RivermanRob
@rivermanrob.bsky.social
Homo viator, father, grandfather, story teller, F/friend, OBOD Bard /|\, labyrinth enthusiast, professional adviser in social care and health sector, Appreciative Inquiry practitioner. Interesting in arty things, folklore and the supernatural. FRSA
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The NHS has kept me alive and I love it; the BBC has made my life worth living. I would put every drop of energy I have into defending both of them.
November 11, 2025 at 8:53 PM
The NHS has kept me alive and I love it; the BBC has made my life worth living. I would put every drop of energy I have into defending both of them.
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Robbie Gibb was appointed to the BBC Board by Boris Johnson, was an editorial advisor for GB News, and worked as Theresa May's Director of Comms.
He is not impartial or neutral. The government should remove him from the Board immediately to protect the BBC's independence.
He is not impartial or neutral. The government should remove him from the Board immediately to protect the BBC's independence.
November 11, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Robbie Gibb was appointed to the BBC Board by Boris Johnson, was an editorial advisor for GB News, and worked as Theresa May's Director of Comms.
He is not impartial or neutral. The government should remove him from the Board immediately to protect the BBC's independence.
He is not impartial or neutral. The government should remove him from the Board immediately to protect the BBC's independence.
I’ve never seen this picture before. It is so moving, and justifies being PHOTO OF THE DAY
PHOTO OF THE DAY. The coffin of the Unknown Warrior lies in Westminster Abbey (1920).
📷 google images
📷 google images
November 11, 2025 at 4:38 PM
I’ve never seen this picture before. It is so moving, and justifies being PHOTO OF THE DAY
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At some point we probably do have to ask whether relentless interference in UK democratic institutions and processes by Trump and his fellow travelers (inc Vance and Musk) is a price worth paying for a marginally less damaging tariff rate than the EU.
November 10, 2025 at 12:36 PM
At some point we probably do have to ask whether relentless interference in UK democratic institutions and processes by Trump and his fellow travelers (inc Vance and Musk) is a price worth paying for a marginally less damaging tariff rate than the EU.
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Interesting paragraph from a long tweet just posted by Nick Robinson.
November 10, 2025 at 8:01 AM
Interesting paragraph from a long tweet just posted by Nick Robinson.
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The real scandal here is not the confected claim of systemic bias, it’s that the BBC Board caved to pressure from a foreign government. The resignations should come from those who did the caving particularly far right Robbie Gibb who should be nowhere near the BBC www.theguardian.com/media/2025/n...
Tim Davie resigns as BBC director general after accusations of ‘serious and systemic’ bias in coverage
Davie says departure is ‘my own decision’, while head of news also quits. Insiders say it ‘feels like a coup’ by broadcaster’s enemies
www.theguardian.com
November 10, 2025 at 8:44 AM
The real scandal here is not the confected claim of systemic bias, it’s that the BBC Board caved to pressure from a foreign government. The resignations should come from those who did the caving particularly far right Robbie Gibb who should be nowhere near the BBC www.theguardian.com/media/2025/n...
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To quote @michaelrosenyes.bsky.social in another place, on point as usual:
November 10, 2025 at 8:02 AM
To quote @michaelrosenyes.bsky.social in another place, on point as usual:
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Once every 20 years or so, the director-general of the BBC is forced to resign for being insufficiently rightwing. Alastair Milne in 1987. Greg Dyke in 2004. Tim Davie in 2025. The great irony is that the BBC was in all cases profoundly biased towards established power. But just not biased enough …
November 10, 2025 at 5:44 AM
Once every 20 years or so, the director-general of the BBC is forced to resign for being insufficiently rightwing. Alastair Milne in 1987. Greg Dyke in 2004. Tim Davie in 2025. The great irony is that the BBC was in all cases profoundly biased towards established power. But just not biased enough …
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From what I understand, it was meant as an absurdity because it is physically impossible to pull yourself up by your own boot straps. We don’t have boot straps anymore, really. So try untying your shoes then pull really hard on your shoelaces and see if you’re able to get off the ground.
Casual reminder that the myth of “pulling yourself up by your bootstraps” is a cruel hoax designed to convince poor people from all walks of life that the injustices they face are a result of their own actions, rather than an oppressive system rigged against them.
November 10, 2025 at 4:49 AM
From what I understand, it was meant as an absurdity because it is physically impossible to pull yourself up by your own boot straps. We don’t have boot straps anymore, really. So try untying your shoes then pull really hard on your shoelaces and see if you’re able to get off the ground.
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the right winger who was appointed to lead the BBC in the hope of appeasing right wingers has been driven out by right wingers for not appeasing right wingers enough and the BBC has the chance to do the funniest thing ever
November 9, 2025 at 6:38 PM
the right winger who was appointed to lead the BBC in the hope of appeasing right wingers has been driven out by right wingers for not appeasing right wingers enough and the BBC has the chance to do the funniest thing ever
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Nobody can set right a mismanaged life with a few words. But there is no pit you cannot climb out of provided you make the right effort at the right place.~CG Jung, 𝘓𝘦𝘵𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘴 𝘝𝘰𝘭𝘶𝘮𝘦 1
November 9, 2025 at 9:04 PM
Nobody can set right a mismanaged life with a few words. But there is no pit you cannot climb out of provided you make the right effort at the right place.~CG Jung, 𝘓𝘦𝘵𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘴 𝘝𝘰𝘭𝘶𝘮𝘦 1
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Kuenssberg and Mason must resign as well.
November 9, 2025 at 6:14 PM
Kuenssberg and Mason must resign as well.
I would fully support the appointment of Gary Lineker as Director General of the BBC
Appoint Gary Lineker to DG?
the right winger who was appointed to lead the BBC in the hope of appeasing right wingers has been driven out by right wingers for not appeasing right wingers enough and the BBC has the chance to do the funniest thing ever
November 9, 2025 at 9:40 PM
I would fully support the appointment of Gary Lineker as Director General of the BBC
Black grapes and blackbird
November 9, 2025 at 9:35 PM
Black grapes and blackbird
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Tree Reflections, Hazel McNab 2022
November 4, 2025 at 7:53 PM
Tree Reflections, Hazel McNab 2022
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November 6, 2025 at 6:40 PM
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One of oldest Quaker Meeting Houses in country saved in Cornwall | Falmouth Packet share.google/jPiyPTvc7jpk...
One of the oldest Quaker Meeting Houses in the country saved in Cornwall
The Grade I Listed Friends’ Meeting House at Come-to-Good, Feock was on Historic England's Heritage at Risk Register.
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November 6, 2025 at 9:29 PM
One of oldest Quaker Meeting Houses in country saved in Cornwall | Falmouth Packet share.google/jPiyPTvc7jpk...
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November 4, 2025 at 2:43 PM
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Anyway, we need some joy, so here's the Egyptian foreign minister being given a Lego Pyramid by the Danish foreign minister.
November 3, 2025 at 2:35 PM
Anyway, we need some joy, so here's the Egyptian foreign minister being given a Lego Pyramid by the Danish foreign minister.
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Partly because so many formerly leftwing parties have turned to the right, there's a lot of confusion about what right and left mean in politics. I hope this helps:
The right defends economic power.
The left resists economic power.
The right defends economic power.
The left resists economic power.
November 3, 2025 at 5:56 PM
Partly because so many formerly leftwing parties have turned to the right, there's a lot of confusion about what right and left mean in politics. I hope this helps:
The right defends economic power.
The left resists economic power.
The right defends economic power.
The left resists economic power.
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A friend told me he had been clearing out his gran’s house. The most amazing thing he found there was this knitted effigy of the man who had run off and abandoned my friend’s pregnant aunt. Into the effigy had been stuck twenty knitting needles: one for every year since the man had vanished.
October 31, 2025 at 3:27 PM
A friend told me he had been clearing out his gran’s house. The most amazing thing he found there was this knitted effigy of the man who had run off and abandoned my friend’s pregnant aunt. Into the effigy had been stuck twenty knitting needles: one for every year since the man had vanished.
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Rien n'arrête l'imagination
October 27, 2025 at 7:44 PM
Rien n'arrête l'imagination
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Some Cheif Executives have come out & condemned this policy (& policies like it), calling them 'anti-talent'. I think we all know that after a certain point, pay doesn't reflect talent. I hope other CEOs (who care about their employees & their society) will denounce these greed apologists.
🤑 The average FTSE 100 CEO is now paid 122 times the salary of the average full-time UK worker.
⚖️ The Green Party would introduce a 10:1 pay ratio, meaning the highest-paid employee cannot earn more than ten times the lowest-paid.
⚖️ The Green Party would introduce a 10:1 pay ratio, meaning the highest-paid employee cannot earn more than ten times the lowest-paid.
October 31, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Some Cheif Executives have come out & condemned this policy (& policies like it), calling them 'anti-talent'. I think we all know that after a certain point, pay doesn't reflect talent. I hope other CEOs (who care about their employees & their society) will denounce these greed apologists.
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An extraordinary realignment of British politics
If you want to see @TheGreenParty take on Reform - this is the moment
Join.greenparty.org.uk
If you want to see @TheGreenParty take on Reform - this is the moment
Join.greenparty.org.uk
Westminster Voting Intention:
RFM: 32% (=)
GRN: 17% (+2)
CON: 16% (-1)
LAB: 16% (=)
LDM: 12% (=)
SNP: 2% (=)
Via @findoutnow.bsky.social, 29 Oct.
Changes w/ 22 Oct.
RFM: 32% (=)
GRN: 17% (+2)
CON: 16% (-1)
LAB: 16% (=)
LDM: 12% (=)
SNP: 2% (=)
Via @findoutnow.bsky.social, 29 Oct.
Changes w/ 22 Oct.
October 31, 2025 at 1:06 PM
An extraordinary realignment of British politics
If you want to see @TheGreenParty take on Reform - this is the moment
Join.greenparty.org.uk
If you want to see @TheGreenParty take on Reform - this is the moment
Join.greenparty.org.uk