Shed, no tears.

I know I rant about this all the time but the rabid - and omnipresence - anti immigrant line on BBC 6 music news is so jarring

Feels like a text book example of how an Overton window is shifted

Same on radio 4. I now view the hourly bulletins as joke news, turn it down and smdh about how insidious it all is. Like we aren't supposed to notice how downgraded bbc news content has become. Fiona Bruce popped up in a trailer the other day and I skipped faster than the speed of light.

The Home Office’s absurd taxi bill results entirely from its insistence on forcing people to move round the country without choice or notice, & to live on the breadline so they can’t afford public transport. That Mahmood didn’t know about it till the BBC told her shows how appallingly the HO is run.

There are plenty in the room at the moment

I see the Indy is also going with asylum seekers being “banned” from doing something they were being forced to do unwillingly in the first place, so presumably this is how the Home Office‘s press release is framing its own admissions of incompetence and waste

Andy Verity is one of the few people at the BBC who tries to report economics accurately. He regularly reminds viewers that govt finances are not like a household budget and he doesn’t constantly parrot the ‘maxed out the credit card’, ‘magic money tree’ bs. Fair play to him.

Can someone please tell Laura, Chris, Nick, Amol, Justin, Emma and Fiona?