Mike Adams

Mike Adams

@ronpickering.bsky.social

West of Manchester, left of centre and Italofile.........Red & White and Giallorosso.....The Hundred is an affront to cricket

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Turn on 5live and it's Ed Thomas banging on again about his undercover reporting of vape/barber shops....absolute local rag fodder with the express intention of fear mongering about migrants....meanwhile Ch4 and ITV are doing proper investigative journalism that the BBC are not even following up on

Sadly the ITV doc on Reform won't amount to a hill of beans just like the Ch4 Farage expose because, just like in the US, the media is compromised from top to bottom including the BBC. So there will be no relentless, concerted follow up like Starmer's glasses or Rayner's stamp duty.

The PL fan community needs a bit more than the "you cheating bastards" chant but not sure it's got the collective wit or wherewithal to rise to the challenge

Can't recall Farage being asked if he would resign as leader after losing a by-election....correction by-elections...can't even recall him being asked if he would resign despite being found guilty of taking a £5m bung....oh well

Can't wait for the saturated news coverage next week commemorating the 3rd anniversary of the beginning of Israel's genocide in Gaza...or 3rd month or 3rd day or 3rd minute...and the consequent suffering of the Palestinians

Shouting inane questions at released prisoners...quality journalism....file alongside voxpops in Weatherspoons and shouting "are you going to resign prime minister" across Downing St.

So in the space of 24 hours we've had the sorry I'm not gonna call a genocide a genocide interview, the cringeworthy support of Abu Dhabi and yes the Iranians were involved in stealing diesel from a van.......another standing ovation for Burnham.

5live news leads with "condemnation from Israel" including an excerpt from whatever genocidal blowhard was talking plus a quote from UK Chief Rabbi talking about dark day for British jews blah blah....I can't begin to find the words to express how much I fucking despise the BBC these days

Oh look, it's Ed Thomas again banging on about vape shops and asylum seekers making thousands of pounds illegally in them.....local newspaper fodder at best but the BBC treating it like it's Watergate

1) I know he's on holiday but Burnham needs to grasp the nettle on these quasi pogroms in Thetford and eschew all the craven "legitimate concerns" language and call it for what it is.

2) Again the optics of these herberts in Norfolk and at the same time ordinary peaceful protesters being rounded up in their dozens for carrying plasticine action banners etc is going to really grate on many Labour leaning people if their language and their actions remain the same as before.

Heard this Raphi Bloom character on the BBC several times in the last few weeks given a platform as a "respected" voice of the Jewish community including last night when he was allowed to talk about Palestinian "hate marches" every week completely unchallenged by the interviewer, who the fuck is he?

Question: 3 successive humiliating failures to qualify for the WC, stink the place out in 2 Euros but win the third OR 2 WC semis and one quarter and two losing Euro finals?

"Reform UK says no rules have been broken" is how the BBC have been choosing to lead this all day.. "Pressure is mounting on X,Y,Z as allegations grow regarding..." is how they will curate any alleged scandal or drama about Labour.

Compare and contrast, the knife attack in Belfast was the lead news story right across all media including the BBC the next morning, the Edinburgh attack involving more victims with a clear racist motive was given 20 seconds at the end of the 5live 8 o'clock news just now.

Surprised that so many people are surprised at Tony Livesey getting washed up in the flotsam and jetsam of the inevitable Sulivan scandal, 18 years at Sports Newspapers it was always a matter of when not if. FWIW from NWT onwards I've always found him a pretty good presenter and very engaging.

The fact that the stabbing incident in Belfast, as horrific as it was, has obtained headline news and eliciting response from the PM is objectively insane. The only reason it has is because of the escalation and amplification in the usual place, Govt again just led by Twitter outrage

Literally the only issue I can recall her getting energised and exercised about was her full throated criticism of the decision to ban racist Israeli football hooligans from the UK.

Richie Sadlier with his heartelt eloquence again demonstrating what an absolute vacuum of decency and integrity exists in the UK across 99% of all those in every industry who have a media platform.

Once again Giorgia Meloni displaying more courage and dignity in speaking out against Israel than our so called progressive liberal PM........what a time to be alive