Debbie Smith
@littleheathd.bsky.social
South East London. Forever European. 🇪🇺🇺🇦🇨🇦
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I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture.
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
November 25, 2025 at 9:26 AM
I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture.
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
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BREAKING: Comey case dismissed without prejudice. Halligan invalidly appointed, judge rules. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
November 24, 2025 at 5:36 PM
BREAKING: Comey case dismissed without prejudice. Halligan invalidly appointed, judge rules. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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Boris Johnson didn't apologise to Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, even when she told him in person the lasting impact his comments about her had on her detention in Iran, her husband tells the BBC
November 23, 2025 at 10:00 AM
Boris Johnson didn't apologise to Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, even when she told him in person the lasting impact his comments about her had on her detention in Iran, her husband tells the BBC
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The Covid inquiry’s findings are shocking but unsurprising now, so the main thing it left me thinking is that without a vaccine we wd’ve been utterly screwed. & if you worked round the clock to make a thing that saved millions of lives globally, to see that legacy trashed by anti-vaxxers…
November 20, 2025 at 5:50 PM
The Covid inquiry’s findings are shocking but unsurprising now, so the main thing it left me thinking is that without a vaccine we wd’ve been utterly screwed. & if you worked round the clock to make a thing that saved millions of lives globally, to see that legacy trashed by anti-vaxxers…
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My mother saved for years to go to Corfu she didn't get charitable status for it.
November 19, 2025 at 5:07 PM
My mother saved for years to go to Corfu she didn't get charitable status for it.
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Labour's Andy Slaughter MP, chair of the Justice Select Committee, addressed a Law for Change event tonight - where he said he expects in the upcoming King's Speech "major reforms to marriage, like [allowing] humanist marriages, & to cohabitation, something that I've campaigned on for a long time" 👀
November 18, 2025 at 9:33 PM
Labour's Andy Slaughter MP, chair of the Justice Select Committee, addressed a Law for Change event tonight - where he said he expects in the upcoming King's Speech "major reforms to marriage, like [allowing] humanist marriages, & to cohabitation, something that I've campaigned on for a long time" 👀
This is part 2 of @sheffieldtribune.bsky.social story I shared earlier this month. Great journalism by a local/regional paper supporting its community
www.sheffieldtribune.co.uk/after-beckys...
www.sheffieldtribune.co.uk/after-beckys...
After Becky’s mum died, it was time to sell her childhood home. Then Andrew Milne got in touch
Plus: As the search for answers continues, The Tribune takes to the road
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November 18, 2025 at 7:49 AM
This is part 2 of @sheffieldtribune.bsky.social story I shared earlier this month. Great journalism by a local/regional paper supporting its community
www.sheffieldtribune.co.uk/after-beckys...
www.sheffieldtribune.co.uk/after-beckys...
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Not the first to make this point. But there is a tyrant in charge of another country who is accused of being heavily linked to a paedophile sex ring - and supposed ‘patriots’ in this country are passionately willing him to take down our national broadcaster. Madness.
November 15, 2025 at 7:57 PM
Not the first to make this point. But there is a tyrant in charge of another country who is accused of being heavily linked to a paedophile sex ring - and supposed ‘patriots’ in this country are passionately willing him to take down our national broadcaster. Madness.
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Without asylum:
Marks and Spencer wouldn't exist
Queen would have been without a front man
The other queen wouldn't have had a husband
Judith Kerr would never have written The Tiger Who Came to Tea
And thousands of less famous people wouldn't have been teachers, politicians, neighbours, etc
Marks and Spencer wouldn't exist
Queen would have been without a front man
The other queen wouldn't have had a husband
Judith Kerr would never have written The Tiger Who Came to Tea
And thousands of less famous people wouldn't have been teachers, politicians, neighbours, etc
November 15, 2025 at 10:04 AM
Without asylum:
Marks and Spencer wouldn't exist
Queen would have been without a front man
The other queen wouldn't have had a husband
Judith Kerr would never have written The Tiger Who Came to Tea
And thousands of less famous people wouldn't have been teachers, politicians, neighbours, etc
Marks and Spencer wouldn't exist
Queen would have been without a front man
The other queen wouldn't have had a husband
Judith Kerr would never have written The Tiger Who Came to Tea
And thousands of less famous people wouldn't have been teachers, politicians, neighbours, etc
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Yup
I despair of Labour. Can we not just have a sensible budget, delivered on the day, that apologises for hard choices and then just gets on with giving us something that will give us some hope? All this briefing and speculation makes them look like clowns.
November 14, 2025 at 8:17 AM
Yup
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This perfectly encapsulates why we need the BBC
November 13, 2025 at 2:12 PM
This perfectly encapsulates why we need the BBC
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To knit together two stories: through intimidation, litigation & extortion, Trump is clearly trying to create a media ecosystem where nobody asks him about Epstein - or indeed anything discomfiting. It is appalling to see so many UK media individuals & institutions aiding & abetting his corruption.
November 13, 2025 at 7:45 AM
To knit together two stories: through intimidation, litigation & extortion, Trump is clearly trying to create a media ecosystem where nobody asks him about Epstein - or indeed anything discomfiting. It is appalling to see so many UK media individuals & institutions aiding & abetting his corruption.
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Love being reminded to do this every year. It's a win/win all round
November 11, 2025 at 11:00 AM
Love being reminded to do this every year. It's a win/win all round
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If we're talking about bias, why do BBC politics programmes, from Politics Live to the Laura Kuennsberg Show, still always begin with a look at the newspaper front pages, which are overwhelmingly biased in one direction. Helps frame the entire news agenda and debate in their favour
November 11, 2025 at 1:09 PM
If we're talking about bias, why do BBC politics programmes, from Politics Live to the Laura Kuennsberg Show, still always begin with a look at the newspaper front pages, which are overwhelmingly biased in one direction. Helps frame the entire news agenda and debate in their favour
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Why can't the BBC just be more impartial towards President Trump, like GB News, says Nigel Farage.
GB News:
GB News:
November 10, 2025 at 9:26 PM
Why can't the BBC just be more impartial towards President Trump, like GB News, says Nigel Farage.
GB News:
GB News:
I have said this before but feel it’s worth saying again to all those baying for the BBCs blood. Yes it’s an imperfect organisation but be careful what you wish for, you will miss in ways you never realised if it goes.
November 10, 2025 at 11:44 AM
I have said this before but feel it’s worth saying again to all those baying for the BBCs blood. Yes it’s an imperfect organisation but be careful what you wish for, you will miss in ways you never realised if it goes.
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![Cartoon by Stephen Collins for The Guardian. Script as follows:
[scene is Winston Churchill in a bbc studio, giving his 'finest hour' speech]
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CHURCHILL:
The whole fury and might of the enemy must very soon be turned on us.
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CHURCHILL:
Hitler knows that he will have to break us in this Island or lose the war.
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CHURCHILL:
If we can stand up to him, all Europe may be free
and the life of the world may move forward into broad, sun-
BBC PRESENTER:
Thank you prime minister
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BBC PRESENTER:
Mr hitler, your response?
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HITLER [in the studio]:
Vell zis is hysterical woke nonsense as usual from mr Churchill
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HITLER:
What we are proposing -
CHURCHILL:
Hang on
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HITLER:
Let me finish - what we are proposing eez a simple power-sharing arrangement -
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CHURCHILL:
What's he doing here
BBC PRESENTER:
It's important we hear both sides of the debate
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CHURCHILL:
This isn't a debate
You don't debate fascists
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HITLER:
Oh here we go with ze Godwins law!
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HITLER:
Why must you people always compare ze things you don't like to 'fascists, Nazis, Hitler'...
CHURCHILL:
Because you are a fascist Nazi Hit-
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HITLER [standing up, saluting]:
RAUSS!
BBC PRESENTER:
*Please* Mr Churchill let him speak
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this is my favourite comment of the day on an FT story
November 9, 2025 at 7:45 PM
this is my favourite comment of the day on an FT story
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This is excellent journalism from the @sheffieldtribune.bsky.social. A local paper working for its community. @matthewpennycookmp.bsky.social I hope action can be taken to deal with this vile man and stopping others getting others from doing the same
This is excellent journalism from the @sheffieldtribune.bsky.social. A local paper working for its community. @matthewpennycookmp.bsky.social I hope action can be taken to deal with this vile man and stopping others getting others from doing the same
A London lawyer bought hundreds of Sheffield freeholds. Then the ‘very aggressive’ letters arrived
Exclusive: The Tribune can reveal that Andrew Milne has threatened leaseholders with high court action. It ‘broke my heart’ one woman says
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November 8, 2025 at 11:00 AM
www.sheffieldtribune.co.uk/a-london-law...
This is excellent journalism from the @sheffieldtribune.bsky.social. A local paper working for its community. @matthewpennycookmp.bsky.social I hope action can be taken to deal with this vile man and stopping others getting others from doing the same
This is excellent journalism from the @sheffieldtribune.bsky.social. A local paper working for its community. @matthewpennycookmp.bsky.social I hope action can be taken to deal with this vile man and stopping others getting others from doing the same
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Contrast this with Trump's infamous mocking of a disabled journalist
This is disability visibility.
Mamdani listened. He didn’t pander or talk over the disabled journalist.
He acknowledged his concerns and gave real responses about how he plans to fix them.
1 in 4 Americans has a disability, it’s a huge number of voters.
Don’t ignore us!
Mamdani listened. He didn’t pander or talk over the disabled journalist.
He acknowledged his concerns and gave real responses about how he plans to fix them.
1 in 4 Americans has a disability, it’s a huge number of voters.
Don’t ignore us!
November 7, 2025 at 10:44 AM
Contrast this with Trump's infamous mocking of a disabled journalist
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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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A lot of people probably won't get how finely crafted this joke is and how many layers it has, applause to Jane
November 5, 2025 at 8:51 AM
A lot of people probably won't get how finely crafted this joke is and how many layers it has, applause to Jane
So sorry to hear Gilson Lavis has died. A hugely talented drummer for Squeeze and the Rhythm & Blues Orchestra RIP
November 6, 2025 at 9:00 PM
So sorry to hear Gilson Lavis has died. A hugely talented drummer for Squeeze and the Rhythm & Blues Orchestra RIP
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He's going to 'make the case for markets' despite screwing up Britain's place in a very large one, and putting up trade barriers.
November 6, 2025 at 8:20 PM
He's going to 'make the case for markets' despite screwing up Britain's place in a very large one, and putting up trade barriers.