Francis Hanly
@franhan.bsky.social
Documentary Filmmaker - clips and bio at francishanly.com. Photos at francishanlyphotos.com
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This is truly awful prose
January 15, 2026 at 8:29 PM
This is truly awful prose
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No other word has done more damage to the craft of writing in recent years than “content”. Even if you’re using the word “content” ironically, or as a cute little joke, don’t. When someone calls writing “content” they’re pissing on someone’s hard work & passion. “Content” is Technosatan’s henchword.
November 10, 2025 at 9:15 AM
No other word has done more damage to the craft of writing in recent years than “content”. Even if you’re using the word “content” ironically, or as a cute little joke, don’t. When someone calls writing “content” they’re pissing on someone’s hard work & passion. “Content” is Technosatan’s henchword.
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This is unbelievable. Just a complete lack of belief in objectivity. And the BBC fucking caved to it
Michael Prescott was ‘“shocked” that after an hour-long Panorama documentary dealing with Trump and the January 6 insurgency, there was no “similar, balancing” programme about Kamala Harris.’
More read about the machinations between the BBC resignations, the more worrying it becomes
More read about the machinations between the BBC resignations, the more worrying it becomes
The departure of Tim Davie and Deborah Turness means the BBC is leaderless when it needs leadership more than ever. Where are the people at the head of the BBC standing up for it?
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
November 9, 2025 at 9:44 PM
This is unbelievable. Just a complete lack of belief in objectivity. And the BBC fucking caved to it
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The BBC's senior leadership resigning en masse over one dodgy edit in one programme, simply because the right wing press demands it, tells you everything you need to know about where the power really lies in that relationship
November 9, 2025 at 8:04 PM
The BBC's senior leadership resigning en masse over one dodgy edit in one programme, simply because the right wing press demands it, tells you everything you need to know about where the power really lies in that relationship
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That ambivalent feeling when someone you don't like resigns (yay) but for the wrong reason (gah)
www.thetimes.com/article/b56c...
www.thetimes.com/article/b56c...
Tim Davie quits as BBC director-general
The corporation has faced accusations of bias after broadcasting a doctored clip of a speech by President Trump
www.thetimes.com
November 9, 2025 at 6:28 PM
That ambivalent feeling when someone you don't like resigns (yay) but for the wrong reason (gah)
www.thetimes.com/article/b56c...
www.thetimes.com/article/b56c...
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I am still waiting for my photos but expect the developers are busy at this time of year. I will see what are in the sales later on this month, and ought to buy more underclothes, also a pressure cooker. On Sunday I broke one of my spotted plates. Do you like the post card.
November 9, 2025 at 6:50 PM
I am still waiting for my photos but expect the developers are busy at this time of year. I will see what are in the sales later on this month, and ought to buy more underclothes, also a pressure cooker. On Sunday I broke one of my spotted plates. Do you like the post card.
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A great day for the golden rule of political analysis: when the right wins it is a resounding ideological victory that humiliates the left and when the left wins it is a precarious fluke that will surely end up humiliating the left. Conservatives are power’s landlords and the left merely tenants
November 5, 2025 at 10:35 AM
A great day for the golden rule of political analysis: when the right wins it is a resounding ideological victory that humiliates the left and when the left wins it is a precarious fluke that will surely end up humiliating the left. Conservatives are power’s landlords and the left merely tenants
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More coverage of OSU’s new restrictions on conference attendance:
“These conferences are open forums for us to present our work, network and collaborate. Telling us that they’re going to regulate whether or not we can participate feels very stifling, prohibitive,” said @ohdearz.bsky.social
“These conferences are open forums for us to present our work, network and collaborate. Telling us that they’re going to regulate whether or not we can participate feels very stifling, prohibitive,” said @ohdearz.bsky.social
Under Anti-DEI Pressure, Ohio State Limits Conference Funds
The Education Department recently criticized Ohio State University’s involvement with a nonprofit that encourages people from underrepresented backgrounds to pursue doctorates. Now, OSU is rethinking ...
www.insidehighered.com
October 15, 2025 at 12:51 PM
More coverage of OSU’s new restrictions on conference attendance:
“These conferences are open forums for us to present our work, network and collaborate. Telling us that they’re going to regulate whether or not we can participate feels very stifling, prohibitive,” said @ohdearz.bsky.social
“These conferences are open forums for us to present our work, network and collaborate. Telling us that they’re going to regulate whether or not we can participate feels very stifling, prohibitive,” said @ohdearz.bsky.social
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Watching the greatest documentary ever made (Deep Purple: Rock Family Trees) and noting rhat David Coverdale is a powerful cross between Alan Partridge and Tori Amos.
October 9, 2025 at 8:29 PM
Watching the greatest documentary ever made (Deep Purple: Rock Family Trees) and noting rhat David Coverdale is a powerful cross between Alan Partridge and Tori Amos.
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These wretched shops, which blight our city centres, capture so many of the causes of our malaise: tax dodging, contempt for social obligations, unfair competition for those who do the right thing & the candification of public space.
Labour should go hard on this - and not just for the lost revenue
Labour should go hard on this - and not just for the lost revenue
He's one of Britain's richest men. So why does Asif Aziz's property company keep leasing London gift shops to overseas students based in abandoned offices or flytipped car parks — before vanishing without paying millions of pounds in taxes? www.londoncentric.media/p/asf-aziz-l...
The billionaire and the tax evading gift shops
Asif Aziz's Criterion Capital manages a row of high-profile shops at Piccadilly Circus. So why does his team keeping renting them to students who vanish without paying millions of pounds in taxes?
www.londoncentric.media
July 22, 2025 at 8:09 AM
These wretched shops, which blight our city centres, capture so many of the causes of our malaise: tax dodging, contempt for social obligations, unfair competition for those who do the right thing & the candification of public space.
Labour should go hard on this - and not just for the lost revenue
Labour should go hard on this - and not just for the lost revenue
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The great crime/achievement of BBC bosses is to give the impression that the only alternative to the old political parties is Farage. This matters, because what people want is shaped by what they perceive to be available.
July 22, 2025 at 8:10 AM
The great crime/achievement of BBC bosses is to give the impression that the only alternative to the old political parties is Farage. This matters, because what people want is shaped by what they perceive to be available.
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I think it should not be beyond the wit of the BBC to employ a chief political correspondent with object permanence.
May 22, 2025 at 7:54 AM
I think it should not be beyond the wit of the BBC to employ a chief political correspondent with object permanence.
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This is how "This side says X, but the other side says Y" balance ends up distorting journalism. Instead of being based on the journalist's own independent, impartial analysis this question really just ventriloquises a partisan opposition stance and gives the impression the BBC fully agrees with it.
Chris Mason to Keir Starmer: "Isn't the truth that you've sold out British fishermen..."
May 19, 2025 at 12:10 PM
This is how "This side says X, but the other side says Y" balance ends up distorting journalism. Instead of being based on the journalist's own independent, impartial analysis this question really just ventriloquises a partisan opposition stance and gives the impression the BBC fully agrees with it.
Best magnolia - Golders hill park
March 24, 2025 at 5:12 PM
Best magnolia - Golders hill park
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March 22, 2025 at 1:24 PM
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I wonder whether anyone at the Beeb has ever told Robbie Gibb, the Brexit-supporting board member knighted by his former boss Theresa May who polices the ‘impartiality’ of others, to piss off. Someone senior, whether on or off air staff, really needs to. This nonsense can’t continue.
Was just disinvited by @bbc5live.bsky.social to a discussion of Brexit 5 years on- on the entirely reasonable/correct grounds that I know what I am talking about and would give an expert, objective view.
What they actually wanted was a "hard Remainer" (to balance a know-nothing Brexiteer).
FFS.
What they actually wanted was a "hard Remainer" (to balance a know-nothing Brexiteer).
FFS.
January 30, 2025 at 6:55 PM
I wonder whether anyone at the Beeb has ever told Robbie Gibb, the Brexit-supporting board member knighted by his former boss Theresa May who polices the ‘impartiality’ of others, to piss off. Someone senior, whether on or off air staff, really needs to. This nonsense can’t continue.
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This is an astonishingly ill-informed and amoral assessment for the political editor of the BBC to have reached, about someone spreading extremist conspiracy theories and using them to whip up hatred against elected politicians. I'd say I'm surprised, but sadly I'm not.
Staggeringly generous summary by Chris Mason just now: "Elon Musk no doubt has transformed the volume of this conversation, ensuring that the government was confronted with a reality it couldn't sidestep".
January 7, 2025 at 9:31 AM
This is an astonishingly ill-informed and amoral assessment for the political editor of the BBC to have reached, about someone spreading extremist conspiracy theories and using them to whip up hatred against elected politicians. I'd say I'm surprised, but sadly I'm not.
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It's a tricky award this year for the Spectator really. You see, Keir Starmer took his party from one of its worst results of all time to a landslide majority. Ed Davey multiplied his party's seats by a factor of 9. Nigel Farage put his party on the map in a way it hadn't been before. Who to pick
December 4, 2024 at 11:16 AM
It's a tricky award this year for the Spectator really. You see, Keir Starmer took his party from one of its worst results of all time to a landslide majority. Ed Davey multiplied his party's seats by a factor of 9. Nigel Farage put his party on the map in a way it hadn't been before. Who to pick
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Kemi Badenoch at #PMQs: "We had a budget in March this year and tractors were not blockading the streets of Whitehall afterwards."
Here are the tractors blockading the streets of Whitehall in March this year. They were protesting - you really couldn't make this up - Badenoch's trade policies. 😂
Here are the tractors blockading the streets of Whitehall in March this year. They were protesting - you really couldn't make this up - Badenoch's trade policies. 😂
November 27, 2024 at 12:42 PM
Kemi Badenoch at #PMQs: "We had a budget in March this year and tractors were not blockading the streets of Whitehall afterwards."
Here are the tractors blockading the streets of Whitehall in March this year. They were protesting - you really couldn't make this up - Badenoch's trade policies. 😂
Here are the tractors blockading the streets of Whitehall in March this year. They were protesting - you really couldn't make this up - Badenoch's trade policies. 😂
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Always struggle to accept Jeremy Clarkson is a real person and not someone designed to embody everything than annoys me.
November 19, 2024 at 3:20 PM
Always struggle to accept Jeremy Clarkson is a real person and not someone designed to embody everything than annoys me.
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What I'd like to hear from farmers and those supporting them is an alternative proposal. It seems few are willing to defend billionaires buying up farmland to avoid tax but want to protect smaller farms.
What's the best way to do that? Seems more useful than a protest.
What's the best way to do that? Seems more useful than a protest.
November 19, 2024 at 9:57 AM
What I'd like to hear from farmers and those supporting them is an alternative proposal. It seems few are willing to defend billionaires buying up farmland to avoid tax but want to protect smaller farms.
What's the best way to do that? Seems more useful than a protest.
What's the best way to do that? Seems more useful than a protest.
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You know who hasn't had this degree of media support for their financial interests? Disabled people, poor people with more than two kids, public sector workers (after all that clapping for the NHS). I'm not usually a 'blame the media' person but seriously - this is mad
Explainer: What are the inheritance tax changes affecting UK farmers? www.theguardian.com/environment/...
November 19, 2024 at 7:17 AM
You know who hasn't had this degree of media support for their financial interests? Disabled people, poor people with more than two kids, public sector workers (after all that clapping for the NHS). I'm not usually a 'blame the media' person but seriously - this is mad