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Why did BBC Breakfast give Reform UK a special graphic? A small detail in a brief report sparks some big questions about what the national broadcaster is doing during the run up to local and national elections.

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WHY DID BBC BREAKFAST GIVE REFORM UK A SPECIAL GRAPHIC?

A small detail in a brief report sparks some big questions about what the national broadcaster is doing during the run up to local and national elections.

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I went and watched the segment on iPlayer. This is absolutely wild. It’s basically doing a free micro political broadcast for Reform during BBC Breakfast.

Standard website transfers to Independent with more than 30 staff leaving The Independent has completed a "long-term" deal to run the digital operations and print advertising of The Standard.

The Evening Standard employed 364 journalists and staff when Lebedev bought it for £1 in 2009.

It now has 16

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The secret fear of the morally depraved is that virtue is actually common, and that they're the ones who are alone. In Minnesota, all of the ideological cornerstones of MAGA have been proved false at once. Minnesotans, not the armed thugs of ICE and the Border Patrol, are brave. Minnesotans have shown that their community is socially cohesive-because of its diversity and not in spite of it. Minnesotans have found and loved one another in a world atomized by social media, where empty men have tried to fill their lonely soul with lies about their own inherent superiority. Minnesotans have preserved everything worthwhile about "Western civilization," while armed brutes try to tear it down by force.

Really powerful, hopeful paragraph from the latest article in the Atlantic by @adamserwer.bsky.social

Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas blasts progressivism as threat to America He said that the values enshrined in the 1776 Declaration of Independence have “fallen out of favor” among Americans.

Genuinely funny that Sonia Sotomayor issued a public apology today for her mild criticism of a conservative colleague on a specific, substantive issue, and then a few hours later Clarence Thomas picked up a mic and was like ALL LIBERALS ARE AMERICA-HATING COWARDS

It's the 7th month of the US bombing random ships in Latin American waters they claim are drug smugglers (reminder that two survivors who were rescued were repatriated, not charged), and the death toll is 150+, and it barely gets discussed.

The Last Quiet Thing Your possessions came alive. Now they won't stop talking.

Signing off for a week of digital detox by posting this insightful essay about why we all feel so overwhelmed and irritable, trapped in relationships with our tech that we didn't ask for.

Plenty I didn't get right as a US Correspondent but I wrote this on the day Trump was elected in 2016 and it stands up www.heraldscotland.com/news/1488434...

A detailed digital illustration of a Casio F-91W digital watch on a dark background, showing the time 09:25:38 on Saturday the 4th. The watch features the classic black resin case and band with blue accent lines and the iconic WR (water resist) badge.

This is absolutely beautiful and very well done.

> Nothing you own is finished. Everything exists in a state of permanent incompletion, permanently needing.

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I interviewed her at her house in 2016 when The Mandibles was published. She was already pretty red-pilled then and the novel is absolute drivel (and racist). Has long since lost the ability to distinguish between X and real life - desperate efforts to shock the libs are all she has left.

I have not found migrating playlists to be 'dead easy'. I loathe Spotify but feel trapped on 'family plan' that we all use. Would love love love to quit and take playlists with us. But how?

Full-on political purge of the U.S. Army, in the midst of an unpopular war and repeated talk (from Trump) of turning the military on the American people.

First take out of court: Trump will lose, as he always should have, and the main question is how badly he’ll lose and on what grounds. There is a path for a 9-0 ruling, with Alito (and, to a less clear extent, Thomas) as the sticking points. More to come at Law Dork: www.lawdork.com

Sam Alito asking an extended hypothetical question about whether members of an Iranian sleeper cell would get U.S. citizenship is only lending further support to my theory that season 5 of '24' pickled the brains of an entire generation of Republican voters

Special Report: Why MAGA hates Britain Podcast Episode · The News Agents · 27 March · 48min

It's more fun listening to this with a bingo card. "Sharia courts" X "Londonistan" X "You'd be speaking German if it wasn't for us" X. Full House!

A single vote for Trump in the birthright citizenship case would be as bad as anything the Court has done since Bush v. Gore. This issue has been settled for more than a century. It is the jurisprudential equivalent of asking what 2+2 is. Any answer other than 4, something is deeply, deeply wrong.

We are in a hastening fascist spiral so this is obviously the least of it but…I cannot actually imagine Trump sitting through a Supreme Court argument.

I listened to this yesterday and learned a lot. Thank you.

Prisoner number 804: the plot to erase Imran Khan It’s one thing to remove a PM from office, as happened to the former cricketer in 2022. But it’s another thing to try to eradicate the most famous person in Pakistan’s history

This is a delicious piece of writing and a crash course in Pakistani politics.

New U.S. Missile Hit Iranian Sports Hall and School, Analysis Shows

Since the headline is a bit confusing, the NYT is reporting that on the same day we hit the girl's school in Minab, we also sent a missile full of tungsten steel pellets at a girl's volleyball tournament hundreds of miles away in Lamerd. Twenty one dead.
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An extraordinarily cruel and complacent title, whatever you think of the arguments. That wasn’t my dad’s choice to make; it was a suffering imposed upon him.

Is it any wonder our media ecosystem is such a mess? The guy in charge of the supposedly impartial watchdog is slagging off the BBC to the right wing Telegraph - which is hostile to the BBC - & defending the fact his organisation has let GB News act share misinformation and constantly promote Reform

Some favourite placards from today's march against the far right. Always remember the Faragists are a minority and the media's constant platforming of their ideas distorts their true level of popular support. We can beat them.

Of course no one from *checks notes* Sudan or Afghanistan could be in genuine danger.

A Telegraph headline that reads "There's a reason young people like me hate the NHS", by Joanna Marchong

The reason Joanna Marchong hates the NHS is that she's paid to do so by the right-wing Adam Smith Institute, which lobbies on behalf of the private healthcare industry.

Geese have been massively hyped and indeed are a great band but I wasn't expecting 5,000 people to be singing along. Just 10 months ago, I watched Cameron Winter play solo in a church and there were only 150 people there. Amazing how they've exploded since.

In what kind of sane world is this not a typo?

£300,000 from an individual not even resident in the country is a good, wise limit?

£3000 at a pinch.

£300 would be good.

This thread is delightful. “Casual shoe tourist” is one I’m working into my rotation.