SOME other matters that @BBCNews should ask Lord Dyson to investigate
1. BBC coverage of the Miners' Strike including Orgreave
2. How BBC systematically pushed Government agenda to push Austerity 3. How BBC has failed to properly inform as to the dangers of the Climate Crisis 4. How BBC has shown consistent bias against Scottish independence
5. How BBC systematically - and profoundly antidemocratically - smeared Jeremy Corbyn 6. How BBC effectively treat millions & millions of poor people in the UK as invisible 7. How BBC reports as Govt policy dictates rather than truth as they see it in Israel/Palestine, Saudi etc
8. How BBC is failing now to report properly on Govt CORRUPTION taking place on a huge scale and in plain sight
I could continue but enough for now
If BBC News wants to SURVIVE the threats from Tories & Murdoch, it must provide an excellent service for EVERYONE, not just elites
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At least as important as the Bashir Affair, SOME other matters that @BBCNews needs to have independently investigated
1. BBC coverage of the Miners' Strike including Orgreave
2. How BBC systematically pushed the FALSE Government narrative behind the disastrous imposition of AUSTERITY 3. How BBC has seriously failed to properly inform as to the dangers of the Climate Crisis 4. How BBC has shown consistent bias against Scottish independence
5. How BBC systematically - and profoundly antidemocratically - smeared Jeremy Corbyn 6. How BBC ignores the concerns of millions & millions of poor people in the UK 7. How BBC reports the Government line rather than the truth as it observes it, on Israel/Palestine, Saudi etc
SOME other matters that @BBCNews should have independently investigated
1. BBC coverage of the Miners' Strike including Orgreave
2. How BBC systematically pushed Government narrative to wrongly justify Austerity 3. How BBC has failed to properly inform as to the dangers of the Climate Crisis 4. How BBC has shown consistent bias against Scottish independence
5. How BBC systematically - and profoundly antidemocratically - smeared Jeremy Corbyn 6. How BBC ignores the concerns of millions & millions of poor people in the UK 7. How BBC reports the Government line rather than the truth as it observes it on Israel/Palestine, Saudi etc
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- Noam Chomsky
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“the former oppressors do not feel liberated. On the contrary, they genuinely consider themselves to be oppressed. Conditioned by the experience of oppressing others, any situation other than their former seems to them like oppression. Formerly, they could eat, dress, wear
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"Huxley believed that his version of dystopia was the more plausible one. In a 1949 letter, thanking Orwell for sending him a copy of “1984,” he wrote that he really didn’t think all that torture and jackbooting
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was necessary to subdue a population, and that he believed his own book offered a better solution. All you need to do, he said, is teach people to love their servitude. The totalitarian rulers in Huxley’s book do this not by oppressing their citizens but by giving them
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exactly what they want, or what they think they want — which is basically sex, drugs and rock ’n’ roll — and lulling them into complacency. The system entails a certain Trump-like suspicion of science and dismissal of history, but that’s a price the inhabitants
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I live in London. BUT if I lived in Hartlepool, I would vote for @Thelma_DWalker of the @FreeNorthNow
Here’s why in a thread
1.The candidate
2.Why I would not vote Labour anymore after a lifetime of doing so
3.Ten reasons from the Northern Independence Party Manifesto
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I've met Thelma Walker and believe we badly need people like Thelma in Parliament
Thelma spent decades as a teacher and a headteacher and was an MP from 2017 to 2019. She is clear-thinking, passionate and persuasive about Green issues, education, Social Justice and much more!
I resigned from Labour after 30 years. As a left-wing Jew, supporting social justice in UK and abroad, including the human & civil rights of the Palestinians, I felt very unwelcome in Starmer’s party
I saw Starmer break multiple promises to members & felt I could not trust him