Shadow Home Secretary. All questions are honest unless I’m being sarcastic. Woke and proud. I reserve the right to make typos. Also at @craigtribe@mas.to
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Just a reminder that you are not going crazy.
The BBC is absurdly biased against Palestinians.
The BBC Israel Would Say Files. The full results are in for both broadcast and articles.
Analysis of 267 broadcast interviews between October 2023 and October 2026:
- BBC presenters put Israel's case, in Israel's name, to guests criticising Israel's conduct in Gaza in 252 separate interviews.
- They put the Palestinian case, in its name, to guests defending Israel's conduct in 15.
- To better portray this disparity, our compilation of the BBC defending Israel in their own words now runs at 48 mins 12 secs. Our compilation of the BBC defending Palestinians in their own words runs at 2 mins 38 secs.
- The plainest form, “Israel would say”, was put to critics in 75 interviews. “Palestinians [or any Palestinian group] would say” was put to defenders in 4.
- 10 of the 15 Palestinian cases came in the first six weeks after 7 October 2023, and 5 in the three years after. Presenters were still putting Israel's case to critics in 2026.
- The above point suggests an editorial shift to stop conveying what Palestinians are saying, but to continue conveying what "Israel would say".
Analysis of 1,618 written articles, from October 2023 to October 2026:
- When an article reported criticism of Israel's conduct in Gaza, the BBC added Israel's position 49% of the time (1,771 of 3,648 claims).
- When an article reported Israel's claims, the BBC added a Palestinian or UN position 38% of the time (914 of 2,431). A Palestinian position alone: 25%.
- Put the two official sides side by side. When the authorities in Gaza made a claim against Israel, the BBC added Israel's position 58% of the time (334 of 575). When Israel's government or army made a claim, the BBC added a Palestinian or UN position 39% of the time (855 of 2,165).
- Article by article: 71% of the articles reporting criticism of Israel gave Israel's position at least once. 53% of the articles reporting Israel's claims gave a Palestinian or UN position.
- In other words, in almost half of the articles where Israel makes a claim, it goes completely uncontested.
The full report, including every single broadcast and article in the corpus, can be found here, completely free of charge: newscord.org/editorials/bbc-…
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OH!
🔎 NEW INVESTIGATION
More than 280 AI contracts agreed under Labour – adding up to more than £500m – have been signed without any competitive process: goodlaw.social/ng1s
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Netanyahu is saying the world will force Israel out of the territory they have stolen in Gaza, the West Bank, Lebanon and Syria.
RT if they should.
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I will vote YES to impeach Secretary Pete Hegseth. His rap sheet includes the illegal Iran war, illegal strikes in Yemen (where he mishandled classified information via Signal), and over 200 murders in boat strikes in the Caribbean and Pacific. He’s dangerous and needs to go.
BREAKING: Republican Rep. Thomas Massie files articles of impeachment against Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, with a House vote expected as soon as this week. nbcnews.com/politics/trump-a…
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IMPEACHMENT, Article III
The law requires our military to withdraw from hostilities within 60 days if Congress does not authorize the activity.
Operation Epic Fury has been underway for 256 days. Congress has not authorized it.
Hegseth is breaking the law.
Not even debatable.
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The government's hard pitch into Palantir and data centres should be a far bigger story than it is.
Both are treacherous and malign forces.
This news alongside the new contract between the NHS and Palantir tells us an awful lot about why they employed Tom Watson, I'd suggest.
🚨 NEW: Palantir has signed its largest ever police contract worth £10m with Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire and Herfordshire Police
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Cressida Dick working for Palantir raises the same concerns I’ve expressed about Tom Watson.
What does a company gain when it recruits a former Labour deputy leader or a former Metropolitan Police commissioner? Their experience, yes. But also their contacts, influence and the authority associated with the offices they held.
This ‘revolving door’ corrodes confidence in politics, public service generally and in institutions such as the police.
Read more here: thebureauinvestigates.com/st…
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Just in: the BBC has replied to complaints about Newsnight's interview with Bernie Sanders.
Sanders called for "no more military aid for the extremist government in Israel". Victoria Derbyshire answered on Israel's behalf:
- "Okay. The Israeli government would deny that they are extremist."
The BBC's whole defence is one sentence:
"We reject the suggestion that highlighting the fact that the Israeli government would dispute Mr Sanders' description was inappropriate."
Nobody made that suggestion.
Complainants asked why Newsnight supplied Israel's denial and left out what Israel's own ministers have said:
Yoav Gallant announcing a complete siege of Gaza and saying "We are fighting human animals", and Bezalel Smotrich saying it might be "justified and moral" to let two million Gazans die of hunger until the hostages were returned. The BBC mentions neither.
It calls Israel's denial "the fact". It was a guess: Israel "would" dispute it. Complainants asked whether the BBC had a statement from the Israeli government or whether the presenter supplied the denial herself. The BBC does not say.
In the BBC's own account, the only answer to that denial came from Sanders: "what they've done to the Palestinian people, in my view, is genocidal." The BBC spoke for Israel and left its guest to answer alone.
The reply then declares the interview "accurate, duly impartial" and answers none of the questions complainants asked:
• Why have many Israeli talking points gone unchallenged, with no interjection on what Palestinians say?
• What editorial judgement made the denial necessary at that moment?
• Was it a response from the Israeli government, or one the presenter anticipated?
• How was the denial tested against Israeli officials' documented statements, and what other BBC coverage does the BBC rely on for due impartiality?
• Will Newsnight review whether presenters apply the same scrutiny when they put Israeli denials to guests?
• Why doesn't due impartiality extend to what Israel's leaders have said, including the words of Netanyahu and Herzog put to the International Court of Justice as evidence of genocidal intent?
If the BBC is going to speak for Israel's government, it owes viewers that government's own words too.
If you complained and are unhappy with the reply, log in to your NewsCord account, paste the BBC's reply and we will file your Stage 1b complaint for you.
You need your BBC case number (it starts CAS-) and the email address you complained from: newscord.org/account/campaig…
The BBC consistently interrupts every guest that criticises Israel with a defence on their behalf: “Israel would say [insert genocide justification here]”
They say they do this for “transparency” and “due impartiality”.
If they were honest about that, they would also add the other things Israel themselves have said.
Allow us to demonstrate:
1. “Israel would say [genocide justification] although Isaac Herzog, Israel’s President did say on 12 October 2023 ‘It is an entire nation out there that is responsible’”
2. “Israel would say [genocide justification]. Netanyahu did also say in a letter to his soldiers on November 2023 that Gaza is a ‘holy war of total annihilation’”
3. “Israel would say [genocide justification]. On 9 October 2023, Defence Minister Yoav Gallant also said ‘We are fighting against human animals.’”
4. “Israel Katz, the Energy Minister on 13 October 2023, did say that Gaza's civilians would ‘not receive a drop of water or a single battery until they leave the world.’”
5. “Bezalel Smotrich, Finance Minister in August 2024 said starving two million people “might be just and moral until they return the hostages.’”
The BBC has consistently hidden behind “transparency” and “due impartiality” to defend Israel at every opportunity.
But their cherry-picking of what they say after “Israel says”, is telling of just how opaque and partial they are.
“Israel says” is not inherently bad, if one actually says what Israel says.
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Palantir now exposed as having paid for Cressida Dick's time as well as Tom Watson
We have real concerns about the efficacy and ethics of Palantir's tools
We need real safeguards on the revolving door of public servants into corporate lobbying thebureauinvestigates.com/st…
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And, let’s not forget the BBC’s entire coverage has been absurdly slanted from the outset as -like other international media- its reporters are banned from Gaza by its illegal Israeli occupiers so staff correspondents have never been near the scene of the genocide and so cannot possibly cover the real horror, never mind verify facts of it that for themselves. It’s a criminal assault on press freedom deliberately contrived by Israel to stifle the genocide story, a violation the BBC (like others)caved in to long ago and barely even refer to on air nowadays.
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Burnham's 10-year plan is being drafted by USA’s Boston Consulting Group.
Where his chief of staff, James Purnell, used to work. The fee is not published.
Does that seem odd?
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Andy Burnham's chief of staff James Purnell used to work for Boston Consulting Group
Burham just hired BCG to help with his 10 year plan
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Andy Burnham is doing business with the company who wanted to build Trump Condos in Gaza:
Boston Consulting Group
Andy Burnham's Cheif of Staff used to work for BCG
Zack Polanski Green Party Leader explains....
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Toto Wolff says Mercedes offered him a stake in its F1 team, then helped finance the purchase when he said he couldn't afford it
"Eventually, they came back and said, 'We think our model, a corporate running a Formula One team, doesn't function, because it needs to be much more entrepreneurially led, you need to be empowered to take decisions on the spot, and we want you to run this'"
"I said, 'I need to pinch myself because being the head of Mercedes Motorsport is probably one of the best jobs in the industry, other than being the Ferrari guy'"
"I had to say no because I was a shareholder in Williams, and I have been always an entrepreneur"
"They said, 'Funny that you say that because we've just bought 40% of the Abu Dhabi Sovereign Fund. We bought it back, you can buy that.' I said, 'I did well in my life, but I won't be able to afford it'"
John Collison: "But they helped you finance it, right?"
Toto: "Exactly. They said, 'How much can you afford?' I said, 'I'm always on the conservative side, I've gone through financial hardship, and I don't want to end up there'"
"'How much are you prepared to put into this?' I said, 'That's the amount.' They said, 'We're going to help you finance the rest.' Here I was"
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Shabana Mahmood has no connection at all to any value of the Labour movement.
theguardian.com/uk-news/2026…
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That shoddy deal belongs in the bin.
It’s barely changed from the deal ministers already rejected: creditors pay £1bn to dodge sewage and leakage fines until 2030, then cash out on the stock market.
Nothing screams ‘neoliberalism’ like privatised water. Thames Water is the key to ending it and bringing water back into public ownership.
Don’t fudge this.
