@johnjakson19.bsky.social
Scottish Independence Supporter. Left Leaning Politics.
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Our media has become the story. What they decide is newsworthy, what they scream about, who they accuse, who they excuse, who they blame…
They have an agenda entirely of their own. Not one rooted in public interest or national responsibility. But one that is deeply rightwing and undemocratic.
They have an agenda entirely of their own. Not one rooted in public interest or national responsibility. But one that is deeply rightwing and undemocratic.
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
December 1, 2025 at 7:29 AM
Our media has become the story. What they decide is newsworthy, what they scream about, who they accuse, who they excuse, who they blame…
They have an agenda entirely of their own. Not one rooted in public interest or national responsibility. But one that is deeply rightwing and undemocratic.
They have an agenda entirely of their own. Not one rooted in public interest or national responsibility. But one that is deeply rightwing and undemocratic.
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“Speaking outside his chateau in France, former Brexit Party and UKIP MEP Coburn answered "no" when a BBC journalist asked him whether he’d ever been paid to give a speech to promote pro-Russian campaigners”
Just FFS investigate the whole dodgy traitorous lot of them.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Just FFS investigate the whole dodgy traitorous lot of them.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Former Brexit Party MEP denies taking payment from pro-Russian campaign
A prominent former MEP for Nigel Farage's old party denies taking bribes in a pro-Russian campaign.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 28, 2025 at 9:01 AM
“Speaking outside his chateau in France, former Brexit Party and UKIP MEP Coburn answered "no" when a BBC journalist asked him whether he’d ever been paid to give a speech to promote pro-Russian campaigners”
Just FFS investigate the whole dodgy traitorous lot of them.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Just FFS investigate the whole dodgy traitorous lot of them.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Here's UKIP's former Scottish leader David Coburn, who has denied taking Russian bribes after being named in Whatsapp messages between Nathan Gill and a pawn of the Putin administration, being applauded by Gill for arguing against Ukraine's entry to the EU
November 28, 2025 at 11:38 AM
Here's UKIP's former Scottish leader David Coburn, who has denied taking Russian bribes after being named in Whatsapp messages between Nathan Gill and a pawn of the Putin administration, being applauded by Gill for arguing against Ukraine's entry to the EU
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The stench of sleaze grows ever stronger around Farage and his associates. Piling on the hypocrisy, former Brexit MEP David Coburn lives in France.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Former Brexit Party MEP denies taking payment from pro-Russian campaign
A prominent former MEP for Nigel Farage's old party denies taking bribes in a pro-Russian campaign.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 28, 2025 at 1:10 PM
The stench of sleaze grows ever stronger around Farage and his associates. Piling on the hypocrisy, former Brexit MEP David Coburn lives in France.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Scotland’s future is up to people who live in Scotland, not Rachel Reeves, Keir Starmer or any other Westminster politician.
November 27, 2025 at 6:13 PM
Scotland’s future is up to people who live in Scotland, not Rachel Reeves, Keir Starmer or any other Westminster politician.
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Tackling child poverty is my driving mission - and thanks to our actions, Scotland is the only part of the UK where child poverty is falling.
Glad that Labour was finally shamed into doing the right thing.
Glad that Labour was finally shamed into doing the right thing.
November 27, 2025 at 1:26 PM
Tackling child poverty is my driving mission - and thanks to our actions, Scotland is the only part of the UK where child poverty is falling.
Glad that Labour was finally shamed into doing the right thing.
Glad that Labour was finally shamed into doing the right thing.
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Just add the rest of the sentence yourself.
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What it looks like in the transcript versus what I actually said.
November 27, 2025 at 1:36 PM
Just add the rest of the sentence yourself.
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Indeed Mike. Can’t recall any leader since Attlee that achieved so much, with so little.
July 27, 2025 at 7:52 PM
Indeed Mike. Can’t recall any leader since Attlee that achieved so much, with so little.
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Wow. BBC journalists are now not even allowed to report the censored line from my Reith Lecture, that Trump is “the most openly corrupt president in American history.”
You can hear how carefully they’re forced to tiptoe around it. So chilling...
You can hear how carefully they’re forced to tiptoe around it. So chilling...
November 27, 2025 at 11:45 AM
Wow. BBC journalists are now not even allowed to report the censored line from my Reith Lecture, that Trump is “the most openly corrupt president in American history.”
You can hear how carefully they’re forced to tiptoe around it. So chilling...
You can hear how carefully they’re forced to tiptoe around it. So chilling...
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It was great to be down at the BBC today with Raven Chacon & @samewoods.bsky.social ahead of Front Row this evening where Raven speaks to Kate Molleson and Neal Ambrose Smith, Jaune Quick-to-See Smith's son about Deep Time and Jaune's legacy listen at 7.15 tobight www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
November 26, 2025 at 3:41 PM
It was great to be down at the BBC today with Raven Chacon & @samewoods.bsky.social ahead of Front Row this evening where Raven speaks to Kate Molleson and Neal Ambrose Smith, Jaune Quick-to-See Smith's son about Deep Time and Jaune's legacy listen at 7.15 tobight www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
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Rachel Reeves announcement of a so-called mansion tax will only apply to England. Will we see the Tories & right-wing media talk about the spectre of multi-millionaires & property magnets fleeing to Scotland, Wales & Northern Ireland? #Budget2025
November 26, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Rachel Reeves announcement of a so-called mansion tax will only apply to England. Will we see the Tories & right-wing media talk about the spectre of multi-millionaires & property magnets fleeing to Scotland, Wales & Northern Ireland? #Budget2025
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Leaked OBR report confirms electricity consumers will start paying for Sizewell C nuclear plant using a risky PFI-like financial scheme initiated by Boris Johnson and that we'll pay for years before the plant even produces any electricity - if it ever does.
www.commonweal.scot/policies/nuc...
www.commonweal.scot/policies/nuc...
November 26, 2025 at 12:45 PM
Leaked OBR report confirms electricity consumers will start paying for Sizewell C nuclear plant using a risky PFI-like financial scheme initiated by Boris Johnson and that we'll pay for years before the plant even produces any electricity - if it ever does.
www.commonweal.scot/policies/nuc...
www.commonweal.scot/policies/nuc...
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I’m a past winner of the Orwell Prize & won partly because I exposed Vote Leave’s unlawful activities.
Michael Gove was its co-convener & refused to answer a single q. He’s now a judge of the prize & our world is truly one that Orwell would recognise
bylinetimes.com/2025/11/25/m...
Michael Gove was its co-convener & refused to answer a single q. He’s now a judge of the prize & our world is truly one that Orwell would recognise
bylinetimes.com/2025/11/25/m...
Michael Gove Made Orwell Prize Judge Despite Record of Attacking Journalists and Dodging Scrutiny
Critics say "Orwell would have enjoyed the irony" of the former Conservative minister's appointment
bylinetimes.com
November 25, 2025 at 5:53 PM
I’m a past winner of the Orwell Prize & won partly because I exposed Vote Leave’s unlawful activities.
Michael Gove was its co-convener & refused to answer a single q. He’s now a judge of the prize & our world is truly one that Orwell would recognise
bylinetimes.com/2025/11/25/m...
Michael Gove was its co-convener & refused to answer a single q. He’s now a judge of the prize & our world is truly one that Orwell would recognise
bylinetimes.com/2025/11/25/m...
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We have to trust our neighbours and not peddle the myth that people are intrinsically stupid or easy to hoodwink. Otherwise that just plays into the populist right & authoritarians & is ultimately an argument against democracy.
I'm remarkably relaxed about this. No I don't want my neighbours – Mail and Telegraph-reading berks – judging me. I'd rather have legal experts who've learned how to think.
www.theguardian.com/law/2025/nov...
www.theguardian.com/law/2025/nov...
David Lammy considers scrapping jury trials for all but the most serious cases
Senior lawyers criticise justice secretary’s radical plan, saying it could ‘destroy justice as we know it’
www.theguardian.com
November 25, 2025 at 8:39 PM
We have to trust our neighbours and not peddle the myth that people are intrinsically stupid or easy to hoodwink. Otherwise that just plays into the populist right & authoritarians & is ultimately an argument against democracy.
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It's Deep Time: I See Red our festival of new music curated by Raven Chacon is kicking off this Thursday evening.
Book here:
www.fruitmarket.co.uk/deep-time-20...
Book here:
www.fruitmarket.co.uk/deep-time-20...
November 25, 2025 at 6:07 PM
It's Deep Time: I See Red our festival of new music curated by Raven Chacon is kicking off this Thursday evening.
Book here:
www.fruitmarket.co.uk/deep-time-20...
Book here:
www.fruitmarket.co.uk/deep-time-20...
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Every day the #BBC uncritically platform dark money funded right-wing voices. Examples include the Institute of Economic Affairs, the Taxpayers' Alliance & the ridiculous right-wing contrarians Spiked. Time to call time on media representation without knowing who pays the bills.
Exclusive: The BBC has issued an apology after one of its presenters failed to challenge a climate-sceptic lobbyist who runs a group that has received funding from fossil-fuel interests
bylinetimes.com/2025/11/25/b...
bylinetimes.com/2025/11/25/b...
BBC Apologises for Failing to Challenge 'Dark Money' Climate-Denial Lobbyist
EXCLUSIVE: BBC faces fresh allegations of bias after corporation admits interview with ‘Net Zero Watch’ lobbying chief Andrew Montford 'fell below usual standards'
bylinetimes.com
November 25, 2025 at 8:52 PM
Every day the #BBC uncritically platform dark money funded right-wing voices. Examples include the Institute of Economic Affairs, the Taxpayers' Alliance & the ridiculous right-wing contrarians Spiked. Time to call time on media representation without knowing who pays the bills.
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Make sure you read this great piece by @bellacaledonia.bsky.social
Among a great many other things here it's extraordinary that the Scottish MSM haven't picked up on the Scottish connection to the Nathan Gill prosecution | Capitulation and Quiet Piggy bellacaledonia.org.uk/2025/11/24/c...
Capitulation and Quiet Piggy
As the COP ends in another abject failure the wider geopolitical world seems to also falter into complete madness. A ‘peace plan’ emerged last week that was at first purported to be an …
bellacaledonia.org.uk
November 25, 2025 at 8:03 AM
Make sure you read this great piece by @bellacaledonia.bsky.social
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Our next Pips! is on Monday morning - are you a new parent trying to find a bit of time to think about art amongst the chaos of parenting? Join us: www.tickettailor.com/events/fruit...
November 25, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Our next Pips! is on Monday morning - are you a new parent trying to find a bit of time to think about art amongst the chaos of parenting? Join us: www.tickettailor.com/events/fruit...
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Among a great many other things here it's extraordinary that the Scottish MSM haven't picked up on the Scottish connection to the Nathan Gill prosecution | Capitulation and Quiet Piggy bellacaledonia.org.uk/2025/11/24/c...
Capitulation and Quiet Piggy
As the COP ends in another abject failure the wider geopolitical world seems to also falter into complete madness. A ‘peace plan’ emerged last week that was at first purported to be an …
bellacaledonia.org.uk
November 24, 2025 at 5:23 PM
Among a great many other things here it's extraordinary that the Scottish MSM haven't picked up on the Scottish connection to the Nathan Gill prosecution | Capitulation and Quiet Piggy bellacaledonia.org.uk/2025/11/24/c...
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Top story on BBC Scotland news at lunchtime - something to do with Rangers fitbah club... They need a major overhaul and management change at Pacific Quay.
November 24, 2025 at 1:55 PM
Top story on BBC Scotland news at lunchtime - something to do with Rangers fitbah club... They need a major overhaul and management change at Pacific Quay.
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“The criticism about late lockdown doesn't recognise that while we might have wanted to impose the first lockdown earlier, that is not possible for three of the four nations, since the fourth nation, England, controls the purse strings on that,” she said.
www.lbc.co.uk/article/unfa...
www.lbc.co.uk/article/unfa...
Covid report slammed as 'unfair' and 'incorrect' | LBC
The Covid inquiry report has been branded “unfair” on the Scottish Government
www.lbc.co.uk
November 23, 2025 at 10:36 AM
“The criticism about late lockdown doesn't recognise that while we might have wanted to impose the first lockdown earlier, that is not possible for three of the four nations, since the fourth nation, England, controls the purse strings on that,” she said.
www.lbc.co.uk/article/unfa...
www.lbc.co.uk/article/unfa...
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Curse of Private Equity.
Four of UK's biggest dental firms have raked in £1.2bn gross profit over the past two years,
Market controlled by My Dentist, PortmanDentex, Rodericks Dental, and Bupa Dental Services.
Prices 3.5 times more than NHS dentist.
No govt curbs profiteering.
Four of UK's biggest dental firms have raked in £1.2bn gross profit over the past two years,
Market controlled by My Dentist, PortmanDentex, Rodericks Dental, and Bupa Dental Services.
Prices 3.5 times more than NHS dentist.
No govt curbs profiteering.
Regulator bares teeth as dentists earn £1.2bn
The gross profit figures for private equity-owned My Dentist, PortmanDentex and Rodericks Dental, and Bupa Dental Services rose by 20 per cent year-on-year between 2023 and 2024.
www.thisismoney.co.uk
November 23, 2025 at 9:25 AM
Curse of Private Equity.
Four of UK's biggest dental firms have raked in £1.2bn gross profit over the past two years,
Market controlled by My Dentist, PortmanDentex, Rodericks Dental, and Bupa Dental Services.
Prices 3.5 times more than NHS dentist.
No govt curbs profiteering.
Four of UK's biggest dental firms have raked in £1.2bn gross profit over the past two years,
Market controlled by My Dentist, PortmanDentex, Rodericks Dental, and Bupa Dental Services.
Prices 3.5 times more than NHS dentist.
No govt curbs profiteering.
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The UK Government’s nuclear levy is to blame for rising energy bills, according to a leading utilities company
Labour's nuclear tax to blame for rising energy bills, says leading firm
www.thenational.scot
November 22, 2025 at 10:39 AM
The UK Government’s nuclear levy is to blame for rising energy bills, according to a leading utilities company