Bit more complicated than that
@ben63.bsky.social
The answer to life’s problems are rarely black & white. Sometimes they are the blue & white of MCFC. Live in Stockport. Interested in the arts & museums, solutions to the climate crisis, economic inequality, longterm investment for the UK. Prison reform
Just imagine, just for ONE SECOND, if this was about a Labour politician…… ⬇️😯 Imagine the Mail, the Telegraph, GBeebies, Nick Ferrari, Robert Jenrick, Justin Webb on Radio 4, etc etc etc…. But it’s a Tory, so hey ho and all that…. 🤷🏻♂️ #r4today #wato www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Tories offer Jewish groups meeting with ex neo-Nazi activist candidate
Joshua Bonehill-Paine was jailed over neo-Nazi activism, but has been selected to stand in a new Somerset Council seat in 2027.
bbc.co.uk
Quite the reverse. BBC News is promoting anti-immigration views every day. 20 minutes on Ceuta on #wato yesterday with no analysis, just whipping up fear.
Caller on #YouAndYours seems to be excusing builders who dump building rubble because it costs them money to get rid of it. Well, I’m sorry! Incorporate that cost in your price and suck it up, matey.
There shouldn't be any tipping for three reasons:- *. The headline price should be the price you pay *. The staff should be paid a living wage *. There should be no element of bribery for good service. #youandyours #wato
Just posted on X: "@BBCRadio4 Listening to #youandYours they say "if you are on X follow us at..". No other social media options are given. Why is #BBC favouring a platform run by a person who trashes the UK and promotes the riots (and the rest)? Many have moved to #Bluesky. Where is the BBC?"
Weird how when a Tory is on they get to talk about what they want to talk about 1st. Completely the opposite when a labour mp is on 🤔 Also, the prisons issue is SOLELY down to mismanagement by the Tory government of which Kemi was a part #r4today
John 🏴🔴👹@j0hnbev.bsky.social · yesterdayThey did not “bring police numbers back up”. They cut 20000 senior police officers. Then replaced them with inexperienced officers whose numbers per capita of population were not as many as they cut. Kemi lying #r4today
Reform UKs plan to use the Royal Navy to intercept migrant boats in the Channel brilliantly taken apart by ... er ... Nigel Farage
Pretending that the Navy taking back migrants would be a humanitarian mission and therefore legal, is a bit like pretending that a £5 million bribe is nothing to do with politics and therefore doesn't need to be declared.
Did I hear right, that that woman said, "it's at the bottom of a hill so no hills to negotiate with a pram"? If so, what about on the way home then? #BBCPM
Government locking up the innocent and releasing the guilty. #bbcpm
@trottillidrop.bsky.social · yesterdayIf our authoritarian government wants to continue to lock up peaceful protesters then they have to build more prisons. #bbcpm
FFS, #Burnham has been in post just over 2 weeks. Chances are very high his holiday was booked before he became MP for #Makerfield ! And it's highly likely he'll be working a lot of the time. Also, it's REALLY important for people with full-on jobs, to have time out. #BBCPM
Yep! And the part about social care workforce merging with the NHS (rather than it cd ever be the other way round). Many people (including my gorgeous gurl) rely on social care everyday to live well and vaguely independently but hardly use the NHS.
‘Again, the possibility that social care exists to support us to live well seems absent from the discussion, with social care cast as an end in itself, not a vehicle for a better life.’ Spot on.
neilmcrowther@neilmcrowther.bsky.social · yesterdayBut what is social care for? neilcrowther2.substack.com/p/but-what-i...
The most terrifying enshittification I've discovered has been learning that Microsoft Word documents no longer auto-save if you are not saving them to one of their own proprietary cloud services. I'm slapping control-S like it's 1999.
RFKJr claims Lyme disease was created by scientists,which is the closest he’s come to admitting that science exists. Meanwhile, Ötzi the Iceman, who died more than 5.3K years ago, had Lyme disease. Apparently prehistoric humans are part of the conspiracy. Get me off this timeline
Solidarity everlasting with my friend Luciana Berger. HOW can she still have to explaining and fighting this bullshit?! What is wrong with the Tory party?!
Ex-MP urges Tories to drop candidate jailed for campaign of antisemitic abuse against her
Luciana Berger says Joshua Bonehill-Paine should have no role in public life because of ‘his racism and his view of women’
theguardian.com
Microsoft: $101 BILLION in profits. $12.5 BILLION in tax breaks. $176 BILLION in stock buybacks. 4,800 workers fired this week. 9,000 workers fired last year. Please don't tell me trickle-down economics works. It never did. Nothing trickles down.
“Should we prepare for a world without chips” The BBC does the climate crisis !! #wato
Ten minutes on Ceuta with no analysis why it happened. #wato has been captured by the right wing hasn’t it?
Idiotic expansion of Gatwick Airport that will bring gridlock to the surrounding area but make the foreign owners, who won't be providing necessary transport infrastructure, a fortune. #wato
Lesson of Ceuta is don't have colonial outposts on another continent. #WATO
And on Sunday morning? The framing given the story by the Mail, Telegraph etc and as usual accepted by the BBC national news was still running (as indeed it still is on #wato as I’m typing this) Do we have to rely on podcasts and substack for considered news reporting nowadays?
