Whatever you think of the BBC today is a bleak, bleak day for British broadcasting. The Trump gaffe was poor - but it happened a year ago, and no-one in Trump's team had noticed. Equally worrying, Prescott clearly had an agenda where coverage of Gaza was concerned. His

Important reporting from Katie Razzall here: BBC News chief Deborah Turness had a statement ready to go about the bad Trump edit, days ago, but "was prevented by the Board from putting out that apology." To outsiders, the broadcasters response looked feeble at best

What part of Line of Duty, The Archers, Monty Python, Fleabag, Only Fools and Horses, Plant Earth II, Peaky Blinders, Call the Midwife, Julia Donaldson animations, Bluey, The Office, Traitors, 6 Music, Desert Island Discs, The Antiques Roadshow, the Live Lounge, Test Match

Some important Gaza/Israel reporting on ITV this evening in the UK, at 22:45 then online: theguardian.com/world/2025/nov…

Yesterday's Mail published another inflammatory piece rehashing the idea that Net Zero policies are responsible for high energy bills. Supported by ads from John Lewis & Partners, @SkyTV, Specsavers, #Trailfinders, Saga, P&O Cruises, #ImagineCruising & #Paddypower

If we were serious about clean air and climate action - we wouldn't allow ads that promote pollution - that's why we've done this 👇

“a group of politically-appointed directors has forced the hand of Samir Shah, the chair, and the departure of the two most senior people in the organisation. Their resignations should be called out for what they are: political interference..”1/ observer.co.uk/opinion-and-id…

Parts of the BBC do insist on blurring the line between current affairs and comedy.

And that they did not run a film they commissioned and approved that Channel 4 then ran without a single factual or editorial error or complaint channel4.com/programmes/gaz…

Sky News just had Kelvin Mackenzie on, former editor of The Sun, one of the people at the centre of probably the most disgraceful front page in newspaper history, complaining about BBC journalists not being objective and 'fake news'. Astonishing. ~AA

You can be assured that tendentious memo by Michael Prescott, and the co-ordinated combination of the Telegraph, Mail, Boris Johnson, Nigel Farage and the White House means that the BBC hit job has been long in the planning, and has some insider help

Context.

Ms Rachel asked The New York Times not to cover the ridiculous accusations against her, they did so anyway. Legitimizing smear campaigns against anyone that is critical of Israel is not journalism, it’s propaganda.

Every word of this from Lewis Goodall is brilliantly insightful-and disturbing -on BBC… including on the assumptions of the weirdly powerful Robbie Gibb and David Grossman ( yet another figure plucked out from relative obscurity to scrutinise other BBC journalists). They

Robbie Gibb was appointed to the BBC Board by Boris Johnson, was an editorial advisor for GB News, and worked as Theresa May's Director of Comms. He is not impartial or neutral. The government should remove him from the Board immediately to protect the BBC's independence.

Excellent news. bbc.com/news/articles/…

Worth a read: middleeasteye.net/opinion/bbc-tr…

Aysam Jihad Labib Naser, 13, died today one month after inhaling a large amount of tear gas during an Israeli military attack on his family's olive harvest in Beita in the northern occupied West Bank. Aysam choked and collapsed on scene. Read more: dci-palestine.org/13_year_old_pa…

They haven't even stood by the reporting of their correspondents recently- e.g. when Bowen, Bateman, Doucet etc. state plainly that Israel broke the March '25 Gaza ceasefire, or food is being blocked, headlines/articles fudge things or lead on a contradictory Israeli claim.☹️

An Israeli lawyer writes about Palestinians in custody.