@stemwinder

@stemwinder

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#MDANT #UTV #vanguardista “It’s as if we took everything that was bad about America, scraped it up off the floor, wrapped it all up in an old hot-dog skin, and then taught it to make noises with its face.”

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the problem here is that the lightweight presenters on breakfast TV shows are not equipped with the skills, or facts, to deal with liars like Farage, Tice or Jenrick. They cannot call out their lies, just ask gotcha questions (which has become the staple for seemingly all broadcast interview)

Farrukh@implausibleblog.bsky.social

This morning on BBC Breakfast, Nigel Farage said he had received “zero help from the state” with his security. Yet reports say he had previously received publicly funded protection and was offered a taxpayer-funded package including a bodyguard, a secure car and a trained driver.

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fucking useless

Josiah Mortimer@josiahmortimer.bsky.social

At DCMS committee last week, Ofcom said most fines about age verification under the Online Safety Act are unpaid, and some never will be... Ofcom has issued 11 fines: 2 have been paid, 1 is under appeal, 1 is not yet due & 7 are overdue. 3 of those sites remain accessible with the risks unmitigated

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53, bring back the pound note - not the litle one the really big one 54. bring back halfpennies, farthings, guineas and groats 55. bring back TB and small pox

Sarah Murphy@13sarahmurphy.bsky.social

Jenrick has set out how Reform would maximise our “Brexit freedoms”. And this is their list. This is the very best they can come up with. “Re-legalise imperial units” It’s truly pathetic that this is the pinnacle of their Brexit fever dream. And that anyone would still back this ruinous idiocy…

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The Bulwark@thebulwark.com

RFK: "There's five hundred million Arabs in the world. And yet they don't produce science. They don't win the Nobel Prize. They don't win the Fields Prize. They don't win the Wolf Prize. They don't produce literature."

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well well well

Sarah Murphy@13sarahmurphy.bsky.social

Doesn’t matter how you voted if you were front and centre in a Brexit government, actively overseeing the shrinking of our economy, our influence and our opportunities, while you rolled around in the trough. We’ll be disregarding everything you now say, thanks.

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Alex Andreou
@sturdyalex.bsky.social

Still going on. Twenty minutes uninterrupted coverage so far. Robert Jenrick is currently talking about sex chat bots.

Alex Andreou@sturdyalex.bsky.social

BBC News just interrupted its coverage to go, live, to Nigel Farage - a man with no contitutional standing in our setup - responding to the budget - a document which nobody has seen yet. WHY

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Adam Bienkov
@adambienkov.bsky.social

What is the BBC's justification for maintaining this level of coverage of Reform now it has slipped into third place?

Alex Andreou@sturdyalex.bsky.social

BBC News just interrupted its coverage to go, live, to Nigel Farage - a man with no contitutional standing in our setup - responding to the budget - a document which nobody has seen yet. WHY

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Emma Monk
@monkemma.bsky.social

🧵 Wow - this article is bordering on unhinged! Apparently the BBC is akin to a “North Korean re-education camp” for teaching children about net-zero and covering both the pros AND cons of immigration Join me for a masterclass in cherry-picking and context stripping to brainwash your own readers👍🏻

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Laura Bassett
@lebassett.bsky.social

Bolsonaro-friendly mayors appear to be sabotaging public transport on Election Day. Buses aren’t running in Lula-friendly areas, flights and ferries mysteriously canceled. Traffic lights have gone out and people’s power cut in Salvador, indigenous people’s travel restricted

Rafa Sales Ross@rafiews.com

We are watching a coup d’état attempt unfold in real time in Brazil. I’m consumed by desperation.

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Peter Smith
@redpeter99.bsky.social

Just heard Hunt on the radio saying Labour needs to "put the economics before the politics" in the Budget. The bloke who created an unaffordable cut in National Insurance prior to the election, which he knew the Tories would lose. Utter charlatan.

Peter Smith@redpeter99.bsky.social

The reinvention of Jeremy Hunt as a sage and elder statesman overlooks his role as a participant in the creation of the current shitshow. #BBCLauraK

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Tom Roberts
@tpgroberts.bsky.social

Well at least Ineos is doing well.

Rob Davies@byrobdavies.bsky.social

As an amused observer of Manchester United, I can't wait for Jim Ratcliffe's next sage piece of advice on how Britain should be run.

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Neil Mackay
@neilmackay.bsky.social

A racist lady told a Nazi something and now Britain has a mercenary army made up of African migrants These assholes are stark raving mad and they actually vote

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Peter Smith
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The reinvention of Jeremy Hunt as a sage and elder statesman overlooks his role as a participant in the creation of the current shitshow. #BBCLauraK

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If you have half-decent speakers treat yourself - turn this up as loud as your sanity / partner / neighbours will stomach and revel in this for 4 minutes.

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A good start for the UK's prep would be to remove the KGB agent from the House of Lords, and the foreign money from our media.

Dr Robert Bohan@robertbohan.bsky.social

UK & others continue scaremongering. But if NATO and Russia come to blows, NATO could be outnumbered & unprepared, putting NATO tactical nukes on the table from day 1* Russia would retaliate. Escalation would follow. Anyone in a capital city would be vaporised. Prepared for that? 👀