James O’Brien
@mrjamesob.bsky.social
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Broadcaster @lbc.co.uk Author: https://www.waterstones.com/book/how-they-broke-britain/james-obrien/9780753560365
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mrjamesob.bsky.social
You *really* should be by now but you don’t *actually* have to call them liars or racists, if it offends your commitment to now almost entirely redundant BBC principles of ‘objectivity’ & ‘ balance’. You just have to ask them again & again & again to justify their words & explain their exact meaning
mrjamesob.bsky.social
I’ve been saying this for ten years now but possibly not often enough: Ask Them What They Think The Words They’re Using Mean. And then ask them to name the ‘problematic’ people. We had ‘sovereignty’, ‘laws’ & ‘unelected bureaucrats’. The US now has ‘Antifa’, the ‘radical left’ & ‘insurrection’. Ask!
mrjamesob.bsky.social
I’ve been saying this for ten years now but possibly not often enough: Ask Them What They Think The Words They’re Using Mean. And then ask them to name the ‘problematic’ people. We had ‘sovereignty’, ‘laws’ & ‘unelected bureaucrats’. The US now has ‘Antifa’, the ‘radical left’ & ‘insurrection’. Ask!
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jayrayner1.bsky.social
In other news Charlie Redmayne, the long serving CEO of HC in the UK, resigned yesterday.
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atrupar.com
I propose a deal: Trump gets the Nobel Peace Prize in exchange for the Epstein files
mrjamesob.bsky.social
We seem to have reached the ‘portraying the KKK in a negative light is controversial’ stage already.
discussingfilm.net
Ubisoft canceled an ‘ASSASSINS CREED’ game set in the post-Civil War era

• Featured a Black Assassin who was formerly a slave

• Players would fight the emerging KKK

• Leadership canceled it after concerns with U.S. political climate & Yasuke backlash

(Source: www.gamefile.news/p/scoop-ubis...)
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timothysnyder.bsky.social
Our authoritarianism is run on clichés borrowed from the Eastern Europe of twenty years ago. Paid protestors, disloyal cities, evil Soros, vast conspiracies — it was all tiresome then and there, and now it’s pathetic.
atrupar.com
Trump: "They're, like, insurrectionists, they're terrible people. But you really wonder why. Why are they doing it? What are they gaining? Other than they're obviously paid. They're paid a lot of money."
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kylegriffin1.bsky.social
Rep. Jamie Raskin has sent letters to four of the nation's largest banks demanding information related to "more than $1.5 billion in suspicious financial transactions flagged by the banks tied to sex trafficking crimes committed by Jeffrey Epstein, Ghislaine Maxwell and their co-conspirators."
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iainlee.com
First time me and Mackenzie have been on stage together in 25 years.
gingerbeardmark.bsky.social
I’m hosting a Q&A for Mackenzie Crook and @iainlee.com next month.

We are showing a never before seen pilot for the “Crook and Lee” sketch show, written and directed by @bobmort.bsky.social

Should be a hoot!

Tickets:
mockingbirdcinema.com/MockingbirdC...
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gtconway.bsky.social
So yesterday a reporter asked Donald Trump about the writ of habeas corpus, and he had no idea what it was.

"I don't know," he said. "I'd rather leave that to Kristi."

Well, It turns out Sen. Hassan asked Kristi Noem about it in May, and this was Noem's response:
atrupar.com
HASSAN: What is habeas corpus?

NOEM: Habeas corpus is a constitutional right that the president has to be able to remove people from this country

HASSAN: That's incorrect
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thenerve.news
2/ BOOK: How They Broke Britain by @mrjamesob.bsky.social

"This book is about the UK political, social and media landscape over the past 30 years. I found it useful, and angering"
Book cover of How They Broke Britain by James O'Brien
mrjamesob.bsky.social
ronpickering.bsky.social
@mrjamesob.bsky.social what an asbolute titan of a journalist Noga Tarnopolsky is, we've been subjected to two years of egregious blowhards across broadcast media giving their fact free, mostly bilious "expertise" often for clicks and clout, Noga stands out like a sore thumb in her professonalism
mrjamesob.bsky.social
Bluesky offers to 'translate' this.
mrjamesob.bsky.social
I sometimes worry I exaggerate the collective madness of our media but the people who cheered Brexit, Boris Johnson & Liz Truss's mini-budget are now applauding Kemi Badenoch's speech. 'Parallell universe' doesn't come close. I suppose her not falling over is a win of sorts for them at the moment.
mrjamesob.bsky.social
We offer a glorious plurality of views.
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thetnholler.bsky.social
If you’re not alarmed yet you’re not paying attention. 🇺🇸

www.mediaite.com/media/news/t...
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simonmarksfsn.bsky.social
Just remembered that it's LBC's 52nd birthday today. So I'm even more chuffed than usual to have been on with @mrjamesob.bsky.social this morning @lbc.co.uk, albeit talking about the evisceration of US democracy.

🎧: audioboom.com/posts/878880...
audioboom.com
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iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social
A day in the Portland war zone

The Portland War Zone isn't for everyone but at least the chaos is locally sourced.
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adambienkov.bsky.social
"15 years ago, Polish workers came here to find opportunity. Now Poland is growing twice as fast as we are," says Kemi Badenoch.

Any ideas what may have happened in the interim?