Ken Ferrett
@kenferrett.bsky.social
Reformed Labour tribalist. Relapsed vinyl junkie. Anti-Trump and anti-woke. Pro-whippet and pro-GBR Republic. Know your enemy.
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Ken Ferrett
@kenferrett.bsky.social
· Sep 5
Nick Robinson, in a conversation on Reform UK with Chris Mason this morning, said, "the scrutiny will now start..." Not holding my breath.
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“When I was [at the BBC], at the height of Boris Johnson’s strength, that fear was ubiquitous. Scripts were sometimes written with a view not solely to their impartiality or truth, but the management of perception of impartiality from one side of the spectrum.“ @lewisgoodall.com
The truth about impartiality at the BBC
And the hysteria of the current "crisis"
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November 10, 2025 at 8:21 PM
“When I was [at the BBC], at the height of Boris Johnson’s strength, that fear was ubiquitous. Scripts were sometimes written with a view not solely to their impartiality or truth, but the management of perception of impartiality from one side of the spectrum.“ @lewisgoodall.com
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Like Hollyoaks, but with Trots.
Your Party row erupts over hundreds of thousands of pounds in donations
Your Party row erupts over hundreds of thousands of pounds in donations
Corbyn and Sultana clash comes after months of fighting between the pair both jostling to be leader of populist left
The feud between Jeremy Corbyn and Zarah Sultana over the future of a left wing party took another twist as the two camps argued publicly over hundreds of thousands of pounds in donations.
Sultana on Monday offered to transfer £600,000 from a company which the party’s founders set up earlier this year, only to be rebuffed by allies of Corbyn who accused her of playing “political games” with supporters’ money. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
November 10, 2025 at 9:29 PM
Like Hollyoaks, but with Trots.
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NEW: Rachel Reeves signals she intends to remove the two-child cap *in full*
"I don't think a child should be penalised because they're in a bigger family through no fault of their own," she tells BBC.
"I don't think a child should be penalised because they're in a bigger family through no fault of their own," she tells BBC.
November 10, 2025 at 3:05 PM
NEW: Rachel Reeves signals she intends to remove the two-child cap *in full*
"I don't think a child should be penalised because they're in a bigger family through no fault of their own," she tells BBC.
"I don't think a child should be penalised because they're in a bigger family through no fault of their own," she tells BBC.
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There are British Trump fans on Twitter openly begging him to sue the BBC so we the tax payer can hand him a few million.
What a time to be alive.
What a time to be alive.
November 10, 2025 at 3:15 PM
There are British Trump fans on Twitter openly begging him to sue the BBC so we the tax payer can hand him a few million.
What a time to be alive.
What a time to be alive.
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I'm so, so sick of hearing about immigration. It's like a foghorn 24/7. On the news. In the papers. In the shops and the pub. In the coffee shop. For God's sake just knock it off - yeah it's important, but it's not the only or even the main thing going on.
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UK seeks inspiration from Denmark to shake up immigration system
Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood is taking cues from some of the toughest migration laws in Europe.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 9, 2025 at 9:58 AM
I'm so, so sick of hearing about immigration. It's like a foghorn 24/7. On the news. In the papers. In the shops and the pub. In the coffee shop. For God's sake just knock it off - yeah it's important, but it's not the only or even the main thing going on.
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Especially if we reduce it to small boats crossing the channel.
November 9, 2025 at 10:02 AM
Especially if we reduce it to small boats crossing the channel.
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Our expectations were low but fucking hell. "The Irish", is it
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Uh huh
November 9, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Our expectations were low but fucking hell. "The Irish", is it
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Actually, I wear the iridescent green poppy that commemorates the trillions of insects who died in both world wars.
November 9, 2025 at 4:11 PM
Actually, I wear the iridescent green poppy that commemorates the trillions of insects who died in both world wars.
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Seems petty but I strongly resent Truss turning up at the Cenotaph.
Quite apart from her appalling record on literally everything, she's gone full Twitter Fash and as such is the antithesis of everything my friends died for.
Quite apart from her appalling record on literally everything, she's gone full Twitter Fash and as such is the antithesis of everything my friends died for.
November 9, 2025 at 12:14 PM
Seems petty but I strongly resent Truss turning up at the Cenotaph.
Quite apart from her appalling record on literally everything, she's gone full Twitter Fash and as such is the antithesis of everything my friends died for.
Quite apart from her appalling record on literally everything, she's gone full Twitter Fash and as such is the antithesis of everything my friends died for.
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It’s true. My team are in the Championship and there’s truly nothing like celebrating a goal (after maybe a one-second glance to the linesman). When you go from that to a stadium with VAR you really notice the difference.
November 9, 2025 at 12:26 PM
It’s true. My team are in the Championship and there’s truly nothing like celebrating a goal (after maybe a one-second glance to the linesman). When you go from that to a stadium with VAR you really notice the difference.
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Johnson looks like he's rolled in from an all-nighter at the Bullingdon Club. No Labour politician could get away with turning up like that. Look at the state of his shoes. He's an entirely direspectful, self-absorbed, grifting, lying tosspot. .
November 9, 2025 at 12:30 PM
Johnson looks like he's rolled in from an all-nighter at the Bullingdon Club. No Labour politician could get away with turning up like that. Look at the state of his shoes. He's an entirely direspectful, self-absorbed, grifting, lying tosspot. .
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On white poppies, it's worth remembering that they were associated with the Peace Pledge Union, by the late 1930s an objectively pro-Hitler organisation. Some people choose to wear them. They are fools, I'm afraid.
November 9, 2025 at 1:13 PM
On white poppies, it's worth remembering that they were associated with the Peace Pledge Union, by the late 1930s an objectively pro-Hitler organisation. Some people choose to wear them. They are fools, I'm afraid.
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I don’t think it’s inappropriate to have some news stories about migration issues but it is very odd indeed for BBC 6 Music, a station essentially targeted at hipster leftie middle-aged people, to be majoring on asylum seeker stories as much as it does.
*Again* the top story on BBC 6 music is about immigration
How is Shabana Mahmood wanting to introduce a ‘Danish style’ system for refugees the top story this morning?!?
The obsession of 6 Music news on immigration and asylum is frankly bizarre
How is Shabana Mahmood wanting to introduce a ‘Danish style’ system for refugees the top story this morning?!?
The obsession of 6 Music news on immigration and asylum is frankly bizarre
November 8, 2025 at 10:07 AM
I don’t think it’s inappropriate to have some news stories about migration issues but it is very odd indeed for BBC 6 Music, a station essentially targeted at hipster leftie middle-aged people, to be majoring on asylum seeker stories as much as it does.
Over the next couple of weeks or so, our increasingly dishonest media are going to act as if no British government in history has ever broken a manifesto pledge.
'You promised you wouldn't raise direct taxes on working people, so how dare you even consider such things?'
@matthew-wright.bsky.social wonders if Rachel Reeves made that pledge 'to con votes from us mugs'.
@matthew-wright.bsky.social wonders if Rachel Reeves made that pledge 'to con votes from us mugs'.
November 8, 2025 at 9:33 AM
Over the next couple of weeks or so, our increasingly dishonest media are going to act as if no British government in history has ever broken a manifesto pledge.
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Laurence Fox is never again going to be able to threaten to sue anybody for calling him, an increasingly overt racist, racist
November 8, 2025 at 12:32 AM
Laurence Fox is never again going to be able to threaten to sue anybody for calling him, an increasingly overt racist, racist
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It's a long, long list.
It's a long, long list.
Here are all the broken promises after 14 years of Tory rule
From the NHS and housebuilding to banning conversion therapy and levelling up: Here are all the broken promises after 14 years of Tory rule.
www.bigissue.com
November 8, 2025 at 9:21 AM
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It's a long, long list.
It's a long, long list.
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The world’s first trillionaire initiated a move that has left more than half a million people dead, most of whom are children.
November 7, 2025 at 7:39 AM
The world’s first trillionaire initiated a move that has left more than half a million people dead, most of whom are children.
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Heartening to see the Conservative former secretary of state for Justice pointing out how very unfunded the prisons system is.
Rather a pity his timing wasn't a little better, because just a tenth of the money used on unnecessary pre election tax cuts could have made a huge difference
Rather a pity his timing wasn't a little better, because just a tenth of the money used on unnecessary pre election tax cuts could have made a huge difference
November 6, 2025 at 10:32 PM
Heartening to see the Conservative former secretary of state for Justice pointing out how very unfunded the prisons system is.
Rather a pity his timing wasn't a little better, because just a tenth of the money used on unnecessary pre election tax cuts could have made a huge difference
Rather a pity his timing wasn't a little better, because just a tenth of the money used on unnecessary pre election tax cuts could have made a huge difference
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When i was a little boy I bounced around between two homes. One full of snooker on the telly noise, sharing a bed with coats on-top to keep warm, mince & tatties every night, and the other, empty, full of echoes and me with a room on my own on the top floor.
You can guess where a kid felt safer.
You can guess where a kid felt safer.
November 7, 2025 at 9:58 AM
When i was a little boy I bounced around between two homes. One full of snooker on the telly noise, sharing a bed with coats on-top to keep warm, mince & tatties every night, and the other, empty, full of echoes and me with a room on my own on the top floor.
You can guess where a kid felt safer.
You can guess where a kid felt safer.
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Released on this day in 1980: Kings Of The Wild Frontier (album) #AdamAndTheAnts
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November 7, 2025 at 6:52 AM
Released on this day in 1980: Kings Of The Wild Frontier (album) #AdamAndTheAnts
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You must have held at least one (1) real job to opine on "the workplace". Blogger does not count. Conservative think tank does not count.
November 7, 2025 at 6:00 AM
You must have held at least one (1) real job to opine on "the workplace". Blogger does not count. Conservative think tank does not count.
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The government have been rolling the pitch for tax rises for a month, your intervention here is not going to change their plans, and all this is going to do is make things more difficult for the party that you are deputy leader of.
It’s an actively, aggressively stupid intervention on every level.
It’s an actively, aggressively stupid intervention on every level.
“Don’t put up income tax, NI or VAT”…in the same interview “spend more money”. While I think the Labour leadership should have thought more intelligently (read: at all) about how to get out of their tax pledges, can see why they made them!
Labour should stick to manifesto pledges on tax, deputy leader says
The government has repeatedly refused to rule out increasing income tax in this month's Budget.
www.bbc.com
November 6, 2025 at 10:17 PM
The government have been rolling the pitch for tax rises for a month, your intervention here is not going to change their plans, and all this is going to do is make things more difficult for the party that you are deputy leader of.
It’s an actively, aggressively stupid intervention on every level.
It’s an actively, aggressively stupid intervention on every level.
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For as many years as anyone been counting two or more inmates been mistakenly released from British prisons most weeks. Record does not make it acceptable. System needs to be fixed. It does leave me asking why BBC now gripped by end-of-civilisation hysteria heard on Radio 4 Today programme.
November 6, 2025 at 10:52 AM
For as many years as anyone been counting two or more inmates been mistakenly released from British prisons most weeks. Record does not make it acceptable. System needs to be fixed. It does leave me asking why BBC now gripped by end-of-civilisation hysteria heard on Radio 4 Today programme.
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Traditional American politics is premised on the notion that sometimes you lose and sometimes you win and you have to deal with that.
But Trumpism is premised on the notion that any result where you don’t win is illegitimate, unlawful, fraud, criminal.
You can’t negotiate with people like that.
But Trumpism is premised on the notion that any result where you don’t win is illegitimate, unlawful, fraud, criminal.
You can’t negotiate with people like that.
November 5, 2025 at 2:41 AM
Traditional American politics is premised on the notion that sometimes you lose and sometimes you win and you have to deal with that.
But Trumpism is premised on the notion that any result where you don’t win is illegitimate, unlawful, fraud, criminal.
You can’t negotiate with people like that.
But Trumpism is premised on the notion that any result where you don’t win is illegitimate, unlawful, fraud, criminal.
You can’t negotiate with people like that.
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Abby Spanberger will now be governor of Virginia, Mikie Sherrill governor of NJ. I wrote about both of them, and their friend group, last year
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The Democrats’ Patriotic Vanguard
A small group of lawmakers with military or intelligence backgrounds prefigured Harris’s overtly patriotic campaign.
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November 5, 2025 at 4:29 AM
Abby Spanberger will now be governor of Virginia, Mikie Sherrill governor of NJ. I wrote about both of them, and their friend group, last year
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