Thanks Ralph, appreciated.

Can I recommend @jcheall.bsky.social , I buy his "work" quite often. Just a great painter.

The photo on the right was taken by me (possible on the same day but 60 miles north of John's viewpoint?).

There must’ve been dozens, hundreds. Full brass neck mode . #r4today

Agreed. I should have put quotes around ‘democracies’.

It’s not clear to me that democracies can fix climate change.

It’s a decision made in the US it seems.

The US builds the delivery systems for UK nuclear warheads. There’s not much room for manoeuvre, UK and much of Europe are US vassals.

Sounds like he had legit enemies without yet pondering conspiracy but I take your point, it will be ruthlessly exploited.

He absolutely did and I’ve not stopped chuckling since. Can we get it trending? #SunlightOfDisinfectant got a familiar ring to it 😆

But nobody cares. The deliberate obscuring of his name and work are more complete than I thought. I’m howling into the void here. #Bernays #propaganda

Absolutely, see also Bernays. Propaganda is only effective if the target audience have no idea that it’s propaganda. These texts are well known and not even controversial but absolutely buried by the BBC, tells you all you need to know.

I’ve read that Nandy is focused on long term fairness and new more representative ways of staffing the BBC. Seems hopelessly naive to me.

You’re right.

I wonder why they didn’t invite him on….🤔

Not just the owners, the key advertisers too. No paper survives on its cover price, all depend on corporate adverts. Given time you could have cited Peter Oborne who resigned from the Telegraph when they spiked his story about HSBC on whose money they depend. QED.