Kate Martin
@ktmartin.bsky.social
English and loving living in North Wales.
💚 Mountains, valleys, rivers and seas, even with more rain!
💚 Mountains, valleys, rivers and seas, even with more rain!
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Robbie Gibb was appointed to the BBC Board by Boris Johnson, was an editorial advisor for GB News, and worked as Theresa May's Director of Comms.
He is not impartial or neutral. The government should remove him from the Board immediately to protect the BBC's independence.
He is not impartial or neutral. The government should remove him from the Board immediately to protect the BBC's independence.
November 11, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Robbie Gibb was appointed to the BBC Board by Boris Johnson, was an editorial advisor for GB News, and worked as Theresa May's Director of Comms.
He is not impartial or neutral. The government should remove him from the Board immediately to protect the BBC's independence.
He is not impartial or neutral. The government should remove him from the Board immediately to protect the BBC's independence.
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Reform UK London Assembly Members criticised for missing Remembrance Service
Reform UK London Assembly Members criticised for missing Remembrance Service
The party’s political opponents at City Hall took aim at the two members for not turning up
www.standard.co.uk
November 11, 2025 at 12:05 PM
Reform UK London Assembly Members criticised for missing Remembrance Service
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The Nerve hits the airwaves (with only a bit of swearing) 🔊
Huge thanks to press maestros @arusbridger.bsky.social and @janinegibson.ft.com for hosting our co-founders Carole and Sarah on Media Confidential … listen below
Huge thanks to press maestros @arusbridger.bsky.social and @janinegibson.ft.com for hosting our co-founders Carole and Sarah on Media Confidential … listen below
🎧: @carolecadwalla.bsky.social and @sarahdonaldson.bsky.social discuss their departure from the Observer...and their brand new project, @thenerve.news.
The Nerve: ‘We want to shine a light on culture… with a bit of “F— you” energy on the side’
Carole Cadwalladr and Sarah Donaldson discuss their departure from the Observer...and their brand new project
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk
November 11, 2025 at 11:50 AM
The Nerve hits the airwaves (with only a bit of swearing) 🔊
Huge thanks to press maestros @arusbridger.bsky.social and @janinegibson.ft.com for hosting our co-founders Carole and Sarah on Media Confidential … listen below
Huge thanks to press maestros @arusbridger.bsky.social and @janinegibson.ft.com for hosting our co-founders Carole and Sarah on Media Confidential … listen below
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…the original sin - the ‘bias’ - did not originate in the BBC. Which makes it even weirder that some on the BBC Board decided to use it as a stick to beat the BBC management with, and trigger this existential crisis. They could have blamed the production company, sacked an editor, and moved on.
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November 10, 2025 at 11:04 PM
…the original sin - the ‘bias’ - did not originate in the BBC. Which makes it even weirder that some on the BBC Board decided to use it as a stick to beat the BBC management with, and trigger this existential crisis. They could have blamed the production company, sacked an editor, and moved on.
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No one can accuse Farage on not loving his country. It's just a shame it's the USA.
November 11, 2025 at 9:03 AM
No one can accuse Farage on not loving his country. It's just a shame it's the USA.
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The worst you can accuse Panorama of doing is making a misleading edit – and I’d dispute that! – to make *a point that was true*.
The programme aired without anyone seeing any issues with the edit. It was on iPlayer for a year without complaints. Donald Trump *did* incite Jan 6th.
The programme aired without anyone seeing any issues with the edit. It was on iPlayer for a year without complaints. Donald Trump *did* incite Jan 6th.
Tory culture spox demanding the BBC "grovel" to Trump is baffling. Who is this supposed to chime with?
Just a bizarre line that no one who doesn't use X would ever think.
Just a bizarre line that no one who doesn't use X would ever think.
November 11, 2025 at 8:54 AM
The worst you can accuse Panorama of doing is making a misleading edit – and I’d dispute that! – to make *a point that was true*.
The programme aired without anyone seeing any issues with the edit. It was on iPlayer for a year without complaints. Donald Trump *did* incite Jan 6th.
The programme aired without anyone seeing any issues with the edit. It was on iPlayer for a year without complaints. Donald Trump *did* incite Jan 6th.
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The utter preposterousness of this interview. A media figure talking about BBC bias while describing the president as his "friend". A child could see trough it.
It’s already started - the BBC allows Newsmax boss to opine about bias, suggest some of the Jan 6 mob were merely innocent tourists visiting Congress, without pushback
November 11, 2025 at 8:39 AM
The utter preposterousness of this interview. A media figure talking about BBC bias while describing the president as his "friend". A child could see trough it.
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open.substack.com/pub/rorycell... My BBC/Trump quiz answers with a bonus - advice from Rupert Murdoch to a future BBC DG on dealing with impertinent questions from staff
The BBC and Trump: Quiz answers
Yesterday, as President Trump accused the BBC of corruption and threatened to sue it for $1 billion, I set a little quiz.
open.substack.com
November 11, 2025 at 7:58 AM
open.substack.com/pub/rorycell... My BBC/Trump quiz answers with a bonus - advice from Rupert Murdoch to a future BBC DG on dealing with impertinent questions from staff
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It’s already started - the BBC allows Newsmax boss to opine about bias, suggest some of the Jan 6 mob were merely innocent tourists visiting Congress, without pushback
November 11, 2025 at 8:35 AM
It’s already started - the BBC allows Newsmax boss to opine about bias, suggest some of the Jan 6 mob were merely innocent tourists visiting Congress, without pushback
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This is a genuinely intolerable reality…
November 10, 2025 at 11:01 PM
This is a genuinely intolerable reality…
A really interesting piece on the position the BBC is in and why. Also on the considerable pressures on journalists from Robbie Gibb and his friend David Grossman about what they can say & the fear journalists felt. A senior editor asked Lewis Goodall-what the PM (Johnson) will think abouthis report
November 10, 2025 at 8:25 PM
A really interesting piece on the position the BBC is in and why. Also on the considerable pressures on journalists from Robbie Gibb and his friend David Grossman about what they can say & the fear journalists felt. A senior editor asked Lewis Goodall-what the PM (Johnson) will think abouthis report
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The reaction to the Panorama edit has been nothing short of hysterical. Yes the BBC has some impartiality problems. But its biggest isn't the one you think.
New piece from me.
open.substack.com/pub/goodalla...
New piece from me.
open.substack.com/pub/goodalla...
The truth about impartiality at the BBC
And the hysteria of the current "crisis"
open.substack.com
November 10, 2025 at 7:22 PM
The reaction to the Panorama edit has been nothing short of hysterical. Yes the BBC has some impartiality problems. But its biggest isn't the one you think.
New piece from me.
open.substack.com/pub/goodalla...
New piece from me.
open.substack.com/pub/goodalla...
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Must have missed the explosive row & resignations over the claim, wrongly made by many including here in the Telegraph last week, that this prematurely-released prisoner was an "asylum seeker"
uk.news.yahoo.com/prison-chief...
uk.news.yahoo.com/prison-chief...
Prison chiefs must face justice for such unbelievable ineptitude - Yahoo News UK
It’s happened again. A prisoner has been released by mistake. This time it’s understood to be Ibrahim Kaddour-Cherif, an Algerian asylum seeker with a record of committing sexual offences. He was rele...
uk.news.yahoo.com
November 10, 2025 at 6:20 PM
Must have missed the explosive row & resignations over the claim, wrongly made by many including here in the Telegraph last week, that this prematurely-released prisoner was an "asylum seeker"
uk.news.yahoo.com/prison-chief...
uk.news.yahoo.com/prison-chief...
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I fear we are seeing in the UK what has become abundantly clear in the US: for all their power and privilege, elites and institutions are absolute cowards in the face of right-wing authoritarianism. Weak, weak, weak, as Tony Blair once said
November 10, 2025 at 4:26 PM
I fear we are seeing in the UK what has become abundantly clear in the US: for all their power and privilege, elites and institutions are absolute cowards in the face of right-wing authoritarianism. Weak, weak, weak, as Tony Blair once said
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Some of us called it out as a lie from day one.
He’s more than welcome to visit me and explain, but he not leave again.
He’s more than welcome to visit me and explain, but he not leave again.
November 10, 2025 at 2:05 PM
Some of us called it out as a lie from day one.
He’s more than welcome to visit me and explain, but he not leave again.
He’s more than welcome to visit me and explain, but he not leave again.
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The thing about the moment we are in is we have been here before. During the Brexit Referendum campaign, the Johnson years, and now with Farage's ascent. Our established press has played a role in why we have got to this point in British politics. What's happening at the BBC now was an inevitability
November 10, 2025 at 4:10 PM
The thing about the moment we are in is we have been here before. During the Brexit Referendum campaign, the Johnson years, and now with Farage's ascent. Our established press has played a role in why we have got to this point in British politics. What's happening at the BBC now was an inevitability
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Ed Davey about traitorous Putin's pet Farage: He is basically teaming up with Trump to criticize the BBC, it's shocking & unpatriotic. It shows he wants Trump's America, with his attacks on free media, coming to the UK.. election interference has come from Farage's friend... Putin.. #ukpolitics
November 10, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Ed Davey about traitorous Putin's pet Farage: He is basically teaming up with Trump to criticize the BBC, it's shocking & unpatriotic. It shows he wants Trump's America, with his attacks on free media, coming to the UK.. election interference has come from Farage's friend... Putin.. #ukpolitics
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Mail Online reports Nigel Farage says that the BBC may have no future.
He imagines bringing to an end century of public service broadcasting in the UK - because the populist politician and his US political ally Donald Trump do not want the BBC to survive
No thanks, Nigel.
No thanks, Donald
He imagines bringing to an end century of public service broadcasting in the UK - because the populist politician and his US political ally Donald Trump do not want the BBC to survive
No thanks, Nigel.
No thanks, Donald
November 10, 2025 at 12:54 PM
Mail Online reports Nigel Farage says that the BBC may have no future.
He imagines bringing to an end century of public service broadcasting in the UK - because the populist politician and his US political ally Donald Trump do not want the BBC to survive
No thanks, Nigel.
No thanks, Donald
He imagines bringing to an end century of public service broadcasting in the UK - because the populist politician and his US political ally Donald Trump do not want the BBC to survive
No thanks, Nigel.
No thanks, Donald
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Trump - the king of fake news and hypocrite extraordinaire - has the gall to welcome someone else’s resignation… we’re talking about a man convicted of rape and of tax fraud - who did not resign and never would. Incredible. And btw, I resent his interference in our media and our country.
November 10, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Trump - the king of fake news and hypocrite extraordinaire - has the gall to welcome someone else’s resignation… we’re talking about a man convicted of rape and of tax fraud - who did not resign and never would. Incredible. And btw, I resent his interference in our media and our country.
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The other fact that people are ignoring is that Prescott is not some random chap plucked out of obscurity to do an 'independent' report. He's part of the campaign from the start.
The fact that the BBC has made serious culpable errors does not negate the point that there is a real and concerted right-wing media campaign to destroy it. Both points can be true at the same time and the campaign would not end even if the errors did.
November 10, 2025 at 1:36 PM
The other fact that people are ignoring is that Prescott is not some random chap plucked out of obscurity to do an 'independent' report. He's part of the campaign from the start.
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The fact that the BBC has made serious culpable errors does not negate the point that there is a real and concerted right-wing media campaign to destroy it. Both points can be true at the same time and the campaign would not end even if the errors did.
November 10, 2025 at 1:08 PM
The fact that the BBC has made serious culpable errors does not negate the point that there is a real and concerted right-wing media campaign to destroy it. Both points can be true at the same time and the campaign would not end even if the errors did.
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Robbie Gibb criticising the BBC for journalistic standards is a glass house so big you could hold the Great Exhibition of 1851 in it and still have room for an excellent tomato crop
Should Gibb be sacked? yes, obviously. He's an abomination of basic journalistic standards. His GB News channel spreads conspiracy theory & disinformation. His Jewish Chronicle newspaper spreads invented stories. He is plainly trying to undermine the BBC so it's as bad as everything else he touches.
November 10, 2025 at 2:03 PM
Robbie Gibb criticising the BBC for journalistic standards is a glass house so big you could hold the Great Exhibition of 1851 in it and still have room for an excellent tomato crop
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Should Gibb be sacked? yes, obviously. He's an abomination of basic journalistic standards. His GB News channel spreads conspiracy theory & disinformation. His Jewish Chronicle newspaper spreads invented stories. He is plainly trying to undermine the BBC so it's as bad as everything else he touches.
November 10, 2025 at 12:47 PM
Should Gibb be sacked? yes, obviously. He's an abomination of basic journalistic standards. His GB News channel spreads conspiracy theory & disinformation. His Jewish Chronicle newspaper spreads invented stories. He is plainly trying to undermine the BBC so it's as bad as everything else he touches.
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Sky News just had Kelvin Mackenzie on, former editor of The Sun, one of the people at the centre of probably the most disgraceful front page in newspaper history, complaining about BBC journalists not being objective and 'fake news'. Astonishing. ~AA
November 10, 2025 at 10:53 AM
Sky News just had Kelvin Mackenzie on, former editor of The Sun, one of the people at the centre of probably the most disgraceful front page in newspaper history, complaining about BBC journalists not being objective and 'fake news'. Astonishing. ~AA
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"The problem isn’t that we have a deliberately biased BBC, it’s that we have a BBC that has been consciously reduced in its scope and bullied into dumbing down and retreating." @stephenkb.bsky.social's newsletter today
November 10, 2025 at 9:40 AM
"The problem isn’t that we have a deliberately biased BBC, it’s that we have a BBC that has been consciously reduced in its scope and bullied into dumbing down and retreating." @stephenkb.bsky.social's newsletter today