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I have my doubts...
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I'm really pleased that the accusations against Farage are quite rightly not going away. He appears very, very rattled and deservedly so.

This is very long overdue.
December 6, 2025 at 7:42 PM
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What sort of reporting is this? 'Good news'?
December 6, 2025 at 9:24 PM
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So the BBC have issued a survey to GPs about over diagnosis of mental health issues. We don't get to see the survey of course and lo and behold, the small percentage of GPs who responded agree with the thesis! This is journalism now, apparently.
December 6, 2025 at 10:19 AM
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Why is the fucking AWFUL #BBC sending GPs questionnaires about mh? They sent out 5,000 questionnaires to 40,000 GPs with no targeting at all, received 752 responses, and then write a hit piece with the headline:
December 6, 2025 at 9:18 AM
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Interesting thing to take away here.

BBC asked 5000 doctors to take part in a survey about overdiagnosis of mental health conditions. Only 15% of them responded.

And what do you think the belief will be of that 15% who specifically wanted to respond to a study into overdiagnosis? 🤔
December 6, 2025 at 8:46 AM
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The fact that many GPs don't believe people with mental health conditions will not be news to those of us with mental health conditions who have had to deal with these cunts.

Kudos on the BBC for continuing to manufacture consent to take away our rights and healthcare though.
'Life being stressful is not an illness' - GPs on mental health over-diagnosis
Hundreds of GPs in England tell the BBC they are also worried about a lack of help for patients.
www.bbc.co.uk
December 6, 2025 at 8:39 AM
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The BBC sent a survey to GPs asking them about mental health services, and the response was that GPs think mental health issues are over-diagnosed “a little” but overwhelmingly say that adequate mental health support is non-existent

So obviously this is the headline BBC News run with
December 6, 2025 at 1:50 PM
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Turns out the “draw” in “World Cup draw” was short for “draw this sh** out as long as possible”
December 5, 2025 at 5:58 PM
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FIFA are literally showing us that they know how to rig something that looks like a draw for the first 3 teams!
December 5, 2025 at 5:54 PM
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Truly shocking that Rachel Reeves had the audacity to call herself the U14 girls chess champions when she won the U14 girls chess championship but some bloke thought she was talking about something else.
December 3, 2025 at 12:41 PM
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Great culture can save lives. Literally.

Amazing letter in today’s @thetimes.com about Tom Stoppard
December 2, 2025 at 8:48 AM
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Today the news will be about the government's proposals for juries.

Please read this thread so as to be informed about the actual practical problems in the criminal justice system - problems which will not be solved by this misconceived and illiberal tinkering.
Here is a list of reasons why some of my hearings and trials this year have been delayed and kicked off into the long grass, stuck in our record court backlog. Serious allegations which will now be tried *years* after the event. 🧵👇
December 2, 2025 at 7:11 AM
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All this budget news, claims, counter claims is confusing, but two things of consequence.

1. We're all talking about that, not any financial benefits (or losses) of the budget.

2. Yet more focus on the very weird few weeks and politics of it all. Starting to feel dangerously like a norm.
December 1, 2025 at 1:09 PM
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Back in March 2022, while Russia was invading Ukraine, Farage was defending the rights of Russian oligarchs.

Why was he so concerned about their welfare? Is there something we don't know about Farage and Russian oligarchs?
November 29, 2025 at 1:02 PM
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Lots of people sharing this clip because it's funny and cathartic but I also genuinely believe it's important.

We have to win the narrative battle between "I live in a corrupt society and that's just how it is" and "I live in a corrupt society and we are going to defeat and humiliate these ghouls."
Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷
November 26, 2025 at 4:07 PM
The terms "piss up" and "brewery" spring to mind...
November 29, 2025 at 9:52 PM
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'We have historically high welfare spending.' No we don't.

'We have a historically high proportion of working-age people not actually working.' No we don't.

'The number of Britons emigrating is skyrocketing.' No it isn't.
November 29, 2025 at 5:08 PM
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Also the Romans literally had a welfare system that included cash transfers for poor children. (And subsidised grain for low income workers...).
There was no state. Who does she think crucified him, an anarchist collective?
November 28, 2025 at 11:23 AM
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There was no state. Who does she think crucified him, an anarchist collective?
November 28, 2025 at 11:22 AM
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How the Daily Mail has responded to a Budget that will slightly raise wages for young people, vs how they responded to a Budget that almost crashed the entire economy
November 26, 2025 at 11:32 AM
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I haven't seen any yet but you could probably find a few contemporaries who didn't personally witness Farage being Farage at school. But there doesn't seem to be a single former pupil or teacher who find the descriptions of racism, anti-semitism & cruelty unfeasible. Shocked, I tell you...
November 26, 2025 at 8:59 AM
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Rutger Bregman, the Dutch historian and best-selling author, has accused the BBC of censoring one of his Reith lectures, in which he described Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history”.

www.ft.com/content/07d8...
Dutch historian accuses BBC of censoring his Trump comments
Rutger Bregman hits out at broadcaster after it removes a sentence from one of his Reith lectures
www.ft.com
November 25, 2025 at 6:09 PM
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If multiple people can remember someone being horribly racist, even by the appalling low bar of the racist 1970s, that is entirely noteworthy.

As an adult Farage fanboyed Enoch Powell - the most infamous racist of the 1960s - and long cited him as his political hero.

And that's noteworthy too.
November 25, 2025 at 2:23 PM
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Well that’s sunk what little might have been left of Chris Mason’s repution.
Robbie Gibb describes the BBC's Political Editor Chris Mason as the "unsung hero of covering politics" and "absolutely first rate"
November 24, 2025 at 8:03 PM
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Twitter accounts are based in Russia. BlueSky accounts are based in homes with, frankly, too many books, plants, obsolete cables, and pieces of rustic pottery, that could do with a bit of a tidying up, to be honest.
November 23, 2025 at 8:29 PM