Kittiwake
@jaylincs.bsky.social
Retired NHS nurse. Birdwatcher. Nature lover. Garden for wildlife. Cat servant. Pro EU. 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 Please no DM
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The absolute state of the BBC news just now - which seems determined to drag the government down over the budget.
Where was all this attention to minute detail and concern for absolute accuracy when the Tories were lying their way through their chaotic reign for 14 years? It's frankly absurd.
Where was all this attention to minute detail and concern for absolute accuracy when the Tories were lying their way through their chaotic reign for 14 years? It's frankly absurd.
For all the focus on its supposed “left wing bias”, the BBC’s heavy coverage of Rachel Reeves Budget "lies" shows how its political coverage is still largely led by the right-wing press
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Rachel Reeves and the Daily Mailification of the BBC
For all the focus on its supposed "left wing bias", the BBC's heavy coverage of Conservative allegations of dishonesty against Rachel Reeves shows how its political coverage is still largely led by th...
bylinetimes.com
December 1, 2025 at 1:39 PM
The absolute state of the BBC news just now - which seems determined to drag the government down over the budget.
Where was all this attention to minute detail and concern for absolute accuracy when the Tories were lying their way through their chaotic reign for 14 years? It's frankly absurd.
Where was all this attention to minute detail and concern for absolute accuracy when the Tories were lying their way through their chaotic reign for 14 years? It's frankly absurd.
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As Jonathan Gullis joins Reform UK, it's only fair to remind people of this.
All forgotten, is it, Dickie? ~AA
All forgotten, is it, Dickie? ~AA
December 1, 2025 at 1:03 PM
As Jonathan Gullis joins Reform UK, it's only fair to remind people of this.
All forgotten, is it, Dickie? ~AA
All forgotten, is it, Dickie? ~AA
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👏🏽"We must all now confront the reality that the Brexit deal significantly hurt our economy. We have to keep reducing frictions. We have to keep moving towards a closer relationship with the EU. And we have to be grown up about it. To accept that it will require trade-offs."👏🏽
Music to my ears. ~AA
Music to my ears. ~AA
December 1, 2025 at 12:55 PM
👏🏽"We must all now confront the reality that the Brexit deal significantly hurt our economy. We have to keep reducing frictions. We have to keep moving towards a closer relationship with the EU. And we have to be grown up about it. To accept that it will require trade-offs."👏🏽
Music to my ears. ~AA
Music to my ears. ~AA
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Science discarded,
The art of critical thinking flayed,
While fools weave
Their insubstantial dreams,
Brittle as new ICE,
Ever eager to please
The orange waste on the throne,
That demands only the dullness
Of unremarkable subservience.
The art of critical thinking flayed,
While fools weave
Their insubstantial dreams,
Brittle as new ICE,
Ever eager to please
The orange waste on the throne,
That demands only the dullness
Of unremarkable subservience.
December 1, 2025 at 12:08 PM
Science discarded,
The art of critical thinking flayed,
While fools weave
Their insubstantial dreams,
Brittle as new ICE,
Ever eager to please
The orange waste on the throne,
That demands only the dullness
Of unremarkable subservience.
The art of critical thinking flayed,
While fools weave
Their insubstantial dreams,
Brittle as new ICE,
Ever eager to please
The orange waste on the throne,
That demands only the dullness
Of unremarkable subservience.
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Given Tory Badenoch's penchant for referring to individual US state MOU'S as "Trade Agreements" with the UK when she was a trade minister, while knowing full well states cannot have international trade agreements... she should be quiet about misleading the public.
www.lbc.co.uk/article/bade...
www.lbc.co.uk/article/bade...
'If a CEO had done that, they would have lost their job': Badenoch calls on Reeves to resign over Budget | LBC
The Conservative Party leader was unable to name anything she admired about the Chancellor
www.lbc.co.uk
December 1, 2025 at 1:46 PM
Given Tory Badenoch's penchant for referring to individual US state MOU'S as "Trade Agreements" with the UK when she was a trade minister, while knowing full well states cannot have international trade agreements... she should be quiet about misleading the public.
www.lbc.co.uk/article/bade...
www.lbc.co.uk/article/bade...
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The UK, where the day after a decision to take half a million children out of poverty, the media & political world has been full of sneering at those same children & their families, labelling them as ‘Benefits Street’, while the same people are moaning about a tax on £2m mansions. Shameful stuff.
November 27, 2025 at 8:22 PM
The UK, where the day after a decision to take half a million children out of poverty, the media & political world has been full of sneering at those same children & their families, labelling them as ‘Benefits Street’, while the same people are moaning about a tax on £2m mansions. Shameful stuff.
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Net migration fell sharply agaim to 204,000 in the year to June 2025, having been 344k in 2024 and 848k in 2023. But falling immigration has been the biggest secret - and it is time for the media and political debate to catch up with this change
www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cn...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cn...
UK net migration fell to 204,000 in year to June - live updates
Net migration, the difference between those entering and leaving the country, was 345,000 in 2024 according to revised figures.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 27, 2025 at 9:36 AM
Net migration fell sharply agaim to 204,000 in the year to June 2025, having been 344k in 2024 and 848k in 2023. But falling immigration has been the biggest secret - and it is time for the media and political debate to catch up with this change
www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cn...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cn...
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1/5 It was entirely predictable that The Telegraph would jump on @DavidOlusoga’s Empire series to fight its right wing culture war for control of our public history. Let’s see what they’ve done:
November 27, 2025 at 8:28 AM
1/5 It was entirely predictable that The Telegraph would jump on @DavidOlusoga’s Empire series to fight its right wing culture war for control of our public history. Let’s see what they’ve done:
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Whole issue - at least electorally and rhetorically - is such a moving target. Does make you wonder what the anti-migration folk will focus on next if, by some miracle of miracles, a UK government were ever to actually 'Stop the Boats'.
Net migration fell sharply agaim to 204,000 in the year to June 2025, having been 344k in 2024 and 848k in 2023. But falling immigration has been the biggest secret - and it is time for the media and political debate to catch up with this change
www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cn...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cn...
UK net migration fell to 204,000 in year to June - live updates
Net migration, the difference between those entering and leaving the country, was 345,000 in 2024 according to revised figures.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 27, 2025 at 9:40 AM
Whole issue - at least electorally and rhetorically - is such a moving target. Does make you wonder what the anti-migration folk will focus on next if, by some miracle of miracles, a UK government were ever to actually 'Stop the Boats'.
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It's almost like much of the mainstream media and right wing press has an agenda, isn't it.
New net migration figures at 930am.
Net migration fell half a million to 344,000 in 2024 from 848k in 2023
56% of people think it went up last year
17% think stayed the same
14% think it went down
2025 figure to be lower again
16% expect that
38% think it will be up
31% about the same
Net migration fell half a million to 344,000 in 2024 from 848k in 2023
56% of people think it went up last year
17% think stayed the same
14% think it went down
2025 figure to be lower again
16% expect that
38% think it will be up
31% about the same
November 27, 2025 at 8:55 AM
It's almost like much of the mainstream media and right wing press has an agenda, isn't it.
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Oh Zia Yusufski, you and your Reform lot are going to have to get cross with *a lot* of people. Here’s Private Eye taking the piss out of you too.
November 26, 2025 at 9:35 PM
Oh Zia Yusufski, you and your Reform lot are going to have to get cross with *a lot* of people. Here’s Private Eye taking the piss out of you too.
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Little Stormzy had his first trip out into the "real world".
Testing him out to see if he'll be OK for adoptions.
Look at him go! I think the early answer is a yes!
Testing him out to see if he'll be OK for adoptions.
Look at him go! I think the early answer is a yes!
November 27, 2025 at 3:36 AM
Little Stormzy had his first trip out into the "real world".
Testing him out to see if he'll be OK for adoptions.
Look at him go! I think the early answer is a yes!
Testing him out to see if he'll be OK for adoptions.
Look at him go! I think the early answer is a yes!
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Reeves: "We are ramping up sanctions on Russia and we are freezing known Russian assets. But let me be clear, I don't actually mean the honourable mention for Clacton."
November 26, 2025 at 1:12 PM
Reeves: "We are ramping up sanctions on Russia and we are freezing known Russian assets. But let me be clear, I don't actually mean the honourable mention for Clacton."
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I’m beyond proud of Peter Ettedgui speaking out about Farage and the vile antisemitic abuse he endured. I first heard Peter’s story nearly 20 years ago when Farage was a virtual nobody. It’s not a hit job. Just the truth
November 25, 2025 at 7:12 PM
I’m beyond proud of Peter Ettedgui speaking out about Farage and the vile antisemitic abuse he endured. I first heard Peter’s story nearly 20 years ago when Farage was a virtual nobody. It’s not a hit job. Just the truth
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It's interesting, but I don't think it properly grapples with what Gill did. Effectively, it's saying he was a good apple who inexplicably turned bad, as if this, and the particular form it took, had nothing whatsoever to do with the parties he belonged to or anyone else in them. 1/2
An interesting piece and the first one to properly grapple with what Nathan Gill did by a figure from within Reform
gawaintowler.substack.com/p/the-deep-b...
gawaintowler.substack.com/p/the-deep-b...
The Deep Betrayal of Nathan Gill
A Personal Reckoning
gawaintowler.substack.com
November 25, 2025 at 9:11 AM
It's interesting, but I don't think it properly grapples with what Gill did. Effectively, it's saying he was a good apple who inexplicably turned bad, as if this, and the particular form it took, had nothing whatsoever to do with the parties he belonged to or anyone else in them. 1/2
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They were 2 of the very first dogs I ever saved. Britney and King Whacker were as good as dead.
To see them meet up this week in Scotland brought a little tear to my eye. Look at their little jackets for the cold!
To see them meet up this week in Scotland brought a little tear to my eye. Look at their little jackets for the cold!
November 23, 2025 at 11:04 AM
They were 2 of the very first dogs I ever saved. Britney and King Whacker were as good as dead.
To see them meet up this week in Scotland brought a little tear to my eye. Look at their little jackets for the cold!
To see them meet up this week in Scotland brought a little tear to my eye. Look at their little jackets for the cold!
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If you need a smile today this is it.
Stormzy wanted to show you something he’s been working on ❤️
Stormzy wanted to show you something he’s been working on ❤️
November 22, 2025 at 11:50 AM
If you need a smile today this is it.
Stormzy wanted to show you something he’s been working on ❤️
Stormzy wanted to show you something he’s been working on ❤️
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The right wing elite are ruthless in protecting their own and getting what they want.
They wanted Johnson. (And what a disaster that was for us).
Now they want Farage. (Would be an off the scale catastrophe for the country).
Time we woke up to the betrayal.
www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/the-confid...
They wanted Johnson. (And what a disaster that was for us).
Now they want Farage. (Would be an off the scale catastrophe for the country).
Time we woke up to the betrayal.
www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/the-confid...
The Confidence Trick That Put Boris Johnson Into Power Is Now Being Used on Nigel Farage
The same people who convinced the British public to back a catastrophic Boris Johnson premiership are now pulling the same trick again with Nigel Farage
www.adambienkov.co.uk
November 22, 2025 at 2:33 PM
The right wing elite are ruthless in protecting their own and getting what they want.
They wanted Johnson. (And what a disaster that was for us).
Now they want Farage. (Would be an off the scale catastrophe for the country).
Time we woke up to the betrayal.
www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/the-confid...
They wanted Johnson. (And what a disaster that was for us).
Now they want Farage. (Would be an off the scale catastrophe for the country).
Time we woke up to the betrayal.
www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/the-confid...
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The medicines, shelter and food are helping but what she really needs most is the love ❤️
November 19, 2025 at 11:10 AM
The medicines, shelter and food are helping but what she really needs most is the love ❤️
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Temerko, a Soviet-born oligarch and a major Conservative donor, told Belton that he and Johnson spent time… plotting the overthrow May. According to Temerko, Johnson had finally been persuaded to back Brexit in 2016 by a group of “eastern European businessmen”.
bylinetimes.com/2023/01/19/l...
bylinetimes.com/2023/01/19/l...
Landmark Ruling in Strasbourg as MPs Challenge UK Government over Failure to Investigate Russian Interference in Brexit
'Nothing less than the future of democracy is at stake' says Caroline Lucas as a cross-party coalition and The Citizens win an unprecedented hearing over electoral safety and national security
bylinetimes.com
November 15, 2025 at 4:15 AM
Temerko, a Soviet-born oligarch and a major Conservative donor, told Belton that he and Johnson spent time… plotting the overthrow May. According to Temerko, Johnson had finally been persuaded to back Brexit in 2016 by a group of “eastern European businessmen”.
bylinetimes.com/2023/01/19/l...
bylinetimes.com/2023/01/19/l...
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“Weaponising Migration”: How Russia’s War in Syria Fed the Brexit Propaganda Loop
Farage said Putin's handling of Syria was 'brilliant'. Leave EU campaign went on to weaponise the refugee wave that followed and defend Russia
open.substack.com/pub/pdjukes/...
Farage said Putin's handling of Syria was 'brilliant'. Leave EU campaign went on to weaponise the refugee wave that followed and defend Russia
open.substack.com/pub/pdjukes/...
“Weaponising Migration”: How Russia’s War in Syria Fed the Brexit Propaganda Loop
Farage said Putin's handling of Syria was 'brilliant' - and his Leave EU campaing went on to weaponise the refugee wave that followed the indiscriminate barrel bombing of civilians and defend Russia
open.substack.com
November 13, 2025 at 3:49 PM
“Weaponising Migration”: How Russia’s War in Syria Fed the Brexit Propaganda Loop
Farage said Putin's handling of Syria was 'brilliant'. Leave EU campaign went on to weaponise the refugee wave that followed and defend Russia
open.substack.com/pub/pdjukes/...
Farage said Putin's handling of Syria was 'brilliant'. Leave EU campaign went on to weaponise the refugee wave that followed and defend Russia
open.substack.com/pub/pdjukes/...
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If the grouse shooting industry are to be believed, Susie probably stamped her own chicks to death before turning the gun on herself.
Oh well. By a happy coincidence, less hen harriers means more red grouse for the toffs to shoot.
@raptorpersuk.bsky.social
raptorpersecutionuk.org/2025/11/14/h...
Oh well. By a happy coincidence, less hen harriers means more red grouse for the toffs to shoot.
@raptorpersuk.bsky.social
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Hen Harrier ‘Susie’, whose chicks were stamped to death in 2022, has been found dead on a North Pennines grouse moor with gunshot injuries
If ever there was an example demonstrating the high level of persecution faced by Hen Harriers on UK grouse moors, the lack of consequences for the offenders, and the lack of justice for the victim…
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November 14, 2025 at 7:48 AM
If the grouse shooting industry are to be believed, Susie probably stamped her own chicks to death before turning the gun on herself.
Oh well. By a happy coincidence, less hen harriers means more red grouse for the toffs to shoot.
@raptorpersuk.bsky.social
raptorpersecutionuk.org/2025/11/14/h...
Oh well. By a happy coincidence, less hen harriers means more red grouse for the toffs to shoot.
@raptorpersuk.bsky.social
raptorpersecutionuk.org/2025/11/14/h...
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The letter the BBC could send back to Trump - brilliant stuff from @davidallengreen.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/emptycit...
The letter the BBC could send back to Trump
A proposal for a reply to his $1bn claim
open.substack.com
November 12, 2025 at 12:02 PM
The letter the BBC could send back to Trump - brilliant stuff from @davidallengreen.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/emptycit...
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You may have missed this gem yesterday. From which we learn that:
1. Betting shops are really good for the mental health of isolated people.
2. Most drug-takers are not a problem.
3. Kids put tuppence in slot machines in the hope of getting rich.
4. Farage probably has a gambling industry donor.
1. Betting shops are really good for the mental health of isolated people.
2. Most drug-takers are not a problem.
3. Kids put tuppence in slot machines in the hope of getting rich.
4. Farage probably has a gambling industry donor.
November 11, 2025 at 10:08 AM
You may have missed this gem yesterday. From which we learn that:
1. Betting shops are really good for the mental health of isolated people.
2. Most drug-takers are not a problem.
3. Kids put tuppence in slot machines in the hope of getting rich.
4. Farage probably has a gambling industry donor.
1. Betting shops are really good for the mental health of isolated people.
2. Most drug-takers are not a problem.
3. Kids put tuppence in slot machines in the hope of getting rich.
4. Farage probably has a gambling industry donor.
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Whole fucking thing makes me sick to my stomach. An abject fucking liar, a man who lies as easily as he fucking breathes, threatening an organisation which strives for truthfulness. And plastic patriots like the Mail and Farage urging him on. Jackels.
November 11, 2025 at 7:24 AM
Whole fucking thing makes me sick to my stomach. An abject fucking liar, a man who lies as easily as he fucking breathes, threatening an organisation which strives for truthfulness. And plastic patriots like the Mail and Farage urging him on. Jackels.