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In January this year, Deborah Turness was appointed CEO of @BBCNews. What most people are unaware of - either by accident or design - is that she is married to little-known John Toker - the UK Govt Cabinet Office's Director of Communications for Security & Intelligence.
In January this year, Deborah Turness was appointed CEO of @BBCNews. What most people are unaware of - either by accident or design - is that she is married to little-known John Toker - the UK Govt Cabinet Office's Director of Communications for Security & Intelligence.
Perhaps unsurprisingly, given Toker's role as Director of Comm for Security & Intelligence, there is next to nothing about him online, & while I cannot verify if @g_johnjtoker (dormant since 2017) is actually the same John Toker, if it is, his political views are pretty clear:
One thing we do know is that in 2012, days before former executives at Murdoch’s News International were to testify at the #Leveson Inquiry, the Govt was granted special 'core participant' status that gives advance access to witness statements & the ability to question testimony.
In 2008, my daughter @CamillaCleese voluntarily gave #MailonSunday US Editor Caroline Graham @cg66 an exclusive interview about growing up, our relationship, her journey as a comedian and going through recovery, in a bid to be open and honest.
@CamillaCleese wanted to set the record straight to prevent tabloids trying to dig up dirt later.
What @CamillaCleese didn't realise was that Caroline Graham had tasked an illegal private investigator to dig up private and confidential information about her anyway, behind her back, followed by an illegal search on me.
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In order to try to unite the country, & regain some pride in #Britain 🇬🇧, we urgently need either a Royal Commission - or a Public Inquiry - into news media funding & ownership by overseas-based, foreign, & non dom multi-millionaires & billionaires.
#RoyalCommission
In order to try to unite the country, & regain some pride in #Britain 🇬🇧, we urgently need either a Royal Commission - or a Public Inquiry - into news media funding & ownership by overseas-based, foreign, & non dom multi-millionaires & billionaires.
#RoyalCommission
Just a handful of overseas-based, foreign, or non dom multi-millionaires & billionaires own or fund swathes of our "news" media, including, but not limited to: the Sun; the Times; the Mail; the Telegraph; the Independent; the Spectator; Spiked; talkTV/Radio, & GB "News".
They all use harmful & divisive culture war rhetoric daily, demonising minorities, the public sector, migrants, the poor, young people & the Left, & they all use dangerous populist nationalist rhetoric, deliberately designed to divide, provoke, gaslight & outrage their audiences.
I hate to say it, but it really feels like this is going to be a good night for Boris Johnson.
#LocalElections2022 #bbcaq
#LocalElections2022 #bbcaq
I've never been more delighted to be wrong, but at least I was taking a punt in the middle of the night based on evidence.
This extraordinary gaslighting from @Daily_Express, a rag that actually dares to call itself a "newspaper" really ought to be illegal.
#bbcaq #Leveson
This extraordinary gaslighting from @Daily_Express, a rag that actually dares to call itself a "newspaper" really ought to be illegal.
#bbcaq #Leveson
@Daily_Express I mean, even the Daily Boris understands that the Tories have taken a real punishment beating at the polls.
*Nonetheless, the morons on @LBC are still making the story about the opposition leader being *investigated* over a clearly legal curry in the office.
#bbcaq
*Nonetheless, the morons on @LBC are still making the story about the opposition leader being *investigated* over a clearly legal curry in the office.
#bbcaq
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The Government trick voters into believing they're all FOR free-speech & AGAINST "nanny-state" interventionism.
But the Right has a recurrent obsession with pro-censorship, anti-free-speech legislation, & make repeated attempts to control what people see & hear.
The Government trick voters into believing they're all FOR free-speech & AGAINST "nanny-state" interventionism.
But the Right has a recurrent obsession with pro-censorship, anti-free-speech legislation, & make repeated attempts to control what people see & hear.
I'm going to put to one side the BANNING of teaching of anti-capitalist views in schools, the concerning "free speech" measures introduced to CONTROL debate in Universities & the disproportionate obsession with antisemitism between 2015 & 2019, as I've written about these before.
Following the original video nasties moral panic in the mid-1980s, Mary Whitehouse & other right-wing reactionaries, supported by the frothing right-wing press, campaigned to ban some horror films available on video, & tough legislation was introduced restricting choice.
