Such a narrow focus too - basically questions on governance, news impartiality and the licence fee - and strangely AI (yet again the government wanting to syphon BBC funds for something else). Could at least have paid lip service to finding out views on sport, childrens content and radio content.
This would fail any secondary school statistics exam for how badly it's put together. Such obvious bias and misleading questions. For the concessions on licence fee you have to agree to both reduced BBC services and increases costs for others - I only agree to the latter.
A missed opportunity not to rename the bulletin the Abu Dhabi Two!
God, it was pretty much written by Reform and the Tories. Such a biased leading survey which is basically framed as the BBC need to be more accountable and more "impartial" - i.e. do what Farage and his cronies want. You wouldn't think it was a Labour led consultation.
Please dear followers do fill this in. Most important points IMO: BBC is ambitious+capable but can do nothing without proper funding; World Service to be funded by govt; BBC needs a permanent Charter; no more party political appointees to its board; political independence.
Will they release the Farage files as well?
Turns out teatime is the best time to eat tea.
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So good to see all these "anti-elitist" sections of the press standing up for the poor underfunded students of two completely normal universities
The Boat Race.
Right wing media: DEFUND THE BBC.
Right wing media: why can’t the BBC now afford to show the thing I like?
Think we can remove the question of whether Spurs could win the Champions League then play in it whilst in the Championship. #ATHvTOT
🟦 CLEAN FEED | Opinion | Pam Masters: a key figure in modern British television presentation.
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Shocking that we wouldn't let her come... and claim asylum too. The very smallest gesture against the oppression of women and girls in Afghanistan.
Not only thick but irresponsible. Everything he suggests is literally the opposite of what we should be doing.
The true enemy of the people.
No surprise it's the right wing rags who constantly call to "defund the BBC" are attacking them today for losing the rights to the Boat Race.
Trump says US Navy sank Iran's warship off the coast of Sri Lanka because "it's more fun" to sink ships than capture them.
BBC’s Bernd Debusmann: ‘“No other President can do some of the shit I'm doing," says Trump.’
He said it.
‘…then bounces back up to $90 - still below the Friday close, and down from $119.50 peak.’ 2.
[What’s the betting someone has just made a great deal of money on all this?]
CBS reporter: In a phone interview, President Trump told me the war could be over soon: “I think the war is very complete, pretty much. They have no navy, no communications, they’ve got no Air Force.” He added that the U.S. is “very far” ahead of his initial 4-5 week estimated time frame.
Oil price tanking.
Either Trump is about to end the Iran War or he's manipulating the market to enrich his cronies.
67% of Britons describe themselves as anti-Trump, with Reform UK voters the only group more likely to be pro-Trump than anti
By 2024 vote
Lib Dem: 89% anti-Trump / 2% pro-Trump
Labour: 85% / 3%
Green: 82% / 4%
Conservative: 61% / 19%
Reform UK: 24% / 46%
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A reminder that Nigel Farage, Kemi Badenoch and the entire Conservative-supporting press have spent the past week lambasting Keir Starmer for not joining the Iran war.
Here's what has happened since then to public opinion
You Gov: Opposition to the United States' military action against Iran has risen by 10pts among Britons over the last week
Support: 25% (-3 from 2 March)
Oppose: 59% (+10)
Of course war in the middle East pushes up not just gulf oil prices but US crude oil too, making US oil barons billions.
Finding myself using the BBC News app less and less to follow the big stories. The main headline almost always going to a live blog rather than the story behind the headline just makes it less user friendly so I'm increasingly using other news sites where I get taken straight to the story.
So the season beginning so early in March isn't a new thing then.
No shame in calling it a day after 15 years especially with a prequel on the way.
Hitting desalination plants is so bad. Not just evil but strategically incomprehensible. Without desalination 75% of the entire population of the Middle East will be refugees. Israel and Kuwait depend on desalination for 90% of their water and other Middle East states aren’t far behind.
"Israel’s military said it would continue to pursue any successor to Khamenei"
They don't care about regime change - they just want to obliterate it like they did Gaza. They've wanted to for decades but only now have a US President dumb enough to join them.
Gorka wasn't there most of last year and can't disagree with Luba. Michelle is harsh though and baffling Neil still survives.
For those who have forgotten the past 40 years:
Tax cuts for the rich
...don’t trickle down
Boosting military spending
...doesn’t bring peace
Slashing regulations
...doesn’t create jobs
Folks, we’ve seen this all before.
