what the fuck is this headline from the BBC, I feel like I'm losing my mind www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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I think I need to....I actually don't know? read the news less? spend less time on social media? I'm just so worried about elite radicalisation and enraged by the useful idiots going along with it without seemingly noticing that I worry it's impacting my mental health, it makes me feel unhinged
aug 23, 2025, 9:21 am • 865 35 • view
When it's the BBC, rather than just the Telegraph, it hits particularly hard.
aug 23, 2025, 9:23 am • 18 0 • view
It’s not you that’s unhinged.
aug 23, 2025, 9:32 am • 1 0 • view
Social media is objectively bad for mental health. I deactivated Facebook weeks ago.
aug 23, 2025, 10:47 am • 2 0 • view
Except this isn’t social media. It’s a link to the main news item on BBC (England version) atm. I stopped paying their licence fee over ten years ago.
aug 23, 2025, 3:05 pm • 1 0 • view
I’m going to do the same, I never watch it.
aug 23, 2025, 3:41 pm • 2 0 • view
I end up getting really wound up by arguing with my one friend who is definitely a useful idiot. He laps up all sort of shite and denies evidence but is so convinced he’s right. Absolutely fucking insane. And maddening. Like pigeon chess.
aug 23, 2025, 10:18 am • 0 0 • view
It’s the media that are going their heads. Too many journalists pandering to this fasc BS
aug 23, 2025, 10:08 am • 6 1 • view
Nah these are not usefull idiots these people are complicit
aug 23, 2025, 11:13 am • 2 0 • view
I think if I watched TV and listened to the radio as well as being on Bluesky I would feel more unhinged. For me it's about managing how much political madness I deal with. ymmv, of course.
aug 23, 2025, 9:25 am • 4 0 • view
She pled guilty.
aug 23, 2025, 9:22 am • 8 0 • view
I know the feeling, but if I do try just switching off, all that happens is I still hear about it all because I live in society - see newspaper headlines when I pop down the shops, have taxi drivers and barbers and nurses assuming that because I'm a middle aged white man I'm racist too.
aug 23, 2025, 9:40 am • 0 0 • view
At least on here I see people like Marie reacting like this and feel reassured that I might be in a minority thinking it's awful, but at least it's not a minority of one.
aug 23, 2025, 9:41 am • 2 0 • view
You're fine! The BBC? Not so much!
aug 23, 2025, 12:14 pm • 0 0 • view
I’m with you. There are seemingly no guard rails acting on the creeping loss of objectivity and fact based reporting with some of our news media.
aug 23, 2025, 1:55 pm • 2 0 • view
Same here I find myself cursing, being agitated, angry, worried, annoyed - all in equal measure Don’t have an answer for it as looking away feels wrong also I focus on select outlets - the Atlantic, the Bulwark, the News Agents w Lewis Goodall And I continue to speak out
aug 23, 2025, 9:38 am • 3 0 • view
All of this. The UK has gone batshit.
aug 23, 2025, 10:38 am • 0 0 • view
"Useful Idiots" is spot on. Exhibit B: Whatever this special article was two weeks ago - www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... It's actually slightly terrifying, the lack of push-back. Or at least the tacit acceptance of racism/fascism/violence/misinformation as legitimate.
aug 23, 2025, 9:24 am • 7 1 • view
Not quite sure what the BBC have done wrong here. That is what she said to a UK newspaper. Although it is a Tory and Reform house journal.
aug 23, 2025, 12:52 pm • 1 0 • view
It's ragebait, not news.
aug 23, 2025, 1:01 pm • 2 0 • view
Yes, very much this. It’s terrible for my anxiety and depression even if it’s probably not the main trigger.
aug 23, 2025, 9:37 am • 47 0 • view
All the above 😔
aug 23, 2025, 10:33 am • 1 0 • view
Yeah I've 'resolved' this by massively changing what I consume here, not having news apps. Feels bad, but the torrent of unacceptable rubbish was just too much.
aug 23, 2025, 9:42 am • 2 0 • view
I know how you feel. Disengage. At least for a while. I have recently taken on an allotment and while I find it physically challenging, it has done my mental health a power of good. Very basic human activity, growing stuff to eat.
aug 23, 2025, 10:21 am • 6 0 • view
I do that (disengage, not an allotment). The trouble is I am always aware that this shit is happening whether I'm engaged or not, and my child is a constant reminder that people's futures will be destroyed if things get a lot worse.
aug 23, 2025, 11:01 am • 4 0 • view
The same here. I am very worried for my children & grandchildren. Worse my elder son is now living in the USA with his lovely American wife - I got myself into an incredible state of anxiety about them earlier in the year.
aug 23, 2025, 11:31 am • 3 0 • view
Check out Larry Bartels recent book on the far right in Europe, Democracy Erodes from the Top, in which he shows using hard data that the majority view is social democratic, but that the far right has found ways of circumventing this. co
aug 23, 2025, 10:05 am • 0 0 • view
I know exactly what you mean. I struggle a lot, the more I read the more horrified and scared and angry I feel. And I can’t stop reading either. I thought leaving Twitter would solve things but it’s not Twitter, it’s frikking world that’s the problem!
aug 23, 2025, 9:51 am • 3 0 • view
Send help. Fricking hurry!!!! 🫨🤐
aug 23, 2025, 9:28 am • 0 0 • view
Not only you
aug 23, 2025, 9:23 am • 9 0 • view
Are you me?
aug 23, 2025, 3:07 pm • 0 0 • view
A while ago I stopped watching the news and muted a bunch of social media accounts to clear my head, I think I might do it again.
aug 23, 2025, 9:51 am • 3 0 • view
I know just what you mean, I was thinking that last night
aug 23, 2025, 9:22 am • 5 0 • view
I was thinking about that yesterday too, I was getting very wound up.
aug 23, 2025, 9:30 am • 3 0 • view
I can very much advocate for not reading the news so much. I basically never read a news story anymore. Am I proud of that? Maybe not. Am I saner for it? Absolutely.
aug 23, 2025, 9:31 pm • 4 0 • view
oh I would love that but, sadly my job :(
aug 23, 2025, 10:05 pm • 0 0 • view
Yes I can see how that would be a problem
aug 23, 2025, 10:06 pm • 1 0 • view
No one has the courage to hold these "news" organisations to account. It's total, morally bankrupt acquiescence.
aug 23, 2025, 12:25 pm • 3 0 • view
Presumably the “trust building” exercise from execs earlier this year. Barely even mentions the “set fire to all the f*cking hotels full of the b*stards” part…
aug 23, 2025, 9:37 am • 0 0 • view
The problem is not you. It's other people consuming this and getting radicalised
aug 23, 2025, 10:04 am • 1 0 • view
Matthew Amroliwala was banging on about "legitimate concerns" in a BBC News interview with @zoejardiniere.bsky.social the other day; the BBC has been influenced by right-wing rhetoric and is repeating it as propaganda. Zoe put him right, but I don't think any of it fully resonated with him.
aug 23, 2025, 9:26 am • 3 0 • view
I think 'they' are hoping it will have this effect on you and you will back off from the turmoil. As the saying goes...'don't let the bastards get you down'. You must keep one step in front of them.
aug 23, 2025, 2:13 pm • 0 0 • view
It’s not bearable, really.
aug 23, 2025, 11:56 am • 2 0 • view
You have my sympathies. I feel very similar. It is increasingly difficult to watch this happen and increasingly damaging to my mental health and wellbeing. Such awful times to live through.
aug 23, 2025, 9:26 am • 1 0 • view
Likewise, I feel your anxiety too.
aug 24, 2025, 1:55 am • 0 0 • view
Welcome to the European mainstream, Brritain.
aug 23, 2025, 10:26 am • 0 0 • view
I’ve had to reduce the amount I’m engaging with the news and political content as it’s just so damaging for my mental health.
aug 23, 2025, 10:35 am • 3 0 • view
Not just you, Marie! The media has gone completely and dangerously nuts!
aug 23, 2025, 9:31 am • 7 0 • view
Unfortunately the Tories seeded the BBC heirarchy with some *very* right-wing people before they got booted out, which is why the news and politics part of the organisation frequently sounds exactly like the Daily Telegraph, and they can't be got rid off for years yet.
aug 23, 2025, 10:13 am • 1 0 • view
With political will, thee Gvmnt can. But this weak, set of shitstains continue to pander to it.
aug 23, 2025, 10:39 am • 0 0 • view
Agree 💯 I seem to spend most of my days with head in hand in total despair of the human race.
aug 23, 2025, 10:41 am • 0 0 • view
Same.
aug 23, 2025, 1:44 pm • 15 0 • view
I guess because I have to know the news *beyond the headline* for my job I still get access to a lot of what is happening through osmosis, but I have never had a news app on my phone, I never get push notifications about news, and honestly it's so good, it's so nice, I'm very:
aug 23, 2025, 9:33 am • 7 0 • view
Turning off push notifications in general has been great. I only get them for WhatsApps now, which means when I go into various apps I get lots of pleasant surprises rather than the constant drip feed of dread
aug 23, 2025, 9:34 am • 4 0 • view
I have the news in Welsh because it mostly passes me by but I think I'd recognise "Aliens Invade".
aug 23, 2025, 10:45 am • 1 0 • view
same. i call them anxiety apps.
aug 24, 2025, 9:00 am • 1 0 • view
Social media is not reality, it’s a playground for adults. You wouldn’t normally hear from nutjobs or lunatics but they exist here. Take it with a pinch of salt , you’re a normal , rational, honest person, so are 80% of the population, it’s just the 20% who are a problem.
aug 23, 2025, 2:22 pm • 0 0 • view
You're not alone. I was a news junkie for years. Podcasts, talk based radio stations online, I couldn't get enough. Then we had Brexit & the tone changed, & it's got worse with every passing year. Now I don't listen to podcasts. My radio is all music now (Soho, Worldwide FM & 6Music).
aug 23, 2025, 3:44 pm • 2 0 • view
I deleted my Twitter account & I stay off Facebook. I'm far more selective in what I engage with now on social media & have far fewer rows than I used to. My mental health isn't great, but hopefully I'm doing what I can to not make it any worse. Good luck with it.
aug 23, 2025, 3:44 pm • 3 0 • view
I started by turning off automatic updates of political podcasts and kind of burn through them about once a fortnight (er, probably not helpful if you're in them) but I need to destream more. Or look at my lovely curated tumblr feed of scenery photos.
aug 23, 2025, 10:44 am • 0 0 • view
Please continue to call it out Marie. We should all be very worried about what is going on. There is clearly a strategy to drive the hard right agenda and the BBC is complicit (knowingly or otherwise.) The UK media is so fucked. Not US levels of fucked, but fucked all the same.
aug 24, 2025, 6:12 am • 1 1 • view
Look after yourself, we go through these periods, I was terrified by the Arab/Israeli war in '73, I read Notradamus and was convinced the world was going to end. There's always been nutters on every level, they never win, we're British, in the end, we can't be arsed and we'll start laughing at them
aug 23, 2025, 2:34 pm • 0 0 • view
Same as it ever was..... My whole life the news has been the same: US does something stupid, Israel does something stupid, terrorists do something stupid, UK economy broken, Panda moved to a new zoo. Miss the Apollo launches, though.
aug 23, 2025, 2:50 pm • 2 0 • view
Spot on, we need a new Laurel and Hardy or the Marx Brothers, we're all too bloody miserable, start enjoying life people, it's not a rehearsal
aug 23, 2025, 2:55 pm • 1 0 • view
Unplugging yourself can easily feel like a betrayal (“if I don’t care, who will?”) but it’s frankly necessary every now and then to conserve stamina and live your life. Having said that, I increasingly feel like an Old Testament prophet waiting for something shocking enough to make people *wake up*.
aug 23, 2025, 3:23 pm • 2 0 • view
I don’t like shaking hands with another smiling journalist or businessperson or analyst or what have you at the end of every conversation and thinking to myself “I hope to God something happens soon that knocks you out of this smug, too-clever-by-half apathy.” It’s worrying.
aug 23, 2025, 3:26 pm • 2 0 • view
Yes, agreed. I actually feel like leaving the country at the moment.
aug 23, 2025, 9:24 am • 1 0 • view
yeah I've genuinely considered it too, but only realistic place for me given work and my partner would be New York and....well, lol
aug 23, 2025, 9:24 am • 3 0 • view
But where? Italy? France? Germany? This madness seems to be everywhere
aug 23, 2025, 9:26 am • 2 0 • view
Fucking preach.
aug 23, 2025, 9:57 am • 4 0 • view
You're not alone Marie, I read all the rubbish being pushed out by the right wing media about her last night & felt totally helpless. I suspected the #BBC would follow suit as seems to be the way now. We're heading for something pretty dark, it feels like a boulder rolling down a hill. Worrying.
aug 23, 2025, 9:28 am • 1 0 • view
BBC has fallen out of my consumption for several years, post the Brexit madness and COVID. Their reality only narrowly corresponds to mine. I can just about cope with checking the Guardian daily. It's become increasingly "oh this a teachable moment in media studies".
aug 23, 2025, 9:43 am • 4 0 • view
Yep. Reporting of Brexit by the UK media was deranged, and the derangement has now spread to the rest of their reporting.
aug 23, 2025, 10:26 am • 1 0 • view
I'd flip it around: Imagine if you thought this was how people's mental model of the world was constructed. Now that's crazy.
aug 23, 2025, 9:43 am • 1 0 • view
But you work with news right? The only thing that comes to mind is despair. I feel powerless too.
aug 23, 2025, 9:47 am • 1 0 • view
One thing I started doing was reading ground news, they show the bias, the different tendencies and generally they make the whole thing a little bit less aggravating.
aug 23, 2025, 9:55 am • 0 0 • view
Maybe we need some mass protests outside media corp headquarters...
aug 23, 2025, 10:59 am • 2 0 • view
Anger, frustration, impotence... these are perfectly legitimate feelings to have when seeing our country slide towards xenophobic radicalisation. If anyone says "lest we forget" to me this November I might just scream at them.
aug 23, 2025, 10:58 am • 0 0 • view
The world would benefit from a large-scale English-language anti-propaganda media company. It would benefit member states of the EU to fund it in part, along the lines of wartime BBC broadcasts or Radio Free Europe. Could base it in Ireland. Not even kidding!
aug 23, 2025, 2:06 pm • 0 0 • view
Short of that, independent journalists in the US & UK should form closer ties and more of a support network.
aug 23, 2025, 2:17 pm • 0 0 • view
I feel the same. Helpless.
aug 23, 2025, 11:47 am • 0 0 • view
I periodically take breaks- highly recommend it. It’s the only way I manage to stay vaguely sane
aug 23, 2025, 9:40 am • 2 0 • view
Same, and I actually think they want us to give up. We’re being drowned in misinformation and disinformation on news and social media. We need something better than reacting into the void - perhaps a government that doesn’t follow the far right drum on immigration. It’s not too much to ask.
aug 23, 2025, 10:57 am • 0 0 • view
Quite worrying isn't it. The BBC editors know perfectly well few people read beyond the headline.
aug 23, 2025, 9:22 am • 142 7 • view
Even beyond the headline so much is missing regarding this event, the tweet that encouraged the attack on the hostel, the sentencing remarks by the judge that explains the sentencing and the agreement from the defence on the level of her actions.
aug 23, 2025, 9:51 am • 7 0 • view
And when you combine it with things like this: the third headline on the front page of the app is Farage vowing mass deportations. WHO CARES?! He has a handful of MPs, but he's being reported on as if he's already the prime minister?! Why is he given such priority? It drives me mad.
aug 23, 2025, 11:05 am • 7 1 • view
And when you complain you get a pompous, “how ignorant you are” response. We can’t do without a BBC but really, they MUST improve, Davie and Gibb are failing us all in the mass comms arena. How on earth could this silly woman be a political prisoner? What an insult to those with political conviction
aug 23, 2025, 9:39 am • 106 0 • view
The top management BBC is stuffed full of Tory political appointments, they're not there to be objective, they're there to oppose the Labour government.
aug 23, 2025, 9:47 am • 104 4 • view
They literally are. After 14 years there's a generation of BBC staff indoctrinated to suck up to the Tories.
aug 23, 2025, 11:06 am • 2 0 • view
To be honest it goes back further, look at Brillo Pad & Nick Robinson, huge Tory activists that were appointed political editors, Neil especially remained a major voice of the right through all his time at the BBC, but voicing left wing views is treated as disqualifying.
aug 23, 2025, 12:57 pm • 4 0 • view
So why hasn’t Starmer or his culture sec fired them all? God knows there’s cause.
aug 23, 2025, 10:18 am • 3 0 • view
I thought the idea was to give Davie and Gibb enough rope, but it’s gone beyond that now.
aug 23, 2025, 10:21 am • 2 0 • view
Oh they gave them enough rope alright, but not to hang themselves - to hogtie our government!
aug 23, 2025, 10:30 am • 2 0 • view
but why do we keep the party apparatchiks on after they left government? Can’t they be politically unappointed?
aug 23, 2025, 9:51 am • 42 0 • view
I can only assume they're afraid of 'Starmer siezes control of BBC to Stifle Free Speech' headlines just like the ones Johnson didn't get. The 'free' press in this country is so slanted and powerful that Labour plays by Tory rules when it's in government.
aug 23, 2025, 10:00 am • 53 0 • view
Which is just so obscene.
aug 23, 2025, 10:12 am • 2 0 • view
The BBC board all have contracts which don’t come up for renewal until 2027 (I think) until them Starmer would be accused of removing criticism if he changes the board. I would love him to do it but I doubt he will.
aug 23, 2025, 10:30 am • 21 0 • view
The govt doesn't have to change the bosses they can ensure they remain impartial especially ehen the BBC are openly saying they have to pander to what Reform voters want which sounds like we will leave out facts to make a story when there is not one.
aug 23, 2025, 11:08 am • 11 1 • view
I haven’t heard them say they have to pander to what reform voters want. I did read a reply to a complaint about airtime reform got, which said due to the number of votes they got in the local elections, reform are now considered the official opposition and are given the appropriate air time🤯
aug 23, 2025, 11:16 am • 4 0 • view
A fellow blueskyer posted the reply they got from the BBC a few mths ago where they said they know Reform voters don't trust them so they have to under their charter cater to them as well. I would say it is pandering when you don't ask Reform for evidence or check the evidence they offer.
aug 23, 2025, 12:17 pm • 1 0 • view
There was this Minutes of a meeting in March, seen by Byline Times, show that BBC News CEO Deborah Turness gave a presentation in which she discussed plans to alter “story selection” and “other types of output, such as drama” in order to win the trust of Reform voters bylinetimes.com/2025/06/09/b...
aug 23, 2025, 11:31 am • 14 1 • view
That's such bollocks. The Tories are still the official opposition in Parliament, no matter how enfeebled and deranged. Can't the BBC see it is playing into Farage's hands? Or does it want to?
aug 23, 2025, 6:31 pm • 3 0 • view
That would make sense. Thank you for raising it.
aug 23, 2025, 12:58 pm • 2 0 • view
Didn’t know this. Super useful. They should still be drafting sweeping media reforms generally right now.
aug 23, 2025, 12:05 pm • 1 0 • view
He might be behind the scenes but like every other policy they don’t tell us until they are ready. Annoying sometimes because the media just make stuff up. I would be very surprised if they weren’t looking at some way of forcing the media to report stuff they are doing.
aug 23, 2025, 12:42 pm • 1 0 • view
Labour have a habit of not publicising the good they do, tax credits were Brown's huge push to help the poorest but he & Blair never spoke about them. Jack Straw commented on how much they'd helped his poor constituents, but they thought it was a correction of an overpayment or something.
aug 23, 2025, 1:03 pm • 1 0 • view
Well, it's time that Starmer pulled on his Big Boy pants and implement Leveson II. One suspects he gave that one up to Rupert...
aug 23, 2025, 11:42 am • 7 0 • view
Yeah, they’re never going to get worse press, why not forge ahead? Not pissing the press off is only argument against Leveson II.
aug 23, 2025, 11:52 am • 6 0 • view
My read on this is that, Starmer likes the BBC like this. He finds them more favourable than a comparatively leftwing director general would be. Which I think is just correct. You don't even have to be a socialist to think his government's doing a bad job. Just like vaguely believe lefty things.
aug 23, 2025, 12:23 pm • 0 0 • view
The legacy media is one of the biggest problems in UK politics and an enduring obstacle to decent governance, being so grotesquely slanted to the right
aug 23, 2025, 6:29 pm • 2 0 • view
They need to get off their damned knees and exercise the mandate the electorate gave them. I despair of this Labour government.
aug 24, 2025, 8:48 am • 0 0 • view
There is no difference.
aug 23, 2025, 1:00 pm • 0 0 • view
We can do without this poisonous version. Stop watching and complain!
aug 23, 2025, 12:11 pm • 1 0 • view
I stopped funding the BBC long ago. I don't watch or record live television and don't watch the I-player contraption.
aug 23, 2025, 7:25 pm • 0 0 • view
Th BBC is about more than its current version of itself.
aug 23, 2025, 9:01 pm • 0 0 • view
The BBC lost all credibility with me when it became the Brexit Broadcasting Corporation. I'm not paying for them to pump Leave propaganda at me. Now if there was a way to pay for some of the radio stuff I might do so, but radio costs so little that they say it is not worth the BBC collecting.
aug 24, 2025, 1:26 am • 0 0 • view
It was bad enough before the vote, but immediately after the vote the BBC dropped any pretence of balance. That was the final straw.
aug 24, 2025, 2:27 am • 0 0 • view
Not seeing any obvious reference to the fact that she pleaded guilty? She admitted to committing the crime?
aug 23, 2025, 12:13 pm • 2 0 • view
She did.
aug 23, 2025, 12:39 pm • 2 0 • view
I got off Twitter and immediately felt better (there was much less going on on BkueSky then), but now I'm spotting similar dangers of getting enraged. Ignorance is bliss but also I'd rather not sleepwalk into a terrible right-wing society.
aug 23, 2025, 2:10 pm • 0 0 • view
Propaganda, swallow it whole and nod along or disengage and become isolated and cowed. They win both ways
aug 23, 2025, 2:06 pm • 0 0 • view
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aug 23, 2025, 9:22 am • 9 1 • view
No remorse - she would clearly do it again - just a victim - no responsibility taking. She encouraged the burning of people, scared people, fleeing from war and torture - she has lost her humanity - nothing remains
aug 23, 2025, 10:49 am • 2 1 • view
Complaint made - to go along with all the others.
aug 23, 2025, 2:22 pm • 0 0 • view
The bullshit never ends - BBC.
aug 23, 2025, 12:31 pm • 4 1 • view
And where is the Culture Secretary when this happens again and again with BBC headlines and editorial choices? Ed Davey went on the BBC and told them they did not challenge Farage in the way they challenge politicians. Why doesn't Nandy do the same? It's not as if there is no evidence.
aug 23, 2025, 11:15 am • 4 0 • view
More proofthat the BBC and others, Telegraph etc will do anything to appease Farage and the haters, making hateful people like this out to be victims
aug 23, 2025, 11:19 am • 0 0 • view
WTF - Where were BBC in the protect Palestine Action demo?
aug 23, 2025, 12:43 pm • 2 0 • view
They were all over the Met Police Chief being proud of arrests.
aug 23, 2025, 4:23 pm • 2 1 • view
Gross “example” of police stomping on free speech.
aug 23, 2025, 7:44 pm • 0 0 • view
Ain’t wrong
aug 23, 2025, 7:07 pm • 0 0 • view
Incredible
aug 23, 2025, 10:56 am • 0 0 • view
1984... Plasticine is a hate crime, hate crime is not crime...
aug 23, 2025, 2:10 pm • 0 0 • view
Checks with historical records for definition of the term "Political Prisoner". Seems the incitement to arson, and killing of innocent people is just being a nasty cunt, not political. youtu.be/BaKcYxcpmRk?...
aug 24, 2025, 9:41 am • 0 0 • view
She sat safely at home, knowing violent racists were outside hotels housing asylum seekers, and called for these places to be set on fire with humans inside. She pleaded guilty, knowing her vile act of incitement couldn't be defended. Now she's the victim?
aug 23, 2025, 12:45 pm • 0 0 • view
She pleaded guilty!
aug 23, 2025, 9:31 am • 5 0 • view
She's as bad as we thought!
aug 23, 2025, 10:31 am • 1 0 • view
Insane, I tell you, IN. SANE. The Beeb is turning more and more into one of those mouthpieces that will give any dipshit a voice instead of going "maaaate, you pled guilty, you are not a political prisoner and we're not giving this shit any air".
aug 23, 2025, 9:24 pm • 0 0 • view
THE SILLY MARE PLEADED GUILTY!
aug 23, 2025, 2:23 pm • 1 0 • view
The Sun & the Telegraph are the same.They should be ashamed.This isn't news let alone headline news. A thoroughly malign woman broke the law, inciting racial violence. She is neither a victim nor someone to be celebrated. She should be censured & ignored. Irresponsible or a more malignant motive?
aug 23, 2025, 12:44 pm • 0 0 • view
It seems she has not learnt any lessons at all. Oh dear!! Poor timing for her release, just as the Right are fuelling horrid protests outside asylum hotels.
aug 23, 2025, 11:30 am • 1 0 • view
Shame on the bbc you are a disgrace to journalism
aug 24, 2025, 1:04 pm • 0 0 • view
I'm a 'political prisoner' because of my own free will I shouted 'Fire' in an crowded theatre (when there wasn't one) and didn't give a sh1t about the consequences P.S. I also pleaded guilty in court and had my appeal rejected. #ConnollyBSVictimCard
aug 23, 2025, 10:15 am • 3 1 • view
I love how Labour have done absolutely nothing about the BBC, inspite of the fact it’s stuffed to the rafters with right wing management.
aug 23, 2025, 9:30 am • 19 1 • view
One might suggest the Labour Right prefers this BBC - one which enables racists and bigots and genocidaires. Over and above any BBC with editorial guidelines approaching actual balance.
aug 23, 2025, 12:28 pm • 1 0 • view
Beginning to feel that way, or seemingly not so great Lisa Nandy just can’t be bothered.
aug 23, 2025, 12:31 pm • 0 0 • view
Lisa Nandy has disappointed me so much. I never had faith in Starmer or Wes or Rachel. But Lisa at least appeared to have morals. I'll never be fooled again.
aug 23, 2025, 12:32 pm • 3 0 • view
Not even morals really. It just makes fucking political sense to neuter the far right. And they won't fucking do it because they're all radicalising themselves into a frenzy its obscene.
aug 23, 2025, 12:33 pm • 1 0 • view
As is Labour!
aug 23, 2025, 10:32 am • 9 0 • view
If that's what she said then what's the problem?
aug 23, 2025, 1:58 pm • 0 0 • view
I’ve just spotted that on the front of one of the rags. Unbelievable!
aug 23, 2025, 10:05 am • 1 0 • view
The biggest useful idiot of them all being BBC News.
aug 23, 2025, 9:00 pm • 1 1 • view
She will be on Celebrity SS within the year
aug 23, 2025, 4:01 pm • 1 0 • view
Why hadn’t she appealed to the European Court? Oh…..
aug 23, 2025, 10:17 am • 1 0 • view
The BBC is now a national disgrace. I agree.
aug 23, 2025, 1:39 pm • 4 0 • view
Weird how the BBC found the barrels basement pretty quick after they hired the GB News guy to do the news. They were awful before but now? Add a zionist as middle east editor and here we are, eh?
aug 23, 2025, 9:39 am • 4 0 • view
Next week. Tommy Ten Names: I am the Mahatma Gandhi of British politics. Stay tuned to the BBC for more news from the fascist front.
aug 23, 2025, 1:22 pm • 4 1 • view
Maybe she will seek asylum in another country- USA maybe?
aug 23, 2025, 12:55 pm • 1 0 • view
Usual BBC fare nowadays; fiction and misleading rhetoric.
aug 23, 2025, 10:15 am • 1 0 • view
The light is slowely dimming and it will get a lot worse before it will get better im afraod
aug 23, 2025, 11:07 am • 2 0 • view
We’ll get a damned book next
aug 23, 2025, 9:47 am • 3 0 • view
Which obviously the Daily Mail will serialise 😱
aug 23, 2025, 11:31 am • 1 0 • view
No doubt Dora
aug 23, 2025, 11:53 am • 1 0 • view
Waiting for the mini series. They've already signed Olivia Coleman
aug 23, 2025, 11:27 am • 1 0 • view
Please complain to the BBC. This is NOT acceptable.
aug 23, 2025, 9:43 am • 3 0 • view
It’s also the photo. Butter wouldn’t melt.
aug 23, 2025, 10:23 am • 1 0 • view
Begging for a Reform government, at this rate. Oblivious to how their heads will be first on the block.
aug 23, 2025, 7:39 pm • 1 0 • view
BREAKING NEWS : 'Political Prisoner that pleaded guilty to offences claims she's the victim of pleading guilty to what she did....' You cannot make this spin up. If it were any other political slant, no one would offer her the time of day!
aug 23, 2025, 9:26 am • 36 2 • view
After her arrest Police said her social media showed a long history of racial hatred and incitement. 🤬
aug 23, 2025, 10:45 am • 20 1 • view
No one, no channel, no newspaper, not one hint of a comment should be allowed from this racist inciter to hate. She was proved guilty of a hate crime, and should be branded with it for life. End of! But our right wing media - doing Tommeh's work for him! They bring shame on us all.
aug 23, 2025, 12:03 pm • 2 1 • view
She pleaded guilty. That is all anyone needs to know. ‘Political prisoner’ my arse.
aug 23, 2025, 11:07 am • 3 1 • view
How would she expect the law to respond if i called on my followers, both of them to go and set fire to ger house, whether she was in it with her family or not. Would she just say i was using my free speech.
aug 23, 2025, 10:22 am • 1 0 • view
The BBC spent decades facilitating Savile. They spent years facilitating Brexit. They've spent months facilitating genocide. Why on earth would this surprise you?
aug 23, 2025, 11:14 am • 0 0 • view
In the menu on the website it's different now and it is when you open up the story. But it still has it like this if you share the link.
aug 23, 2025, 4:13 pm • 0 0 • view
Merely echoing a far right agenda
aug 23, 2025, 9:38 am • 1 0 • view
No, you incited people to kill! Get over yourself. Political prisoner, BS.
aug 23, 2025, 11:30 am • 0 0 • view
Political prisoner my arse. Racist bint pleaded guilty to inciting rioters to set fire to buildings WITH PEOPLE IN THEM.
aug 23, 2025, 10:30 am • 4 1 • view
She's obviously being coached on what to say so the neanderthals will agree and react
aug 23, 2025, 10:23 am • 2 0 • view
Intemperate hotheaded self publicist says inflammatory ‘look at me’ thing. She’ll have a show on GB News in a week.
aug 23, 2025, 11:19 am • 2 1 • view
Just the BBC normalising racist conspiracy theory wankers, same as it's been doing for years.
aug 23, 2025, 11:16 am • 0 0 • view
She broke the law. What's the problem ? Silly bint.
aug 23, 2025, 1:06 pm • 0 0 • view
How much shit is Connolly going to be allowed to stir before the authorities put her back in jail? “In a separate interview, Connolly said she would be meeting members of Donald Trump's administration on Saturday.” Trump lawyers want to learn about Connolly’s martyrdom in the UK, it seems
aug 23, 2025, 11:59 am • 3 1 • view
“martyrdom“
aug 23, 2025, 12:21 pm • 1 0 • view
She’s a convicted criminal, nothing more. An embarrassment to her family.
aug 24, 2025, 8:21 am • 0 0 • view
BBC is long gone
aug 23, 2025, 9:39 am • 10 1 • view
The BBC blanked out trans voices, no one cared. Then they platformed anti trans voices, no one cared. Now they are platforming ReFuck and the right wing, apparently still no one cares 🙄
aug 23, 2025, 2:44 pm • 3 2 • view
100% agree. It's so far beyond the pale.
aug 23, 2025, 12:11 pm • 0 0 • view
I think many of us do. It's like being in a Life on Mars coma, it feels real but surely can't be.
aug 23, 2025, 11:03 pm • 0 0 • view
Oh FM
aug 23, 2025, 11:55 am • 0 0 • view
"incitement to commit terrorism" seems more accurate. I guess they only use that to describe like, Palestinian children asking for food.
aug 25, 2025, 3:09 am • 0 0 • view
Lucy-Connolly-v-The-King.pdf share.google/Xgklz3JgOigc...
aug 23, 2025, 1:13 pm • 0 0 • view
Just read this article in full. What the hell, she’s meeting Trump’s advisors and meeting with her lawyers. She was guilty of inciting racial hatred and violence. After her arrest police said they had found a long history of racial hatred on her social media. She is a female Yaxley Lennon🤬🤬🤬🤬
aug 23, 2025, 10:40 am • 7 1 • view
She will be reform candidate at the next election just wait and see😏
aug 23, 2025, 10:26 am • 3 0 • view
Or a GB news presenter.
aug 23, 2025, 10:59 am • 1 0 • view
She will fit right in. I saw OFCOM’s response to a complaint about GB News yesterday and it said, “no action will be taken as the content was in line with what their viewers want to see” If we can’t even rely on OFCOM to uphold a basic standard we are finished🤬
aug 23, 2025, 11:06 am • 2 0 • view
In line with what gammon boomers want to see more like...
aug 23, 2025, 4:37 pm • 0 0 • view
What. "No action will be taken as the content was in line with what their viewers want to see". OK, so Babestation will now be able to show full frontal nudity, Together tv will be showing Deep Throat instead of old 70's soft core rubbish. I mean many people would want to see that wouldn't they!
aug 23, 2025, 12:01 pm • 1 1 • view
And how about this earlier one. Same feeble “both sides” approach where the shouty protagonist gets the headline and the reasoned argument is buried below www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
aug 23, 2025, 10:06 pm • 0 0 • view
I know how you feel.
aug 23, 2025, 9:53 am • 1 0 • view
The BBC is part of a machine which is often subliminally and at times overtly promoting a far right agenda in Britain. Ed Davey has challenged it but that’s about as far as the challenge goes. As an overseas full time resident I see what’s happening from the outside and it’s chilling.
aug 24, 2025, 5:59 am • 2 0 • view
Lucy Connolly is right. Her political crime was to advocate for human beings to be burnt to death.
aug 23, 2025, 10:35 am • 2 0 • view
Shame on BBC
aug 23, 2025, 12:32 pm • 0 0 • view
Yeah, that sounds better than racist bitch doesn’t it.
aug 23, 2025, 2:03 pm • 1 0 • view
@bbcnewsnight.bsky.social Wtaf
aug 23, 2025, 2:02 pm • 0 0 • view
She got off lightly. Inciting murder, violences and arson is serious business. She confessed and plead guilty. She ought to think herself lucky and STFU
aug 23, 2025, 10:17 am • 5 1 • view
“I plead guilty to prove the point that we had two tier justice…”
aug 23, 2025, 10:02 am • 1 0 • view
I hear ya…it’s wrecking my head. 🤯
aug 23, 2025, 11:56 am • 0 0 • view
Well we're in the realm of constant dead cat stories, so there's that. But mainly it's about triggering the knuckle dragging racists some more, so that they do some ridiculous shit again for the media to report on, and repeat.
aug 23, 2025, 10:39 am • 3 0 • view
I have given up at mainstream media Media in the UK is as bad as it is in the US One would have hoped that the people in UK would have learned what not to do from the disastrous Trump admin but instead they r fully embracing it So it’s up to each one of us Mainstream media sadly is a goner
aug 23, 2025, 9:23 am • 14 1 • view
It's a sort of corporate gaslighting.
aug 23, 2025, 10:47 am • 0 0 • view
Occasionally I wonder if I should go back to paying the license fee. Articles like this remind me that feeling is driven by nostalgia.
aug 23, 2025, 11:03 am • 0 0 • view
The article itself seems to very quickly brush over the actual incitement to violence that she was guilty of. By omitting what she actually said in her tweet, this article just comes across as another attempt to make her seem like a "free speech" martyr.
aug 23, 2025, 9:28 am • 31 1 • view
Just like saying that a murderer was sent to prison for moving a finger and ignoring that he pulled the trigger with that finger.
aug 24, 2025, 8:07 am • 3 0 • view
Surely the words "convicted racist" in the title should be impartial enough for the BBC as she was convicted of a racist crime?
aug 24, 2025, 9:45 am • 0 0 • view
Thankfully the article does remind us she told people to set fire to hotels
aug 24, 2025, 7:47 am • 0 0 • view
Typical bias from the far right BBC. It is an organization that is helping us slip into an authoritarian regime called reform.
aug 23, 2025, 10:26 am • 5 0 • view
Everyone in the UK that doesn't like what the BBC is doing can do one thing which will stop them in their tracks CANCEL YOUR TV LICENSE!! Money talks bullshit walks.
aug 23, 2025, 10:34 am • 1 0 • view
The BBC has fallen so far so quickly, it's so sad.
aug 25, 2025, 11:06 am • 0 0 • view
"You so much as breathe in the wrong way, I'll know about it. Now get back in your hole, scum"
aug 23, 2025, 10:30 am • 0 0 • view
Guilty of inciting violence and hatred, she is NOT a victim! 😠
aug 24, 2025, 10:14 am • 1 0 • view
Let’s see her as she really is, rather than this bright-eyed, butter wouldn’t melt, clear complexioned innocent
aug 23, 2025, 11:40 am • 1 0 • view
It's seems the BBC website is edited by a load of people who used to work for the Daily Mail.
aug 23, 2025, 11:51 am • 11 0 • view
I heard that, before you can be employed by the Daily Mail, you have to prove yourself by setting fire to a homeless person or an immigrant.
aug 23, 2025, 11:05 pm • 1 0 • view
Free BBC publicity while she’s using social media to organise. Should be against bail conditions. Racism let loose literally. The polarisation grows. And the BBCs narrative on immigration also feed into it. They rarely interview experts on the ground working with refugees and migrant populations.
aug 23, 2025, 1:35 pm • 2 0 • view
I think they're lining her up for Strictly 2026.
aug 23, 2025, 2:21 pm • 2 0 • view
The BBC is extremely biased.
aug 23, 2025, 1:29 pm • 0 0 • view
Further reading: "It's a shame about Noel Clarke"
aug 23, 2025, 9:24 am • 4 0 • view
lipless twat
aug 23, 2025, 5:47 pm • 0 0 • view
The BBC board needs sorting out. They lost any neutrality, integrity and credibility along time ago
aug 23, 2025, 1:40 pm • 3 1 • view
Despairing @bbcnewsnight.bsky.social
aug 23, 2025, 7:53 pm • 0 0 • view
Well headline news on London BBC radio this morning was 'this is what F face said today' This is not news, this is a political broadcast for them. It's awful and biased. I complained
aug 23, 2025, 9:49 am • 5 1 • view
Political prisoner my arse, she knew what she did & said was wrong but still said it with her chest out Yet here's the BBC giving the shithouse airtime playing the victim card 🥴 Twat
aug 23, 2025, 5:30 pm • 0 0 • view
Yup. Everyone who decides to plead guilty is automatically a political prisoner. Didn't ya know?
aug 23, 2025, 1:41 pm • 1 0 • view
"Woman who pleaded guilty to advocating violence finishes jail term" wouldn’t be as effective as clickbait, right?
aug 23, 2025, 11:13 am • 1 1 • view
"They're her words, we're just reporting them, so that absolves us of all responsibility. We are serious journalists."
aug 23, 2025, 2:04 pm • 0 0 • view
The @bbc and @bbcnewsnight.bsky.social people appear to have basically become the mouthpiece for racism and fascist idiots on this country
aug 23, 2025, 2:02 pm • 2 0 • view
Inciting people to kill refugees is a bit of a grey area for the BBC.
aug 23, 2025, 3:31 pm • 0 0 • view
BBC news has lost all credibility in past 5 years. Appalling coverage of Gaza - refusing to air one documentary, pulling another. Pandering to the populist right with constant platforming of Farage and Tufton St mouthpieces. Daily small boat numbers without context or explanation
aug 23, 2025, 10:38 am • 16 4 • view
Not to mention their dramas are preachy as hell. Pro life etc..
aug 23, 2025, 10:54 am • 0 0 • view
Turns out she’s married to Lord Voldemort: the warning signs were there from the outset.
aug 23, 2025, 9:34 am • 17 0 • view
Lord Voldeshort
aug 23, 2025, 11:41 am • 5 0 • view
The resemblance is UNCANNY.
aug 23, 2025, 1:03 pm • 0 0 • view
Agreed its utterly warped and when I read she was a childminder I nearly threw my phone at the wall, who the hell would leave a child with someone like that.
aug 23, 2025, 6:06 pm • 0 0 • view
It's one thing to interview to expose someone's racism, quite another to interview someone that basically pleaded guilty to racism!
aug 23, 2025, 1:17 pm • 1 0 • view
I gave up on the BBC when they interviewed Tim Martin (Wetherspoons) during the early stages of the pandemic for his opinion as to whether pubs should be shut or not.
aug 23, 2025, 11:19 am • 3 1 • view
Great to see her back spending time with her family. The BBC is a pure Farage.
aug 23, 2025, 10:26 am • 4 0 • view
Her husband actually said let’s give Starmer a pat on the back for upsetting our 12 year old daughter. I would have thought having your mother boasting about being a raving racist would be what’s upsetting her. She should be taken into care.
aug 23, 2025, 10:59 am • 5 1 • view
You’re not, they are!
aug 23, 2025, 12:10 pm • 0 0 • view
The BBC is nothing more than Fox news
aug 23, 2025, 10:52 am • 0 0 • view
Everyone who still pays a licence fee should seriously consider what they're doing.
aug 23, 2025, 10:34 am • 2 0 • view
Why? I think it's important to give her a platform on which to break her license conditions.
aug 23, 2025, 10:42 am • 0 0 • view
Do criminals need a public voice!! This does not help society get better. Possibly a regulated press would help. But first a government that recognises right and wrong is needed
aug 23, 2025, 9:51 am • 3 0 • view
We’re heading down the America hole.
aug 23, 2025, 10:20 am • 4 0 • view
Hi Marie. We don't consume broadcast news in our house. It is dreadfully depressing & I can't stand it. The complete lack of challenge to the absolute roasters who dominate the Media Circus is a scandal. Personally I read the FT, Guardian, New World and Byline Times. Plus of late Substack.
aug 23, 2025, 4:08 pm • 0 0 • view
this what a political prisoner looks like, how dare she equate herself to the likes of him. She's a common thug who got what she deserved , i hope this comes back to haunt her. She came out alive , he didn't.
aug 23, 2025, 12:12 pm • 13 0 • view
BBC is getting worse. Couldn’t believe their joyful and credulous reporting of G Maxwell this morning!
aug 23, 2025, 12:34 pm • 6 0 • view
I've never agreed with any of the noise around the BBC, the don't pay the licence fee stuff (that usually seems to come from right wingers, ironically) etc, but my God they don't half make it difficult to defend them sometimes.
aug 23, 2025, 11:01 am • 0 0 • view
BBC news is fully infiltrated. I stopped reading years ago. They are a propaganda channel now.
aug 23, 2025, 11:04 am • 2 0 • view
Please see below for similar anger at pathetic reporting on the other side of the world bsky.app/profile/lazy...
aug 23, 2025, 9:57 am • 3 0 • view
The January 6th insurrectionist mob in the US were termed ‘political prisoners’ by Trump and subsequently pardoned Presumably a made for UK adaptation is coming soon, and the BBC wants the rights
aug 23, 2025, 4:33 pm • 1 0 • view
It’s a case of one persons “political prisoner, is another’s vile, white supremacist, racist Tory moron 🏴🇪🇺
aug 23, 2025, 11:38 am • 8 1 • view
The headline is what she told The Telegraph.
aug 23, 2025, 1:34 pm • 0 0 • view
#BBCNews collaborating on the gaza genocide, platforming the mass murderers, and suggesting UK racist scum bags calling for people to be burnt to death, are political prisoners!
aug 24, 2025, 8:39 am • 1 0 • view
how stupid and ignorant this woman is . She was a prisoner because of her own stupidity
aug 23, 2025, 10:38 am • 4 0 • view
This time next year she'll be a whole lot richer, the right love themselves a martyr to the cause, does not matter one jot that every word she'll utter will be self pitying/I'm just concerned nonsense,they'll lap it up,and she'll lean right into it as well.
aug 23, 2025, 10:42 am • 2 0 • view
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aug 23, 2025, 3:42 pm • 0 0 • view
BBCnews consists of following printed media stories as if the printed media stories were balanced, which of course they are not. This is giving legitimacy to what are biased reports for many who still believe that BBCnews a dependable source.
aug 23, 2025, 9:42 am • 10 1 • view
The 'thinking left' read The Guardian, listen to Radio 4 and think they're informed.
aug 23, 2025, 10:38 am • 0 0 • view
I made precisely that point to my wife this morning
aug 24, 2025, 12:11 pm • 2 0 • view
I think I've lost mine. I am at a loss to understand the utter stupidity of people. The BBC should be educating and informing not spreading nonsense propaganda which is more suited to GBNews.
aug 23, 2025, 11:13 am • 1 0 • view
It's utterly shameful. I'm so embarrassed by what this country has become. The BBC is a disgrace. Today there's an article about Farage and what he will do about immigration which suggests that all immigrants arrive here via dinghies which is plutonium grade bullshit.
aug 23, 2025, 11:11 am • 6 2 • view
The #BBC are showing more sympathy to her than they are to the starving kids in #Gaza, it is fucking annoying #LucyConnolly
aug 23, 2025, 10:10 am • 9 1 • view
It's a shameful headline for a shameful article. The BBC - and a majority of the mainstream media - has entirely lost the place in relation to right wing extremism. Shame on them, BBC et al, shame on them all.
aug 23, 2025, 11:33 am • 1 0 • view
Not least as she didn’t actually say the words the bbc attributes. Just agreed with the extremely normal question AP posed
aug 23, 2025, 9:25 am • 87 1 • view
Also the article describes Pearson as a ‘journalist’
aug 23, 2025, 9:27 am • 7 0 • view
So the correct headline is something like "Idiot doesn't know what 'political prisoner' means".
aug 23, 2025, 5:26 pm • 1 0 • view
aaaaahhhhhhhhhh!
aug 23, 2025, 9:26 am • 23 0 • view
Though she did say that she had been made "Sir Keir Starmer's political prisoner".
aug 23, 2025, 12:56 pm • 0 0 • view
No, she literally didn't. An interviewer asked if she considered herself “Sir Keir Starmer’s political prisoner”. “Absolutely. Me and several other people,” she replied
aug 23, 2025, 2:08 pm • 0 0 • view
Which is the same thing. Agreeing is agreeing.
aug 23, 2025, 2:10 pm • 1 0 • view
I feel like this is one of the article's biggest failures.... complete lack of context. Suggests that they are just platforming an ideology and don't care how they get there ...
aug 23, 2025, 11:51 am • 0 0 • view
She should not be given a platform by The Telegraph and BBC News to spout her bile. She should be ignored and treated like the criminal she is. She is no better than the rioters.
aug 24, 2025, 5:55 am • 2 0 • view
Between the faux Connolly martyrdom headlines to quoting Farage’s deportation plans in the Torygraph on the @BBCRadio4 news like its future govt policy, they’ve lost the plot and any sense of perspective. The daily obsession with migration and small boats is just petrol on the Reform bonfire.
aug 23, 2025, 9:34 am • 51 1 • view
I wouldn’t mind petrol being thrown on Reform Party policies as long as it becomes a Bonfire of Farage’s Vanities.
aug 23, 2025, 11:01 am • 4 0 • view
I share your despair.
aug 23, 2025, 3:14 pm • 0 0 • view
“Crown Prosecution Service guidance explains that inciting racial hatred is a criminal offence in England and one of the limited circumstances to not be covered by freedom of expression, external through the European Convention on Human Rights.” Yet right wingers want to exit ECHR….
aug 23, 2025, 10:11 am • 3 1 • view
She was an actual prisoner for a crime she pleaded guilty to. Stupid bitch.
aug 23, 2025, 7:49 pm • 1 0 • view
Maybe using this picture instead of the 'nice smiley childminder image' would also be appropriate.
aug 23, 2025, 11:34 am • 1 0 • view
Advice on finding lost mind welcome… 😵💫😶
aug 23, 2025, 9:27 am • 5 0 • view
BBC now acting as an extension of the right-wing propaganda channel, GB'news'.
aug 23, 2025, 12:41 pm • 1 0 • view
As far as I can see, the Guardian today has totally ignored this racist's whining and threats - which of course is what the BBC should have done. This is simply not a story - except by the twisted standards of the right-wing press.
aug 23, 2025, 1:49 pm • 4 0 • view
If you're wondering what that noise is, it's the sound of Nelson Mandela, Gandhi, Martin Luther King Jr., Benazir Bhutto, very, very many of Putin's opponants & other *actual* political prisoners turning in their fooking graves.
aug 23, 2025, 2:42 pm • 1 0 • view
Don't the BBC think she's said enough already?
aug 23, 2025, 12:46 pm • 0 0 • view
BBC are a right-wing propaganda channel.
aug 23, 2025, 11:07 am • 6 2 • view
*BBC News and Current Affairs
aug 23, 2025, 7:57 pm • 2 0 • view
She can only be considered a political prisoner if you think that burning foreigners in a hotel is an acceptable political action. That's where the far right, the BBC and the media in the UK are right now.
aug 23, 2025, 7:57 pm • 1 0 • view
Does anyone read BBC news anymore?
aug 23, 2025, 2:26 pm • 0 0 • view
The BBC news stories this morning were all quite outrageous: Epstein (why?), nutty Reform policy (not the fucking government, no election for years), loony quote from this monster, coach crash in USA (didn't report more serious one in Iran last week) etc etc.
aug 23, 2025, 10:54 am • 0 0 • view
bsky.app/profile/sund...
aug 23, 2025, 1:45 pm • 0 0 • view
Have a friend at BBC news it’s all about clicks now. Seems to be all they care about.
aug 23, 2025, 11:15 am • 2 0 • view
The BBC is disgraceful, it quoted her tweet with the key incitement words missing! It left out the words: 'Set fire to all the f****** hotels full of the bastards for all I care". A clearly illegal call which is why her plea was "GUILTY"
aug 23, 2025, 10:08 am • 7 1 • view
Here, I strongly suspect, is a client who failed miserably to understand what counsel was explaining to her regarding the implications of what a Guilty plea really meant.
aug 23, 2025, 11:57 am • 2 0 • view
All this bile and no-one is talking about the ex MP who walked free after telling a mob to go cut throats. Its all on video if you want facts
aug 23, 2025, 11:14 am • 0 0 • view
Nothing's happening in Gaza, Ukraine, etc
aug 23, 2025, 12:05 pm • 1 0 • view
Roll up! Roll up! There's still room on the Connoly bandwagon...
aug 23, 2025, 11:44 am • 1 0 • view
Such abject nonsense. bsky.app/profile/snig...
aug 23, 2025, 1:06 pm • 12 3 • view
Wait for them to push alert this
aug 23, 2025, 9:46 am • 4 0 • view
That's what she claims, despite receiving as low as possible sentence for the crime she was convicted for, as usual the hyperbolic claims she was railroaded, that her sentence was the maximum possible to set an example etc, the judge was lenient and took time off for previous record and guilty plea.
aug 23, 2025, 2:03 pm • 0 0 • view
So, I take it from this that she isn’t sorry, & doesn’t think she’s done anything wrong, despite pleading guilty to an actual crime !
aug 23, 2025, 1:09 pm • 4 0 • view
X should be banned in the UK. The amount of people I know who have been radicalised by the firehose of racism and hatred they see on there they think is 'news' is far too many. It's dangerous. This woman, who made herself part of that, was probably an avatar for it, she's the symptom, not the cure.
aug 23, 2025, 12:36 pm • 2 0 • view
(also what she said was disgusting and inflammatory and I personally think it was important to lock her up, and her rosy cheeked smiling face is. the face of something hateful and i don't doubt f$rage will do something with her as per MTG.
aug 23, 2025, 12:44 pm • 0 0 • view
euh no actually
aug 24, 2025, 12:08 pm • 1 0 • view
Is that convicted racist and Jimmy Hill lookalike Lucy Connolly?
aug 23, 2025, 10:06 am • 4 0 • view
FAFO!
aug 23, 2025, 11:10 am • 0 0 • view
Did they take her top lip away from her when she was detained or is she just like that?
aug 23, 2025, 9:30 am • 1 0 • view
It is just amazing what propaganda can achieve.
aug 24, 2025, 8:36 am • 0 0 • view
Just look at the placements in the management all tories, doubt they give a shit if the BBC becomes controlled by a far right government No doubt they’ll be well rewarded.
aug 23, 2025, 11:38 am • 1 0 • view
😱😱😱😱😱
aug 23, 2025, 7:50 pm • 0 0 • view
I really worry about the link to trumps administration, there is a concerted effort to influence uk politics by the likes Vance, Farage and others. The pursuit of Christian nationalism and fascist doctrine in permeating through our politics and being allowed too.
aug 23, 2025, 12:12 pm • 1 0 • view
Any chance the BBC could have someone on to explain that that’s bollocks, for balance and all.
aug 23, 2025, 10:59 am • 1 0 • view
Part of the problem is the BBC still behaves like The Daily Telegraph of 2025 is The Daily Telegraph of 1985, leading its news pages with solidly-researched stories of general interest which require a follow-up, and it should treat it like it's the Daily Star
aug 23, 2025, 10:51 am • 1 0 • view
Same. The country is officially in the gutter now.
aug 23, 2025, 10:58 am • 0 0 • view
She was the Bobby Sands of Northampton !
aug 23, 2025, 3:47 pm • 0 0 • view
The framing is consistently from the right wing agenda. Where is the article on the personal stories of terrified refugees escaping terror
aug 23, 2025, 2:27 pm • 1 0 • view
Imagine having that poisonous bitch living next door to you, why doesn't she fuck off and live in America if she loves Trump so much?! Boycott the BBC!
aug 23, 2025, 12:12 pm • 1 0 • view
I've seen a few concerning BBC headlines recently, which is a shame because I've always supported the BBC funding model. This was a clear incitement and her comments shouldn't be presented with that context. She committed a crime.
aug 23, 2025, 7:17 pm • 1 0 • view
I note the headline has been updated pretty sharpish.
aug 23, 2025, 9:41 am • 5 0 • view
This is a recurring pattern, though. If I ran the country's biggest news entity, I would probably at least make sure an editor approved a headline before publishing it to the main page.
aug 23, 2025, 9:42 am • 13 0 • view
Once again, yet another unfortunate mistake from the BBC that just so happens to favour the right wing, and you're stupid to think there is some sort of pattern, because the BBC is neutral.
aug 23, 2025, 9:46 am • 7 0 • view
I think it's two different phenomena, though one of them exacerbates the other: 1) The BBC has terrible processes in its news and especially online operations that would be a problem regardless of politics and 2) There are people in the BBC actively normalising fringe right-wing agendas
aug 23, 2025, 9:54 am • 16 1 • view
If it wasn't for 1, a lot of the attempts at 2 would be shut down before publication, but as it is badly run they have free rein.
aug 23, 2025, 9:55 am • 5 0 • view
Especially as the headline that goes into the social media card sticks with the first version
aug 23, 2025, 10:21 am • 2 0 • view
aug 24, 2025, 1:10 am • 0 0 • view
This shouldn’t even be a story in any outlet. Prisoner who plead guilty served her time and is released, whoopty do. It’s driving me mad.
aug 23, 2025, 10:52 am • 71 2 • view
Also WTF are the @BBC doing giving *any* newspace, let alone a (now edited) headline to A CONVICTED CRIMINAL?! What next - an interview with a serial burglar bemoaning the damage to his hearing by the burglar alarms in all the homes he broke into?!
aug 23, 2025, 11:01 am • 3 1 • view
Political prisoner my arse 🙄 if any1 was it was Nelson Mandela ✌🏻🍉
aug 23, 2025, 12:06 pm • 2 0 • view
Hate-crazed Tory wives are so commonplace as to be a mere bump in the news cycle.
aug 23, 2025, 2:54 pm • 0 0 • view
They’re two steps away from “Man in pub says hanging is too good for them”
aug 23, 2025, 9:24 am • 38 0 • view
I read that as "two steps" but my inner voice said it as "Goosesteps".
aug 23, 2025, 10:43 am • 13 0 • view
The 6Music hourly bulletin (supposedly a light touch bit of news) is basically just a stream of Faragist far right propaganda. It feels so hopeless when our supposedly mainstream impartial broadcaster is actively radicalising people by constantly normalising this narrative.
aug 23, 2025, 12:24 pm • 4 1 • view
As a disabled trans Scot, this is just a normal BBC headline for us 🫠 Also, why we don't use the BBC for anything or indeed pay a licence fee. Haven't for years. People have given it a pass in the way they don't with other media outlets, and that is telling.
aug 24, 2025, 9:13 am • 1 0 • view
I really think this 'license' people have to pay to the BBC needs to be looked at. I resent the idea I paying for these clownshoes to vomit in my brain.
aug 24, 2025, 12:14 am • 1 0 • view
You're not, they are. Tufton Street types captured the BBC long ago. Just as Fox has captured Sky. Had to stop listening to #r4today and much else because of the right-wing agenda. If people keep consuming the slop, they will keep serving it up.
aug 23, 2025, 10:19 am • 10 3 • view
Yes - call me overly scrupulous but I don’t think we should simply report the thoughts of convicted racists like they’re valid.
aug 23, 2025, 11:56 am • 1 1 • view
she plead guilty, simple, if she was innocent she should have gone to court, she would have had bail etc.
aug 23, 2025, 10:52 am • 0 0 • view
It’s affecting my mental health quite badly :(
aug 23, 2025, 9:39 am • 41 0 • view
same, it's making me so anxious, it's hell
aug 23, 2025, 9:40 am • 35 0 • view
Seems to be all by design. Get the libs (and everyone else) to avoid news. Zero shared facts, just camps who don’t recognise and fear each other’s reality. I stopped engaging a few years ago and I feel massively guilty. What even is ‘news’ now? Not what it was 10 years ago.
aug 23, 2025, 6:09 pm • 1 0 • view
Same here.
aug 23, 2025, 10:41 am • 5 0 • view
But if you are not just anxious but fucking terrified there is something seriously wrong with you.
aug 23, 2025, 11:11 am • 1 0 • view
We really do seem to be going down the same road as the USA
aug 23, 2025, 9:42 am • 7 0 • view
It does not take courage to tell people to burn down hotels with migrants in ffs. The punishment for inciting violence includes a prison term, what she did was inciting violence. These people are ridiculous
aug 23, 2025, 8:48 pm • 0 0 • view
If it infringes on other people's rights, it's not free speech, it's hate speech
aug 23, 2025, 8:49 pm • 0 0 • view
People need to complain about this crap if we want it to stop www.bbc.co.uk/contact/comp...
aug 23, 2025, 11:11 am • 1 1 • view
I felt exactly the same when I saw that BBC headline. They get it wrong too often now and are deeply arrogant in their responses to official complaints. SHE PLEADED GUILTY!
aug 23, 2025, 12:44 pm • 0 0 • view
I very much hope the racist thug is not profiting from these appearances.
aug 23, 2025, 6:38 pm • 0 0 • view
She was convicted by a Court of Law. This country is NOT America. Our courts are totally independent and free from political control; something we should all be proud of.
aug 23, 2025, 11:34 am • 1 0 • view
The BBC has always reproduced the reporting of the broadsheets. That helps them spread their bile.
aug 23, 2025, 10:43 am • 4 1 • view
She think she Mandela or some shit
aug 23, 2025, 10:15 am • 1 0 • view
Didn’t she plead guilty?
aug 23, 2025, 10:28 am • 0 0 • view
What the fu** is a UK citizen about to do?..have a discussion with a Trump dictatorship about her view on 'free speech'? We have heard enough crap from Vance on his arrogant interpretation,while his people live in fear for their safety from their own admin.He needs to learn respect
aug 23, 2025, 4:29 pm • 0 0 • view
Farage,Truss and one or two 'fat mouthed yanks' including JD Vance suggested we had a problem with freedom of speech! Your citizens at large sound very frightened having National Guard and NAZI ICE thugs snatching mainly innocent folk off the streets to detain indefinitely for no reason
aug 23, 2025, 4:17 pm • 0 0 • view
Is it so difficult to realise that the entire BBC board are racist fascists and enjoy all of this? Come on now
aug 23, 2025, 10:23 am • 2 1 • view
Evidence is overwhelming.
aug 23, 2025, 10:26 am • 3 0 • view
Stop giving the toxic troll any publicity. Try to paint her as some sort of martyr. She literally called for people to be burned alive!!
aug 24, 2025, 5:59 am • 0 0 • view
Important element in the full story that didn't make it into the headline: 'She pleaded guilty to inciting racial hatred by publishing and distributing "threatening or abusive" written material on X.'
aug 23, 2025, 12:06 pm • 1 0 • view
Yup, she then appealed being found guilty! 😳🙄 She’s dumb as a bag of rocks. imho, ymmv, etc.
aug 23, 2025, 12:24 pm • 2 0 • view