@pmf2.bsky.social
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Don’t want to be too moralistic about this, but it is an active disgrace what people are doing to a profoundly liberational scheme that costs relatively piddling amounts on the basis of a couple of right wing shitposters misrepresenting it on Twitter.
November 25, 2025 at 1:55 PM
Don’t want to be too moralistic about this, but it is an active disgrace what people are doing to a profoundly liberational scheme that costs relatively piddling amounts on the basis of a couple of right wing shitposters misrepresenting it on Twitter.
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"My beloved working class" - i.e. the one that exists in his head, but in real life has always rejected this particularly ugly strain of 'you don't deserve commercial television, nice holidays or little luxuries' whenever Labour have taken it to the public.
November 24, 2025 at 11:44 PM
"My beloved working class" - i.e. the one that exists in his head, but in real life has always rejected this particularly ugly strain of 'you don't deserve commercial television, nice holidays or little luxuries' whenever Labour have taken it to the public.
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Maybe one for a psychoanalyst to unpick but notable that someone with a PhD, who works in academia as a lecturer, thinks the original sin of Labour politics was the expansion of higher education
November 25, 2025 at 8:31 AM
Maybe one for a psychoanalyst to unpick but notable that someone with a PhD, who works in academia as a lecturer, thinks the original sin of Labour politics was the expansion of higher education
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Only 3 days left on BBC Sounds to catch @drmatthewsweet.bsky.social last ever edition of Sound of Cinema. A love letter to the movies and to the joy of looking deeper, of complexity.
There are fewer and fewer programmes of this depth on R3 so grab it while you can.
Only 3 days left on BBC Sounds to catch @drmatthewsweet.bsky.social last ever edition of Sound of Cinema. A love letter to the movies and to the joy of looking deeper, of complexity.
There are fewer and fewer programmes of this depth on R3 so grab it while you can.
Sound of Cinema - A place for ideas - BBC Sounds
Matthew Sweet's weekly look at music for the screen.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 21, 2025 at 10:42 AM
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
Only 3 days left on BBC Sounds to catch @drmatthewsweet.bsky.social last ever edition of Sound of Cinema. A love letter to the movies and to the joy of looking deeper, of complexity.
There are fewer and fewer programmes of this depth on R3 so grab it while you can.
Only 3 days left on BBC Sounds to catch @drmatthewsweet.bsky.social last ever edition of Sound of Cinema. A love letter to the movies and to the joy of looking deeper, of complexity.
There are fewer and fewer programmes of this depth on R3 so grab it while you can.
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Whoever replaces Starmer will want some easy wins and one of them would be to ensure that Glasman is no longer a Labour peer
Fresh from advising Morgan McSweeney last week, Labour peer Maurice Glasman addressed the annual conference of a pro-Reform group that has spread myths about the Covid vaccine and has claimed Starmer is "destroying Britain".
📝 New @desmog.com story 👇
📝 New @desmog.com story 👇
Influential Labour Peer Maurice Glasman Addressed Pro-Reform Conspiracy Group’s Conference
High-profile Labour peer Lord Maurice Glasman was one of the keynote speakers at the annual conference of the Together Declaration, a conspiracy theory group with ties to Reform UK. Together held its ...
www.desmog.com
November 19, 2025 at 8:12 AM
Whoever replaces Starmer will want some easy wins and one of them would be to ensure that Glasman is no longer a Labour peer
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‘On a visit to the Newsnight office [Gibb] told staff that if they wanted to peddle their own agenda they should ‘get stuffed and leave’’
🔗 Alan Rusbridger on Robbie Gibb’s campaign to rewire the BBC
https://bit.ly/4qX4kRe
🔗 Alan Rusbridger on Robbie Gibb’s campaign to rewire the BBC
https://bit.ly/4qX4kRe
An inside job? Robbie Gibb's campaign to rewire the BBC | The Observer
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November 12, 2025 at 6:54 PM
‘On a visit to the Newsnight office [Gibb] told staff that if they wanted to peddle their own agenda they should ‘get stuffed and leave’’
🔗 Alan Rusbridger on Robbie Gibb’s campaign to rewire the BBC
https://bit.ly/4qX4kRe
🔗 Alan Rusbridger on Robbie Gibb’s campaign to rewire the BBC
https://bit.ly/4qX4kRe
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The Observer view: political interference at the BBC
The corporation has been ambushed
https://bit.ly/4qW3MeA
The corporation has been ambushed
https://bit.ly/4qW3MeA
The Observer view: political interference at the BBC | The Observer
bit.ly
November 10, 2025 at 9:54 AM
The Observer view: political interference at the BBC
The corporation has been ambushed
https://bit.ly/4qW3MeA
The corporation has been ambushed
https://bit.ly/4qW3MeA
@drmatthewsweet.bsky.social this is terrible news. Another eroding of the intellectual curiosity that was Radio 3’s purpose. You gave me and so many others a deeper understanding of a genre too often sidelined. It was a standout in the schedules and you have been the perfect guide. Thank you.
It's my last BBC Radio 3 Sound of Cinema tomorrow, and I will be saying a proper goodbye. So tomorrow's show is an argument for the intellectual depth and richness of the film music, and how it should never be treated like wallpaper. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
BBC Radio 3 - Sound of Cinema, A place for ideas
Matthew Sweet's weekly look at music for the screen.
www.bbc.co.uk
October 24, 2025 at 7:40 PM
@drmatthewsweet.bsky.social this is terrible news. Another eroding of the intellectual curiosity that was Radio 3’s purpose. You gave me and so many others a deeper understanding of a genre too often sidelined. It was a standout in the schedules and you have been the perfect guide. Thank you.
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Is one of Reed's allies ChatGPT?
October 13, 2025 at 7:15 AM
Is one of Reed's allies ChatGPT?
Last May when a BBC presenter offended Farage by referring to a speech as inflammatory it took them TWO HOURS to force a grovelling on air apology out of the presenter. With this, far worse, lie about Govt corruption the BBC left it to the indie to just shrug and blame a junior.
“It’s a low-level mistake but nevertheless, it is indicative. It was good to spot it, because what you wouldn’t want to do is just to make some kind of egregious claim about somebody and it is defamatory.” I mean, it can't be both "low-level" and "egregious and defamatory". It was the latter.
Slightly amazed at his description of this as a ‘low-level mistake’. Just a completely untrue implication of Government corruption on prime-time TV. No biggie! www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...
October 10, 2025 at 3:21 PM
Last May when a BBC presenter offended Farage by referring to a speech as inflammatory it took them TWO HOURS to force a grovelling on air apology out of the presenter. With this, far worse, lie about Govt corruption the BBC left it to the indie to just shrug and blame a junior.
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if you’ve ever watched the apprentice, that’s the world without arts or humanities degrees
October 8, 2025 at 1:12 PM
if you’ve ever watched the apprentice, that’s the world without arts or humanities degrees
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Men in balaclavas set fire to a mosque in East Sussex last night. It's only appearing on the BBC's local coverage, rather than its main national headlines, despite coming just a week after the (also under-reported) firebombing of an asylum hotel in London last week
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Peacehaven: Fire at East Sussex mosque probed as 'hate crime'
Video appears to show two people in balaclavas at the mosque before a large blaze spreads.
www.bbc.co.uk
October 5, 2025 at 8:19 AM
Men in balaclavas set fire to a mosque in East Sussex last night. It's only appearing on the BBC's local coverage, rather than its main national headlines, despite coming just a week after the (also under-reported) firebombing of an asylum hotel in London last week
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Whole thing is a perfect exposition of the fact apparent to all except no10 that taking on Farage is a moral imperative as well as perfectly do-able. He is nothing like as skilled or “common sense” or professional as his media devotees suggest. As TB said “ if we can’t beat this lot..”
Terrific column by @robertshrimsley.bsky.social: laughed out loud at the description of Andy Burnham, " popping up, as so often, like a hopeful beneficiary at a deathbed"
Starmer can’t afford to wait for reckless Reform to implode
Farage’s path to power is strewn with landmines planted by his own side
www.ft.com
September 25, 2025 at 5:09 PM
Whole thing is a perfect exposition of the fact apparent to all except no10 that taking on Farage is a moral imperative as well as perfectly do-able. He is nothing like as skilled or “common sense” or professional as his media devotees suggest. As TB said “ if we can’t beat this lot..”
Very nice analogy.
We're starting to get Shabtai Zvi-levels of disillusionment among Corbynites about Magic Grandpa.
September 25, 2025 at 8:30 AM
Very nice analogy.
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What on Earth is this? An "in depth" BBC article about free speech in the UK that only cites examples of right-wing/ 'anti-woke' speech being suppressed. How can you mention Lucy Connolly but completely ignore Palestine Action / Just Stop Oil? Gob-smacking. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
How the simmering UK freedom of speech row reached boiling point
How did we reach a point where the UK is being compared to a 'tin pot Third World dictatorship'?
www.bbc.co.uk
September 23, 2025 at 9:11 AM
What on Earth is this? An "in depth" BBC article about free speech in the UK that only cites examples of right-wing/ 'anti-woke' speech being suppressed. How can you mention Lucy Connolly but completely ignore Palestine Action / Just Stop Oil? Gob-smacking. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Think I’ve found possibly the finest description of Terry-Thomas.
September 14, 2025 at 10:42 AM
Think I’ve found possibly the finest description of Terry-Thomas.
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The graffiti on screen says "Bitch" as well as "tax evader" The script is not neutral nor critical. It directly legitimises the graffiti as a political commentary
September 5, 2025 at 9:19 PM
The graffiti on screen says "Bitch" as well as "tax evader" The script is not neutral nor critical. It directly legitimises the graffiti as a political commentary
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"Commentary *like this* about a deputy Prime Minister felt politically unsurvivable" - Chris Mason, BBC ten o'cıock news.
This script over these pictures treats vandalism & criminal damage as a legitimate form of democratic voice. The BBC should avoid doing that, esp in broader current climate
This script over these pictures treats vandalism & criminal damage as a legitimate form of democratic voice. The BBC should avoid doing that, esp in broader current climate
September 5, 2025 at 9:12 PM
"Commentary *like this* about a deputy Prime Minister felt politically unsurvivable" - Chris Mason, BBC ten o'cıock news.
This script over these pictures treats vandalism & criminal damage as a legitimate form of democratic voice. The BBC should avoid doing that, esp in broader current climate
This script over these pictures treats vandalism & criminal damage as a legitimate form of democratic voice. The BBC should avoid doing that, esp in broader current climate
Bang on. Really clear exposition of the Govt’s tone deafness and pusillanimity.
‘The real problem with the “it will not work” attack is that it treats politics as management when Reform is playing politics as theatre.’
‘The real problem with the “it will not work” attack is that it treats politics as management when Reform is playing politics as theatre.’
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On the folly of attacking the practicality of Farage's deportation plans.
Saying "it won't work" ignores that voters are looking for resonance - not practicality - and plays into Farage's pitch as the outsider who'll try.
www.joxleywrites.jmoxley.co.uk/p/it-wont-wo...
On the folly of attacking the practicality of Farage's deportation plans.
Saying "it won't work" ignores that voters are looking for resonance - not practicality - and plays into Farage's pitch as the outsider who'll try.
www.joxleywrites.jmoxley.co.uk/p/it-wont-wo...
"It won't work" Won't Work
Labour's response to Farage is bound to founder
www.joxleywrites.jmoxley.co.uk
August 29, 2025 at 8:41 AM
Bang on. Really clear exposition of the Govt’s tone deafness and pusillanimity.
‘The real problem with the “it will not work” attack is that it treats politics as management when Reform is playing politics as theatre.’
‘The real problem with the “it will not work” attack is that it treats politics as management when Reform is playing politics as theatre.’
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A cartoon when Radio 3 started in ‘46 showed two working men sitting by the fire listening to the radio. One says to the other: “The pizzicato for the double basses in the coda seems to me to want body, Alf.”
From this
www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...
From this
www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...
August 23, 2025 at 8:26 PM
A cartoon when Radio 3 started in ‘46 showed two working men sitting by the fire listening to the radio. One says to the other: “The pizzicato for the double basses in the coda seems to me to want body, Alf.”
From this
www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...
From this
www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...
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Three thoughts.
1 - Should be "claimed" not "says"
2 - BBC online puts anything remotely tendentious in inverted commas. So should be "political prisoner" in inverted commas.
3 - The prisons are full of nasty, deluded criminals with bullshit reasons why the court was wrong. Treat her like them.
1 - Should be "claimed" not "says"
2 - BBC online puts anything remotely tendentious in inverted commas. So should be "political prisoner" in inverted commas.
3 - The prisons are full of nasty, deluded criminals with bullshit reasons why the court was wrong. Treat her like them.
what the fuck is this headline from the BBC, I feel like I'm losing my mind www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Lucy Connolly says she was political prisoner over Southport post
She gives her first newspaper interview after being released from prison.
www.bbc.co.uk
August 23, 2025 at 10:23 AM
Three thoughts.
1 - Should be "claimed" not "says"
2 - BBC online puts anything remotely tendentious in inverted commas. So should be "political prisoner" in inverted commas.
3 - The prisons are full of nasty, deluded criminals with bullshit reasons why the court was wrong. Treat her like them.
1 - Should be "claimed" not "says"
2 - BBC online puts anything remotely tendentious in inverted commas. So should be "political prisoner" in inverted commas.
3 - The prisons are full of nasty, deluded criminals with bullshit reasons why the court was wrong. Treat her like them.
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I welcome interventions by Case on the machinery of government with the same enthusiasm as those by Osborne on economics and by Cameron on, well, anything. If only he’d been in a position of influence. Another shameless grifter www.civilserviceworld.com/professions/...
Simon Case: Reform UK could bring huge change to Whitehall
Former cabinet secretary says Nigel Farage’s upstart party has the potential to rapidly unleash sweeping reforms to remove blocks to delivery
www.civilserviceworld.com
August 15, 2025 at 10:27 AM
I welcome interventions by Case on the machinery of government with the same enthusiasm as those by Osborne on economics and by Cameron on, well, anything. If only he’d been in a position of influence. Another shameless grifter www.civilserviceworld.com/professions/...
Jawdropping
Gotta get a return on all that investment somehow
www.reuters.com/investigatio...
www.reuters.com/investigatio...
August 14, 2025 at 11:55 AM
Jawdropping
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Pursue engagement at the cost of credibility and you’ll deserve neither and lose both.
The story isn’t as bad as the notification but ffs this notification is bad. How can BBC justify such a thing?!? And what on earth does “miscalculation” mean in this context?
August 6, 2025 at 7:24 PM
Pursue engagement at the cost of credibility and you’ll deserve neither and lose both.