Russia's major information offensive in India continues.

"Why the US is losing the battle for hearts and minds" "As rivals flood the world with propaganda... there is little evidence that any administration official has thought deeply about how to best promote core US information priorities" washingtonpost.com/opinions/2025/…

It’s the 83rd anniversary of Operation Torch, which means it’s also ASPIDISTRA DAY! Here’s a thread I posted for the 80th anniversary:

#OTD 22 November 2021. I can remember, to the minute, the moment four years ago this morning I said to a colleague: "They're preparing the public for war, aren't they?" It was a Monday and I'd just been reading reports on the previous day's output on Russian domestic TV.

I visited the Z Sector Ops Room at RAF Northolt today, as it looked in 1940, and the prototype for the other Battle of Britain operations rooms. Such rooms are among Britain’s sacred places.

Thanks Jaka for your regular posts on media history which are also fascinating!

Mina Al-Lami The BBC monitoring team offers, hands down, the best analysis in the field. Their deep access into the Jihadi ecosystem and monitoring of official and unofficial outputs, plus sentiment analysts of supports is simply superior to anything else out there. Keep up the great k work!

Mina Al-Lami+colleagues BBC Monitoring provide essential service to UK. What universally publicly funded, #publicservicebroadcasting can do. They keep us properly+precisely informed. Anyone who wants to can contribute views to govt's Green Paper on #BBC: gov.uk/government/c...

You won’t find better coverage of authentic ISIS propaganda via unclassified reporting than what’s offered by Mina and her team at BBC Monitoring. And I find most of her analysis to be solid—more so than that of most researchers who’ve remained particularly active here.

My distinguished former colleague Rashid Abdi, who I worked with at BBC Monitoring's station in Nairobi, recalls time when every self-respecting rebel group or separatist leader in the MidEast & Africa ran a clandestine shortwave radio station, and BBCM listened to all of them.

For Simon Knott - who may point out that some of these were not "Anglican" when the incidents occurred.

I make few nods to the current season, but one is my annual tradition of listening to this festive edition of Music While You Work, played by Jack White & his band. Aired at 10.31am on 24 December 1963 on both the BBC Home Service and Light Programme. #OTD youtube.com/watch?v=OgE0HQ…