@john0634.bsky.social
Retired and living in Hampshire. Follows Southampton FC, Hampshire CC. Irish heritage. Long Covid. Simple Minds 1979 to 1984, Factory Records and Postcard Records. The Cure and Post Punk. Politically, the centre left and after a "fairer" society. No DMs
Banks are making record profits while our bills go up! 😡 We need to tax bank profits and fund our NHS & schools. Sign the petition and tell Rachel Reeves to #TaxtheBanks you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/ta...
#TaxTheBanks
Years of higher interest rates have sent our rent, mortgage, and debt payments soaring, while banks have raked in huge profits for doing absolutely nothing.
The big four UK banks (Barclays, HSBC, Ll...
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November 11, 2025 at 4:36 PM
Banks are making record profits while our bills go up! 😡 We need to tax bank profits and fund our NHS & schools. Sign the petition and tell Rachel Reeves to #TaxtheBanks you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/ta...
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I posted earlier we needed a site similar to the tactical voting site that helped bring down the Tories last election.
This has recommendations, and media to post online:
stopreformuk.vote
This has recommendations, and media to post online:
stopreformuk.vote
November 11, 2025 at 3:18 AM
I posted earlier we needed a site similar to the tactical voting site that helped bring down the Tories last election.
This has recommendations, and media to post online:
stopreformuk.vote
This has recommendations, and media to post online:
stopreformuk.vote
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Nigel Farage has got almost all of his tens of millions of pounds of donations from Weapons Companies, Fossil Fuel and Tobacco.
He is most corporatist of them all.
He is most corporatist of them all.
November 10, 2025 at 11:37 PM
Nigel Farage has got almost all of his tens of millions of pounds of donations from Weapons Companies, Fossil Fuel and Tobacco.
He is most corporatist of them all.
He is most corporatist of them all.
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SUPERB and angrily unvarnished response, by former BBC chairman, Lord Patten.
"I don't think that we should allow ourselves to be bullied into thinking that the BBC is only any good, if it reflects the prejudice of the last person who shouted at it." ~AA
"I don't think that we should allow ourselves to be bullied into thinking that the BBC is only any good, if it reflects the prejudice of the last person who shouted at it." ~AA
November 10, 2025 at 6:40 PM
SUPERB and angrily unvarnished response, by former BBC chairman, Lord Patten.
"I don't think that we should allow ourselves to be bullied into thinking that the BBC is only any good, if it reflects the prejudice of the last person who shouted at it." ~AA
"I don't think that we should allow ourselves to be bullied into thinking that the BBC is only any good, if it reflects the prejudice of the last person who shouted at it." ~AA
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The first step towards saving our precious BBC: remove Robbie Gibb from the board | Ed Davey
The first step towards saving our precious BBC: remove Robbie Gibb from the board | Ed Davey
The BBC belongs to all of us, and it is under attack as never before. The government must defend it from its enemies, within and without, says Liberal Democrat leader Ed Davey
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November 11, 2025 at 10:17 AM
The first step towards saving our precious BBC: remove Robbie Gibb from the board | Ed Davey
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Keir Starmer spoke yesterday to the UAE president "pushing all parties to cease hostilities" in Sudan.
Britain has exported over £417m worth of arms to the UAE in the past 3 years, some of which items are now showing up in Sudan's devastating war.
www.gov.uk/government/n...
Britain has exported over £417m worth of arms to the UAE in the past 3 years, some of which items are now showing up in Sudan's devastating war.
www.gov.uk/government/n...
PM call with His Highness Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, President of the United Arab Emirates: 10 November 2025
This morning the Prime Minister spoke to His Highness Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, President of the United Arab Emirates.
www.gov.uk
November 11, 2025 at 9:02 AM
Keir Starmer spoke yesterday to the UAE president "pushing all parties to cease hostilities" in Sudan.
Britain has exported over £417m worth of arms to the UAE in the past 3 years, some of which items are now showing up in Sudan's devastating war.
www.gov.uk/government/n...
Britain has exported over £417m worth of arms to the UAE in the past 3 years, some of which items are now showing up in Sudan's devastating war.
www.gov.uk/government/n...
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This lifts me up - we need to hear this more often, it’s inspiring and rousing! Such a wonderful poem read beautifully 💚🙏🏻
October 17, 2025 at 9:51 AM
This lifts me up - we need to hear this more often, it’s inspiring and rousing! Such a wonderful poem read beautifully 💚🙏🏻
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There was a time when I'd have cared deeply about the BBC.
But they adopted a deliberate policy of kowtowing to the right, backing away from every fight, believing compliance would protect the license fee, and the right would leave them alone.
Stand up to bullies, or get knocked down by reality.
But they adopted a deliberate policy of kowtowing to the right, backing away from every fight, believing compliance would protect the license fee, and the right would leave them alone.
Stand up to bullies, or get knocked down by reality.
November 10, 2025 at 5:34 PM
There was a time when I'd have cared deeply about the BBC.
But they adopted a deliberate policy of kowtowing to the right, backing away from every fight, believing compliance would protect the license fee, and the right would leave them alone.
Stand up to bullies, or get knocked down by reality.
But they adopted a deliberate policy of kowtowing to the right, backing away from every fight, believing compliance would protect the license fee, and the right would leave them alone.
Stand up to bullies, or get knocked down by reality.
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Wanna know why my sympathy for the BBC has run out?
Let me remind you of this little charade, while Boris Johnson was PM, and the head of the BBC secretly helped Darth Bagpuss to organise a secret £800,000 slush fund from a foreign national.
Let me remind you of this little charade, while Boris Johnson was PM, and the head of the BBC secretly helped Darth Bagpuss to organise a secret £800,000 slush fund from a foreign national.
November 10, 2025 at 7:55 PM
Wanna know why my sympathy for the BBC has run out?
Let me remind you of this little charade, while Boris Johnson was PM, and the head of the BBC secretly helped Darth Bagpuss to organise a secret £800,000 slush fund from a foreign national.
Let me remind you of this little charade, while Boris Johnson was PM, and the head of the BBC secretly helped Darth Bagpuss to organise a secret £800,000 slush fund from a foreign national.
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Good morning to all those people who wasted the last decade saying, "there's no point tackling climate change in the UK, because China."
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
China’s CO2 emissions have been flat or falling for past 18 months, analysis finds
World’s biggest polluter on track to hit peak emissions target early but miss goal for cutting carbon intensity
www.theguardian.com
November 11, 2025 at 7:08 AM
Good morning to all those people who wasted the last decade saying, "there's no point tackling climate change in the UK, because China."
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
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I agree that the BBC should apologise to Trump for being misleading.
Right after Trump apologises for the 30,573 false or misleading claims he made during his first presidency, or for each of his current daily average of 21 new lies per.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_o...
Right after Trump apologises for the 30,573 false or misleading claims he made during his first presidency, or for each of his current daily average of 21 new lies per.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_o...
November 11, 2025 at 11:55 AM
I agree that the BBC should apologise to Trump for being misleading.
Right after Trump apologises for the 30,573 false or misleading claims he made during his first presidency, or for each of his current daily average of 21 new lies per.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_o...
Right after Trump apologises for the 30,573 false or misleading claims he made during his first presidency, or for each of his current daily average of 21 new lies per.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_o...
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New post just out:
Why the criminal justice system should be top of No. 10's "shit list".
No part of the public sector is more broken or brings with it greater political risk. As we saw these past two weeks.
It desperately needs a new approach.
(£/free trial)
open.substack.com/pub/samf/p/f...
Why the criminal justice system should be top of No. 10's "shit list".
No part of the public sector is more broken or brings with it greater political risk. As we saw these past two weeks.
It desperately needs a new approach.
(£/free trial)
open.substack.com/pub/samf/p/f...
Flashing Red
Why the criminal justice system should be top of No. 10's "shit list"
open.substack.com
November 8, 2025 at 8:56 AM
New post just out:
Why the criminal justice system should be top of No. 10's "shit list".
No part of the public sector is more broken or brings with it greater political risk. As we saw these past two weeks.
It desperately needs a new approach.
(£/free trial)
open.substack.com/pub/samf/p/f...
Why the criminal justice system should be top of No. 10's "shit list".
No part of the public sector is more broken or brings with it greater political risk. As we saw these past two weeks.
It desperately needs a new approach.
(£/free trial)
open.substack.com/pub/samf/p/f...
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Ok President Trump, if you sue the BBC for $1bn for spreading lies, I’ll sue you for the same amount. I reckon Planet Earth would crowdfund that. Then I’ll buy Mar A Largo, turn it into a climate change research centre, free Melania, and put a 1000% tariff on orange face paint.
November 10, 2025 at 7:29 PM
Ok President Trump, if you sue the BBC for $1bn for spreading lies, I’ll sue you for the same amount. I reckon Planet Earth would crowdfund that. Then I’ll buy Mar A Largo, turn it into a climate change research centre, free Melania, and put a 1000% tariff on orange face paint.
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Once every 20 years or so, the director-general of the BBC is forced to resign for being insufficiently rightwing. Alastair Milne in 1987. Greg Dyke in 2004. Tim Davie in 2025. The great irony is that the BBC was in all cases profoundly biased towards established power. But just not biased enough …
November 10, 2025 at 5:44 AM
Once every 20 years or so, the director-general of the BBC is forced to resign for being insufficiently rightwing. Alastair Milne in 1987. Greg Dyke in 2004. Tim Davie in 2025. The great irony is that the BBC was in all cases profoundly biased towards established power. But just not biased enough …
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"The problem isn’t that we have a deliberately biased BBC, it’s that we have a BBC that has been consciously reduced in its scope and bullied into dumbing down and retreating." @stephenkb.bsky.social's newsletter today
November 10, 2025 at 9:40 AM
"The problem isn’t that we have a deliberately biased BBC, it’s that we have a BBC that has been consciously reduced in its scope and bullied into dumbing down and retreating." @stephenkb.bsky.social's newsletter today
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The complaints process is lousy and designed to put people off proceeding.
Some further thoughts on the BBC
johnhuwevans.wordpress.com/2025/10/22/a...
Some further thoughts on the BBC
johnhuwevans.wordpress.com/2025/10/22/a...
A PATTERN OF PROPAGANDA
By Cassander Introduction Many years ago I recall saying that if both sides criticise the BBC it must be alright. I was wrong. The side it favours has to continue to criticise it to give credibilit…
johnhuwevans.wordpress.com
November 10, 2025 at 10:54 AM
The complaints process is lousy and designed to put people off proceeding.
Some further thoughts on the BBC
johnhuwevans.wordpress.com/2025/10/22/a...
Some further thoughts on the BBC
johnhuwevans.wordpress.com/2025/10/22/a...
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Incredible that Robbie Gibb - most influential person on BBC board by many accounts and from journalists I speak in BBC - was involved in setting up GB News.
GB News of course has breached Ofcom rules on *multiple* occasions - no sign of resignations though
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
GB News of course has breached Ofcom rules on *multiple* occasions - no sign of resignations though
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
November 10, 2025 at 8:25 AM
Incredible that Robbie Gibb - most influential person on BBC board by many accounts and from journalists I speak in BBC - was involved in setting up GB News.
GB News of course has breached Ofcom rules on *multiple* occasions - no sign of resignations though
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
GB News of course has breached Ofcom rules on *multiple* occasions - no sign of resignations though
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Andrew Lownie wrote an explosive book about Prince Andrew
Then backlash came.
Legal threats. Social media trolls accused him of visiting sex workers
Journalists were told they’d lose Palace access if they spoke to him
This interview feels very more timely today www.youtube.com/watch?v=OJHa...
Then backlash came.
Legal threats. Social media trolls accused him of visiting sex workers
Journalists were told they’d lose Palace access if they spoke to him
This interview feels very more timely today www.youtube.com/watch?v=OJHa...
The Prince Andrew Cover Up: How Royal Files Are Hidden From Public | Andrew Lownie
YouTube video by Democracy for Sale
www.youtube.com
November 10, 2025 at 12:47 PM
Andrew Lownie wrote an explosive book about Prince Andrew
Then backlash came.
Legal threats. Social media trolls accused him of visiting sex workers
Journalists were told they’d lose Palace access if they spoke to him
This interview feels very more timely today www.youtube.com/watch?v=OJHa...
Then backlash came.
Legal threats. Social media trolls accused him of visiting sex workers
Journalists were told they’d lose Palace access if they spoke to him
This interview feels very more timely today www.youtube.com/watch?v=OJHa...
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Good piece by @nickcohen.bsky.social on what some would call the crisis engulfing the BBC. (Whether that’s a reasonable description remains to be seen.)
open.substack.com/pub/nickcohe...
open.substack.com/pub/nickcohe...
November 9, 2025 at 7:40 PM
Good piece by @nickcohen.bsky.social on what some would call the crisis engulfing the BBC. (Whether that’s a reasonable description remains to be seen.)
open.substack.com/pub/nickcohe...
open.substack.com/pub/nickcohe...
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Anyone who wants to know the truth about the BBC resignations should listen to @mrjamesob.bsky.social live or on catchup today. #bbcresignations
In 'How They Broke Britain', I do a pretty good job of detailing the depth & breadth of Tufton Street/Tory/Murdoch/Mail attempts to scupper the BBC, even as I castigate some presenters for going too easy on precisely the people who seek the Corporation's abolition. But I should have done more. 1/2
November 10, 2025 at 10:28 AM
Anyone who wants to know the truth about the BBC resignations should listen to @mrjamesob.bsky.social live or on catchup today. #bbcresignations
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Tim Davie ex BBC Director General is a woke, liberal chai latte drinking socialist who promotes subversive politics. He deserves his sacking!
What?
He’s a Tory?😳
He was ex chair of Hammersmith & Fulham Conservative Party?
Reinstate him NOW!
The BBC needs people of his calbre!
What?
He’s a Tory?😳
He was ex chair of Hammersmith & Fulham Conservative Party?
Reinstate him NOW!
The BBC needs people of his calbre!
November 10, 2025 at 10:17 AM
Tim Davie ex BBC Director General is a woke, liberal chai latte drinking socialist who promotes subversive politics. He deserves his sacking!
What?
He’s a Tory?😳
He was ex chair of Hammersmith & Fulham Conservative Party?
Reinstate him NOW!
The BBC needs people of his calbre!
What?
He’s a Tory?😳
He was ex chair of Hammersmith & Fulham Conservative Party?
Reinstate him NOW!
The BBC needs people of his calbre!