In light of the BBC’s latest scandal doctoring Trump’s speech, I took a look back at Panorama’s record.

From staging scenes and libelling MPs to entrapment, fakery, and narrative editing, this isn’t a one-off.

It’s a pattern. A long one.

Let’s take a look 🧵 📍1979 – The Carrickmore Incident

🟪 What they did:

Panorama filmed masked IRA members operating a roadblock in Carrickmore, Northern Ireland, without alerting BBC leadership or the authorities.

The footage wasn’t broadcast, but its existence leaked. The BBC was accused of collusion with terrorists during the Troubles.

🟩 What happened as a result:

The scandal exploded after a mention in Hibernia was picked up by the British press. Thatcher went ballistic in Cabinet. The Home Secretary pressured the BBC to clean house.

The Panorama editor was removed (briefly), his boss was formally reprimanded, and new emergency oversight rules were imposed for NI coverage.

The biggest lie in the ECHR debate is that leaving it means Britain “loses” its human rights.

That’s pure nonsense.

Britain invented most of these rights centuries before the ECHR even existed 🧵 Britain didn’t join the ECHR to get rights. We already had them.

It was signed in 1950, drafted heavily by British lawyers led by David Maxwell Fyfe, a Nuremberg prosecutor and later Home Secretary.

Churchill championed it as a way to export British liberty after fascism and as a bulwark against Communism.

In 1948 he called for “a charter of human rights, guarded by freedom and sustained by law.”

Britain’s legal tradition shaped the Convention. The aim was to spread our principles, not import new ones.

This is how the BBC can make a true story seem false.

Last week: @CharlotteCGill reported that schools got children as young as 5 to make Valentine’s Day cards for asylum seekers.

This week: The BBC runs a piece making the whole idea sound like misinformation.

🧵 Background:

Schools of Sanctuary is a national programme that last year explicitly asked students to “Show Your Heart for Refugees This Valentine’s Day”.

Charlotte exposed multiple social media posts showing children preparing Valentine’s cards to be “given to refugee recipients”.

Children as young as five were involved.

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Is the BBC smearing protestors?

After a recent BBC article, @orlaminihane says she’s received death threats and had people trying to get her fired.

This is how loaded framing and selective quoting in reporting can seriously harm someone’s reputation 🧵 Orla is a local mother, long-time resident, and Reform candidate for Epping.

She spoke to the BBC for an hour about crime, girls’ safety, and govt. failings in relation to the Bell Hotel protests.

But what appeared in print was very different — and damaging to her reputation.

The BBC does not report on protests fairly.

How do I know?

Because I used to work there.

🟢 If they agree with you, you get sympathetic coverage.
🔴 If they disagree with you, you get smeared or ignored.

This is how the BBC rigs public perception of protests 🧵 This weekend, thousands of people protested at hotels across the UK.

The BBC ran just one story on it, focusing on “arrests”, “clashes”, and “anti-migrant groups”.

No interviews. No photos. No voices from the protestors.

Just framing: these people are dangerous.

The Online Safety Act has been in force for one week, and it’s already censoring rape victims, protest footage, and even lactose intolerance.

Starmer says it’s about protecting children. In reality, it’s stifling free speech.

Here's what's been censored so far🧵 The Act gives Ofcom powers to slap platforms with fines of up to 10% of global turnover for “harmful” content.

“Harmful” is so vague that companies are over-censoring in order to avoid trouble.

It’s not protecting kids. It’s incentivising mass censorship.

A lesson in how media bias works from the “impartial” BBC.

Yesterday, Trump publicly challenged Starmer’s policies at a press conference: immigration, energy, tax, free speech.

The BBC ran two articles on it.

Let’s examine what they showed you, and what they didn’t. 🧵 At the press conference, Trump:

– Questioned Starmer’s immigration approach
– Warned against free speech restrictions
– Urged Starmer to cut taxes
– Criticised wind turbines and UK energy policy
– Called Sadiq Khan “a nasty person” who’s “done a terrible job”

Trump was taking aim at Starmer’s policies, live, on camera.

Full video here: youtube.com/watch?v=oBJqr1…

The UK is descending into an Orwellian nightmare.

Today Keir Starmer told President Trump that the UK has free speech.

This is a lie.

📷The government watches what we say.
🚨Police investigate non-crimes.
💭People are arrested for wrongthink.

This is not 1984. It’s 2025. 🧵 In the UK you can be:

⚖️ Prosecuted for causing offence
🖼️ Investigated for memes
🚪 Visited by police for social media posts
🧠 Arrested for thinking in the wrong place

Sound dystopian? This is Modern Britain.

Here are real UK laws that restrict free speech.

🚨 UK’s Online Safety Act just came into effect, promising a “safer” internet.
It’s a lie.

This law threatens YOUR privacy, free speech, and democracy and paves the way for a surveilled, censored web.

Want to know how bad it gets? 🧵 It’s 250+ pages of confusing legalese. Its vague wording leaves even experts unclear on its full requirements.

Experts have derided it as incoherent and authoritarian.

The alleged goal is to protect children, but the approach is so broad it ends up undermining the very freedoms it claims to defend.

Today, Parliament reaches a pivotal moment with the third reading of the Assisted Dying Bill, one of the most controversial pieces of legislation in decades.

Some see choice. Others fear risks.

It’s a deeply complex issue. Here's the arguments from both sides.

A thread 🧵 The Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill is the most significant attempt yet to legalise assisted dying in the UK.

It would allow terminally ill adults to request medical help to end their lives, but only under strict safeguards.

On a technical level, it is not voluntary euthanasia. And it is not death on demand.

It is physician-assisted dying, where patients self-administer prescribed medication under regulated oversight.

Labour is on track to become the most hated UK government of all time. Their net approval rating sits at a disastrous -45%.

It seems to just get worse and worse. Here's a month by month breakdown of every Labour scandal so far 👇

Please LIKE and SHARE! 1⃣ The Betrayal of Pensioners

Just 3 weeks after getting into power on 29 July 2024, Keir Starmer's Labour announced they'd cut winter fuel payments for 10 MILLION pensioners in England & Wales that weren't on Pension Credit. This bombshell seemingly came out of nowhere, it was NOT in Labour's manifesto. But it was justified by Chancellor Rachel Reeves citing a £22 billion black hole that had to be filled.

On 11th September at PMQs, Rishi Sunak grilled Starmer on whether the death toll from this policy would be higher or lower than Labour's own grim report in 2017 that said 3,850 pensioners would die as a result of this policy. Starmer dodged the question – a theme that seems to be common with this government.

Is this how Labour cares for the vulnerable?