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A knight's tale: 12 February 2026; Sir Jim Ratcliffe, described as the founder of chemical giant Ineos—although AFAIK he simply bought other companies' production facilities rather than building it from the ground-up—has upset UK Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer by referring to the country having been colonised by immigrants. Starmer responded that his comments were offensive and wrong, and asked him to apologise.
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Toxic BBC: 1 December 2025; The BBC's Max Hudson, Oana Marocico, and Sarah Buckley together present evidence suggesting that Georgian authorities used chemical weapons against anti-government protesters. They deduced the active ingredient to be camite, a lachrymatory agent developed as a weapon during World War One and historically used in riot-control.
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Towers of Trots: 24 November 2025; In the wake of more revelations of (socio)political bias at the BBC, focus appears to be directed towards right-wing political appointees on the corporation's board. At least from the perspectives of the UK's culture secretary and the BBC's culture coterie anyway.
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Yet more lying liars: 13 November 2025; First it was Panorama, now it's Newsnight.
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Two sides of shit: 12 November 2025; I'm sure the communards at the PRPP are lapping this up: more revelations from the Epstein files implicate Orange Don in Jeff's Love Island shenanigans.
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Lying liars who keep on lying: 10 November 2025; As I've noted before, while the BBC may lay claim to being the world's most trusted international news broadcaster—gullible dumbarses will believe anything if it's delivered authoritatively enough—it's not the world's most trustworthy international news broadcaster. And, not for the first time, the truth in that has been demonstrated. This time delivered in spades.
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Another bloody nose for Mickey: 8 August 2025; A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away…
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Foreseen update: 23 July 2025; A case of AI-generated revenge porn in India gives the BBC's Geeta Pandey an opportunity to tantalise us with a promise of transparency in reporting:
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Chinese truths: 20 July 2025; Someone at Beeb Towers' editors' desk set a lowly beat political reporter onto a politics-adjacent story of cheap Chinese solar panels being sold into Britain's institutional infrastructure. I recognise that our Josh is only a reporter and not a correspondent, but he shows a touching naiveté that will presumably be knocked out of him as he ascends the urinalism ladder.
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Doctor What: 4 June 2025; As Ncuti Gatwa's stint as the fifteenth Doctor draws to a close, after only two seasons and the lowest viewership since Doctor Who was resurrected in 2005, the BBC's damage denial kicks in. As in this case, in which Catriona Aitken offers her nothing-wrong-here-folks appraisal of the show's benefit to the rainbow mafia.
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Treacherous tat: 11 April 2025; BBC Verify is on the case. The case in this case being that of a Briton in fear of arrest and expulsion by US immigration officials, after a distinctive tattoo that he bears on his arm was included among examples worn by members of the Venezuelan criminal gang, Tren de Aragua (TdA). US authorities have declared the gang a terrorist organisation, which is particularly worrisome for Pete Belton from Ilkeston, Derbyshire, as he plans to visit Miami with his wife and daughter in August.
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Lifting the veil: 19 March 2025; As the damage-limiting day-before-release review embargo is lifted, reviews of Disney's Snow White are trickling in. And the overall consensus—currently a 47% rotten rating on Rotten Tomatoes—has to make sobering reading for the company's execs. At least those of them who like money.
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Would you like a lollipop?: 14 March 2025; Roblox is an online gaming platform where children go to play and adults of a certain persuasion go to hang out, chat, and make new friends. But when parents complained that Roblox wasn't doing enough parenting for them, the company's CEO responded that if they're so concerned they should parent their children themselves. Which doesn't sound too unreasonable, it really doesn't.
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A question of cancer: 29 December 2024; A number of deaths from arsenic poisoning in Brazil gives the BBC's Sofia Ferreira Santos opportunity to flex her knowledge of European chemicals' regulations. Oh yes.
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Apple Intelligence vs the world's most trusted unintelligence: 14 December 2024; Under the headline BBC complains to Apple over misleading shooting headline, BBC technology reporter Graham Fraser explains how Apple's AI news summary bot gave the impression that BBC News had incorrectly reported an assassin's attempt at replicating a recent success with himself as the target.
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You can't dance: 9 December 2024; An Australian comedienne has created a parody musical of an iconic Australian story: Rachael Raygun Gunn's journey to epic humiliation at the Paris Olympics. Unfortunately, however, Gunn and her representatives threatened legal action to stop the production, to ensure that her brand remained strong and respected.
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Making porn: 1 August 2024; The man who made solemn announcements on behalf of the BBC, but was later found to have been a bit of a pervert on the side, is now unmasked as a lot of a pervert. I do believe, however, that the charge of making k¡ddypr0n images is misleading. And, for once, this isn't the fault of the BBC's sloppy editorial standards.
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The sorry ©rapper: 20 May 2024; Rapper Sean Diddy Combs has apologised, after he was caught on CCTV physically attacking an ex-girlfriend in 2016.
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Swiss miss: 9 April 2024; Under the headline European court rules human rights violated by climate inaction, Georgina Rannard reports that the European Court of Human Rights has ruled that the Swiss government violated the human rights of a group of elderly Swiss women. It did so by failing to act quickly enough to address climate change. This is, apparently, the first time the ECHR has ruled on global warming.
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The air that I breathe: 23 January 2024; Reporting on a novel method of execution, which has been authorised for use by an Alabaman correctional facility in order to dispatch a death row inmate, the BBC's Tom Bateman affords me the opportunity to be a smart-arse, and earn petty points exposing unchecked misinformation at the corporation.
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BBC website funding…?: 31 August 2023; While I'm visiting the UK, bbc.com defaults to including this little titbit, advising that the site is not funded by the licence fee. Clicking the webpage's banner takes me to bbc.co.uk and the notice disappears. But it's never shown when I visit bbc.com from outside the UK.
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Unimaginative reimagination: 15 August 2023; As Disney's reimagining of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, now just Snow White, comes under criticism for tokenised race-swapping of the titular heroine; re-characterisation of the dwarves; rewriting the story for modern audiences; and Rachel Zegler running her mouth in interviews, the BBC's very own entertainment and arts reporter, Emma Saunders asks: Has the fairy tale already gone sour?
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Breaking story…but will it be updated? (thinking): 9 August 2023; Breaking news on migrants' deaths in the Mediterranean is heralded on the BBC's home page, and flagged accordingly on the article page. Interestingly enough though, the article doesn't conclude with a footnote that it's a developing news story, and will be updated.
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Jimmy who?: 10 July 2023; Allegations that an unnamed male BBC presenter paid a young adult £35,000 for explicit photos over a three-year period are remarkable for four things.
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Talking heads: 14 June 2023; The UK's communications industry watchdog, Ofcom, is to canvas public opinion on politicians hosting current affairs programmes.
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Another hole for pigeons: 22 May 2023; We live in an ever-changing and challenging world, one in which deep fakes; manipulated photos and video; and AI-weaponised disinformation become indistinguishable from reality. Nefarious entities abuse information technologies, wilfully manipulating the news and social media in furtherance of their own agendas.
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Bury the lead: 19 May 2023; Breaking news often requires updating. That's a given. Broken news may also be updated; stealthily in the case of the world's most trusted international news broadcaster™. That's also a given.
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Government-funded anti-government media: 10 April 2023; A couple of days ago, Twitter designated NPR as state-affiliated media, although it has since backtracked slightly, amending its label to government funded media. At the time, I wondered how long it would take for the BBC to be assigned a new label.
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PG tips: 21 March 2023; I hadn't read of the deaths of Indonesian children after taking tainted cough syrup before now, but the cause of death being acute kidney injury told me that this was the same issue as reported earlier in The Gambia and Uzbekistan. I wouldn't have noted it here, though, if my pedantry hackles hadn't been raised:
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Springtime for Hateler: 6 March 2023; Marianna Spring is the BBC's disinformation and social media correspondent. Her role is to seek out problems on teh soshull meejah and whinge about them. This time, it's about hurt fee-fees on Twitter, particularly hers. First World problems, huh? (snowflake)
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Poohan: 1 March 2023; Whether the WuFlu originated from wildlife at a market or a laboratory is probably a moot point to most people. We know it originated somewhere in Wuhan, there's a clue in the name, and that's all that really matters.
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A sting in the tale: 27 January 2023; Five black police officers are under investigation for the death of a black motorist in Memphis, TN. Race agitator and grifter, Rev. Al Sharpton, claimed: I do not believe these five black police officers would have done this had he been a young white man.
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Pope porn: 26 October 2022; Pope Francis has recognised the almost inevitable: nuns and priests are human. And those who aren't taking out their frustrations on choir boys and orphans, are taking it out on themselves. While viewing pornography online, that is.
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More breaking news: 6 October 2022; Another breaking story from BBC News, which follows the mass killing of children and adults by an ex-police officer in a Thai daycare centre. There is no indication that this page will be updated, as opposed to a new one being created and linked. We shall see.
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Breaking news: a little more transparency?: 12 August 2022; Another breaking news story on the BBC, this time concerning an attack on the author Sir Salman Rushdie, in New York. This time, however, the footnote advises not only that this is a breaking story to be updated, but also that refreshing the page will bring the most recent version. With neither clarification as to what's been updated or corrected, nor any edit timestamp as to when it occurred. Naturally. (rolleyes)
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Not so manly: 26 July 2022; Manly Warringah Sea Eagles, an Australian National Rugby League team, is appealing to the twinks with a pride competition jersey. In doing so, they've lost seven of their players, who were not consulted on the change, and who're boycotting it on otherwise unspecified religious and cultural grounds.
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The world's most trusted social media: 21 July 2022; In a discovery that should surprise absolutely nobody, the UK's teenagers rely on Instagram, TikTok, and YouTube for news, rather than traditional media outlets. This startling revelation comes in a report from the UK's communications regulator, Ofcom.
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Developing story: to be stealth updated: 8 July 2022; I have previously noted that the world's most trusted international news broadcaster™ is not adverse to stealth editing its articles after they've been published online. An ethical news outlet would make changes clear to the reader, or find another way to update its articles in light of new information. At the very least they would include a last updated timestamp. But the BBC eschews that transparency nonsense.
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Cotton candy correspondents: 14 June 2022; It kinda irritates me when news is reported with holes in it, to avoid causing offence to some cosseted group or other.
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Don't Say Ghey: 2 April 2022; There's a good deal of outrage on social media that Florida's governor, Ron DeSantis, has moved to prohibit kindergarteners from being indoctrinated by rainbow mafia propaganda. Under the headline Florida lawmakers pass 'Don't Say Gay' bill, which is at best naïve and at worst inflammatory, the the world's most trusted international news broadcaster™ gave a partisan view on Florida's House Bill 1557, Parental Rights in Education:
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Hello hardly anyone: 4 October 2021; F*c*book and its subsidiaries, WhatsApp and Instagram, have been hit by a severe, global outage. In response, Twitter tweeted, in fun:
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