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Huw C. Davies @huwcdavies.bsky.social · 8h

It may be performative for some. Before this incident he supported race scientist Noah Carl. Someone should ask him about his views on race and IQ. He never gets the grilling he deserves.

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Huw C. Davies @huwcdavies.bsky.social · 8h

Adam picked up on it because I shared it the day before:

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Huw C. Davies @huwcdavies.bsky.social · 17h

Just need to get rid of Gibb et al. and the head of news who came from GBNews.

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Huw C. Davies @huwcdavies.bsky.social · 17h

They hate it nevertheless.

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Huw C. Davies @huwcdavies.bsky.social · 17h

Through a combination of money, incompetence, and ideology Reform would kill British public institutions including the BBC, universities and the NHS.

Huw C. Davies @huwcdavies.bsky.social · 17h

Marshall wants the BBC broken up and made subscription only. If Reform won power it would do this. Meanwhile, Marshall would subsidise the hell out of the competition making sure it remains free.

Huw C. Davies @huwcdavies.bsky.social · 18h

Yes, it projects Paul Marshall’s ideology into politics and public discourse. A few people on the left on it allow it to cosplay balance, but they are foils to give demagogues permission to rant on topics that also animate Marshall and friends. Presenters even celebrate Marshall’s ‘generosity’.

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Huw C. Davies @huwcdavies.bsky.social · 17h

Marshall wants the BBC broken up and made subscription only. If Reform won power it would do this. Meanwhile, Marshall would subsidise the hell out of the competition making sure it remains free.

Huw C. Davies @huwcdavies.bsky.social · 18h

Yes, it projects Paul Marshall’s ideology into politics and public discourse. A few people on the left on it allow it to cosplay balance, but they are foils to give demagogues permission to rant on topics that also animate Marshall and friends. Presenters even celebrate Marshall’s ‘generosity’.

Ben Fenton @benfenton.bsky.social · 18h

If a news organisation is making -200% margin after five years, it is not a commercial operation and should be assumed to have a different purpose.

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Huw C. Davies @huwcdavies.bsky.social · 18h

Yes, it projects Paul Marshall’s ideology into politics and public discourse. A few people on the left on it allow it to cosplay balance, but they are foils to give demagogues permission to rant on topics that also animate Marshall and friends. Presenters even celebrate Marshall’s ‘generosity’.

Ben Fenton @benfenton.bsky.social · 18h

If a news organisation is making -200% margin after five years, it is not a commercial operation and should be assumed to have a different purpose.

Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 20h

The channel lost £33 million to communicate its content to a large audience
www.business-live.co.uk/enterprise/g...

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Huw C. Davies @huwcdavies.bsky.social · 1d

GBNews is a major vector of ethnonationalism, climate denial and obstruction, and bigotry disguised as as humour. It’s not commercially viable. It’s kept functioning by Paul Marshall and Legatum based in UAE who share its worldview. It’s more of a propaganda outlet than a news channel.

Stop Funding Hate @stopfundinghate.bsky.social · 2d

Ofcom's record is so bad that its former director of standards has spoken out over its mishandling of GB News, suggesting that "Ofcom appears to be unwilling to intervene and unwilling to regulate this channel in the same way as it regulates other television news channels": /8

GB News’s US expansion feared to be new way for Trumpian views to reach UK audience

White House backing was on full display as GB News launched The Late Show Live

www.theguardian.com

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Huw C. Davies @huwcdavies.bsky.social · 1d

Need to invite him on QT next time it’s in Birmingham and have FB read out his description of it.

Huw C. Davies @huwcdavies.bsky.social · 1d

Yes, with deportations, lower taxes for millionaires, banning trans healthcare, and ending net zero.

Huw C. Davies @huwcdavies.bsky.social · 1d

This guy sees what he wants to see. London, Birmingham suburbs, all shit holes.

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Huw C. Davies @huwcdavies.bsky.social · 1d

He can stand with uplifting non-racist campaign slogans such as parts of Britain are ‘shit holes where many people don’t speak English and live on the welfare state’. He’d get Rupert Lowe and Tommy Robinson’s vote.

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Huw C. Davies @huwcdavies.bsky.social · 1d

The outlets, campaign organisations, think tanks, & politicians that Marshall supports & funds, are all opposing climate action & hating on immigrants while claiming to be the Christian good guys. It’s more of a death cult urging us on to the conditions of fascism.

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Huw C. Davies @huwcdavies.bsky.social · 1d

Yes, agree.

Huw C. Davies @huwcdavies.bsky.social · 1d

Having studied his theology and ideology, it seems under appreciated how much Paul Marshall’s outlets reflect them back to him.

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Keith W. Dickinson @keithwdickinson.bsky.social · 1d

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

buff.ly

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Huw C. Davies @huwcdavies.bsky.social · 1d

This isn’t what I found looking at ARC, they claim their ideology was wildly successful in the past and they’ve been sabotaged by an internal enemy.

James Austin @jamesdaustin.bsky.social · 1d

This is my basic theory for a lot of what is going on with the centre right atm

The ideas failed utterly and now there is a total crisis of intellectual confidence

Indy @indy.bsky.social · 3d

It nags at me that people are dancing around the fact that one reason centre-right think-tanks are in an intellectual crisis moment is because we've spent over a decade where lots of their ideas were tried out and didn't pan out as advertised.

Huw C. Davies @huwcdavies.bsky.social · 1d

Universities are the Right's explanation for why so many young don't believe in their conspiracies about globalists and Cultural Marxists, fantasies about Empire and the natural order of things, and reject Christian nationalism and ecocidal capitalism.
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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Huw C. Davies @huwcdavies.bsky.social · 1d

Badenoch and friends hate universities and especially the arts, humanities and social sciences. They blame them for 'poisoning' and 'brainwashing' the minds of the young.

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Sarah Hinds @sarahhinds.bsky.social · 1d

No notes! *chef's kiss*

Marc Morris @marcmorris.bsky.social · 1d

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Huw C. Davies @huwcdavies.bsky.social · 2d

Reform’s channel, GBNews, and the Alliance of Responsible Citizenship are both funded from the UAE. Entirely coincidentally, they all oppose net-zero and any other challenge to the fossil fuel industry.

Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 2d

The UAE is an authoritarian autocracy, a petro-state with no income tax for citizens, to bribe them for the lack of democratic voice or free speech

It is 85% migrant, a segregated society with a ban on integration in principle and practice, few rights, equal opportunities, nor voice for incomers

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Huw C. Davies @huwcdavies.bsky.social · 2d

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Huw C. Davies @huwcdavies.bsky.social · 2d

No mystery - this ‘top expert’ has been telling the GBNews very online right this for months now.

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Huw C. Davies @huwcdavies.bsky.social · 2d

If White suprematism isn’t racist I don’t know what is.

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Huw C. Davies @huwcdavies.bsky.social · 2d

He still trades on his professor and expert status effectively using his position of trust and authority to give permission for people to be racist.

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