Dominic Minghella
@dminghella.bsky.social
Screenwriter / Producer / Showrunner / Writer, Creator of TV series eg ITV's Doc Martin / Political, Charity & Business Strategy & Comms /
www.minghella.com/about
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Turns out taking bribes to spout Russian propaganda WILL come back to bite you. To the tune of ten and a half years in prison.
There must be a few nerves jangling today.
There must be a few nerves jangling today.
November 21, 2025 at 12:58 PM
Turns out taking bribes to spout Russian propaganda WILL come back to bite you. To the tune of ten and a half years in prison.
There must be a few nerves jangling today.
There must be a few nerves jangling today.
Michael Gove's reflections on the Covid crisis this morning were absolutely triggering. Cosy, slippery, patronising - the kind of excusatory word salad which became his sorry, science-denying brand.
November 21, 2025 at 9:34 AM
Michael Gove's reflections on the Covid crisis this morning were absolutely triggering. Cosy, slippery, patronising - the kind of excusatory word salad which became his sorry, science-denying brand.
On the Sutton train just now
A pale stylish girl
A sad beauty, maybe 25
Peered silently at her phone
As if it contained some revelation.
Betrayal maybe. Then a fat tear drifted down her left cheek.
She didn't move but her tongue reached out to catch it.
A pale stylish girl
A sad beauty, maybe 25
Peered silently at her phone
As if it contained some revelation.
Betrayal maybe. Then a fat tear drifted down her left cheek.
She didn't move but her tongue reached out to catch it.
November 20, 2025 at 9:16 PM
On the Sutton train just now
A pale stylish girl
A sad beauty, maybe 25
Peered silently at her phone
As if it contained some revelation.
Betrayal maybe. Then a fat tear drifted down her left cheek.
She didn't move but her tongue reached out to catch it.
A pale stylish girl
A sad beauty, maybe 25
Peered silently at her phone
As if it contained some revelation.
Betrayal maybe. Then a fat tear drifted down her left cheek.
She didn't move but her tongue reached out to catch it.
You don't play Queensbury rules in a fist fight.
www.thenewworld.co.uk/james-ball-e...
www.thenewworld.co.uk/james-ball-e...
EXCLUSIVE: Michael Prescott himself doctored Trump quote in his anti-BBC report
A report alleging Panorama broadcast misleading Trump quotes contains misleading quotes itself
www.thenewworld.co.uk
November 19, 2025 at 2:28 PM
You don't play Queensbury rules in a fist fight.
www.thenewworld.co.uk/james-ball-e...
www.thenewworld.co.uk/james-ball-e...
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Russia lost 1,157,400 troops in Ukraine since Feb 2022, reported on Nov. 15. Including 1,000 casualties in the past day. Also 11,350 tanks, 23,588 armoured vehicles, 67,396 vehicles-fuel tanks, 34,443 artillery, 1,541 rocket systems, 1,244 air defense, 428 planes, kyivindependent.com/general-staf...
General Staff: Russia has lost 1,157,400 troops in Ukraine since Feb. 24, 2022
The number includes 1,000 casualties that Russian forces suffered over the past day.
kyivindependent.com
November 18, 2025 at 11:15 AM
Russia lost 1,157,400 troops in Ukraine since Feb 2022, reported on Nov. 15. Including 1,000 casualties in the past day. Also 11,350 tanks, 23,588 armoured vehicles, 67,396 vehicles-fuel tanks, 34,443 artillery, 1,541 rocket systems, 1,244 air defense, 428 planes, kyivindependent.com/general-staf...
Just remembered with a stab of shame the comments of one of my Oxford philosophy tutors on my homework: "jejune arguments". I had to look up jejune. Ouch.
November 18, 2025 at 6:08 PM
Just remembered with a stab of shame the comments of one of my Oxford philosophy tutors on my homework: "jejune arguments". I had to look up jejune. Ouch.
"What we need is a bit of compassion in it politics."
‐ Lord Alf Dubs, this morning.
‐ Lord Alf Dubs, this morning.
November 18, 2025 at 10:44 AM
"What we need is a bit of compassion in it politics."
‐ Lord Alf Dubs, this morning.
‐ Lord Alf Dubs, this morning.
Fella given unprecedented repeat royal
red carpet state hullabaloo is hardly back on the plane before he threatens to smash same state's cultural crown jewels.
red carpet state hullabaloo is hardly back on the plane before he threatens to smash same state's cultural crown jewels.
November 16, 2025 at 1:26 PM
Fella given unprecedented repeat royal
red carpet state hullabaloo is hardly back on the plane before he threatens to smash same state's cultural crown jewels.
red carpet state hullabaloo is hardly back on the plane before he threatens to smash same state's cultural crown jewels.
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That renowned and respected lover of truth and journalistic integrity.... THE KREMLIN.... has stepped up to defend Trump in his battle against the BBC.
SO that's Farage, Netanyahu, Putin, and Boris Johnson...
SO that's Farage, Netanyahu, Putin, and Boris Johnson...
November 11, 2025 at 7:33 PM
That renowned and respected lover of truth and journalistic integrity.... THE KREMLIN.... has stepped up to defend Trump in his battle against the BBC.
SO that's Farage, Netanyahu, Putin, and Boris Johnson...
SO that's Farage, Netanyahu, Putin, and Boris Johnson...
Crazy few days. First the BBC eats its own legs, then the Government eats its own legs.
November 12, 2025 at 10:01 PM
Crazy few days. First the BBC eats its own legs, then the Government eats its own legs.
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Conservative Shadow Culture Secretary Nigel Huddleston tells GB News that the BBC should "grovel" to Trump.
Amazing how many British 'patriots' are spending their time telling our national broadcaster to prostrate itself before a hostile foreign leader
Amazing how many British 'patriots' are spending their time telling our national broadcaster to prostrate itself before a hostile foreign leader
November 11, 2025 at 11:21 AM
Conservative Shadow Culture Secretary Nigel Huddleston tells GB News that the BBC should "grovel" to Trump.
Amazing how many British 'patriots' are spending their time telling our national broadcaster to prostrate itself before a hostile foreign leader
Amazing how many British 'patriots' are spending their time telling our national broadcaster to prostrate itself before a hostile foreign leader
Great piece. Just has "Tim Davie has legitimised the critique which has toppled him," so the BBC has appeased the very forces now ranged against it.
The reaction to the Panorama edit has been nothing short of hysterical. Yes the BBC has some impartiality problems. But its biggest isn't the one you think.
New piece from me.
open.substack.com/pub/goodalla...
New piece from me.
open.substack.com/pub/goodalla...
The truth about impartiality at the BBC
And the hysteria of the current "crisis"
open.substack.com
November 11, 2025 at 3:55 PM
Great piece. Just has "Tim Davie has legitimised the critique which has toppled him," so the BBC has appeased the very forces now ranged against it.
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Trump's White House & fawning hacks here don't really care about the 0.001% that the BBC gets wrong. They care about all the stuff it gets right.
November 11, 2025 at 9:54 AM
Trump's White House & fawning hacks here don't really care about the 0.001% that the BBC gets wrong. They care about all the stuff it gets right.
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The improvement in the employment rate of non-EU migrants to the UK over the past 15 years is remarkable, especially since the pandemic.
www.ons.gov.uk/employmentan...
www.ons.gov.uk/employmentan...
November 11, 2025 at 8:09 AM
The improvement in the employment rate of non-EU migrants to the UK over the past 15 years is remarkable, especially since the pandemic.
www.ons.gov.uk/employmentan...
www.ons.gov.uk/employmentan...
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If we're talking about bias, why do BBC politics programmes, from Politics Live to the Laura Kuennsberg Show, still always begin with a look at the newspaper front pages, which are overwhelmingly biased in one direction. Helps frame the entire news agenda and debate in their favour
November 11, 2025 at 1:09 PM
If we're talking about bias, why do BBC politics programmes, from Politics Live to the Laura Kuennsberg Show, still always begin with a look at the newspaper front pages, which are overwhelmingly biased in one direction. Helps frame the entire news agenda and debate in their favour
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Newsagents’ deep dive into BBC situ is v level headed and wide ranging. Two things clear: Gibb should be nowhere near the BBC, and BBC general policy for bringing in people like that in a never ending charade to prove themselves not too lefty is weak, and clearly pointless.
November 11, 2025 at 11:15 AM
Newsagents’ deep dive into BBC situ is v level headed and wide ranging. Two things clear: Gibb should be nowhere near the BBC, and BBC general policy for bringing in people like that in a never ending charade to prove themselves not too lefty is weak, and clearly pointless.
Then and now. My Dad, Edward Minghella, during the War at Aldershot Barracks, and the other day in Ryde.
(Army photo enhanced by Jim Sheridan.)
(Army photo enhanced by Jim Sheridan.)
November 11, 2025 at 1:11 PM
Then and now. My Dad, Edward Minghella, during the War at Aldershot Barracks, and the other day in Ryde.
(Army photo enhanced by Jim Sheridan.)
(Army photo enhanced by Jim Sheridan.)
What do you call it when a British MP takes direct calls from a foreign leader to conspire against the BBC, our national broadcaster?
November 10, 2025 at 6:38 PM
What do you call it when a British MP takes direct calls from a foreign leader to conspire against the BBC, our national broadcaster?
After Eurythmics, Annie Lennox worried that she wouldn't be able to write songs on her own. She sat down to try, and produced Why in ten minutes.
I don't know why I spends weeks, months, years trying to create stuff. It turns me inside f88king out.
I don't know why I spends weeks, months, years trying to create stuff. It turns me inside f88king out.
November 8, 2025 at 8:35 AM
After Eurythmics, Annie Lennox worried that she wouldn't be able to write songs on her own. She sat down to try, and produced Why in ten minutes.
I don't know why I spends weeks, months, years trying to create stuff. It turns me inside f88king out.
I don't know why I spends weeks, months, years trying to create stuff. It turns me inside f88king out.
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It took just 8 minutes for thieves to steal the Napoleonic-era crown jewels from the Louvre. There weren't enough cameras and the ones there were there were facing the wrong way.
Could a 50-year-old maths problem have foiled the heist?
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www.bbc.com/news/art...
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Could a 50-year-old maths problem have foiled the heist?
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www.bbc.com/news/art...
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Where are the Louvre jewels now and can France get them back?
Experts warn that whilst the criminals may yet be caught, the gemstones they stole may never be recovered.
www.bbc.com
November 1, 2025 at 8:02 AM
It took just 8 minutes for thieves to steal the Napoleonic-era crown jewels from the Louvre. There weren't enough cameras and the ones there were there were facing the wrong way.
Could a 50-year-old maths problem have foiled the heist?
🧵
www.bbc.com/news/art...
1/9
Could a 50-year-old maths problem have foiled the heist?
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www.bbc.com/news/art...
1/9
I heard once about some young folk who went to hear John Martyn at the Fairfield Halls. Driving home after the gig they saw someone at the bus stop with a guitar case. It was John. They offered him a lift, and he ended up going back to theirs and smoking and playing half the night.
October 31, 2025 at 6:11 PM
I heard once about some young folk who went to hear John Martyn at the Fairfield Halls. Driving home after the gig they saw someone at the bus stop with a guitar case. It was John. They offered him a lift, and he ended up going back to theirs and smoking and playing half the night.
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“A neighbour told this newspaper that he shouted the word ‘n*****’ at her repeatedly, said he would set the far-right English Defence League on her and told her there’d be ‘black body bags’
So not “just” racial slurs - death threats too.
So not “just” racial slurs - death threats too.
Perhaps rather than endlessly promoting Mr Farage, the national media could highlight what his local councillors are doing - as demonstrated here by @northantstelegraph.bsky.social
www.northantstelegraph.co.uk/news/people/...
www.northantstelegraph.co.uk/news/people/...
Corby Reform councillor resigns over serious racism allegations
Reform councillor Robert Bloom, who has been in his North Northamptonshire Council post for just 117 days, has resigned after a neighbour alleged he used appalling racial slurs toward her family.
www.northantstelegraph.co.uk
August 28, 2025 at 8:08 AM
“A neighbour told this newspaper that he shouted the word ‘n*****’ at her repeatedly, said he would set the far-right English Defence League on her and told her there’d be ‘black body bags’
So not “just” racial slurs - death threats too.
So not “just” racial slurs - death threats too.
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Tinderbox Britain: How conservatives ended up praying for violence iandunt.substack.com/p/tinderbox-...
August 15, 2025 at 8:59 AM
Tinderbox Britain: How conservatives ended up praying for violence iandunt.substack.com/p/tinderbox-...
Three years since the luminous Edana Minghella left us, and it might as well be three minutes, for the shock we are still reeling in.
July 11, 2025 at 8:28 AM
Three years since the luminous Edana Minghella left us, and it might as well be three minutes, for the shock we are still reeling in.
Nobody brings car history to life like Peter Grimsdale. Here he is in 'launch mode' last night with his latest literary model, Superveloce: how a country with no industrial revolution, hampered by poverty, took the 20th Century automotive world by storm.
Great Father's Day present!
Great Father's Day present!
June 13, 2025 at 3:22 PM
Nobody brings car history to life like Peter Grimsdale. Here he is in 'launch mode' last night with his latest literary model, Superveloce: how a country with no industrial revolution, hampered by poverty, took the 20th Century automotive world by storm.
Great Father's Day present!
Great Father's Day present!