Toby Earle 🇺🇦
@tobyontv.bsky.social
TV critic, Greenlit podcast creator/host, still trying to write a book
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Toby Earle 🇺🇦
@tobyontv.bsky.social
· Jan 24
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This is a useful thread on the controversy today. But away from the detail, when BBC Verify have to effectively fact-check their own Political Editor (who is *not* a columnist but an Editor at a public broadcaster!), you know there is something of a problem.
Did Rachel Reeves and the Government “mislead” people about the state of the public finances and the need for tax rises before the Budget?
I think this is a rather complex question & the answer is not black and white.
A thread…🧵1/12
I think this is a rather complex question & the answer is not black and white.
A thread…🧵1/12
December 1, 2025 at 1:53 PM
This is a useful thread on the controversy today. But away from the detail, when BBC Verify have to effectively fact-check their own Political Editor (who is *not* a columnist but an Editor at a public broadcaster!), you know there is something of a problem.
*Blur re-release a 2025 version of Country House*
OH he lives in a house
a very big house but one worth just under 2 million
in the country
OH he lives in a house
a very big house but one worth just under 2 million
in the country
December 1, 2025 at 1:38 PM
*Blur re-release a 2025 version of Country House*
OH he lives in a house
a very big house but one worth just under 2 million
in the country
OH he lives in a house
a very big house but one worth just under 2 million
in the country
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No that's not *your* on *our behalf*. Your job is to report the story, presenting all sides fairly and then *we* call it. What Mason is saying here is fundamentally not what the bbc is for!
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
December 1, 2025 at 11:29 AM
No that's not *your* on *our behalf*. Your job is to report the story, presenting all sides fairly and then *we* call it. What Mason is saying here is fundamentally not what the bbc is for!
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Last year his estate donated the royalties for Last Christmas to his charity that offers funding for LGBTQIA+ orgs and they said they'd do it again this year. Listen to it loads!
Listening to Last Christmas because it is an all-time banger and George didn't die on Christmas Day for you to disrespect his memory by participating in Whamageddon
December 1, 2025 at 10:34 AM
Last year his estate donated the royalties for Last Christmas to his charity that offers funding for LGBTQIA+ orgs and they said they'd do it again this year. Listen to it loads!
the way bbc news’ impartiality seems to work is that they’re softer on the right to avoid accusations of left-wing bias, and they’re harder on the left to avoid accusations of left-wing bias
December 1, 2025 at 10:09 AM
the way bbc news’ impartiality seems to work is that they’re softer on the right to avoid accusations of left-wing bias, and they’re harder on the left to avoid accusations of left-wing bias
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I must have missed the wall-to-wall coverage of demands for an investigation into Nigel Farage's lies about being a racist
Or about whether he knew Nathan Gill
Or about who bought his house in Frinton
Or about whether he knew Nathan Gill
Or about who bought his house in Frinton
November 30, 2025 at 9:15 PM
I must have missed the wall-to-wall coverage of demands for an investigation into Nigel Farage's lies about being a racist
Or about whether he knew Nathan Gill
Or about who bought his house in Frinton
Or about whether he knew Nathan Gill
Or about who bought his house in Frinton
the media are going after Reeves and accusations of dishonesty in a way they didn't with Brexiters & Boris Johnson and it's so hard to work out why
December 1, 2025 at 9:35 AM
the media are going after Reeves and accusations of dishonesty in a way they didn't with Brexiters & Boris Johnson and it's so hard to work out why
I CANNOT BELIEVE RAGEBAIT IS THE WORD OF THE YEAR HAVE THEY GONE INSANE THE WORLD HAS GONE MAD IT IS A RIDICULOUS WORD CLICK HERE TO READ MORE WHY IT’S SO WRONG
December 1, 2025 at 9:16 AM
I CANNOT BELIEVE RAGEBAIT IS THE WORD OF THE YEAR HAVE THEY GONE INSANE THE WORLD HAS GONE MAD IT IS A RIDICULOUS WORD CLICK HERE TO READ MORE WHY IT’S SO WRONG
‘You boy! How do I unsubscribe from all these Black Friday emails?’
December 1, 2025 at 7:42 AM
‘You boy! How do I unsubscribe from all these Black Friday emails?’
this Cyber Monday, don't miss great deals on partridges in pear trees, turtle doves, French hens, calling birds, gold rings, geese a-laying, swans a-swimming, maids a-milking, ladies dancing, lords a-leaping, pipers piping, and drummers drumming
December 1, 2025 at 6:57 AM
this Cyber Monday, don't miss great deals on partridges in pear trees, turtle doves, French hens, calling birds, gold rings, geese a-laying, swans a-swimming, maids a-milking, ladies dancing, lords a-leaping, pipers piping, and drummers drumming
‘we were only at the reform conference because there was a nice cathedral nearby’
November 28, 2025 at 5:53 PM
‘we were only at the reform conference because there was a nice cathedral nearby’
OMG THEY ARE BACK THEY ARE BACK
November 28, 2025 at 5:04 PM
OMG THEY ARE BACK THEY ARE BACK
if you think you've had a productive day at work, Kemi Badenoch has erased the existence of the Roman Empire in a single sentence
November 28, 2025 at 12:36 PM
if you think you've had a productive day at work, Kemi Badenoch has erased the existence of the Roman Empire in a single sentence
Kemi Badenoch is the Philomena Cunk of politicians, without the occasional accidental insight
November 28, 2025 at 11:39 AM
Kemi Badenoch is the Philomena Cunk of politicians, without the occasional accidental insight
hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha *inhales* hahahahahahahahaahahahahahaha etc
Kemi Badenoch says welfare spending is unchristian
Kemi Badenoch says welfare spending is unchristian
Kemi Badenoch says welfare spending is unchristian
www.thetimes.com
November 28, 2025 at 11:05 AM
hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha *inhales* hahahahahahahahaahahahahahaha etc
one of the all-time greats, 10/10, no notes
November 28, 2025 at 10:46 AM
one of the all-time greats, 10/10, no notes
apparently the two turkeys pardoned by Trump have been arrested for committing a number of other crimes
November 28, 2025 at 10:42 AM
apparently the two turkeys pardoned by Trump have been arrested for committing a number of other crimes
Farage spent 700 large to advertise in all the right-wing papers to distract from both the racism of his schooldays and his links to Nathan Gill, yet here I am, still remembering both, all that money down the drain
November 28, 2025 at 10:34 AM
Farage spent 700 large to advertise in all the right-wing papers to distract from both the racism of his schooldays and his links to Nathan Gill, yet here I am, still remembering both, all that money down the drain
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There is a lot of appalling shit in the world right now. But this really made my blood boil
Money buys *everything*, even things that were previously beyond its reaches
www.theguardian.com/football/202...
Money buys *everything*, even things that were previously beyond its reaches
www.theguardian.com/football/202...
Cristiano Ronaldo clear to start World Cup after Fifa suspends two games of his ban
Cristiano Ronaldo will serve the final two games of his ban only if he is guilty of a similar infringement in the next year
www.theguardian.com
November 28, 2025 at 8:35 AM
There is a lot of appalling shit in the world right now. But this really made my blood boil
Money buys *everything*, even things that were previously beyond its reaches
www.theguardian.com/football/202...
Money buys *everything*, even things that were previously beyond its reaches
www.theguardian.com/football/202...
reader, I pissed myself
November 27, 2025 at 10:13 PM
reader, I pissed myself
VERY funny
A mansion tax is one of the most popular things that Labour has done - 67% in favour, 19% against.
November 27, 2025 at 9:44 PM
VERY funny
the kids in the new series of Stranger Things
November 27, 2025 at 7:40 PM
the kids in the new series of Stranger Things
or they could just make the journalists inhale helium before they repeat the line
NEW: BBC tells staff they cannot quote Trump line removed from Reith Lecture
BBC News article & Media Show prevented from repeating Rutger Bregman’s corruption allegation in its coverage… of whether the BBC censored his speech!
BBC/Trump fallout continues
www.theguardian.com/media/2025/n...
BBC News article & Media Show prevented from repeating Rutger Bregman’s corruption allegation in its coverage… of whether the BBC censored his speech!
BBC/Trump fallout continues
www.theguardian.com/media/2025/n...
BBC tells staff they cannot quote Trump line removed from Reith Lecture
Journalists not allowed to repeat Rutger Bregman’s corruption claims against US president in coverage of edit
www.theguardian.com
November 27, 2025 at 2:39 PM
or they could just make the journalists inhale helium before they repeat the line