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Counting the Bastards in UKIP/BXP/Reform/whatever

Brexit is more unicorny and pishy than ever
actual lol
November 25, 2025 at 9:28 PM
"you've got to have a childhood," says Tim Montgomerie about Farage on #bbcwato

i'm sure everyone's childhood included rousing choruses of "gas them all"
November 25, 2025 at 1:20 PM
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This sentence was taken out of a lecture they commissioned, reviewed through the full editorial process, and recorded four weeks ago in front of 500 people in the BBC Radio Theatre.

I was told the decision came from the highest levels within the BBC. /2
November 25, 2025 at 9:26 AM
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Here's a link to the story

I have sympathy for stretched staff who fall for scams like this but it's degrading trust in journalism and results in good, honest writers losing work and possibly their livelihoods

Insist on phone calls over pitches, verify previous work
thelocal.to/investigatin...
Investigating a Possible Scammer in Journalism’s AI Era | The Local
A suspicious pitch from a freelancer led editor Nicholas Hune-Brown to dig into their past work. By the end, four publications, including The Guardian and Dwell, had removed articles from their sites.
thelocal.to
November 24, 2025 at 9:45 PM
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This country is hell-bent on wrestling away the "hermit kingdom" moniker from North Korea
November 24, 2025 at 11:14 AM
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Also not sorry.
November 24, 2025 at 11:48 AM