Liz Linnard
@lizlinnard.bsky.social
Labour, Geordie exile, X-exile - and so glad to be here.
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If you have any A4 envelopes lurking around you could attach this to, they will get charged a surcharge, so please don't do that 🤣
November 27, 2025 at 5:48 PM
If you have any A4 envelopes lurking around you could attach this to, they will get charged a surcharge, so please don't do that 🤣
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I’m not taking financial advice from the people who proclaimed Liz Truss’s budget as a triumph
November 27, 2025 at 3:12 PM
I’m not taking financial advice from the people who proclaimed Liz Truss’s budget as a triumph
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On the subject of the papers' attitude to tax, and why it's a problem (at least if we think democracy is still worth the bother):
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Since Labour won power, an insidious little phrase has been popping up constantly in the media: "tax raid".
So I looked into this for @thenewworldmag.bsky.social
And it turns out it once meant something completely different.
www.thenewworld.co.uk/phil-tinline...
So I looked into this for @thenewworldmag.bsky.social
And it turns out it once meant something completely different.
www.thenewworld.co.uk/phil-tinline...
Why the right wing media keeps screaming ‘tax raid’
This isn’t journalism, it’s propaganda that reframes tax policy as assault and a democratically elected Labour government as thieves
www.thenewworld.co.uk
November 27, 2025 at 7:43 AM
On the subject of the papers' attitude to tax, and why it's a problem (at least if we think democracy is still worth the bother):
bsky.app/profile/phil...
bsky.app/profile/phil...
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"Reform angry that issue regularly used to stir up anger is under threat of being resolved."
November 27, 2025 at 2:10 PM
"Reform angry that issue regularly used to stir up anger is under threat of being resolved."
I can't help thinking about Boris Johnson (8 or 9), Rees-Mogg (6). Also Tice has 3, Kruger has 3 and Farage 4. Tommy Robinson has 3 kids. Torygraph journo Camilla Tominey also has 3 kids. And so on. Do right wing people not realise they're going to be the main beneficiaries of this? 😂
November 27, 2025 at 2:23 PM
I can't help thinking about Boris Johnson (8 or 9), Rees-Mogg (6). Also Tice has 3, Kruger has 3 and Farage 4. Tommy Robinson has 3 kids. Torygraph journo Camilla Tominey also has 3 kids. And so on. Do right wing people not realise they're going to be the main beneficiaries of this? 😂
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Dear @bbcnewsnight.bsky.social can you please tell your colleagues on World at One how to report news properly @vicderbyshire.bsky.social
November 27, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Dear @bbcnewsnight.bsky.social can you please tell your colleagues on World at One how to report news properly @vicderbyshire.bsky.social
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Robbie Gibb is fighting back.
His "chosen one," Farage has been mired in racism, and dodgy Russian links, whilst Reform" company" run councils have been exposed as incompetent and cluelessness.
He, himself, has been questioned (not keenly though), by a parliamentary committee. Time to double down..
His "chosen one," Farage has been mired in racism, and dodgy Russian links, whilst Reform" company" run councils have been exposed as incompetent and cluelessness.
He, himself, has been questioned (not keenly though), by a parliamentary committee. Time to double down..
November 27, 2025 at 2:09 PM
Robbie Gibb is fighting back.
His "chosen one," Farage has been mired in racism, and dodgy Russian links, whilst Reform" company" run councils have been exposed as incompetent and cluelessness.
He, himself, has been questioned (not keenly though), by a parliamentary committee. Time to double down..
His "chosen one," Farage has been mired in racism, and dodgy Russian links, whilst Reform" company" run councils have been exposed as incompetent and cluelessness.
He, himself, has been questioned (not keenly though), by a parliamentary committee. Time to double down..
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This budget has really exposed how unreasonably partisan 80% of our media is today. It was a splendid budget in so many ways but nobody is saying so. It’s shitty
November 27, 2025 at 1:50 PM
This budget has really exposed how unreasonably partisan 80% of our media is today. It was a splendid budget in so many ways but nobody is saying so. It’s shitty
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More deplorable reporting. I would assume that the thousands of children raised out of poverty count as putting the Country first - or are we still at the “ignorant people getting pregnant for benefits” Daily Mail style vitriol
November 27, 2025 at 1:29 PM
More deplorable reporting. I would assume that the thousands of children raised out of poverty count as putting the Country first - or are we still at the “ignorant people getting pregnant for benefits” Daily Mail style vitriol
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The BBC is a lost cause for impartial political journalism. Scientists could find the world's largest untapped oil reserves in the Bristol Channel and the BBC would run with "why this is bad for Labour".
November 27, 2025 at 1:15 PM
The BBC is a lost cause for impartial political journalism. Scientists could find the world's largest untapped oil reserves in the Bristol Channel and the BBC would run with "why this is bad for Labour".
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Or more exactly, Notlord Dacre of Outfall makes it up, because he thinks his offshore owner, Viscount Rothermere of Swanning-in-Monaco, might spit out his morning croissant.
November 27, 2025 at 1:57 PM
Or more exactly, Notlord Dacre of Outfall makes it up, because he thinks his offshore owner, Viscount Rothermere of Swanning-in-Monaco, might spit out his morning croissant.
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Quite. It's one step up from the standard Daily Mail formula: "Fury at X policy", followed by "Labour was accused today of...", which means "We are furious, and we accused Labour..."
November 27, 2025 at 1:28 PM
Quite. It's one step up from the standard Daily Mail formula: "Fury at X policy", followed by "Labour was accused today of...", which means "We are furious, and we accused Labour..."