Masthead pic is edge of a sheet of paper under a microscope. Doing for the media what Guido has done for politicians. Scurrilous gossip to team
@order
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Piers Morgan just interviewed, Dave Carr, a worried ICU nurse who attacked the government’s handling of the pandemic. Here’s Dave’s Facebook page photos
Given the BBC went big on the Rayner / misogyny angle last week can we expect similar coverage for the latest developments? Or are they going to maintain an embarrassing silence?
#Growlergate
You can sense the palpable despair of most of the broadsheet punditry as it dawns on them that Liz Truss is in all likelihood going to be Prime Minister and will probably go on to smash Keir Starmer in the general election.
From
@Channel4News
Alex T asks Hancock, in so many words, "Are you a granny killing sociopath?" Can't think why C4 News can't get ministers on the show.
REMINDER: The Prime Minister pledged to be testing 100,000 PEOPLE a day, not doing 100,000 tests a day. This was the official No10 tweet confirming it >>>>>>
In the post-mortems the effect of the platforming of far-left types just because they were extremely active on Twitter on current affairs shows should be reflected on. It normalised people who would in the past have only been only selling Trotskyite papers outside train stations.
Hello
@Ofcom
, this is the Shadow foreign secretary David Lammy presenting breaking news on LBC, the exact thing that Ofcom ruled against Jacob Rees Mogg over. Can we expect
@LBC
to get a rap on the knuckles likewise?
The gleeful certainty of most of the media punditocracy that Liz will fail is something to behold. They would rather be proved correct than see the country thrive.
The BBC is still continuing to charge NHS migrant workers the television licence fee. Which will take a hard working minimum wage hospital cleaner more than 2 days earnings to pay - even if they only watch their home country's news channel. Heartless and immoral.
BBC Press Office have for three weeks refused to reveal how many staff they sent to cover US elections. Unconfirmed source says 200 staff were sent to the US during the election. Which would be more than any US domestic network had covering their own election.
Yet we’ve not heard any complaints about the dozens of times Momentum has used BBC clips in their social media campaigns? Will you similarly be asking for them to be removed?
We’re aware of Conservative Party Facebook adverts using edited BBC content. This is a completely unacceptable use of BBC content which distorts our output and which could damage perceptions of our impartiality. We are asking the Conservatives to remove these adverts.
For someone who denies briefing the media Rutnam is very media savvy;
* Resign Saturday morning guaranteeing big splash in the Sunday papers
* Brief BBC Pol ed first, line up to deliver live to camera resignation statement
* Distribute statement text to all media
Should be noted that Adam Boulton is a presenter on
@TalkTV
- a rival station that has comprehensively lost the ratings war with
@GBnews
. Is it any wonder he wants the channel shutdown?
The Guardian, which has managed for decades to avoid paying corporation tax, despite sheltering a billion pound asset sale in the Caymans, claimed £100,000 in furlough funds.
Joe Media has gone bust. Had very fancy offices for a firm heavily in debt even before the coronavirus hit. Produced lots of left-wing videos that were very popular on social media. Sadly it didn't produce so much revenue. Go woke, go broke..
@adamboultonSKY
People are getting irritated with broadcasters using loaded language e.g. "hardliners". How is Jacob more of a hardliner than Chuka? Chuka is so hardline he left his party over Brexit and wants to reverse the referendum vote.
If, as
@tom_watson
claims, Tommy Robinson has advocated violence he should be arrested, again. If he has incited racial hatred he can be charged under the law. If he has just been obnoxious and disagreeable he is exercising his civil and political rights.
I have written to Google CEO
@SundarPinchai
calling on him, as a matter of urgency, to remove the YouTube page of Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, aka Tommy Robinson.
Basically every time we look into a gobby talking head saying how terrible things are it turns out 99% of the time to be a left-wing activist rather than an actual impartial expert.
Now it has been discovered that the Melton Mowbray pork pie export marketing executive Henry Bowles has confirmed that his firm has sent shipments to "Iceland, Thailand, Singapore and the Caribbean" presumably
#radio4today
will broadcast a mea culpa segment tomorrow?
Government advice in December was not to travel unless it was essential. Piers was publicly calling for Christmas to be cancelled and tougher restrictions. He flew to Antigua first class on Virgin before Christmas Day.
Antigua, like all the Caribbean islands, has handled the pandemic very well thanks to strict border control and a law-observant population. Just 169 cases in total & 5 deaths.
What’s astonishing is the sheer, crass stupidity and avarice. You go on a zoom ask for 10k a day(not sure about whether in $ or £), and don’t even bother to check whether company is for real or not.
#stitcheduplikekippers
Thanks for the confirmation that, against the government's advice to only travel if it was essential, you flew to Antigua for Christmas. Why when people missed funerals of loved ones did you deem your beach holiday essential travel?
(Sorry you had to slum it on the BA flight.)
Hi Guido,
Happy New Year.
1) The Govt said travel abroad from Tier 3 was allowed if people went straight to the airport.
2) I didn't call for Christmas to be cancelled.
3) I haven't flown on Virgin for a year.
4) I last flew First Class in February.
Otherwise, spot on!
GB News has been the fastest-growing UK newsbrand in the top 50 every month since April when Ipsos began tracking its new .com URL.
LBC's website saw the second biggest growth in August
When the "black face" pictures emerged of Justin Trudeau
@PiersMorgan
wrote that it was "barefaced hypocrisy that should render his position untenable". Here's a picture of Piers wearing a Nazi SS uniform:
Extraordinarily high
@GMB
ratings again yesterday, peaking at nearly 2 million viewers.
Thank you for watching, we will continue to inform you about this unfurling crisis.
All
@carolecadwalla
has to do is prove the Russian government money connection to
@Arron_banks
that she has repeatedly alleged and she wins. Banks isn’t threatening journalism. He’s saying put up or shut up. If it is true what’s her problem? She must have evidence right?
The supposed Coutts source briefing the BBC needs to explain why
@Nigel_Farage
has banked with them for years, now makes a lot more money, yet suddenly fails their customer wealth thresholds. Doesn't add up.
The thing that the Guardian accuses the Blairs of benefiting from - avoiding stamp duty on a transfer of property - is exactly what the Guardian did with its Caymans holding company. Even the excuse, that another party in the deal insisted, is the same.
Fascinating argument and analysis premised on the sleazy Tory MP John Stonehouse being a prototype for his party's contemporary sleazy MPs. Surprise plot twist for Catherine Bennett- he was a Labour MP. Doh!
Today will be one of those days where the British press takes EU briefings at face value without question and applies extreme, outright hostile scepticism to British position.