The Global Story on Trump and fuel @bbcworldservice ok but blighted by distracting sound design and @BenChu_’s parochial idea that gasoline in Europe is “petrol”. Executive producer Martine Powers and team need to go back to school, study geography and production. @BBCR4Feedback
Turn on @BBCRadio3 for some illumination on western classical music and get the extraordinary banality of @ColinCurrieGrp performing the static, amateur bore @SteveReich. @BBCR4Feedback
Can’t believe (well, I can because he’s got to get callers and sell ads) that @BenKentish on @LBC is asking are @reformparty_uk an extremist, racist party when everyone knows xenophobia is Reform’s USP. Super cheap fellow.
All day long, people have lazily been misrepresenting @SuellaBraverman’s statement that she isn’t “ethnically English”, taking it as not “English”. Big difference. Predictably @vicderbyshire on @BBCNewsnight says “English”. Very poor journalism.
Why is @andyburnham, according to his mates at @LBC, leading tributes to Esther Rantzen, member of the British media elite? Isn’t he supposed to be a socialist? Seems like a populist.
Self-declared English patriot @BenKentish on @LBC thinks UK shouldn’t rejoin EU because it would be embarrassing to concede #Brexit voters were wrong. That’s the problem with patriots, narrow-minded people who can only define themselves by tribal affiliation.
Incredibly fawning interview with @andyburnham by @ShelaghFogarty on @LBC. No rigour, lots of chumminess, easiest of rides. Need to get @afneil or similar on the case.
The @BBC is ruined. How much does a BBC weather presenter get paid not to know that “invigorate” is a transitive verb and say “The front will invigorate and bring more rain”? He didn’t even attempt to make it reflexive. @bbcweather is a journalistic disaster. @BBCR4Feedback
I've just donated to @RejoinP to help the party's candidate in the 8 October by-election in Holborn & St Pancras. #RejoinEU #Brexit. Do the same thing: therejoineuparty.com/donate/
On @BBCNewsnight @vicderbyshire tries to whip up a drama with Darren Jones over ID card funding (he easily resists and sets her straight). Out of her depth as usual.
Can safely say that @BarclaysUK is the worst banking experience I have had. Ridiculously overdone security, broken website and useless CS.
John Stitch retweeted
We live in an elective dictatorship with only the trappings of democracy, slaves to an electoral system politicians are reluctant to change and bombarded by streams of mind numbing mental chewing gum. Hey ho!
I just signed a petition: Kill the Cookie Banner. Sign here: actionnetwork.org/petitions/…
The voices of under 25s in the UK have been silenced since #Brexit in 2016, but they want to be heard. Donate to Rejoin March 27, where young people will speak out, calling for the UK to rejoin the EU. #RejoinEU gofund.me/e5260d55e @RejoinP @euromove @StayEuropean
Fight Farage and #Brexit. Help @RejoinP candidate John Stevens in Clacton. johnstevensforclacton.com/le…
Seasoned wordsmith @PollyBillington tells @BenKentish @LBC that @andyburnham is playing to the strengths of his team. He gave @wesstreeting defence, in which he has no experience, instead of health, where he’s been for two years. Why are politicians so duplicitous?
Tell @andyburnham to exit the ridiculous #Brexit and join the grown-ups. Sign the @euromove petition: europeanmovement.co.uk/5_ask…
.@ShabanaMahmood’s eulogy to Ann Widdecombe in Parliament was a complete whitewash. Isn’t this place supposed to be about truth? Yet not a word of criticism.
Paddy O’Connell being snide about EU’s “marvellous” EES system on @BBCRadio4 Broadcasting House - an experience brought about for his moaning listeners by #Brexit, of which I reckon he’s a closet supporter. Look at the parochialism of his prog…
So @andyburnham is to scrap ID cards in favour of making everyday life better. Sounds like a Luddite. My Spanish friend loves the way his ID card makes everyday life easier.