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Steve Yates @yatesyman.bsky.social · 13h

Fight the Power
Isley Brothers 9/10
Public Enemy 10/10

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Steve Yates @yatesyman.bsky.social · 13h

My Girl - Madness and Temptations. Both 10/10

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Steve Yates @yatesyman.bsky.social · 18h

Indeed. Full Fact published this several days before HIGNFY went out. fullfact.org/technology/d...

Has Euan Blair’s company Multiverse been chosen to run the government’s new digital ID scheme? – Full Fact

Multiverse is an “upskilling company”, not a software developer, and both it and the government say there’s no truth to viral claims linking it to the scheme.

fullfact.org

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Steve Yates @yatesyman.bsky.social · 18h

Yes, exactly this. The number of times Hislop has been the butt of (decades out-of-date) libel jokes on that show and, what, you're not running your 'edgy' topical news show via a libel lawyer in the 24h between recording and transmission?

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Steve Yates @yatesyman.bsky.social · 18h

For me, it's less about young v old than 'One person picked up an online mistake and you let that travel all the way thru from script to broadcast without anyone raising the alarm – WTF?'

Steve Yates @yatesyman.bsky.social · 19h

You could add "and bought the Spectator for about 3x the going rate" to that mini-bio.

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Ben Stanley @benstanley.eu · 22h

Nicely done

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Steve Yates @yatesyman.bsky.social · 21h

Semi-melted Yorkie bar tucked in the inside breast pocket.

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Steve Yates @yatesyman.bsky.social · 22h

So much this. And even when it wasn't high in the charts, it was shot through so much of the best of the post-punk era.

But yeah, do concoct some 'safari' story if it helps…

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Alexander Clarkson @aphclarkson.bsky.social · 23h

Pavel Durov tweeted this from UAE after making an immense fortune in Putin's Russia

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Steve Yates @yatesyman.bsky.social · 23h

Following the APC delivery tracker is one of my favourite forms of masochism. It's not due till "05.30pm–07.30pm" (no, it can't even write the time properly), but I'm already watching fascinated as the delivery count goes BACK by five in the space of half an hour.

Steve Yates @yatesyman.bsky.social · 1d

Spot the interviewer who asked AI to write his questions for him.

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Steve Yates @yatesyman.bsky.social · 1d

I get the feeling Shapiro has consumed a fuckton of Sam Altman propaganda and not one second of Simon's TV shows.

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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 2d

Casually announcing plans to murder American citizens for wrongthink.

Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 2d

My gosh. After the US bombed multiple boats in the middle of the ocean, murdering people on grounds that they were allegedly "carrying drugs," the US Attorney General says "Just like we did with cartels, we're going to take the same approach, President Trump, with Antifa."

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David Klemperer @dmk1793.bsky.social · 1d

I think it's bad that we allow financiers operating out of the gulf states to run massive private propaganda operations designed to undermine British democracy and stir up racial hatred

Ben Fenton @benfenton.bsky.social · 2d

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 · 2d

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

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Jay Rayner @jayrayner1.bsky.social · 2d

In other news Charlie Redmayne, the long serving CEO of HC in the UK, resigned yesterday.

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Steve Yates @yatesyman.bsky.social · 1d

For the love of christ, just FUCK OFF WITH THIS SHIT

Steve Yates @yatesyman.bsky.social · 1d

No, no, he definitely fucked that pig. Right in its mouth. The dirty pigfucker.

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Steve Yates @yatesyman.bsky.social · 1d

Hi @jacobmorris.bsky.social, you quite sure about this line in your piece? Gill confessed and was convicted so you might want to revisit that.

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Steve Yates @yatesyman.bsky.social · 1d

Do you mean this former Reform Wales leader Nathan Gill, BBC?

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Steve Yates @yatesyman.bsky.social · 1d

Please don't make me read about Tortoise and I promise to read your Prince piece TWICE

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Steve Yates @yatesyman.bsky.social · 1d

WTF? The last issue only arrived 5 mins ago!

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Ben Fenton @benfenton.bsky.social · 2d

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 · 2d

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

GB News suffers huge loss despite doubling revenue and growing audience

The TV channel, whose well-known presenters include Reform UK leader Nigel Farage, fell to a pre-tax loss of £33.4m in the year to 31 May, 2024

www.business-live.co.uk

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John C @badsocialism.bsky.social · 3d

It's really important to understand that anyone who says we should be like the UAE fundamentally hates every principle western society has held or attempted to uphold since the French Revolution.

And at a less ideological level, they also just hate Britain.

Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 3d

Party donor Nick Candy says "I cherish the values we grew up with here in the West. But today you are more likely to find the values we grew up with in Dubai and Abu Dhabi.’

Via Sam Leith in the Spectator
www.spectator.co.uk/article/the-...

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Albert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 2d

“the girlfriend of one of the founders of antifa”

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