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Britain’s Story: The Next Chapter - the BBC Royal Charter Review, Green Paper and public consultation The government is consulting the public to aid decision-making on the terms for the BBC Charter’s renewal and any changes needed to help the BBC to continue to serve the public.

Fill it in to help fend off the Murdochs/Bezos etc, then we can all go back to watching telly.

www.gov.uk/government/c...

and for help, britishbroadcastingchallenge.com

06.03.2026 15:11 👍 13 🔁 7 💬 1 📌 0

A bit like your mobile library the bbc won’t always be there if you don’t pay your share. But hey Netflix.

06.03.2026 13:46 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

America might have stopped being the world's policeman, but it's now the world's drunk – staggering around wildly at closing time, taking a swing at whoever comes near.

05.03.2026 22:18 👍 587 🔁 119 💬 18 📌 6

Getting ready to jump over the moon!

05.03.2026 20:16 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

This does not surprise me. Suspect corruption is still rife. Remember those Dyson ventilators?

04.03.2026 18:09 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

I specifically request they refuse to bring her back.

04.03.2026 18:06 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Paywall is off this one until 5pm today...

04.03.2026 13:29 👍 26 🔁 8 💬 3 📌 0

I’m quite shocked that the previous government ran down the armed forces over the 14!! years they were in power. Where did the money go? It certainly didn’t go to people who needed it.

04.03.2026 18:02 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Once again we are watching Face the Music on bbc4 -the one with all the dead ☠️ people

02.03.2026 21:40 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Done 6 months gardening in 2 hours of sunshine today. Basically shoving sprouting bulbs into pots. That’ll do.

02.03.2026 20:04 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I know that was a rhetorical question. Ditto daffodils.

02.03.2026 20:01 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

He can press my shirts with that irony

27.02.2026 21:44 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Me in December 1995 in my parents’ living room in Nottinghamshire with my nan, wearing some cheap slippers and a t-shirt advertising Kim Deal’s lo-fi post-Breeders band The Amps. Yes, my legs are this long, but they are balanced out by the fact that my torso measures only 1.7 inches from top to bottom.

Me in December 1995 in my parents’ living room in Nottinghamshire with my nan, wearing some cheap slippers and a t-shirt advertising Kim Deal’s lo-fi post-Breeders band The Amps. Yes, my legs are this long, but they are balanced out by the fact that my torso measures only 1.7 inches from top to bottom.

I worked fucking hard on the writing of this piece & just as hard on the editing but I feel it was worth it. It’s about my life in 1995, my recent autoimmune diagnosis, transport, time, a great Norwegian film and many other things. I hope 2 or 3 of you might read it: www.tom-cox.com/an-in-depth-...

27.02.2026 10:56 👍 95 🔁 22 💬 3 📌 3

Imagine devoting your entire career to selling the idea that the British public hates wokery and is clamouring for radical right wing populism, only to then be defeated in an actual election by the most left wing possible coalition of politicians and activists in the country.

It's got to hurt

27.02.2026 13:25 👍 2419 🔁 391 💬 55 📌 17

I’m quite happy that voters jumped to the left ( let’s do the time warp again 🎶

27.02.2026 16:03 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Dirty Dancing!

26.02.2026 15:57 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Presumably with a water melon

26.02.2026 15:40 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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Labour has forgotten who its voters are And that's the real story of student loans

The student loans system is scandalous. Labour have made it worse and allowed the Tories (who built it) an opening because it's the same old story: Lab forgets who its voters are. It doesn't like the coalition it has and hankers for another.

New substack from me.
open.substack.com/pub/goodalla...

26.02.2026 15:37 👍 262 🔁 61 💬 30 📌 9

Mine too and I shared it with my sister!

24.02.2026 20:37 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Days left to act: Ban cruel cages for hens Right now we have a unique opportunity to stop this industrial-scale torture: The UK government has proposed ending the use of cages for hens, and they have launched an official consultation to ask th...

Can you do me a quick favour today? ✍️

The government is finally asking if they should ban cages for hens in the UK. 🐔🐔 Lobbyists are trying to block it, so we need huge numbers to show them that the public wants this ban NOW: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/en...

20.02.2026 14:35 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

So, for reasons best known to its useless AI mods, Facebook has deleted the Obverse Books page, and removed all 1000+ followers. We've created a new page, so if you're on FB and want to keep up with Obverse news there, rather than here, this is the new link:

www.facebook.com/profile.php?...

19.02.2026 20:30 👍 26 🔁 29 💬 1 📌 3

Have discovered ( finally) Reacher and he looks nothing like Tom Cruise and more Hulk Smash!

17.02.2026 21:32 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Me too!

15.02.2026 21:19 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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Global Reach, National Impact: The soft power impact of the BBC World Service to the UK This report is the first attempt to assess an individual UK institution for its contribution to national soft power - and the clearest picture yet of why the BBC World Service matters more than ever.

Global Reach, National Impact: The soft power impact of the BBC World Service to the UK | UCL Bartlett Faculty of the Built Environment share.google/IERJq0qeBu8j...

15.02.2026 20:35 👍 22 🔁 9 💬 0 📌 1

It is absolute and utter neglect to let this come this close to the wire just as the US has let most of its overseas broadcasting shutter.

15.02.2026 20:32 👍 809 🔁 259 💬 26 📌 12
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I came across a thread full of Brits supporting Donald Trump in his lawsuit against the BBC. Essentially, they want to see it destroyed because they don't like its coverage of domestic politics. So, I asked Deepseek for a list of every service that the BBC provides. This is why I pay my licence fee.

15.02.2026 21:10 👍 16 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 1

"Fine, so far so hoopy."

14.02.2026 16:53 👍 6 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
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Stop Palantir taking over our public services! Our public services aren’t for a secretive profit-hungry US tech firm. Sign the petition to tell the Government to scrap all contracts with secretive US tech firm Palantir.

This morning I posted our petition to get Palantir out of our NHS and our public services.

Over 40,000 people have now signed it - thank you.

Please do keep sharing!

you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/st...

13.02.2026 20:35 👍 1087 🔁 547 💬 30 📌 27
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Guardian view on Sir Jim Ratcliffe: Britain does not need political lectures from a billionaire tax exile | Editorial Editorial: Comments on the ‘colonisation of the UK’ by the co-owner of Manchester United were erroneous, crass and a gif

In 2020, Jim Ratcliffe moved his fortune to Monaco, saving himself an estimated £4 billion in tax.

In the same year, immigrants in the UK contributed around £20 billion in tax.

That says it all.

13.02.2026 17:16 👍 607 🔁 266 💬 15 📌 9

You know what helps make the streets safer? Paying your taxes

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