democracy this nasty man would be forced to resign. It’s likely, however, that other larger parties will agree with him.

Finally!!! The real scandal of the asylum hotels. Why, instead of shining the light on these parasites, months were spent on demonising vulnerable people at their mercy?
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Loving the amount of love the Irish BasicIncome initiative is getting- here's what @Basic Income Ireland has to say about it
zurl.co/kVrIi

A large number of far right actors who have been arrested, including leaders of these rallies, have convictions of domestic and/or sexual abuse, including of children. This is something that ought to be front and center whenever these people are talked about.

www.instagram.com/reel/DPL6RCE...

We’re in a moment now where it would be worth people taking three hours to watch Gandhi, particularly the scene of the salt march. There is value to making the brutality of your opponent so plain as day that no one can argue with it. The clarity of that brought down an empire

Sacking judges is what authoritarians do. We all know where this is going and where it will end. This must not be acceptable discourse.