.@BBCSounds Both eps of my dramatisation #AManySplendouredThing now online: Ep 1 bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001str…, Ep 2 bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001t3b…. #HanSuyin's love story set amid revolution in #1940s #China & dying days of #colonialism in #HongKong with echoes today. #mixedheritage #ESEA

“Dear migrants, before I say any other word to you, I want to bow before your dignity. “You are not numbers or case files. “You are people — with a family and a home left behind, with dreams that no one has the right to scorn.” — Pope Leo XIV

Barely a month ago this man was imprisoned for the violent rape of a Sikh woman believing that she was a Muslim. No Douglas Murray articles in the Spectator, no Baroness Fox speech in the Lords. No riots. Two tier? Too right bbc.com/news/articles/cpqxrz…

BBC PAID A WOMAN HALF A MAN SALARY FOR THE SAME JOB AND THOUGHT NO ONE WOULD NOTICE Carrie Gracie spoke fluent Mandarin. Ran the @BBC Beijing bureau. Thirty years of service. One of four international editors at Britain's most prestigious broadcaster. Then the BBC was legally forced to publish salary data in 2017. Gracie looked at the list. Her male counterpart covering North America was on up to £249,000. She was below £150,000. Not even on the published list. Neither was Europe editor Katya Adler. The two women. Funny that. She had explicitly made equal pay a condition of taking the China role. The BBC said yes. Then paid her nearly half anyway and apparently hoped she'd never check. She checked. She asked for equal pay. The BBC, with the confidence of an institution that had been getting away with this for decades, offered her a raise that still left her short. She turned it down. Resigned from the post. Published an open letter to the licence fee payers explaining exactly what their public broadcaster was doing with their money. The BBC's response was to put her through nearly a year of their own internal grievance process. Run by the same institution she was complaining about. Investigating itself. Shockingly, it went nowhere. It took three separate meetings with the Director-General and the concrete threat of an employment tribunal before the BBC caved, issued a public apology, and paid her £361,000 in backdated wages. She gave every single penny to the Fawcett Society (@fawcettsociety). A publicly funded broadcaster. Breaking equality law. Caught red-handed. Dragging a 30-year employee through a year of institutional theatre. Paying up only when a judge became a realistic possibility.

At least 40% of #UniversalCredit claimants are in employment. They claim because their employers do not pay them enough. The overwhelming majority are working class women in low paid jobs, many work in care. The solution is a proper living wage not attacking the working poor.

Henry Nowak's father outside court yesterday: "We do not want Henry's murder to be used to create further hatred, division or tension."

A fully qualified FY1 doctor earns £19.27/hr after a 5-6 year medical degree and £100,000 of student debt. Doctors have faced some of the worst real-terms pay cuts in the public sector, and still earn a fifth less than in 2008. Restoring pay to £22.67/hr over time is overdue.

Lady in blue, "We're talking about lots of things to do with the cost of living but we're just papering over the cracks" "We have to acknowledge that we need back into the European Union" "Lots of our issues, the economic problems we're facing are as a result of Brexit"

.@BBCNews Detest the way you play Reform’s tune by headlining migration every single day. There is nothing wrong with migration. This country was built on it (in both directions, let’s not forget). Shame on you! #bbcnews #migration #bigotry #racism

Gent with a collar, "Brexit has been a disaster since the vote and the impact of it has been catastrophic" "It led to the downfall of the Conservatives it completely tore them apart" "Michael Gove says the Conservatives are more united than ever, that's because anyone who disagrees just goes to Reform UK which is full of failed Tories" *Danny Kruger, a failed Tory now in Reform UK shrugs* Gent with a collar, "And I don't know how anyone can vote for Reform given how much of a disaster Brexit has been, and Farage is the architect of Brexit" "And if Farage was in government, it would be a disaster as well" *Massive applause*

So bored of news outlets trying to write the news rather than report it.

I’ve never before been as worried about the BBC’s news reporting. The last government’s efforts to capture it are bearing fruit. It’s intent on discrediting any Labour government, be it Starmer’s or a successor’s. The refusal to investigate Farage’s £5m is otherwise inexplicable.

What is happening in the UK atm is deeply worrying. A Labour party running around like headless chicken with no real successor available in the party who could genuinely change gear. Plus more global turmoil ahead. Nothing but chaos to be gained from this.

The ministers urging Starmer to go are feeding the hysteria. The next leader will be subject to instant leadership speculation and the next, and the next, whether Labour, Reform or Tory. Britain is becoming ungovernable. And the media fixation on this tittle tattle is not helping

RT @peterjukes: At first it was false balance, the BBC Politics department bending backwards to accommodate Brexit. But now its daily parti…

What we crave is an old-school government so boring no-one knows their names. Competent, professional. But we're led by a story-hungry media desperate for new drama for sponsored podcasts. If they had their way we'd have a new PM every month, each worse than the last.

RT @IndiaWilloughby: If we had a proper media, Reform would be finished. The BBC has played a massive role in legitimising a re-hashed Nati…

I am sick and tired of hearing about that 'special relationship'. It never existed, really. And it should be put to bed latest now. It's humiliating for the UK. Always has been. As is Charles visit to Washington.

BBC News reporting the doctors strike as a matter of just pay When its about so much more, including training places which gives the country better qualified doctors Not sure which is worse, this culture war from BBC News on doctors pay Or Wes Streeting's culture war against the doctors Imagine being a health secretary and trying to convince the public to dislike the people who help fix you when ill What a disaster Streeting is

US Military: if POTUS orders you to commit war crimes, you don’t have to obey. Let’s not take as read that whatever Trump threatens *has to* be followed through by others. There’s a choice. You don’t have to be complicit in atrocities. That goes for the US administration too.

So, so sick of @BBCNews & other media reporting every utterance of Trump as if it’s the legitimate directive of a serious statesman, instead of the deranged ravings of an evil madman. Where’s the objectivity, the journalistic rigour? Just stop it!