@horsetamer.bsky.social
History and Politics teacher. Buddhist. Brighton Taffia. Vegan.
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The BBC has bigger impartiality problems than its coverage of Trump
My god. If only @arusbridger.bsky.social was a BBC director instead of Robbie Gibb. The whole country would be in a much better state
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/media/...
My god. If only @arusbridger.bsky.social was a BBC director instead of Robbie Gibb. The whole country would be in a much better state
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/media/...
The BBC has bigger impartiality problems than its coverage of Trump
It is the BBC’s entire governance structure–rather than individual stories–that should cause most concern
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk
November 8, 2025 at 1:04 AM
The BBC has bigger impartiality problems than its coverage of Trump
My god. If only @arusbridger.bsky.social was a BBC director instead of Robbie Gibb. The whole country would be in a much better state
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/media/...
My god. If only @arusbridger.bsky.social was a BBC director instead of Robbie Gibb. The whole country would be in a much better state
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/media/...
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How the BBC kowtowed to Boris Johnson. Amazing that, even though we now know what a corrupt, mendacious, useless Prime Minister Johnson was, the BBC are kowtowing to him again
🚨 The BBC’s Road to Appeasement
As the BBC comes under growing criticism for its coverage of Reform, we republish @adambienkov.bsky.social and @baghdaddi.bsky.social’s 2024 investigation into how the corporation's leadership became cowed by the right
www.bylinesupplement.com/p/the-bbcs-r...
As the BBC comes under growing criticism for its coverage of Reform, we republish @adambienkov.bsky.social and @baghdaddi.bsky.social’s 2024 investigation into how the corporation's leadership became cowed by the right
www.bylinesupplement.com/p/the-bbcs-r...
The BBC’s Road to Appeasement
As the BBC comes under growing criticism for its coverage of Reform, we republish Adam Bienkov and Patrick Howse's 2024 investigation into how the corporation's leadership became cowed by the right
www.bylinesupplement.com
November 9, 2025 at 11:36 PM
How the BBC kowtowed to Boris Johnson. Amazing that, even though we now know what a corrupt, mendacious, useless Prime Minister Johnson was, the BBC are kowtowing to him again
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The BBC should serve as an example to all that there is nothing you can give the far rabid right that will satisfy it.
It has simpered, pandered, soft-balled and fluff-jobbed, both-sidesed and debased itself into being a platform for liars to look down the camera and lie on, & it still gets fucked.
It has simpered, pandered, soft-balled and fluff-jobbed, both-sidesed and debased itself into being a platform for liars to look down the camera and lie on, & it still gets fucked.
November 9, 2025 at 7:12 PM
The BBC should serve as an example to all that there is nothing you can give the far rabid right that will satisfy it.
It has simpered, pandered, soft-balled and fluff-jobbed, both-sidesed and debased itself into being a platform for liars to look down the camera and lie on, & it still gets fucked.
It has simpered, pandered, soft-balled and fluff-jobbed, both-sidesed and debased itself into being a platform for liars to look down the camera and lie on, & it still gets fucked.
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the right winger who was appointed to lead the BBC in the hope of appeasing right wingers has been driven out by right wingers for not appeasing right wingers enough and the BBC has the chance to do the funniest thing ever
November 9, 2025 at 6:38 PM
the right winger who was appointed to lead the BBC in the hope of appeasing right wingers has been driven out by right wingers for not appeasing right wingers enough and the BBC has the chance to do the funniest thing ever
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Yep. And to think that so many people think this man is some sort of hero is such a sign of our twisted times.
November 8, 2025 at 12:24 PM
Yep. And to think that so many people think this man is some sort of hero is such a sign of our twisted times.
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Did you know❓
The British army’s 77th brigade held secret exchanges with the Israeli military.
www.declassifieduk.org/uk-psycholog...
The British army’s 77th brigade held secret exchanges with the Israeli military.
www.declassifieduk.org/uk-psycholog...
UK psychological warfare unit collaborated with Israeli army
Exclusive: The British army’s 77th brigade held secret exchanges with the IDF, leaked files reveal.
www.declassifieduk.org
November 8, 2025 at 9:20 AM
Did you know❓
The British army’s 77th brigade held secret exchanges with the Israeli military.
www.declassifieduk.org/uk-psycholog...
The British army’s 77th brigade held secret exchanges with the Israeli military.
www.declassifieduk.org/uk-psycholog...
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UK leaders/politicians/press rubbished and railed for decades against the thing EU citizens believe is the most important strength of the EU, thought they could easily replicate the thing in second place, and never mentioned the 3rd most important aspect - solidarity with other member states.
Just going through some new Eurobarometer findings that have just been posted by EUC.
And thinking of this thread again with that "s" word that (some/many) Britons don't want to hear about coming up again in position #3 🙂
bsky.app/profile/ec.e...
And thinking of this thread again with that "s" word that (some/many) Britons don't want to hear about coming up again in position #3 🙂
bsky.app/profile/ec.e...
November 7, 2025 at 9:00 PM
UK leaders/politicians/press rubbished and railed for decades against the thing EU citizens believe is the most important strength of the EU, thought they could easily replicate the thing in second place, and never mentioned the 3rd most important aspect - solidarity with other member states.
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I'd say it's because our media & press platform them constantly, normalising their extreme views, & our govt does absolutely NOTHING to curb them, they even parrot them.
But ultimately, people are fed up with #Labour & #Tories lies & are falling for the lies #Reform promise instead! 🙄
#MediaBias
But ultimately, people are fed up with #Labour & #Tories lies & are falling for the lies #Reform promise instead! 🙄
#MediaBias
🖊️ ARTICLE | Reform rides high - but why?
Three years ago, Reform were polling 1%. Today they seem poised for a landslide GE win. How did this happen? And how did Labour fumble an easy layup so badly? Find out in my latest piece: www.statsforlefties.com/2025/11/07/poll-roundup-october
Three years ago, Reform were polling 1%. Today they seem poised for a landslide GE win. How did this happen? And how did Labour fumble an easy layup so badly? Find out in my latest piece: www.statsforlefties.com/2025/11/07/poll-roundup-october
Reform Rides High
Eleanora explains how Reform rocketed to the top of the polls.
statsforlefties.wordpress.com
November 8, 2025 at 5:54 AM
I'd say it's because our media & press platform them constantly, normalising their extreme views, & our govt does absolutely NOTHING to curb them, they even parrot them.
But ultimately, people are fed up with #Labour & #Tories lies & are falling for the lies #Reform promise instead! 🙄
#MediaBias
But ultimately, people are fed up with #Labour & #Tories lies & are falling for the lies #Reform promise instead! 🙄
#MediaBias
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🚨🚨This is stellar investigative journalism by @kaitlintosh.bsky.social and @michelleinezsimon.bsky.social on how #elonmusk is boosting the #british right. 🧵 news.sky.com/story/the-x-...
Elon Musk is boosting the British right - and this shows how
Elon Musk is boosting the British right - and this shows how
news.sky.com
November 6, 2025 at 7:51 AM
🚨🚨This is stellar investigative journalism by @kaitlintosh.bsky.social and @michelleinezsimon.bsky.social on how #elonmusk is boosting the #british right. 🧵 news.sky.com/story/the-x-...
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🇮🇱We obtained leaked high-level Israeli government documents.
They reveal how the Israeli government waged a ten-year lobbying campaign in Britain to protect its officials from war crimes arrests.
www.declassifieduk.org/israel-lobbi...
They reveal how the Israeli government waged a ten-year lobbying campaign in Britain to protect its officials from war crimes arrests.
www.declassifieduk.org/israel-lobbi...
Israel lobbied Britain to change law on war crimes arrests
Exclusive: The Israeli government waged a decade-long campaign to protect its officials from criminal proceedings in Britain, leaked files show.
www.declassifieduk.org
November 5, 2025 at 2:05 PM
🇮🇱We obtained leaked high-level Israeli government documents.
They reveal how the Israeli government waged a ten-year lobbying campaign in Britain to protect its officials from war crimes arrests.
www.declassifieduk.org/israel-lobbi...
They reveal how the Israeli government waged a ten-year lobbying campaign in Britain to protect its officials from war crimes arrests.
www.declassifieduk.org/israel-lobbi...
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Zia Yusuf humiliated as he’s grilled over potential Russian links to Reform
Zia Yusuf humiliated as he's grilled over potential Russian links to Reform
Reform's Zia Yusuf was given a tough time by Victoria Derbyshire on Newsnight as she grilled him over Nathan Gill.
www.thelondoneconomic.com
November 5, 2025 at 8:10 AM
Zia Yusuf humiliated as he’s grilled over potential Russian links to Reform
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This. A thousand times this.
Print it on posters and flyers. Pin it above the desk of every pro-democracy politician, staffer and strategist. Make memes and insta stories of it. Do Tik-Tok dance routines to it. Use it as a rallying cry and make it the accepted norm, not a lost epitaph of failure.
Print it on posters and flyers. Pin it above the desk of every pro-democracy politician, staffer and strategist. Make memes and insta stories of it. Do Tik-Tok dance routines to it. Use it as a rallying cry and make it the accepted norm, not a lost epitaph of failure.
This is yet another example of how you beat the far right. By beating them, not trying to be them. By having your own agenda, not aping theirs. With courage and conviction - and humour - not fear and timidity.
November 5, 2025 at 7:33 AM
This. A thousand times this.
Print it on posters and flyers. Pin it above the desk of every pro-democracy politician, staffer and strategist. Make memes and insta stories of it. Do Tik-Tok dance routines to it. Use it as a rallying cry and make it the accepted norm, not a lost epitaph of failure.
Print it on posters and flyers. Pin it above the desk of every pro-democracy politician, staffer and strategist. Make memes and insta stories of it. Do Tik-Tok dance routines to it. Use it as a rallying cry and make it the accepted norm, not a lost epitaph of failure.
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‘brandishing our flag while selling off our national inheritance to the highest bidder’
October 1, 2025 at 6:17 PM
‘brandishing our flag while selling off our national inheritance to the highest bidder’
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Eit opplagt val. Skal me følge etter?
#GreenParty @greenparty.org.uk policy - a bit flowery but #AbolishTheMonarchy
PA600 c The #monarchy shall cease to be an office of government. The legislative, executive and judicial roles of the monarch shall cease.
PA600 c The #monarchy shall cease to be an office of government. The legislative, executive and judicial roles of the monarch shall cease.
October 31, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Eit opplagt val. Skal me følge etter?
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An extraordinary realignment of British politics
If you want to see @TheGreenParty take on Reform - this is the moment
Join.greenparty.org.uk
If you want to see @TheGreenParty take on Reform - this is the moment
Join.greenparty.org.uk
Westminster Voting Intention:
RFM: 32% (=)
GRN: 17% (+2)
CON: 16% (-1)
LAB: 16% (=)
LDM: 12% (=)
SNP: 2% (=)
Via @findoutnow.bsky.social, 29 Oct.
Changes w/ 22 Oct.
RFM: 32% (=)
GRN: 17% (+2)
CON: 16% (-1)
LAB: 16% (=)
LDM: 12% (=)
SNP: 2% (=)
Via @findoutnow.bsky.social, 29 Oct.
Changes w/ 22 Oct.
October 31, 2025 at 1:06 PM
An extraordinary realignment of British politics
If you want to see @TheGreenParty take on Reform - this is the moment
Join.greenparty.org.uk
If you want to see @TheGreenParty take on Reform - this is the moment
Join.greenparty.org.uk
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UK Govt to capitulate to Big Pharma
Ministers have drawn up proposals to pay companies 25% more for NHS medicines.
Too many corporations holding govts/peopie to ransom - give us what we want or else
Energy
Water
Banks
Internet
Tax abuses
Who governs - Corporations or elected govts?
Ministers have drawn up proposals to pay companies 25% more for NHS medicines.
Too many corporations holding govts/peopie to ransom - give us what we want or else
Energy
Water
Banks
Internet
Tax abuses
Who governs - Corporations or elected govts?
‘Patients will suffer’: tales from the frontline of the UK pharma crisis
The pricing standoff between government and industry has stalled research and put thousands of jobs at risk
www.theguardian.com
October 30, 2025 at 10:38 AM
UK Govt to capitulate to Big Pharma
Ministers have drawn up proposals to pay companies 25% more for NHS medicines.
Too many corporations holding govts/peopie to ransom - give us what we want or else
Energy
Water
Banks
Internet
Tax abuses
Who governs - Corporations or elected govts?
Ministers have drawn up proposals to pay companies 25% more for NHS medicines.
Too many corporations holding govts/peopie to ransom - give us what we want or else
Energy
Water
Banks
Internet
Tax abuses
Who governs - Corporations or elected govts?
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Our lead organiser @sioldridge.bsky.social explaining the thinking behind the National Emergency Briefing….
Email your MP to ensure they attend.
nebriefing.org
#neb #nationalemergencybriefing
#ukparliament #climate
Email your MP to ensure they attend.
nebriefing.org
#neb #nationalemergencybriefing
#ukparliament #climate
October 21, 2025 at 11:12 AM
Our lead organiser @sioldridge.bsky.social explaining the thinking behind the National Emergency Briefing….
Email your MP to ensure they attend.
nebriefing.org
#neb #nationalemergencybriefing
#ukparliament #climate
Email your MP to ensure they attend.
nebriefing.org
#neb #nationalemergencybriefing
#ukparliament #climate
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I do think this sort of open, gutter racism becoming normal enough that they feel comfortable saying it on TV is probably the most damning indictment of the last 5 years.
The quotes in this are so fucking bad I had to check several times it wasn’t a deep fake
www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...
www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...
Reform UK MP says seeing adverts 'full of Black people' drives her 'mad'
Sarah Pochin was responding to a question about whether her party will do anything about the 'representation of demographics in TV adverts', and claimed white people were 'demonised'
www.mirror.co.uk
October 25, 2025 at 5:47 PM
I do think this sort of open, gutter racism becoming normal enough that they feel comfortable saying it on TV is probably the most damning indictment of the last 5 years.
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Debate on the reality of climate change. In whose interest is such a debate needed? GBNews’s viewers or its UAE based owners?
Just when honest and truthful reporting on climate change is most urgently needed, Ofcom under its current chair has effectively suspended its accuracy rules on this life-and-death issue. /1
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
‘Enforced veganism’: Ofcom lets GB News flout accuracy rules, say climate campaigners
Exclusive: Regulator has received 1,221 complaints about UK broadcasters since 2020 but found no breaches of its code
www.theguardian.com
October 25, 2025 at 7:33 AM
Debate on the reality of climate change. In whose interest is such a debate needed? GBNews’s viewers or its UAE based owners?
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Govt publishes England water companies' league of sewage dumping and pollution .
Worst since 2011. 9 companies collectively received 19 out of possible 36 stars.
Thames Water the lowest rating of 1. Seven firms score only 2.
No fines on execs. No exec prosecuted. Dividends paid. Customers fleeced
Worst since 2011. 9 companies collectively received 19 out of possible 36 stars.
Thames Water the lowest rating of 1. Seven firms score only 2.
No fines on execs. No exec prosecuted. Dividends paid. Customers fleeced
Water and sewerage companies in England: environmental performance report for 2024
www.gov.uk
October 24, 2025 at 8:39 AM
Govt publishes England water companies' league of sewage dumping and pollution .
Worst since 2011. 9 companies collectively received 19 out of possible 36 stars.
Thames Water the lowest rating of 1. Seven firms score only 2.
No fines on execs. No exec prosecuted. Dividends paid. Customers fleeced
Worst since 2011. 9 companies collectively received 19 out of possible 36 stars.
Thames Water the lowest rating of 1. Seven firms score only 2.
No fines on execs. No exec prosecuted. Dividends paid. Customers fleeced
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built on theft and at massive environmental cost and most importantly, numerous studies keep demonstrating that genAI tools often work a little better than by chance. how is it that we can’t expunge these slop machines out of our institutions and communities
www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/...
www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/...
Largest study of its kind shows AI assistants misrepresent news content 45% of the time – regardless of language or territory
An intensive international study was coordinated by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) and led by the BBC
www.bbc.co.uk
October 24, 2025 at 10:00 AM
built on theft and at massive environmental cost and most importantly, numerous studies keep demonstrating that genAI tools often work a little better than by chance. how is it that we can’t expunge these slop machines out of our institutions and communities
www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/...
www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/...
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New satellite images show the scale of demolition that has occurred on the East Wing of the White House in less than a month.
October 23, 2025 at 7:02 PM
New satellite images show the scale of demolition that has occurred on the East Wing of the White House in less than a month.
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Great to see @russellscott1.bsky.social shortlisted for a British journalism award for his brilliant @bylinetimes.bsky.social investigations into the VIP lane PPE scandal pressgazette.co.uk/press-gazett...
October 23, 2025 at 1:10 PM
Great to see @russellscott1.bsky.social shortlisted for a British journalism award for his brilliant @bylinetimes.bsky.social investigations into the VIP lane PPE scandal pressgazette.co.uk/press-gazett...
