Laura Phillips
@lauraphillips.bsky.social
Campaigner to support the BBC (not a BBC employee). It’s affected by savage UK govt cuts: c40% 2010-2024. BBC costs >49 pence/around 65 US cents a day per UK household. It’s a national public service broadcaster, respected worldwide for accurate reporting.
"It would be a bad thing for football and Fifa if this thing goes on for 6 months." David Bernstein, former chairman of the #FA, tells #BBC’s Adam Fleming that #Uefa should maintain the threat of not participating in future World Cups if Gianni #Infantino continues as #Fifa President.
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But what of the judgement of the leader who supported his candidacy?
Ex neo-Nazi activist withdraws as Tory election candidate
Kemi Badenoch says Joshua Bonehill-Paine will now advise the Conservatives on tackling extremism.
bbc.co.uk
@martynziegler.bsky.social: ‘Saudi silence as beleaguered Infantino promises 2030 World Cup final to Morocco.’
Gianni Infantino offers Morocco 2030 World Cup final in return for support
Fifa president is trying to persuade countries to issue statements of endorsement as pressure builds on him to resign
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@gabrielpogrund.bsky.social: NEW: FT confirms our story revealing - Reform treasurer given schedule to repay £1m to Richard Tice (as part of leadership deal) - Tice paid & received six-figure sums from party "on same day" In reply to Qs he told @AnnaSophieGross the FT is "boring"
Reform repaid Tice loan on same day £1mn donated by mother of Farage aide Cottrell
Transactions fuel criticism of the party’s lack of transparency over its financing
ft.com
Interesting comment on attitude to local govt+communities that it’s considered perfectly acceptable for a former Neo Nazi campaigner to stand as a Conservative councillor. And equally that those who support ECHR which upholds human rights for all and impacts Good Friday agreement are now verboten.
Not hard to see why Burnham is less enthusiastic about a snap election than some others on here.
Election Maps UK@electionmaps.uk · 14h agoMRP Poll | Labour 81 Seats Short: LAB: 245 (+138) | 26% RFM: 174 (-112) | 23% CON: 99 (+19) | 21% LDM: 67 (-17) | 11% SNP: 25 (-8) | 2% PLC: 8 (-2) | 1% GRN: 7 (-13) | 10% Via @convergent-opinion.bsky.social, 25-30 Jul. Changes w/ 15 Jun MRP.
Following up on this, were I *only* a bean-counting Gradgrind type my university recommendations would be:- *Close your medical school *Close Chemistry *Move central ops to a really cheap country online *Move pensions to a subsidiary company *Classes shd be no fewer than 60 students... (1/2)
Glen O'Hara@gsoh31.bsky.social · 15h agoUniversities cannot make money teaching home undergrads or doing funded research. Indeed, those run at a large loss. Only teaching international students make sense in any way. The logical endpoint is taking only international students, reducing research and moving many ops out of the UK altogether.
3pm then #BBCSounds: #CIA analyst is tasked to pull together facts, theories+suppositions+. tries to imagine how+why #JFK was killed. Cutting between the story of Lee Harvey Oswald’s life+2 men conspiring to assassinate the president, it builds a picture of a fractured #America during the Cold War
BBC Radio 4 - Drama on 4, Libra, Episode 1
Adaptation of Don DeLillo’s fictionalised reimagining of the assassination of JFK.
bbc.co.uk
2.45pm Sun+ #BBCSounds 100th title explored in Opening Lines. John Yorke on 1998 #novel Libra by American, #DonDeLillo which centres on assassination of President John F. #Kennedy, the event DeLillo says marked ‘a turning point in consciousness’ for Americans. Followed by Libra dramatisation.
BBC Radio 4 - Opening Lines, Libra - Episode One
John Yorke explores Don DeLillo’s 1988 novel Libra.
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Conservatives challenged for selecting a man who formed a far right group + was jailed for serious antisemitic harassment of former MP Luciana Berger.Badenoch says he has reformed sufficiently to have a local candidacy, but should not have a national platform www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/kemi-b...
Kemi Badenoch Says Former Neo-Nazi Standing For Tories Can Be A Councillor But Not An MP
The Conservative leader said she would not want to give Joshua Bonehill-Paine “a national platform”.
huffingtonpost.co.uk
Politics UK: NEW: Reform UK has regained its lead over Labour in the latest YouGov poll ➡️ RFM: 23% (+1) 🔴 LAB: 22% (=) 🔵 CON: 19% (-2) 🟢 GRN: 13% (=) 🟠 LDM: 12% (+1) 🟣 RES: 4% (=) 2-3 Aug Changes w/ 26-27 Jul
ICYMI from Telegraph.By the ineffable Allister Heath. [Tony Juniper comments: the author might wish to prepare another piece on who won victory,+how. For decades a huge campaign of misinformation has been waged,funded by various interest groups hostile to cutting emissions. Is this their victory?]
@martynziegler.bsky.social: BREAKING: Arsene Wenger says decision to withdraw World Cup sell-off plan "absolutely necessary"
Mary Beard: It’s worth knowing that #CountBinface studied #classics! Listen to what he has to say (very funnily) about Athenian #democracy and about losers in #politics! Makes a difference!
Classic Chats: Count Binface (Bonus episode)
Podcast Episode · Instant Classics · 3 August · Bonus · 35min
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