The contrast between the utterly sycophantic coverage this week of Kemi Badenoch, whose party has a truly atrocious electoral record under her leadership, and the utterly dismissive coverage of the Greens, tells you everything you need to know about media bias in the UK

Why the Holborn and St Pancras By-Election Was a Good Result for the Green Party

The dismissive coverage of Zack Polanski’s party obscures a far bigger truth about the rise of the left in British politics

adambienkov.co.uk

The people running the BBC hate the BBC, is the problem I think

Shameful: Britain is no longer worthy of helping the American government commit the most serious war crimes. How can we prove to (checks notes) uh, Donald Trump and Pete Hegseth that we can be trusted to (squints at notes) assist in the commission of crimes against humanity

Living in this country is amazing. Every year the same people insist that the problems are caused by "red tape" "wokeness" or "government overspending," while the papers scream for a new crusade against the Perfidious Turk and everything gets sold off and collapses.

The Guardian@theguardian.com · 6d ago

Shadow chancellor to address Tory conference as he claims slashing red tape could cut cost of new houses by £50,000 – UK politics live

Found this incredible project at the Green Party conference: Stitch their Names Hundreds of women stitching the names of the tens of thousands of Palestinians murdered by Israel. Red are women, Black are men, Green are kids. www.stitchtheirnamestogether.com

Most TV is just this now.

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The youngest person his pager attack killed was 9-year-old Fatima Abdullah, who had just started 4th grade. The pager was on a table when it went off and she picked it up to take to her dad. It exploded in her face and reports said it covered the room in her blood. She wanted to learn English.

Eli Valley@elivalley.bsky.social · 2w ago

Boasting to the world of his mass terrorist atrocity:

This is the master key to deciphering contemporary debates about free speech. www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/se...

These deeply foolish people will kill us all if we let them

Matt Ford@mford.bsky.social · 2w ago

Ezra Klein asked Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang about AI making kids worse at math and reading. Huang’s reply: “Does it matter?” Then he said he doesn’t know his own address or phone number. “We’re going to lose some fine intellectual dexterity.” www.nytimes.com/2026/09/23/o...

What an absolutely brilliant scorching indictment of Sheeran, the BBC, and all the assholes both-siding a genocide www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/se...

Lorna Finlayson | Public Positions

Given much of the coverage of the Ed Sheeran-Macklemore debacle, you could be forgiven for thinking that Sheeran had...

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I assume he’s talking about the Daily Mail

Peter Stefanovic@peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 3w ago

'An insidious campaign that reaches into people's homes and twists what they feel about their own country and community' Andy Burnham tells United Nations Russian agencies are using 'every means at their disposal to spread lies and disinformation

I understand the outrage at the rampant fascists but, look: our national press has been telling the public that the streets are infested with ethnic sex offenders and migrant rapists, set loose by secret communists, for *fifteen years* now. And not sotto voce either, power-blasting it constantly.

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Sharon O'Dea@sharonodea.com · 3w ago

A landlord making £100,000 a month says young people have “no excuse to be poor”. Excellent. I love financial advice. Gather round, children, let's examine how he himself stopped being poor. metro.co.uk/2026/09/20/i...

giving $10 to a rich asshole to receive $1 in return is trickle down economics summed up in one 2 minute video

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 3w ago

beyond parody -- Newsmax runs ads for the new Trump $1 coin ... that you can buy for $9.95 each 😆

I would love to ask a prominent BBC journalist to give me an example of an illegitimate concern. Is seems to me that it has become a question not of fact, logic, or ethics but of volume. If a big enough proportion of a village was anxious about Bigfoot or Chemtrails, BBC would cover it in a way...

Very pleased to have been an early reader for this novel, which has now been published. I’m a sucker for weird and wonderful sci-fi written in a future dialect.

Yet another begging bowl email from the Labour Party this morning. ‘There is no pretending about the scale of what we’re up against.’ If only you guys had a massive majority in Parliament and could pass legislation to protect our democracy from ‘what we’re up against’.

political corruption is literally an apocalyptic problem — pass it on

A criminal investigation is underway by Met Police into allegations Reform broke the law in relation to foreign funding, following a C4 broadcast involving James Orr. James Orr is Associate Professor of Philosophy of Religion at the Faculty of Divinity. Any media interest in hundreds of articles?

Based on stats from similar 'protests' in the past, around half of those oh-so-polite men will have convictions for domestic violence or CSA. But yes, I suppose you might well be safe providing you're white and you don't happen to be with them behind closed doors.

I’d like it if someone prominent would call this a grotesque, despicable insult to the public’s intelligence, since that’s what it is.

Saul Staniforth@saulstaniforth.bsky.social · last mo.

".. concerns that a ban.. could turn into a wider boycott of Israel & .. undo some of the hard work that Starmer did to repair relations with the Jewish community after.. Corbyn" Conflating Jews with Israel is antisemitic but its never an issue when genocide apologists do it

Hark, the sound of dots not being joined www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Flyers might have to face more disruption with hotter skies

Are people going to have to increasingly accept more delays and diversions as the effects of climate change intensify?

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I want the Prime Minister to look into a TV camera and say the RNLI are heroes, that we do not change policy by street violence in this country, and that he expects any criminal action to face the full force of the law. That's it. That's all he has to do.

Now James Orr has stepped down as Reform UK's Head of Policy after C4's report, questions remain for Cambridge – where he is Associate Professor. Byline Times revealed serious concerns about his activities there months ago. We all know there won't now be 200+ articles on him and his life don't we?

Rough Draft vs Final Draft

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Someone has died after a relentless press campaign. The very least the public is entitled to is an investigation into the press’ role in these events and an independent body to review complaints against the press in the future. www.hackedoff.org/blog-posts/p...

Defensive, evasive & hypocritical: The press reaction to the death of Jason Arday

The reaction of national newspapers to the death of Professor Jason Arday has exposed a brittle defensiveness at the heart of the press, and a determination to remain outside any meaningful accountabi...

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This must’ve been trained on LinkedIn posts

Ashley@ashleysays.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Chefs kiss

UK media always asks the wrong questions. Instead of hounding high achieving people of colour , perhaps they'd consider asking why white people who fail spectacularly in government so easily walk into high paying media & consultancy work once they’ve exhausted that particular racket .